Trustees' Annual Report for the period
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Period start date Period end date 1 Jan 2025 31 Dec 2025 To
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Ministry of Music
Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1163323
Charity's principal address 22 Estuary Drive
Felixstowe Suffolk Postcode IP119TL
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Greg Weston 2 Steve Meacham 3 Michael Maidment 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
| Names and addresses of | advisers (Optional information) | advisers (Optional information) |
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| Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) |
Michael Maidment
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term Trustee selection methods of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the (eg. appointed by, elected by) charity trustees.
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
To promote and advance the Christian religion, in the United Kingdom and throughout the world, for the benefit of the public mainly, but not exclusively by
(a) facilitating Christian artists to perform music, lead worship, provide training and give the Christian message at events and other settings (b) the development and management of Christian artists
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We facilitate Christian singers, bands and worship leaders to perform music, lead worship, provide training and give the Christian message at events and other settings. We can also provide PA/lighting equipment & sound/lighting engineers. Events include community outreach, youth, schools, church services, cafe church, conferences, festivals & training workshops/seminars.
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)
By facilitating Christian artists to perform music, lead worship, provide training and give the Christian message at events and other settings Ministry of Music advances the Christian religion for the public benefit in the following ways:
a) Seeking new followers to the Christian faith through evangelism. At most of the events that Ministry of Music facilitate the Christian message is proclaimed through the lyrics of the songs and/or the spoken message given by the artist. This might be via a personal testimony, an evangelical talk or describing what a particular song is about.
b) Facilitating the practice of the Christian faith. This is achieved in a number of ways by Ministry of Music artists including;
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Leading worship at Christian events and church services
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Providing RE lessons in schools
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Providing seminars on worship leading in church settings
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
We would like to offer our thanks to the following:
- Our Artist Review Team who review the many new artists who apply to work with us each year.
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
Ministry of Music is 16 years old this year. In this time, we have helped support over 950 Christian events, with over 1100 artist bookings. But most importantly the vision of drawing people closer to God has been evident at many events where people have become Christians and lives have been impacted by God. 2025 continued the upward trend in event and artist bookings with our best results since 2022. We give thanks to God for all that was achieved during the year. Music can be such a powerful and culturally relevant way to spread the Christian message, and we are thankful that we have been able to achieve this via our artists leading worship and performing music at many events across the UK. Here is some of the encouraging feedback we have received... “A big thank you for sending Redemption Arc our way. Saturday was wonderful and spirit filled. I was really inspired by their humility and heart for the Lord. We would be delighted to have them for a future event.” “Rev21 were absolutely brilliant!” “Thank you for all you did for us last year” During Advent we once again shared our artists festive music videos on Facebook. Each song was accompanied by a daily Advent bible verse. This proved very popular and reached thousands of people with the Christmas message via music and word. The BBC Sunday Morning Live show have now used 6 Ministry of Music artists on their programme. During 2025 they used Feed’Em, Jemimah Paine, Chrisee and Jerome Silva. We thank the 32 excellent artists that we work with for the use of their musical gifts at the many events we facilitate across the UK. Following our 2025 artist review 5 new artists will be working with us in 2026. We also thank the churches and individuals who have partnered with us through prayer and financial donations. Without this crucial support we would struggle to remain a sustainable ministry. As we move forward, we will continue to trust in God to be our guide and provider of all our needs.
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Section E Financial review
Although we do not have a formal reserves policy, we carefully review Brief statement of the our financial position at each trustee meeting.
charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially in deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Section F Other optional information
Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s)
Full name(s) Steve Meacham Greg Weston Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee Trustee etc) Date 22/04/26
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Charity Name No (if any) Ministry of Music 1163323 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/01/2025 31/12/2025
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 3 770 170 1 400 2 291 - - - - 7 631 - - - 7 631 160 170 6 909 201 - - 224 - - 7 664 - - - 7 664 - 33 - 1 806 1 774 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 3 770 170 1 400 2 291 - - - - 7 631 - - - 7 631 160 170 6 909 201 - - 224 - - 7 664 - - - 7 664 - 33 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| MoM Event Deposits | 3 770 | 3 560 | ||||
| Artist Event Fees | 170 | 615 | ||||
| Artist Annual Subscriptions | 1 400 | 1 000 | ||||
| Donations & Gifts | 2 291 | 2 201 | ||||
| Grants | - | - | ||||
| Other | - | - | ||||
| - | - | |||||
| - | - | |||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
7 631 | 7 376 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| - | ||||||
| - | - | |||||
| Sub total | - | - | ||||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 7 376 | ||||||
| MoM Event Deposits(Refunds) | 160 | - | ||||
| Artist Event Fees | 170 | 615 | ||||
| Personnel Contracts | 6 909 | 6 429 | ||||
| Telco & Office | 201 | 62 | ||||
| Travel | - | - | ||||
| Marketing | - | 6 | ||||
| Other | 224 | 224 | ||||
| - | - | |||||
| - | - | |||||
| **Sub total ** | 7 664 | 7 336 | ||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| - | ||||||
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| **Sub total ** | - | - | ||||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 7 336 | ||||||
| - 33 | - | - | - 33 | 40 | ||
| - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1 806 | - | - | 1 806 | 1 767 | ||
| 1 774 | - | - | 1 774 | 1 806 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds CCXX R1 accounts (SS) |
Santander Charity Account Details 1 |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 1 774 - |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Santander Charity Account | 1 774 | - | - | |
| 1 | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | ||||||
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| Total cash funds | 1 | 774 | - | - | ||||
| (agree balances with receipts and payments | ||||||||
| account(s)) | OK | OK | OK | |||||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Endowment | ||||||
| funds | funds | funds | ||||||
| Details | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | |||||
| B2 Other monetary assets | - | - | - | |||||
| - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | - | ||||||
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| Details | Fund to which asset belongs |
Cost (optional) | Current value (optional) |
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| B3 Investment assets | - | - | ||||||
| - | - | |||||||
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| Details | Fund to which asset belongs |
Cost (optional) | Current value (optional) |
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| B4 Assets retained for the | - | - | ||||||
| charity’s own use | - | - | ||||||
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| Fund to which | Amount due | When due | ||||||
| Details | liability relates | (optional) | (optional) | |||||
| B5 Liabilities | - | |||||||
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature | Name | Date of approval |
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| Michael | Maidment | 22/04/2026 | ||||||
| GregWeston | 22/04/2026 |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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