Patagonia Instrument Project

The advancement of the art of music for the public benefit in the Chubut (Welsh settlement) region of Patagonia by providing musical instruments, including refurbished instruments, and other related resources to enable specialist school music teachers, musical youth groups and schools to play and learn music.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Argentina

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £12,520 and spent £15,444.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 15%, from £14,663 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £12,520 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 123% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher Bryan StockChairAppointed 5 January 2017
• Gareth John CheesmanAppointed 5 January 2017
• Phil GirlingAppointed 5 January 2017
• Rachel Louise FordAppointed 5 January 2017
• Robert Arthur SamuelAppointed 5 January 2017

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1170987

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

5 January 2017

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 05 Jan 2017

Website

patagonia-instrument-project.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
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