Registered charity · York
University of York Music Press
- 9 trustees
- Income £27k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Dr David Norman LancasterChair · since 2022
- Dr Desmond Richard ClarkeTrustee · since 2025
- Morag GallowayTrustee · since 2019
- Neil Gerald Alexander KingTrustee · since 2014
- Prof Nicola Frances LefanuTrustee · since 1997
- Professor Robert Louis Alfred Saxton MA B.MUS D.MUS FgsmTrustee · since 2003
- Professor George Thomas Frederick NicholsonTrustee · since 2019
- Professor Martin Charles SucklingTrustee · since 2019
- Sarah Louise Derbyshire MBETrustee · since 2015
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
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.uymp.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- University of York Music Press
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£27k£31k
- 2024£24k£24k
- 2023£58k£26k
Earlier years
- 2022£32k£30k
- 2021£51k£27k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ART OF MUSIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE TO BROADEN THE REPERTOIRE OF CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH:- THE PUBLICATION OF MUSIC SCORES WRITTEN FOR PEOPLE OF ALL MUSICAL ABILITIES BY COMPOSERS FROM A RANGE OF AESTHETIC BACKGROUNDS AND INCLUDING WORK AVAILABLE TO EDUCATION SETTINGS; - PUBLISHING AND THEREBY GIVING PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE WORK OF EMERGING CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Dr David Norman Lancaster Chair since 2022
- Dr Desmond Richard Clarke since 2025
- Morag Galloway since 2019
- Neil Gerald Alexander King since 2014
- Prof Nicola Frances Lefanu since 1997
- Professor Robert Louis Alfred Saxton MA B.MUS D.MUS Fgsm since 2003
- Professor George Thomas Frederick Nicholson since 2019
- Professor Martin Charles Suckling since 2019
- Sarah Louise Derbyshire MBE since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Morag Galloway since 2019
- Neil Gerald Alexander King since 2014
- Prof Nicola Frances Lefanu since 1997
- Professor Robert Louis Alfred Saxton MA B.MUS D.MUS Fgsm since 2003
- Professor George Thomas Frederick Nicholson since 2019
- Professor Martin Charles Suckling since 2019
- Sarah Louise Derbyshire MBE since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Dr David Norman Lancaster Chair since 2022
- Dr Desmond Richard Clarke since 2025
- Morag Galloway since 2019
- Neil Gerald Alexander King since 2014
- Prof Nicola Frances Lefanu since 1997
- Professor Robert Louis Alfred Saxton MA B.MUS D.MUS Fgsm since 2003
- Professor Martin Charles Suckling since 2019
Portfolio (2)
- Professor George Thomas Frederick Nicholson since 2019
- Sarah Louise Derbyshire MBE since 2015
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- 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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1179137
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 11 APR 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05 JUL 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 03350729 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01904322434 · info@uymp.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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