Registered charity · Huddersfield
The Organisation for NEW Music and Sound
- 12 trustees
- Income £922k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Ramani Elizabeth LangleyChair · since 2024
- Alastair Duncan CotterillTrustee · since 2021
- Atem MbebohTrustee · since 2021
- Catherine BuntingTrustee · since 2019
- Cevanne Horrocks-HopayianTrustee · since 2025
- David LassersonTrustee · since 2019
- Dennis LeeTrustee · since 2017
- Imogen Rachael LawlorTrustee · since 2020
- Sacha Natalie DentonTrustee · since 2025
- Sam PalmerTrustee · since 2020
- Victor Wei Te LiTrustee · since 2026
- Zorbey Ege CanturkTrustee · since 2026
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, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.soundandmusic.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Organisation for NEW Music and Sound
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£922k£860k
- 2024£990k£1.0m
- 2023£1.0m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.2m£1.0m
- 2021£901k£872k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 72%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF SONIC ART AND MUSIC INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) NEW BRITISH MUSIC.
Grants received
7 grants · £1,056,466 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £717,625
- Youth Music · £127,841
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £116,000 (2 grants)
- John Ellerman Foundation · £75,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £20,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Board analysis for researchers
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Ramani Elizabeth Langley Chair since 2024
- Alastair Duncan Cotterill since 2021
- Atem Mbeboh since 2021
- Catherine Bunting since 2019
- Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian since 2025
- David Lasserson since 2019
- Dennis Lee since 2017
- Imogen Rachael Lawlor since 2020
- Sacha Natalie Denton since 2025
- Sam Palmer since 2020
- Victor Wei Te Li since 2026
- Zorbey Ege Canturk since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Catherine Bunting since 2019
- David Lasserson since 2019
- Dennis Lee since 2017
- Sam Palmer since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Ramani Elizabeth Langley Chair since 2024
- Alastair Duncan Cotterill since 2021
- Atem Mbeboh since 2021
- Catherine Bunting since 2019
- Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian since 2025
- David Lasserson since 2019
- Dennis Lee since 2017
- Imogen Rachael Lawlor since 2020
- Sam Palmer since 2020
- Zorbey Ege Canturk since 2026
Portfolio (2)
- Sacha Natalie Denton since 2025
- Victor Wei Te Li since 2026
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
8.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.4 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1124609
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 APRIL 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 06581022 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 00000000000 · info@soundandmusic.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 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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