Liquid Listening

Registered charity 1154224 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIQUID VIBRATIONS

Liquid Listening aims to increase the well being of disabled children, young people and adults, and explore ways to promote their education and health, increased awareness and meaningful involvement with their environment. We do this by providing underwater listening sessions for children with special and complex needs, creative music-making activities and training for their teachers and carers.

Objects

1. The advancement of education of disabled children and adults and children and adults with special needs in thearts and in particular the art of music and through the use of new technology and new ways of experiencingmusic and musical vibrations.2. The advancement of education through the promotion of research into the educational and therapeutic use of the arts and in particular the art of music for the benefit of disabled children and adults and the publication of theuseful results of such research for the public benefit.3. The relief of need and sickness and the promotion of health and wellbeing primarily but not exclusively forchildren and adults with special needs and disabilities, through the medium of underwater music and vibrations.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wokingham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £33,210 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources increasing to £167,919. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £60,239, which is below the stated policy target of £92,000. The filing confirms that resources are adequate and there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue its activities.

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

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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• Complaints policy and procedures
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• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Andre Bernheim Charitable Trust — “Andre Bernheim Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Angela Gallagher Memorial Fund 4 — “Angela Gallagher Memorial Fund 4” (source page)
• Aspinwall Educational Trust — “Aspinwall Educational Trust” (source page)
• BBC Children in Need — “BBC Children in Need” (source page)
• Blackwood Engineering Trust — “Blackwood Engineering Trust” (source page)
• Bonhomie United Charity Society — “Bonhomie United Charity Society” (source page)

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Frank Lushchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Louise Smith
• Duncan Fairbairn Chapman
• Hannah Marina Bujic
• Janet Elizabeth Tyson
• Lorna Crust
• Michael Graham Bettridge

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LISTENING BOOKS.

• LISTENING BOOKS income £1.3m
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• LISTENING EARS income £30k
• BID SERVICES income £6.6m
• THE LISTENING PLACE income £2.7m
• LEARNING DISABILITY WALES - ANABLEDD DYSGU CYMRU income £942k

Side by side with its peers

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