PETTMAN (CLASSICAL MUSIC) FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1095917 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Funding young New Zealand musicians.

Objects

TO ASSIST THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS BY REASON OF THEIR POVERTY AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES FROM NEW ZEALAND IN THE FIELD OF CLASSICAL MUSIC BY WAY OF GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS OR OTHERWISE AND THEREBY ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received total receipts of £333,848 and made payments totaling £217,054, resulting in a closing balance of £116,794. The trustees' report notes that annual funding was provided to the Pettman National Junior Academy, Royal Overseas League, and Opera North. There is no explicit statement in the provided text regarding the charity's long-term financial sustainability or reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr RICHARD DOBBINS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Robson Dobbins · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• GREAT ST BARTHOLOMEW MUSIC FOUNDATION income £622k
• NOTTINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LTD income £51k
• CHILDREN'S MUSIC MATTERS income £321k
• KIRKLEES MUSIC SCHOOL income £2.2m
• YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k

Side by side with its peers

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