HMDT Music

Registered charity 1050520 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HACKNEY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Award-winning HMDT Music is a leader in creating inspiring projects for young people, particularly those facing challenging experiences, to enrich learning and transform lives. Working with expert practitioners and artists it increases access to musical experiences to develop skills, creativity and raise aspiration through resources, mentoring, workshops, teaching and performance commissions.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is an annual report and trustees' report for HMDT Music for the year ended 31 August 2025. It details artistic projects, outreach activities, and participant statistics but does not include the financial statements or narrative financial health analysis required to assess the charity's financial position.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND — “ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND” (source page)
• THE CHAMIFEALION TRUST — “THE CHAMIFEALION TRUST” (source page)
• CHARLES HAYWARD FOUNDATION — “CHARLES HAYWARD FOUNDATION” (source page)
• THE CITY BRIDGE FOUNDATION — “THE CITY BRIDGE FOUNDATION” (source page)
• CREATIVE EDUCATION TRUST — “CREATIVE EDUCATION TRUST” (source page)
• THE HENRY SMITH CHARITY — “THE HENRY SMITH CHARITY” (source page)
• LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY — “LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY” (source page)
• PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION — “PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION” (source page)
• THE PERSULA FOUNDATION — “THE PERSULA FOUNDATION” (source page)
• Annette Duvolette Trust — “Annette Duvolette Trust” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (53% 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Raphaelle Catherine Madeleine Moysanchair
• Emily Campbell
• Isabelle Beatrice Cadignan
• Krishna Raman
• Lubia Begum-Rob
• Matthew Elderfield
• Sharon Bowker

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORDOFF-ROBBINS MUSIC THERAPY.

• NORDOFF-ROBBINS MUSIC THERAPY income £6.9m
• ZION ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.4m
• BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED income £5.4m
• UNIVERSAL MUSIC UK SOUND FOUNDATION income £370k
• AWEN CULTURAL TRUST income £7.1m
• START IN SALFORD income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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