Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

THE MUSICAL MUSEUM 

OPERATION OF A MUSEUM OF AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND ASSOCIATED ARCHIVES FOR THE GERERAL EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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 and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 34 years

www.musicalmuseum.co.uk

visit@musicalmuseum.co.uk

02085608108

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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£62£210£-147n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/22£62£210£-147n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£266£364£-98n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£263£204£60n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/19£51£148£-97n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£198£137£61£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£53£158£-105£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£114£134£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£49£159£-110£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£56£127£-71£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£70£113£-43£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£42£109£-67£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£32£175£-143£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£24£187£-163£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£86£264£-178£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£321£225£96£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£736£56£679£2£2,326£560118.900
31/03/06£1,483£1,284£198£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£24£14£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£40£72£-32£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 30 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Hounslow,

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
National Lottery Heritage Fund£83,100
City Bridge Trust£2,600
London Borough of Hounslow£1,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
London Borough of Hounslow - Grant to Musical Museum
£1,000 23/08/2021
Amplifying the Musical Museum’s role as an anchor point of the Creative Mile: Brentford Art Trail 4th and 5th September.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Musical Museum
£83,100 02/09/2020
COVID19: The Musical Museum
City Bridge Trust - Eco audit to The Musical Museum
£2,600 30/06/2019
£2,600 to provide an eco-audit.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Musical Museum
£8,800 29/03/2019
Homecoming: Music and the returning soldier

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: 34-80
  • MICHAEL WOOD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Management Consultant
  • MARCUS HARBORNE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Consultant For Licensed Retail
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 13/10/1989, number: 802011
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/07/1989, number: 02401088
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
  • 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
20 returns made; AR15: 1 days late, AR11: 17 days late,
Main office

THE MUSICAL MUSEUM
399 HIGH STREET
BRENTFORD
TW8 0DU

Objectives

To advance the education of the public through the operation of a museum which:a. conserves, preserves, and develops nationally important collections related to the history of music reproduction for the benefit of the enjoyment and educational advancement of the public and the visitors to the museum; andb. informs, engages and entertains the public regarding the evolution of music reproduction through the use of self-playing instruments, and the provision of educational and musical demonstrations, talks, exhibitions, live performances and other forms of information and written communication; andc. is focused on the conservation, preservation, promotion and presentation of the theatre pipe organ as an instrument with a significant role in the development of light music on radio and in the cinema and as a musical art form through concerts and silent film programmes and to provide educational opportunities for the general public and specialist groups world-wide arising from such musical and educational activities.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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