THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST

Registered charity 1151662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MIST, THE MUSIC IN SCHOOLS TRUST

To be at the forefront of classical music education in challenging and disadvantaged secondary schools; providing funding to enable all students as they enter their secondary school to be given a classical musical instrument alongside regular group tuition and the opportunities to perform, and to improve the quality of teaching, learning and leadership of music through high quality staff training.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £5,653,375 to £5,135,051, resulting in a net expenditure of £497,257 for the year. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold approximately £1.5 million to meet commitments over the next twelve months, a target which the current unrestricted reserves exceed. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrew Wolfson — Chairman (source)
• David Rich — Chief Operations Officer (source)
• Paul Gilbert — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• Stephanie Bissell — Director of MiSST: Curriculum (source)
• Jonathan Gibson — Director of MiSST: Excellence Programmes (source)
• Natalie Wild — Director of Research & Development (source)
• Emma Cunliffe — Director of School Partnerships and Pathways (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Reported reserves equal ~45.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 8.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HONOURABLE ANDREW DANIEL WOLFSONchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Daniel Peltz · trustee of 6 other charities
• Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason · trustee of 1 other charity
• LADY MADELEINE ASTRID LLOYD WEBBER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• HONOURABLE ANDREW DANIEL WOLFSON — trustee here and at THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST
• LADY MADELEINE ASTRID LLOYD WEBBER — trustee here and at THE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER FOUNDATION

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

• THE MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £608k
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k
• THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC income £50.9m
• THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k
• UK Music Masters Ltd. income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.