Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

COMMUNITY ALBUMS 

Building better communities through music and media
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and a Community Foundation
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age 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
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 13 years

www.communityalbums.com

jan@communityalbums.com

07958902328

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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
30/04/23£72£105£-33n/an/an/an/an/a3
30/04/22£108£89£18n/an/an/an/an/a2
30/04/21£76£73£3n/an/an/an/an/a2
30/04/20£98£73£24n/an/an/an/an/a2
30/04/19£55£51£5n/an/an/an/an/a1
30/04/18£68£59£9£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/17£73£69£4£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/16£55£54£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/15£13£20£-7£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/14£27£31£-5£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/13£64£55£10£0£0£0n/a00
30/04/12£60£48£13£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
Who works here?
  • 3 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Burundi, Kenya, Newham, Oxfordshire, Uganda, Zimbabwe,

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
BBC Children in Need£29,565
National Lottery Community Fund£9,996
The Funding Network£5,628
Woodward Charitable Trust£2,750
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£1,000 31/10/2023
Core costs
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£750 31/10/2022
Core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - Upbeat
£9,996 12/11/2021
The funding will be used to run interactive music and media sessions for disadvantaged young people including those from BAME communities. The project aims to increase the participants communication ....more
Woodward Charitable Trust - Interactive music sessions to help disadvantaged young people
£1,000 19/11/2019
Towards interactive music sessions to help disadvantaged young people.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Community Albums
£29,565 21/05/2019
36
This project is a music production programme working with children living in deprived areas in Northamptonshire. The project aims to enable children to express creativity, improve life skills and ....more
The Funding Network - Upbeat
£5,628 09/05/2019
To address a range of issues experienced by disadvantaged young people in Bretch Hill, including: low self esteem, isolation, lack of technical skills, poor social and communication skills.
Youth Music - Music United
£29,579 08/03/2019
Music United
Oxfordshire Community Foundation - Changing Tracks
£4,000 04/07/2017
11
This grant will go to fund the specialised training and support provided by musicians
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 28-67
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/02/2011, number: 1140485
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/11/2010, number: 07424717
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
  • 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
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Well Community Centre
49 Vicarage Lane
LONDON
E6 6DQ

Objectives

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH PROMOTING SUSTAINING AND INCREASING THE KNOWLEDGE SKILL AND UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES IN THE USE OF MUSIC AND MEDIA.2. THE PROMOTION OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP THAT IS ENCOURAGED IN PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE, AND THOSE WITHOUT A VOICE OR WITH PERCPTIONS OF LESS INFLUENCE, TO FIND EXPRESSION TO THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AND CONCERNS THAT MIGHT BE LOCAL REGIONAL NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL THROUGH THE USE OF MUSIC AND MEDIA

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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