Chiltern Music Academy

Analysis

Chiltern Music Academy is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Buckinghamshire. It was registered in August 2014, 12 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 incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Chiltern Music Academy reported income of £386k and spending of £329k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £92k to £386k (+319%), an average of +43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 90%. Over the whole period it spent 80% 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, Chiltern Music Academy sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Letchworth Educational Settlement (£385k), Gladstone Theatre Trust (£386k) and Clerkenwell Green Association (£385k).