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Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** OPEN MUSIC
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1159108
**Charity's principal address** 91A Church Rd Hove East Sussex **Postcode BN3 2BA**
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||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**||||
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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|**Section B Structure, governance and management**||||
|**Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)Foundation
How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company) Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by) Appointed by a resolution passed at trustees meeting||||
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|||Charitable Incorporated Organisation||
|||Appointed by a resolution passed at trustees meeting||
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
|You**may choose**to include|You**may choose**to include|The trustees are making plans for a ninth edition of the festival to take|
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|additional information, where||place in 2025.|
|relevant, about:|||
||policies and procedures|As in previous editions, a core team of Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance|
||adopted for the induction and|and Michael Sippings will curate and managed the event, aided by|
||training of trustees;|volunteers from Brighton’s new music and arts scene and throughout the|
||the charity’s organisational|local community.|
||structure and any wider||
||network with which the charity
works;|During the period of this report no funding has been raised or sought.|
||relationship with any related
parties;|Due to other commitments Elizabeth Carey has stepped down as a trustee.|
||trustees’ consideration of|The group are grateful to her experience, knowledge and continued|
||major risks and the system|commitment to the experimental music scene in Brighton and beyond. The|
||and procedures to manage|group are in the process of appointing another trustee(s).|
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|To promote the public appreciation of, and to educate the public in
the art of experimental music and related art forms, particularly by
the organisation of an annual festival of contemporary music and
art held in the South East of England.|
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||Open Music is a not for profit arts group that formed in 2006 to curate
and coordinate ‘Colour Out of Space’ - a festival promoting new
experimental approaches to music and its cross over into other
disciplines such as artist cinema. The event began as a showcase for
Brighton’s burgeoning new music scene and has expanding yearly to
present both national and international artists. It has become one of the
UK’s leading festivals of sound art and has gained a strong international
reputation for its programming and ethos.
We confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s
guidance on public benefit; Through the festival and related projects,
Open Music aims to promote a wider understanding of experimental
music, exploring its practice and history through activities that include
performance, screenings, live cinema, workshops, residency,
presentations and debate.
The festival is highly international in its outlook and aims to create links
between artists, bringing together different strands and genres of music,
exploring how they can relate and, in doing so, how they can create
something new and innovative.
Through the festival, Open Music provides a unique and inspiring
opportunity to experience innovative musical
developments from the UK and from around the world, in an exciting
environment, with high standards of audio/visual presentation. It
introduces new work and new approaches that encompass a wide
spectrum of artist practice – not solely in music but in wider fields that
include moving image, theatrical performance and visual art.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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Volunteers from all sections of the community play a vital role in the running of the event itself through roles which include front of house, stewards and theatre assistants. Volunteers gain valuable experience that can be added to CV’s and job references.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
Calls for volunteers are made through Open Music, Phoenix Brighton, Universities of Brighton and Sussex, and through Fabrica’s Artist Resource and Opportunities & Events newsletter.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|The group has used this period to focus on new ideas and directions for
the ninth edition of the festival, planned for April 2025.||
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## **Section E Financial review**
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**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
With no permanent employees or property the charity’s overheads are low. All funds that are raised go directly to the running and promotion of the festival, its artists and artistic programme.
**Details of any funds materially** There are none **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
Open Music’s main source of funding is through grant making bodies and festival ticket sales.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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Open Music 1159108 11 / 12 / 2022 10 / 12 / 23 N/A N/A 154 154
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