Young Music Makers London Limited

Registered charity 264274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIAPASON LIMITED, YOUNG MUSIC MAKERS

YMM was established to advance the musical education of children by helping and encouraging them to make music together from an early age. YMM provides a Saturday music school mainly for children but welcomes students of all ages. The school provides both individual tuition and group activities and organises regular concerts to provide performance opportunities.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM).

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£241k

Latest spending

£248k

Registered

1972

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £57,374 against a policy target of one term's fixed operating costs, which the trustees confirmed matched the target. The charity reported a net deficit of £7,133 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £87,465 to £80,332. The organization is wholly dependent on fee income and donations, with no local authority funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: one term’s fixed operating costs (reserves figure: £57k)

“Our policy is to retain in reserve the equivalent of one term’s fixed operating costs.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
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From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2025

Volunteers: 2

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Young Music Makers London (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (30/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Ardiana Leslie
Cristian Darie
DANIEL ROBERT CARRIER
James Michael Sheehan
Julie Baba
Mark McDonald
Matt Davis
Virginia Kerridge · trustee of 1 other charity
Xavier Boris Nicolas

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

Operates in: Barnet · Camden · Haringey · Islington

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£241k	£248k
31/07/2024	£254k	£249k
31/07/2023	£231k	£239k
31/07/2022	£233k	£243k
31/07/2021	£233k	£220k

Common questions

Is Young Music Makers London Limited financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £57,374 against a policy target of one term's fixed operating costs, which the trustees confirmed matched the target. The charity reported a net deficit of £7,133 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £87,465 to £80,332. The organization is wholly dependent on fee income and donations, with no local authority funding. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Young Music Makers London Limited?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Young Music Makers London Limited as a grant recipient include THE CHILDHOOD TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2024	£3k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2022	£3k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2025	£3k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC	2	£45k
HYDE PARK PLACE ESTATE CHARITY	2	£31k
THE ALBERT AND EUGENIE FROST MUSIC TRUST CIO	2	£20k
THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION	2	£3k
THE KARLSSON JATIVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£252k
THE UNDERWOOD TRUST	1	£95k
GENESIS AMERICA (UK) LIMITED	1	£77k
THE FOYLE FOUNDATION	1	£75k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS.

THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £485k
YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
National Youth Music Theatre Ltd income £950k
YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
MUSIC FOR YOUTH income £686k
YMM income £116k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Young Music Makers London Limited	£241k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS FY2026	£485k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS FY2025	£363k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
National Youth Music Theatre Ltd FY2025	£950k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE FY2025	£114k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MUSIC FOR YOUTH FY2025	£686k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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