THE NATIONAL JAZZ ARCHIVE

Registered charity 1195381 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public by encouraging and fostering the understanding, knowledge, appreciation and development of jazz and associated forms of music and culture.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY ENCOURAGING AND FOSTERING THE UNDERSTANDING, KNOWLEDGE, APPRECIATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF JAZZ AND ASSOCIATED FORMS OF MUSIC AND CULTURE.

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 total unrestricted funds decreased from £39,053 to £20,276 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees have increased their minimum reserves policy target to £9,000, equivalent to approximately three months of operational costs, to protect against potential relocation risks. The charity relies heavily on in-kind support from Essex County Council and Birmingham City University, noting it receives no direct grant funding from public bodies.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark David Kasschair
• Dr Ellie Pridgeon
• Dr PEDRO MIGUEL CRAVINHO LOPES
• Jenny Golden
• John Rosie
• Karoline Engelhardt
• Martin Astell
• Orphy Robinson · trustee of 4 other charities
• Professor TIM WALL
• Ruth Robinson · 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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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA LTD.

• THE NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA LTD income £710k
• JAZZ UMBRELLA income £166k
• LIVING ARCHIVE PROJECT income £112k
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• B:MUSIC LTD income £13.6m
• DARBAR ARTS CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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