STANHOPE SILVER PRIZE BAND

Registered charity 1057561 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STANHOPE SILVER BAND

The band's rehearsals are weekly. It performs at many local functions, charity events and contests. The band organizes concerts and festivals to which celebrity musicians are invited to perform. The band provides individual and group tuition for members and runs a Junior Band for this purpose. Each year junior members are encouraged to take part in the International Brass Band Summer School.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF BRASS BAND MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE.

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: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£12k

Latest spending

£26k

Registered

1996

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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.

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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

Volunteers: 20
Government income: £2,800 — grants £2,800 (1); 24% of the £11,780 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 25
Government income: £10,500 — grants £10,500 (6); 56% of the £18,819 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 20
Government income: £5,000 — grants £5,000 (3); 21% of the £23,798 total gross income on the same return

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 31/12/2022 (received 08/01/2024, 69 days after the 31/10/2023 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

PAUL HENRY TRAVESchair
BRIAN STRONG
Eoin Buchanan
Sarah Blakeman

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Durham · North Yorkshire · Northumberland

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£12k	£26k
31/12/2024	£19k	£7k
31/12/2023	£24k	£21k
31/12/2022	£13k	£68k
31/12/2021	£45k	£7k

Common questions

Who funds STANHOPE SILVER PRIZE BAND?

Funders whose own accounts filings name STANHOPE SILVER PRIZE BAND as a grant recipient include SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST, THE BARBOUR FOUNDATION, THE GEORGE FAMILY FOUNDATION, THE SIR TOM COWIE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST	FY2021	£6k	Charitable Or anisations
THE BARBOUR FOUNDATION	FY2023	£2k
THE GEORGE FAMILY FOUNDATION	FY2025	£2k
THE SIR TOM COWIE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£234	Willow Hospice