Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

MUSIC OF LIFE FOUNDATION 

MUSIC OF LIFE FOUNDATION OFFERS HIGH-QUALITY MUSICAL TRAINING AND PERFORMING OPPORTUNITIES TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE AND MEDICAL CONDITIONS. IT PROVIDES ACCESS TO ALL ITS EVENTS INCLUDING ADAPTED TRANSPORT AND CARERS. ITS FOCUS IS ON DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXTREMELY LIMITED OR NO ACCESS TO MUSIC-MAKING.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • 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
Established: 20 years

musicoflife.org.uk

mofl@mofl.co.uk

02078135472

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UN SDGs
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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£212£235£-23n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/12/21£163£173£-9n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/12/20£152£141£11n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/12/19£208£122£86n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/12/18£125£136£-12£0£0£0n/a01
31/12/17£107£106£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£86£90£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£94£73£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£79£77£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£102£61£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£59£63£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£83£78£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£83£116£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£114£83£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£82£78£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07*£39£28£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06?*£94£102£-9£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/05£36£36£0£0£0£0n/a00
30/11/04£24£24£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
City Bridge Trust£288,200
John Lyon's Charity£64,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£30,000
The Foyle Foundation£20,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
The London Community Foundation£10,000
Co-Operative Group£2,519
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Music of Life
£254,400 12/12/2022
60
£254,400 over five years (£47,150; £49,550; £51,000; £52,600; £54,100) towards the Music for Deaf Children and teacher training programmes in London.
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Music of Life
£4,000 05/12/2022
Cost-of-Living Uplift
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Music of Life
£2,519 22/10/2022
We would like to enable 70 disabled children at Selly Oak School to have a year of weekly fabulous music-making opportunities culminating in a celebration concert in Birmingham Town Hall in June 2022.
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 23/05/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
National Lottery Community Fund - Special needs school choirs in Birmingham
£10,000 14/01/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a community music concert which will bring together children with physical and learning disabilities and their families. The project aims to positively impact ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£20,000 03/12/2021
towards core costs of music provision in SEND schools
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Music of Life
£10,000 12/02/2021
4
The funding is for bespoke online music-making workshops for SEND schools and specialist individual online lessons for disabled children living in London whilst schools are remote teaching
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Music of Life
£33,800 08/05/2020
A grant of £33,800 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to musicoflife.org.uk
£30,000 12/03/2020
36
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Music of Life
£60,000 11/03/2020
36
Provision of specialist music training in schools for Deaf children
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Music of Life
£75,000 04/04/2019
36
Access to Music-Making Opportunities for disabled children and young people in London through provision of school workshops, lessons and inclusive community concerts - supporting the positive ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Inclusive singing workshops for three special needs schools
£1,000 14/11/2018
Towards inclusive singing workshops for three special needs schools in the West Midlands.
True Colours Trust - Towards the costs of its specialist music workshops in 2018/19.
£5,000 18/10/2018
Towards the costs of its specialist music workshops in 2018/19.
National Lottery Community Fund - Special needs workshops and concert
£10,000 28/02/2018
12
A music concert will be funded to feature children and young people with physical and learning disabilities. This will build confidence, challenge stereotypes and showcase their work and skills.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Music of Life Foundation
£60,000 14/06/2017
36
Project providing 1:1 music training to up to 60 students with special needs in Camden. Outcomes are to improve academic performance, improve communication and confidence and to improve technical ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Music of Life Foundation
£60,000 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of the Chief Executive at a project providing support through music to children and young people with disabilities and special needs throughout ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Music of Life Foundation
£45,000 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' salary of the Chief Executive of an organisation that works throughout the UK to support children and young people with disabilities and special needs to develop their musical ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 29-77
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/03/2004, number: 1102827
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/11/2003, number: 04963498
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR07: 14 days late, AR06: 196 days late,
Main office

54 Portland Place
LONDON
W1B 1DY

Objectives

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF DISABLED CHILDREN IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC BY:-I) PROVIDING ACCESS TO FACILITIES FOR STUDY, FOR CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS TO BOTH STANDARD AND CREATIVE ORGANISATIONS, ON EQUAL TERMS WITH OTHER CHILDREN;II) THE ORGANISATION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL EVENTS, COMPETITIONS AND CONCERTS IN WHICH DISABLED CHILDREN CAN PARTICIPATE THUS HELPING THEM TO REALISE THEIR POTENTIAL; ANDIII) SUPPORTING RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN INTO THE EDUCATIONAL AND THERAPEUTIC USE OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC FOR THE BENEFIT OF DISABLED CHILDREN.3.2 ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ABOVE-MENTIONED PURPOSES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF DISABLED CHILDREN THROUGH THE USE OF THE ART OF MUSIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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