MUSIC FOR YOUTH

Registered charity 285831 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6941818 · Wikipedia

Music for Youth is a national music education charity providing free access to performance and audience opportunities for young musicians across the UK on some of the World's great stages in an atmosphere of celebration and peer endorsement.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALL BRANCHES OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR IN 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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £101,799, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £250,000. The charity reported a net income of £575 for the year, with total income of £685,894 and total expenditure of £685,319. The trustees acknowledge the need to replenish reserves at this transition point.

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.

• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Music for Youth (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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: 4.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Ridgeway
• Antony Christopher Harris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chris Brown
• Collin Hills
• Florence Ambrose
• Isabel Churcher
• Jonathan Pelluet
• Penelope Jane Milsom
• Simon Bull

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC.

• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m
• THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £485k
• National Youth Music Theatre Ltd income £950k
• YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS income £363k
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• AWARDS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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