EMERGING VOICES

Registered charity 1183043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Emerging Voices music charity enables adults with mental health problems to reach their potential as musicians in a collaborative and friendly environment.Our vision is to promote social inclusion and empower people who experience mental ill health through music. We provide one to one tuition, choirs, workshops, courses, performance and recording opportunities in North Yorkshire.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR NEGATIVE MENTAL HEALTH, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THESE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF MUSIC-BASED ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES.

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: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£47k

Latest spending

£34k

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,266, which is below the charity's stated policy target of £8,000. The trustees are confident the charity is solvent and can continue as a going concern. Income was primarily derived from grants (£41,535), with additional non-grant income of £3,321.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: achieve a year-end position of £8,000 of cash reserves which represents six months of core costs and six months of the Harrogate choir costs (reserves figure: £5k)

“The updated reserves policy for 2026/27 is to achieve a year-end position of £8,000 of cash reserves which represents six months of core costs and six months of the Harrogate choir costs as the Harrogate choir is now considered core activity.”

Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/04/2026

Volunteers: 5
Government income: £950 — grants £950 (1); 2% of the £46,544 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 23/04/2025

Volunteers: 3

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Emerging Voices (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Derrick Nicholson
John Ashton
Rebecca Ostrowska
Robert Christian Farrell
Simon Procter
Simon Thomson

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/04/2026	£47k	£34k
23/04/2025	£23k	£27k
23/04/2024	£28k	£16k
23/04/2023	£5k	£8k
23/04/2022	£15k	£13k

Common questions

Is EMERGING VOICES financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,266, which is below the charity's stated policy target of £8,000. The trustees are confident the charity is solvent and can continue as a going concern. Income was primarily derived from grants (£41,535), with additional non-grant income of £3,321. Its FY2026 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds EMERGING VOICES?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EMERGING VOICES as a grant recipient include TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	FY2024	£5k	Good Health and Wellbeing

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/08/2025	£12k	Wellbeing Choirs Concerts and Songwriting for Wellbeing
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/09/2023	£6k	Emerging Voices
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/05/2021	£10k	Emerging Voices
UK government	25/09/2020	£5k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC	1	£263k
EDWARD HARVIST (ALSO KNOWN AS THE HARVIST ESTATE)	1	£5k
The Keith Howard Foundation	1	£4k
CHARLES S FRENCH CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£3k
THE ASAMAA CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2k
THE WOODWARD CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG VOICES FOUNDATION.

YOUNG VOICES FOUNDATION income £43k
YORKSHIRE YOUTH AND MUSIC LIMITED income £280k
LISTENING EARS income £30k
YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
ECLECTIC VOICES SOCIETY income £46k
HIGHER POTENTIAL income £53k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
EMERGING VOICES	£47k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YOUNG VOICES FOUNDATION FY2025	£43k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
YORKSHIRE YOUTH AND MUSIC LIMITED FY2025	£280k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
LISTENING EARS FY2025	£30k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS FY2025	£363k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ECLECTIC VOICES SOCIETY FY2025	£46k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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