AWARDS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS

Registered charity 1070994 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MUSICAS FUND, Young Sounds UK

We work across a number of partnership programmes to enable musically talented young people from low income families to fulfil their potential.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £671,142 exceed the charity's stated policy target of covering six months of operational costs. The charity reported a net income increase of 31% to £2,528,118, driven by growth in both restricted and unrestricted funds, with total expenditure rising proportionally to support programme expansion.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Albert Goodman Chartered Accountants. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03602851

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 — “Young Sounds UK are a proud member of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio of funded organisations for 2023-2026” (source page)
• Youth Music — “Young Sounds would also like to thank Youth Music for their transformational investment in the development of our work between 2009 and 2026…” (source page)
• Aram Charitable Trust — “Trusts and Foundations Aram Charitable Trust” (source page)

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.

• HADDAD, Lawrence James — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• NUGENT, Ellen Christabel — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• HUME-SALIH, Joy Merina — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• CLAY, Stephen Anthony — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• HAMER-HODGES, Anthony Paul — director, appointed 09/09/2025on trustee list
• AULAKH, Sehyogue — director, appointed 09/09/2025on trustee list
• GRIME, Jessica Mary — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• CARBERT, Susan Margaret — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• FORBES, Julian Christopher — director, appointed 12/03/2024on trustee list
• HOPE, Uta Maria Louise — director, appointed 12/03/2024on trustee list
• CANAVAN, Fintan — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• HUMPHREYS, Karen Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/03/2021on trustee list
• SHARPE QC, Thomas — director, appointed 12/03/2019not on trustee list
• BEAMENT, Lynda — director, appointed 11/12/2018on trustee list
• BROWN, Madelyn — secretary, appointed 10/09/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Paul Hamer-Hodgeschair
• Ellen Christabel Nugent
• Fintan Canavan
• Jessica Mary Grime
• Joy Merina Hume-Salih
• Julian Forbes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Humphreys
• Lawrence James Haddad
• Lynda Beament
• Samuel Georghiou
• Sehyogue Aulakh
• Stephen Anthony Clay
• Susan Margaret Carbert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Sharpe QC
• UTA HOPE

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 QUESTORS YOUNG MUSICIANS CLUB.

• QUESTORS YOUNG MUSICIANS CLUB income £102k
• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN income £5.2m
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• GABRIELI income £994k

Side by side with its peers

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