WILTSHIRE RURAL MUSIC SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 309496 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WILTSHIRE RURAL MUSIC SCHOOL

To facilitate music-making activities for people of all ages living in the villages/towns of Wiltshire, through presenting and performing music. To promote the study and practice of music, especially in its social and co-operative forms. To conduct negotiations with any government, local, municipal or other authorities on matters affecting the study and practice of music in Wiltshire.

Objects

1. TO TAKE OVER AND CONTINUE THE WORK HITHERTO CARRIED ON BY THE WILTSHIRE RURAL MUSIC SCHOOL AND TO PROVIDE AN ORGANISATION FOR THE TEACHING OF MUSIC AND MUSIC CENTRES FOR STUDENTS OF ALL AGES LIVING IN THE VILLAGES AND TOWNS OF WILTSHIRE. 2. TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PRESENTING AND PERFORMING MUSICAL WORKS OF A HIGH CLASS OR BY ASSISTING OR ENCOURAGING THE PRESENTATION OF SUCH WORKS IN ANY SUCH VILLAGES OR TOWNS AND TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRACTISE OF MUSIC, SPECIALLY IN ITS SOCIAL AND CO-OPERATIVE FORMS AMONG STUDENTS OF ALL AGES. 3. TO UNDERTAKE AND EXECUTE ANY CHARITABLE TRUSTS ESTABLISHED OR CONSTITUTED WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY FOR PROMOTING THE STUDY AND PRACTISE OF MUSIC AND GENERALLY ANY OTHER TRUSTS OF ANY DESCRIPTION CONSIDERED BY THE SCHOOL TO BE NECESSARY FOR ITS OBJECTS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with a surplus for the financial year 2024-25. The trustees note that they must not rely on this surplus and continue to concentrate efforts on core functions and fundraising to protect assets and operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wiltshire Rural Music (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Bloss Family Foundation — “We'd like to thank the following organisations for their support Bloss Family Foundation” (source page)

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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

• Peggy Elizabeth Snellchair
• DOUGLAS ANTHONY BENSON
• Emma Victoria Davies
• Lorna Kathryn Watchman
• PHILIP SPRINGATE
• Sheila Gladys Parker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sian Helena Dicker
• Stewart Martin Palmen
• TREVOR CARBIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vernon Frederick Hitchman

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

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Government & lottery funding

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