SOUNDABOUT

Registered charity 1103002 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Soundabout exists to make a difference to the lives of those people who have complex disabilities by helping them develop their ability to communicate and interact with the world around them through music and sound.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PEOPLE WITH SEVERE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND PHYSICAL DIFFICULTIES BY THE PROVISION OF INTERACTIVE MUSIC MAKING SESSIONS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that Soundabout achieved its strongest financial year to date, with total income rising to £531,895 from £489,777 in the previous year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £68,272, which is below the charity's stated policy target of £74,630 (approximately three months of staff salaries and core costs). The charity reports a net income surplus of £43,368 and notes that expenditure grew in line with increased project activity.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05023067 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• ROSS, Mark Howard — director, appointed 22/09/2026on trustee list
• EWELS, Robert Peter — director, appointed 21/09/2026not on trustee list
• NUNN, Catherine Mary Hilary — director, appointed 09/07/2026on trustee list
• HODGKINSON, Anna Christine — director, appointed 09/07/2026on trustee list
• HAMMOND, Timothy John — director, appointed 16/06/2026on trustee list
• RANN, Catherine Helen — director, appointed 16/02/2026not on trustee list
• PASRICHA, Ishaan — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• BAIRD, Jamie — director, appointed 17/07/2024on trustee list
• CHANDLER, Helen — director, appointed 17/07/2024on trustee list
• TRAVIS, Bradley — director, appointed 17/07/2024on trustee list
• NUNNS, Emily — director, appointed 01/05/2023on trustee list
• HARTLEY, Mike — director, appointed 12/01/2022on trustee list
• WESTON-CONWAY, Ben — director, appointed 12/01/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Hodgkinson
• Ben Weston-Conway
• Bradley Travis
• Catherine Nunn
• Emily Nunns
• Helen Chandler
• Ishaan Pasricha
• Jamie Baird
• Kate Rann
• Mark Ross
• Mike Hartley
• Rob Ewels
• Timothy Hammond

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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

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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.

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• SOUND SENSE income £55k
• THE ORGANISATION FOR NEW MUSIC AND SOUND income £844k
• SOUNDWAVE income £182k
• SOUND CONNECTIONS income £426k
• AUDIOACTIVE income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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