THE HASTINGS MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUND

Registered charity 1085870 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ELIZABETH ANNE HASTINGS MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUND

Support of Music at Peterborough Cathedral

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE OF THE INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND TOWARDS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS:(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN WORSHIP IN PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS BY THE PROMOTION OF MUSIC, PLAYS, FILMS, EXHIBITIONS, CONCERTS, LECTURES, READINGS AND OTHER SIMILAR CHARITABLE CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES BY THE CHOIR AND MUSICIANS OF THE CATHEDRAL AND/OR OTHER SINGERS MUSICIANS OR PERFORMERS EITHER IN PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL OR ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: PETERBOROUGH AND ELSEWHERE.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted funds of £23,053, which is below its stated policy target of maintaining a cash reserve equal to one quarter of grant giving. The trustees consider the financial position to be satisfactory and have confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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 31/03/2024 (received 17/03/2025, 45 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon John Nurserchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne McDonald · trustee of 1 other charity
• BENJAMIN TRENCHARD
• CHRISTOPHER JAMES STRANGE
• Clare Anne Heath · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marius Carney
• RICHARD FRANCIS TAPP · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Canon Timothy Morris Alban Jones · trustee of 3 other charities
• UMER ARIF

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

Operates in: Peterborough City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PALLANT CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE PALLANT CHARITABLE TRUST income £31k
• THE ABSOLUTE MUSIC TRUST income £129k
• MUSIC AND THE DEAF income £41k
• THE HAMPSTEAD CHURCH MUSIC TRUST income £114k
• THE MARGARET ENGERING MUSIC TRUST income £140k
• THE HARDING TRUST income £190k

Side by side with its peers

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