RICHARD SHEPHARD MUSIC FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1189066 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of musical education for children and young people in Yorkshire and more widely

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN YORKSHIRE AND SUCH OTHER AREAS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, BY ENHANCING THE KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, ENJOYMENT, UNDERSTANDING AND PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC, INCLUDING THROUGH SOME OR ALL OF TUITION, MASTER-CLASSES, EVENTS, CONCERTS, AND THE USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves amounted to £254,746, which the trustees confirmed was within their stated policy target of holding 3 to 6 months of net projected expenditure. The charity reported a net surplus for the year, with unrestricted funds increasing from £165,493 to £256,145, indicating stable financial resources.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Richard Shephard Music Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Marion Hayes · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Christopher James Pipe · trustee of 2 other charities
• Edward Young
• James Peter Edward Downey
• Professor Lynne Dawson
• Richard Grosberg · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 SHEFFIELD MUSIC ACADEMY.

• SHEFFIELD MUSIC ACADEMY income £479k
• HYDE BAND income £38k
• THE MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £608k
• YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
• SHROPSHIRE MUSIC TRUST income £64k
• Chester Music and Theatre Company income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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