MINDSONG

Registered charity 1177043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our main service uses music to benefit people with dementia and their carers. People can access Music Therapy @ Home, Together in Song singing groups in care homes (led by trained volunteers), Music Therapy in care homes and Sing 2 Remember groups in the community and Mindset. We also provide programmes for people with chronic lung disease and other health conditions through Social Prescribing.

Objects

To promote and protect the physical and mental health of people with dementia, other neurodegenerative conditions, and other health conditions where music would have a significant impact, and of those who care for them, through the provision of music therapy, meaningful music, education, support and practical advice

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: Cheltenham, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £16,540 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £237,562 to £221,022. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, maintaining a going concern basis. Unrestricted reserves stood at £170,096 at the end of the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA MARIE WILLISchair
• Chloe Anne Bridgen
• Fiona Hodder
• Khady Judith Gueye · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Suzanne Matley
• Martyn Douglas Smith · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Jacqueline Ann Colburn

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · South Gloucestershire · Worcestershire

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEMENTIA SINGING EXPERIENCE, SUSSEX.

• DEMENTIA SINGING EXPERIENCE, SUSSEX income £30k
• MUSIC IN OUR BONES income £46k
• MUSIC FOR MY MIND income £111k
• KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY income £276k
• MUSIC4WELLBEING income £109k
• WYMONDHAM DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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