Registered charity · London
UD Music Foundation
- 5 trustees
- Income £763k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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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.udmusic.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- UD Music Foundation
- Registered
- 2012
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£763k£819k
- 2024£815k£885k
- 2023£2.6m£496k
Earlier years
- 2022£321k£305k
- 2021£117k£104k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 47%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF URBAN MUSIC;(2) TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN EAST LONDON BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT; AND(D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS; AND(3) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONGST PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 TO 30 WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO FULFIL THEIR CREATIVE POTENTIAL AND BY ASSISTING THEM THROUGH EDUCATIONAL WORK, (FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS ‘PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 TO 30 YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; RACE; GENDER; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; DISABILITY; ETHNIC ORIGIN; OR WHO ARE WITHIN, OR HAVE EXPERIENCED, THE PUBLIC CARE OR PENAL SYSTEM’).THESE OBJECTS SHALL BE OF A WHOLLY CHARITABLE NATURE AND SHALL BE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.
Grants received
10 grants · £1,021,480 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 Culture, Media & Sport · £659,424 (5 grants)
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £200,000
- Youth Music · £127,408 (2 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £19,648
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £15,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon Chair since 2012
- Genia Davy since 2022
- Harnek Pamma since 2024
- Lisa Buchan since 2024
- Naa-Odoley Ntodi since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon Chair since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon Chair since 2012
- Genia Davy since 2022
- Harnek Pamma since 2024
- Lisa Buchan since 2024
- Naa-Odoley Ntodi 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.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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
27.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 50.1 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1149090
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16 MAY 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/09/2012AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19/09/2012 as amended on 04 Mar 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 08071972 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 020 8536 0630 · contact@udmusic.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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