Manchester Chamber Concerts Society

Analysis

Manchester Chamber Concerts Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in July 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05863566). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Manchester Chamber Concerts Society reported income of £25k and spending of £43k, spending 172% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £4,142 to £25k (+508%), an average of +57% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 800%. Over the whole period it spent 187% 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, Manchester Chamber Concerts Society sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saddleworth Male Voice Choir (£25k), Poole and East Dorset Art Society (£25k) and The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Great Britain and Ireland (£25k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.