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THE CHERYL KING TRUST

Registered charity 1191604 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Cheryl King Trust promotes and advances the musical education of children and young people in particular, but not exclusively, by the provision of grants and funding to enable the beneficiaries to start or continue with individual or group musical instrument lessons.

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Latest income
£36k
Latest spending
£21k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the period with total receipts of £37,742 and payments of £20,533. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £48,844, which the trustees note exceeds their current policy target, although they anticipate needing higher reserves to support planned growth initiatives. The charity also disclosed a merger with another trust and an expected legacy donation post-year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Events (61% of income)
“Our “give a gig” initiative continued to thrive raising £23,206 from a total of 31 events and Guildford Jazz’s regular raffles.” — page 3
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: sufficient to ensure that the trust can continue to fund lessons for any child or young person whose parents receive a CKT bursary until that child or young person reaches the end of their junior or senior school as appropriate and can fund any ensemble or group teaching projects currently being funded for one more year (held: £49k)
“It is therefore the ambition of the charity to create and maintain reserves sufficient to ensure that the trust can continue to fund lessons for any child or young person whose parents receive a CKT bursary until that child or young person reaches the end of their junior or senior school as appropriate and can fund any ensemble or group teaching projects currently being funded for one more year in order to allow time for the project to try to secure alternative funding.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Cheryl King Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£36k£21k
30/09/2024£28k£14k
30/09/2023£23k£11k
30/09/2022£9k£7k
30/09/2021£11k£5k

Common questions

Is THE CHERYL KING TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the period with total receipts of £37,742 and payments of £20,533. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £48,844, which the trustees note exceeds their current policy target, although they anticipate needing higher reserves to support planned growth initiatives. The charity also disclosed a merger with another trust and an expected legacy donation post-year-end. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE CHERYL KING TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE CHERYL KING TRUST as a grant recipient include GUILDFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
GUILDFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITYFY2022£500
GUILDFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITYFY2023£490