CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA LIMITED

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Anstey Bond LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the board of trustees has a reasonable expectation that the charitable company has adequate resources to continue in existence for the foreseeable future. The trustees have adopted the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “2024 saw the 20th anniversary of the partnership between City of London Sinfonia and Opera Holland Park.”
• “Our 20th Opera Holland Park Season featured: Tosca, conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren, with acclaimed South African soprano, Amanda Echalaz, in the title role”
• “The Barber of Seville”
• “a double bill featuring Wolf-Ferrari's Il Segreto di Susanna and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci”
• “Acis and Galatea, Opera Holland Park's first production of a Handel opera, directed by Louise Bakker”
• “The Yeomen of the Guard, in a brand-new production directed by John Savournin and conducted by David Eaton”
• “Our own-promoted work in autumn 2024 centred on Patterns of Nature, a three-concert series at Smith Square Hall.”
• “Shimmering Interference featured music by John Adams and Béla Bartók, directed by Alexandra Wood, with engaging insights into mathematical patterning by Prof. James Sparks (University of Oxford).”
• “Pole to Pole explored cloud formations through ten musical works from Marais to contemporary composers, illuminated by scientific commentary and original imagery from Dr Simon Clark.”
• “Song of the Earth included a personal introduction from composer Dr Helena Anahita-Wilson, connecting Mahler's work to themes of nature and human fragility.”
• “A Form of Exile - Collaboration with the London Review of Books. We returned to the Queen Elizabeth Hall in March for the second instalment of our partnership with the London Review of Books.”
• “Our annual Good Friday 'Come and Sing!' choral celebration has rapidly become a signature event. In April we presented Vivaldi's Gloria and Handel's Four Coronation Anthems at Holy Sepulchre Church, welcoming more than 130 audience singers.”
• “2024 saw the launch and tour of Wonderland, part of The Wonderland Garden co-production with partners in Peterborough.”
• “The production toured London, Peterborough, and the South West in May-June 2024”
• “Ongoing international work with Johannesburg Theatres has been established with work planned for 2026 and 2027.”
• “Sound Young Minds: Our flagship programme supporting children and young people in psychiatric hospital schools continued to grow.”
• “Hospital Partnerships: Our musicians and lead artists continued to facilitate responsive workshops at Evelina Hospital School and UCLH”
• “Room to Room Music: Our project supporting care home residents with dementia maintained its strong impact.”
• “St Mary's Ukrainian School: CLS musicians collaborated with the school choir and composer/choir leader Jessie Maryon Davies to co-write and rehearse new songs”
• “Woodlands Secondary School: Weekly inclusive Open Orchestra Sessions and creative music workshops gave students firsthand experience of live music-making”
• “The Long Shop Sound Machine Project: Children from six Suffolk schools worked with CLS musicians to co-create heritage-inspired, place-based compositions.”
• “Wonderland Garden / Wonderland: Our early-years practice developed into a successful national tour for babies and carers.”
• “The centrepiece of the 2025/26 season is The Exoplanets, a large-scale collaborative work with the devising theatre company curious directive.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +31.2%

  £674,621 → £884,833

• Cash

  -53.1%

  £95,226 → £44,628

• Net assets

  +9.7%

  £276,744 → £303,583

• Employees

  0%

  9 → 9

• Profit before tax

  -356.8%

  £46,017 → -£118,162

• Wages

  -7.2%

  £331,162 → £307,301

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers