FUTURE TALENT MUSICIANS

Registered charity 1183804 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q136341279 · Wikipedia · also known as FUTURE TALENT

Through our provision of access to performance and development opportunities, mentoring and financial support, we strive to achieve an equal reality where all gifted and underprivileged young musicians flourish.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE SPECIALIST MUSICAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THROUGH: (A) THE FUNDING OF MUSICAL RESOURCES; (B) ARRANGING AND FUNDING MUSICAL TUITION, PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPOSURE TO SPECIALIST RESOURCES; AND(C) ANY OTHER MEANS THAT THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£468k

Latest spending

£523k

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £61,351 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £271,434 to £210,083. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves fell to £203,749, which is below their stated policy target of 65-85% of average annual unrestricted expenditure, a deviation attributed to a strategic investment in their 20th anniversary project. Despite the financial loss, the trustees project that operations will return within policy targets in the following year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: between 65-85% of the average annual unrestricted expenditure over the current and preceding years (held: £204k)

“It is the Charity's intention to develop a donor base which will allow its unrestricted fund (excluding designated funds), the free reserves of the Charity, to be maintained at a level which equates to between 65-85% of the average annual unrestricted expenditure over the current and preceding years.” — page 11

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Trustees received no remuneration or expenses.

“During the year ended 31 August 2025 the charity received unconditional donations from Trustees to the sum of £13,580 (2024: £5,070). There are no further related party transactions to disclose.” — page 21

Per its FY2025 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.

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
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

Volunteers: 46
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

Volunteers: 5
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

Volunteers: 5
Grant-making is its main activity

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 11604390

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Future Talent Musicians (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

WORSLEY, Laura Weldon — director, appointed 10/02/2026on trustee list
EGGEN, Danae Catherine — director, appointed 20/01/2026on trustee list
CATTELL, Ross Brett — director, appointed 14/10/2025on trustee list
ORTIZ, Chloe Louise Edinborough — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
BUTTY, Nicolas — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
TOWNSEND, Erin Mary Hanley — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
VAN DER LINDEN, Anna — director, appointed 24/09/2024not on trustee list
COUNTER, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/04/2023on trustee list
JONES, Kieran John — director, appointed 08/10/2021on trustee list
SENDAMA, John — director, appointed 02/07/2021on trustee list
ROBINSON, Nicholas — director, appointed 04/10/2018on trustee list
BAMERT, Gregor Sebastian — director, appointed 04/10/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (13/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (05/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (09/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Nicholas Robinsonchair
Anna van der Linden
Chloe Louise Edinborough Ortiz
Danae Eggen
Dr Laura Worsley
Erin Mary Hanley Townsend · trustee of 1 other charity
John Sendama
Kieran Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
Nicolas Butty
Ross Brett Cattell
Sarah Counter · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£468k	£523k
31/08/2024	£396k	£401k
31/08/2023	£309k	£309k
31/08/2022	£299k	£286k
31/08/2021	£233k	£267k

Common questions

Is FUTURE TALENT MUSICIANS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £61,351 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £271,434 to £210,083. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves fell to £203,749, which is below their stated policy target of 65-85% of average annual unrestricted expenditure, a deviation attributed to a strategic investment in their 20th anniversary project. Despite the financial loss, the trustees project that operations will return within policy targets in the following year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds FUTURE TALENT MUSICIANS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name FUTURE TALENT MUSICIANS as a grant recipient include PAUL AND LOUISE COOKE ENDOWMENT, THE ATHERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE CHILDHOOD TRUST, SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS CIO, THE LIZ AND TERRY BRAMALL FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
PAUL AND LOUISE COOKE ENDOWMENT	FY2023	£50k	general
THE ATHERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£40k
THE ATHERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£40k	helps gifted and underprivileged young musicians flourish (second tranche of five year commitment)
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2025	£33k
THE ATHERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£20k	helps gifted and underprivileged young musicians flourish
SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS CIO	FY2025	£20k	Salary costs of a Relationship Manager to work with young musicians in London and the South East.
THE LIZ AND TERRY BRAMALL FOUNDATION	FY2025	£18k
DELVES CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£15k	1 grant to a specific programme
DELVES CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£15k	1 grant to a specific programme
THE BOLTINI TRUST	FY2025	£10k
THE BOLTINI TRUST	FY2024	£10k
THE BOLTINI TRUST	FY2023	£10k	Music
N SETHIA FOUNDATION	FY2021	£8k
THE ALBERT AND EUGENIE FROST MUSIC TRUST CIO	FY2024	£8k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2022	£7k
NEWBY TRUST LIMITED	FY2023	£6k	Education
THE ALBERT AND EUGENIE FROST MUSIC TRUST CIO	FY2022	£6k
NEWBY TRUST LIMITED	FY2024	£6k	Education
THE PHILIP MARSDEN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2024	£5k
THE ASAMAA CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2026	£5k	Music education
THE ALBERT AND EUGENIE FROST MUSIC TRUST CIO	FY2023	£4k
THE CHARLOTTE BONHAM-CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£3k
THE CHARLOTTE BONHAM-CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£3k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2023	£3k
THE PHILIP MARSDEN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£350
THE PHILIP MARSDEN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	Unverified read£300
THE PHILIP MARSDEN FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£300
PAUL AND LOUISE COOKE ENDOWMENT	FY2022	£250
THE REED FOUNDATION	FY2021	amount not stated

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.

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 ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£40k
THE KIRBY LAING FOUNDATION	2	£20k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£4k
IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION	1	£516k
THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£513k
THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC	1	£300k
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	1	£300k
HUO FAMILY FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED	1	£204k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TALENT FUND.

THE TALENT FUND income £2.2m
AWARDS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £2.5m
The Magic Future Foundation income £128k
Future Men income £1.2m
MUSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND income £5.7m
THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FUTURE TALENT MUSICIANS	£468k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE TALENT FUND FY2024	£2.2m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
AWARDS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS FY2025	£2.5m	£90,001 - £100,000	1	above	—	no doubt
The Magic Future Foundation FY2025	£128k	£12,919	0	below	—	no doubt
Future Men FY2025	£1.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MUSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND FY2025	£5.7m	—	14	unclear	—	no doubt

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