HACKNEY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS TRUST

Registered charity 1191159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Hackney Youth Orchestras Trust is a music school for children and young people living or studying in Hackney and neighbouring boroughs. The School's progressive concessions policy makes it accessible to groups currently under-represented in music education. Students are taught by professional musicians both individually and in groups, leading to regular free public concert performances.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN MUSIC ESPECIALLY AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6-21 YEARS, THROUGH COACHING, ENSEMBLE PLAYING AND PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD.

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 accounts state that the charity reported a loss of £12,795 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which was covered by unrestricted reserves. Due to a significant drop in funding and student numbers, the trustees decided to close the charity following the end of the 2024-25 academic year.

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 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hackney Youth Orchestras Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL ST CLAIR Lane
• Christine Louise Evans
• DAVID ANTHONY MCCARTHY
• Elizabeth Jane Routhorn
• Malcolm John Hutcheson
• SUSAN MARGARET BARBER
• Sharon Anne Sullivan
• Simon Andrew Stephens

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

Operates in: Hackney · Haringey · Islington · Newham · Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).