NORDOFF-ROBBINS MUSIC THERAPY

Registered charity 280960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORDOFF ROBBINS, NORDOFF ROBBINS MUSIC THERAPY, NRMT, Nordoff & Robbins, Nordoff and Robbins, THE NORDOFF-ROBBINS MUSIC THERAPY CENTRE · also registered in Scotland as SC048817 (OSCR)

1. Providing and extending music therapy services nationwide;2. Training professional music therapists and transmittingmusic therapy knowledge and skills through broadereducational programmes;3. Researching and developing music therapy as aprofessional practice and an academic discipline.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH THE SKILLED USE OF MUSIC WITH INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES WHO ARE CHALLENGED BY DISABILITY, ILLNESS OR INJUSTICE BY: - PROVIDING AND EXTENDING MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES ; - TRAINING PROFESSIONAL MUSIC THERAPISTS AND TRANSMITTING MUSIC THERAPY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THROUGH BROADER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND - RESEARCHING AND DEVELOPING MUSIC THERAPY AS A PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE.THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO BE ACHIEVED (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY: - PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING THE NECESSARY RESOURCES AND FACILITIES; - DEVELOPING COLLABORATIONS WITH INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS IN ARTS, EDUCATION, HEALTH OR SOCIAL CARE SECTORS AND - DEVELOPING COLLABORATIONS WITH ASSOCIATED PROFESSIONS AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES -

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £1.2m in 2025, driven by increasing costs that outpaced income growth. Per the trustees' report, the charity is drawing down on healthy reserves to sustain operations while implementing cost control measures and a new strategy to eliminate the deficit in 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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)

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Nordoff And Robbins launches fundraising partnership with LW Theatres musicweek.com · 15/04/2026
• Who’s Moving: Amnesty International, Nordoff and Robbins, English Heritage and more civilsociety.co.uk · 16/02/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01514616
• Trading subsidiary: SILVER CLEF PRODUCTIONS LIMITED Companies House 02796952

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Nordoff and Robbins (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• O2 — “OVO proudly sponsored the Legend Award at the O2 Silver Clef Awards 2025” (source page)
• Tysers Live — “For 8 years, Tysers Live have sponsored the O2 Silver Clef Awards and continue to support our events including Race Day, the Northern Music …” (source page)
• The BRIT Trust — “We’re delighted that the BRIT Trust’s invaluable contribution to our work is set to continue, with a focus on helping us develop a series of…” (source page)
• OVO — “OVO proudly sponsored the Legend Award at the O2 Silver Clef Awards 2025, and have launched a campaign to give back to our Music Therapists.” (source page)

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.

• WILMORE, Giles Harrison — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• EMENY, Selina Holliday — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• REILLY, Kate — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• FETHERS, Daniel James — director, appointed 01/05/2024not on trustee list
• NOBLE, Lucy Margaret — director, appointed 18/04/2023on trustee list
• JAFFREY, Marc David Naveed — director, appointed 20/04/2022not on trustee list
• BANKS, Emma Louise — director, appointed 05/11/2019on trustee list
• GUEST, Sophie Joanne — director, appointed 01/02/2019on trustee list
• BELL, Graham — director, appointed 01/02/2019on trustee list
• PILLING, Karen Ann — director, appointed 03/11/2016on trustee list
• BRYANT, Jane Versteeg — director, appointed 04/05/2009on trustee list
• JOPP, Fraser — secretary, appointed 01/05/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (33% 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: 35.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Bankschair
• Daniel Fethers FCCA
• Giles Wilmore
• Graham Bell
• JANE BRYANT
• Karen Ann Pilling
• Kate Reilly
• Lucy Margaret Noble · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marc Jaffrey OBE
• Selina Emeny
• Sophie Guest

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

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
• THE MUSIC THERAPY CHARITY income £63k
• MUSIC24 income £365k
• MUSICWORKS MIDLANDS income £31k
• NORTH YORKSHIRE MUSIC THERAPY CENTRE income £77k
• MUSIC THERAPY WORKS income £393k

Side by side with its peers

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