THE COMMUNITY AND YOUTH MUSIC LIBRARY

Registered charity 1138705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CYM LIBRARY

Promotion of amateur and educational music-making throughout the United Kingdom by means of a lending library of musical scores.

Objects

THE PROMOTION, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC THROUGH THE PROVISION OF A LENDING LIBRARY OF MUSICAL SCORES

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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained financial stability with unrestricted cash funds of £26,848 at the year end, representing a net increase from the previous year. The trustees report that income from hires increased by approximately 25% compared to the prior year, helping to offset difficulties in securing external funding. No material uncertainties or risks to going concern were identified in the independent examiner's report.

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 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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY JACKMAN
• Jonathan Lambert Rathbone
• MICHAEL ASHCROFT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael James Haslam
• Paul Raymond Whitnall
• Ruth Mary Sylvia Hellen

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

Operates in: Scotland · 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 YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE.

• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
• COMMUNITY ALBUMS income £87k
• YORK MUSICAL SOCIETY income £69k
• CHILDREN'S MUSIC MATTERS income £321k
• THE COMMONWEALTH RESOUNDS income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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