MUSIC FOR EVERYONE

Registered charity 1153412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MFE

Music for Everyone (formerly Nottingham Choral Trust, Charity No.517018) provides opportunities for singers and instrumentalists of all ages and abilities to take part in educational music weekends and high quality public performances in Nottingham and further afield.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION IN ALL ASPECTS OF MUSIC BY:· THE ORGANISATION OF A WIDE RANGE OF MUSIC-MAKING EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES, CAPABLE OF ENCOURAGING AND STIMULATING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES.· THE PROVISION OF PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCES THROUGH PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS. · A SUSTAINED EMPHASIS UPON THE PROMOTION OF MUSIC-MAKING BY YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Nottingham, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£336k

Latest spending

£315k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus on activities of £21,568 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £336,190 against total expenditure of £314,622. Unrestricted reserves increased to £64,487, which the trustees confirm is above their stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The organization maintains a strong cash position with £27,774 in cash at bank and describes its financial performance as successful with good cash flow.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of operating costs (reserves figure: £64k)

“The reserves policy is to have a minimum of 3 months operating costs in reserves.” — page 8

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.

Complaints handling
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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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

Volunteers: 165
Government income: £5,450 — grants £5,450 (1); 2% of the £336,190 total gross income on the same return
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

Volunteers: 160
Government income: £5,450 — grants £5,450 (1); 2% of the £298,255 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

Volunteers: 150
Government income: £5,750 — grants £5,750 (1); 2% of the £276,432 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Has a trading subsidiary

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

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (23/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (20/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Christopher Mark Allen
Dr Catherine Hocking
Dr Rosalind Rice
Gary Ackrill
Jaine Louise Mould
Joanna Elizabeth Martin
Robert David Orton
ZARIN JOSIE TANVIR · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire · Leicester City · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Northamptonshire · Nottingham City · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£336k	£315k
31/08/2024	£298k	£274k
31/08/2023	£276k	£316k
31/08/2022	£202k	£242k
31/08/2021	£160k	£128k

Common questions

Is MUSIC FOR EVERYONE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a surplus on activities of £21,568 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £336,190 against total expenditure of £314,622. Unrestricted reserves increased to £64,487, which the trustees confirm is above their stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The organization maintains a strong cash position with £27,774 in cash at bank and describes its financial performance as successful with good cash flow. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds MUSIC FOR EVERYONE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MUSIC FOR EVERYONE as a grant recipient include BOOTS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE THOMAS FARR CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
BOOTS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£10k
THE THOMAS FARR CHARITY	FY2024	£5k
THE THOMAS FARR CHARITY	FY2025	£4k	Donations made during the year

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	18/07/2019	£10k	Open Voices

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 SCOPS ARTS TRUST	2	£53k
THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE FOUNDATION	2	£18k
DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST	2	£17k
SCHRODER CHARITY TRUST	2	£10k
THE UNDERWOOD TRUST	1	£95k
SWIRE 2765	1	£70k
THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC	1	£60k
THE RETA LILA HOWARD FOUNDATION	1	£40k

Charities like this

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

MUSIC FOR ALL income £285k
NOTTINGHAM MUSIC SERVICE income £1.1m
ORCHESTRAS FOR ALL income £853k
MUSIC FOR YOUTH income £686k
MUSIC AND THEATRE FOR ALL income £101k
Contemporary Music for All income £251k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MUSIC FOR EVERYONE	£336k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
MUSIC FOR ALL FY2025	£285k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NOTTINGHAM MUSIC SERVICE FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ORCHESTRAS FOR ALL FY2025	£853k	£60,000 - £69,999	1	above	—	no doubt
MUSIC FOR YOUTH FY2025	£686k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MUSIC AND THEATRE FOR ALL FY2025	£101k	—	0	below	—	no doubt

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