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|Charity Name|School Ground Sounds||
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||(Trading name: Grounded|Sounds)|
|Registered charity|1159676||
|number|||
|Principal Address|14Henderson
Road, London SW18 3RR||
|Trustees|Tom Keohane —Chairman||
||Jack Keeling —Trustee||
||Charles Scott —Trustee||
|Chief Executive|Anthony
Olanipekun||
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|Type ofgoverning|Constitution|Constitution|||||
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|document|||||||
|How the charity is|Charitable
Incorporated
Organisation
(CIO)||||||
|constituted|||||||
|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|||||
|activities|guidance
on public benefit.
Activities undertaken
include:||||||
|undertaken
for the|||||||
|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|||||
|||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|||||
||~|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|
|achievements|of||just E4.5k in 2022|
|the charity during|||Completed
a strategy refresh and rebranding
exercise, with a change of|
|the year|||trading
name to 'Grounded
Sounds', launched
in March, better to|
||||reflect our work both
in schools and for post-school
age participants|
||||Had over 90young people participating
in SGSactivities|
||||Delivered
our schools programme
in three schools with a total ofover|
||||70 unique
participants,
and an average attending
each term of14per|
||||school|
||||Ran the revamped
Spotlight programme
(previously
'Grit School' ),with|
||||15participants|
||||Unfortunately
our Chief Executive had a significant
period ofabsence due|
||||to ill health, from which he is now recovering
and back at work, but this did|
||||mean that we had an additional
expense of a stand-in
Chief Executive for a|
||||couple of months,
resulting
in a small deficit for the year.|
||||We had two trustees
leave during the year, due to weight ofother|
||||commitments,
and we are actively seeking to replace them.|
||||We enter 202+with reserves off73.3k, ofwhich f51.9k are unrestricted|
||||(ofwhich f17.7k are designated
to Hatty's
Fund)|
|ection E —Financial|||Review|
|Briefstatement||of|SGS' aim isto build and maintain
a level ofreserves that will cover at|
|the charity's|policy||least 4- 6 months'
forward
committed
expenditure.
We will never let|
|on reserves|||the level ofreserves drop below 3months offorward
committed|
||||expenditure.|
|Details ofany|||There are none.|
|funds materially||in||
|deficit||||
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|||||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||
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