Common questions about Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited a good charity? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited scores 83 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 95% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1090623). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1090623&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's charity number? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's charity number is 1090623. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's charity rating? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited scores 83 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 95% of Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 8% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited. Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited receive? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited reported £1.8m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited based? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's registered contact address is in London (TW2 6RB). It tells the regulator it operates in Croydon, Hounslow, Kingston Upon Thames, Richmond Upon Thames, Sutton, Wandsworth, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's money come from? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited reported £1.8m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £1.4m (77%), donations and legacies £411k (23%), investments £6,011 (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited? +
The register does not record Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's trustees paid? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited registered as a charity? +
Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited was entered on the register on 15 February 2002. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04218180).
How does CharityCompare score Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Richmond Upon Thames Music Trust Company Limited's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.