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Registered charity · Norwich

Hymns Ancient and Modern Limited

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £7.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.hymnsam.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hymns Ancient and Modern Limited
Registered
1975

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.2m£7.4m
  • 2024£7.2m£7.6m
  • 2023£6.7m£7.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.7m£6.6m
  • 2021£6.5m£6.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION.TO ESTABLISH AND SUPPORT OR AID IN THE ESTABLISHMENT AND SUPPORT OF ANY CHARITABLE CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION, INSTITUTION, COLLEGE, SCHOOL, SOCIETY OR BODY WHATSOEVER WHICH, IN THE OPINION OF THE ASSOCIATION, IS CONNECTED WITH THE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND OR ANY CHURCH IN COMMUNION WITH IT, AND TO SUBSCRIBE AND GUARANTEE MONEY FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE.TO AID AND SUPPORT ANY CHARITABLE CORPORATION, ASSOCIATION, INSTITUTION, COLLEGE, SCHOOL, SOCIETY OR BODY WHICH MAY NOT BE IN A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS AFORESAID BUT WHOSE AIMS AND OBJECTS ARE, IN THE OPINION OF THE ASSOCIATION, SUCH AS A CHURCH OF ENGLAND ORGANISATION COULD PROPERLY AID AND SUPPORT

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.

5.1y median 6y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (5)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 7Education/training 4Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 9Education 7Other services 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£7.2m 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.

10.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 11.4 in 2020

62 from 66 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
270060
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 JULY 1975 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 3 OCTOBER 2008, NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 2 AUGUST 2010.
Companies House
Company number 01220696 · Active
Contact on the register
01603785900 · chris.lilley@hymnsam.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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