NASH CONCERT SOCIETY TRUST

Registered charity 255017 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting the development of musical appreciationAdvancement of musical education in general

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC MUSICAL EDUCATION IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR A) BY PROCURING SPONSORING OR ASSISTING THE PERFORMANCE OF MUSICAL WORKS OF HIGH QUALITY. (FOR FURTHER OBECTS SEE DECLARATION OF TRUST)

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £4,574 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds of £17,787. A significant portion of the year's financial position improvement came from a £39,730 trustee loan being converted into a gift. The charity maintains positive cash reserves of £49,265 against current liabilities of £31,478.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 19/02/2025, 19 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/04/2024, 89 days after the 31/01/2024 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

• Sir Stanley Burntonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Johannes Brendel
• LADY PRIMROSE BELL
• MICHAEL JOHN LEWIS
• RODNEY SLATFORD OBE
• Sally Hilary Marks Groves MBE
• Simon James Crawford-Philips
• WILLIAM LYNE CBE

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

Operates in: 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 THE HAMPSTEAD CHURCH MUSIC TRUST.

• THE HAMPSTEAD CHURCH MUSIC TRUST income £114k
• NAPTON MUSIC FESTIVAL TRUST income £60k
• WALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £180k
• THE TEMPLE MUSIC FOUNDATION income £513k
• NINMAH TRUST income £1.3m
• SHROPSHIRE MUSIC TRUST income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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