MUSIC IN OUR BONES

Registered charity 1166578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Offering harmony singing workshops targeting Family Carers and people with physical disabilities, dementia, and those managing mental health issues and long-term conditions such as Parkinsons, MS, and stroke recovery.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AMATEUR SINGERS PRIMARILY IN SUFFOLK, OF ALL ABILITIES BY OFFERING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE TO SING WITH OTHERS, WITHOUT AN AUDITION OR FORMER EXPERIENCE OF CHORAL SINGING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR FAMILY CARERS AND FOR THOSE WITH A DISABILITY

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Ipswich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £4,219 for the year, resulting in total net assets decreasing from £44,062 to £39,843. The trustees note that there are few financial risks as the charity has no offices or debts, but workshops would stop if funding were insufficient. The charity is currently dependent on securing future grants and donations to sustain its activities.

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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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• Complaints policy and procedures
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• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADA ELIZABETH GERRIE
• Alexander Mark Tarala
• Allan Williams
• Clare Billings-Deed
• Frances Flower
• PAMELA WAGSTAFF

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSIC4WELLBEING.

• MUSIC4WELLBEING income £109k
• MINDSONG income £336k
• MUSIC24 income £365k
• HARMONY COMMUNITY PROJECTS income £55k
• KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY income £276k
• MUSIC IN HOSPITALS AND CARE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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