Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 12
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 23 ?

NORTH MUSIC TRUST 

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music is an International home for music and musical discovery, with roots, a world-wide reputation, a global programme and a fully inclusive welcome to all its users and to all musical styles and languages.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 16 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
Established: 23 years

www.theglasshouseicm.org

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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
31/03/23£12,865£14,065£-1,200£261£14,431£6,5915.6345112
31/03/22£11,255£10,108£1,147£892£15,911£7,7219.248093
31/03/21£13,498£9,434£4,063£1,914£14,523£5,3706.850868
31/03/20£15,958£14,741£1,217£5,367£9,428£2,2851.946510
31/03/19£16,677£15,990£687£5,663£8,703£1,1700.946493
31/03/18*£15,455£14,726£729£5,325£7,752£8440.74080
31/03/17£13,812£14,028£-216£3,326£7,172£1704490
31/03/16£13,808£14,396£-588£3,099£5,919£-489-0.44660
31/03/15£16,761£16,504£257£3,435£3,661£4302690
31/03/14£16,829£15,957£872£3,072£2,589£-312-0.22320
31/03/13£14,990£14,053£937£2,224£1,686£-278-0.22240
31/03/12£15,794£15,765£30£2,459£730£-65-04170
31/03/11£18,072£18,374£-303£2,067£701£-188-0.13920
31/03/10£17,578£17,285£293£2,076£1,003£-161-0.13660
31/03/09£16,887£16,428£459£2,063£710£-196-0.13510
31/03/08£15,028£14,807£221£1,929£332£1103350
31/03/07£12,732£13,116£-384£3,035£30£-291-0.33450
31/03/06£12,165£11,924£241£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£7,831£8,192£-360£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£5,644£4,975£669£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 32%
Liabilities/Income: 53%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 46%
Reserves/Spending: 5.6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 345 employees
  • 112 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
DCMS£6,455,911
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland£1,319,874
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd£884,187
Garfield Weston Foundation£875,000
Esmee Fairbairn£529,000
Youth Music£160,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - Sage Gateshead (North Music Trust)
£5,500 11/07/2023
Make Music Programme 2023-24: Accessible Music Experienced for Disadvantaged & Disabled Young People
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£32,000 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£20,000 10/11/2022
Young Musicians Programme
Youth Music - Connect
£100,000 14/10/2022
Connect
The Shears Foundation - Sage Gateshead (North Music Trust)
£5,000 09/08/2022
Open Source Programme 2022-23: Accessible Music Experiences for Disadvantaged & Disabled Young People
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£7,910 13/01/2022
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£190,000 13/01/2022
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£505 13/01/2022
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£185,318 14/10/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£7,715 14/10/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£492 14/10/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£7,681 15/07/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£184,486 15/07/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£490 15/07/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£400,000 07/07/2021
60
Towards core costs to place inclusion at the heart of Sage Gateshead, fostering a new generation of leaders and artists in the North
Youth Music - Loud and Clear (LAC)
£30,000 01/07/2021
Loud and Clear (LAC)
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£60,000 23/06/2021
Towards core costs from the Reinvent Performing Arts Fund
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£75,000 28/04/2021
towards digital development of Sage Gateshead's Music Education Centre, including equipment, online platform and learning content (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£7,368 22/04/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£176,980 22/04/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to North Music Trust
£470 22/04/2021
Supporting the charity's purposes
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£875,000 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£7,397 14/01/2021
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£177,682 14/01/2021
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - supporting the charity's purposes
£472 14/01/2021
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - running costs for a children and young people’s music learning programme, promoting creativity, health and wellbeing
£6,000 22/10/2020
running costs for a children and young people’s music learning programme, promoting creativity, health and wellbeing
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£168,803 15/10/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£7,028 15/10/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£6,958 04/09/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£167,154 23/07/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£37,000 12/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£6,247 16/04/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£150,059 16/04/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
The Shears Foundation - North Music Trust
£10,000 15/04/2020
CoMusica, Sage Gatehead's Music for Social Impact programme
DCMS - Sage Gateshead NPO Application
£3,576,745 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more
DCMS - North Music Trust Culture Recovery Fund
£1,800,000 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
DCMS - In Harmony (DfE)
£79,166 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund November 2020
£1,000,000 01/04/2020
The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more
Youth Music - Sound It Out
£30,000 06/03/2020
Sound It Out
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£179,391 22/01/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - supporting the charity's purposes
£7,468 22/01/2020
supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Quarterly Grant
£180,097 04/09/2019
Quarterly Grant
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Supporting the charity's purposes
£184,748 10/08/2019
Supporting the charity's purposes
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Supporting the charity's purposes
£185,142 03/07/2019
Supporting the charity's purposes
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£100,000 25/04/2019
towards capital works to increase income generation and enhance programming
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead 2019 Out of School Activity
£8,000 27/03/2019
In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead 2019 Out of School Activity
Youth Music - Loud & Clear: Keep on Moving
£30,000 08/03/2019
Loud & Clear: Keep on Moving
National Lottery Community Fund - Well Tuned Gateshead
£96,516 21/02/2019
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Well Tuned Gateshead
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Quarterly Grant
£170,214 08/01/2019
Quarterly Grant
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Donation
£177,000 04/04/2018
Donation
Youth Music - Loud & Clear Early Years Move On Up
£30,000 09/03/2018
Loud & Clear Early Years Move On Up
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Donation
£189,325 10/02/2018
Donation
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Donation
£195,103 07/02/2018
Donation
Youth Music - CoMusica Inclusion
£159,949 19/01/2018
CoMusica Inclusion
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£50,000 04/12/2017
Concert hall refurbishment
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£210,000 12/09/2017
36
Towards a project that works with regional and national partners to develop improved pathways and progression routes in music education for children and young people in the North East.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - North Music Trust
£4,000 12/02/2017
To sponsor participation in the School of System Change pilot programme.
Youth Music - Community Music Spark: Artistic Development and Practitioner Training (CMS ADAPT)
£29,465 02/12/2016
Community Music Spark: Artistic Development and Practitioner Training (CMS ADAPT)
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to North Music Trust
£65,000 21/03/2016
Pass It On - The Tradition in Your Hands
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - North Music Trust
£72,000 01/03/2016
An assembly performance responding to local issues, culminating in a large-scale festival production in November 2016, testing how arts and sports organisations can work together for social benefits. ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Sage Gateshead
£150,000 01/07/2009
35
Towards Project costs Towards the costs over three years of delivering the Community Music Trainee and Apprentice programme to nurture promising music leaders.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (16)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 14/16 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 24-72
  • MIKE BARKER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Strategic Director
  • RUTH LYON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Musician
  • EMILY COX MBE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director Of Public Affairs
  • JANE SPIERS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Chief Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/07/2001, number: 1087445
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/08/2000, number: 04044936
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • 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
  • 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; AR18: 9 days late,
Main office

The Glasshouse
International Centre for Music
St Mary's Square
GATESHEAD
Tyne And Wear
NE8 2JR

Objectives

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION IN MUSIC AND THE ARTS IN GENERAL PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, THROUGH THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE SAGE GATESHEAD BUILDING, MUSICAL ENSEMBLES AND ORCHESTRAS, PROGRAMMES OF THE FOLK AND TRADITIONAL ARTS, CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND BY ANY OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE NORTHERN REGION (SEE OBJECTS FOR DETAILS)

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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