Lewisham Music

Analysis

Lewisham Music is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Lewisham Music reported income of £1.3m and spending of £1.3m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £891k to £1.3m (+40%), an average of +8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Lewisham Music sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Writers and Scholars Educational Trust (£1.3m), Hastings Contemporary (£1.3m) and Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre Limited (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 53% and donations and legacies 47%. Charitable activities took 95% of spending and raising funds 1.4%. Grants to other organisations totalled £31k. Reserves of £241k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 77 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.