MUSIC FOR MINIATURES

Registered charity 1184284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MUSIC FOR MINIATURES C.I.C.

Music for Miniatures is a registered charity set up to provide opportunities for children and their families to experience high quality live music. We aim to excite, inspire, delight, and enrich the lives of children through live classical music, regardless of background. Focussing predominantly (but not exclusively) on classical music, our performances are interactive, educational, and inspiring.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PROVISION OF INTERACTIVE AND PEDAGOGICAL PERFORMANCES, RECITALS AND CONCERTS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,376 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total cash funds decreasing from £14,837 to £8,461. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves of £4,205 meet the updated policy target of holding £2,500, which equates to one month of core costs. While the charity relies on ticket sales, donations, and grants, it acknowledges that financing concerts remains a challenge.

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 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Music for Miniatures (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martyn Harrieschair
• Ben Hargreaves
• Charlotte Kyle
• Helen Louise Richards
• Katharine Jordan
• Rebecca Sanderson
• Siobhan Mary Davies

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• MUSIC FOR ALL income £285k
• MUSIC FOR YOUTH income £686k
• MADE WITH MUSIC income £125k
• CHILDREN'S MUSIC MATTERS income £321k
• MUSIC AND THEATRE FOR ALL income £101k
• MUSIC IN HOSPITALS AND CARE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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