LIVE MUSIC NOW LIMITED

Registered charity 273596 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as L M N, LMN

Live Music Now is a UK-wide music outreach charity, established in 1977 by Yehudi Menuhin with two strategic aims; To bring live music of the highest quality to those for whom access to its benefits is normally restricted; To support the professional development of musicians at the outset of their careers, ensuring the highest quality of delivery through a rigorous selection and training process.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: (I) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND PROMOTE THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING, BY PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY INTERACTIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES, IN PARTICULAR AMONG THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE DEPRIVED OF THE BENEFIT OF PERFORMANCES OF LIVE MUSIC AND OTHER PERFORMING ARTS. (II) TO ADVANCE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF MUSICIANS AT THE OUTSET OF THEIR CAREERS AS PERFORMING ARTISTS BY PROVIDING THEM WITH SUPPORT, SPECIALIST TRAINING AND THE OPPORTUNITIES TO PERFORM AND WORK IN PUBLIC.

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: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £36,649 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £3,657, which is significantly below the stated policy target of approximately £450,000 (equivalent to six months of running costs). The trustees identified the lack of unrestricted reserves as a major risk and noted that the organisation is supported by a letter of underwrite from the Chair.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Simpson Wreford LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

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

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01312283

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Live Music Now (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ÖNAÇ, Rumina, Dr — director, appointed 16/10/2024not on trustee list
• BASS, Michael Peter Andrew — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• CHARLESWORTH, Edward James — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• MCINERNEY, Peter Brian Gerard — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• CALMIANO, Lisa Marie — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• CLEMENT, Lowri Mair — director, appointed 22/09/2020on trustee list
• OCKELFORD, George Adam, Professor — director, appointed 17/09/2019on trustee list
• MILLWARD, Simon Lester — director, appointed 15/05/2019on trustee list
• ELLIS, Vernon James, Sir — director, appointed 04/10/2018on trustee list
• FREEDMAN, Peter Sydney, Dr — director, appointed 26/03/2016on trustee list
• FISCHER, Janet Ann Nichole — secretary, appointed 16/10/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Vernon Ellischair
• Dr Peter Sydney Freedman
• Dr Rumina Onac
• Edward James Charlesworth
• Lisa Marie Calmiano
• Lowri Mair Clement
• Michael Peter Andrew Bass · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR GEORGE ADAM OCKELFORD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Brian Gerard McInerney
• Simon Millward

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MADE WITH MUSIC.

• MADE WITH MUSIC income £125k
• MUSIC OF LIFE FOUNDATION income £524k
• LOCAL AND LIVE MUSIC income £78k
• JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE income £298k

Side by side with its peers

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