THE YORKE TRUST

Registered charity 1158927 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Developing high quality music education in the community.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF EDUCATION IN THE ART OF MUSIC AND THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE AND IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OBJECTS THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING POWERS:(A) TO ESTABLISH AND SUPPORT ONE OR MORE CENTRES FOR THE TEACHING OF MUSIC INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF MASTER CLASSES WORKSHOPS EXHIBITIONS RECITALS AND CONCERTS (B) TO MAKE AWARDS OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES TO STUDENTS OF MUSIC TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION (C) TO DEVELOP AND FURTHER EXISTING TEACHING METHODS AND TO INTRODUCE OR PIONEER NEW TEACHING METHODS (D) TO GIVE SUPPORT AND AID TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND OTHER CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS (E) TO SUPPORT SUCH OTHER NON-MUSICAL ACTIVITIES AS WILL MAKE BEST USE OF ITS BUILDINGS, FACILITIES AND RESOURCES AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £15,829, which is below the charity's stated policy target of at least one year's normal expenditure. However, the trustees report a positive outlook and confirm adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation — “Our work began with the Yorke Mini-Bass Project, an innovative scheme to enable children to play the double bass, for which we received gene…” (source page)

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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RODNEY GERALD YORKE SLATFORD OBEchair
• Alison Cox · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brenda Blewett
• Carol Frances Jennings
• JENNIFER HELEN HAMILTON
• James Fergusson
• Lucy Murphy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin William Wess

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).