MUSIC SUPPORT UK

Registered charity 1170231 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Music Support offers four key services:1. Helpline. We have developed an extensive network within the professional addiction and mental health service providers? community whom we signpost to. A free professional clinical assessment is offered to those in need.2. Safe Tents at music festivals3. Crisis support for emergencies4. Workshops and Training to educate and support.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND SUPPORT TO ANY PERSONS WORKING IN THE UK MUSIC INDUSTRY OR IN ROLES SUPPORTING THE UK MUSIC INDUSTRY SUFFERING FROM MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH DISORDERS (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION), TOGETHER WITH THE FAMILY AND COLLEAGUES OF SUCH PERSONS, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT;(II) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH DISORDERS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £328,088 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a reduction of net current assets to £438,917. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis. Unrestricted reserves stood at £400,790, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Music Support (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Neg Earth Lights — “Neg Earth Lights contributes regular donations to Music Support, including a generous sum to its 10 th anniversary fundraising campaign.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~32.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MATTHEW THOMASchair
• ANDREW ARTHUR FRANKS
• ANTHONY JEREMY COHEN FCA
• Fiona Macleod
• Hugh Philip Gadsdon
• James Kliffen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Ward
• Rachael Lander
• Shamal Kumal
• Suzi Green

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSIC24.

• MUSIC24 income £365k
• KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY income £276k
• MUSIC MINISTRY FOUNDATION income £42k
• THE MUSIC THERAPY CHARITY income £63k
• MUSIC MINDS MATTER income £1.3m
• INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS TRUST income £43k

Side by side with its peers

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