| Charity Name | Charity Name | School Ground Sounds |
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| Registered | charity | 1159676 |
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| Principal Address | 14Henderson Road, London SW18 3RR |
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| Trustees | Tom Keohane —Chairman | |
| Jack Keeling —Trustee | ||
| Jack Pickard —Trustee (up to 9 March 2021 only) | ||
| Charles Scott —Trustee | ||
| Dr Tilean Gordon —Trustee | ||
| Natalie Maddix —Trustee (from 16June 2021) |
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| Chief Executive | Anthony Olanipekun (from 1"Sept 2021-Tom Scott prior to that) |
| Type ofgoverning | Constitution | ||||
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| How the charity | is | Charitable | Incorporated | Organisation | (CIO) |
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| Trustee selection | New trustees appointed | by resolution | of existing trustees. | ||
| method |
| Summary ofthe | The advancement of musical education for the |
public benefit, in |
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| 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 |
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| and promote engagement. |
| Summary ofmain | Summary ofmain | We confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's |
We confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's |
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| activities | guidance on public benefit. Activities undertaken include: |
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| undertaken | for the | ||
| public benefit in | For 11—16year olds from lower income backgrounds: | ||
| relation to | the | ~ A programme ofsong-writing and music-making workshops |
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| objects | groups ofyoung people in schools (the School Ground Sounds |
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| 'After School Programme' ). | |||
| ~ Projects in conjunction with youth centres to run workshops |
for | ||
| young people to create music and songs in relation to specific | |||
| themes (e.g.Windrush) | |||
| For 16—24year olds from lower income backgrounds with musical |
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| aspirations who are often NEET (not in education, employment or |
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| training) | |||
| ~ A seven-week crash course in the music industry (called 'Grit |
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| School' ), with input from music industry professionals and |
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| opportunities to collaborate and perform |
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| ~ A programme ofone-to-one mentoring for young people |
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| interested in pursuing a career in music, with mentors being |
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| volunteers from the music industry |
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| ~ Album-recording projects (called 'From Scratch') run in |
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| collaboration with Finding Rhythms, an organisation who do |
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| similar projects in prisons, to support a group ofyoung people, |
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| who are considered at risk ofoffending, to create and record |
a set | ||
| ofsongs. | |||
| ~ The formation of an SGS 'House Band' to provide live performance |
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| opportunities to young instrumentalists and vocalists |
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| ~ The 'Accelerator' programme to support young talented musicians |
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| through the whole process ofcreating and publishing an EP |
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| ~ Support for 'Tracks on Tap' - a project providing regular live |
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| performance opportunities for up-and-coming young musicians |
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| As well as engaging the young people in positive, worthwhile pursuits |
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| and developing their musical skills, all activities are intended to |
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| improve the participants' mental wellbeing and to develop key social |
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| and emotional capabilities. |
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| In addition we have set up a new fund, 'Hatty's Fund', in memory |
ofa | ||
| young music-loving woman who was tragically killed in a road |
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| accident. The fund donates musical instruments to keen young |
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| musicians who might otherwise not be able to afford them. |
| the | year | affected by Covid) with a total of84 participants | |
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| Ran one From Scratch project, with 10participants (Covid- |
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| affected) | |||
| Ran two Grit Schools, with 26 participants | |||
| Ran a project on Windrush with the Brixton Wings youth |
centre | ||
| Implemented a Monitoring and Evaluation system called |
Views | ||
| from Substance. This system is helping to streamline our data |
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| collection, analysis and impact reporting, and enhances |
our ability | ||
| to scale up our activities. | |||
| Strengthened our close collaboration with Raw Material |
Music & | ||
| Media, who host our Grit School and other workshops | |||
| Recruited a new Chief Executive (Tom Scott stepped aside in |
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| September), and a dedicated Fundraising g Communications |
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| Manager | |||
| Achieved a surplus off20.5k. We enter 2022 with reserves of |
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| E83k, of which E29k are unrestricted. |
| Brief statement | of | SGS' aim isto build | and maintain | and maintain | a level | ofreserves that will cover at |
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| the charity's policy |
least 4-6 months' | forward | expenditure. | We will never let reserves | ||
| on reserves | drop to below two | month's | expenditure. | |||
| Details ofany | There are none. | |||||
| funds materially | in | |||||
| deficit |
| Latest period | (12months to31Dec2021) | (12months to31Dec2021) | Prior period | ||||
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | 13monthsto | ||||
| funds | funds | 30Dec 2020 | |||||
| 81 | Cash funds | ||||||
| HSBCAccount | 29,342 | 54,090 | 83,432 | 62,979 | |||
| Total cash | funds | 29,342 | 54,090 | 83,432 | 62,979 | ||
| 82 | Other monetary assets | None | None | None | |||
| 83 | Investment | assets | None | None | None | None | |
| 84 | Assets retained forthe charity's own use | None | None | None | None | seeNote 4 | |
| 85 | Liabilities | None | None |