Registered charity · London
Drake Music
- 9 trustees
- Income £522k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Lee HolderChair · since 2025
- Christine WangTrustee · since 2024
- Daniel WattsTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Martin Eugene O'LearyTrustee · since 2026
- Eleanor KadingTrustee · since 2025
- Elizabeth Ann SalmonTrustee · since 2018
- Jill MeredithTrustee · since 2025
- Megan DawesTrustee · since 2025
- MX Snoof KattekopTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.drakemusic.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Drake Music
- Registered
- 1994
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£522k£570k
- 2024£416k£685k
- 2023£717k£650k
Earlier years
- 2022£715k£744k
- 2021£720k£572k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE OF ALL AGES IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC
Grants received
30 grants · £2,041,116 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
- Youth Music · £1,045,104 (3 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £405,100 (3 grants)
- City Bridge Trust · £225,000 (3 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £122,000 (3 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £45,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- Postcode Local Trust
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Lee Holder Chair since 2025
- Christine Wang since 2024
- Daniel Watts since 2024
- Dr Martin Eugene O'Leary since 2026
- Eleanor Kading since 2025
- Elizabeth Ann Salmon since 2018
- Jill Meredith since 2025
- MX Snoof Kattekop since 2023
- Megan Dawes since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Elizabeth Ann Salmon since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Lee Holder Chair since 2025
- Christine Wang since 2024
- Daniel Watts since 2024
- Dr Martin Eugene O'Leary since 2026
- Eleanor Kading since 2025
- Elizabeth Ann Salmon since 2018
- Jill Meredith since 2025
- MX Snoof Kattekop since 2023
- Megan Dawes since 2025
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.
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
2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1034374
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 03 NOVEMBER 1993 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 3 JUNE 1994, 20 JANUARY 2005, 28 JULY 2008, 10 NOVEMBER 2008 AND 18 MARCH 2009
- Companies House
- Company number 02868675 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02077395444 · info@drakemusic.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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