The RSCM is an ecumenical Christian charity that is dedicated to the highest quality church music. The core purpose of the RSCM is education.
Through its educational mission the RSCM aims to encourage and inspire:
The RSCM consists of an international network of affiliated groups and individual members, coordinated nationally and/or regionally through voluntary committees, guided, enabled and supported by an administrative staff, with an administrative center at Sarum College near Salisbury Cathedral. Common to everyone in the RSCM is the belief that music, and specifically music in worship, matters.