KIRKLEES MUSIC SCHOOL

Registered charity 1013838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Music education

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF MUSIC.

Area of benefit: KIRKLEES AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure for the year of £64,416, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and maintains unrestricted reserves of £1,042,242, which meet their stated policy requirement of at least £1,000,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by G L Barker & Co LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02737172
• Trading subsidiary: MUSICA KIRKLEES LIMITED Companies House 10289559

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nick Dolling — Principal (source)
• Peter McHugh — Vice Principal (source)
• Peter Simons — Assistant Principal (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CAMPBELL, Iain Mclean — director, appointed 11/04/2025on trustee list
• ADDY, Beverley Dawn, Cllr — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• HARRIS, Adam James — director, appointed 23/07/2021on trustee list
• MCKIRGAN, Matthew Thomas — director, appointed 23/07/2021on trustee list
• NUNN, Jonathan Mark — director, appointed 23/07/2021on trustee list
• JONES, Bruce — director, appointed 23/07/2021on trustee list
• DAVIES, Helen Patricia — director, appointed 23/07/2021on trustee list
• PINNOCK, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 01/07/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam James Harris
• Bruce Jones
• COUNCILLOR ANDREW CHARLES PINNOCK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cllr Beverley Addy
• HELEN PATRICIA DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Iain McLean Campbell
• Jonathan Mark Nunn
• Matthew McKirgan

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION.

• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k
• RICHARD SHEPHARD MUSIC FOUNDATION income £671k
• COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED income £194k
• KEW COLLEGE income £4.4m
• KIRKLEES THEATRE TRUST income £1.8m
• THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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