EBONY STEELBAND TRUST

Registered charity 1098408 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ebony delivers a variety of steelband workshops and community projects for disadvantaged young people, particularly those from the Caribbean community. The organisation is based in Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea where there is the opportunity to work with young people to direct them away from crime and anti-social behaviour and towards living successful and purposeful lives.

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO CARIBBEAN MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS OF THAT REGION AND THEIR TEACHING AND PRACTICE AND THE PROMOTION AND PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF A CHARITABLE NATURE WHICH WILL MAKE SUCH ARTS BETTER KNOWN AND UNDERSTOOD BY THE PUBLIC;(2) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY PROVIDING THEM WITH PARTICULAR ASSISTANCE SO AS TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE WORK OF THE CHARITY IN ORDER THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE LONDON

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £23,730 for the year, resulting in total funds falling to a deficit of £18,435. The trustees acknowledge significant financial pressures and are undertaking a review of policies and activities. The charity is dependent on grants and performance fees, having struggled to build reserves as income and expenditure profiles are closely matched.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 15/02/2023, 15 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Heritage Fund UK — “Ebony Steelband Trust supported by Heritage Fund UK” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN COMFORTchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Curtis
• JUSTIN THOMAS
• Pattrina Quashie-Ferguson

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Kensington And Chelsea · Newham

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• IAN COMFORT — trustee here and at CARNIVAL VILLAGE TRUST

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).