Registered charity · Ashford

Kent Music

Kent Music is a registered charity (number 1110639) based in Ashford, governed by 11 trustees. Latest income £4.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

11 trustees
Income £4.1m (2025)

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Medway, Kent
Website: www.kent-music.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Kent Music
Registered: 2005

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£4.1m£3.6m
2024£4.8m£3.2m
2023£4.2m£3.1m

Earlier years

2022£3.2m£3.2m
2021£3.0m£2.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 70%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ('THE OBJECTS') SHALL BE THE PROMOTION OF THE PERFORMING ARTS IN ALL ITS FORMS AND IN PARTICULAR MUSIC AND FOR THIS PURPOSE TO PROVIDE EDUCATION TUITION AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY PRINCIPALLY WITHIN THE COUNTY OF KENT WHICH SHALL INCLUDE THE MEDWAY UNITARY AUTHORITY.

Grants received

3 grants · £4,335,599 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £4,330,599 (2 grants)
The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,000

Most recent

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £2,178,6292022-03-24
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £2,151,9702021-03-18
The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002006-06-22

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.

11 trustees on the board

0.8y median 1y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

7.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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 11Education/training 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 10Other services 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£4.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

8.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.4 in 2021

130 from 143 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details

Registered charity number: 1110639
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/05/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/11/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/02/2011 as amended on 22 Jun 2018 as amended on 05 Jul 2024
Companies House: Company number 05464855 · Active
Contact on the register: 01622691212 · rroberts@kent-music.com
Edition: Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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