ERIC THOMPSON CHARITABLE TRUST FOR ORGANISTS AND ORGAN MUSIC

Registered charity 1026344 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ERIC THOMPSON TRUST

The Trust aims to provide grants to help aspiring professional organists. Preference will be given to students seeking assistance towards special projects, rather than continuing academic tuition. The Flentrop scholarship awarded annually allows a student to spend two weeks in Holland with Flentrop, organ builders. The ETT Annual Award funds a candidate in a project related to the organ.

Objects

1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF MUSIC AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING 2 TO PROMOTE ALL ASPECTS OF ORGAN MUSIC

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE UK AND OVERSEAS

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: St Albans, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £302,852, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover objectives and administration costs. The charity reported a surplus for the year and maintains a diversified investment portfolio valued at over £330,000. No material uncertainties or risks to going concern were identified in the filing.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
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From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN HAMLING
• DAME GLYNNE EVANS DBE CMG
• DAVID TITTERINGTON
• David Graham
• Howard Angus March Baskerville
• Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey CMG CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Joseph Holder

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ORGANISTS CHARITABLE TRUST.

• ORGANISTS CHARITABLE TRUST income £18k
• THE ALBERT AND EUGENIE FROST MUSIC TRUST CIO income £473k
• THE INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OF ORGANISTS income £23k
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ORGANISTS income £523k
• THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC TRUST income £1.1m
• THE EUROPEAN DOCTORS ORCHESTRA income £71k

Side by side with its peers

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