Charity Details

North East Of Scotland Music School Ltd

SC000197Registered charity from 21 July 1975

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Charity Information:

Address 21
Huntly Street
Aberdeen

Postcode AB10 1TJ

Website www.nesms.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

Subject to the said over-riding qualifications the objects for which the School is established are:- (1) To provide a centre where young people can receive tuition not otherwise available to them, in each of the musical disciplines. (2) To provide and maintain in such place or places as the Council of Management may consider proper, all facilities appropriate to the purposes of the School. (3) To receive as pupils such persons as the Council of Management may consider proper, and that on such conditions, including payment of fees for or towards their maintenance, education and treatment and for such periods, all as the Council of Management may fix; and to remove any such persons at the discretion of the Council of Management without cause assigned. (4) To establish, subsidise, promote, support and amalgamate with Companies, Institutions, Societies or Schools that are charities in the legal technical sense having objects altogether or in part similar to those of the School, provided that by their constitution they prohibit the distribution of any profits or assets among their Members. (5) To purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire, any property, heritable or moveable, real or personal, which may be deemed necessary or convenient for any of the purposes of the School. (6) To draw, make, accept or endorse promissory notes, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

NESMS was founded 50 years ago to provide tuition of excellence not available in the city or region at that time. Since then, much has changed with NESMS adapting and diversifying in response to different circumstances, while maintaining the original concept of excellence in tuition. One adaptation concerns tuition of adults in helping develop their full potential as performers and local music/ instrumental teachers. One fundamental element remains unchanged, and we still arrange for many of our tutors to travel from London, Manchester, Glasgow, and elsewhere to provide tuition to the many extraordinarily talented musicians in Aberdeen and the surrounds. The aim of the Charity is specifically: • To provide a centre where people can receive advanced or other musical tuition not otherwise available to them; • To provide all the appropriate facilities to the purposes of the School; • To receive as pupils those the Council of Management considers in proper need of the School

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 21 Jul 1975

Main Operating Location: Aberdeen

Number of Staff: 2

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science"

Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
30 Jun 2021	£122,067	£102,327	26 Feb 2022	Yes
30 Jun 2022	£93,093	£113,697	24 Mar 2023	Yes
30 Jun 2023	£114,293	£117,620	19 Mar 2024	Yes
30 Jun 2024	£95,506	£126,537	04 Mar 2025	Yes
30 Jun 2025	£104,879	£125,175	27 Nov 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Samuel	Paul
Kenneth	Hall
Andrew	Birse
Kenneth	McLeod
Barbara	McFarlane
Simon	Glenarthur
Rosalind	Coleman
Alan Gordon	Cooper
Richard	Coleman
Roger	Williams
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