soundabout
make music ckiange lives
Annual Report 2022-23
Published November 2023

Soundabout's strotegy including Vision, Mission, Values will be updated in
Autumn 2023. Both versions are included below for reference.
Our Vision
To create o musical community without
barriers.
Autumn,2023:,
world where everyone
experience music.
Our Mission
To ernpower people with profound disabilities to f ind their voice
through music.
.Autumn_2023: . .
oundabout uses music, sound, and silence to create
here learning Disabled people with complex support
needs thrive.
Our Values
Accessible. Aspirational, Empowering,
Trustworthy, Responsive, Inclusive.
Autumn 2023:
Kind, Person Centred,
clusive.
Y-i 4VV_
Aims
l. To reduce isolation for Disabled participants and
families through music
2. To diversify our income generation
3. To ensure the voices of our participants are heard
4. To evolve a strong, effective and diverse organisatic
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|Contents|||
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|Chair's Foreword||06|
|CEO Introduction||07|
|Review ofour Aims||08|
|1.Reducing<br>Isolation through|Music|08|
|Overview<br>in Numbers||09|
|Highlighted<br>Projects||10|
|2.Diversification<br>of Income|Generation|18|
|Individual<br>Giving||18|
|Challenge<br>Events||19|
|Trusts and Foundations||20|
|Earned Income||21|
|Corporate||21|
|In Memory||21|
|3.Voices of Participants to|be Heard|22|
|Media Interviews||24|
|Performances||24|
|Social Media||25|
|4.Strong, Diverse and Effective Organisation||26|
|Equity, Diversity and Inclusion||26|
|Participation||27|
|Environmenta<br>ISustainability||29|
|Governance||29|
|Volunteers||30|
|Report ofthe Trustees and Financial Statements||31|
|Reference and Administrative|Details|32|
|Report ofthe Trustees||33|
|Independent<br>Examiner's<br>Report||34|
|Statement of Financial Activities||35|
|Balance Sheet||36|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||38|





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Review of our Aims
l. Reducing Isolation for
Participants and Families
through Music
Ci

nd Fomilies through Music
Ovenjiew in Numbers
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1251
16 078
sions
Op
unities
2.884
1.358
472
Total Attendees
Participants
SEN Staff
706
38 216
Parents/Carers
YOUT
Views
* Opportunities to take part - sessions x number of places
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2. Diversification of
Income Generation
Individual Giving
Soundobout's BBC R(Klio 4 Appeol wos the focus for individual giving this year. The
oppeal was presented by Ltz Chaplin. who spoke wonderfully about the Soundabout
experiences she has shored with her daughter Ava. The oppeal raised an incredible
£26.039.42 and generated a lot of interest in Soundabout. Following the appeal. we
had contact from families, organisotions, musicians, ond supporters all new to
Soundabout.
Soundabout wos also supported through one-off ond regular donations frorn our
generous supporters. We olso continued to receive generous mojor gifts including
support from John Ha15 ond fomily, who have been at the hecrt of Soundabout since
it was founded. We'd like to express heartfelt thanks to everyone.who donoted.

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eneration
Earned Income
Soundabout continued to generate income from commissioned rnusic making delivery.
troining, ond consultancy. Other avenues of eorned income included ticket sales for
training event& ond membersFups (family. training. choir).
Corporate
We were deli9hted to receive special support from Viking, of £IO.000 to celebrote the
launch of the new ship Viking Mars. Fleet Cor(wons kindly c<)ntinued their long-term
support of Soundf]bout for which we are very grateful.
In Memory
Soundabout received £1.500 in donations given in rnemory of loved ones. We are
incredibly grateful to all involved and hope th(rt the don¢Xions bring some C￿fOrt in
knowing that they are helping.tothan9É someone's life through music.
Looking Forward
We recognise th(rt the funding landscape is challenging we will continue to mitigate
this risk by seekin9 9reater diversification of income.
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|||Followers|ReicIt|
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||Facebook|5,080|71,382|
||fnstagrarh|1,200|13,699|
||Tssitter|2,977|14,300|
|'|LinkedIn|391|448|





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Report of the Trustees
and Unaudited Financial
Statements
for the yew ended 51st March 2025
Ad Volorem A¢countancy Services Limited
Chortered Certified Accountonts
2 Manor Farm Court
Old Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Buckin9hamshirg
MK12 5NN
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||||Notes|Unrestricted<br>funds (8)|Restricted<br>funds (8)|2023<br>Total funds (8)|2022<br>Total funds (8)|
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|Income and endowments||from||||||
|Donations and legacies||||38,e77||38,677||
|Charitable<br>activities:<br>restricted funds|||||294,145|294,145||
|Charitable<br>activises:<br>unrestricted<br>funds||||49,700||49,700|47,705|
|Other trading<br>activities||||46,707||46707|49,981|
|Investment<br>income||||992||992|21|
|Total||||136,076|294,145|430,221|411,273|
|Expenditure<br>on||||||||
|Raising funds||||7,769||7,769|7,642|
|Charitable<br>activities:||||||||
|restricted funds|||||253,655|253,655|268,364|
|Charitable activities:<br>unrestricted<br>funds||||119,868||119,868|130,621|
|Total||||127,d37|253 655|381,292|406,627|
|Net income||||8,439|40,490|48,929|4,646|
|Reconciliation offunds||||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|||43,976|92,207|136,183|131,537|
|Totol funds carried|forward|||52,415|132,d97|185,112|13d,185|



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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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||||funds (8)|funds (8)|Total funds (8)|Total funds (8)|
|Fixed assets|||||||
|Intangible<br>assets||||||1,015|
|Tangible assets||10|3,970||3,970|8,041|
|Total sxed assets|||3,970||3,970|9,056|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks|||589||589|652|
|Debtors||12|20,475||20,475|7,295|
|Cash at bank|||34,549|133,091|167,640|126,114|
|Total current|assets||55,613|133,091|188,704|134,061|
|Creditors|||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within||13|P.168)|(394)|(7,562)|(6,934)|
|one year|||||||
|Net current|assets||48,445|132,697|181,142|127,127|
|Total assets <br>liabgities|less current||52,415|132,697|185,112|136,183|
|Net assets|||52,415|132,697|185,112|136,183|
|Unrestricted|funds||||52.415|43,976|
|Restricted funds|||||132697|92,207|
|Total funds||14|||185,112|136,183|



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|Other tradincp'fandraising<br>actlvlues|46,707|49,981|
||2023 (8)|2022 (8)|
|Investments|992|21|
||515.23(8)|51.3.22 (8)|
|Depreciation - owned assets|4,743|3,968|
|Website costs amortisation|1,013|1,846|





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||||||Unrestricted<br>(8)|funds|Rase 1cted funds is)|Total funds (8)|
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|income and endowments|from||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||||44,681|||44,6$I|
|Charitable<br>activities including<br>restricted<br>funds||grants:|||||268,885|268.885|
|Charitable<br>activities including<br>unrestricted<br>funds||grants:|||47,705|||47,705|
|Other trading activities|||||49,981|||49,981|
|Investment<br>income|||||21||||
|Total|||||142,388||2d8,885|411,275|
|Expenditure<br>on|||||||||
|Raising funds|||||7,642|||7,642|
|Choritable<br>activities: restricted|||funds||||268,364|268,364|
|Charitable<br>activities: unrestricted||||funds|130,62'I|||130,621|
|Total|||||158,2d5||268,364|406,627|
|Net income|||||4,125||521|4,d4d|
|Reconcigadon offunds|||||||||
|Total funds brought forward|||||39,851|||131,537|
|Total funds carried forward|||||43,976||92,207|15d,185|






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||Website Costs (f)|
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|At 1stApril 2022 and 31stMarch 2023|27,007|
|Amonisation||
|At 1stApril 2022|25,992|
|Charge for one year|1,015|
|At 31stMarch 2023|27,007|
|Net book value||
|At 31stMarch 2023||
|At 31stMarch 2022|1,015|



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||Plant and macNnery<br>(f)|Fixtures and Rttings<br>(f)|Totals (f)|
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|Cost||||
|At 1stApril 2022|34,058|14,207|48,265|
|Additions||672|672|
|At 31stMarch 2023||14,879|48,937|
|Depreciagon||||
|At 1stApril 2022|26,538|13,686|40,224|
|Charge for one year|4,183|560|4,743|
|At 31st March 2023|30,721|14,246|44,967|
|Net book value||||
|At 31stMarch 2023|3,337||3,970|
|At 31stMarch 2022|7,520|521|8,041|





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|||2023(8)|2022 (8)|
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|Stock||589||
|||2023 (8)|2022 (8)|
|Trade debtors||17,672|2,811|
|Other debtors|||2,000|
|Prepayments<br>income|and accrued||2,484|
|Total||20,475|7,295|



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|Social security and other<br>taxes|4,046|3,846|
|Accrued expenses|3,516|3,088|
|Total|7,562|6,934|



|14.Movement|14.Movement|in Funds|||1.422 (8)|Net movement<br>funds (8)|in|31.3.23(8)||
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||||Unrestricted|funds||8,439||52,415||
||||Restdicted funds||92,207|40,490||132,697||
||||Total funds||136,185|48,929||185,112||
||||||incoming|Resources||Movement|in|
|Net movement||in funds,|||resowces (8)|expended<br>(8)||funds (8)||
|included|in the|above,||||||||
|are as follows:|||Unrestricted|funds|136,076|027,637)||8,439||
||||Restricted|funds|294,145|(253,655)||40,490||
||||Total funds||430,221|(581,292)||48,929||





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|Unrestricted|funds|39,851|4,125||43,976|
|Restricted|funds||521||92,207|
|Total funds||151,557|4,646||136,183|



|||lnconlln9|Resources|ffovement|in|
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|||resources (E)|expended<br>(8)|funds (E)||
|Unrestricted|funds|142,388|038,263)|4,125||
|Restricted funds||268,885|(268.364)|521||
|Total funds||411,273|(406.627)|4,646||



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|Restricted income funds||||||||||
|Schooh|||||3,000||2,000||1,000|
|Building Bridges|||||14,915|10,000|24,915|||
|ftusic Hubs|||||12,873|1,200|14,073|||
|Family Community|Programme||||y,e79|15,957|22,879||757|
|Inclusive Choir|||||13,195|57,377|44,820||25.752|
|Equipment|||||4,206||1,184||3,772|
|Staff Training and|Development|||||4,400|1,065||3,335|
|Sounds Wild|||||4,779|21,487|11,064||15.202|
|Festive h|||||5,000|12,050|7,558||9,492|
|Family Support|||||8,143|50,000|48,545||9,598|
|Sounds Together||||||40,000|||40,000|
|Community<br>Commissioned||||Work|(200)|15,900|15,319||381|
|Choir Commissioned||Work|||18,617|41,711|36,920||23,408|
|Schoob Commissioned|||Work|||23,313|23,313|||
|Tatal restricted|funds||||92,207|294,145|253,655||132,697|
|Unrestricted<br>income|||funds|||||||
|Unrestricted<br>income||funds|||43,976|Tde,oye|127,637||52.415|
|Total charity funds|||||15d,185|430,221|381,292||185,112|





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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||||
|Donations|and legades|||
|Donations||38,677|44,681|
|Other trading acdvities||||
|Fundraising|events|32,627|42,520|
|Other trading<br>activities||14,080|7,461|
|Invesanent|income|||
|Investments||992|21|
|Charitable|activities|||
|Charitable|activities|343,845|316,590|
|Total incoming resources||430,221|411,273|





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|||||2023(8)|2022 (8)|
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|EXPENDITURE||||||
|Raising donadons||and legacies||||
|Sundries||||||
|Raising funds||||7,769|7,262|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Wages||||294,913|334,694|
|Social security||||lb298|11,354|
|Pensbns||||5,037|5,125|
|Hire ofpktnt and||machinery||1,981|3,042|
|Rotes and water||||8,082|4,117|
|Insurance||||2,673|2,600|
|Telephone||||528|419|
|Postage and stationery||||1,427|1,395|
|Advertising||||930|2,663|
|Sunddes||||40,896|27,762|
|Amortisation|ofintangible||fixed assets|1,015|1,845|
|Depreciation|oftangible fixed assets|||4,743|3,969|
|||||373,523|398,985|
|Total resources expended||||381,292|406,627|
|Net income||||48,929|4,646|