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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,653,375, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining approximately £1.5M to meet commitments for the next twelve months. The charity reported a net income of £118,547 for the year, supported by significant unrestricted donations and investment gains, with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited.

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.

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).

Trustees

• 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC.

• THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC income £50.9m
• HENRY WOOD ACCOMMODATION TRUST income £155k
• HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST income £638k
• FRIENDS OF THE EDWARD SAID NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC UK income £105k
• THE MATHIESON MUSIC TRUST income £143k
• THE CHOIR SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST LIMITED income £322k