THE JULIAN BREAM TRUST

Registered charity 1130890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancement and promotion for the appreciation and understanding of the art and science of music and musical education.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF EDUCATION INAND APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC ANDMUSICAL EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDINGSCHOLARSHIPS FOR EXCEPTIONALLY GIFTED STUDENTS OF CLASSICAL GUITAR OR THELUTE FOR ALL OR PART OF THEIR STUDIES OF THESE INSTRUMENTS, EITHER AT THEROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC OR THE ROYALWELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA AND COMMISSIONING ANDPROMULGATING NEW ORIGINAL MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS FOR THE CLASSICALGUITAR.THE TRUSTEES MUST USE THE INCOME AND MAY USE THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY INPROMOTING THE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,111,433, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet annual expenditure and respond to emergency applications. The charity generated a net gain of £31,221 for the year, driven by investment income and gains, despite charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources from donations and investments.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• FIONA WALWYN SOUTHEY ROGERS
• Gary Sean Ryan
• John Mills
• MICHAEL DAVID LEWIN
• SUSAN ELIZABETH DE CANDOLE

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 BRISTOL MUSIC TRUST.

• BRISTOL MUSIC TRUST income £14.4m
• BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL LIMITED income £217k
• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k
• BROMLEY YOUTH MUSIC TRUST income £1.8m
• THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC income £50.9m
• JOHN ARMITAGE MEMORIAL TRUST income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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