NORTH YORKSHIRE MUSIC THERAPY CENTRE

Registered charity 702533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

North Yorkshire Music Therapy Centre provides a community-based service to help families whose lives are affected by illness or disability. Music Therapy involves active music making as a means of improving physical, psychological and emotional functioning. The charity also provides information, further education, presentations/workshops and a programme of cultural events.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS GENERALLY. 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER TH E AGE OF 18 YEARS SUFFERING FROM MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPING ILLNESSES WHO ARE IN NEED OF EDUCATION SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR FULL CAPACITIES AND ENABLE THEM TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. FOR FULL DETAILS SEE CONSTITUTION.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £1,549 for the year, with total expenditure exceeding operational receipts. The trustees note that salary commitments are not fully covered by therapy fees, creating a reliance on significant annual fundraising to maintain operations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• 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
• 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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Jo Danischewskychair
• Alexander Cunningham Dickson
• Anna Guest
• Christine Loughran Hines
• Dr Nicholas Vavasor Hammond · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Stephen Clift
• Katherine Childs
• Robin Alastair Bellfield
• Robin Andrews
• Sue Hoggett

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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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
• MUSIC THERAPY WORKS income £393k
• THE OTAKAR KRAUS MUSIC TRUST income £319k
• MUSIC AS THERAPY INTERNATIONAL income £226k
• MUSIC IN HOSPITALS AND CARE income £1.1m
• ANNIE MAWSON'S SUNBEAMS MUSIC TRUST income £494k

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