OSCR Scottish charity profile

New Town Concerts Society Ltd

Known as New Town Concerts Society

ActiveCharity number SC015893
Registered24 September 1971
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC015893
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH1 3PX

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The objective of the charity is to provide high quality chamber music concerts in Edinburgh, over the months outside the summer music festivals. It promotes an annual season of concerts featuring artists of international standing.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It does none of these

Constitutional objectives

To promote and encourage the arts, especially music, opera, plays, dramas and ballet, and the study of the arts, and for these purposes to organise, promtoe, manage and conduct musical and other enterinaments in Edinburgh ro elsewhere. (B) To present, produce, manage and conduct at theatres, concert halls, cinemas and other premises and open spaces, opera, plays, drams, ballet, concerts, recitals, cinematograph performances and other entertainments as may tend to promote and encourage the arts and as the compnay may from time to time think fit. (C) To engage and employ persons, firmsa nd companies to present and produce operat, plays, dramas, ballet, concerts, recitals, cinematograph performances and other entertainments, as may tend to promote and encourage the arts. (D) To make and carry out any arrangement with the prprietors, lessees and managers of any theatre, concert hall, cinema or other premises for the presentation in such premises of any opera, plays, dramas, ballet, concerts, recitals, cinematograph performances or other entertainments organised or promoted by the company, as may tend to promote and encourage the arts and to provide guarantees in connection therewith.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 May 2025£32,776£38,916017 November 2025
31 May 2024£27,012£38,756018 October 2024
31 May 2023£27,840£32,224016 November 2023
31 May 2022£21,579£28,78608 November 2022
31 May 2021£4,645£1,709016 December 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
10 Dublin Street Lane, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.newtownconcerts.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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