FAIRBEATS MUSIC

Registered charity 1159133 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FAIRBEATS, FAIRBEATS! MUSIC

At Fairbeats! projects, all children are given the opportunity and skills to express themselves and connect with others through music. Fairbeats! is working to enable children and families from new minority communities to overcome the barriers they face to participating fully in the musical, cultural life and wider society in the UK.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MUSIC, PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE, AND PEOPLE FROM DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, NEW MIGRANTS, AND THOSE MIGRANTS OF LIMITED MEANS.(2) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE STUDY OF MUSIC MAKING AND OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES IN PROMOTING INTEGRATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES, AND PUBLISHING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £4,409 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £31,098 to £26,689. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy target of six months' operating expenditure, though the specific unrestricted reserves figure is not explicitly compared against this target in the financial statements.

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 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Dancer
• Anne-Marie Philip-Howell
• Dorothy Hoskins
• Nigel Stuart Tyler
• Stephen Ryan

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames · Lewisham · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MUSIC WORKS (CHARITY).

• THE MUSIC WORKS (CHARITY) income £1.8m
• BEAT ROUTES income £419k
• LIFEBEAT income £126k
• MUSIC THERAPY LAMBETH income £72k
• MUSIC FOR ALL income £285k
• TRUST MUSIC income £43k

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