EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION

Registered charity 1172845 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Identification and training of young music students to a high level in 'long' 18th Century music. The initial work will be piloted in the Merseyside area.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN EARLY MUSIC AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL ASPECTS OF THAT SUBJECT AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE TERM "EARLY MUSIC" SHALL MEAN THE INTERPRETATION OF WESTERN MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST WRITTEN RECORD TO THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY ACCORDING TO HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE PRACTICES AND, WHEN POSSIBLE, ON PERIOD OR COPIES OF PERIOD INSTRUMENTS.(2) SUCH OF OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £49,880, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net surplus for the year and confirmed it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence, with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 01/07/2022, 1 day after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10503413

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CLEARKIN, Angela Margaret — director, appointed 07/02/2023on trustee list
• MULVEY-FANNERAN, Michelle — director, appointed 10/01/2022on trustee list
• PICKAVANCE, Janet — director, appointed 07/11/2018on trustee list
• PAILING, Crispin Alexander, The Revd Canon Dr — director, appointed 25/07/2018not on trustee list
• FEENY, Mark Rupert — director, appointed 30/11/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Margaret Clearkin
• Dr Crispin Pailing MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Pickavance
• MARK RUPERT FEENY · trustee of 6 other charities
• Michelle Mulvey-Fanneran

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

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• MARK RUPERT FEENY — trustee here and at CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST

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 RESTORE THE MUSIC UK.

• RESTORE THE MUSIC UK income £945k
• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• ANGEL EARLY MUSIC income £55k
• THE ABSOLUTE MUSIC TRUST income £129k
• THE MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £608k
• CHILDREN'S MUSIC MATTERS income £321k

Side by side with its peers

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