THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 208879 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Society, a charity for musicians run by musicians, provides grants and support to professional musicians and their families in need because of accident, illness or old age whether or not they are members. Founded in 1738 as the Fund for Decay'd Musicians, early members included Handel, Arne, Boyce and Sammartini. Today it maintains its tradition of responding swiftly to needs of colleagues.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £80,267 for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by strong investment returns despite a loss in the market valuation of equities. The charity holds substantial unrestricted funds of £37,773,541, with free reserves of £566,598, which the trustees consider prudent to hold in investments to generate income rather than in deposit accounts. Per the trustees' report, the organization remains financially stable with adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Errollyn Wallen CBE — President (source)
• Charlotte Penton-Smith — Chief Executive (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £4.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Anthony Jackson MVO · trustee of 8 other charities
• Daniel Baruch Meyer
• Elizabeth Drew
• George Caird Professor · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Vass · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jacoba Gale
• Jeremy Huw Williams BEM PhD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Keith Martin Ames
• Kim Murphy
• Marianne Olyver
• Nickie Dixon
• Orphy Robinson · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND.

• MUSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND income £5.7m
• THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES income £936k
• LONDON BACH SOCIETY income £147k
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £539k
• The Royal Corps of Army Music Trust income £159k
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY LIMITED income £505k

Side by side with its peers

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