THE SOUNDROOM COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT

Registered charity 1157494 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Soundroom is a community music charity which offers music and arts activities for a range of participants, including adults with learning disabilities, children, young and older people. The Soundroom also provides affordable rehearsal and recording facilities. The charity works for the public benefit and aims to advance education in music and the arts in Gateshead and surrounding areas.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN MUSIC AND THE ARTS BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A VENUE IN GATESHEAD FOR THE 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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gateshead, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £100,426 against expenditure of £86,041, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The trustees report that free reserves were £19,028, which equates to approximately four months of expenditure, falling short of their stated policy target of six months. The charity remains a going concern with secured funding for the immediate future.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 16/02/2023, 16 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA DONKIN
• JUSTIN HANCOCK
• LISA LEONARD
• Stephen Ferrell

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUND ROOMS LTD.

• SOUND ROOMS LTD income £36k
• PERFORMING ROOM income £123k
• THE ORGANISATION FOR NEW MUSIC AND SOUND income £844k
• SOUNDWAVE income £182k
• MUSIC AND THE DEAF income £41k
• SOUNDCASTLE LTD income £326k

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