Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 0

Strong growth: +2
Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

FRIENDS OF STAFFORDSHIRE'S YOUNG MUSICIANS

Supporting Young Musicians and musical activities in Staffordshire.Holding charitable funds on behalf of The Music Partnership: the music education hub for the North-West Midlands

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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 and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

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		£11	£23	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	95
31/08/22		£57	£24	£33	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	49
31/08/21		£52	£14	£37	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/08/20		£11	£8	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/08/19		£29	£8	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/08/18		£3	£4	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/17		£17	£6	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16		£8	£8	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/15		£4	£3	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/14		£5	£4	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/13		£29	£10	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/12		£8	£2	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/11		£9	£7	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/10		£4	£3	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/09		£2	£3	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/08		£2	£2	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/07		£1	£0	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/06	*	£1	£2	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/05		£2	£1	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/04		£6	£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 30 years

www.fosym.org.uk

info@fosym.org.uk

01785224319

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations
Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City, Telford & Wrekin,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
95 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

CATHY LAMB Appointed: 2017

JOHN CALLISTER Appointed: 2019

LESLIE JOHN ROBERTSON Appointed: 2022

LUCY ELOISE FOWELL Appointed: 2022

ROBERT ELLIS FULLER Appointed: 2023

STEPHANIE OWEN (Chair) Appointed: 2020

VALERIE MARTIN Appointed: 2020

VALERIE PATRICIA LEWIS Appointed: 2022

JENNIFER MASON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Teacher, Other trusteeship: LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL,

ROBERT JOHN HEATH Appointed: 2023, Occupation: University Lecturer, Other trusteeship: NSR ROLLING STOCK RESTORATION TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/05/1994, number: 1037650

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

27/02/2013 - Asset transfer in from THE JOHN W R TAYLOR MEMORIAL TRUST FUND
17/02/2017 - Asset transfer in from FRIENDS OF STAFFORDSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS (STAFFORD BRANCH)

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
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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR06: 329 days late,

Main office

375 STONE ROAD
STAFFORD
ST16 1LD

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE MUSICAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENT IN STAFFORDSHIRE

Defined Area of Benefit:

STAFFORDSHIRE

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