NATIONAL YOUTH STRING ORCHESTRA

Registered charity 1110462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NATIONAL YOUTH STRINGS ACADEMY

Furthering the musical education of children and young people enabling them to perform in public. Its primary activity is the running of specialist string chamber orchestras providing quality training for talented young string players between the ages of 7 and 21 and giving them experience of the art of public performance.

Objects

FURTHERING THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ENABLING THEM TO PERFORM IN PUBLIC

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. SUFFOLK

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: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £20,802 for the year ended 31 August 2025, bringing total unrestricted funds to £175,231. This exceeds the directors' stated minimum reserves target of £100,000, which they consider sufficient to ensure continued operation despite economic uncertainties. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with no material matters identified by the examiner.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES EDWARD MCIAN CLARK · trustee of 2 other charities
• DALE EDWARD WILKINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID JAMES WOODHEAD
• JOHN BIMSON
• Karen Elizabeth Humphreys MBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• RICHARD COWPER DAVISON

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN.

• THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN income £5.2m
• NOTTINGHAM YOUTH ORCHESTRA LTD income £186k
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m
• National Youth Music Theatre Ltd income £950k
• THE YOUNG MUSICIANS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £256k
• YORCHESTRA TRUST income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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