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Registered charity · Salisbury

The Royal School of Church Music

The Royal School of Church Music is a registered charity (number 312828) based in Salisbury, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £1.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Rscm (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (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, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rscm.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal School of Church Music
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE STUDY, PRACTICE AND IMPROVEMENT OF MUSIC, AND SUCH OTHER MATTERS AS IN THE OPINION OF THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE RELEVANT TO THE CONDUCT OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP.

Grants received

3 grants · £249,000 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.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 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.

Education 12Tech and media 3Business services 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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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£1.6m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.8 in 2020

18 from 32 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
312828
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/08/1930AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/12/1960AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/12/1962AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/12/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/03/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/03/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/05/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/07/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/07/2013 as amended on 18 Sep 2017
Companies House
Company number 00250031 · Active
Contact on the register
01722424852 · enquiries@rscm.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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