THE PILGRIM BAND TRUST

Registered charity 1140954 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The primary activity of the Pilgrim Band Trust is to provide free musical tuition to children and young people in the age range 8 years to 18 years living in Reigate in the County of Surrey and surrounding areas. Tuition is provided on a weekly basis during school term time from our premises in Reigate, Surrey. We currently have 100 children attending regularly. We also fund music in schools.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN LIVING IN REIGATE IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF CLASSICAL RELIGIOUS AND FOLK MUSIC AND THE INSTRUMENTAL PLAYING AND VOCAL AND CHORAL PERFORMANCE THEREOF.

Area of benefit: REIGATE IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £178,880 for the year, primarily driven by investment losses of £218,571, although operational activities generated a surplus of £39,691. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £5.319 million, which is above the stated policy target of £2.5 to £3 million, indicating a strong financial buffer despite the investment volatility.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 02/02/2022, 2 days after the 31/01/2022 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 07553726 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• MORRIS, Paul Geoffrey — director, appointed 10/09/2021on trustee list
• UNWIN, Andrea — director, appointed 18/05/2018on trustee list
• PENDER, Karen Julia — director, appointed 22/05/2015on trustee list
• SMITH, Margaret Anne — director, appointed 07/03/2011on trustee list
• WHITE, Peter Bentley — director, appointed 07/03/2011on trustee list
• WOOD, James Anthony — director, appointed 07/03/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrea Unwin
• Karen Julia Pender
• PETER BENTLEY WHITE
• Paul Geoffrey Morris

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE PILGRIM TRUST income £1.2m
• FYLING HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.2m
• CHILDREN'S MUSIC MATTERS income £321k
• LUCILLE GRAHAM TRUST LIMITED income £35k
• RICHMOND UPON THAMES MUSIC TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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