THE MUSIC THERAPY CHARITY

Registered charity 259077 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MUSIC THERAPY CHARITY LIMITED

The Music Therapy Charity funds essential and pioneering research and training which support the growth and reputation of the profession. Robust evidence is needed to enable music therapy to progress, to advance into new fields and increase delivery to people who need it.

Objects

1. TO PREVENT, RELIEVE AND CURE SICKNESS AND ILL HEALTH OF EVERY KIND WHETHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL BY THE USE OF THE ARTS, MUSIC AND COLOUR THERAPY. 2. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE USE OF ARTS, MUSIC THERAPY AND COLOUR THERAPY FOR THE ABOVE PURPOSES AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS THEREOF.

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £23,422 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £180,319. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £180,319, which the trustees consider sufficient to finance operations for one year in the absence of incoming resources. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts comply with applicable regulations and accounting standards.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — The Music Therapy Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amelia Jane Clapham
• Benedict Charles George Midwinter
• Dr Neta Spiro
• Dr Rachel Darnley-Smith
• Leanne O'Keeffe
• PROFESSOR HELEN ODELL-MILLER OBEBAMPhil

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY.

• KEY CHANGES MUSIC THERAPY income £276k
• MUSIC AS THERAPY INTERNATIONAL income £226k
• THE MUSIC WORKS (CHARITY) income £1.8m
• MUSIC THERAPY LAMBETH income £72k
• MUSIC24 income £365k
• MUSIC THERAPY WORKS income £393k

Side by side with its peers

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