THE ROCK ACADEMY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1158478 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Rock Academy is a charitable organisation which provides young people the opportunity to learn, create and perform original music through instrument lessons, music technology courses, band coaching, live events. It also provides music educational support services for schools and community groups.

Objects

TO HELP AND EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH MUSICAL ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £1,429 for the period, with total resources expended of £69,938 against incoming resources of £71,367. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £23,045, which is significantly above the stated policy target of covering one term of fixed costs estimated at £5,000.

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 5 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• William Langchair
• Ann Murphy
• IAN STOCK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joseph Da Silva
• Nicholas Blake
• RICHARD STAINTHORP · trustee of 2 other charities
• Thomas Andrew Stuart Wolfe-Collins

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Hampshire · Reading · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROCK FOUNDATION UK LIMITED.

• ROCK FOUNDATION UK LIMITED income £742k
• FRIENDS OF ROCK SCHOOL income £35k
• ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £33.2m
• TRACK ACADEMY income £208k
• THE ROCK CLINIC ASSOCIATION income £442k
• RESTORE THE MUSIC UK income £945k

Side by side with its peers

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