Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

HMDT MUSIC 

Working with world class artists and leading experts, HMDT increases access to high quality musical experiences by commissioning new performance works, developing resources, creating enduring partnerships, and sustaining an extensive outreach programme to schools and communities in areas of significant disadvantage and deprivation.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/23£498£541£-43n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/08/22£615£540£74£29£174£140.3316
31/08/21£529£580£-51£33£100£30.137
31/08/20£642£554£88£34£150£380.834
31/08/19£502£604£-102£34£62£210.445
31/08/18£668£565£103£22£164£350.840
31/08/17£497£556£-59£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/16£553£485£68£33£121£120.340
31/08/15£417£453£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/14£419£388£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/13?£449£554£-105£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£393£338£55£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£279£367£-88£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£696£710£-14£31£196£140.220
31/03/09*£733£783£-50£37£211£150.220
31/03/08£713£597£116£38£261£140.330
31/03/07*£659£694£-35£40£144£250.430
31/03/06*£740£660£80£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£662£762£-100£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£688£615£73£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 14%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Established: 29 years

www.hmdtmusic.org.uk

team@hmdtmusic.org.uk

02088828825

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 7 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£296,400
Henry Smith Charity£280,000
Greater London Authority£248,435
Youth Music£103,930
Charles Hayward Foundation£60,000
City Bridge Trust£60,000
Masonic Trust£55,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£54,800
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The E Project: empower, enrich, equalise, expand, embed, engage, evaluate
£16,400 18/01/2023
HMDT Music support schools in London, Luton, Lancashire and Stoke-on-Trent to embed arts-based practice into the curriculum, with a focus on improving diversity, equity and inclusion. This grant ....more
Greater London Authority - One Spirit Mentoring Programme
£98,758 21/12/2022
This uplift is to extend and expand the One Spirit mentoring programme, framed in an alternative curriculum of music/creative arts and personal development activities, to young people in the ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The E Project: empower, enrich, equalise, expand, embed, engage, evaluate
£250,000 16/05/2022
HMDT Music support schools in London, Luton, Lancashire and Stoke-on-Trent to embed arts-based practice into the curriculum, with a focus on improving diversity, equity and inclusion. This grant ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to HMDT Music (Hackney Music Development Trust)
£119,800 07/04/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing music-based learning and personal development support for young people in the criminal justice system, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, ....more
Youth Music - One Spirit
£75,000 18/02/2022
One Spirit
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to HMDT Music
£20,000 27/01/2022
One Spirit rehabilitation programme for young offenders
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hackney Music Development Trust
£60,000 16/03/2021
£60,000 for a further and final two years (2 x £30,000) towards the costs of a project manager for 2 days per month; the costs of the artist/mentors that work with the young people in custody and ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to HMDT Music
£20,000 26/02/2021
One Spirit rehabilitation programme for young offenders
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£55,000 24/02/2021
A grant to support disabled children in Hackney through Saturday music sessions.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£30,000 13/08/2020
3
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
Youth Music - Music Treehouse
£28,930 03/07/2020
Music Treehouse
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hackney Music Development Trust
£2,850 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund the delivery of weekly Saturday music therapy sessions for 80 disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs who are isolated at home due ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,850 21/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to HMDT Music (Hackney Music Development Trust)
£160,200 19/03/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of 'One Spirit', a music and creative arts project, for young people in the criminal justice system in London and the south east of England
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to HMDT Music
£20,000 27/02/2020
One Spirit rehabilitation programme for young offenders
Greater London Authority - HMDT Music
£149,677 01/01/2020
Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to HMDT Music
£54,800 08/10/2019
STEM Sisters
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts-Based Learning in Lancashire Schools
£239,000 14/05/2018
39
Hackney Music Development Trust (HMDT Music) will support six primary schools in Lancashire to integrate the arts across the curriculum through musical theatre. The programme aims to increase ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to HMDT Music
£10,000 14/05/2018
Trench Brothers National Memorial Arboretum
Youth Music - Music Treehouse
£99,955 11/05/2018
Music Treehouse
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to HMDT Music
£10,000 19/12/2017
Trench Brothers research and exhibition South East
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to HMDT Music
£9,900 21/11/2017
Trench Brothers schools 2018
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hackney Music Development Trust
£118,950 17/10/2017
36
A creative arts and mentoring project for young offenders. The activities will help the young people improve their confidence and self-esteem, increase their engagement in education and employment ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hackney Music Development Trust
£29,850 10/08/2017
36
Saturday Music Programme which uses music to aid development of communication and social skills for children with special educational needs and disabilities. Young people will benefit through ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Hackney Music Development Trust
£90,000 15/06/2017
36
£90,000 over three years (3 x £30,000) towards the costs of a project manager for 2 days per month; the costs of the artist/mentors that work with the young people in custody and on release; and ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to HMDT Music (Hackney Music Development Trust)
£90,000 09/03/2017
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the 'One Spirit Rehabilitation and Mentoring Programme' for young offenders in prisons across London and the South East and upon release
Youth Music - Music Treehouse
£66,579 27/04/2016
Music Treehouse
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to HMDT Music
£99,500 30/03/2016
Trench Brothers Lancashire
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Developing arts-based learning at Queen Eleanor Primary Academy, Northampton.
£59,712 21/03/2016
18
Hackney Music Development Trust will trial a new model of working with schools using performance arts, and assist staff at Queen Eleanor Primary school to develop arts based teaching and learning ....more
Comic Relief - One Spirit
£66,900 28/01/2015
24
There is little support for young offenders when they are considered as adults by the Prison Service at the age of 19. Reoffending rates are high with 65% likely to reoffend. The Hackney Music ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to HMDT Music (Hackney Music Development Trust)
£66,900 04/12/2014
24
towards two years' running costs of the 'One Spirit' rehabilitation and mentoring programme for young offenders inside HMYOI Feltham and HM Pentonville and upon release
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - The Julian Joseph Jazz Academy
£45,000 29/01/2014
The next stage of supporting a unique jazz programme headed by Julian Joseph, which develops opera, dance and instrumental projects for young people, inspired by the historical roots of jazz.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to HMDT Music
£69,800 07/08/2013
Trench Brothers - Together We Serve
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - HMDT Jazz
£38,500 23/04/2012
A unique jazz programme headed by Julian Joseph, to develop opera, dance and instrumental projects for young people, inspired by the historical roots of jazz.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to HMDT Music
£60,000 25/03/2009
36
Towards Project costs Towards project, production and education team costs for a programme of raising primary pupils aspirations and attainment, predominantly those from BAME backgrounds.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 49-78
  • KRISHNA RAMAN Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Senior Corporate Lawyer
  • TONY CLARK Appointed: 2003, Occupation: Music Producer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/11/1995, number: 1050520
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/10/1995, number: 03118155
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR09: 13 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR06: 1 days late, AR05: 1 days late,
Main office

21-27 Lambs Conduit Street
London
WC1N 3GS

Objectives

The objects are restricted specifically for the public benefit:- to advance education in music and the arts, and- to promote music and the arts,in particular but not exclusively by the creation, development and provision of workshops, programmes and music-related projects for people, including young people and young offenders and particularly but without limitation those who are disadvantaged due to financial and/or other circumstances.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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