THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 222410 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RMA

The charity publishes the Journal of the Royal Musical Association half-yearly and annually the RMA Research Chronicle and RMA Monograph series. It organises and supports conferences concerning musicological matters and recognises the achievement of excellence in musical scholarship by the annual award of the Dent Medal, the Tippett Medal, the Jerome Roche Prize, and the Peter Le Huray Lecture.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN MUSIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY, THE PUBLICATION OF SCHOLARLY MATERIAL IN THE FIELD OF MUSIC

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £15,295 for the year, driven by a planned deficit in unrestricted funds to cover 150th Anniversary costs. The trustees confirm that reserves held at 31 December 2024 continue to more than meet the agreed policy target of six months' expenditure. The charity maintains adequate resources to meet foreseeable contingencies and finance its activities for the future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00081327

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Musical Association (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• RAE, Caroline Anne Bodman, Dr — director, appointed 15/01/2026on trustee list
• SCHEDING, Florian, Dr — director, appointed 06/01/2026not on trustee list
• CORMAC, Joanne Emma, Dr — director, appointed 06/01/2026not on trustee list
• GARRATT, James Edmund, Professor — director, appointed 06/01/2026not on trustee list
• PAGE, Annabelle Miriam, Dr — director, appointed 06/01/2026not on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Amy, Dr — director, appointed 03/01/2025not on trustee list
• HICKS, Jonathan Edward, Dr — director, appointed 03/01/2025not on trustee list
• MEINHART, Michelle Marie, Dr — director, appointed 03/01/2025not on trustee list
• BLIER-CARRUTHERS, Amélie Amy May Marie, Dr — director, appointed 16/01/2024on trustee list
• ATTFIELD, Nicholas William James, Dr — director, appointed 16/01/2024on trustee list
• JOHNSON-WILLIAMS, Erin Grace, Dr — director, appointed 16/01/2024on trustee list
• KEEFE, Simon Patrick, Professor — director, appointed 16/01/2024on trustee list
• HERISSONE, Rebecca Louise, Professor — director, appointed 03/01/2023not on trustee list
• JAMES, Valerie Ann — director, appointed 09/01/2015on trustee list
• BABINGTON, Amanda, Dr — secretary, appointed 20/09/2022

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Amelie Amy May Marie Blier-Carruthers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Ann Renee van Allen-Russell
• Dr Barbara Lucy Kelly · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Caroline Anne Bodman Rae
• Dr Erin Grace Johnson-Williams
• Dr Genevieve Robyn Arkle
• Dr Laura Ann Hamer
• Dr Lois Fitch
• Dr Mark Berry
• Dr Nicholas William James Attfield
• Dr Nuria Bonet Filella
• Dr Rebecca Louise Herissone-Kelly · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Susan Margaret Miller
• Dr Thomas Attah
• Professor Catherine Jane Tackley
• Professor Sarah Collins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Patrick Keefe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Valerie James · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC AWARDS FUND.

• THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC AWARDS FUND income £1.9m
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £539k
• ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £33.2m
• ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £285k
• THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC income £50.9m

Side by side with its peers

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