BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MUSIC TRUST

Registered charity 1177780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our core mission is to provide outstanding music education, including instrumental and vocal lessons at school and in one of our Music Centres across Bucks.We also support schools in the delivery of their music curriculum, and work with a range of partners who share a passion for music and its importance for all young people, in all its forms.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £82,254 for the year ended 30 August 2025, resulting in total net liabilities of £947,524. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, supported by recovery plans and cost-saving measures. However, the auditor issued a qualified opinion due to an inability to obtain sufficient evidence regarding a £206,691.60 trade debtor write-off.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Calculo Tax Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Guenault — Director (source)
• Fay Hayhurst — Deputy Director (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (60% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Debra Mansfield-Clark
• Peter Downton

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

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 BENSLOW MUSIC TRUST.

• BENSLOW MUSIC TRUST income £1.6m
• THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST income £1.1m
• RICHMOND UPON THAMES MUSIC TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £1.8m
• CORNWALL MUSIC SERVICE TRUST income £1.8m
• COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED income £194k
• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.