THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES

Registered charity 249219 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAKING MUSIC, NFMS · also registered in Scotland as SC038849 (OSCR)

To represent and support voluntary and amateur music groups throughout the UK.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £232,649, which the trustees calculated to represent 3.5 months of unrestricted expenditure. This figure is within the charity's stated reserves policy target of two months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a positive net income of £68,798 for the year, supported by a solid underlying financial model and high membership retention rates.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wilson Partners Audit Services LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Margaret Ruth Harrisonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Mary Holdom
• Andrew Hamilton Devine · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Elizabeth Travers
• DAVID CHARLES HICKMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAYNE LOXLEY BARR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janice Ford · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Donaldson Lethbridge · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Lewis LLOYD JAMES
• Philip O'Rawe
• Raymond Walkinshaw
• Sumit Kumar Biswas · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN income £1.4m
• NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN income £1.9m
• Contemporary Music for All income £209k
• THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS TRUST income £5.6m
• THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC income £50.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.