Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 11

GREENWICH MUSIC SCHOOL

Greenwich Music School is a centre of excellence in music education, delivering lessons to children and adults through a range of instrument and voice lessons, group courses and ensembles, an early years department, professional training and special projects. GMS delivers training for music teachers, and advocates for the value of learning music.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
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

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
31/08/22	£382	£388	£-6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/21	£305	£284	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/08/20	£243	£217	£26	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/19	£213	£198	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/18	£96	£109	£-13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

https://greenwichmusicschool.org.uk

info@greenwichmusicschool.org.uk

02083051286

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Early years interventions

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

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

City Bridge Trust	£19,069
The Foyle Foundation	£18,000
Youth Music	£9,707
Co-Operative Group	£3,347

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Greenwich Music School
£3,347	22/10/2022	We'd like to support more young people from Greenwich and surrounding areas in financial hardship. Our aim is to provide access to high quality music education through our Bursary support scheme.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£18,000	16/09/2021	towards core costs to enable continued provision of music learning opportunities in deprived areas of Greenwich, Lewisham & South East London (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Greenwich Music School
£19,069	05/06/2020	£19,069 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Youth Music - Musical Beginnings
£9,707	06/03/2020	Musical Beginnings

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 5/6 persons

YUN ZHENG Appointed: 2020

BENJAMIN ROUS Appointed: 2018

MICHAEL PICKERING Appointed: 2023

RACHEL HILL Appointed: 2018

SAMUEL STOCKLEY Appointed: 2019

LUCY BEVERIDGE Appointed: 2018, Other trusteeship: BRANDON HILL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/01/2018, number: 1176649

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

VANBRUGH STUDIO
137 VANBRUGH HILL
GREENWICH
LONDON
SE10 9HP

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN MUSIC, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF PEOPLE LIVING IN GREENWICH AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.

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