LINCOLN CATHEDRAL MUSIC FUND

Registered charity 1033089 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LINCOLN CATHEDRAL MUSIC APPEAL

The Charity's aim is the creation of a permanent music foundation to support the Lincoln Cathedral Choir, organists and organ for the benefit of future generations.Strategies and activities include raising funds through regular giving, one-off donations, profit making ticketed events, legacies, trust applications, promtional literature to past and potential donors, and media coverage.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF LITURGICAL AND OTHER MUSIC, BOTH CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL AT LINCOLN CATHEDRAL, IN THE AREA OF NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE AND NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE.

Area of benefit: LINCOLN, LINCOLNSHIRE AND SOUTH HUMBERSIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lincoln, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£111k
Latest spending
£131k
Registered
1994
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves have increased to £3,195,524, supporting the charity's aim to build a permanent endowment. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with total net assets rising to £3,530,904.

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 4 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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 45
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£111k£131k
31/03/2025£418k£212k
31/03/2024£212k£140k
31/03/2023£445k£142k
31/03/2022£241k£122k

Common questions

Is LINCOLN CATHEDRAL MUSIC FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves have increased to £3,195,524, supporting the charity's aim to build a permanent endowment. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with total net assets rising to £3,530,904. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL MUSIC FUND£111k—0above—no doubt
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL FY2025£94k—0unclear—noted
LEICESTER CATHEDRAL MUSIC FOUNDATION FY2025£77k—0above—no doubt
LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR FY2025£95k—0unclear—no doubt
THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA FY2025£392k—0unclear—no doubt
THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC TRUST FY2025£1.1m—0within—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.