Registered charity · London
RAW Material Music and Media Education Limited
(a) to promote education and training in the creative and expressive arts and media of every description (including but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, music, photography, journalism, films and video, radio, theatre, dance,...
- 8 trustees
- Income £1.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Jide AshimiChair · since 2016
- Alexandra Elizabeth RitchieTrustee · since 2019
- Claudia de WolffTrustee · since 2024
- Gillian Wendy SmithTrustee · since 2019
- Kelly Louise MillsTrustee · since 2024
- Sacha Natalie DentonTrustee · since 2015
- Shereen Jasmin PhillipsTrustee · since 2021
- Yomi SodeTrustee · since 2021
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout London
- Website
- www.rawmusicmedia.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- RAW Material Music and Media Education Limited
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.0m£468k
- 2024£969k£351k
- 2023£354k£356k
Earlier years
- 2022£368k£339k
- 2021£257k£230k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(a) to promote education and training in the creative and expressive arts and media of every description (including but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, music, photography, journalism, films and video, radio, theatre, dance, sculpture, visual arts, graphic and 3-dimensional design and information technology);(b) to advance the spiritual education physical cultural and social welfare of young people and in particular those living in inner areas, so that they may grow to maturity as individuals and members of society;(c) to do all such other things as are incidental to the attainment of the objects of the Charity or any of them.
Grants received
29 grants · £3,095,950 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Maudsley Charity · £1,057,459 (5 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £498,242
- City Bridge Trust · £293,500 (4 grants)
- Youth Music · £282,019 (5 grants)
- Comic Relief · £271,950
Most recent
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
8 trustees on the board
- Jide Ashimi Chair since 2016
- Alexandra Elizabeth Ritchie since 2019
- Claudia de Wolff since 2024
- Gillian Wendy Smith since 2019
- Kelly Louise Mills since 2024
- Sacha Natalie Denton since 2015
- Shereen Jasmin Phillips since 2021
- Yomi Sode since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Jide Ashimi Chair since 2016
- Alexandra Elizabeth Ritchie since 2019
- Gillian Wendy Smith since 2019
- Sacha Natalie Denton since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Jide Ashimi Chair since 2016
- Alexandra Elizabeth Ritchie since 2019
- Claudia de Wolff since 2024
- Gillian Wendy Smith since 2019
- Kelly Louise Mills since 2024
- Shereen Jasmin Phillips since 2021
- Yomi Sode since 2021
Portfolio (1)
- Sacha Natalie Denton since 2015
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1020066
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 APRIL 1993 as amended on 30 Sep 2021 as amended on 26 Mar 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 02807620 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07506 242 033 · enquiries@rawmusicmedia.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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