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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

JESSIE'S FUND

Jessie's Fund helps seriously ill children, and those with complex needs or special educational needs and disabilities, to communicate by using creative music-making and music therapy. Jessie's Fund works with children all over the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£296£310£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£253£311£-58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£301£253£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£252£252£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£291£321£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£285£297£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£316£331£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£322£281£41n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£289£289£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£282£291£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£208£264£-56n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£222£293£-70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£236£288£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£556£254£302£28£495£39918.900
31/03/09£233£236£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£159£169£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£204£167£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£179£142£37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£133£122£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£106£129£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 30 years

www.jessiesfund.org.uk

info@jessiesfund.org.uk

01904658189

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Art or music based therapy
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£9,400
Youth Music£8,550
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation£6,000
The Shears Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation - Grant to Jessie's Fund
£2,000 16/05/2024
12
To fund music therapy sessions for disabled children
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 07/08/2023
24
Expansion of creative music schools programme
National Lottery Community Fund - Jessie's Fund Family Learning Projects
£9,400 09/06/2023
This funding will be used to deliver specialist musical stay and play sessions for families with young children who have a range of special educational needs and disabilities. The project aims to develop relationships create a safe space and support ....more
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation - Grant to Jessie's Fund
£2,000 25/05/2023
Supporting music therapy sessions for children who cannot access them through schools, hospitals or hospice
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation - Grant to Jessie's Fund
£2,000 26/05/2022
Supporting music therapy sessions for children who cannot access them through schools, hospitals or hospice
The Shears Foundation - Jessie's Fund
£5,000 26/01/2022
Music Therapy at the Great North Children's Hospital
Youth Music - Jessie’s Fund workshops in Specials Schools
£8,550 28/10/2021
Jessie’s Fund workshops in Specials Schools
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANDREW GRACE Appointed: 2016
  • CHARLOTTE EMMA LINCOLN Appointed: 2023
  • DR ALAN GEORGE
  • DR HANNAH REBECCA GEORGE
  • ELISABETH VARLOW Appointed: 2021
  • JACK AARON ZABORSKI Appointed: 2023
  • JESSICA ROSE VILLIERS Appointed: 2023
  • JULIA CAROLINE ROCHESTER Appointed: 2023
  • NANCY MAGUIRE Appointed: 2012
  • STEVEN BURKEMAN (Chair)
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/04/1995, number: 1045731
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
  • 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; all on time
Main office

15 PRIORY STREET
YORK
YO1 6ET

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMPLEX MEDICAL NEEDS, TERMINAL ILLNESS, OR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS THROUGH THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF MUSIC

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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