Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

ANNIE MAWSON'S SUNBEAMS MUSIC TRUST

To relieve sickness and assist in the remedial treatment of children and adults suffering from physical, emotional, psychological or other mental health problems by the provision of Community Music Therapy, and to provide introductory Music Therapy Training to individuals working with such persons.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • 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:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £819,646 available, equivalent to 30 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding

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
31/05/23£577£329£248£16£2,980£82029.9620
31/05/22£301£345£-44n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/21£294£311£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/20£441£392£49n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/19£392£332£61n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/18£305£368£-63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/17£533£356£177£19£2,810£501.740
31/05/16£1,483£227£1,255£23£2,614£552.940
31/05/15£974£219£756£16£1,358£532.950
31/05/14£526£292£234£18£602£381.650
31/05/13£359£240£119n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/12£274£217£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/11£223£213£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/10£362£337£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/09£201£255£-54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/08£386£177£209n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 4.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 0%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 28%
Reserves/Spending: 29.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 30 months
Quick Ratio: 74
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 18 years

www.sunbeamsmusic.org

mail@sunbeamsmusic.org

01768892909

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

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
National Lottery Community Fund£278,614
DCMS£74,081
CAF£6,000
Cumbria Community Foundation£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cumbria Community Foundation - Sunbeams Music For Dignity®
£2,000 21/02/2023
11
Sunbeams Music For Dignity®
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Grant to Annie Mawson's Sunbeams Music Trust
£3,000 02/02/2023
General charitable objects
Cumbria Community Foundation - Winter Warm Spot
£1,000 03/11/2022
5
Winter Warm Spot
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Sunbeams
£258,831 17/08/2022
The funding will be used to digitally deliver music for life to young adults with severe learning and physical disabilities living in South Lakes Eden Carlisle and Allerdale.Sunbeams are a non for profit Charity registered organisation who aim to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunbeams Outside Music
£9,800 25/02/2022
The funding will be used to make improvements to their ‘Sunbeams Sensory Garden’ and install a canopy benches outdoor musical instruments and sculpture for disadvantaged children/young people with a wide range of learning and physical ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sunbeams
£2,751 23/10/2021
We would like to record music workshops on our YouTube channel for the community. It would alleviate loneliness and improve the wellbeing of children with complex needs and the elderly with dementia.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£19,256 24/06/2020
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 and small organisations who can provide an ....more
CAF - Grant to Annie Mawson's Sunbeams Music Trust
£6,000 11/06/2020
3
Grant to Annie Mawson's Sunbeams Music Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
DCMS - Sunbeams Music Trust Culture Recovery
£54,825 01/04/2020
To support Arts and Culture throughout England
National Lottery Community Fund - The Sunbeams Divas
£9,983 03/03/2020
6
This project will provide adults with severe learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities the music sessions and create their own songs. The project aims to reduce discrimination and social exclusion.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sunbeams " Music for Dignity - Songs and Scones."
£3,141 15/11/2019
We want to deliver 50 music and dance sessions to 60 elderly people with dementia and Alzheimer's, followed by a community tea with scones.
National Lottery Community Fund - "Sound Gazing at Sunbeams"
£231,000 22/11/2018
36
"Sound Gazing at Sunbeams"
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - to create a 'musical orchard'
£2,768 03/11/2017
to create a 'musical orchard'
National Lottery Community Fund - REACHING ADOLESCENTS WITH COMPLEX MEDICAL NEEDS
£325,933 17/06/2015
36
This new project will deliver support in the form of music therapy to severely disabled adolescents aged 11-19 with multiple and complex needs across rurally isolated areas of Cumbria. The key aim is to provide the beneficiaries with the ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Annie Mawson's Sunbeams Music Trust
£25,000 05/12/2013
towards the building costs of a music therapy centre in Cumbria for adults with profound and severe learning disabilities
National Lottery Community Fund - Sunbeams Music for Dignity
£144,622 24/04/2012
24
The community-led initiative devised by older people from West Cumbria, aged 50-97 will form the 'Silver Liners', initially composed of 12 wheel-chair users, they will build-up their repertoire, guided by 2 professional 62 year-old Sunbeams ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Age Range of Trustees: 40-78
  • ISA HENDERSON Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired
  • IFEOLU OMONIYI AKINTUNDE
  • KAREN ADDISON Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Licensing Agent
  • LINDA ADDISON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Semi-Retired
  • REBECCA SEAGER BSC HONS, Occupation: Physiotherapist
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/12/2006, number: 1117159
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/04/2006, number: 05794153
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
  • 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
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

SUNBEAMS MUSIC CENTRE
Stoller House
Redhills Lane
Redhills
PENRITH
CA11 0DT

Objectives

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND ASSIST IN THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO ARE SUFFERING PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND MENTALLY BY THE PROVISION OF MUSIC THERAPY AND TO PROVIDE INTRODUCTORY MUSIC THERAPY TRAINING TO INDIVIDUALS WORKING WITH SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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