FRIENDS OF WINDSOR MUSIC (WINDSOR LEARNING PARTNERSHIP)

Registered charity 1199657 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF WINDSOR MUSIC (WLP)

Fundraising for the advancement of education and the advancement of the arts for the public benefit in particular by promoting the study and performance of music and the performing arts by children attending the schools of the Windsor Learning Partnership, Berkshire UK.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING THE STUDY AND PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC AND THE PERFORMING ARTS BY CHILDREN ATTENDING THE SCHOOLS OF THE WINDSOR LEARNING PARTNERSHIP.

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: Windsor and Maidenhead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £15,347 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves of £42,384. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of retaining only £500 in unrestricted funds. The charity has no employees or fixed operating costs, relying on volunteers and fundraising events to replenish its low reserve target.

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 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2025 (received 02/07/2026, 2 days after the 30/06/2026 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

• Brian Mather
• Catherine Clare Angharad Sewell
• Darren Norman James - Mitchell
• JAMES MANWARING
• Katherine Lawrence
• Matthew David Robert Eaton
• Sarah Jane Whittington
• Victoria Jane Higton

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

Operates in: Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WINDSOR FELLOWSHIP.

• WINDSOR FELLOWSHIP income £613k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE WINDSOR BOYS' SCHOOL income £43k
• WANDSWORTH MUSIC income £2.0m
• THE WINDSOR FESTIVAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £215k
• FRIENDS OF WORPLESDON SCHOOL income £21k
• FRIENDS OF HIGHFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL WINCHMORE HILL income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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