THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC

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

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £1,304,584, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of at least £290,000. The charity reported a net expenditure of £11,758 for the year, resulting in a modest shortfall, but the trustees confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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).

Operates in: Austria · Belgium · Colombia · France · Germany · Netherlands · Poland · Portugal · Scotland · Spain · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YORK EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION.

• THE YORK EARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION income £821k
• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k
• ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS income £4.6m
• ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £33.2m
• CAMBRIDGE EARLY MUSIC income £177k
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k

Side by side with its peers

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