The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Cathedral Music Trust

Registered charity 1187769 CIO Registered since 2020

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle Of Man

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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

8.8y
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 2Education 2

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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitehttp://www.cathedralmusictrust.org.uk/
EmailSecretary@cathedralmusictrust.org.uk
Phone02031516096
Address27 OLD GLOUCESTER STREET, LONDON, WC1N 3AX

Finances

£1,191,290 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£843,469£744,195
2022£604,266£770,373
2023£1,712,025£853,949
2024£1,112,448£1,025,215
2025£1,191,290£1,032,304

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Advocacy/advice/informationOther Charitable Activities

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.

Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 05 Feb 2020 as amended on 25 Mar 2025

Trustees (12)

12trustees
63median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (5)

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