ANNIE MAWSON'S SUNBEAMS MUSIC TRUST

Registered charity 1117159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve sickness and assist in the remedial treatment of children and adults suffering from physical, emotional, psychological or other mental health problems by the provision of Community Music Therapy, and to provide introductory Music Therapy Training to individuals working with such persons.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO ARE SUFFERING PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND MENTALLY BY THE PROVISION OF MUSIC THERAPY AND TO PROVIDE INTRODUCTORY MUSIC THERAPY TRAINING TO INDIVIDUALS WORKING WITH SUCH PERSONS.

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.

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Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £53,340 for the year ended 31 May 2025, strengthening its cash reserves and balance sheet. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds strong financial reserves and has net current assets of £1,013,837, with no reliance on creditors for financial support. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months from the signing of the statements.

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 3 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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~29.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Spencer Elson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ifeolu Omoniyi Akintunde · trustee of 2 other charities
• KAREN ADDISON
• Linda Addison
• REBECCA SEAGER BSc HONS
• Theo Michael Lewthwaite

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY.

• KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY income £276k
• MUSIC4WELLBEING income £109k
• MUSIC THERAPY WORKS income £393k
• THE MUSICSPACE TRUST income £437k
• WAVES MUSIC THERAPY income £234k
• SUNBEAMS LONDON LTD income £351k

Side by side with its peers

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