## **NORVIS Trustees’ annual report 2025** ## **Charity details** Name: NORVIS Registration number: 1014801 Address: 66 QUARRY LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B31 2PY Trustees during 2025 were: - Mark Lawrence (Chair) - Sarah Kirk (Treasurer) - Eileen Finlayson (Secretary) - Ursula McKean - William Hunt - Anna Hambling ## **Charity structure** NORVIS is managed by trustees, with assistance from the Musical Director and other tutors. Trustees are elected at the AGM, and may also be co-opted by existing trustees. There are a minimum of three trustees. Trustees must be members of the charity. Members of the charity in any year are those who have attended the NORVIS summer school during that year. ## **Activities and objectives** The objective of the charity is to advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by any means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public events. The main activity of the charity is to run a one-week summer school in Early Music. ## **Achievements and performance** Ther NORVIS 2025 summer school took place 2-9 August 2025, in Barnard Castle. There were 94 attendees. 15 tutors provided classes and playing opportunities for singers and players of recorders, viols, lutes, early guitars, baroque strings, baroque winds, and harpsichords. Tutors provided two concerts for members, and members also provided three concerts. Concerts were open to members of the public. Bursaries totalling £3540 were provided to 15 attendees. Anybody who would otherwise find it difficult to attend NORVIS may apply for a bursary. In addition, reduced fees were charged for eight people under the age of 26 or in full-time education. ## **Financial review** The income for the charity during 2025 was £74,766 and expenditure was £76,077. Income was largely derived from the fees paid by participants. Donations of £1545 and interest earned of £345 also contributed. Expenditure was nearly all on the provision of the course, including the venue cost, tutor fees and expenses, and other course costs. In addition there are administrative costs for the charity overall (website, subscriptions, marketing and so on). The charity maintains reserves of approximately £16,000 in a savings account, and has assets overall of around £25,000, including a bursary fund, which usually holds around £3000. The bursary fund is maintained by donations, sales of donated items at the course, and by the trustees allocating some or all of the course surplus to the bursary fund. **NORVIS Summary accounts 1 January to 31 December 2025** |**PROFIT AND LOSS**|| |---|---| |**Income**|| |Course fees|£ 72,265.44| |Interest earned|£ 345.89| |Donatons|£ 1,545.33| |Bus fare|£ 400.00| |Bowes museum entrance fees|£ 209.50| |**Total Income**|£ 74,766.16| |**Expenditure**|| |Marketng|£ 1,961.98| |External concert|£ 1,200.00| |Tutor fees|£ 16,208.00| |Tutor expenses|£ 6,114.29| |Refreshments|£ 1,201.19| |Music purchases|£ 70.32| |Admin fees|£ -| |Admin expenses|£ 170.87| |Other services - Bowes and bus|£ 691.50| |Staf gifs|£ -| |Instrument costs - hire, transport etc|£ 1,291.52| |Finance costs|£ 240.81| |Venue fees|£ 46,273.20| |Subscriptons|£ 653.48| |**Total Expenditure**|£ 76,077.16| ||| |**Loss**|-£ 1,311.00| |**BALANCE SHEET**|| |---|---| ||| |**Assets**|**1 Jan. 2025**
**31 Dec. 2025**| ||| |CAFBank Current account|£ 11,084.58
£ 9,467.18| |CAFBank Gold account|£ 15,838.95
£ 16,145.35| ||| |Totals|£ 26,923.53
£ 25,612.53| ||| |**Liabilites**|**1 Jan. 2025**
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