ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS

Registered charity 289294 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACADEMY CONCERTS SOCIETY

The principal activities of the charity during the year were the promotion and advancement of musical education for public benefit, and the support of the practice and performance of chamber orchestra music by the giving of public concerts.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF MUSICAL EDUCATION FOR THE DIFFUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT MUSIC AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLICãS TASTE FOR MUSIC2. THE PROMOTION OR SUPPORT OF THE STUDY, PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE OF CHAMBER ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS BY THE GIVING OF PUBLIC CONCERTS3. WITH A VIEW TO PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH BETTER MUSICIANS AND CONDUCTORS, THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TOWARDS THE EDUCATION OF AND THE PROVISION OF SPECIAL PRIZES SCHOLARSHIPS OF AWARDS TO ANY ONE OR MORE PERSON(S) WHO MAY BE MUSICIANS OR STUDENTS OF MUSIC, PROFESSIONAL OR AMATEUR, AND WHOSE WORK OR STUDY SHALL BE DEVOTED WHOLLY OR PARTLY TO PLAYING OF ANY ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENT OR THE CONDUCTING OF ANY ORCHESTRA OR CHOIR AS THE COUNCIL MAY IN ITS DISCRETION THINK FIT4. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND FINANCIAL DISTRESS AMONGST MUSICIANS, CONDUCTORS, SINGERS OR OTHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN THE PERFORMANCE, MANAGEMENT OR COMPOSITION OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £423,308 and unrestricted reserves of £1,915,058. The trustees note that reserves are held to mitigate anticipated deficits over the next three years due to a reduction in Orchestra Tax Relief. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. 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
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 07/07/2023, 7 days after the 30/06/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01808488

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joshua Bell — Music Director (source)
• Tomo Keller — Director / Leader (source)
• Sir Neville Marriner — Founding President (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.

• HASLAM, Judith — director, appointed 10/05/2026on trustee list
• GARNER, Julie Amanda — director, appointed 29/10/2025on trustee list
• WANG, Arthur Minshiang — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• HENSEL, Joanna Mary — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• CATTELL, Ross — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• HINKSON LIPPER, Ruth Clare — director, appointed 14/05/2024not on trustee list
• DESCHAMPS, Isabelle Marie Nicole — director, appointed 23/05/2023on trustee list
• SMISSEN, Robert Philip Durrance — director, appointed 23/05/2023on trustee list
• MACKINTOSH, Andrew John, Dr — director, appointed 15/02/2023on trustee list
• FRAENKEL, Martin Ernst — director, appointed 05/10/2021on trustee list
• BOYES, Sara Louise — director, appointed 05/10/2021on trustee list
• AYMERICH, Marie-Anne Pierrette — director, appointed 05/10/2021on trustee list
• POWELL, Gary Alan — director, appointed 05/10/2021on trustee list
• CATTELL, Ross — secretary, appointed 29/10/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% 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: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• martin ernst fraenkelchair
• Andrew Marriner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arthur Wang
• Dr Andrew John Mackintosh
• Gary Alan Powell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Isabelle Marie Nicole Deschamps
• Joanna Mary Hensel
• Judith Haslam
• Julie Garner
• Marie-Anne Pierrette Aymerich
• Robert Philip Durrance Smissen
• Ross Cattell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ruth Clare Hinkson Lipper
• Sara Louise Boyes

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

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Canada · China · France · Germany · Hungary · Japan · Luxembourg · Macau · Netherlands · Poland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC.

• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• GLOBAL MUSIC ACADEMY income £65k
• TEDDINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £45k
• MUSIC IN LYDDINGTON income £29k
• CAMDEN CHOIR income £46k
• THE AMERSHAM FESTIVAL SOCIETY income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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