OLYMPIAS MUSIC FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1194413 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Olympias is a multi-award-winning charity which brings music to communities in Manchester. We believe that everyone should be given the opportunity to participate in musicmaking and engage with music, regardless of background or income, and that these encounters can be life-changing. Olympias provides free music lessons, concerts, choirs and workshops for the benefit of the local community.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN MUSIC-MAKING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING COMMUNITY CHOIRS, MUSIC WORKSHOPS AND CONCERTS AND FREE MUSIC LESSONS AND MUSIC WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £38,348 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £139,210 to £100,862. While unrestricted free reserves of £67,686 were held, this was below the trustees' stated policy target of £85,750, representing three months of running costs. The trustees identified the ability to generate sufficient income as a key risk but confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Olympias Music Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Marian Kathryn Sudburychair
• Dr Christopher Mcelroy
• Farhaan Shah
• Helen Palmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maddi Burns-Hunt
• Paulette Bayley
• Professor Michelle Phillips
• Steven Lindsay · trustee of 2 other charities
• Will Allen

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Olympia Charitable Trust.

• The Olympia Charitable Trust income £35k
• ORCHESTRAS LIVE income £1.1m
• SEVENOAKS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £31k
• THE YOUNG MUSICIANS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £256k
• OXFORD MAY MUSIC income £45k
• OXFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £43k

Side by side with its peers

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