Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 5

No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 8

MUSICAL KEYS

For the benefit to relieve people in need who are disadvantaged (whether through special or additional needs, dementia, communication disability, alcohol, substance abuse) by the provision of creative activities (including but not limited to music, drama and arts), an in connection with those activities to provide support and involvement for parents, guardians, siblings and carers.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

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: 11 years

www.musicalkeys.co.uk

info@musicalkeys.co.uk

01603766690

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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	£201	£176	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/22	£119	£103	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/21	£153	£97	£56	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20	£135	£116	£19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/19	£145	£120	£25	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/18	£119	£135	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£176	£159	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£150	£158	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£157	£159	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 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

Garfield Weston Foundation	£35,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£29,141
Charles Hayward Foundation	£3,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Core costs
£10,000	12/05/2023	The funding will be used to cover the running costs to continue providing inclusive music movement and arts based activities for people living with disabilities and/or mental ill health. The project ....more The funding will be used to cover the running costs to continue providing inclusive music movement and arts based activities for people living with disabilities and/or mental ill health. The project aims to develop people’s skills confidence and family relationships.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Musical Keys
£3,000	20/07/2022	Connect - In Time Together project for people living with dementia
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000	22/04/2022	Core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Musical Keys Core costs
£10,000	18/02/2022	The funding will be used to continue to provide inclusive music and art-based therapy for people of all ages living with disability and/or additional needs. The project aims to provide access to ....more The funding will be used to continue to provide inclusive music and art-based therapy for people of all ages living with disability and/or additional needs. The project aims to provide access to therapies that will enable participants to communicate and engage with families and carers and contribute towards improved mental and emotional wellbeing.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	04/12/2020	Core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting Communities
£9,141	07/08/2019 12	Connecting Communities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	15/07/2019	Core costs
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000	21/02/2018	Music, movement and arts activities for children, young people and adults with disabilities and/ or additional needs.
Youth Music - Equaliser
£25,890	21/04/2016	Equaliser

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISON MARY RIDLEY Appointed: 2018

AMANDA REYNOLDS Appointed: 2021

CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER TOWNDROW Appointed: 2021

GRAHAM JONES (Chair) Appointed: 2013

KATHRYN WRIGHT Appointed: 2017

LUCY CHILD Appointed: 2015

STEPHEN SHAW Appointed: 2020

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/05/2013, number: 1151915

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
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

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

MARTINEAU MEMORIAL HALL
21 COLEGATE
NORWICH
NR3 1BN

Objectives

For the public benefit to relieve people in need who are disadvantaged (whether through special or additional needs, dementia, communication disability, alcohol, substance abuse ) by the provision of creative activities (including but not limited to music, drama and arts), and in connection with those activities to provide support and involvement for parents, guardians, siblings and carers.

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