THE CORSHAM WINDBAND ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 298012 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Regular weekly music rehearsals supplemented by at least 2 concerts per year, local / national band festivals, as well as residential music courses and support to local community events.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF YOUNG PERSONS IN WILTSHIRE BY HELPING TO TRAIN THEM IN THE PLAYING OF WINDBAND INSTRUMENTS BY MEANS OF CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS AT WHICH YOUNG PERSONS MAY PERFORM AS BANDS TO ADVANCE THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: WILTSHIRE

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is a going concern with unrestricted reserves of £25,437.96 and no liabilities. The trustees report that the association relies on volunteers and has no employees, with teaching staff remunerated from grant income. The filing indicates adequate reserves to cope with short-term financial problems.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Corsham Windband Association (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Sonia Blandfordchair
• Abdallah Chebly
• Alan Harding
• Amanda Jayne Jacobs
• Julie Ann Bryan
• Paul Bryan
• Peter Feltham
• Russell Connelly
• Samantha Rogers
• Samantha Simon
• Wing Commander James Alan Waller

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HORSHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

• HORSHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £34k
• ROYSTON CHORAL SOCIETY income £34k
• LAUNCESTON TOWN BAND income £43k
• TRING CHORAL SOCIETY income £35k
• WETHERBY CHORAL SOCIETY income £46k
• Markham and District Band income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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