Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

NORTH YORKSHIRE MUSIC THERAPY CENTRE

North Yorkshire Music Therapy Centre provides a community-based service to help families whose lives are affected by illness or disability. Music Therapy involves active music making as a means of improving physical, psychological and emotional functioning. The charity also provides information, further education, presentations/workshops and a programme of cultural events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple 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 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
31/12/23£123£146£-24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£135£118£17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£93£96£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£91£83£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£44£98£-54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£40£60£-20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£32£36£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£64£36£28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£47£38£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£46£41£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£35£39£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£40£41£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£59£72£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£74£80£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/09£71£79£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/08£94£81£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/07£240£83£157n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/06£91£81£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£75£72£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£71£74£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 35 years

www.music-therapy.org.uk

enquiries@music-therapy.org.uk

01653 628725

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Outpatient support services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • City Of York, North Yorkshire,
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
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,590
Two Ridings Community Foundation£16,500
The Foyle Foundation£6,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£4,600
Sir George Martin Trust£3,000
Co-Operative Group£2,724
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 06/11/2023
24
Growing and Developing Music Therapy Service
National Lottery Community Fund - Music Therapy & Mental Health
£9,600 28/10/2022
The funding will be used to continue and develop the groups delivery of weekly music therapy sessions for elderly people living with Dementia and adults with mental ill health. The project aims to reduce loneliness and improve health and wellbeing.
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Staff salaries
£25,000 27/08/2022
The funding supported our staff to provide therapy in our community, enabling expansion of our work and helping us plan for the future.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 22/07/2022
Core support for Music Therapy Development
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Sing and Sign Inclusive Choir
£5,500 11/02/2022
Funding for overheads, staff, equipment costs for a music therapy programme. This programme will engage children and young people, with and without special needs, in an inclusive choir in order to improve their mental health, emotional resilience, ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to North Yorkshire Music Therapy Centre
£4,600 03/11/2021
purchase IT equipment for charity supporting people with disabilties in York
Co-Operative Group - Grant to North Yorkshire Music Therapy Centre
£2,724 23/10/2021
We would bring people together through music and music-making - from babes in the womb to individuals at the end of life. We would provide a safe environment for expression and communication.
National Lottery Community Fund - Music therapy in the community: recovery and growth
£9,990 27/08/2021
The funding will be used to support core staff costs to allow the group to deliver music therapy activities to people with a range of needs. The project aims to allow the group to provide post covid community based support and improve wellbeing and ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to North Yorkshire Music Therapy Centre
£3,000 07/07/2021
Core costs for Older People's Welfare
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£6,000 11/02/2021
towards core costs, primarily towards the salary costs of music therapy staff (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£10,000 16/07/2020
Funding to support the core costs of the organisation which has faced a significant loss in income. The funding will provide 82 sessions and enable the organisation to get up and running immediately in September with delivering face-to-face sessions ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£1,000 23/04/2020
Funding to 1) provide 4 free online workshop/music therapy sessions and 2) to maintain the premises (rent). Sessions aimed at parents and provide home based family activities. Clients are distressed families who mostly live in isolation.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

  • ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM DICKSON Appointed: 2022
  • BERNADETTE MARIE CULLEN Appointed: 2023
  • CHRISTINE LOUGHRAN HINES Appointed: 2022
  • DR NICHOLAS VAVASOR HAMMOND Appointed: 2016
  • JO DANISCHEWSKY (Chair) Appointed: 2016
  • SUE HOGGETT Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/02/1990, number: 702533
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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

The Byre
Unit 4
Wath Court
Hovingham
YORK
YO62 4NN

Objectives

1. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS GENERALLY. 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER TH E AGE OF 18 YEARS SUFFERING FROM MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPING ILLNESSES WHO ARE IN NEED OF EDUCATION SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR FULL CAPACITIES AND ENABLE THEM TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. FOR FULL DETAILS SEE CONSTITUTION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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