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.

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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.

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 7.0 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 (2.9%) (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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MUSIC MINDS MATTER.

• MUSIC MINDS MATTER income £1.3m
• TONIC MUSIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH LTD income £557k
• HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE MIND income £8.5m
• LIVE MUSIC NOW LIMITED income £1.4m
• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MUSIC TRUST income £2.9m
• COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED income £194k

Side by side with its peers

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