Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

HEAR ME OUT MUSIC 

Hear Me Out brings people living in immigration detention centres together with professional musicians and people living in the community, to create and perform powerful artistic work, and convey it to new audiences through live and recorded performance, thereby increasing wellbeing and empathy, and helping change attitudes to migrants.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

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: 17 years

www.hearmeoutmusic.org.uk

hello@hearmeoutmusic.org.uk

02070142811

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UN SDGs
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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£347£351£-3n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£320£232£88n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/21£257£242£15n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£246£228£18n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/03/19£209£224£-15n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/18£240£228£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£202£193£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£202£214£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£200£193£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£178£201£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£200£199£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£252£231£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£207£264£-57£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£280£260£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£221£199£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£167£141£26£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hackney, Islington, Kent, Newham, Redbridge, Scotland, West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 volunteers

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£260,000
Tudor Trust£77,000
Youth Music£73,056
BBC Children in Need£60,000
The Bromley Trust£45,000
The Foyle Foundation£45,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
AB Charitable Trust£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Tudor Trust - Grant to Music in Detention
£75,000 18/05/2020
36
over three years as continuation funding on an unrestricted basis for an organisation using music to engage both with immigration detainees and with marginalised communities close to Immigration ....more
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£15,000 07/02/2024
12
Hear Me Out uses the connecting, empowering medium of music to improve the situation of people with lived experience of immigration detention. This is a one year unrestricted grant towards their work.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hear Me Out Music
£60,000 06/10/2023
This project will deliver creative workshops for children and young people in the asylum system, living with their parents in hotel accommodation. Activities will increase emotional wellbeing and ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£15,000 10/07/2023
towards the core costs of developing and delivering artistic programmes immigration detention over the next 12 months for people with lived experience of immigration detention
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Core support
£240,000 03/10/2022
Hear Me Out brings immigration detainees and communities together to create and perform powerful music, increase wellbeing, and change attitudes to migrants. This grant will support Hear Me Out to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Creative workshops supporting the wellbeing of people seeking asylum in the UK
£10,000 19/08/2022
The funding will be used to deliver music-based activities for asylum seekers who have been placed in hotels. The project aims to improve their wellbeing self-confidence and resilience.
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£20,000 17/01/2022
Music in Detention offer participatory music-making to help immigration detainees cope with detention. This is a three year unrestricted grant towards their work.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 08/07/2021
towards ongoing costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - Hear Me Out Music, Music In Detention
£3,000 02/06/2021
Towards core costs of a 12-month programme for immigration centre detainees (up to 400). They will deliver creative resource packs, music podcasts, and artist-led online workshops. During COVID, ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 14/05/2021
Music In Detention: core funding request
Youth Music - Between the Drums
£73,056 24/04/2021
Between the Drums
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Hear Me Out
£15,000 22/04/2021
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Hear Me Out (formerly Music In Detention) brings skilled artists together with immigration detainees to create and produce music through weekly workshops. The ....more
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted Funding
£10,000 18/01/2021
12
Music in Detention offer participatory music-making to help immigration detainees cope with detention. This is a one year unrestricted grant towards their work.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Hear Me Out
£2,000 07/01/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
The Baring Foundation - Grant to Music In Detention
£8,000 14/09/2020
Early stages of work with former immigration detainees, especially building an ex-detainee network and providing holistic personal & practical support
The Earl of Northampton's Charity - Grant to Music In Detention
£12,472 02/07/2020
6
A programme of music-making activities to support the wellbeing of detainees at Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre in Lincolnshire.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - COVID19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 18/06/2020
9
Support to aid the organisation in dealing with the challenges posed by COVID19.
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Music In Detention
£15,000 23/04/2020
An unrestricted grant of £15,000. Music to Detention brings skilled artists together with immigration detainees to create and produce music through weekly workshops. The musicians also work with ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Here Me Out
£5,000 24/03/2020
11
Funding was provided to support the first of a two year 'Community Residency' between detainees at Brook House and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centres, and young people in the local area.
The Funding Network - Digital Breakthrough
£15,089 13/11/2019
A major investment in digital infrastructure and skills, to build a platform for detainees' voices, an audience for their music and stories, and a community of supporters for MID.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Here Me Out
£5,000 23/10/2019
4
Funding was provided for a creative Community Exchange Project with detainees at Brook House and Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centres and 30 young people at Thomas Bennett Community College.
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£10,000 20/09/2019
towards artistic strategy
National Lottery Community Fund - Music After Detention in Dover
£9,824 24/07/2019
12
The project will use funding to run a three day music residency for six former immigration detainees in Dover, culminating in a public performance to an audience of local residents. The project aims ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Music In Detention
£15,000 24/01/2019
£15,000 towards core costs. Music in Detention works to deliver music workshops in a number of Immigration Removal Centres in order to empower detainees to make music. Detainees are able to express ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Music In Detention
£3,215 16/11/2018
3
Funding was provided to support a special Community Exchange Project at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.
Youth Music - Music from the Edge
£14,524 17/11/2017
Music from the Edge
The Bromley Trust - Unrestricted grant
£30,000 25/10/2017
36
Music in Detention offer participatory music-making to help immigration detainees cope with detention. This is a three year unrestricted grant towards their work.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Arts and social change - supporting Music in Detention's next phase of development
£180,000 08/05/2017
36
Music in Detention brings immigration detainees and communities together to create and perform music, increase wellbeing and change attitudes to people who migrate. This grant will provide core ....more
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Music In Detention
£15,000 24/01/2017
£15,000 towards core costs. Music in Detention works to deliver music workshops in a number of Immigration Removal Centres in order to empower detainees to make music. Detainees are able to express ....more
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Music In Detention
£45,000 29/09/2016
36
Towards the delivery of creative music sessions with detainees and community members living next to Immigration Removal Centres.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Music in Detention
£75,000 24/06/2016
36
over three years towards the core running costs of an organisation using music to engage both with immigration detainees and with disadvantaged communities living close to Immigration Removal Centres
AB Charitable Trust - Improving immigration detainees' wellbeing through music
£10,000 20/10/2015
£10,000 towards core costs
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Funding for future development
£150,000 31/07/2014
[To be added following RDB's write-up for committee].
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Resilience grant
£110,000 23/07/2013
Resilience support to help build financial sustainability
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Music In Detention
£90,000 01/07/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the director to develop and sustain music-making in Immigration Removal Centres.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 39-70
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/05/2007, number: 1119049
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/09/2006, number: 05943893
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
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; all on time
Main office

Hear Me Out
Rich Mix Cultural Foundation
35-47 Bethnal Green Road
LONDON
E1 6LA

Objectives

1 THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF IMMIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THOSE DETAINED UNDER IMMIGRATION LAWS, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF MUSIC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE POSITION AND EXPERIENCE OF IMMIGRATION DETAINEES, AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD COMMUNITY RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THOSE LIVING IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF MUSIC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, CURRENT AND FORMER IMMIGRATION DETAINEES, IN THE CREATIVE ARTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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