WANDSWORTH MUSIC

Registered charity 1186662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WANDSWORTH MUSIC SERVICE, WANDSWORTH SCHOOLS’ MUSIC

Wandsworth Music provides music education to children and young people who live in or attend schools in and around the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Objects

3. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) IN RELATION TO MUSIC; 3.2 TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY), BY PROMOTING AND FACILITATING ACCESS TO, PERFORMANCES OF, AND PARTICIPATION IN PERFORMANCES OF, MUSIC; 3.3 TO PROVIDE FOR THE RECREATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO THEM IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity realized an operational surplus of £93,502 for the year, with total turnover increasing by approximately 15% to £2m. Free unrestricted reserves amounted to £437,774, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover management and operational costs over the stated period of three months' salary and obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Swindon Limited. 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
• 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

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 — Wandsworth Music (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dan White — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• public funding — “Supported using public funding by:” (source page)

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joseph Frederick Daniel Joneschair
• Daniel James White
• Deepa Nair-Pillai
• George Crivelli
• Jessica Silvester
• Michela Bariletti
• Richard Byrne-Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simone Coultress

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HOUNSLOW MUSIC SERVICE.

• HOUNSLOW MUSIC SERVICE income £1.5m
• FRIENDS OF WINDSOR MUSIC (WINDSOR LEARNING PARTNERSHIP) income £64k
• WEST SUSSEX MUSIC TRUST income £2.1m
• CHILDREN'S MUSIC MATTERS income £321k
• BARNET EDUCATION ARTS TRUST income £2.0m
• WAVENDON ALL MUSIC PLAN LIMITED income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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