THE TAIT MEMORIAL TRUST

Registered charity 1042797 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TMT

The Trust continues to present performance platforms for emerging and established performing artists from Australia & New Zealand at our many concerts and events, during the 2023-24 fiscal year. Awards totalling £100,000.00 were paid. The Tait Memorial Trust has raised more than £1,500,000 to help support young musicians and dancers who need financial assistance while they are studying in the U.K.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust finished the year with a net surplus of £9,574, demonstrating a significant improvement over the prior year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, the Trust holds unrestricted reserves of £199,026 and investment assets valued at £199,500, resulting in total net assets of £245,684. The Trust is operated entirely by trustees and volunteers without remuneration.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tait Memorial Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Commonwealth Bank of Australia — “Tait Winter Prom 2016 at St John’s Smith Square | Sponsored by Commonwealth Bank of Australia” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ISLA BARING OAMchair
• Chad Daniel Vindin
• Dr Margaret Mayston AM · trustee of 1 other charity
• JUSTIN BARING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Keith Phillips
• SUSAN THORNTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Chad Daniel Vindin — trustee here and at THE TAIT MEMORIAL TRUST
• Dr Margaret Mayston AM — trustee here and at THE TAIT MEMORIAL TRUST
• ISLA BARING OAM — trustee here and at THE TAIT MEMORIAL TRUST
• JUSTIN BARING — trustee here and at THE TAIT MEMORIAL TRUST
• Matthew Keith Phillips — trustee here and at THE TAIT MEMORIAL TRUST
• SUSAN THORNTON — trustee here and at THE TAIT MEMORIAL TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST income £638k
• THE JULIAN BREAM TRUST income £125k
• The Royal Corps of Army Music Trust income £159k
• THE BRIDGET ESPINOSA MEMORIAL TRUST income £4.5m
• JOHN ARMITAGE MEMORIAL TRUST income £231k
• TYMPANUM TRUST income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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