WOODSTOCK MUSIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 1035897 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Presentation of choral and orchestral concerts, mainly in Woodstock, occasionally in Oxford.

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC, IN THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £14,465 at the end of the financial year, which is above its stated policy target of £11,000. The trustees consider this financial position to be satisfactory, noting no significant liabilities. The charity reported a deficit on its main activities for the year, with total receipts of £31,130 against total expenditure of £34,428.

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.

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM HUGH MORNINGTON CLARKchair
• Alec Joseph Kennedy
• Anita Pauline Mutton
• Barbara Joan Brecht
• Helen Elizabeth Stanford Maidlow
• PROFESSOR GILLIANE CHRISTINE SILLS
• PROFESSOR JOHN FREDERICK MORRIS
• Philip Stephen Boxall
• Ruth McDonald Sutherland
• Suzanna Jeannette Tomlin
• Teresa Mary Dempster Finlay Ritchie

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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