RICHMOND UPON THAMES MUSIC TRUST COMPANY LIMITED

Registered charity 1090623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RICHMOND MUSIC TRUST

To provide musical opportunities of the highest standard for young people and others in and around the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN MUSIC PRIMARILY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF : (1) EDUCATION IN MUSIC FOR CHILDREN AND STUDENTS (11) INSTRUMENTAL TUITION AND THE PROVISION OF MUSICAL ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN STUDENTS AND OTHER PERSONS (111) MUSIC CENTRES BEING CENTRES TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INSTRUMENTAL AND CHORAL PERFORMANCE INSTRUMENTAL TUITION AND CLASSES IN MUSIC FOR SAID CHILDREN STUDENTS AND OTHER PERSONS.

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY IN THELONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES

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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Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an operating deficit of £20,028 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £521,686. Per the trustees' report, free reserves increased to £490,248, covering approximately 4.1 months of unrestricted expenditure, which the directors consider to be at a prudent level.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04218180

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andreas Rosenboom — Head of Music Therapy (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).

• Arts Council England — “Supported by Arts Council England” (source page)
• The Hunter Foundation — “The fund was launched at the start of the year, created following a kind donation from The Hunter Foundation” (source page)
• The Utley Foundation — “The Hunter Foundation, which Paul & Nick Harvey passed on to The Utley Foundation specifically for Music for Dementia.” (source page)
• Hounslow Short Breaks — “Hounslow Social Services Short Breaks programme is funding blocks of 12 music therapy sessions for children and young people with disabiliti…” (source page)
• Momentum Children’s Charity — “Momentum funds blocks of ten music therapy sessions for affected children or their siblings, provided by RMT music therapists.” (source page)
• London Music Fund — “The London Music Fund is an independent charity with the Mayor of London as Patron. LMF provides grants of around £300,000 every year” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DAVIES, Grace Catherine — director, appointed 12/09/2025on trustee list
• PRESTON, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 07/08/2025on trustee list
• MILLEST, Sally Margaret — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• HUMPHREYS, Joanne Illonne — director, appointed 18/05/2021on trustee list
• WILLAN, Peter James — director, appointed 25/04/2013on trustee list
• HARNDEN, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/10/2009on trustee list
• DODMAN, Hilary Frances — director, appointed 16/11/2006on trustee list
• ROWLEY, Elizabeth — director, appointed 11/07/2002on trustee list
• PRICE, Alan — director, appointed 16/05/2001on trustee list
• PEIRSON, Caroline — secretary, appointed 14/09/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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 ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 5.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER WILLANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALAN PRICE
• Cllr Joanne Illonne Humphreys
• ELIZABETH ROWLEY
• Grace Catherine Davies
• HILARY DODMAN
• JANE HARNDEN
• Nicola Jane Preston
• SALLY MARGARET MILLEST

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

Operates in: Croydon · Hounslow · Kingston Upon Thames · Richmond Upon Thames · Sutton · Wandsworth

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.

Government & lottery funding

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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 THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES VOLUNTARY FUND.

• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES VOLUNTARY FUND income £67k
• THAMES YOUTH ORCHESTRA income £83k
• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k
• THE ABSOLUTE MUSIC TRUST income £129k
• NEWHAM MUSIC TRUST income £1.4m
• COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED income £194k

Side by side with its peers

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