Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 2

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 6

THE AMBER TRUST

The charity helps blind or partially sighted children, including those with additional disabilities, who have a talent or a love for music. The AMBER Music Awards were established to enable these children to nurture this talent by accessing the music that can transform their lives.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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	£349	£401	£-52	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/22	£300	£304	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11
31/03/21	£400	£267	£133	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/20	£329	£339	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/19	£223	£318	£-96	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/18	£305	£209	£96	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£217	£176	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£181	£107	£73	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£100	£118	£-19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£64	£113	£-49	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£92	£117	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£65	£90	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£160	£103	£56	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£208	£126	£82	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£58	£76	£-18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£41	£45	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£154	£67	£87	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£34	£38	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£24	£13	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£15	£30	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 29 years

www.ambertrust.org

contact@ambertrust.org

03003239964

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Services for people with disabilities

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Provides services

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Vision Foundation - Music Makers Workshop for Schools
£13,560	04/03/2020	To run Music Makers workshops for blind and partially sighted young people with additional disabilities at Linden Lodge School in Wandsworth and Joseph Clarke School in Waltham Forest.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-76

CHUNWAI SHUM Appointed: 2023, Occupation: N/A

EKENTA NIMI VICTORIA ORUWARI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Freelance Classical Singer

VERONICA RUTH GOULD Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Arts For Brain Health Consultant. Biographer

ANN FIONA COSTA Appointed: 2013, Occupation: None, Other trusteeship: THE COSTA FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST,

ANGELICA MARIA LEE BOMFORD Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Communications And Content Manager

PROFESSOR GEORGE ADAM OCKELFORD (Chair) Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Professor Of Music, Other trusteeships: LIVE MUSIC NOW LIMITED, SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION, MUSIC AND PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH, SOUNDS OF INTENT,

SIMON ROBERT VINCENT Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Business Executive, Other trusteeship: SOUNDS OF INTENT,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/11/1995, number: 1050503
Registered at Companies House on 25/10/1995, number: 03117803

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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

20 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from PETERSHAM FESTIVAL on 04/11/2019

Main office

64A PRINCES WAY
LONDON
SW19 6JF

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND WELL-BEING OF BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, INCLUDING THOSE WITH ADDITIONAL DISABILITIES, TO SUPPORT AND ENHANCE THEIR LIVES, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) THROUGH SUPPORTING THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH MUSIC, PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY MUSIC PROVISION FOR THEM AND UNDERTAKING OR SUPPORTING RELEVANT RESEARCH. NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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