MUSIC AND THE DEAF

Registered charity 1000025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

"To help deaf people of all ages and degrees of hearing loss to access music and the performing arts through workshops, schools projects, concerts and signed theatre performances"

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF THE DEAF BY ANY MEANS THAT THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds are in a deficit of £22,037, which is below the trustees' stated reserves policy target of three to six months of combined expenditure and overheads. However, the charity holds £60,840 in restricted funds, resulting in total net assets of £38,803, and the trustees confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2024 (received 28/06/2025, 28 days after the 31/05/2025 due date); year ending 31/07/2023 (received 16/06/2024, 16 days after the 31/05/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Holmes
• Joanne Helen Roy
• Phillip John Needham

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSIC AND THEATRE FOR ALL.

• MUSIC AND THEATRE FOR ALL income £101k
• MUSIC AND ARTS PRODUCTION LEEDS income £520k
• AUDIOVISABILITY income £27k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS income £659k
• TRUST MUSIC income £43k
• MUSIC AT OXFORD income £208k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.