Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

EYE MUSIC TRUST 

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • 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 well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

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: 18 years

www.eyemusic.org.uk

admin@eyemusic.org.uk

02087639298

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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
31/03/23£355£373£-18n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£351£373£-22n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£296£203£93n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£322£287£35n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£279£294£-15n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£325£285£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£262£276£-14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£281£269£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£251£249£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£203£208£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£290£287£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£290£287£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£253£264£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£279£283£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£274£205£69£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08?£260£230£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

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
  • The General Public/Mankind

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£104,086
City Bridge Trust£73,825
Rothschild Foundation£14,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Eye Music Trust
£7,500 12/02/2023
We provide unique workshops in colour and music for all SN children ranging from those with Autism to the most disabled in the community where all participate/create regardless of disability.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Eye Music Trust
£6,500 12/02/2022
A two-part project: two-day Colourscape at Waddesdon including workshops for around 10 local Special Needs schools, plus a full-week of Colour/Music workshops at Booker Park Special Needs school.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Eye Music Trust
£66,500 14/05/2021
24
£66,500 over two further and final years (2 x £33,250) towards sessional staff, workshops, running costs and legacy training for the delivery of a mobile ‘Colourscape’ in SEN schools across ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Eye Music Trust
£7,325 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £7,325, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation's current grant.
DCMS - Eye Music Trust
£104,086 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Funding our Special Needs transport
£10,000 05/02/2020
1
The funding will be used to purchase a van which will the enable the group to continue offering therapeutic and creative sensory activities for children living with disabilities. The project aims to ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Eye Music Trust
£9,000 02/03/2018
purchase of specialist equipment for a charity which works with disabled people in London
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Eye Music Trust
£87,900 31/01/2018
36
£87,900 over three years (£29,300, £29,300, £29,300) towards the sessional staff, workshops, coordination and associated running costs to deliver a mobile"Colourscape" in Special ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 29-86
  • EDWIN ROXBURGH Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Head Of Composition Birmingham
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/03/2006, number: 1113190
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/05/2005, number: 05466017
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 charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR06: 40 days late,
Main office

30 Penwortham Road
SOUTH CROYDON
Surrey
CR2 0QS

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC PARTICULARLY BY:1. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS ESPECIALLY CONTEMPORARY MUSIC WITH VISUAL ARTS AND DRAMA;2. THE PROMOTION OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE HOLDING OF EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS; AND3. THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION AND PROMOTION OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN ARTISTS AND THE PUBLIC AT ALL LEVELS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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