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Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

FUSION PLUS

Fusion Plus provide music making activities for young people who might not otherwise have the opportunity. We aim to access and engage young people through music.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • 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
31/03/23£173£141£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£150£169£-19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£96£123£-26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£153£139£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/19£162£132£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£66£108£-42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£111£111£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£169£133£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£169£133£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£124£136£-11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£113£133£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£171£169£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11?£246£245£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09*£213£143£70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 16 years

www.musicfusion.org.uk

info@musicfusion.org.uk

02392492373

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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 services
Where it operates
  • Hampshire, Portsmouth City,
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
Youth Music£206,710
The Blagrave Trust£61,500
National Lottery Community Fund£19,369
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Blagrave Trust - Regional Partnership Grants
£16,500 31/10/2023
Music Inclusion
Youth Music - Words Not Weapons – Mavericks 5
£29,974 07/03/2022
Words Not Weapons – Mavericks 5
The Blagrave Trust - Music Inclusion
£45,000 18/10/2021
Young leaders in music education
National Lottery Community Fund - Mavericks TV
£9,600 11/06/2021
The funding will be used to run a series of workshops to allow vulnerable young people experiencing challenging life circumstances to share their stories and help to engage positively in their communities.The project aims to build young people’s ....more
Youth Music - Music Lab
£148,260 27/05/2021
Music Lab
Youth Music - Mavericks 4
£28,476 12/03/2021
Mavericks 4
National Lottery Community Fund - Mavericks TV
£9,769 03/04/2020
12
The organisation will use the funding to run a series of workshops giving young people from youth offender groups the chance to share their stories and engage positively in their communities. The project aims to build strong relationships bring ....more
Youth Music - Words Not Weapons' presents 'Mavericks 3'
£28,340 23/10/2019
Words Not Weapons' presents 'Mavericks 3'
National Lottery Community Fund - The Kickstarter Sessions
£5,367 25/10/2018
12
The organisation will run music based sessions to improve the skills, personal and emotional development of young people.
Youth Music - Music Lab
£148,956 11/05/2018
Music Lab
Youth Music - Mavericks 2
£24,242 09/03/2018
Mavericks 2
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/03/2018
Music Fusion Lounges
National Lottery Community Fund - Music Fusion
£5,236 26/07/2017
12
This project will run creative, music based sessions for young people in challenging circumstances, helping them to overcome various issues.
Youth Music - Music Mavericks
£19,952 21/04/2016
Music Mavericks
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 25-66
  • ALAN TAIT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Lecturer In Strategic Thinking
  • DEBORAH BARTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
  • ELEANOR WEST-THOMAS Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Express Fm
  • IAN PIPER Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Management Consultant
  • KERRY LOADER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Family Support Worker
  • MICHAEL BUCHAN (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Lecturer
  • ROBYN COLLETT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Nursery Teacher
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/03/2009, number: 1128586
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/12/2008, number: 06778249
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR09: 16 days late,
Main office

HAVANT ARTS CENTRE
OLD TOWN HALL
56 EAST STREET
HAVANT
PO9 1BS

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF MUSIC AND RELATED ACTIVITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS2 TO ADVANCE THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ASSIST YOUNG PEOPLE, IN MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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