GLOBAL FUSION MUSIC & ARTS

Registered charity 1152721 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GFMA

Music events, festivals, theatre, community and schools workshops, art exhibitions, poetry, writing group, publishing, audio production, graphic design, photography, film making and project management. We have worked closely with many: schools, local authorities, housing associations, to showcase high quality World Music and Arts. GFMA provide free workshops in the community.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AND ARTS IN ALL ITS FORMS AND WITHIN THIS PROMOTING A KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC AND ARTS.2. TO PROMOTE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCE AND POETRY3. THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS;

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£66k
Latest spending
£73k
Registered
2013
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had no paid staff and relied heavily on volunteers, with total funds decreasing from £20,433 to £13,590 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees' report identifies the main risk as a lack of funding and growing overhead costs, noting that the charity relies on grants, donations, and contract work to sustain its activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: emergency use only (held: £4k)
“Global Fusion Music & Arts will hold reserves in the GFMA - HSBC Money Mangers Account. These funds will be held for emergency use only” — page 11
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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Global Fusion Music & Arts (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£66k£73k
05/04/2024£65k£61k
05/04/2023£92k£94k
05/04/2022£57k£57k
05/04/2021£40k£33k

Common questions

Is GLOBAL FUSION MUSIC & ARTS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity had no paid staff and relied heavily on volunteers, with total funds decreasing from £20,433 to £13,590 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees' report identifies the main risk as a lack of funding and growing overhead costs, noting that the charity relies on grants, donations, and contract work to sustain its activities. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund08/04/2022£10kGFMA Commonwealth Queens Jubilee Festival
The National Lottery Heritage Fund10/09/2014£9k"Global Fusion Music & Arts First World War Heritage Project"