YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE

Registered charity 1077495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YMC

To provide education for young persons in the playing of musical instruments, and the performance and understanding and appreciation of classical music.

Objects

TO PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PERSONS IN THE PLAYING OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, AND THE PERFORMANCE AND UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC.

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.

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Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a small surplus of £3,506 for the year ended 31 July 2025, a decrease from the previous year due to increased rent and staff costs. Total net assets decreased from £51,350 to £48,700, with unrestricted reserves standing at £47,626. The trustees report that funds are at a level appropriate for the stability of the charity going forward, subject to monitoring student numbers and overheads.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03816808

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.

• LONGSTAFF, Thomas Edward — director, appointed 03/10/2021on trustee list
• CRAIG, Amanda Polly, Dr — director, appointed 03/12/2017on trustee list
• SHARPE, Amanda — director, appointed 14/02/2016on trustee list
• BYRNE BRITO, Ian — director, appointed 01/03/2015not on trustee list
• WARNER, Stephen Clifford — director, appointed 06/10/2008on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Julia Constance — director, appointed 06/10/2008on trustee list
• HURWITZ, Michael Leo — director, appointed 29/06/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN WARNERchair
• Amanda Sharpe
• Dr Amanda Polly Craig
• Ian Byrne Brito
• JULIA EDWARDS
• MICHAEL LEO HURWITZ
• Thomas Edward Longstaff

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS.

• YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
• WILTSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £89k
• MUSIC FOR YOUTH income £686k
• THE LLANDUDNO YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE income £28k
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m
• THE YOUNG MUSICIANS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £256k

Side by side with its peers

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