BOOK MUSIC & LYRICS

Registered charity 1197930 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Book music & lyrics was founded in 2010 to educate and foster craft skills, collaborative skills and development for emerging musical theatre creative practitioners to strengthen their future work and also to strengthen the sector as a whole.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY ENCOURAGING THE UNDERSTANDING, APPRECIATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEATRICAL MUSIC AND MUSICAL THEATRE WRITING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING IN THE CRAFT OF MUSICAL THEATRE IN ASPIRING AND EMERGING PRACTITIONERS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total receipts were £55,913 against total payments of £61,624, resulting in a net deficit of £5,711 for the year. Cash funds decreased from £29,660 at the start of the period to £23,949 at the end. The trustees consider an audit is not required under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011.

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 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

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

• MMD (Mercury Music Developments) — “Gratefully supported by: MMD (Mercury Music Developments), George Stiles, and Music Theatre International (MTI).” (source page)
• Music Theatre International (MTI) — “Gratefully supported by: MMD (Mercury Music Developments), George Stiles, and Music Theatre International (MTI).” (source page)

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

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Barber · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Friedman
• Caroline Humphris
• Charles Farmer
• Georgie Fellows
• Michael Fry
• Patrick Andrew Henderson Taylor
• Wendy Gill
• Wendy Jane Gadian

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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