WISHING WELL MUSIC FOR HEALTH

Registered charity 1197978 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WISHING WELL MUSIC FOR HEALTH CIC

Wishing Well brings live music making right to the heart of healthcare. We create long term partnerships with healthcare settings and services so that music and culture can flourish in clinical spaces. We empower people to express themselves, connect with others and feel more joyful through sharing music together. We offer training programmes for music facilitators and healthcare staff

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THROUGH THE USE OF MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS WITHIN THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SECTORS AND IN THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING ADVOCATING THE ROLE OF MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS IN RELATIONSHIP TO HEALTH AND WELLBEING, PROVIDING TRAINING AND PROMOTING GOOD PRACTICE AMONGST ARTISTS AND PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SECTORS.2. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF PHYSICAL AND/OR MENTAL ILL HEALTH WITHIN THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SECTORS/SETTINGS AND COMMUNITY, PRIMARILY THROUGH DELIVERING AND PROVIDING MUSIC AND ART RELATED ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES WITH THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE.

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 unrestricted funds held at 30 September 2025 were £32,777, which equates to roughly four months of running costs, thereby meeting the charity's stated policy target of keeping between three and six months' running costs in reserves. The trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting.

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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Olivia Catherine Doylechair
• Anisa Arooj Dar
• Denise Cook

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · Kent · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WISHING WELL PROJECT.

• WISHING WELL PROJECT income £1.1m
• MUSIC IN HOSPITALS AND CARE income £1.1m
• THE WELL, CHRISTIAN HEALING CENTRE income £192k
• SOUNDCASTLE LTD income £326k
• THE MAGIC WISHING WELL income £363k
• ANNIE MAWSON'S SUNBEAMS MUSIC TRUST income £494k

Side by side with its peers

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