Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 5
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

THE SWAN SONG PROJECT

The relief of sickness and preservation of mental and physical health among people facing end of life, bereavement by death or a person or anticipation thereof and the protection and preservation of public health, particularly but not exclusively through music.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
30/04/23£38£57£-19n/a
30/04/22£57£44£13n/a
30/04/21£40£37£3n/a
30/04/20£34£18£16n/a
30/04/19£23£5£18n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

swansongproject.co.uk

Ben@swansongproject.co.uk

07858307904

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£19,907
DCMS£18,500
Leeds Community Foundation£8,500
Sir George Martin Trust£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Swan Song
£3,000 29/06/2023
Core costs for Music/Arts/Culture
National Lottery Community Fund - The Swan Song Project - New Songwriters
£10,000 16/09/2022
The funding will be used to expand their song writing experiences to terminally ill and bereaved people to write and record their own songs. The project aims to allow people to reflect on their lives communicate difficult emotions and create happy ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Swan Song Project
£9,907 05/02/2021
7
The funding will be used to develop an existing project which offers a virtual song-writing support service to people who are terminally ill or bereaved providing a therapeutic process to help people to process their emotions. This will enable ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 02/10/2020
"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 operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to The Swan song Project
£8,500 28/07/2020
4
Grant to The Swan song Project
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£8,500 28/07/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Swan Song Project Leeds
£9,736 24/01/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver music and recording sessions, for people with terminal illness. Participants will be provided with the opportunity to create a piece of music which reflects their life and feelings, with the aim of promoting ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Swan Song Project
£5,000 03/07/2018
12
This project works with people facing end of life, due to terminal illness or old age, their families, carers and loved ones. They will help to address the mental and physical health issues associated with end of life, by providing creative music ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

  • ADRIAN SINCLAIR Appointed: 2017
  • CHRISTOPHER MARTIN Appointed: 2017
  • GRAHAM ROBERT HYDE Appointed: 2023
  • JEANNIE LUMB Appointed: 2019
  • LINDSEY KING Appointed: 2024
  • MORAG MACDONALD MACLEAN Appointed: 2023
  • RICHARD ANTHONY GIBSON Appointed: 2023
  • TANJA MARIKA YOUNG Appointed: 2024
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/04/2018, number: 1178096
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Old Chapel Music Studios
Crossland Court
Czar Street
LEEDS
LS11 9PR

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE FACING END OF LIFE, BEREAVEMENT BY DEATH OF A PERSON OR THE ANTICIPATION THEREOF AND THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PREVENTION OF ANY SICKNESS WHICH MAY ARISE FROM BEREAVEMENT BY DEATH OF A PERSON OR THE ANTICIPATION THEREOF THROUGH THE USE OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF MUSIC.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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