## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| |**From **|**1**|**1**|**2024**|**To**|**31**|**12**|**2024**| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Snibston & Desford Colliery Bands **Other names charity is known by** |**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**1025068
**Charity's principal address**
Off Whitwick Road
Coalville
Leicestershire
**Postcode**
**LE67 3FA**
~~——~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1025068
**Charity's principal address**
Off Whitwick Road
Coalville
Leicestershire
**Postcode**
**LE67 3FA**
~~——~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1025068
**Charity's principal address**
Off Whitwick Road
Coalville
Leicestershire
**Postcode**
**LE67 3FA**
~~——~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1025068
**Charity's principal address**
Off Whitwick Road
Coalville
Leicestershire
**Postcode**
**LE67 3FA**
~~——~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1025068
**Charity's principal address**
Off Whitwick Road
Coalville
Leicestershire
**Postcode**
**LE67 3FA**
~~——~~|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|||||||| ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|||**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|| |1 Peter Smith|1 Peter Smith|Chairman||||||| |2 David L Smith|2 David L Smith|||||||| |3 Paul Thomas|3 Paul Thomas|||||||| |4 Lawrence Eccleston|4 Lawrence Eccleston|||||||| |5 Alastair Smith|5 Alastair Smith|||||||| |6|6|||||||| |7|7|||||||| |8|8|||||||| |9|9|||||||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** - ~~==~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** Educating the public at large in the musical art of brass band music making and to further development of appreciation in the said Art by the presentation of concerts and similar activities **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** **TAR** March **2012** 2 Attendance at 4 major brass band contests each year and the presentation of concerts/musical workshops and master classes **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 ## Section D Achievements and performance Qualified and performed at the Grand Shield Finals held in Blackpool. **Summary of the main** British Open Brass Band Finals held at Symphony Hall Birmingham and **achievements of the charity** at the British National Finals held at the Royal Albert Hall London **during the year** Acted as Ambassadors for our heritage of Brass music making in a Tour of Thailand and Singapore. **TAR** March **2012** 4 **Section E Financial review** We have a secure Cash Management Account in reserve. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** ~~_—_—~~ **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:  the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. - **Section F Other optional information** ~~_~~ - **Section G Declaration** - ~~___~~ - **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Peter Smith **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairman **etc)** **Date** 09/10/2025 **TAR** March **2012** 5 |**Desford Band – Statement of Account**|**Desford Band – Statement of Account**|**Desford Band – Statement of Account**|**Desford Band – Statement of Account**|**Desford Band – Statement of Account**|**Desford Band – Statement of Account**|**Desford Band – Statement of Account**|**Desford Band – Statement of Account**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**1**st**January - 31**st**December 2024**|||||||| |**Receipts**||||**Expenditure**|||| ||**2024**|**2023**|||**2024**|**2023**|| ||||||||| |Donations & Sponsorship|£102,968.00|£74,627.94||Utilities,Telephone,Rates,Cleaning|£604.63|
£564.50|| |Grants & CDs||£10,550.00||Club & repairs|£2,198.22|£1,110.49|| |Concerts|£40.00||||||| |Prize Money|£200.00|||Uniforms & Instruments|£245.00||| |Travel|£4,574.83|£2,240.00||Musical Director|£9,319.25|£2,518.00|| |Payments,refunds,cash management|£5,414.73|£10,521.44||Music,CDs & Contest Fees|£1,424.25|£5,853.50|| |Gift Aid & VAT|£19,221.74|£14,607.12||Transfer to New Account|£10,150.00||| |Utilities|£10.00|||Insurance|£1,624.23|£903.49|| |Room Hire|£135.00|||Interest charges|£2.73|
£56.91|| |Interest||||Printing& Stationery|£25.10|
£5.10|| |||||Cash & Petrol|£741.87|
£9,338.91|| |||||Loans & Card|£2,099.64|£2,149.34|| |||||Player & Concert Expenses|£62,468.67|
£59,334.00|| |||||Travel/Hotel/Tours|£21,607.00||| |||||HMRC|||| |||||Office & SecretaryExpenses|£1,427.00|£1,349.00|| |||||Worldpay/Mastercard/Rewards/Visa|£32,366.18|
£14,911.23|| ||||||||| ||||||||| |(Transfers in)|£17,550.00|£300.00||
(Transfers out)|£9,800.00|£300.00|| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**£150,114.30**|**£112,846.50**|||**£156,103.77**|
**£98,394.47**|| ||||||||| ||||||||| |**Balance Sheet as at 31st Decembeer 2024**|||||||| ||||||||| |**b/f 31.12.2023**||||**Balance at Bank 31.12.2024**|||| |Current Account|£1,024.08|||Current Account|£8,937.35||| |Gift Aid Account|£13,882.74|||Gift Aid Account|-£20.00||| ||||||||| ||||||8917.35||| |Income from above|
£150,114.30||||||| |Cash in hand|||||||| ||||||||| |Total Income|**165021.12**||||||| ||||||||| |Less expenditure|-156103.77||||||| ||||||||| |Profit onyear|8917.35||**£8,917.35**||||**£8,917.35**| ||||||||| ||||||||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examlner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of e)8ro Desfo Lt) On accounts for the year ended 202LP , /ii/,,) Charity no (if any) 1025068 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust") for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent IThe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of linsert name of applicable listed body]l. Delete l ] if not applicable. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention {other than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material . respect,; the accounting records were not kept in accordance wilh section 130 of the Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other rnatters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please del e the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body {if any): IER October 2018 Address". Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts- directions and guidance for examiners>. Give here details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018