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 ?

MUSICAL KEYS

For the benefit to relieve people in need who are disadvantaged (whether through special or additional needs, dementia, communication disability, alcohol, substance abuse) by the provision of creative activities (including but not limited to music, drama and arts), an in connection with those activities to provide support and involvement for parents, guardians, siblings and carers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received 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£231£210£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£201£176£25n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£119£103£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£153£97£56n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£135£116£19n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£119£135£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£176£159£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£150£158£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£157£159£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.musicalkeys.co.uk

info@musicalkeys.co.uk

01603766690

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old 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£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Core costs
£10,000 12/05/2023
The funding will be used to cover the running costs to continue providing inclusive music movement and arts based activities for people living with disabilities and/or mental ill health. The project aims to develop people’s skills confidence and ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Musical Keys
£3,000 20/07/2022
Connect - In Time Together project for people living with dementia
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 22/04/2022
24
Core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Musical Keys Core costs
£10,000 18/02/2022
The funding will be used to continue to provide inclusive music and art-based therapy for people of all ages living with disability and/or additional needs. The project aims to provide access to therapies that will enable participants to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 04/12/2020
Core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting Communities
£9,141 07/08/2019
12
Connecting Communities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 15/07/2019
Core costs
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 21/02/2018
Music, movement and arts activities for children, young people and adults with disabilities and/ or additional needs.
Youth Music - Equaliser
£25,890 21/04/2016
Equaliser
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ALISON MARY RIDLEY Appointed: 2018
  • AMANDA REYNOLDS (Chair) Appointed: 2021
  • CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER TOWNDROW Appointed: 2021
  • GRAHAM JONES Appointed: 2013
  • KATHRYN WRIGHT Appointed: 2017
  • LUCY CHILD Appointed: 2015
  • STEPHEN SHAW Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/05/2013, number: 1151915
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
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

MARTINEAU MEMORIAL HALL
21 COLEGATE
NORWICH
NR3 1BN

Objectives

For the public benefit to relieve people in need who are disadvantaged (whether through special or additional needs, dementia, communication disability, alcohol, substance abuse ) by the provision of creative activities (including but not limited to music, drama and arts), and in connection with those activities to provide support and involvement for parents, guardians, siblings and carers.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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