AUDIOACTIVE

Registered charity 1168749 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

AudioActive advances the professional, educational and personal and social development of children and young people of all backgrounds living in the South East of England in particular by providing opportunities for participation in music and creative arts, and by creating high quality music-making opportunities.

Objects

TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, LIVING IN THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND BY: A) PROVIDING MUSIC, MUSIC TECHNOLOGY AND CROSS ART FORM COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTB) CREATING HIGH-QUALITY MUSIC-MAKING AND PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT CAREER AND ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENTC) COLLABORATING WITH EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS TO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE WAYS OF TEACHING AND LEARNINGD) PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING YOUTH PARTICIPATION OWNERSHIP AND INFLUENCE OVER THE DIRECTION AND WORK OF THE ORGANISATION E) AIMING TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SERVICE PROVIDER, ACTIVELY COMBATTING DISCRIMINATION AND MARGINALISATION AND PROMOTING A WELCOMING, INCLUSIVE AND CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £163,342 with total income of £1,364,691 against expenditure of £1,201,349. The trustees hold unrestricted free reserves of £346,822, which is above their stated policy target of £188,000, a position they attribute to cash flow risks associated with a major multi-year programme and a planned relocation. The auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties related to the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves LLP. 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (76% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arjo Ghosh
• Aurelia Butler-Ball
• Bronya Curwin
• Damian Cataldo
• Kriss Thakrar
• Lucy Rose Ellis
• Marilena Reina
• Martha Elizabeth Kent

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · Kent · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SOUNDCASTLE LTD income £326k
• ACTIVATE COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION SERVICES income £2.7m
• DEAF ACTIVE income £273k
• SOUNDABOUT income £532k
• VOICEABILITY ADVOCACY income £15.9m
• ACTIVATE PERFORMING ARTS income £642k

Side by side with its peers

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