THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC AWARDS FUND

Registered charity 504948 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To apply its income to the education of students of the Royal Northern College of Music by the award of prizes, exhibitions, grants for travel or for the purchase of musical instruments, maintenance allowances or similar benefits.

Objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AND FORMER STUDENTS OF THE ROYAL MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC BY THE AWARD OF PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, GRANTS FOR TRAVEL OR FOR THE PURCHASE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES AND OTHER SIMILAR BENEFITS.

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: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1.2m, which is above the stated policy minimum of £500,000. The charity reported a net deficit for the year of £519,035, primarily driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income, though this was offset by significant investment gains. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Manchester City

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 NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUND.

• THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUND income £4.0m
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC income £41.1m
• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• NORTH WALES MUSIC TUITION CENTRES income £335k
• NORTH NORFOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL income £111k
• ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £33.2m

Side by side with its peers

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