Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 7

Spending declining: -1
Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 4

COMA (CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR ALL)

Promotes and provides opportunities for amateur musicians to be involved in the creation and performance of contemporary music

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
Spending is declining
Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

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		£60	£59	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/22?		£123	£101	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/12/20		£101	£102	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/12/19		£50	£50	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/12/18	*	£123	£129	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	28
31/12/17		£137	£121	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£163	£160	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£101	£96	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£116	£116	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£91	£89	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12		£52	£55	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£57	£59	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£64	£67	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09		£56	£69	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£119	£104	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07		£104	£96	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06	*	£109	£109	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05	*	£140	£129	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	*	£140	£144	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 26 years

www.coma.org

INFO@COMA.ORG

07923 896644

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
30 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
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£10,000	29/11/2022	towards general ongoing costs during the next 12 months
Youth Music - My Sounds
£15,126	25/06/2021	My Sounds
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000	20/09/2019	towards the 2020 Festival of Contemporary Music for All (not the Development Manager salary)

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-48

ALEXANDER CHARLES WRIGHT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of Development

DR ANTONY HARRIS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Lecturer

ROISIN ELIZABETH HUGHES Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Fundraiser

RUTA VITKAUSKAITE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Composer

VIJAYA GOVINDAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: None, Other trusteeship: THELMA MATILDA ALVES FOUNDATION,

MARC DOOLEY Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Publisher

TOM SERVICE (Chair) Appointed: 2009, Occupation: Journalist

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/01/1998, number: 1067282
Registered at Companies House on 05/09/1997, number: 03429608

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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR18: 50 days late, AR06: 72 days late, AR05: 22 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
327 MILE END ROAD
LONDON
E1 4NS

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE ART OF MUSIC, IN PARTICULAR TO ENCOURAGE AMATEUR MUSICIANS TO TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC-MAKING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

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