OPEN MUSIC
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Open Music is a not for profit arts group that formed in 2006 to curate and coordinate Colour Out of Space - a festival promoting experimental approaches to music and its cross over into other disciplines.The festival and its related projects aim to promote a wider understanding of the genre, exploring both its practice and history, through activities that include performance, workshops and debate
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 10 December 2024
People
4 Trustee(s)
9 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Services
- Brighton And Hove
Governance
- 06 November 2014: CIO registration
No other names
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
4 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| DUNCAN HARRISON MA | Chair | 30 July 2014 |
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| Maureen Bourne | Trustee | 01 September 2025 |
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| Marie-Isabelle Brooks | Trustee | 30 August 2025 |
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| MELANIE ABSOLON MA | Trustee | 30 July 2014 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 10/12/2020 | 10/12/2021 | 10/12/2022 | 10/12/2023 | 10/12/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £334 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £216 | |
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Total expenditure | £180 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 10 December 2024 | 09 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 10 December 2024 | 09 October 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 10 December 2023 | 03 October 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 10 December 2023 | 03 October 2024 | On time | |
| Annual return | 10 December 2022 | 29 October 2023 | 19 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 10 December 2022 | 29 October 2023 | 19 days late | |
| Annual return | 10 December 2021 | 24 September 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 10 December 2021 | 24 September 2022 | On time | |
| Annual return | 10 December 2020 | 07 October 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 10 December 2020 | 07 October 2021 | On time |