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Arts Charities That specialise in Music

Discover 2,515 Arts charities that specialise in music. Use the search below to filter within these results.

2,515
Charities
£6,747,187,095
Total Income
£677,701
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Hereford Symphony Orchestra

Arts

Encourages and develops the playing of of orchestral music by amateur players under professional directorship.Provides an opportunity for the local community in Herefordshire to experience live classical music by the giving of regular concerts.

Latest Income: £10,960
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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Woodford Symphony Orchestra

Arts

Recruiting local amateur musicians to rehearse and perform 3 concerts per year and other local appearances.

Latest Income: £10,956
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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Cockermouth Harmonic Society

Arts

CHS provides the local community the ability to take part in and attend musical events

Latest Income: £10,950
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Tynemouth Choral Society

Arts

We are a choir singing mainly classical works in concerts twice or three times a year. We also perform in charity concerts, weddings, funerals and other events. Our membership is open to anyone over 16 years with an interest in singing.

Latest Income: £10,919
Areas of Operation: North Tyneside
Status: Registered
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Guisborough Choral Society

Arts, Education

Encouragement of Choral Singing within the community. Weekly rehearsals throughout the year (except school holidays). Normally performing three concerts a year, using local soloist, where possible and as appropriate.

Latest Income: £10,911
Areas of Operation: Redcar And Cleveland
Status: Registered
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The Staffordshire Band

Arts

TO PROMOTE BRASS BANDS AND BRASS BAND MUSIC IN WALSALL, WEST MIDLANDS AND OUTER REGIONS, BY THE FORMATION AND ONWARD DEVELOPMENT OF A BRASS BAND, TO COMPETE IN COMPETITIONS, GIVE CONCERTS, SUPPORT CHARITIES AND GIVE BRASS AND PERCUSSION TRAINING TO ALL INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS.

Latest Income: £10,911
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Hertford County Association Of Change Ringers

Arts, Religion

To further the work of the Church in Hertfordshire by the ringing of bells and to promote all aspects of bells and bellringing. To encourage the recruitment and training of bellringers and to advance the art of change ringing.

Latest Income: £10,806
Areas of Operation: Barnet
Status: Registered
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Music At Duffield

Arts, Education

Promotion of Chamber Music Concerts and educational workshops in local schools. We also support musical events in the community.

Latest Income: £10,804
Areas of Operation: Derbyshire
Status: Registered
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Ibstock Brick Brass

Arts

Performing brass band music to audiences of mixed ages and abilities. Providing tuition for band members and opportunities to extend ability and repertoire.

Latest Income: £10,782
Areas of Operation: Leicestershire
Status: Registered
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Scarborough Choral Society

Arts, Charitable activities

Our aim is to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and appreciation of choral music in all its aspects by the presentation of public concerts and recitals and by other such ways.

Latest Income: £10,772
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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The Wigton Choral Society

Arts, Charitable activities, Research

The object of the Society shall be to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music principally through choral singing in a mixed voice choir by the prsentation of public concerts and by other such ways as the Society through its committee [the trustees] shall determine from time to time.

Latest Income: £10,716
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Canterbury Chamber Choir

Arts, Charity and VCS support

Mixed voice chamber choir - concerts to raise money for charity

Latest Income: £10,692
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Musicians Of All Saints

Arts

We are a chamber orchestra who play classical music concerts with a particular emphasis on 20th century music. We also play works that are unjustly neglected to give the general public in East and West Sussex the opportunity to hear this music.

Latest Income: £10,628
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Gorleston Competitive Festival

Arts, Charitable activities

To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public particularly in arts activities. To advance and encourage the study and practice of Music, Drama, Dance, Literature, Art and Craft by the promotion of a Competitive Festival each year.

Latest Income: £10,609
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Pylle Village Hall And Recreation Ground

Arts, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

Upkeep of Village Hall. Hall used for many village events including harvest supper, Whist Drive, exercise classes, children's activities and music and art exhibitions.

Latest Income: £10,602
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Whitstable Unit 363 Of The Sea Cadet Corps

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Leisure

Primarily a youth organisation providing skill training in a variety of areas including seamanship, athletics, expedition training, drill, band, boating and others. Members of the organisation are actively involved in the local community, providing music and support for events including remembrance day, and mayoral functions.

Latest Income: £10,571
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Hambrook Village Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure, Religion

Hambrook Village Hall serves as a valuable community facility, open to residents of Hambrook, Bristol and the surrounding areas. The hall is available for a variety of uses, including indoor sports and fitness training, music band rehearsals, charity and society meetings, dance classes, church congregations, children's parties, and family gatherings.

Latest Income: £10,560
Areas of Operation: South Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Seaford Musical Theatre

Arts

Seaford Musical Theatre is a musical theatre company who perform in their own premises at the Barn Theatre, Seaford. Three shows a year are produced for the local community and the theatre is also available for hire to other organisations.

Latest Income: £10,547
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Cleeve Chorale

Arts, Charitable activities, Education

To advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in and appreciation of choral and other music. This is done in three ways, Concerts, working with the local Community and Primary School and Choir Tours

Latest Income: £10,510
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Maidenhead Choral Society

Arts

We meet once a week to learn choral works with the help of a professional conductor and pianist. We aim to perform two or three concerts each year for the general public.

Latest Income: £10,496
Areas of Operation: Windsor And Maidenhead
Status: Registered
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The Vivien And Peter Beckwith Young Musicians Trust

Arts, Education

To advance the education of pupils of music in the United Kingdom and Italy in such manner in all respects as the Trustees shall think fit so long as the same shall be charitable and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing and insofar as the same shall be charitable) through the award of bursaries, scholarships, exhibitions, prizes and grants

Latest Income: £10,461
Areas of Operation: Harrow
Status: Registered
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Holmes Chapel Amateur Operatic And Dramatic Society

Arts, Religion

Performance of musical works for cultural enhancement of community

Latest Income: £10,450
Areas of Operation: Cheshire East
Status: Registered
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Isle Choral Singers

Arts, Economic and community development, Education

The Isle District Choral Society provides a service in a rural area for the continued improvement of a wide variety of both well known and contemporary composers. The society's aim is to encourage an appreciation of the arts through music. Rehearsals are held weekly throughout the school term and well attended concerts are performed for the general public at least three times per year.

Latest Income: £10,450
Areas of Operation: Doncaster
Status: Registered
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The Pontefract Choral Society

Arts

The Pontefract Choral Society aims to make choral music readily accessible to the wider community through live concerts, and to provide the opportunity for local people to develop their musical skills.

Latest Income: £10,450
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Bournemouth Carnival Band

Arts, Charitable activities, Research

Education of the public in the arts of sciences of music, with particular reference to music presented by marching bands together with an element of comedy, by means of concerts and other activities to which the public has access. Also to provide opportunities for those persons wishing to learn to play a musical instrument within the marching brass/woodwind range. The band also supports other char

Latest Income: £10,438
Areas of Operation: France
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many music arts charities are there in the UK?

There are 2,515 registered music arts charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the music arts charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of music arts charities?

Music arts charities reported a combined annual income of £6.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for music arts charities?

Across all music arts charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 100.0%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of music arts charities?

Music arts charities have an average annual income of £678k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.