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|Charity Name|Charity Name|School Ground Sounds|
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|Registered|charity|1159676|
|number|||
|Principal Address||14Henderson<br>Road, London SW18 3RR|
|Trustees||Tom Keohane —Chairman|
|||Jack Keeling —Trustee|
|||Jack Pickard —Trustee (up to 9 March 2021 only)|
|||Charles Scott —Trustee|
|||Dr Tilean Gordon —Trustee|
|||Natalie<br>Maddix —Trustee (from 16June 2021)|
|Chief Executive||Anthony<br>Olanipekun<br>(from 1"Sept 2021-Tom Scott prior to that)|



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|Type ofgoverning||Constitution||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|document||||||
|How the charity|is|Charitable|Incorporated|Organisation|(CIO)|
|constituted||||||
|Trustee selection||New trustees appointed||by resolution|of existing trustees.|
|method||||||



|Summary ofthe|The advancement<br>of musical education for the|public benefit,<br>in|
|---|---|---|
|objects set out in|particular<br>for young people from disadvantaged|backgrounds,<br>by|
|SGS' governing|helping<br>young people and school communities|to access the music|
|document|production<br>process and musical activities,<br>which develop their skills||
||and promote engagement.||





|Summary ofmain|Summary ofmain|We confirm the trustees<br>have had regard to the Charity Commission's|We confirm the trustees<br>have had regard to the Charity Commission's|
|---|---|---|---|
|activities||guidance<br>on public benefit.<br>Activities undertaken<br>include:||
|undertaken|for the|||
|public benefit in||For 11—16year olds from lower income backgrounds:||
|relation to|the|~<br>A programme<br>ofsong-writing<br>and music-making<br>workshops|for|
|objects||groups ofyoung people<br>in schools (the School Ground<br>Sounds||
|||'After School Programme' ).||
|||~<br>Projects in conjunction<br>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<br>with musical||
|||aspirations<br>who are often NEET (not in education,<br>employment<br>or||
|||training)||
|||~<br>A seven-week<br>crash course in the music industry<br>(called 'Grit||
|||School' ), with input from music industry<br>professionals<br>and||
|||opportunities<br>to collaborate<br>and perform||
|||~<br>A programme<br>ofone-to-one<br>mentoring<br>for young people||
|||interested<br>in pursuing<br>a career in music, with mentors<br>being||
|||volunteers<br>from the music industry||
|||~<br>Album-recording<br>projects (called 'From Scratch') run<br>in||
|||collaboration<br>with Finding<br>Rhythms,<br>an organisation<br>who do||
|||similar projects in prisons, to support<br>a group ofyoung people,||
|||who are considered<br>at risk ofoffending, to create and record|a set|
|||ofsongs.||
|||~<br>The formation<br>of an SGS 'House Band' to provide<br>live performance||
|||opportunities<br>to young instrumentalists<br>and vocalists||
|||~<br>The 'Accelerator'<br>programme<br>to support<br>young talented<br>musicians||
|||through<br>the whole process ofcreating and publishing<br>an EP||
|||~<br>Support for 'Tracks on Tap' - a project providing<br>regular<br>live||
|||performance<br>opportunities<br>for up-and-coming<br>young musicians||
|||As well as engaging the young people in positive, worthwhile<br>pursuits||
|||and developing<br>their musical<br>skills, all activities are intended<br>to||
|||improve the participants'<br>mental<br>wellbeing<br>and to develop<br>key social||
|||and emotional<br>capabilities.||
|||In addition<br>we have set up a new fund, 'Hatty's<br>Fund',<br>in memory|ofa|
|||young music-loving<br>woman<br>who was tragically<br>killed<br>in a road||
|||accident.<br>The fund donates<br>musical instruments<br>to keen young||
|||musicians<br>who might otherwise<br>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<br>(Covid-||
|||affected)||
|||Ran two Grit Schools, with 26 participants||
|||Ran a project on Windrush<br>with the Brixton Wings youth|centre|
|||Implemented<br>a Monitoring<br>and Evaluation<br>system called|Views|
|||from Substance.<br>This system<br>is helping to streamline<br>our data||
|||collection, analysis<br>and impact reporting,<br>and enhances|our ability|
|||to scale up our activities.||
|||Strengthened<br>our close collaboration<br>with Raw Material|Music &|
|||Media, who host our Grit School and other workshops||
|||Recruited<br>a new Chief Executive (Tom Scott stepped aside in||
|||September),<br>and a dedicated<br>Fundraising<br>g Communications||
|||Manager||
|||Achieved<br>a surplus off20.5k. We enter 2022 with reserves of||
|||E83k, of which E29k are unrestricted.||



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|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<br>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|||||||





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||||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||||



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