THE MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1067859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSICAL EDUCATION PRIMARILY BY MAKING INSTRUMENTAL TEACHING IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS ACCESSIBLE TO AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSICAL EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES TO LEARN TO PLAY A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT BY:1. INCREASING ACCESS TO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN SCHOOLS;2. BY ARRANGING MUSICAL CONCERTS AND MUSIC WORKSHOPS AT ALL TIMES DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR AND DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS;3. BY OFFERING FREE TUITION TO CHILDREN WHOSE MEANS PREVENT PAYMENT;4. TO PROVIDE AND IMPROVE TRAINING TO MUSIC TEACHERS;5. TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND ORGANISE SCHOOL COMMUNITY BANDS; AND6. TO DO ALL OTHER THINGS AND ALL OTHER ACTS DEEMED BY THE TRUSTEES TO BE IN ADVANCEMENT OF MUSICAL EDUCATION.

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 total unrestricted funds increased to £186,791, exceeding the stated reserves policy target of £100,000. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £67,078 for the year, with total income of £608,462 largely derived from charitable activities.

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.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA PADBURY
• MATTHEW BYRNE
• SALLY MERCER

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST.

• THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST income £1.1m
• THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC income £50.9m
• THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k
• THE MUSIC WORKS (CHARITY) income £2.1m
• ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION UK income £428k
• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k

Side by side with its peers

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