Finance Score: -6

Governance Score: 2

Support Score: 7

Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 3

MUSIC FOR CHANGE

Music for Change is an educational arts organisation that aims to promote public participation in music and the arts and equal access to music and the arts. Working with highly skilled and dedicated artists from around the world, we promote awareness, understanding and respect for cultural diversity through music and the performing arts.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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
31/12/22		£101	£114	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/12/21		£64	£96	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/12/20		£166	£134	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	2
31/12/19		£163	£165	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/12/18		£175	£169	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	8
31/12/17		£179	£168	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£145	£131	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£110	£130	£-20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£136	£127	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£139	£142	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12		£136	£147	£-11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£151	£146	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£306	£421	£-115	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£413	£394	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£402	£426	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07	*	£468	£432	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£371	£349	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£308	£335	£-28	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£318	£344	£-26	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 27 years

www.musicforchange.org

info@musicforchange.org

01227459243

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£60,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£20,000
Sport England	£8,600
CAF	£4,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Music for Change: music & dance for Age UK Thanet
£10,000	29/06/2023	The funding will be used to run a weekly music and dance session for the older people in the community. The project aims to reduce loneliness and isolation improving mental and physical well being
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£50,000	13/12/2021	This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted ....more This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted all other options for increasing their resilience.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000	05/10/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
CAF - Grant to Music for Change
£4,000	28/05/2020 3	Grant to Music for Change to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Margate Music Festival for Young People
£10,000	19/09/2019 12	Margate Music Festival for Young People
Sport England - Dance across the world
£8,600	06/08/2019 9	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Dance across the world. This project is a Movement & Dance project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a ....more Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Dance across the world. This project is a Movement & Dance project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Community choir in Thanet
£1,000	14/11/2018	Towards the costs of a community choir in Thanet.
National Lottery Community Fund - Cliftonville Community Singers
£10,000	09/08/2018 12	The funding will be used to run a local community choir. The project aims to bring together a diverse community and tackle issues of isolation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Music for Change
£2,863	29/11/2017	We want to run a music-making group for homeless and vulnerable people to help improve well-being and skills.
Youth Music - Musical Margate
£30,000	17/11/2017	Musical Margate
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Music for All
£10,000	18/01/2017 12	A fortnightly community music group will be set up with this funding. This will benefit local disadvantaged people with a wide range of issues, including those who are vulnerable and isolated.
National Lottery Community Fund - Canterbury Goes Global with Music for Change!
£10,000	11/11/2016 12	This project will host workshops and a celebratory event for Canterbury communtiies. This will help the organisation to teach and stage a wide variety of music and dance from across the world ending ....more This project will host workshops and a celebratory event for Canterbury communtiies. This will help the organisation to teach and stage a wide variety of music and dance from across the world ending in a parade through the city centre.
National Lottery Community Fund - Porchlight Community Singing Group
£10,000	12/11/2014 12	Not Available

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-62

MINA PAULINE CULLIMORE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Research Fellow, Educator, Artist

DOUGLAS NOBLE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Manager

ROSS EVANS (Chair), Occupation: Community Teacher

TIMOTHY HENRY CRONIN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Self Employed

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 31/07/1997, number: 1063706
Registered at Companies House on 25/03/1997, number: 03339187

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR07: 19 days late,

Main office

Music for Change
77 Stour Street
Canterbury
CT1 2NR

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS BY THE PROVISION OF MUSICAL FACILITIES, TRAINING AND PERFORMANCES

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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