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Registered charity · Bristol

Bristol Music Trust

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Bristol City
Website
www.bristolbeacon.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bristol Music Trust
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£13m
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£6.7m£6.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£16m
  • 2021£15m£14m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 29%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE "OBJECTS") ARE:1. TO PROMOTE THE ARTS (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MUSIC) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PEOPLE OF BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND).2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN, AND THE APPRECIATION OF, THE ARTS (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MUSIC) AMONG MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PEOPLE OF BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND).3. TO PROVIDE AND OPERATE A CONCERT HALL AT BRISTOL BS1 5AR IN FURTHERANCE OF ALL OR ANY OF THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES SPECIFIED ABOVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PEOPLE OF BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND).4. TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Grants received

33 grants · £10,095,915 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

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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.

13 trustees on the board

3.8y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 13Arts/culture/heritage/science 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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 18Professional services 9Finance 8

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£14.4m latest income
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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

230 from 126 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
1140898
Status
Registered
Governing document
Memorandum
Companies House
Company number 07531978 · Active
Contact on the register
01179223686 · hello@bristolbeacon.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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