WORLD HEART BEAT MUSIC ACADEMY LTD

Registered charity 1139579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q18164317 · Wikipedia · also known as WORLD HEART BEAT MUSIC ACADEMY (WHBA)

ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION IN MUSIC

Objects

THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, INSOFAR AS THE SAME ARE CHARITABLE, ASFOLLOWS:-(I) TO HELP PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES,SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY ASINDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY; AND(II) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE IN ALL FORMS OF MUSIC RELATED 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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £61,556 for the year, with total income of £1,303,804 and total expenditure of £1,365,360. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £66,218, which is significantly below the stated policy target of £270,000, and the charity holds a loan from Big Issue Invest of £138,542.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by McKelvie & Co LLP. 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
• 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Amulet Private Office — “Amulet Private Office” (source page)
• Bernard Sunley Foundation — “Bernard Sunley Foundation” (source page)
• Buffini Chao Foundation — “Buffini Chao Foundation” (source page)
• Chapman Charitable Trust — “Chapman Charitable Trust” (source page)
• D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust — “D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust” (source page)
• MacTaggart Third Foundation — “MacTaggart Third Foundation” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Callum John Boyce Langford
• Dominik Walter Kloiber
• JAMES JOSEPH
• Jayne Allison Sutcliffe
• Kamilla Makra Arku
• Laurence Bonamy Simon Bell
• Zachary Mark Quinn

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS.

• THE ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS income £659k
• GLOBAL MUSIC ACADEMY income £65k
• THE COMMUNITY HEARTBEAT TRUST income £935k
• WARMINSTER SCHOOL income £11.2m
• THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC income £1.2m
• CROWBOROUGH CHORAL SOCIETY income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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