B:MUSIC LTD

Registered charity 1053937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PERFORMANCES BIRMINGHAM LIMITED, SYMPHONY HALL, SYMPHONY HALL (BIRMINGHAM) LTD

(1) TO PROMOTE AND PRESENT CONCERT PERFORMANCES OF CLASSICAL, POPULAR AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, COMPLEMENTARY TO THOSE OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (CBSO) AND OF WORLD-CLASS CALIBRE,(2) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING, FOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY MUSIC, PROVIDING AN EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR THIS PURPOSE.

Objects

1. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING, FOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC. 2. TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN YOUNG PERSONS IN THE PERFORMANCE AND COMPOSITION OF MUSIC AND MUSIC DRAMA AND TO PROMOTE THE RECOGNITION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE THE MIDLANDS

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

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted surplus of £624k, contributing to a solid reserves position despite reduced public funding. The trustees have set a policy target of maintaining general reserves equivalent to at least three months of annual running costs, with £1,139k currently held in the general reserve. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 13.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANITA BHALLAchair
• Adrian Roberts
• Anthony Roger Howard
• Claire Evans
• Clare Thomas
• Councillor Kenneth Wood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Councillor Martin John Brooks
• Huw Joseph Sparkes
• IAN MYATT
• James Tait
• Jatinder Kaur
• Joel Blake
• Robert Bray
• VIDAR HJARDENG

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP.

• BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP income £630k
• BLOOMSBURY MUSIC GROUP income £33k
• THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND OPERATIC SOCIETY income £242k
• BINGHAM AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY income £26k
• THE MUSIC IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRUST income £1.3m
• THE BIRMINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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