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Registered charity (CIO) · Swindon

Swindon Music Service

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £834k (2025)
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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, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Swindon
Website
www.smscio.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2018

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£834k£666k
  • 2024£580k£582k
  • 2023£539k£566k
Earlier years
  • 2022£520k£541k
  • 2021£559k£512k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 65%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:TO ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) IN RELATION TO MUSIC; TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY), BY PROMOTING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO, PERFORMANCES OF, AND PARTICIPATION IN PERFORMANCES OF, MUSIC; TO PROVIDE FOR THE RECREATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO THEM IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Grants received

5 grants · £1,118,290 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 · £651,010 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £467,280 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £192,4102023-07-20
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £137,4352023-07-20
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £137,4352022-03-23
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £327,0312021-03-18
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £323,9792020-04-01
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.

10 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

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 10Education/training 10Other Charitable Purposes 10

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

Other services 1

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£834k 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.

6.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.3 in 2021

32 from 27 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
1179203
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 16 Jul 2018
Contact on the register
07799143828 · pclark@smscio.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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