THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

Registered charity 1085485 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q337310 · Wikipedia · also known as ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

Education of the public through concerts of baroque and early classical music on period instruments.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF BAROQUE AND EARLY CLASSICAL MUSIC AND THE ALLIED ARTS

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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a modest net expenditure of £11,758 for the year, resulting in a slight decrease in total funds. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,304,584, which is significantly above the trustees' stated prudent target of at least £290,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Academy of Ancient Music (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John McMunn — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Trusts and Foundations Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 12.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul David Baumann CBE LVOchair
• Catherine Theresa O'Neill
• Daryl Louise Fielding
• Elise Dominique Badoy
• Huw George Carvil Humphreys · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN WILLIAM PITMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Victoria Barker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Edward Eley
• Joseph Gwyn Adams
• Malcolm James Gammie CBE KC
• Pauline Michelle Madeleine Marie Ginestie

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

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Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SALEM ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

• SALEM ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £51k
• GLOBAL MUSIC ACADEMY income £65k
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• NONCLASSICAL income £196k
• THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC AWARDS FUND income £1.9m
• SOMERSET CHAMBER CHOIR income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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