GOOD VIBRATIONS (MUSIC) LIMITED

Registered charity 1126493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GOOD VIBRATIONS · also registered in Scotland as SC048860 (OSCR)

1. The advancement of education and mental health, in particular but not limited to Indonesian performing arts as a tool to promote, improve, and develop communication skills, teamwork, and creative learning in prisons and other institutions. 2. The promotion of Indonesian classical music, dance, singing and shadow puppetry and related art forms.

Objects

1 ) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND MENTAL HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITEDTO INDONESIAN PERFORMING ARTS AS A TOOL TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, AND DEVELOPCOMMUNICATION SKILLS, TEAMWORK, AND CREATIVE LEARNING IN PRISONS AND OTHERINSTITUTIONS;2 ) THE PROMOTION OF INDONESIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC, DANCE, SINGING AND SHADOWPUPPETRY AND RELATED ART FORMS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£286k

Latest spending

£332k

Registered

2008

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is undergoing an orderly wind-down process due to a lack of funding and a substantial risk to its long-term future. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have fallen to a deficit of £1,000, significantly below the stated policy target of three months' expenditure. The charity has ceased operations, with all employees made redundant, and is awaiting formal removal from the charity register.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of expenditure (reserves figure: −£1k)

“Our reserves policy requires the Board to maintain a cash surplus equivalent to a minimum of three months of expenditure.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“At the time of approving the financial statements, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to wind down over the course of the next twelve months. Thus the trustees have not adopted the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.” — page 12

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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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
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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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 5
Government income: £17,000 — contracts £17,000 (14); 6% of the £285,882 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 4
Government income: £5,000 — contracts £5,000 (1); 2% of the £286,847 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 4
Government income: £19,897 — contracts £19,897 (2); 7% of the £288,499 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Carolyn Hendry
Julian Abdulla Winship
Katie Elizabeth Hession
Mark Tantam · trustee of 2 other charities
Simon Dale

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£286k	£332k
31/03/2024	£287k	£314k
31/03/2023	£288k	£316k
31/03/2022	£312k	£298k
31/03/2021	£265k	£253k

Common questions

Is GOOD VIBRATIONS (MUSIC) LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is undergoing an orderly wind-down process due to a lack of funding and a substantial risk to its long-term future. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have fallen to a deficit of £1,000, significantly below the stated policy target of three months' expenditure. The charity has ceased operations, with all employees made redundant, and is awaiting formal removal from the charity register. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds GOOD VIBRATIONS (MUSIC) LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name GOOD VIBRATIONS (MUSIC) LIMITED as a grant recipient include MAUDSLEY CHARITY, THE BROMLEY TRUST, THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCE, THE GROCERS' CHARITY, SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
MAUDSLEY CHARITY	FY2022	£30k	Loophole Music - music-making sessions for inpatients at Bethlem Royal Hospital
MAUDSLEY CHARITY	FY2023	£30k	Loophole Music – music-making sessions for inpatients at Bethlem Royal Hospital
THE BROMLEY TRUST	FY2024	£10k	Prison Reform
THE BROMLEY TRUST	FY2023	£10k	Prison Reform
THE BROMLEY TRUST	FY2022	£10k	Prison Reform
THE GRAND LODGE OF MARK MASTER MASONS' FUND OF BENEVOLENCE	FY2025	£5k	Grant to other charities
THE GROCERS' CHARITY	FY2025	£5k	Arts & Heritage
SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST	FY2022	£3k
THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATION	FY2025	£3k
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	Unverified read£3k	Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k	NATIONAL APPEAL

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/02/2025	£10k	Resonate Glasgow
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/12/2024	£181k	Connect and Create
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/03/2024	£20k	Resonate Sheffield
City Bridge Foundation	12/07/2022	£25k	Grant to Good Vibrations
The National Lottery Community Fund	28/02/2022	£40k	Good Vibrations community gamelan project
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/03/2019	£211k	Keluarga
City Bridge Foundation	23/09/2015	£43k	Grant to Good Vibrations
The National Lottery Community Fund	13/07/2011	£200k	Developing & expanding Good Vibrations in prisons and secure hospitals

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION	1	£10k
THE CHARLOTTE BONHAM-CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£3k
THE SCOPS ARTS TRUST	1	£3k
THE ORGANISATION FOR NEW MUSIC AND SOUND	1	£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VICTORIA MUSIC LIFESTYLES.

VICTORIA MUSIC LIFESTYLES income £26k
HIGH VOLTAGE PERFORMING ARTS income £23k
KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY income £276k
COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED income £194k
IN GOOD COMPANY LIMITED income £163k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GOOD VIBRATIONS (MUSIC) LIMITED	£286k	—	0	unclear	—	not going concern
VICTORIA MUSIC LIFESTYLES FY2026	£26k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
HIGH VOLTAGE PERFORMING ARTS FY2025	£23k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY FY2025	£276k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED FY2025	£194k	—	0	below	—	noted
IN GOOD COMPANY LIMITED FY2025	£163k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.