UK Music Masters Ltd.

Registered charity 1119372 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON MUSIC MASTERS, Music Masters, THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION

MUSIC MASTERS BELIEVES IN ENABLING OPPORTUNITY AND INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC TO INSPIRE POSITIVE CHANGE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES. IT DELIVERS, MODELS AND IMPROVES ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY STATE SCHOOL MUSIC EDUCATION, TRAINS MUSIC EDUCATORS UK-WIDE AND ADVOCATES FOR AND DRIVES INCREASED ACCESS TO PATHWAYS INTO THE MUSIC SECTOR.

Objects

For the public benefit to advance education in and through music in all its forms to improve the lives of children and young people in the UK, in particular but not exclusively by:1) Increasing equitable access to and opportunity through a high quality music education for children in state primary schools, with a focus on under-served communities 2) Raising the standard of music education, in particular school-based group teaching, through championing and developing music educators3) Championing and driving the creation of a more open, diverse and inclusive music sector, and pathways into it.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £48,674 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income increasing by 4.5% to £1,504,715. The trustees consider the level of general unrestricted reserves, which totalled £385,000, to be adequate and within the stated policy target range. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 6 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Music Masters (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust — “Corporates, Trusts and Foundations 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust” (source page)

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 19.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart Graeme Masonchair
• Charlotte Alicia Swannell
• Dr Gwyneth Kadiatu Kanneh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Steven Berryman · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emma Jayne Chandra
• James Anthony Mark JOSEPH
• Lady Victoria Susan Hull Robey CBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Mary Rebekah Kofokasumu
• Philippa Thomas
• Sarah Serena Bunting · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vanessa Elizabeth Richards Colomar

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 UK ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC EDUCATION - MUSIC MARK.

• THE UK ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC EDUCATION - MUSIC MARK income £816k
• MUSIC MINDS MATTER income £1.3m
• MASTERS FOUNDATION income £999k
• YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
• THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k
• ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £33.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.