Registered charity · Birmingham
Music for Youth
- 9 trustees
- Income £686k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Alan RidgewayTrustee · since 2026
- Antony Christopher HarrisTrustee · since 2025
- Chris BrownTrustee · since 2024
- Collin HillsTrustee · since 2023
- Florence AmbroseTrustee · since 2025
- Isabel ChurcherTrustee · since 2024
- Jonathan PelluetTrustee · since 2023
- Penelope Jane MilsomTrustee · since 2026
- Simon BullTrustee · since 2020
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, Amateur Sport
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.mfy.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Music for Youth
- Registered
- 1982
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£686k£685k
- 2024£673k£941k
- 2023£745k£644k
Earlier years
- 2022£702k£594k
- 2021£641k£572k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 41%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALL BRANCHES OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR IN MUSIC.
Grants received
9 grants · £760,004 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 · £650,004 (5 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £50,000
- Youth Music · £30,000
- Backstage Trust · £30,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, 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.
9 trustees on the board
- Alan Ridgeway since 2026
- Antony Christopher Harris since 2025
- Chris Brown since 2024
- Collin Hills since 2023
- Florence Ambrose since 2025
- Isabel Churcher since 2024
- Jonathan Pelluet since 2023
- Penelope Jane Milsom since 2026
- Simon Bull since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Simon Bull since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Alan Ridgeway since 2026
- Chris Brown since 2024
- Collin Hills since 2023
- Florence Ambrose since 2025
- Isabel Churcher since 2024
- Jonathan Pelluet since 2023
- Penelope Jane Milsom since 2026
- Simon Bull since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Antony Christopher Harris 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
1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.2 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 285831
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3RD JUNE 1982
- Companies House
- Company number 01611491 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02077591830 · mfy@mfy.org.uk
- 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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