THE MARCHUS TRUST

Registered charity 1137768 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trustees intend to advance culture and the arts by sponsoring musical work, sponsoring performances of music and education in music, commissioning art. They also intend to advance the education of architect, the study of architecture by sponsoring lecture series, awards, exhibitions, travel. the development or construction of buildings or their parts for music or architectural use.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH SPONSORING OR COMMISSIONING MUSICAL WORKS, PERFORMANCES, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS OR PARTS OF BUILDINGS FOR MUSIC AND OTHER ART FORMS; ANDTHE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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 funds of £13,448,747, which significantly exceed its working capital needs. The Trustees report that the majority of funding requirements are met by voluntary donations from Trustees, ensuring adequate resources for future operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Barnes Roffe Audit Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (58% 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: 15.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SPENCER DE GREY CBE RAchair
• CAROLINE REEKIE · trustee of 1 other charity
• LUCY DE GREY · trustee of 2 other charities

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 THE HAWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE HAWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £147k
• THE TEMPLE MUSIC TRUST income £63k
• MUSICAL BOROUGHS TRUST income £35k
• THE MARGARET ENGERING MUSIC TRUST income £140k
• TRUST MUSIC income £43k
• HARROW CHORAL SOCIETY income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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