Overall GiG Score: -1 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 7
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

BALUJI MUSIC FOUNDATION LIMITED 

The main areas of activity this year saw the development of the Inner Vision Music Workshops for Visually Impaired people into 5 areas of London, and the National Tour of the Inner Vision Orchestra These activities have been celebrated in national and regional media including the BBC. The Orchestra and workshops were held under the direction of Baluji Shrivastav OBE, supported by Linda Shanson.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 3 trustees
  • 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
  • Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Established: 15 years

http://www.balujimusicfoundation.org/

info@balujimusicfoundation.org

07812590021

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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*£59£56£3n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/22£69£63£5n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21*£49£49£0n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/20*£42£27£15n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/19£83£89£-6n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/18£51£46£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£22£18£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£26£28£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£14£6£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£11£7£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£14£15£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12*£8£3£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£2£2£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 11 volunteers
Who it helps
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, India, Kent, Leeds City, Manchester City, Milton Keynes, Rochdale, Southampton City, Stoke-on-trent City, Throughout London, Wiltshire,

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£25,845
Vision Foundation£21,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Emergency Resource Support
£25,845 22/11/2021
This fund aims to provide emergency funding awards to culturally significant organisations that were financially sustainable before Covid-19 but are now at imminent risk of failure and have exhausted ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Inner Vision Orchestra Music Workshops for blind people
£10,000 09/04/2021
The group will use the funding to provide music activities for people who are blind. This will use music as a vehicle for engaging people in positive activities and reducing social isolation.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 17/07/2020
Baluji Music Foundation Core Costs
Vision Foundation - Inner Vision Orchestra
£15,000 04/03/2020
To increase employment opportunities for blind and visually impaired musicians by facilitating performances, recordings, and other activities through the Inner Vision Orchestra.
Vision Foundation - Innervision Orchestra Festival
£6,000 25/09/2019
11
To run music spotlight workshops for blind and partially sighted musicians in London as part of the 2020 inner vision orchestra festival.
Nesta - AC00884
£13,000 21/03/2019
12
Amplified programme grant to Baluji Music Foundation Grant Ref AC00884
National Lottery Community Fund - Blind communities join and move forward
£10,000 09/08/2018
12
The funding will be used to deliver music workshops to blind and visually impaired people. The project aims to address social isolation, increasing confidence, skills and employability.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Baluji Music Foundation
£9,700 11/01/2017
To capture on film the experiences of blind and visually impaired musicians in post-war London
National Lottery Community Fund - The colour of sound-inspiring blind and visually impaired to become mu
£10,000 28/07/2016
12
The group will use the funding to host community and school presentations to raise awareness of what visually impaired people can achieve, referencing the success of their blind orchestra. This will ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • MARK SWAN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/08/2009, number: 1130985
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/03/2008, number: 06538523
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR23: 15 days late, AR21: 65 days late, AR20: 24 days late, AR17: 26 days late, AR13: 51 days late, AR12: 5 days late, AR11: 2 days late,
Main office

33 Northolme Road
LONDON
N5 2UU

Objectives

1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN TRADITIONAL, CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY INDIA MUSIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT2 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED PEOPLE THROUGH THE ACCESS TO ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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