UD Music Foundation

Registered charity 1149090 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as URBAN DEVELOPMENT MUSIC FOUNDATION

To advance the education of young people in the subject of contemporary Black music genres and to act as a resource for people living in east London by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of educational, vocational and other talent development activities.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF URBAN MUSIC;(2) TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN EAST LONDON BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; AND(D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS; AND(3) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONGST PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 TO 30 WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO FULFIL THEIR CREATIVE POTENTIAL AND BY ASSISTING THEM THROUGH EDUCATIONAL WORK, (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS ‘PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 TO 30 YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; RACE; GENDER; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; DISABILITY; ETHNIC ORIGIN; OR WHO ARE WITHIN, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED, THE PUBLIC CARE OR PENAL SYSTEM’).THESE OBJECTS SHALL BE OF A WHOLLY CHARITABLE NATURE AND SHALL BE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £56,243 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £2,016,318 to £1,960,075. The filing notes that the charity is entitled to exemption from audit and has been examined by an independent examiner who found no matters requiring attention. The organization remains in continuing operations with unrestricted funds of £1,895,427.

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 4 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
• 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)

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~27.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ANNE-MARIE IMAFIDONchair
• Genia Davy
• Harnek Pamma
• Lisa Buchan
• Naa-Odoley Ntodi

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 BLACKPOOL MUSIC SCHOOL.

• BLACKPOOL MUSIC SCHOOL income £117k
• THE ORGANISATION FOR NEW MUSIC AND SOUND income £844k
• LUTON MUSIC CLUB income £33k
• SALEM ACADEMY OF MUSIC income £51k
• THE BEDFORDSHIRE MUSIC TRUST income £41k
• SOUTH WEST MUSIC SCHOOL income £293k

Side by side with its peers

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