OSCR Scottish charity profile

Musicians Benevolent Fund

Known as Help Musicians

ActiveCharity number SC049625
Registered19 September 2019
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC049625
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
57
Postcode
WC1X 9JS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

4. The objects for which the Association is established (the 'Objects') are for the public benefit: (A) To relieve poverty and financial hardship and to advance education among: (1) musicians. (2) those persons (not being members of the Association) who work or have worked in professions or occupations closely connected with music and who in the opinion of the Association have rendered valuable service to music. (3) the spouses, children and other dependents of those set out in (1) and (2) above. and (B) To advance musical education among musicians and also among members of the public. Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the Association?s property for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£5,651,000£9,194,0005729 July 2026
31 December 2024£7,062,000£10,034,0005714 May 2025
31 December 2023£6,512,000£11,268,0005722 May 2024
31 December 2022£5,636,000£11,196,0005717 May 2023
31 December 2021£7,131,000£12,562,0005719 May 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Help Musicians, 7-11 Britannia Street, London
Website supplied to OSCR
https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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