CRESCENDO

Registered charity 271375 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE RIVENDELL TRUST

The Trust helps primary age children, who would not normally have the chance, to have the opportunity to experience a wider experience of live music.The Trustees no longer support direct teaching and will not take on any new students. They will support organisations which support children's experience of music and the arts. The Trustees do not accept unsolicited applications.

Objects

TO OR TOWARDS OR FOR THE BENEFIT OR IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: ANY PART OF THE WORLD

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £94,456 against total funds of £1,117,455. The trustees report that they are happy with the current reserve level and do not envisage future commitments exceeding annual income. The charity confirms it is a going concern with adequate resources to mitigate risks under normal conditions.

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 2 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM BENJAMIN CAIRD
• ALEXANDER GEORGE LAING
• CHARLOTTE CAIRD

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).