Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 14

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +11

Overall GiG Score: 13

OLYMPIAS MUSIC FOUNDATION

Olympias Music is a multi-award-winning charity which brings music to communities in Manchester. We believe that everyone should be given the opportunity to participate in music-making and engage with music, regardless of background or income, and that these encounters can be life-changing. Olympias Music provides free music lessons, concerts and workshops for the benefit of the local community.

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Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
There have been no income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
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:

This Charity has changed registration and some of the financial and donation history pertains to the previous entity
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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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		£180	£165	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	78
31/12/21		£135	£47	£88	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/12/20		£68	£37	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/12/19	*	£55	£45	£10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/12/18		£23	£11	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	1

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 3 years

www.olympiasmusicfoundation.com

info@olympiasmusicfoundation.com

07809532354

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Disability
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Manchester City,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
78 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	£49,728
The Foyle Foundation	£45,000
National Lottery Community Fund	£28,576
Esmee Fairbairn	£15,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to Olympias Music Foundation
£15,000	16/01/2024	TASK fund donation of £15,000 towards general costs
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000	18/09/2023	towards core costs of delivering music activity for adults and children in Manchester over 12 months
National Lottery Community Fund - Voices of Hope Choir
£9,142	10/06/2022	The funding will be used to deliver choir sessions and performances for women refugees and asylum seekers and those with experience of domestic violence. Participants will be provided with the ....more The funding will be used to deliver choir sessions and performances for women refugees and asylum seekers and those with experience of domestic violence. Participants will be provided with the opportunity to get together and work to a common goal whilst exchanging their stories and socialising with the aim of developing confidence and reducing loneliness and isolation.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000	16/09/2021	towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months
DCMS - Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants
£49,728	01/04/2021	National Lottery Project Grants is our open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000	26/03/2021	Core costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Musical Connections
£9,784	11/12/2020 12	This project will provide a year long programme of multi-arts workshops for a singing group for female refugees asylum seekers and victims of domestic violence. It aims to promote confidence and ....more This project will provide a year long programme of multi-arts workshops for a singing group for female refugees asylum seekers and victims of domestic violence. It aims to promote confidence and wellbeing in members of the choir.
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Voices
£9,650	06/12/2019 5	The organisation will run a programme of activities with its women's voices choir (a choir for female refugees, asylum seekers and victims of domestic violence), with the aim of creating ....more The organisation will run a programme of activities with its women's voices choir (a choir for female refugees, asylum seekers and victims of domestic violence), with the aim of creating opportunities for vulnerable BAME women and victims of domestic violence to meet and support one another, building strong relationships through musical sharing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Voices Choir
£7,140	07/03/2018 12	The group will build upon the work of a pilot, working with vulnerable women from across a range of situations and ethnic communities of Manchester. The group learn to sing together, bringing songs ....more The group will build upon the work of a pilot, working with vulnerable women from across a range of situations and ethnic communities of Manchester. The group learn to sing together, bringing songs from their own backgrounds to teach to their peers. The project aims to promote confidence and integration through practice and performance and a chance to meet women who are similarly or differently vulnerable to share experiences and songs.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

KEISHA THOMPSON Appointed: 2023

YANA ESKANDARI Appointed: 2021

AZIZ IBRAHIM Appointed: 2021

HELEN KRIZOS Appointed: 2021

RICHARD ELING (Chair) Appointed: 2023

SUKI PARDESI Appointed: 2021

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/05/2021, number: 1194413

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR19: 52 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from OLYMPIAS MUSIC FOUNDATION on 04/11/2021

Main office

7 Brundretts Road
MANCHESTER
M21 9DA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN MUSIC-MAKING IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING COMMUNITY CHOIRS, MUSIC WORKSHOPS AND CONCERTS AND FREE MUSIC LESSONS AND MUSIC WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN.

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