NEW LONDON MUSIC ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1179200 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity organises two annual classical music events for adult amateur musicians, with coaching by specialist tutors and performance opportunities. These are a week-long summer school and a chamber music weekend. The events include courses for orchestral and chamber musicians of all standards and choral singing.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, BY SUCH WAYS AS THE CIO SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, INCLUDING THE ORGANISATION OF MUSIC SCHOOLS

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: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operational deficit of £184 for the year ending 30th September 2025, with total income of £113,203 and expenditure of £113,387. Despite this deficit, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £112,593 at the end of the period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Teresa Crillychair
• Euan McCandless
• LORRAINE COLLINS
• PHILIP MEADEN
• Stephanie Burras
• Suzanne Jennifer Meaden

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• YORK LATE MUSIC income £25k
• LAWYERS MUSIC income £40k
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS income £659k
• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• EAST LONDON SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL MUSIC income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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