English Chamber Orchestra Charitable Trust

Analysis

English Chamber Orchestra Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in August 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03301572). It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending March 2025, English Chamber Orchestra Charitable Trust reported income of £51k and spending of £99k, spending 194% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £35k to £51k (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 171%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, English Chamber Orchestra Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Cinema Organ Society (£51k), The Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus (£51k) and The Morecambe Warblers Amateur Operatic Society (£51k).