The Cinema Organ Society

Analysis

The Cinema Organ Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sleaford. It was registered in April 2020, 6 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 incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Cinema Organ Society reported income of £51k and spending of £75k, spending 147% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £26k to £51k (+92%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 726%. Over the whole period it spent 71% 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, The Cinema Organ Society 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 Morecambe Warblers Amateur Operatic Society (£51k), English Chamber Orchestra Charitable Trust (£51k) and Neuadd Goffa Llandudoch (St Dogmaels Memorial Hall) (£51k).

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.