THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC

Registered charity 1075032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q111686486 · also known as YOUTH MUSIC

Youth Music is a national charity investing in music-making projects for children and young people experiencing challenging circumstances.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit, to advance the education of the public (especially young people), in particular, in the arts and culture.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of income against expenditure on unrestricted funds of £388,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £2.485 million, which exceeds the stated policy target range of £1.3 million to £2 million. The charity holds significant cash reserves and has confirmed funding agreements with major funders for the upcoming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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 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
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Youth Music (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matt — CEO (source)
• Charlotte Edgeworth — Co-Chair (source)
• Claire Wills — Chair of F&A (source)
• Angela Linton — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Daniel Williams — Engagement Director (source)
• Abbi Oakley — Communications Director (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Beatport — “We’ve teamed up with Beatport to support the next generation of young DJs, producers and electronic music makers across the UK.” (source page)
• Spotify — “The Spotify and Youth Music Fund aims to preserve and protect at-risk spaces for children and young people experiencing challenging circumst…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Rachel Edgeworthchair
• Andrew Lansley
• Berkeley Edwards
• Bre McDermott-King
• Claire Wills
• Hanna Chalmers
• Isaac Charles Borquaye
• Mirjana Buac
• Nathifa Jordan
• Paul Bonham
• Robert Frederick Aitken
• Samuel Denniston
• Sarah Brown

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.

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

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 MUSIC FOR YOUTH.

• MUSIC FOR YOUTH income £686k
• National Youth Music Theatre Ltd income £950k
• YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
• THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £485k
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• AWARDS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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