The Ripon Cathedral Music Trust

Analysis

The Ripon Cathedral Music Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ripon. It was registered in December 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Ripon Cathedral Music Trust reported income of £37k and spending of £126k, spending 337% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £136k to £37k (-73%), an average of -28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 151% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Ripon Cathedral Music Trust sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christ Vineyard Praise Ministries (£37k), Christ Apostolic Church, Canaanland (Love Embassy) (£37k) and Markaz Bukhari (£37k).

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.