Overall GiG Score: 20 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

GOOD VIBRATIONS (MUSIC) LIMITED 

1. The advancement of education and mental health, in particular but not limited to Indonesian performing arts as a tool to promote, improve, and develop communication skills, teamwork, and creative learning in prisons and other institutions. 2. The promotion of Indonesian classical music, dance, singing and shadow puppetry and related art forms.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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: 15 years

http://www.good-vibrations.org.uk/

info@good-vibrations.org.uk

07791 293352

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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£288£316£-27n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/22£312£298£14n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/21£265£253£13n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/20£300£278£22n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/19£211£221£-11n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/18£204£208£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£185£201£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£213£154£59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£132£175£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£206£235£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£222£225£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£238£199£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£214£221£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£269£198£71£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 4 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

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
Henry Smith Charity£65,000
National Lottery Community Fund£40,146
The Bromley Trust£40,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
BBC Children in Need£14,486
CAF£4,954
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Good Vibrations community gamelan project
£40,146 28/02/2022
This project will use the funding to deliver creative musical activity centred on the gamelan Indonesian tuned percussion orchestra to people who have disabilities and complex mental health needs ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Good Vibrations
£65,000 10/02/2022
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Loophole Music' project, supporting patients experiencing severe mental ill-health at Bethlem Royal Hospital, in the London Borough of Bromley.
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£30,000 17/01/2022
Good Vibrations is a national charity using communal music-making to support people in challenging circumstances with additional needs. This is a three year grant restricted to their work delivering ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Good Vibrations (Music) Ltd.
£14,486 30/07/2021
This project will deliver music courses for children and young people who are experiencing serious mental illness. The activities will result in reduced anxiety, improved confidence and develop an ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 16/07/2021
Good Vibrations
The Bromley Trust - Restricted to Gamelan music workshops in prisons
£10,000 18/01/2021
12
Good Vibrations is a national charity using communal music-making to support people in challenging circumstances with additional needs. This is a one year grant restricted to their work delivering ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000 19/10/2020
Core costs
CAF - Grant to Good Vibrations
£4,954 18/06/2020
3
Grant to Good Vibrations to support the organisation through COVID19
Woodward Charitable Trust - Music project where offenders learn the gamelan
£500 02/04/2019
Towards the costs of a music project where offenders learning to play the gamelan orchestra and perform for their families.
National Lottery Community Fund - Keluarga
£211,000 07/03/2019
60
Keluarga
Youth Music - Mengatasi
£95,295 16/11/2018
Mengatasi
Maudsley Charity - Loophole Music, a therapeutic music group at Bethlem Royal Hospital
£42,000 01/08/2018
35
Loophole Music is a therapeutic music group that provides stimulation and a safe space for self-expression for patients at Bethlem Royal Hospital. Through weekly communal music-making sessions, using ....more
The Bromley Trust - Restricted to Gamelan music workshops in prisons
£30,000 17/01/2018
36
Good Vibrations is a national charity using communal music-making to support people in challenging circumstances with additional needs. This is a three year grant restricted to their work delivering ....more
Youth Music - Kerjasama
£84,572 27/04/2016
Kerjasama
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Good Vibrations
£93,000 03/12/2015
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of the 'Gamelan Music Project', working with offenders, those at risk of offending, substance misusers, and other vulnerable groups from ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Good Vibrations
£42,520 23/09/2015
£42,520 over 2 years (£23,520; £19,000) towards music-making sessions for forensic patients at the Royal Bethlem Hospital in Bromley.
National Lottery Community Fund - Developing & expanding Good Vibrations in prisons and secure hospitals
£200,000 13/07/2011
60
This continuing project will work to rehabilitate and reduce the risk of reoffending of prisoners and secure hospital patients through musical intervention work. The course will work towards ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Good Vibrations
£60,000 05/05/2011
Towards core costs to expand its music education work in prisons and secure hospitals, helping people develop crucial life and work skills and increasing their motivation to engage positively with ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 30-63
  • CAROLYN HENDRY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Concert & Planning Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/10/2008, number: 1126493
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/08/2008, number: 06683343
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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; all on time
Main office

First Floor
10 Queen Street Place
LONDON
EC4R 1BE

Objectives

1 ) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND MENTAL HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITEDTO INDONESIAN PERFORMING ARTS AS A TOOL TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE, AND DEVELOPCOMMUNICATION SKILLS, TEAMWORK, AND CREATIVE LEARNING IN PRISONS AND OTHERINSTITUTIONS;2 ) THE PROMOTION OF INDONESIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC, DANCE, SINGING AND SHADOWPUPPETRY AND RELATED ART FORMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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