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Buckinghamshire Music Trust

  • 2 trustees
  • Income £2.9m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Buckinghamshire
Website
www.bucksmusic.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Buckinghamshire Music Trust
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.9m£3.0m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.2m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.3m
  • 2021£2.1m£2.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 40%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:2.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN RELATION TO MUSIC AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES;2.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF ARTS AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROMOTING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO AND PARTICIPATION IN, PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES;2.1.3 THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH MUSIC, AND OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY; AND2.1.4 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND EVENTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS.2.1.5 FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CAUSE "SOCIALLY EXCLUDED" MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: HEALTH, DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT, YOUTH OR OLD AGE, DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT.

Grants received

9 grants · £1,699,796 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

Most recent

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.

2 trustees on the board

6.5y median 6.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

1
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 2Economic/community Development/employment 2Education/training 2

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 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.4m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

107 from 103 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.
89 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1177780
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09 FEB 2018
Companies House
Company number 11198293 · Active
Contact on the register
07984387616 · musicservice@bucksmusic.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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