01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- 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
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2025 | £32,776 | £38,916 | 0 | 17 November 2025 |
| 31 May 2024 | £27,012 | £38,756 | 0 | 18 October 2024 |
| 31 May 2023 | £27,840 | £32,224 | 0 | 16 November 2023 |
| 31 May 2022 | £21,579 | £28,786 | 0 | 8 November 2022 |
| 31 May 2021 | £4,645 | £1,709 | 0 | 16 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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