The Lyrita Recorded Edition Trust

To fund the recording and release, on the Lyrita Recorded Edition record label, of Classical Music written by British Composers between 1860 to 1960.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £0 and spent £2,662,192.

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

Up 20%, from £59,202 in the year to 31 December 2020 to £71,184 in the year to 31 March 2024.

Spending against income

It spent 451% of its income in the year to 31 March 2024. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 4 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 2024: 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.

• Adrian FarmerChairAppointed 2 December 2011
• Antony SmithAppointed 2 December 2011
• Charlotte Henrietta de RothschildAppointed 7 June 2019
• Dr Richard Clive Blackford Ph.DAppointed 26 January 2022
• Lynda Elizabeth FarmerAppointed 26 January 2022

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, 4 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

299635

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 July 1988

Governing document

SETTLEMENT DATED THE 23RD JUNE 1988

Website

www.lyrita.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• 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
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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