CHANGING TUNES

Registered charity 1144789 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Changing Tunes uses music teaching, rehearsing, recording, performance, improvisation and composition to aid the rehabilitation of prisoners and ex-prisoners.

Objects

The advancement of education in music and the performing arts to: a) offenders and ex-offenders with a view to aiding and furthering their rehabilitation; b) people at risk of offending, particularly but not exclusively young people who may be drawn into committing crime as a result of deprivation, adverse childhood experiences, neurodiversity or other adverse conditions of life.

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £65,944 and unrestricted free reserves of £406,940, which are in excess of the policy target of six months' expenditure. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties affecting the ability of the charity to continue as a going concern.

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 6 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Changing Tunes (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (60% 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: 12.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Suzanne Joan Dymond-Whitechair
• Benjamin Simon Judd
• Cornelius James L Thorne
• Davey George ANSCOMBE
• Giulia Balzan
• JANE LINGS
• James William Rimmer
• MICHAEL CULLUM
• RICHARD SAYER
• Vivian Kenneth Antony Brooke

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

Operates in: 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 FINDING RHYTHMS.

• FINDING RHYTHMS income £317k
• MUSIC THERAPY WORKS income £393k
• THE ARTS OF CHANGE TRUST income £310k
• THE IRENE TAYLOR TRUST income £440k
• CHANGES HEALTH & WELLBEING income £3.5m
• BEATING TIME income £669k

Side by side with its peers

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