MUSIC PRESERVED

Registered charity 296895 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MUSIC PERFORMANCE RESEARCH CENTRE, THE MUSIC PERFORMANCE RESEARCH CENTRE, THE MUSIC PRESERVED

Music Preserved was founded to preserve documents of public performances in recorded sound for future generations, securing, as far as possible, the integrity of the performances and the performance contexts.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT, APPRECIATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC AND FOR THIS PURPOSE TO OVERSEE AND TO PROVIDE A PROGRAMME OF MAKING ARCHIVE RECORDINGS BOTH AUDIO AND AUDIO-VISUAL OF A REPRESENTATIVE SELECTION OF THE MUSIC WHICH HAS BEEN OR IS OR WILL BE PERFORMED PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM SO THAT THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR MUSICIANS AND STUDENTS MAY, IN CONTROLLED CONDITIONS, LISTEN TO AND STUDY MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE. (B) TO ACQUIRE, COLLECT IN, RETAIN AND SAFEGUARD OWNERSHIP OF AND THE COPYRIGHTS IN ANY RECORDING MEDUIM WHICH ENCOMPASS PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC WITH OR WITHOUT THE WORDS SPOKEN OR SUNG IN ASSOCIATION THERWITH ("THE RECORDINGS"). (C) TO PROVIDE ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES AND DEPOSITORIES AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE RETENTION, PRESERVATION AND COLLATION OF RECORDINGS AND THE PROVISION OF ACCESS FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE AND/OR LISTEN TO THE RECORDINGS.

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.

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Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£12k
Latest spending
£13k
Registered
1987

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2025

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2021

  • Volunteers: 4

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/05/2025£12k£13k
31/05/2024£14k£14k
31/05/2023£649£4k
31/05/2022£5k£3k
31/05/2021£15k£2k

Common questions

Who funds MUSIC PRESERVED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MUSIC PRESERVED as a grant recipient include THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2021£2kAdvancement of education

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund07/01/1997£96k"Music Performance Heritage Preservation"