Registered charity · Reading
The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £4.9m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Jonathan CarrollChair · since 2020
- Deborah HarrisTrustee · since 2020
- Dr Tijana BlanusaTrustee · since 2025
- Heather YoungTrustee · since 2025
- Kim AustenTrustee · since 2025
- Oliver George PickenTrustee · since 2025
- Rhona MillarTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 1 other charity:
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Windsor And Maidenhead and more
- Website
- www.berksmusictrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Berkshire Young Musicians Trust (the)
- Registered
- 1982
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.9m£4.6m
- 2024£4.6m£4.5m
- 2023£4.7m£4.8m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.6m£5.1m
- 2021£5.3m£4.6m
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION IN MUSIC OF, AND TO PROVIDE MUSIC CENTRES FOR PERSONS OF ALL AGES (BUT WITH A PREFERENCE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 25), RESIDING PRINCIPALLY (ALTHOUGH NOT NECESSARILY) IN THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE.
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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.
7 trustees on the board
- Jonathan Carroll Chair since 2020
- Deborah Harris since 2020
- Dr Tijana Blanusa since 2025
- Heather Young since 2025
- Kim Austen since 2025
- Oliver George Picken since 2025
- Rhona Millar since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Jonathan Carroll Chair since 2020
- Deborah Harris since 2020
- Dr Tijana Blanusa since 2025
- Heather Young since 2025
- Oliver George Picken since 2025
- Rhona Millar since 2023
Portfolio (1)
- Kim Austen since 2025
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.
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- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
7.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.8 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 284555
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25TH OCTOBER 1982, AMENDED 16 OCTOBER 1997 as amended on 11 Mar 2023 as amended on 08 Mar 2025
- Companies House
- Company number 01673689 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01189012370 · contact@berksmusictrust.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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