NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS TRUST

Registered charity 1145643 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NMPAT

NMPAT exists (for the public benefit) to 1) advance education within the framework of the arts ; 2) advance the arts and culture by promoting and facilitating access to and performances of music and other art forms; 3) provide for the recreation of children, young people and adults by providing facilities & services in the interests of social welfare with the object of improving conditions of life

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE; AND2. TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROMOTING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO AND PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS FORMS; AND3. TO PROVIDE FOR THE RECREATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO THEM IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 achieved an operating surplus of £260,269 and a net income of £403,218 for the year ended 31 August 2025, stabilizing its finances after previous deficits. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £519,486, which remains below the stated policy target of one month's payroll plus 2.5% of budgeted costs, though a three-year plan is in place to rebuild reserves by August 2027.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ellacotts Audit Services 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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 31/08/2022 (received 26/09/2023, 88 days after the 30/06/2023 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Crawfurd
• Clive Richard Gresham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward James Woolley
• Emily Kate Phipp
• Joanna Gordon
• Louise Claire Brownhill
• Nancy Ann Rachel Stewart
• Roger Benjamin Lloyd Griffiths
• Urte Cibulskaite

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire · Rutland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with National Youth Music Theatre Ltd.

• National Youth Music Theatre Ltd income £950k
• NORTHAMPTON MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY LTD income £74k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ARTS MANAGEMENT TRUST income £11.6m
• NOTTINGHAM MUSIC SERVICE income £1.1m
• NOTTINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTISTS LTD income £42k
• THE NOTTINGHAM OPERATIC SOCIETY income £611k

Side by side with its peers

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