UNIVERSITY OF YORK MUSIC PRESS

Registered charity 1179137 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UYMP

Musical education by the encouragement of publication of new works and archiving of existing works, particularly supporting emerging composers.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ART OF MUSIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE TO BROADEN THE REPERTOIRE OF CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH:- THE PUBLICATION OF MUSIC SCORES WRITTEN FOR PEOPLE OF ALL MUSICAL ABILITIES BY COMPOSERS FROM A RANGE OF AESTHETIC BACKGROUNDS AND INCLUDING WORK AVAILABLE TO EDUCATION SETTINGS; - PUBLISHING AND THEREBY GIVING PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE WORK OF EMERGING CLASSICAL COMPOSERS

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 FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £4,277, resulting in free unrestricted reserves of £71,576. These reserves are well in excess of the stated policy target of £25,000, which is intended to cover one year of staffing obligations. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with no matters coming to the examiner's attention.

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 4 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr David Norman Lancasterchair
• Dr Desmond Richard Clarke
• Morag Galloway
• NEIL GERALD ALEXANDER KING
• PROF NICOLA FRANCES LEFANU
• Professor ROBERT LOUIS ALFRED SAXTON MA B.MUS D.MUS FGSM
• Professor George Thomas Frederick Nicholson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor MARTIN CHARLES SUCKLING
• SARAH LOUISE DERBYSHIRE MBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Known funders

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