The Coquetdale Music Trust

Analysis

The Coquetdale Music Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in July 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 08430085). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Coquetdale Music Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £19k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £27k to £13k (-51%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Coquetdale Music Trust sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Workington Musical Festival (£13k), Cymdeithas Corau Meibion Gogledd Cymru (£13k) and Nettlestead Village Hall (£13k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.