## Made with Music
Charity number 1177738
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## Made with Music
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 4|
|Examiner's report|5|
|Receipts and payments account|6|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|7|
|Notes to the accounts|8 to 9|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## Made with Music
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates**
Miles Jefford Chair Charles Gower-Smith Tamsyn Durrant Ian Thornton Satnam Galsian Sarah Perry Rose Beaumont Laura Stubbs 1177738
## **Charity number**
Resigned 21 November 2024
Appointed 19 March 2025 Appointed 19 March 2025 Appointed 19 March 2025 Appointed 19 March 2025
Registered in England and Wales
**Registered and principal address Bankers** 32 St Martins Road The Co-Operative Bank Leeds 19/20 Commercial Street LS7 3LX Leeds LS1 6AL
## **Independent examiner**
Katy Sargeant **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO** Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 28 March 2018.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
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## Made with Music
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
The objects of the CIO are: the advancement of music education of young people and families in and around Yorkshire, through the provision of accessible live music activities along with educational activities in conjunction with those, for the public benefit.
To preserve and protect the mental and physical health of musicians through the provision of support, advice and training.
## **The charity's main activities**
Made with Music provides accessible and educational musical activities for everyone. We mainly work with families, but this extends from babies to grandparents and we aim to make all of our events and workshops inclusive and accessible to as wide a range of people as possible. We currently provide early years music classes for parents/carers and their children, specialist music sessions for disability support groups, singing development in schools, family-friendly and accessible gigs, intergenerational singing sessions and training sessions for staff and parents. We support young musicians to develop their skills through advice and training and support the mental wellbeing of our own staff by planning and delivering all projects in pairs.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of music education of young people and families in and around Yorkshire through participation in live music activities. Made with Music has continued to be very adaptable with their offer and has continued to successfully offer this service in a hybrid fashion both in-person and online through our YouTube channel for those in hospital or unable to attend sessions for any reason. Our YouTube channel continues to see an increase in subscribers and over the financial year 2425 we had over 14,000 views. (Figures taken from YouTube channel analytics).
## **Achievements and performance**
Made with Music has had another successful year as the charity continues to grow in capacity and financially. In the financial year 24-25, we secured multiple year funding for 2 new projects, both funded by Youth Music. Catalyser is a 2 year grant for the continuation of OPEN – an inclusive ensemble for families, in partnership with Leeds Conservatoire. Energiser is a national learning project looking at how disabled 2-4 year olds play and experience the world, this project is funded for 3 years.
We will be entering our second year of funding from Leeds City Council, Cultural Investment programme (£6,400 – not yet in our bank account) which can be put towards core costs for the charity. This will enable us to build further relationships with partners around the city who want to better their inclusive provision for families.
We have also been successful in sourcing funding to contribute to our perinatal mental health work with the NHS. A vital part of our programme which has huge benefits.
We continue to have full early years classes and sold out mini-gigs as well as regular sessions with Sunshine & Smiles. We continue to work 1-1 with a teenager with PMLD and our music sessions with a young adult to help recover from trauma have come to an end – their carers and teachers are seeking funding for this to continue as it has helped in their recovery.
With the use of unrestricted funds and donations, we have been able to continue to offer subsidised and free places to our classes and events. We have seen the demand for this increase substantially over the past year with the rise in cost of living.
We have again been invited to speak at networking events and family support groups about our work and are now in a position to offer consultancy on inclusive and accessible music provision. We are hoping this will become a new funding stream for the charity as some organisations are able to pay for this expertise knowledge and experience.
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## Made with Music
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **Achievements and performance continued**
We have embarked on a new partnership with Hyde Park Picture House, working with them to develop their family audience. We have also been asked to take part in events with Bradford City of Culture, 2025.
As a charity, between the dates of April 2024 and March 2025, we have worked with 41 children between the ages of 0-10, 31 teens and 87 careers or guardians as a result of our work with the local group Sunshine & Smiles (Leeds Down syndrome Network). In this time, we have held 4 separate mini-gigs, hosting 12 different artists (including Leeds legends Utah Saints). Across the 4 mini-gigs we have sold 591 tickets (331 adult tickets, 240 children tickets and 14 babies tickets). 109 adults and 88 children/babies attended our 2 Family Sing events at Left Bank, Leeds. We have had 194 babies attend our perinatal mental health sessions at The Mount. And we have also held 35 1-1 sessions for a select number of individuals. We held 54 early classes which are split into two classes per week of babies and mixed ages. Each week we had on average 19 adults attend and 17 babies/children. Meaning in total we had 493 adults attend our early years classes and 481 babies/children at early years classes.
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £39,410, including net receipts of £237 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £39,173 on restricted funds, after transfers.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £18,894.
During this financial year, we have not needed to use our reserves and in fact have been able to increase them this financial year. We would like to build up our reserves to £20,000 to allow us to pay all musicians for at least 6 months if a global crisis like Covid-19 were to impact us again.
## **Funds or subsidiary undertakings materially in deficit**
The DWP Access to Work grant was £3,350 in deficit at year end - this is because payments are paid in arrears.
Approved by the board of trustees on 8/8/25
Miles Jefford (Trustee)
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## Made with Music
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Made with Music
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 9.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Katy Sargeant
12/8/25
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Made with Music
## Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025
|Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
3,665
Sales and fees
24,956
**Total receipts**
28,621
**Payments**
Freelance musicians
25,044
Other freelance fees
380
Room hire
2,466
Instruments and resources
131
Marketing and printing
126
Insurance
297
Travel
223
Refreshments
346
Training and DBS
-
Personal Assistant payments
-
Independent examination
846
**Total payments**
29,859
**Net receipts / (payments)**
(1,238)
**Transfers between funds**
1,475
**Net movement in funds**
237
**Fund balances brought forward**
18,657
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
18,894|2025
Restricted
funds
£
92,359
-
92,359
26,530
7,828
2,055
122
428
-
952
733
-
13,063
-
51,711
40,648
(1,475)
39,173
5,373
44,546|2025
Total
funds
£
96,024
24,956
120,980
51,574
8,208
4,521
253
554
297
1,175
1,079
-
13,063
846
81,570
39,410
-
39,410
24,030
63,440|2024
Total
funds
£
39,429
34,433
73,862
47,766
4,678
3,264
98
669
329
257
236
40
10,825
420
68,582
5,280
-
5,280
18,750
24,030|
|---|---|---|---|
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## Made with Music
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 March 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
18,858
Cash in hand
36
**Total cash funds**
18,894
**Debtors and prepayments**
Prepayments
**Liabilities**
Accruals|2025
Restricted
£
44,546
-
44,546|2025
Total
£
63,404
36
63,440
2025
£
192
192
2025
£
600
600|2024
Total
£
23,972
58
24,030|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 8/8/25
Miles Jefford (Trustee)
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## Made with Music
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## Made with Music
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2025
|**2 Grants and donations**
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
D'Oyly Carte
Leeds City Council (LCC)
The National Foundation for Youth Music (NFYM)
Audacia
Genesis Labels and Packaging
Leeds Community Foundation
Leeds Conservatoire
Other donations
**3 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
£
Leeds Community Foundation
224
DWP Access to Work
(3,987)
NFYM Youth Music Recharge
7,146
LCC Art@Leeds
1,990
D'Oyly Carte
-
NFYM Youth Music Energiser
-
NFYM Youth Music Catalyser
-
5,373|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
3,665
3,665
Incoming
£
-
13,700
12,870
6,400
3,000
38,154
18,235
92,359|2025
Restricted
funds
£
13,700
3,000
6,400
69,259
-
-
-
-
-
92,359
Outgoing
£
224
13,063
14,597
3,870
-
18,881
1,076
51,711|2025
Total
funds
£
13,700
3,000
6,400
69,259
-
-
-
-
3,665
96,024
Transfers
£
-
-
-
(1,475)
-
-
-
(1,475)|2024
Total
funds
£
8,463
-
5,000
14,300
1,000
1,000
7,200
900
1,566
39,429
Balance c/f
£
-
(3,350)
5,419
3,045
3,000
19,273
17,159
44,546|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Fund name**
Leeds Community Foundation DWP Access to Work NFYM Youth Music Recharge
LCC Art@Leeds
D'Oyly Carte NFYM Youth Music Energiser NFYM Youth Music Catalyser
## **Purpose of restriction**
Inclusive ensemble in partnership with Leeds Conservatoire. DWP funding for disability related support. This grant is paid in arrears. Recharge Fund to boost charities in their recovery after Covid. Covering some core costs and some money to pay freelancers to think strategically about the direction of Made with Music.
Core costs to develop charity - some of the funds have been used to subsidise the cost of activities and ticket sales for participants and as such has been shown as a transfer to unrestricted funds.
Perinatal mental health work with Leeds NHS partnership. Three year national learning project with disabled 2-4 year olds. OPEN – an inclusive ensemble for families.
## **4 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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