Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 0
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

PURCELL SOCIETY TRUST 

The charity is concerned with education, scholarship and research concerning the life and works of the music composer Henry Purcell and the influence of Purcell on English and European music. It seeks to procure a complete and authoritative issue of the said works and the publication of any musical or other material which advances education in his life and works.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£8£4£4n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/22£19£13£6n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/06/21£13£14£-1n/an/an/an/an/a5
30/06/20£5£10£-5n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/19£10£13£-3n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/18*£6£11£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£17£22£-4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£8£14£-7£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£8£18£-10£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£22£24£-2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£15£14£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£23£17£5£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£24£21£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£34£23£11£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£28£16£12£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£40£26£14£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£13£10£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£10£7£3£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05*£14£10£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04*£11£14£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 61 years

www.henrypurcell.org.uk

mus005@bangor.ac.uk

02088570497

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 28/12/1962, number: 209095
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Risk management
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 114 days late, AR05: 3 days late, AR04: 12 days late,
Main office

82 WINN ROAD
LONDON
SE12 9EZ

Objectives

FOR THE REPRINTING AND PUBLISHING OF CERTAIN VOLUMES OF MUSIC BY THE DECEASED COMPOSER HENRY PURCELL FOR THE PURCELL SOCIETY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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