Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy

Analysis

Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01514616). It says it provides services and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy reported income of £6.9m and spending of £8.4m, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £4.1m to £6.9m (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barca - Leeds (£6.8m), The Cellar Trust (£6.9m) and Mind in Bexley and East Kent Ltd (£6.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 33%, charitable activities 32%, trading 32% and investments 1.7%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £4,855. Charitable activities took 69% of spending and raising funds 29%. Reserves of £5.1m would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 157 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.