| Charity Name | School Ground Sounds | |
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| (Trading name: Grounded | Sounds) | |
| 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 | ||
| Charles Scott —Trustee | ||
| Chief Executive | Anthony Olanipekun |
| Type ofgoverning | Constitution | Constitution | ||||
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| How the charity is | Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) |
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| Trustee selection | Open advertisement, selection and appointment by |
resolution | ofexisting | |||
| method | trustees. | |||||
| Section C —Ob ectlves | and | activities | ||||
| Summary ofthe | The | advancement of musical education for the public benefit, |
in particular | |||
| objects set out in | for | young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, |
by helping | young | ||
| SGS' governing | people and school communities to access the music |
production | process | |||
| document | 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 |
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| activities | guidance on public benefit. Activities undertaken include: |
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| undertaken for the |
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| public benefit in | For | 11—16year olds from lower income backgrounds: | ||||
| relation tothe | ~ | A programme ofsong-writing and music-making |
workshops | for groups | ||
| objects | ofyoung people in schools (now known as School Ground |
Sounds) | ||||
| For | 18 —24 year olds from lower income backgrounds | with musical | ||||
| aspirations who are often NEET (not in education, employment |
or training) | |||||
| ~ | A crash course in the music industry ('Spotlight', |
formerly | 'Grit School' ), | |||
| with input from music industry professionals and opportunities to |
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| collaborate, perform and set goals and plans for |
the future | |||||
| ~ | A programme ofone-to-one mentoring for young people interested |
in | ||||
| pursuing a career in music |
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| ~ | The provision of performance opportunities |
| As well as engaging the |
young people in positive, worthwhile pursuits |
young people in positive, worthwhile pursuits |
young people in positive, worthwhile pursuits |
young people in positive, worthwhile pursuits |
and | |
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| developing their musical |
skills, all activities are intended | to build | ||||
| participants' confidence, |
self-discipline, teamwork and |
resilience. | ||||
| We also manage a fund, |
'Hatty's Fund', which donates |
instruments | to | |||
| selected keen young musicians who cannot otherwise |
afford them. | |||||
| Section | D —Achievements and erformance |
| Summary of | the | Secured c.f176koffunding, an increase off22k over 2022 |
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| main | Grew our corporate sponsorship from the music industry tof38kfrom |
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| achievements | of | just E4.5k in 2022 | |
| the charity during | Completed a strategy refresh and rebranding exercise, with a change of |
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| the year | trading name to 'Grounded Sounds', launched in March, better to |
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| reflect our work both in schools and for post-school age participants |
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| Had over 90young people participating in SGSactivities |
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| Delivered our schools programme in three schools with a total ofover |
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| 70 unique participants, and an average attending each term of14per |
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| school | |||
| Ran the revamped Spotlight programme (previously 'Grit School' ),with |
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| 15participants | |||
| Unfortunately our Chief Executive had a significant period ofabsence due |
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| to ill health, from which he is now recovering and back at work, but this did |
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| mean that we had an additional expense of a stand-in Chief Executive for a |
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| couple of months, resulting in a small deficit for the year. |
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| We had two trustees leave during the year, due to weight ofother |
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| commitments, and we are actively seeking to replace them. |
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| We enter 202+with reserves off73.3k, ofwhich f51.9k are unrestricted | |||
| (ofwhich f17.7k are designated to Hatty's Fund) |
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| ection E —Financial | Review | ||
| Briefstatement | of | SGS' aim isto build and maintain a level ofreserves that will cover at |
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| the charity's | policy | least 4- 6 months' forward committed expenditure. We will never let |
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| on reserves | the level ofreserves drop below 3months offorward committed |
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| expenditure. | |||
| Details ofany | There are none. | ||
| funds materially | in | ||
| deficit |
| Latest period | (12months to31Dec2023) | (12months to31Dec2023) | Prior period | |||||
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | 12months to | |||||
| funds | funds | 31Dec 2022 | ||||||
| 61 | Cash funds | |||||||
| HSBCAccount | 51,901 | 21,436 | 73,337 | 77,455 | ||||
| Total cash | funds | 51,901 | 21,436 | 73,337 | 77,455 | see Note 4 | ||
| 62 | Other monetaryassets | None | None | None | None | |||
| 63 | Investment | assets | None | None | None | None | ||
| B4 | Assets retained | for the charity's own use | None | None | None | None | see Note 5 | |
| BS | Liabilities | None | None | None | None |