Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

JOY OF SOUND (JOS) 

Provision of inclusive and accesible music and arts workshops , activities and equipment
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very 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 well diversified in terms of age and gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

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: 16 years

www.joyofsound.org

info@joyofsound.org

07866139692

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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£45£22£23n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/22£17£26£-8n/an/an/an/an/a34
31/03/21£45£34£11n/an/an/an/an/a34
31/03/20*£38£32£6n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/19£27£23£3n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£31£19£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£30£29£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£60£49£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£44£39£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£46£37£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£34£30£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£29£27£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£22£21£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£38£38£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Hackney, Kensington And Chelsea, Lambeth,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 35 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£48,620
National Lottery Community Fund£29,318
DCMS£7,629
Walcot Foundation£5,713
The Foyle Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Continuing Delivery of Inclusive Therapeutic Zoom Sessions
£9,965 27/01/2023
The funding will be used to deliver online therapeutic sessions for vulnerable people with complex needs. The project aims to improve mental health confidence and reduce feelings of isolation.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Joy Of Sound (JOS)
£48,620 13/03/2022
£48,620 over 5 years (£9,416; £9,568; £9,668; £9,984; £9,984) towards inclusive combined arts for health and wellbeing and seated yoga sessions for disabled and elderly people in Lambeth, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - JOS’s Inclusive Therapeutic Zoom Sessions
£9,656 19/02/2021
8
The funding will be used to therapeutic Zoom sessions for people facing social and economic isolation due to the covid-19 pandemic. The project aims to generate a variety of wellbeing outcomes ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 11/02/2021
towards core costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,629 25/09/2020
"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
Walcot Foundation - COVID19 - Music for Disabled Residents
£5,713 05/06/2020
12
This project will deliver Joy of Sound music and wellbeing services to low income Lambeth residents in two residential homes and two day cantres. The participants are profoundly and multiply ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - JOS Social Prescribing Platform
£9,697 12/09/2019
12
The project will use its funding to employ extra staff and train volunteers to support people living with mental ill health and disabilities.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Joy Of Sound (JOS)
£6,662 30/08/2018
£6,662 to purchase new or up-cycled music instruments based on traditional folk Krar (lyre/harp), workshops and associated project costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Equal Rights, Real Inclusion
£9,824 06/12/2017
12
This project will provide volunteering opportunities for people with disabilities, along with workshops and an event to showcase their creative work in music and art activities. This will help to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Joy of Sound 2014-2015 Inclusive Project Development and Roll-Out
£10,000 07/05/2014
12
Not Available
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Joy of Sound (JOS)
£33,000 28/08/2013
The charity works across London engaging with people with physical and learning disability through music and performing arts. The funding will allow the charity to continue its work particularly ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Joyofsound(JOS) 2012-2013 Towards Inclusive Sustainability
£10,000 23/08/2012
12
This is a project by a charity in Lambeth. The group will use the funding to produce promotional materials, for volunteer skills training and intergenerational workshops. This will increase the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-75
  • HUGH AYNSLEY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Teaching Assistant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/10/2008, number: 1126361
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/10/2007, number: 06403192
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR20: 8 days late, AR10: 24 days late,
Main office

48 Larner Road
ERITH
Kent
DA8 3RD

Objectives

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN MUSIC AND CREATIVE ARTS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE SOCIAL INCLUSION AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF PERSONS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AS A RESULT OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, AGE, SEX, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE.TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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