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Registered charity · London

The National Federation of Music Societies

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £936k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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 England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.makingmusic.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Federation of Music Societies
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£936k£876k
  • 2024£1.0m£827k
  • 2023£929k£841k
Earlier years
  • 2022£703k£771k
  • 2021£721k£761k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROMOTING THE ART AND PRACTICE AND PUBLIC PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

Grants received

6 grants · £206,082 total

360Giving 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 · £196,100 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,982 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £25,0002023-07-10
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £85,5502022-10-20
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £85,5502022-10-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £2,5102008-09-16
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,9722007-10-23
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.

12 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (7)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 12Other services 3Professional services 3

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.2 in 2020

18 from 16 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
249219
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27TH DECEMBER 1935 AS AMENDED TO 29TH APRIL 1967 AND 8 SEPTEMBER 2007 as amended on 01 Mar 2014 as amended on 18 Dec 2020 as amended on 07 Sep 2022
Companies House
Company number 00308632 · Active
Contact on the register
02079396030 · info@makingmusic.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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