SUTTON MUSIC TRUST

Registered charity 1209939 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £73,301 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a prior year deficit. However, the charity relies on its parent company for financial support through loans and donations to maintain its going concern status, as indicated by significant intercompany balances owed to Cognus Limited.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14707058

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Claire Cossins — Head of Sutton Music Trust (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• STEARS, Colin Henry — director, appointed 12/11/2025on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Adrienne — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• THOMAS, Elinor Mary Victoria — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• CASSEY, Joanna — director, appointed 01/04/2023on trustee list
• JONES, Martin — director, appointed 01/04/2023on trustee list
• COMFORT, Ian Thomas — director, appointed 06/03/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN COMFORTchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Adrienne Roberts
• Colin Stears
• Elinor Mary Victoria Thomas
• Joanna Cassey
• Martin Jones

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

Operates in: Sutton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUTTON MENCAP CHARITY COMPANY.

• SUTTON MENCAP CHARITY COMPANY income £1.1m
• SANCTUARY TRUST LIMITED income £2.6m
• RICHMOND UPON THAMES MUSIC TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £1.8m
• THE SACCONI TRUST income £126k
• RIVER CHURCH SUTTON income £256k
• PERSULA FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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