MUSIC FOR YOUTH

Registered charity 285831 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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.

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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.

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

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Known funders

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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 FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC.

• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC income £13.3m
• YOUTH MUSIC CENTRE income £114k
• National Youth Music Theatre Ltd income £605k
• BROMLEY YOUTH MUSIC TRUST income £1.8m
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN income £5.2m
• THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS income £215k

Side by side with its peers

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