Changing Charities 

Dissolution of the London & South of England Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) and the creation of The Wurlitzer Heritage Trust 

As Chapter members are aware, the committee consulted with them regarding the committees desire to cease our association with the American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS), close the old charity and form our own, new, independent Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with the Charity Commission for England and Wales.  The membership approved the change and so the new charity has now been registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales.  We are now working to dissolve the old charity, transfer our assets across to the new charity, create a new website and everything else that goes with changing an organisation’s structure, governance and name. The new charity name is The Wurlitzer Heritage Trust.

What does this mean to you?

Our programme of Woking concerts will continue as published, under the name The Woking Wurlitzer, notwithstanding unforeseen circumstances. The same volunteers will still be involved. We own the Woking Wurlitzer outright.

If you are a Full National member, so you have paid £66 ($US exchange rate depending) for both our Chapter Associate membership (£10 per annuum) and £56 for the USA ATOS Full National membership these will continue until expiry. Once your ATOS Full National membership expires you will need to renew this directly with the USA should you wish to do so, not via Peter Collett, our Membership Secretary.  To access the membership page of the USA site please click HERE.

Your Chapter Associate membership will still entitle you to a discount off of admission to most of our concerts until it expires, so please be sure to bring your membership card with you.  

We will be introducing a new season ticket scheme in due course, but details of this are yet to be finalised.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of the current trustees, details of which you may find HERE