2025-04-05-accounts - The Stradivari Trust

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. Trustees’ Annual Report for the period | COMMISSION Period start date = Period end date _ a fe i From Ud O4 2U24 To US US 2UL9

Registered charity number (if any)

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Declaration of Trust

Trustee selection methods Appointed by board of Trustees

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

e policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
e the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
e relationship with any related parties;
e trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C

Objectives and activities

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	1. To promote, maintain, improve and advance education by the
	encouragement of the art and science of music and in particular (but
	without prejudice to the generality of the above) to award an annual
	music prize to the best music student in the faculty of music in the
	university of Cambridge (‘the faculty'), such student to be selected by the
‘ ioeante . governing document	faculty, tobecalled'TheNigelBrownMusicPrize’. 2. In furtherance ofthe above, but not further or otherwise, to present, promote, organise, provide, manage, produce and support such concerts, ; ; : . wags musical pieces, lectures and musical entertainments and exhibitions as
	are conducive to the promotion, maintenance, improvement and
	advancement of education by the encouragement of music and to
	formulate, prepare and establish schemes thereof.
	3. To or for the benefit of such exclusively charitable objects and
	purposes as the trustees may in their absolute discretion think fit.
	Advance education by the encouragement ofthe art or science of music.
	Grants donations to musicians/musical groups.
	Sponsorship ofthe same.
	Promotional concerts.
	Although it has not been possible to award an annual music prize for
	several years, plans are underway to reinstate this, to be called ‘The
	Stradivari Trust Music Prize’.
	The trust continues to facilitate the purchase of high-end musical
	instruments on behalf of the musicians and administers the management
	ofthe musician buying out the schemes over a number ofyears.
Summary ofthe main activities undertaken forthe	For the last couple of years, the Trustees have had to streamline the running ofthe charity after the passing ofthe trusts main donorwhich has
public benefit in relation to theseobjects (include within this section the statutory	been all encompassing. The Trustees are confident that the charity will
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued bythe Charity
Commission on public
benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

e policy on grantmaking;
e policy programme related investment;
e contribution made by volunteers.

Section D

Achievements and performance

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section D Achievements and performance Summary of the main Securng rmnang for future years and advancing on the buy backs of achievements of the charity ownership for various musicians. during the year

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Section E

Financial review

Retain sufficient funds to cover known expenditure for a three-month Brief statement of the period ahead. charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

e the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
e how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
e investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F

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A Other optional information
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Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Date
22nd Dec 2025
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w—— FOR ENGLAND AND WALES LTHE STRADIVARI TRUST CC16
— Receipts and payments accounts ”
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Last year
funds funds funds funds
to the :earest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ ee £ consis €
A1 Receipts
[Charitable Activities CdS, 10 | | | C- |__ 20,410 |
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Total receipts Seas | Ls44.te7|
A3 Payments
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A6 Cash funds last year end | —500) | - [2,282]
Cash funds this year end|_116,416|
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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Z| CHARITY COMMISSION | Independent examiner's report on the FOR ENGLAND AND WALES accounts

Section A

Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees to the trustees the trustees trustees

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Report to the trustees to the trustees the trustees trustees THE STRADIVARI TRUST
On accounts for the year | 5™ APRIL 2025
ended
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Charity no | 1106652
(if any)
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| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust’) for the year ended 05/04/2025.

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act’).

| report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have
examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
e the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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Name: | GILBERT HOLBOURN
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Relevant professional |[CHARTERED][ACCOUNTANT] qualification(s) or body

(if any):

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Address: | 1 UPPER BRIDGE STREET
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IER

Oct 2018

Section B

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Disclosure
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Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

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Give here brief details of
any items that the N/A
examiner wishes to
disclose.
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IER

Oct 2018