THE YORK EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1068331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of the charity is to foster, promote and increase public interest in, and knowledge and understanding of, the Arts in general and, in particular, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music.

Objects

A. TO FOSTER, PROMOTE AND INCREASE PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE AND CLASSICAL MUSIC;2. TO PROTECT AND AND CONSERVE OR ASSIST IN THE PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND BUILDING ARTEFACT MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION ARCHIVE OR OTHER RECORDS WHICH ARE OF HISTORIC, ARTISTIC OR SCIENTIFIC INTEREST VALUE OR IMPORTANCE TO THE LOCAL REGIONAL OR NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE NATIONALLY OR INTERNATIONALLY

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

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

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated net expenditure of £28,614 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £44,466 in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £158,483, which is below the stated policy target of six months' recurring overhead expenditure. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fortus Audit LLP. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anita Datta
• Dominic Oscar Alexander Wallis
• Lorna Clayton-Rawle
• Paul Alexander Tyack
• Professor Philip Michael Dawson Wood
• Simon Andrew Robert Procter

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK MUSICAL SOCIETY.

• YORK MUSICAL SOCIETY income £69k
• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• YORK LATE MUSIC income £25k
• YORK MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY income £29k
• THE LONDON MUSICAL THEATRE ORCHESTRA income £392k
• YORKSHIRE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR LIMITED income £60k

Side by side with its peers

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