COVENTRY MUSIC TRUST

Registered charity 1182061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE MUSIC FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, WITH A PARTICULAR BUT NON-EXCLUSIVE FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, BY IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) PROMOTING THE PERFORMANCE, LEARNING, PRACTICE AND APPRECIATION OF MUSIC BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF COVENTRY AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE MUSIC FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, WITH A PARTICULAR BUT NON-EXCLUSIVE FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, BY IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) PROMOTING THE PERFORMANCE, LEARNING, PRACTICE AND APPRECIATION OF MUSIC BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF COVENTRY AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

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: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is closing as part of merger arrangements, with remaining funds to be transferred to another charity before December 2026. Consequently, the accounts are prepared on the basis that the charity is not a going concern. The charity held unrestricted reserves of £18,860.63 at the period end, having passed on all restricted grant income to partners.

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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 15/12/2025 (received 20/10/2026, 5 days after the 15/10/2026 due date); year ending 15/12/2023 (received 09/12/2024, 55 days after the 15/10/2024 due date); year ending 15/12/2022 (received 11/12/2023, 57 days after the 15/10/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• FLEUR JOANNA SEXTON BA/PGCE/DLchair
• Dr Benoit Granier
• Dr GEOFF IAIN WILLCOCKS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK STEELE
• Mark Patton
• Sinead Ouillon

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

Operates in: Coventry City

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 THE TEMPLE MUSIC TRUST.

• THE TEMPLE MUSIC TRUST income £63k
• TRUST MUSIC income £43k
• COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED income £194k
• SHROPSHIRE MUSIC TRUST income £64k
• CORNERSTONE MUSIC income £27k
• THE BEDFORDSHIRE MUSIC TRUST income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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