SPODE MUSIC WEEK

Registered charity 1026975 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity runs an annual residential music week in August each year.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN EDUCATION IN (AND APPRECIATION OF) THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, ESPECIALLY OF THE ROMAN LITURGY, BY THE ORGANISING AND RUNNING OF AN ANNUAL RESIDENTIAL MUSIC WEEK CONTAINING LECTURES RECITALS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRACTICAL MUSIC MAKING.

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: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net movement in funds of (5,765.87) for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in a deficit. The financial figures are unaudited and are currently prepared for review by an independent examiner.

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 3 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 29/07/2025, 364 days after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY WHITEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANET HORNBY
• Jessica Marchant
• Professor John Anthony Sloboda

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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