MUSIC24

Registered charity 1182196 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Music24 currently provides music therapy and other music-related activities that benefit health and wellbeing to various groups of people, including but not limited to: people with learning disabilities, mental health conditions, neuro-disabilities and dementia. Our expertise lie within offering community music therapy groups, community choirs, singing cafes and one-to-one music therapy.

Objects

1)THE RELIEF OF NEED FOR THE PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH OR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY BY THERAPEUTIC MEANS, IN PARTICULAR, THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF MUSIC THERAPY AND OTHER MUSIC RELATED ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOSE PEOPLE. 2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF ARTS-BASED ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MUSIC AND SINGING.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Luton, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £8,987 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £76,257 to £67,270. The trustees' report indicates that unrestricted reserves of £51,861 are below the stated policy target of three months' running costs, prompting a focus on increasing unrestricted funding and cost-cutting strategies. Despite the deficit, the independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records.

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 6 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Global's Make Some Noise — “Music24 Receives £70K From Global's Make Some Noise” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tracey Brennanchair
• Fuschia Patrice Burton
• Gail Dearing
• Jacqueline Harding
• Kevin Allchorne
• Stephen Hayes

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY.

• KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY income £276k
• MUSIC SUPPORT UK income £376k
• THE MUSIC THERAPY CHARITY income £63k
• MUSIC THERAPY LAMBETH income £72k
• MUSIC4WELLBEING income £109k
• MUSIC AND THE DEAF income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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