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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Cathedral Music Trust

Cathedral Music Trust is a registered charity (number 1187769) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Jonathan Angus Macdonald since 2020. Latest income £1.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Friends of Cathedral Music (Charity Commission)

The object of the CIO is to advance the art of music and the education of the public in the same, with special reference to sustaining sacred music and the cultural heritage of Cathedrals, Collegiate Churches and Chapels and other appropriate places...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
www.cathedralmusictrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.0m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.0m
  • 2023£1.7m£854k
Earlier years
  • 2022£604k£770k
  • 2021£843k£744k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The object of the CIO is to advance the art of music and the education of the public in the same, with special reference to sustaining sacred music and the cultural heritage of Cathedrals, Collegiate Churches and Chapels and other appropriate places of worship.

Grants received

2 grants · £13,000 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.

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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.

3y median 2.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

4
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 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 11General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Other services 4Arts and leisure 2Business 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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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£1.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.1 in 2020

7 from 1 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
1187769
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 05 Feb 2020 as amended on 25 Mar 2025
Contact on the register
02031516096 · Secretary@cathedralmusictrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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