SAMLING INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

Registered charity 1112032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SAMLING FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC051568 (OSCR)

Samling Institute for Young Artists provides training, masterclass and performance opportunities, including opera, for young classical singers and pianists through two closely linked programmes. It offers a residential Artist Programme for emerging young professionals and an Academy for young people at an earlier stage of their development.

Objects

(1) TO EDUCATE, DEVELOP, IMPROVE, ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE GENERALLY THE APPRECIATION OF THE ART OF SCIENCE AND MUSIC (BOTH VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL), THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS, MASTER CLASSES, RECITALS, EXHIBITIONS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE CHARITY BY ITS DIRECTORS SHALL DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME;(2) TO PROVIDE COACHING AND GENERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR TALENTED YOUNG INDIVIDUALS SELECTED BY THE DIRECTORS TO FURTHER THEIR KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERTISE IN ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH MUSIC (BOTH VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL) THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS;(3) TO PROVIDE FOR AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISIONS OF EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES, CLASSES AND DEMONSTRATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO FURTHER AND INCREASE THEIR KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF ALL MATTERS CONNECTED WITH MUSIC (BOTH VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL) THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD AND THE VISUAL ARTS IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS.

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.

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Registered contact address: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £98,806 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Free reserves stood at £314,098, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of 12 months' total expenditure (£372,000), reflecting a strategic decision to invest reserves in programme delivery. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Shears Foundation — “‘I support Samling Institute because opera and art song cannot thrive without the next generation of brilliant musicians.’ Lyn Shears, The S…” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• AUDREY MACNAUGHTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Alexander Evans-Thomas
• Helen Louise Andrews · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN ANTHONY PENNIE
• Rupert David Tyler · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sir David Robert Bell

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

Operates in: Scotland · 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 YOUNG ACTORS' THEATRE ISLINGTON.

• YOUNG ACTORS' THEATRE ISLINGTON income £447k
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• SALEM ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £51k
• INTERMISSION YOUTH income £642k
• PERFORMING ROOM income £123k
• THE INSPIRE ARTS TRUST income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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