THE NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA LTD

Registered charity 274578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA - N Y J O

NYJO is a multi-faceted organisation specialising in creating opportunities for young people to perform jazz. We run a variety of different ensembles, from quintets to big bands, giving emerging professional musicians unparalleled performance opportunities. We deliver participatory programmes nationwide, widening access to jazz. We have a strong commitment to the community at our home in Woolwich.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY MUSIC EDUCATION AND TO ENCOURAGE THE ARTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF MUSIC PARTICULARLY JAZZ, DRAMA, DANCE AND SINGING AND (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTS) TO ADVANCE THE SAME BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) TO MAINTAIN JAZZ ORCHESTRAS AND OTHER MUSICAL ENSEMBLES COMPRISING OF MAINLY YOUNG MUSICIANS (B) TO ORGANISE, MANAGE AND PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN ORGANISING MANAGING AND PROVIDING ORCHESTRAL, INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES CONNECTED WITH MUSIC, PARTICULARLY JAZZ MUSIC IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (C) TO MAKE USE OF ALL MEDIA INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CINEMA, RADIO, TELEVISION, ANY FORM OF RECORDED OR ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND ANY OTHER MEDIA, DEVICE OR INVENTION RELATING TO THE PRODUCTION OR REPRODUCTION OF MUSIC PARTICULARLY JAZZ MUSIC (D) TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE THE APPRECIATION, FURTHERANCE AND PRACTICE OF JAZZ MUSIC BY COMPETITIONS, PRIZES OR ANY OTHER MEANS CONSISTENT WITH THE STATUS OF THE CHARITY (E) TO ORGANISE, MANAGE AND PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN ORGANISING, MANAGING AND PROVIDING ACADEMIES, COURSES, WORKSHOPS, SUMMER SCHOOLS, CONFERENCES, EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES AND OTHER FORMS OF MUSIC EDUCATION ACTIVITY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (F) TO PROVIDE BURSARIES AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE STUDYING MUSIC.

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: Greenwich, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a net deficit of £289,744, leading to a reduction in total funds to £1,133,693. The trustees report that unrestricted general funds of £341,471 are broadly in line with their target level of £360,000, and they have concluded there are no material uncertainties related to the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~16.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Projjol Banerjeachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Brian Ridgeway · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Louis Grappy
• Giulia Marro
• Janet Campbell
• Jas Kayser
• Patricia Ann Sibbons
• Paul Antony Boniface
• Simon Cooke

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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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 THE NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ COLLECTIVE.

• THE NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ COLLECTIVE income £198k
• NOTTINGHAM YOUTH ORCHESTRA LTD income £186k
• DEVON YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRAS ASSOCIATION income £29k
• NATIONAL YOUTH STRING ORCHESTRA income £186k
• THE YOUNG MUSICIANS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £256k
• NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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