NORVIS

Registered charity 1014801 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

This charity contributes to the understanding and performance of music, especially early music, in particular by holding an annual summer school.

Objects

The objects of the Charity shall be:1. to advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by any means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public events

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a loss of £1,311 for the year, with total expenditure of £76,077 exceeding income of £74,766. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains reserves of approximately £16,000 in a savings account, supported by overall assets of around £25,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK EDWARD LAWRENCEchair
• Anna Hambling
• Eileen Finlayson
• Sarah Kirk
• Ursula Margaret McKean
• William Hunt

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH STAFFS OPERATIC SOCIETY LTD.

• NORTH STAFFS OPERATIC SOCIETY LTD income £72k
• NORWICH CHAMBER MUSIC income £78k
• KIRKLEES MUSIC SCHOOL income £2.2m
• CHILDREN'S MUSIC MATTERS income £321k
• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• THE MUSIC WORKS (CHARITY) income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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