THE NUCLEO PROJECT

Registered charity 1169328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Nucleo is a "music for social action" project offering free, ensemble-based music-making opportunities to children and young people through our immersive programme in North Kensington.We run a national Instrument Donation Bank to get unused instruments into the hands of young musicians, and we deliver the national Young Leaders Programme.

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH:A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; ANDB) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £284,881 for the year ended 31 August 2025, allowing it to replace previous drawdowns on reserves. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £417,590, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months of running costs, indicating a stable financial base.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Nucleo Project (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Felix Hale
• Jerome David Raphaely
• MARK ROBERT LOCKHART
• Miranda Rose Francis
• Sonia Sheta
• Stephen Jeremy Hermer
• Theo Footman-Bamber
• Theodora Baron

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• NUCLEUS COMMUNITY ACTION LTD income £1.2m
• NUCLEUS FOUNDATION income £26k
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m
• NEKO TRUST income £98k
• NOTTINGHAM MUSIC SERVICE income £1.1m
• NEW SINFONIA income £203k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.