Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

SOUNDABOUT 

Soundabout exists to make a difference to the lives of those people who have complex disabilities by helping them develop their ability to communicate and interact with the world around them through music and sound.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 20 years

www.soundabout.org.uk

info@soundabout.org.uk

01235797474

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£430£381£49n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/22£411£407£5n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£452£378£74n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/20?£377£418£-41n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/12/18£263£292£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£305£240£65£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£184£245£-61£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£236£248£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£233£238£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£227£253£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£240£191£49£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£200£192£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£210£211£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£249£256£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£314£327£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£298£327£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£370£284£86£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£207£241£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£224£183£41£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 10 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Youth Music£305,000
DCMS£22,380
National Lottery Community Fund£19,877
Oxfordshire Community Foundation£17,810
Masonic Trust£15,000
Wates Foundation£7,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
The Fore£4,710
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Youth Music - Soundabout Grow
£195,000 28/03/2023
Soundabout Grow
Wates Foundation - Soundabout_NWF 2022
£7,000 12/10/2022
For this project, we will plan and deliver four Multi-Sensory Festivals (two days each) in accessible and inspiring learning settings in areas where there is a strong need for more multi-sensory ....more
The Postlethwaite Music Foundation - Grant to Soundabout
£1,000 26/05/2022
Providing support for the Inclusive Choir to meet and sing online
National Lottery Community Fund - Gloucestershire Inclusive Choir
£9,897 01/04/2022
The funding will be used to run an Inclusive Choir in Gloucestershire as part of the organisation's choir network and build on the success of a pilot project in 2021/22. The aim of the project is to ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 03/09/2021
Creating Musical Communities without Barriers
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 24/02/2021
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Soundabout Live! online sessions for disabled children and young people isolated at home during the Covid-19 crisis
£5,000 28/01/2021
3
Online sessions for disabled children and young people isolated at home during the Covid-19 crisis.
The Funding Network - Inclusive Choir
£4,452 24/11/2020
Inclusive Choir bringing together people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, and families, to make music with a community of mixed ability singers with a diverse range of life ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£22,380 19/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
The Fore - RAFT COVID-19 response grant to Soundabout
£4,710 12/06/2020
Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Soundabout, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.
Youth Music - Coronavirus - Emergency Fund
£10,000 07/05/2020
Coronavirus - Emergency Fund - Organisational sustainability
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - COVID-19 Soundabout Live! and Virtual Inclusive Choir
£9,810 23/04/2020
4
Advice & support - Children, young people and adults with severe or profound learning disabilities, and their families, will be able to participate in music making at home whilst isolated.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Inclusive Choir
£3,000 03/10/2019
11
Soundabout's Inclusive Choir brings together people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to make music with a community of mixed ability singers with a broad range of life experiences. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Inclusive Choir
£9,980 03/10/2019
12
Inclusive Choir
Youth Music - Building Bridges
£100,000 09/05/2019
Building Bridges
Masonic Trust - Core funding
£5,000 18/10/2017
Music activities and events for people with learning disabilities.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Soundabout
£5,500 02/06/2017
purchase of iPads for a charity which works with disabled people in Oxfordshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Southern Lights and Sounds
£8,600 11/04/2017
12
This project will use funding to run family sessions and a sensory music festival, around the theme of the sounds of the South Pole, for disabled children. This will enable profoundly children, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Soundabout
£96,800 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' salary of a Soundabout Community Programme Coordinator at a music education charity providing activities and support to people of all ages across the UK with severe and profound ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Baby Soundabout sessions for families of disabled children
£2,000 05/02/2014
Towards the Baby Soundabout sessions for families of disabled children in Oxfordshire.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a three-day package of Soundabout outreach training
£1,800 20/02/2012
Towards a three-day package of Soundabout outreach training in special schools in Oxfordshire.
Woodward Charitable Trust - "Music for All" project
£15,000 08/02/2007
Towards the "Music for All" project for children and young people with physical and learning difficulties (£5,000 in 2007, 2008 and 2009).
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-64
  • CHEUK WA YUEN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Professional Sound Designer/ Engineer
  • EMILY NUNNS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Fundraising Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/04/2004, number: 1103002
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/01/2004, number: 05023067
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

Soundabout
John Eccles House
Robert Robinson Avenue
Oxford Science Park
OXFORD
OX4 4GP

Objectives

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PEOPLE WITH SEVERE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND PHYSICAL DIFFICULTIES BY THE PROVISION OF INTERACTIVE MUSIC MAKING SESSIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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