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Malawi Music Fund

SC045661Registered charity from 01 June 2015
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address Easdale House
Easdale Loan
Kirkwall
Orkney
Postcode KW15 1RU
Website www.malawimusicfund.org.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
to improve the lives of disadvantaged orphaned children living in Malawi by providing activities in music and the arts in partnership with Malawian teachers and musicians; to provide recreational opportunities not normally available for orphaned children living in Malawi by running residential workshops in music, art and sport during each school holiday, and occasional workshop weekends focusing on traditional dancing and drumming; to advance the education of orphaned children living in Malawi by providing bursaries to pay for school fees, uniforms, shoes and books, thus enabling the children to attend secondary school; to advise on post-secondary school educational opportunities for orphaned young people in Malawi, in consultation with head teachers and further education establishments in Malawi; to advance the relief of poverty through the provision of bursaries to fund further education and vocational training for orphaned young people in Malawi, thus enabling them to break free of a cycle of poverty and unemployment.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Malawi Music Fund aims to use music and the arts to enable orphaned children in Malawi to improve their lives. To do this the charity works in partnership with Malawian teachers and musicians in: 1 bringing together groups of orphaned children for residential weeks of activities in music, sport and art in each school holiday; 2 providing bursaries for secondary and post-school education; 3 offering the most vulnerable girls we support accommodation in our hostel where they are cared for and nurtured by our two house parents
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 01 Jun 2015
Main Operating Location: Orkney Islands
Number of Staff: 2
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "People with a particular ethnic or racial origin", "Other defined groups"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals", "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022 £26,328 £24,688 31 Aug 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £26,945 £21,016 24 Jul 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £55,022 £52,001 16 Sept 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £30,674 £21,415 29 Sept 2025 Yes Download
31 Mar 2026 No Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green   . If an annual return is late, the box is red   .
Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
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