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Fryderyk Chopin Polish School in Southampton

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1167952HampshireReligion
Income£160k2025-07-31
Spending£178ksame year
Spent / received103%5-year average
Size in its cause74th pctReligion
Registered2016Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Fryderyk Chopin Polish School in Southampton is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in June 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 09698579). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Fryderyk Chopin Polish School in Southampton reported income of £160k and spending of £178k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £62k to £160k (+158%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 97%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Fryderyk Chopin Polish School in Southampton sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Welwyn Garden City United Reformed Church Charity (£160k), Bharat Hindu Samaj (£160k) and Reading Chinese Christian Church (£160k).

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.

Income and spending

£0£44k£89k£133k£178k2021 Income: £61,8112021 Spending: £65,66420212022 Income: £121,7332022 Spending: £96,28420222023 Income: £103,1502023 Spending: £117,59120232024 Income: £136,3022024 Spending: £141,83120242025 Income: £159,6862025 Spending: £177,8292025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The advancement of education for the public benefit, of children attending the Fryderyk Chopin Polish School in Southampton, in subjects including Polish Language, History and Geography of Poland, Polish Arts Culture and Heritage, sports and football, and the advancement of the Roman Catholic religion, for the public benefit by providing religious education.

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