Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
Registered Charity No. 1199597
Annual report and accounts for the year ending 30 June 2025
The 1872 Hill organ of St Edmund’s, Falinge, Rochdale, repaired with a Pipe Up Sleeping Beauty grant
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Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
| Legal and administrative information | 3 |
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| Annual Report | 4 |
| Activities and achievements | 4 |
| Finance | 6 |
| Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees | 8 |
| Statement of Financial Activities | 9 |
| Balance Sheet | 10 |
| Notes to the fnancial statements | 11 |
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Pipe Up for Pipe Organs Legal and administrative information
Name of the charity
The full name of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (the CIO) is Pipe Up for Pipe Organs. It is often referred to in this report as “Pipe Up”.
The charity is registered with the Charity Commissioners of England and Wales and its registration number is 1199597.
Principal office
The principal office of the charity is 66 Prebend Street, London, N1 8PS.
Structure, governance and management
Trustees
The Trustees who held office during the year and at the time of approval of these accounts were:
George Edwin Allan Chair Robert Bowles (resigned 22[nd] July 2025) Marcus Gibson (resigned 11[th] February 2025) Martin John Renshaw Matthew Alan Smith Stephen Richard Wilcox Treasurer (appointed 11[th] February 2025) Lewis Hannaby (appointed 11[th] February 2025) Andrea Testa (appointed 18[th ] September 2025) Richard Barnes (appointed 1[st] December 2025)
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Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
Annual report for the year ending 30[th] June 2025
The Trustees of Pipe Up for Pipe Organs present their report for the year ended 30th June 2025.
Objects & Public Benefit
As a registered charity we are required to report how our activities in furtherance of its charitable powers provide public benefit, and the Trustees confirm that they have had regard to Charity Commission’s guidance in this matter.
Our objects are: for the public benefit to promote the arts, heritage and culture and to advance education in music with the focus on the promotion, encouragement and appreciation of the pipe organ as a musical instrument and the promotion of interest in all aspects of pipe organ music.
Activities and Achievements
Pipe Up’s third full year was eventful and fulfilling, spent making great progress towards the activities we had identified the previous year.
Our activities during the year can be grouped into four main areas:
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Educating the public, organists and organ custodians on all aspects of the pipe organ
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Campaigning to ensure pipe organs have a future as part of our cultural heritage
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Intervening to support specific pipe organs
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Running Pipe Up
Educating
We continued to receive large numbers of requests for advice, mostly from churches, but also from a number of other organ owners on the issues they face.
We held a number of volunteer training sessions at St Philip’s, Tottenham, to correct some of the many issues facing its 1872 Walker organ.
“Henry”, the 1880s organ we placed in London Bridge Station in July 2022, continued to be very well used and appreciated by users of the station.
Henry hosted a number of events during the year, including a day of recitals by female organists, on International Women’s Day in March 2025.
Campaigning
In January 2025, we announced our “sleeping beauty” grant scheme. This has two elements: a crowdfunding exercise to raise funds to enable us to make grants to get silent or nearly-silent organs back into playable condition. It addresses one of the biggest causes of organs becoming silenced: the accumulation of minor problems which appear to make the instrument unfit for regular use but which can usually be rectified by an organ builder with only two days' work.
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The scheme is limited to the simpler, tracker organs dating from before 1915 and without significant other issues. The grant is 100% of the cost of a two-day visit by the organ builder.
Although limited by the rather slow progress of the crowdfunding, take-up accelerated towards the end of the year.
We continued to monitor the record of the National Heritage Lottery Fund on making grants for organ repairs. Our research shows that in the financial year 2024-2025, NLHF rejected seven applications and accepted three, totaling a mere £54,000.
Intervening
Our volunteers recovered one organ during the year, the Alfred Kirkland organ of the former Baptist church in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, to await re-homing. We organized an enjoyable “open console” session for Pipe Up supporters and the local community before dismantling it.
We partially rebuilt the organ we recovered from Markyate, Hertfordshire, as further training for our volunteers.
This and the Chipperfield organ were donated to a priest in the Philippines, where they will be rebuilt and continue their lives in local churches.
The Davis barrel organ we recovered in 2023 has been given a new home, on long-term loan, in the collection of instruments at Hammerwood House near East Grinstead in Sussex.
We have been given a chamber organ, which we are intending should become an instrument we can lend to churches in need of a temporary replacement
Running Pipe Up
As the third anniversary of our incorporation fell in July 2025, the three-year term of office of the founder trustees expired. Three founder Trustees: George Allan, Martin Renshaw and Matt Smith were re-appointed for a further three-year term. Robert Bowles was not re-appointed in view of significant medical issues.
Our first Treasurer, Ian Giddons, resigned in January 2024 on his move out of London, and George Allan acted as Treasurer until we appointed Stephen Wilcox as his replacement in January 2025.
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Marcus Gibson resigned in February 2025.
We thank Robert, Ian and Marcus for their contributions to establishing Pipe Up on a firm basis in its early years.
We began the planning of an extensive make-over of the web site and the adoption of a new logo.
Finance
Income
Our main income during the year continued to be membership subscriptions and donations, and the associated Gift Aid on those donations. The test launch of our successful “Sleeping Beauty” campaign brought us welcome additional donations during the year.
Most of our funds continue to be raised as unrestricted funds, although some funds were raised for a specific instrument as restricted funds. That instrument subsequently became unavailable to Pipe Up. Accordingly, in line with Charity Commission regulations, the Trustees voted to make the funds unrestricted.
Although we did not launch any kind of member recruitment campaign, and our publicity activity was limited to a presentation at the Bloomsbury Organ Day and a reshowing of the “Organs Stops” film on the BBC it is very pleasing to report that members have continued to join. We ended the year with 93 members, many of whom are also volunteers and activists. We have no formal trustee recruitment policy, but have been able to fill the trustee board with volunteers with appropriate and complementary skills.
Since the end of the financial year we have relaunched the Sleeping Beauty campaign, with publicity on BBC News and in Private Eye and Country Life, as well as other outlets and online. This has brought a welcome boost to the Sleeping Beauty campaign and to membership numbers.
Expenditure
On the expenditure side, we spent money from reserves on recovering one organ, transferring some items to our second storage facility at Spernall and moved an instrument on loan to a long-term home at Hammerwood. Our plan in the future is to fund such activities from specific appeals. We also kept the charity running; we intend to use membership income for this purpose in the future.
Reserves policy
The policy of the Trustees is to maintain a sufficient level of general free reserves to enable operating activities to be maintained, taking account of potential risks that may arise from time to time. The Trustees have determined that a free reserves target of 6 months of operating expenditure (defined as projected recurrent expenditure excluding one-off items and restricted activities) is appropriate. At the time of preparing these accounts, the free reserves exceed that target.
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Risk management
The key risk facing the charity is the financial risk that it does not have sufficient funds to cover routine operating expenses; this is effectively mitigated by the reserves policy. The charity also faces governance, operations and compliance risks. Each project or potential project is subject to a Health and Safety Assessment.
Controls in place include a suite of financial controls, including dual sign-off of expense and online payments and review of invoices before payment.
Going concern
The Trustees consider that (a) there is a reasonable expectation that the CIO has adequate resources to continue in operational existence; and (b) there is no material uncertainty regarding the CIO’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Trustees therefore continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing these accounts.
Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities
The Trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the CIO’s financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing accounts giving a true and fair view, the Trustees should follow best practice and select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which both disclose with reasonable accuracy and enable them to ascertain the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charities Act 2011 and the Statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting and Reporting by Charities SORP (FRS102).
The accounts include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the charity is responsible in law.
The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The report of the Trustees and the accounts were approved by the Trustees on 18 April 2026, and signed on their behalf by:
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George Allan Chair
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Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
Independent examiner’s report to the Trustees of Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
I report to the Trustees on my examination of the accounts of Pipe Up for Pipe Organs Charitable Incorporated Organisation (the CIO) for the year ending 30[th] June 2025:
Responsibilities and basis of report
The charity Trustees of the CIO are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (the Act). I report in respect of my examination of the Charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act, and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Basis of independent examiner’s report
An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeks explanations from you as members of the Trustee Board concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair view” and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent examiner’s statement
I have completed my examination.
I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention which give me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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Accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
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The accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
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The accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out the 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.
I 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.
Roger Leslie Honorary Independent Examiner Amersham 17 April 2026
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Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
Statement of financial activities for the year ending 30[th] June 2025
| Note Income Donations, Grants and Memberships 2 Income Expenditure Charitable activities 3 Cost of generating funds 3 Total expenditure Net movement in Funds Transfers between funds Balances brought forward Balances carried forward |
Unrestricted Restricted Total funds Funds Funds 2025 2024 £ £ £ £ 17,547 - 17,547 9,155 |
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| 17,547 - 17,547 9,155 |
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| 5,475 - 5,475 7,491 3,376 - 3,376 6,163 |
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| 8,851 - 8,851 13,653 |
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| 8,696 - 8,696 (4,498) 609 (609) - - 2,084 2,609 4,693 9,191 |
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| 11,389 2,000 13,389 4,693 |
Notes 1 to 12 form part of these accounts
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Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
Balance sheet as at 30[th] June 2025
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
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| Note | £ | £ | |
| Fixed Assets | |||
| Tangible fxed assets | 4 | 631 | 841 |
| 631 | 841 | ||
| Current Assets | |||
| Debtors | 6 | 839 | 219 |
| Cash at bank and in hand | 14,842 | 4,407 | |
| 15,681 | 4,626 | ||
| Liabilities | |||
| Creditors - amounts falling due within one year | 7 | (2,923) | (774) |
| Net current assets | 12,758 | 3,852 | |
| Total net assets | 13,389 | 4,693 | |
| Charity Funds | 9 | ||
| Unrestricted | 11,389 | 2,084 | |
| Restricted | 2,000 | 2,609 | |
| 13,389 | 4,693 | ||
| Approved by the Trustees on 18 April 2026 and signed on their behalf by: | |||
| Stephen Wilcox, Treasurer | George Allan, | Chair |
Approved by the Trustees on 18 April 2026 and signed on their behalf by:
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Pipe Up for Pipe Organs
Notes to the financial statements for the year ending 30[th ] June 2025
1. Accounting Policies
a) Basis of preparation
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention on an accruals basis and in compliance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their financial statements in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard FRS 102 (“FRS 102”) and the Charities Act 2011.
The financial statements are being prepared some months after the end of the accounting period, so there is limited uncertainty underlying the amounts recognised in the accounts.
b) Funds
Restricted funds are funds which can only be used for particular purposes as specified by the donor or funds raised for particular restricted purposes.
General funds represent the funds of the charity that are not subject to any restrictions regarding their use and are available for application on the general purposes of the charity. Funds designated for a particular purpose by the Trustees are also unrestricted. There is currently one restricted fund.
The financial statements include all transactions, assets and liabilities for which the charity is responsible in law.
c) Income
i) Membership income and donations are recognised when received by or on behalf of the charity. ii) Income tax recoverable on covenants or gift aid donations is recognised when the income is recognised.
iii) Grants are accounted for as soon as the Trustees are notified of the charity’s legal entitlement and the amount due can be measured reliably and its receipt is more likely than not. iv) Other income, particularly relating to pipe organs, is recognised as it is received.
d) Expenditure
Expenditure is included on an accruals basis, inclusive of VAT, which is not recoverable.
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e) Fixed assets
Fixed assets, in the form of storage equipment, have been capitalised and are to be written off over 5 years. Assets over £1,000 used to support charitable activities will be considered for capitalisation.
f) Current assets
Amounts owing to the Charity at 30[th] June 2025 in respect of Gift Aid recoverables and other items are shown as debtors less provision for amounts that may prove uncollectable.
g) Stock
Donated organs that have been recovered for potential rehoming are valued at Net Realisable Value.
h) Debtors
Amounts owing at 30[th ] June 2025 in respect of Gift Aid recoverable and other items are shown as debtors, less provision for amounts that might prove uncollectable.
| 2. Income Voluntary giving Memberships Donations Grants Legacies Total Income |
Unrestricted Restricted Total funds Total funds Funds Funds 2025 2024 £ £ £ £ 4,107 - 4,107 1,545 13,440 - 13,440 5,610 - - - 2,000 - - - |
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| 17,547 - 17,547 9,155 |
Income for 2024 was received as unrestricted funds £6,546, restricted funds £2,609.
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| 3. Expenditure Charitable activities Cost of generating funds Total expenditure 4. Fixed assets Storage equipment Cost b/f Additions in the year Depreciation b/f Depreciation in the year Net Book Value |
Unrestricted Restricted Total funds Total funds Funds Funds 2025 2024 £ £ £ £ 5,475 - 5,475 7,491 3,376 - 3,376 6,162 8,851 - 8,851 13,653 2025 2024 £ £ 1,051 1,051 (210) (210) (210) 631 841 |
Unrestricted Restricted Total funds Total funds Funds Funds 2025 2024 £ £ £ £ 5,475 - 5,475 7,491 3,376 - 3,376 6,162 8,851 - 8,851 13,653 2025 2024 £ £ 1,051 1,051 (210) (210) (210) 631 841 |
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| 8,851 - |
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| 631 841 |
5. Stock
Recovered organs are valued at nil cost (2024: nil) as it is impractical to obtain a reliable valuation for them.
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| 6 | Debtors | 2025 | 2024 | |
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| £ | £ | |||
| Tax recoverable | 776 | 159 | ||
| Other debtors | 63 | 60 | ||
| 839 | 219 | |||
| 7 | Liabilities: amounts falling due within one | year | 2025 | 2024 |
| £ | £ | |||
| Accruals | 2,923 | 774 | ||
| 2,923 | 774 | |||
| 8 | Analysis of net assets by fund as at 30 June 2025 | |||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||
| £ | £ | £ | ||
| Tangible fxed assets | 631 | - | 631 | |
| Current assets - debtors | 839 | - | 839 | |
| Current assets - cash at bank and in hand | 12,842 | 2,000 | 14,842 | |
| Current liabilities | (2,923) | - | (2,923) | |
| Fund balances | 11,389 | 2,000 | 13,389 |
The charity has one restricted fund. It relates to a grant received from the Chapman Charitable Trust, to provide educational opportunities for children.
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9 Analysis of Fund Movements
| Unrestricted Funds: Restricted Funds: |
1 July 2024 Income Expenditure Transfers 30 June 2025 £ £ £ £ £ 2,084 17,547 (8,851) 609 11,389 2,609 - - (609) 2,000 |
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| 4,693 17,547 (8,851) - 13,389 |
10 Loans and guarantees
No loans or guarantees have been secured against any of the charity’s assets.
11 Contingent liabilities
There are no contingent liabilities.
12 Related party transactions
None of the Trustees have been paid any remuneration or received any other benefits from an employment with the charity.
Donations of £599 (2024: £480) have been received from Trustees without condition.
Two trustees (2024: three) have been reimbursed expenses totalling £2,535 (2023: £9,804). The expenses relate to travel, various administrative expenses and purchase of equipment on behalf of the charity.
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REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS
| Registered ofce and principal address | 66 Prebend Street London N1 8PS |
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| Web address | www.pipe-up.org.uk |
| E-mail address | hello@pipe-up.org.uk |
| Bankers | Metro Bank plc One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA Lloyds Bank plc 98 Victoria Street London SW1E 5JL |
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