THE CHOIR SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1120639 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Awards bursaries to choristers to help with the payment of school fees from money provided by the government and other donations

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING GRANTS OR BURSARIES TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF PUPILS WHO ARE CHORISTERS AT A SCHOOL WHICH IS A FULL MEMBER OF THE CHOIR SCHOOLS' ASSOCIATION ("THE ASSOCIATION") OR, IF THE ASSOCIATION CEASES TO EXIST, ANY SCHOOL WHICH HAS CHORISTERS; AND2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF BURSARIES TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF PUPILS WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN ORDER TO STUDY MUSIC OR DANCE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £4,276,896, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net surplus for the year driven by significant gains on the valuation of investments, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Griffiths Marshall Business Advisory Limited. Discloses 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 16/08/2024, 108 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 11/06/2023, 42 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06307873

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.

• COLLINGWOOD, Benjamin David, Dr — director, appointed 25/02/2025on trustee list
• HANNAM, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/02/2025on trustee list
• CHARLES, Benjamin Patrick Harries — director, appointed 06/11/2024not on trustee list
• ATTWATER, John Francis — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• MURRAY, James Richard — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
• MORTON, David Christopher Alexander — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
• LARTER-EVANS, Simon — director, appointed 06/11/2019on trustee list
• STOCKWELL-DAY, Yvette Frances — director, appointed 25/07/2016not on trustee list
• WILSONS (COMPANY SECRETARIES) LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 10/07/2007

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~93.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Charles
• David Christopher Alexander Morton
• Dr Benjamin David Collingwood
• James Richard Murray
• John Francis Attwater
• Simon Larter-Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Elizabeth Hannam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yvette Day

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CLS BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND.

• CLS BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND income £167k
• DIVERSITY CHOIR income £37k
• THE MORSE-BOYCOTT BURSARY FUND income £134k
• CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION'S SCHOLARSHIP TRUST income £31k
• THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY CHOIR SCHOOL BURSARY FUND income £29k
• EXETER CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION BURSARY FUND income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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