CARDUCCI MUSIC TRUST

Registered charity 1131742 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Carducci Music Trust supports the work of the Carducci Quartet with schools and young musicians, and the Carducci Festival at Highnam.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, APPRECIATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF CLASSICAL MUSIC BY:A) THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS;B) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION ACTIVITIES FOR PERSONS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE; ANDC) ANY OTHER SUCH CHARITABLE ACTIVITY AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. 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.

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Registered contact address: East Hampshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,404 for the year, reducing its total reserves from £51,561 to £45,157. The trustees' report indicates that the organization aims to hold reserves of at least six months' unrestricted expenditure, but the current unrestricted reserves of £20,157 are below this stated policy target. The charity is exempt from audit and relies on an independent examination.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06863248

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.

• PATERSON, Alexis Maria — director, appointed 04/04/2025on trustee list
• MAGNANI, Giulia — director, appointed 29/01/2024on trustee list
• DERBYSHIRE, Edward Arthur — director, appointed 07/02/2021on trustee list
• SMITH-CHARLES, Hollie Victoria — director, appointed 07/02/2021on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Penelope Jane, Dr — director, appointed 22/03/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr PENELOPE JANE WRIGHTchair
• Alexis Maria Paterson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Arthur Derbyshire
• Giulia Magnani
• Hollie Victoria Smith-Charles

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADDERBURY MUSIC TRUST.

• ADDERBURY MUSIC TRUST income £25k
• CATHEDRAL MUSIC TRUST income £1.2m
• TRUST MUSIC income £43k
• Calderdale Music Limited income £979k
• KIDENZA income £64k
• CAMDEN MUSIC TRUST income £158k

Side by side with its peers

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