Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 9
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

MUSIC IN OUR BONES 

Offering harmony singing workshops targeting Family Carers and people with physical disabilities, dementia, and those managing mental health issues and long-term conditions such as Parkinsons, MS, and stroke recovery.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been 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 and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 8 years

www.musicinourbones.btck.co.uk

tracy.sharp43@ntlworld.com

07757809297

Charity Commission for England and WalesX
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
31/12/22£37£38£-1n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/12/21£53£39£14n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/12/20£33£36£-3n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/12/19*£41£42£-1n/an/an/an/an/a57
31/12/18£49£37£12£0£0£0n/a078
31/12/17£41£40£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£17£28£-11£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 12 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
Suffolk Community Foundation£51,561
National Lottery Community Fund£26,618
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
DCMS£3,840
Essex Community Foundation£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifting Spirits
£9,998 28/03/2023
The funding will be used to develop and sustain a singing group as well as to open the sessions up to provide refugee support. The project aims to engage with socially isolated individuals to improve ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifting Spirits
£7,750 28/10/2021
The funding will be used to deliver group singing sessions online to women in the community. The project aims to improve overall well-being and bring communities together.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Life force singing
£11,620 25/05/2021
10
To support the Life Force Singing Project.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Reaching Out In Song
£420 06/05/2021
Towards equipment to improve the quality and impact of their Zoom singing sessions.
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Music In Our Bones
£2,000 16/04/2021
to enable family carers and older people managing loneliness, grief, and long term illness access to continue to access singing opportunities in Lowestoft
Suffolk Community Foundation - Singing Communities
£20,000 22/03/2021
24
Towards two years' running costs of providing health and wellbeing focused singing groups for vulnerable people.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Music In Our Bones
£20,000 18/03/2021
24
towards two years' running costs of a project providing health and well-being focussed singing groups working with vulnerable people in Suffolk.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Reaching Out In Song
£5,000 18/02/2021
6
To continue the work of Music in Our Bones throughout the pandemic and beyond.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Covid pandemic singing outreach
£5,000 04/01/2021
2
Towards the Music In Our Bones Covid pandemic singing outreach.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£3,840 07/09/2020
"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
Suffolk Community Foundation - Music In Our Bones - all eight singing communities
£4,550 04/09/2020
4
To enable Music in Our Bones to expand their successful online/CD singing sessions for vulnerable people throughout the Covid 19 lockdown.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Music In Our Bones - all eight singing communities
£3,224 19/05/2020
2
To enable Music in Our Bones to expand on their successful online/CD singing sessions for vulnerable people throughout the Covid 19 lock down.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Music In Our Bones - all eight singing communities
£1,747 14/04/2020
To enable Music in Our Bones to continue to provide their 8 social singing activities throughout the lock down period. Covid19
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifting Spirits
£8,870 19/09/2019
12
Lifting Spirits
National Lottery Community Fund - Lifting Spirits
£6,815 23/08/2018
12
The organisation will use the funding to run singing sessions for women refugees in the area in order to help improve wellbeing and provide a social activity.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Running costs
£20,000 21/03/2018
24
Running costs for HeartSong singing sessions and dementia sessions
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Music In Our Bones
£20,000 14/03/2018
24
towards two years' running costs of health and wellbeing singing communities in Suffolk, working with family carers and older people
Suffolk Community Foundation - Musical Memories
£5,000 14/12/2017
11
Towards 22 singing sessions for people with dementia and their partners/carers.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Music In Our Bones
£8,000 20/03/2017
An award recognising collaborative work with organisations such as the Stroke Association.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/04/2016, number: 1166578
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
7 returns made; AR19: 11 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from IPSWICH AND DISTRICT STROKE CLUB on 03/11/2021
Main office

203 RANELAGH ROAD
IPSWICH
IP2 0AH

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AMATEUR SINGERS PRIMARILY IN SUFFOLK, OF ALL ABILITIES BY OFFERING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE TO SING WITH OTHERS, WITHOUT AN AUDITION OR FORMER EXPERIENCE OF CHORAL SINGING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR FAMILY CARERS AND FOR THOSE WITH A DISABILITY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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