UK FRIENDS OF CAPE TOWN OPERA

Charity number: 1175984
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

The UK Friends of Cape Town Opera exists to raise funds, in accordance with its charitable objectives, for Cape Town Opera's youth development and education programme which provides opportunities for participation in opera in South Africa particularly among communities which are socially and economically disadvantaged. The UK Trust independently evaluates all support sent to Cape Town Opera

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 December 2023

Total income: £32,572
Total expenditure: £42,095

People

7 Trustee(s)

6 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
  • Education/training
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Organisations
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales
  • South Africa

Governance

Registration history:
  • 28 November 2017: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Trust
Other names:
  • UK FRIENDS OF CTO (Working name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

7 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
LADY MARY P HATCH Chair 21 December 2015
None on record
KERRY UNDERWOOD SOLICITOR Trustee 22 October 2024
None on record
robert michael silbermann Trustee 18 June 2019
None on record
NIALL GALLAGHER Trustee 21 December 2015
None on record
SUSAN SMITH Trustee 21 December 2015
None on record
PETER ROGAN Trustee 21 December 2015
None on record
IVAN FALLON Trustee 21 December 2015
THE GENERATION TRUST
Received: On time

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/12/2019 31/12/2020 31/12/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2023
Total gross income £21.26k £18.01k £21.83k £22.42k £32.57k
Total expenditure £22.12k £19.10k £20.09k £14.13k £42.10k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 December 2023 13 August 2024 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2023 09 October 2024 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2022 28 August 2023 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2022 Not required
Annual return 31 December 2021 21 September 2022 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2021 Not required
Annual return 31 December 2020 09 February 2021 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2020 Not required
Annual return 31 December 2019 18 June 2020 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2019 Not required
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

TRUST DEED 21 DEC 2015 AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 25 NOV 2017

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ART OF OPERA FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: 1. ADVANCING EDUCATION, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF OPERA IN SOUTH AFRICA AND INTERNATIONALLY BY SUPPORTING THE WORK OF CAPE TOWN OPERA IN SUCH A MANNER AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. 2. SUPPORTING CAPE TOWN OPERA IN PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARTICIPATION IN OPERA IN SOUTH AFRICA, PARTICULARLY AMONGST COMMUNITIES WHICH ARE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, IN SUCH WAYS AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Contact information

Address:
30 Pine Grove
Weybridge
KT13 9AW
Phone:
01932953828
Email:
info@ukfriendsofcto.co.uk
Website:

WWW,ukfriendsofcto.co.uk