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Registered charity (CIO) · Wimborne

The Music Venue Trust

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £975k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
musicvenuetrust.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£975k£1.4m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.5m
  • 2022£2.4m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.7m£1.6m
  • 2020£1.7m£1.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO ADVANCE THE PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE, ENJOYMENT AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ARTS THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES AT MUSIC VENUES

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.

15 trustees on the board

5.2y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

2
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 15

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

Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 1Property 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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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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£975k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.0 in 2020

17 from 4 in 2020
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
1159846
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 08 Jan 2015
Contact on the register
020 3930 8279 · info@musicvenuetrust.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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