Hear Me Out Music

Registered charity 1119049 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MUSIC IN DETENTION

Hear Me Out brings people living in immigration detention centres together with professional musicians and people living in the community, to create and perform powerful artistic work, and convey it to new audiences through live and recorded performance, thereby increasing wellbeing and empathy, and helping change attitudes to migrants.

Objects

1 THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THOSE DETAINED UNDER IMMIGRATION LAWS, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF MUSIC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE POSITION AND EXPERIENCE OF IMMIGRATION DETAINEES, AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD COMMUNITY RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THOSE LIVING IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF MUSIC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, CURRENT AND FORMER IMMIGRATION DETAINEES, IN THE CREATIVE ARTS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · 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 of £38,700 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £96,921. However, the trustees note that fundraising has become more difficult and the budget for the following year was reduced by 12%, with further cuts considered if necessary to maintain feasibility.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
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• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — Hear Me Out Music (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUE LUKESchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Aksa Canolli
• Clare Scott Booth · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hannah Wilkinson
• JOANNA RIDOUT
• Kaveh Ghandizadeh Dezfuli
• Kidu Zerabruk Gebreegziabher
• MARIE-ANNE MACKIE
• Seyedardavan Nikaeen
• Uju Judith Eziokwu
• Vebi Kosumi LLB LLM · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cumbria · Durham · East Sussex · Essex · Islington · Newham · Redbridge · Scotland · Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LISTENING EARS.

• LISTENING EARS income £30k
• MIGRANT VOICE income £451k
• MIGRANT SUPPORT income £173k
• REFUGEE RADIO income £195k
• MUSICAL KEYS income £289k
• MAKING IT OUT CIO income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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