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Registered charity · Upminster

The British Music Society

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £12k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.britishmusicsociety.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£12k£18k
  • 2023£11k£13k
  • 2022£786£81
Earlier years
  • 2021£12k£11k
  • 2020£13k£12k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BRITISH MUSIC WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PROMOTION OF THE MUSIC OF BRITISH COMPOSERS, ALIVE OR DEAD PAST 1850, WHO DO NOT HAVE SOCIETIES DEVOTED TO THE PROMOTION OF THEIR MUSIC.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

16.5y median 14.5y
average tenure
32y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (2)

0
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 4Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£12k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1043838
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 22 OCTOBER 1994 AS AMENDED 24 FEBRUARY 2007 AND ORDER DATED 14 APRIL 2005
Contact on the register
01708224795 · britishmusicsociety@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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