INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS TRUST

Registered charity 1160261 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISM TRUST

The ISM Trust delivers professional development to the music sector through webinars, seminars, events and partnerships with leading charities and organisations. It develops innovative resources for music professionals, covering a wide range of topics from performance anxiety and legal essentials to primary singing and musical understanding.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE 'OBJECTS') ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-3.1.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION; 3.1.2 TO ADVANCE HEALTH;3.1.3 TO PROMOTE THE ARTS PARTICULARLY MUSIC; AND 3.1.4 TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £5.4k for the year ended 31 August 2025, following a significant 49.7% decrease in total income. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £89.6k, which the trustees note remains well above their policy target of four months of expenditure.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bushra El-Turk · trustee of 1 other charity
• Danielle Howard
• Deborah Keyser
• Dr Alexander Horowitz
• Dr Kirsty Devaney
• Dr Paul Edlin
• Dr Rhiannon Mathias · trustee of 4 other charities
• Eugene Monteith
• Gabriella Swallow · trustee of 1 other charity
• IVOR CHARLES LEO FLINT
• Jeremy Huw Williams BEM PhD · trustee of 4 other charities
• PROFESSOR DAVID JOHN SMITH
• Pauline Black
• Peter Nicolas Chisholm · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor CHRIS COLLINS
• Stephen Goss
• Vicki Louise Bain

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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