Make Some Noise Ltd
Charity 1127578
Overview
Summary
Make Some Noise appears to be a Staffordshire-based creative wellbeing charity whose role has expanded beyond music education into using participatory creativity as a route to inclusion, confidence and mental-health-related support for children and young people. Its combination of direct sessions, specialist programme themes and resource-body functions suggests it may operate both as a provider and as part of the wider local infrastructure for youth arts. The available evidence indicates an intentionally inclusive, grassroots model, but leaves its partnerships, reach and practical delivery structure unclear.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission records Birmingham City among the places where the charity operates, but neither this record nor the organisation’s current website identifies a Birmingham ward, recognised place, delivery venue or active programme.
- The organisation’s website says it has managed commissions in Birmingham, but does not state when those commissions took place or confirm a current Birmingham contract.
- No Birmingham physical site is evidenced. The published postal and office addresses are both in Stafford and should not be treated as Birmingham operational sites.
- No named current Birmingham partner is evidenced in the consulted sources, so the extent to which partnerships currently sustain activity in Birmingham is unclear.
Additional evidence needed
- A current programme list, annual report narrative or commissioning information identifying active Birmingham projects, delivery venues or partner organisations.
- Confirmation from Make Some Noise of whether Birmingham City remains an active delivery area and, if so, the neighbourhoods or wards served.
- Official evidence from a Birmingham-based commissioning or delivery partner showing the location and status of any current work.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Education/training
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
Music appears to be a means, not the whole mission
The charity's formal objects centre on arts education, especially music, but its current public framing emphasises creative wellbeing, mental health and empowerment. This may indicate a strategic shift from principally offering music opportunities towards using creativity as a wider developmental and wellbeing intervention.
Why it matters
This helps distinguish the organisation from a conventional music tuition provider. Its most relevant relationships may include wellbeing, youth-support and mental-health organisations as well as arts partners.
Show evidence
“The charity promotes education in the arts, especially music, for young people and those assisting them.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its programmes include Creative Wellbeing and Creative Mental Health, including an 18+ offer.”
Source:Organisation
Inclusion is framed around unequal access as well as disability
Make Some Noise appears to understand exclusion broadly: not only through disability or mental health circumstances, but through a stated poverty of opportunities. This suggests it may target structural barriers to participation rather than narrowly defined beneficiary groups.
Why it matters
This points to a potentially important civic role in reaching children and young people who may not access mainstream arts provision, even where no formal diagnosis or referral category applies.
Show evidence
“The charity delivers opportunities allowing children and young people to participate regardless of their mental health circumstances.”
Source:Organisation“Weekly sessions are delivered for children and young people dealing with a poverty of opportunities.”
Source:Organisation“The charity helps children and young people and people with disabilities.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation may have an influence role beyond direct delivery
Alongside providing services, Make Some Noise is registered as providing advice, undertaking research and acting as an umbrella or resource body. This may indicate that it seeks to strengthen other organisations' capacity to use music and creativity, not solely run its own sessions.
Why it matters
If active in these functions, the charity could be a connector within Staffordshire's youth arts and wellbeing ecosystem, with value that is not visible through participant numbers alone.
Show evidence
“The charity provides advocacy, advice and information, sponsors or undertakes research, and acts as an umbrella or resource body.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps other charities or voluntary bodies.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear which communities, localities and age groups are currently prioritised, beyond children and young people in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
- There is no evidence of referral routes, delivery partners, funding sources or the scale of its resource-body and research work.
- The relationship between the children's programmes and the Creative Mental Health 18+ offer is not explained.
Remaining uncertainties
- Programme-level data on participants, locations, eligibility, outcomes and referral pathways.
- A current list of delivery, funding and strategic partners, including examples of support provided to other voluntary organisations.
- Annual reports or evaluations showing how music, creativity and wellbeing outcomes are measured over time.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
Make Some Noise's vision is that the lifes of children and young people in Staffordshire and Stoke - on - Trent will be significantly enhanced by high quality opportunities to make music.
Charity objects
TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ART OF MUSIC, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND FOR THOSE WHO ASSIST YOUNG PEOPLE IN TAKING PART IN MUSIC AND THE ARTS.