Overall GiG Score: -6 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2

SING FOR YOUR LIFE (SOUTH EAST) LTD 

Sing for your Life (South East) Ltd is dedicated to providing participatory singing programmes for older people. We provide the Silver Song Music Pod, which plugs in to a television. We have recorded original versions of popular songs from the past, which exclude long introductions and instrumental solos. The equipment enables us to alter the key and the tempo of the songs to suit the singers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static and has little diversity in terms of age

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 and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 7 years

www.singforyourlife.org.uk

pip@singforyourlife.org.uk

07799646675

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
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
17/02/23*£6£9£-3n/an/an/an/an/a0
17/02/22£7£11£-4n/an/an/an/an/a0
17/02/21£16£8£8n/an/an/an/an/a0
17/02/20£16£8£8n/an/an/an/an/a0
17/02/19£4£2£2n/an/an/an/an/a0
17/02/18£11£12£-1£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bracknell Forest, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, Suffolk, West Berkshire, Windsor And Maidenhead, Wokingham,

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
HM Revenue & Customs - SME Brexit Support Fund
£2,000 23/06/2021
Funding provided for Professional Advice Grant
National Lottery Community Fund - The Great Care Home Singalong
£9,500 14/05/2021
The funding will be used to provide participatory singing for care home residents in Southwark with dementia and other vulnerable adults using an online music box developed by the main charity group. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Great Care Home Singalong
£7,800 06/06/2019
12
The organisation will use the funding to pilot a new tablet based product to enable the running of improved singing sessions for older people in care homes across the area.
National Lottery Community Fund - Suffolk Silver Song Project
£10,000 06/07/2016
12
This organisation will use the funding to set up groups in care homes and support living centres for older people to take part in singing. This will enable the organisation to provide an engaging and ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 57-58
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/02/2017, number: 1171611
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/02/2016, number: 10014027
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR23: 32 days late,
Main office

3 Autumn Close
Emmer Green
READING
RG4 8UL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DETERMINED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON PARTICIPANT MUSIC PROGRAMMES DEVELOPED BY THE SIDNEY DE HAAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ARTS AND HEALTH.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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