Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

TONIC MUSIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH LTD 

Tonic Music for Mental Health promotes good mental health in the music industry and in the community. It does this by providing mental health education, advice and support, both remotely and at events, and by providing opportunities to participate in music and the arts.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and 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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
30/06/23£396,489£284,787£111,702110
30/06/22£224,360£230,283£-5,92340
30/06/21£165,494£139,727£25,76710
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years
(11 years as a company)

http://www.tonicmusic.co.uk/

teamtonic@tonicmusic.co.uk

07411766950

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookInstagramX
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Mental health and addiction
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 110 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
DCMS£31,084
Youth Music£30,000
The Baring Foundation£12,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Never Mind The Stigma Programme
£10,000 09/12/2022
The funding will be used to deliver peer support and therapeutic sessions for the community. The project aims to increase awareness of suicide; provide access to vital information; encourage open ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Tonic Music For Mental Health
£2,053 22/10/2022
We aim to pay a professional vocalist to provide weekly free ska choir sessions to adults in our community and opportunities for the ska choir to perform locally and nationally at events.
Youth Music - Tonic Rider Live Programme
£30,000 18/07/2022
Tonic Rider Live Programme
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Tonic Music for Mental Health
£12,000 14/09/2020
The grant would be used to help keep Tonic’s creative workshops and choirs free for those in need.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£31,084 03/07/2020
"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
Power to Change - Tonic Music
£10,000 12/02/2018
Grant to Tonic Music

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-57
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 12/06/2020, number: 1189913
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/06/2012, number: 08093898
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
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • 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
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

Hive Portsmouth Sector Hub
C/O TONIC MUSIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH
22 Edinburgh Road
PORTSMOUTH
PO1 1DH

Objectives

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE OBJECTS) ARE:1.1.1 THE RELIEF OF MENTAL ILLNESS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN MUSIC AND THE ARTS; AND1.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS IN MUSIC AND THE ARTS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

Tips for Selecting Charities

Which areas of philanthropy are most effective?
The text of this post is taken from an article on the Effective Altruism forum. It suggests that you can achieve the most impact by supporting causes that fight extreme poverty, improving animal welfare....more
Our Top Tips for Philanthropy
Here are some ideas to help you gain more satisfaction from your philanthropy and confidence that the causes you have selected are impactful. Engage your brain, as well as your heart You....more
How to become a Philanthropist
In this Blog we outline a strategy to help people who are new to philanthropy and for those who feel dissatisfied with the impact they are having. Effective philanthropy is immensely rewarding for donors,....more

Giving is Great