EXETER CATHEDRAL MUSIC FOUNDATION (CIO)

Registered charity 1204174 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity supports the provision and maintenance of music and a choir at Exeter Cathedral.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO SUPPORT, FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF MUSIC AND A CHOIR IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER IN EXETER BY THE DEAN AND CHAPTER.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £6,327,378, comprising a designated fund of £1,255,942 and unrestricted general funds of £5,071,436. The trustees report a sound financial basis with limited risk, noting that the charity operates on a going concern basis supported by healthy income and a sound asset base.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 08/12/2025, 311 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Keith Acornleychair
• Andrew Thomas Seager Millington
• Caroline Padget
• Gordon John Pike · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Huggett · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN CHRISTOPHER CROWLEY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lady Rachel Norris
• Melanie Heather May Henrywood
• Penelope Helen Adie
• Rowan Truscott · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EXETER CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION BURSARY FUND.

• EXETER CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION BURSARY FUND income £33k
• THE FRIENDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL income £392k
• LEICESTER CATHEDRAL MUSIC FOUNDATION income £77k
• EXETER PHILHARMONIC CHOIR income £148k
• MUSIC AND WORSHIP FOUNDATION CIO income £71k
• THE EXETER & DISTRICT CLASSICAL MUSIC TRUST income £78k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.