RAW MATERIAL MUSIC AND MEDIA EDUCATION LIMITED
Registered charity 1020066 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAW MATERIAL, RAW MATERIAL MUSIC AND MEDIA EDUCATION LTD
To promote education and training in the creative and expressive arts and to advance the educational, physical, cultural and social welfare of young people in particular from disadvantaged inner city areas so that they may grow to maturity as individuals and members of society.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £575,216 and held total reserves of £1,002,725 at the year end. The trustees consider the organisation's financial position to remain stable, noting that free reserves of £204,000 were above the stated policy target of approximately £126,000. The auditor confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: six months operating costs (held: £949k)
“The reserves policy agreed by the trustees is to have free reserves equivalent to six months operating costs, such costs not to include specific projects benefiting from restricted grants. Per the policy, free reserves should therefore be approximately £126,000.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
The charity’s company — latest Companies House iXBRL filing (balance sheet 31 March 2026)
Leadership, per the charity’s website
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- DE WOLFF, Claudia — director, appointed 03/06/2024not on trustee list
- MILLS, Kelly Louise — director, appointed 06/03/2024on trustee list
- SODE, Yomi — director, appointed 09/04/2021on trustee list
- PHILLIPS, Shereen Jasmin — director, appointed 09/04/2021on trustee list
- RITCHIE, Alexandra Elizabeth — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
- SMITH, Gillian Wendy — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
- ASHIMI, Jide — director, appointed 06/12/2016on trustee list
- DENTON, Sacha Natalie — director, appointed 08/12/2015on trustee list
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£23k
Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Jide Ashimichair
- Alexandra Elizabeth Ritchie
- Claudia de Wolff
- Gillian Wendy Smith
- Kelly Louise Mills
- Sacha Natalie Denton · trustee of 1 other charity
- Shereen Jasmin Phillips
- Yomi Sode
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout London
Income and spending
Common questions
Is RAW MATERIAL MUSIC AND MEDIA EDUCATION LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £575,216 and held total reserves of £1,002,725 at the year end. The trustees consider the organisation's financial position to remain stable, noting that free reserves of £204,000 were above the stated policy target of approximately £126,000. The auditor confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Audit.
Who funds RAW MATERIAL MUSIC AND MEDIA EDUCATION LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name RAW MATERIAL MUSIC AND MEDIA EDUCATION LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE LONDON MARATHON CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED, Q CHARITABLE TRUST, THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION, CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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