THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC

Registered charity 312828 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC, RSCM

We aim to encourage and inspire the best use of music, above all in Christian worship, formation and outreach. We do this by both direct and indirect education and training. Through our staff, volunteers and partnerships, we provide short courses, extended learning programmes, publications and resources, advice and advocacy. We work with people of all ages, abilities and levels of resource.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a substantial operating surplus of £317,879 in 2024, resulting in total unrestricted reserves exceeding £400,000. This performance has allowed the charity to regain its stated financial reserves position after previous challenges, with the trustees confirming no material uncertainties regarding the ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rothmans Audit LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2023) → 1 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal School of Church Music (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Baroness Hayman of Ullock — Chair of Council (source)
• Hugh Morris — Director / CEO (source)
• Dr Paul Hedley — Deputy Director (Finance; Operations) (source)
• Sarah King — Deputy Director (Education) (source)
• Tim Ruffer — Publishing Director (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW MORGAN
• ANNE KATHARINE HUDSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Baroness Susan Hayman
• CHRIS BRIDGES
• Dr Margaret Joan Greenwood
• EDWARD WILD
• John Halsey
• Joseph Al-Khalili · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Honeywood
• Rev Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu
• Sammi Tooze
• Sean Edward Costello
• Tansy Castledine

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC income £41.1m
• ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £285k
• WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL income £7.1m
• ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £33.2m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ORGANISTS income £523k
• ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £11.8m

Side by side with its peers

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