## ## ## |Charity Name|Charity Name|School Ground
Sounds||| |---|---|---|---|---| |Registered|charity|1159676||| |number||||| |Principal Address||14Henderson
Road, London SW18 3RR||| |Trustees||Tom Keohane —Chairman||| |||Jack Keeling —Trustee||| |||Jack Pickard —Trustee||| |||Charles Scott —Trustee||| |||Dr Tilean Gordon
—Trustee||| |||Dr Tilean Gordon was appointed|a trustee|in April 2020.The other| |||trustees
all acted forthe whole|year.|| |Chief Executive||Tom Scott||| ## ## |Type ofgoverning||Constitution|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |document|||||| |How the charity|is|Charitable|Incorporated|Organisation|(CIO)| |constituted|||||| |Trustee selection||New trustees appointed||by resolution|ofexisting trustees.| |method|||||| ## |Summary ofthe|The advancement
of musical education
for the|public benefit,
in| |---|---|---| |objects set out in|particular for young people from disadvantaged|backgrounds,
by| |SGS'governing|helping
young people and school communities|to access the music| |document|production
process and musical activities, which develop their skills|| ||and promote engagement.|| |Summary of|main|We confirm the trustees
have had regard to the Charity Commission's| |---|---|---| |activities||guidance
on public benefit.
Our normal face-to-face activities were| |undertaken|for the|significantly
curtailed this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic| |public benefit in||restrictions.
However we were able to develop and deliver some| |relation to the||online activities to supplement
our normal programmes.
Activities| |objects||undertaken
include:| |||For 11—16year olds from lower income backgrounds:| |||~
A programme
ofsong-writing
and music-making
workshops
for| |||groups ofyoung people
in schools (the School Ground Sounds| |||'After School Programme'
), including
the opportunity
to record the| |||songs that they create in a recording studio.| |||For 16—24year olds from lower income backgrounds
with musical| |||aspirations
who are often NEET (not in education,
employment
or| |||training)| |||~
A seven-week
crash course in the music industry
(called "The Grit| |||School"),with input from music industry
professionals
and| |||opportunities
to collaborate
and perform| |||~
A programme
ofone-to-one
mentoring
for young people| |||interested
in pursuing
a career in music, with mentors
being| |||volunteers
from the music industry| |||~
A 12week album-recording
project (called "From Scratch") run in| |||collaboration
with Finding
Rhythms,
an organisation
who do| |||similar projects in prisons, to support
a group ofyoung people,| |||who are considered
at risk ofoffending, to create and record a set| |||ofsongs.| |||~
Studio recording
sessions| |||~
The provision of live performance
opportunities| |||~
Use ofthe SGSwebsite and social media presence as a platform| |||for showcasing
the young musical talent.| |||For our whole community
ofyoung people, a set ofonline activities:| |||~
'Find Your Voice' songwriting
workshops| |||~
'Untitled'
sessions, where participants
bring an unfinished| |||song/project
to share with a group and develop this with support| |||oftheir peers| |||~
'Open-mic'
sessions, using Instagram
Live| |||~
'Artist ofthe Week' series featuring
short sets from some ofour| |||more experienced
young artists, ending
with a short Q&A with the| |||performer.| |||As well as engaging the young people
in positive, worthwhile
pursuits| |||and developing
their musical
skills, all activities are intended to| |||improve the participants'
mental wellbeing
and to develop
key social| |||and emotional
capabilities.| ## |Summary|of|the|Secured c.E129koffunding,
despite the extra difficulties
caused| |---|---|---|---| |main|||by Covid| |achievements||of|Had over 120young people participating
in SGSactivities| |the charity|during||Delivered our After School Programme
in five schools, four in the| |the year|||Spring Term and one in the Autumn
term (using an adapted
Covid-| ||||secure approach),
with atotal of70 participants
(58 new to SGS)| ||||Ran one Grit School (again using an adapted
Covid-secure| ||||approach),
with 12core participants| ||||Supported
15young people through
our mentoring
programme| ||||Ran one From Scratch project, with 10participants| ||||Supported 10studio-recording
sessions
in addition to those| ||||included
as part ofthe After Schools Programme,
Grit School or| ||||From Scratch projects.| ||||Held a 5year anniversary
celebration
—for our supporters,| ||||participants
and extended
team
—at the Hootananny,
Brixton,| ||||providing
an opportunity
for some ofour participants
to showcase| ||||their talents.| ||||Delivered
a set ofonline activities, as described above, to help| ||||maintain
the engagement
ofyoung people through
the Covid| ||||restrictions| ||||Selected and purchased
a Monitoring
and Evaluation
system called| ||||Views from Substance,
due to go live early in 2021. This system| ||||will streamline
our data collection, analysis
and impact reporting,| ||||and significantly
enhance our ability to scale up our activities.| ||||Achieved
a modest surplus ofE1.5k. We enter 2021with reserves| ||||ofE63k, ofwhich f39k are unrestricted.| ## |Briefstatement|of|SGS' aim is to build|and maintain|a level ofreserves that will cover at| |---|---|---|---|---| |the charity's
policy||least 3 —6 months'|expenditure.|We will never let reserves drop to| |on reserves||below one month's|expenditure.|| |Details ofany||There are none.||| |funds materially|in|||| |deficit||||| ## |Registered
Charity Number. 1159676|Registered
Charity Number. 1159676||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Period: 1Dec2019to31Dec2020|||||||||| |Section A - Receipts and Payments|||||Latest period|(13months to|31Dec 2020)|Prior year|Notes| ||||||Unrestdicted|Restricted|Total|Yearto 30Nov|Our financial year end has been changed| ||||||funds|funds||2019|to end December| ||||||6|6||E|| |A1|Receipts||||||||| ||Grant funding||||2,000|81,844|83,844|81,364|| ||Donations from private individuals||||40,541|0|40,541|23,273|| ||Corporate donations||||2,800|0|2,800|1,700|| ||Fundraising
event income||||752|0|752|19,488|| ||Earned income||||935|625|1,560|7,742|| ||Totallncome||||47,028|82/I69|129/I97|133,566|| |A2|Asset and investment
sales||||None|None|None|None|| |A3|Payments||||||||| ||Core team people costs:||||||||| ||Salary and pension costs, including|tax|||4,216|23,398|27,614|22,170|| ||Freelance contractors||||7,229|30,781|38,009|28,574|| ||Total care teom people costs:||||11,445|54,178|65,623|50,744|| ||Direct project costs:||||||||excl. core team time on projects| ||Freelance contractors - non-core team||||975|15,615|16,590|13,949|| ||Project collaboration
partners||||1,00D|10,858|11,858|5,000|| ||Performance
fees for SGSparticipants||||330|0|330|1,990|| ||Studio / workshop space hire||||1,020|5,625|6,645|7,384|| ||Performance
venue costs||||45|0|45|2,347|| ||Video/photography/live
streaming||||75|2,050|2,125|90|| ||Equipment
hire land support technicians)||||0|0|0|333|| ||Volunteer
and staff expenses - travel and other||||168|302|469|975|| ||Travel expenses for participants||||104|116|220|1,005|| ||Project
cons
um ah les
/ stationery||||0|38|38|267|| ||Food / refreshments||||68|556|624|522|| ||Social media promotion||||0|0|0|34|| ||Project-specific online tools||||2,792|1,282|4,074|1,800|| ||DBSchecks||||82|414|496|181|| ||Total direct pro/en
mats (exn. core team time/i||||6,659|36,856|43,515|35,878|| ||Direct fundraising
mstsi||||||||excl. core team time on fundraising| ||Fund raising support
fees||||11,700||11,700|3,600|| ||Fundraising
event costs||||464||464|1,782|| ||Online fundraismg
tools||||473||473|455|| ||Total direct/undreising
mstsi||||12,637||12,63?|5,83?|| ||General overheads:||||||||| ||Office space||||(364)|0|(364)|1,244|| ||Branding/website
design &development||||622|0|622|0|| ||Website hosting||||171|0|171|271|| ||Insurance
(ag insurance)||||558|0|558|429|| ||SGS branded
merchandise||||383|22|405|274|| ||Offline advertising
&promotional|matenals|||316|0|316|58|| ||Online software tools||||655|1,51.2|2,167|664|| ||Training||||585|0|585|898|| ||Attendance
at conferences/networking||events||0|0|0|154|| ||Stationery
(general)||||2|0|2|47|| ||Equipment
- IT, mobiles, other||||192|1,412|1,604|235|| ||Miscellaneous
expenses||||71|0|71|4|| ||Allocation ofgeneral overheads to|restncted||funding|(1,709)|1,709|0|0|| ||Total genera/ overheads:||||1,480|4,655|6,135|4,277|| ||TotalExpenses||||32,221|95,689|127,910|96,735|| |A4|Asset and investment
purchases||||Norle|Noire|None|None|| ||Surplus||||14,807|(13,220)|1,587|36,831|| |A6|Openmgcashfunds||||25,017|36,375|61,392|24,561|| ||Transfer ofunrestricted
funds||||(1,03D)|1,030|0|0|See Note 2| ||Closing Cash funds||||38,794|24,185|62,979|61,392|| |||||Latest penod|(13months to31|Dec 2020)|Prior year|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Yearto30Nov|| |||||funds|funds||2019|| |||||E|E||E|| |81|Cash funds|||||||| ||HSBCAccount|||38,794|24,186|62,979|61,392|| ||Totalcashfunds|||38,794|24,186|62,979|61,392|| |82|Other monetary assets|||None|None|None|None|| |83|investment|assets||Norse|None|None|None|| |84|Assets retained for the chadity's||own use|None|None|None|None|see Note 3| |BS|Liabilities|||None|None|None|None|| ##