Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -2

Support Score: 6

No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 4

CLONTER FARM MUSIC TRUST

Provides high quality training and experience of performing publicly for persons embarking on professional musical careers in the United Kingdom, and to establish such courses of training and tuition and such public concert stage and other performances as the trustees shall see fit. The charity achieves its objectives through the staging of opera performances, and awarding an annual opera prize

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Established: 23 years

www.clonter.org

clonter@clonter.org

01260224638

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/12/22		£472	£478	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	14
31/12/21		£352	£324	£28	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/12/20		£348	£232	£116	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/12/19		£433	£424	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/12/18		£324	£376	£-52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	45
31/12/17		£370	£345	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£355	£355	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£367	£343	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£248	£294	£-46	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£339	£338	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	*	£250	£280	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	*	£340	£360	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£348	£356	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£391	£406	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£403	£424	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07		£380	£371	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£368	£367	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£326	£344	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£330	£330	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
14 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£20,000	12/05/2023	to support specified work
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£20,000	12/04/2022	to support specified work
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£20,000	10/06/2021	unrestricted, to further the Charitable Objects
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£20,000	15/06/2020	towards the Clonter’s Covid-19 Digital outreach programme
DCMS - Clonter: Culture Recovery Application
£100,000	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Cheshire Community Foundation - Musical Theatre days
£8,500	27/07/2016	Clonter Farm Music Trust is a small rural charity, offering unique training and performance opportunities for singers at the start of their professional careers and to bring opera, operetta and ....more Clonter Farm Music Trust is a small rural charity, offering unique training and performance opportunities for singers at the start of their professional careers and to bring opera, operetta and musical theatre to children who might otherwise never experience this art form. The project is a contribution towards the Musical Theatre Days for over 700 school children from 18 Schools in Cheshire with 11 having a specific focus on areas of low engagement with the arts or have a high proportion of children on free school meals. The Cheshire Community Foundation grant will focus on the areas of low engagement and free school meals, making a contribution to artists, staffing and management costs.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

DARREN JOHN BILLINGS Appointed: 2020

ELIZA-JANE BLOOD Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Company Director

JONATHAN MEADMORE Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Retired

LADY KIRSTY PILKINGTON DL, Other trusteeships: THE RAINFORD TRUST, THE PILKINGTON GLASS COLLECTION TRUSTEE COMPANY LIMITED,

RICHARD NICHOLAS MATHIAS Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Managing Director

SARAH PATRICIA FARMER Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Housewife

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/11/2000, number: 1083903
Registered at Companies House on 18/08/2000, number: 04056093

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

09/06/2022 - Asset transfer in from THE NUTMEG CHARITABLE TRUST
02/03/2023 - Asset transfer in from THE ROBIN KAY MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR OPERA SINGING
26/09/2023 - Asset transfer in from HOLMES CHAPEL MUSIC SOCIETY

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR12: 1 days late, AR11: 24 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE NUTMEG CHARITABLE TRUST on 09/06/2022
Asset transfer in from THE ROBIN KAY MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR OPERA SINGING on 02/03/2023
Asset transfer in from HOLMES CHAPEL MUSIC SOCIETY on 26/09/2023

Main office

Clonter Opera Theatre
Swettenham Heath
Congleton
CW12 2LR

Objectives

1) TO PROVIDE HIGH QUALITY TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE OF PERFORMING PUBLICLY FOR PERSONS EMBARKING ON PROFESSIONAL MUSICAL CAREERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TO THIS END (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO ESTABLISH SUCH COURSES OF TRAINING AND TUITION AND SUCH PUBLIC CONCERT STAGE AND OTHER PERFORMANCES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT2) TO PAY ALL OR PART OF THE EXPENSES OF PERSONS INCURRED IN ATTENDING SUCH COURSES REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE 3.1 (INCLUDING TRAVEL EXPENSES)3) TO EDUCATE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR STUDENTS AT SCHOOLS OR COLLEGES IN THE APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT OF OPERA4) TO ARRANGE FOR TOURING COMPANIES OF OPERA SINGERS TO VISIT SCHOOLS COLLEGES SOCIAL CLUBS AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK APPROPRIATE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING OPERAS OR EXTRACTS THEREFROM5) TO PAY ALL OR PART OF THE FEES OF STUDENTS OF MUSIC IN RESPECT OF MUSICAL OR EDUCATIONAL COURSES AT UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEAGUES AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL OR MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM6) TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE MEMBERS BEING NOT LESS THAN THREE IN NUMBER SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME UNANIMOUSLY DECLARE7) TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE MEMBERS BEING NOT LESS THAN THREE IN NUMBER MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM

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