SOUND CONNECTIONS

Registered charity 1095947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sound Connections develops, supports & empowers young Londoners through high quality music-making opportunities. We do this by delivering groundbreaking participatory music projects, providing professional development to music organisations and practitioners, and undertaking high quality action research and advocacy to promote best practice in music education.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;(B) TO FURTHER ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME AS THE COMPANY THINKS FIT.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus on unrestricted funds of £5,294 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £425,591 and outgoing resources of £427,893. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds at year-end totalled £207,504, which is above the stated policy target of £160,840 required to cover six months of core running expenses.

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 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04561825 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sound Connections (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MCCABE, Amelia Jane — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• IRELAND, Nicholas Jake — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• KARMOKAR, Ujwal — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• SPENCE-STIMPSON, Samantha Lorraine — director, appointed 02/08/2024on trustee list
• SCHROEDER, Florence Mary — director, appointed 19/07/2024on trustee list
• SENOK, Nanret — director, appointed 17/07/2020on trustee list
• MATTOCK, Sasha — director, appointed 01/06/2020on trustee list
• LENDA, Esther Bokuma — director, appointed 09/07/2019on trustee list
• KNOX, Gemma Louise — director, appointed 29/01/2018on trustee list
• COOMB, Elizabeth Mary — secretary, appointed 29/07/2025

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Samantha Lorraine Spence-Stimpsonchair
• Amelia Jane McCabe
• Esther Bokuma Lenda
• Florence Mary Schroeder
• Gemma Knox
• Nanret Senok
• Nicholas Jake Ireland
• Sasha Mattock
• Ujwal Karmokar

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 SOUNDCASTLE LTD.

• SOUNDCASTLE LTD income £326k
• SOUND SENSE income £55k
• Connection Support income £10.1m
• THE ORGANISATION FOR NEW MUSIC AND SOUND income £844k
• FUSION PLUS income £140k
• AWARDS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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