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Ware Choral Society Charitable Incorporated Organisation

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1169375HertfordshireArts, culture, heritage and science
Income£27k2025-07-15
Spending£33ksame year
Spent / received115%5-year average
Size in its cause57th pctArts, culture, heritage and science
Registered2016CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Ware Choral Society Charitable Incorporated Organisation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in September 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Ware Choral Society Charitable Incorporated Organisation reported income of £27k and spending of £33k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £5,000 to £27k (+440%), an average of +52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 378%. 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, Ware Choral Society Charitable Incorporated Organisation sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ecclesfield Priory Players (£27k), Pentewan Village Hall Trust (£27k) and Stage Theatre Society (£27k).

Income and spending

£0£9,686£19k£29k£39k2021 Income: £5,0002021 Spending: £4,20020212022 Income: £23,9112022 Spending: £34,74720222023 Income: £33,5582023 Spending: £38,74520232024 Income: £33,6652024 Spending: £31,18020242025 Income: £26,9852025 Spending: £33,1562025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The study and practice of choral music in order to foster public knowledge and appreciation of such music by means of public performance and such other ways as the Society through its charity trustees shall from time to time decide.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Ecclesfield Priory PlayersSheffield£27k
Pentewan Village Hall TrustCornwall£27k
Stage Theatre SocietyChatham£27k
Moulton Village HallNorthampton£27k