Registered Charity No: 1050107 ## **SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY** **ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2024** ## **SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY** **ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2023** ||**Index**||| |---|---|---|---| |||**Page**|| |**Report of the Trustees**|||2| |**Independent Examiner’s Report**|||6| |**Statement of Financial Activities**|||7| |**Balance sheet**|||8| |**Notes to the accounts**|||9| 1 ## **SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY** ## **TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2024** The Committee of Southampton Philharmonic Society (the “Society”) present their annual report together with the accounts of the Society for the year ended 31 July 2024. The committee confirm that the annual report and accounts for the charity comply with the current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charity’s governing document and the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (FRS102) (effective 1 January 2016) (”SORP (FRS102)”). ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION** **Charity Number** 1050107 ## **Principal Address** 9 Stoke Common Road, Bishopstoke, Eastleigh SO50 6DW ## **Bankers** CAF Bank ## **Independent Examiner** Julia Webb 101 Alma Road Southampton SO14 6UY ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** ## **Constitution** Southampton Philharmonic Society (“the Society”) was established in 1874 and is registered as Charity number 1050107. It is an unincorporated association governed by a constitution, which has been amended from time to time. Its assets rest in the Trustees, who ensure that a committee of elected and ex officio officers carries out the management of the Society. ## **The Trustees** The Society’s Trustees, under charity legislation, are the elected members of the committee and ex officio chair. They represent interests of the members and have the skills necessary to accept responsibility for the maintenance of the Society’s assets and for the oversight of others, members and non-members, who voluntarily assist the society. Ex officio appointments are made by the committee, all other committee members are elected by members at the Annual General Meeting. It is anticipated that the committee should have the skills necessary to manage the affairs of the Society for the benefit or the musical education of its members and of the wider population around Southampton and Hampshire. 2 **SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY** ## **TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2024** ## **Current Committee** **Current Committee** update Kate Greaves (Chair) Katharine Ingram John Newell (Vice Chair) Sarah Mitchell Deborah Mitchell (Secretary) Margaret Moules Michael Kelly (Treasurer) Allan Pollock James Atkins Susan Stephenson Jon Blaine The Musical Director of the Society, David Gibson, and the Deputy Conductor/Rehearsal Accompanist, Paul Spanton, are ex-officio members of the committee, but are not Trustees. ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** The objectives of the Society as set out in its constitution are to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by the presentation of public concerts and recitals and by such other ways as the Society through its committee shall determine from time to time. ## **Activities in the year to 31 July 2024** The Choir held three concerts during the year. In December 2023, we performed a programme of music by Vaughan Williams with the Docklands Sinfonia, in the O2 Guild Hall, Southampton. In March 2024, we performed the Mass in Blue by Will Todd, together with pieces by George Shearing and Eric Whitacre in the O2 Guildhall with the Will Todd Ensemble. In June 2023, we performed a selection of choral classics from the Baroque to the 21st century at Romsey Abbey, under the title 'Heavenly Voices'. 3 ## **SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY** **TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2024** ## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE** The membership of the choir rose to 141 singers during the year. The first two concerts were performed by the full choir. The third concert was performed by 100 singers, because of reduced space at the venue. The audience attendances were higher than in last year and almost all tickets for the Romsey concert were sold. In addition, a group of choir members performed for a charity concert in Lyndhust at the beginning of the year. The choir's finances were subject to continuing uncertainty as attendances still fell below pre-pandemic levels. However, this difficulty was offset by reducing costs for musicians and soloists in the second and third concerts. The buoyant sales of tickets for the third concert meant that the year's financial outcome was positive. 4 SIXtrHAMVtON PHILHARMONIC S(XJErY TRUSTEES. ANP4UAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2024 FINANaALREVIEW The Ilur, bc, made. TTr￿ cxww. kn elte¢ arn an id(ffti ThE actounts have vppa￿d ¢c*Kem as ¢(xrKm ol tkn arn m•tsiat oly￿1 IhE ttsrity'5 aty&Y tr r(xrtllx Thè fnLs1its (kYAarÈ that ￿ye aKWQ•L)d tnThier5' IEFKrt alxwe SiEr*d ￿ txh•l ot tt* tharity's tr￿1￿$:. S¥natwe l ul nam•. 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IILI4 loi kLMA L<>kt S¢1+ ILlq |14- ## **SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY** ## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2024** |**Notes**
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Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
**Income from**
**Total income**
**Expenditure on**
Charitable activities
Subscriptions/insurance
Bank charges
Other expenses
Concert expenditure
**Total funds carried forward**
**Total resources expended**
**Net movement in funds**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
**Total funds brought forward**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
1,107
51,438
52,545
47,733
599
60
983
49,375
3,170
81,547
84,717|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
1,107
51,438
52,545
47,733
599
60
983
49,375
3,170
0
84,717|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
1,304
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570
60
310| |||||46,760| |||||-12,899| |||||94,446| |||||| |||||81,547| 7 S(X)THAMPTON PHILHARMONIC soaErY SPAANC£ SHEEr FOR THE PERK)D ENDED 31 JULY ZIJ24 Cathat bar& sh M dYp35k 62315.55 23093.74 59595 21.952 81517 AINL 81547 50 **SOUTHAMPTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY** ## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2024** - **1** The accounts of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland", the Charities Act 2011 and the governing document. The accounts for financial year ended 31 July 2024 are prepared on a cash basis and under FRS102. ## **2 Donations and legacies** |**Donations and legacies**|**Donations and legacies**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Unrestricted||fundsRestricted|fundsTotal 2024||2023| |£||£|£|£|| |Donations|1107.07|0.00|1107.07||304.17| |Legacies|0.00|0.00|0.00||1000.00| ||1107.07|0.00|1107.07||1304.17| |**Income from charitable activities**|||||| ||||Total 2024||2023| ||||£|£|| |Subscriptions and sponsors|20142.64|0.00|20142.64||18848.80| |Gift Aid|7085.75|0.00|7085.75||0.00| |Bank interest|1274.81|0.00|1274.81||795.77| |Sundry general income|320.50|0.00|320.50||37.50| |Ticket sales|18224.54|0.00|18224.54||10288.00| |Programme sales|1241.30|0.00|1241.30||795.95| |Sale & Hire of music|2991.22|0.00|2991.22||1662.73| |Workshop income|0.00|0.00|0.00||0.00| |Sundry concert income|157.15|0.00|157.15||127.83| ||51437.91|0.00|51437.91||32556.58| 3 **Income from charitable activities** 9 ## 4 **Concert expenditure** |4|**Concert expenditure**|**Concert expenditure**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Includes rehearsals and workshops|||Total 2024||2023| |||||£|£|| ||Soloists & Conductor|15887.50||15887.50||13807.50| ||Orchestras & hire of music|14266.14||14266.14||15965.90| ||Venue Hire|11940.87||11940.87||11445.53| ||Programme costs|581.00||581.00||536.00| ||Publicity|1683.61||1683.61||1822.37| ||Commission on ticket sales|140.00||140.00||0.00| ||Performing Rights Society|0.00||0.00||0.00| ||Purchase and hire of music|2679.33||2679.33||1550.73| ||Workshops|0.00||0.00||320.00| ||Miscellaneous expenditure|554.98||554.98||371.90| |||||47733.43||45819.93| |5|**Other expenses**|||||| |||||Total 2024||2023| |||||£|£|| ||Bank charges|60.00|0.00|60.00||60.00| ||Subscriptions|599.00|0.00|599.00||570.00| ||Sundry Expenditure|982.95|0.00|982.95||309.85| |||||1641.95||939.85| |6|**Net movement in funds**|||||| |||Unrestricted fundsRestricted||fundsTotal 2024||2023| |||£|£|£|£|| ||Incoming resources|52454.98|0.00|52454.98||33861.00| ||Resources expended|(49375.38)|0.00|(49375.38)||(46760.00)| ||Net movement|3079.60|0.00|3079.60||(12899.00)| ||Opening balance|81546.93|0.00|81546.93||94446.00| ||Closing balance|84626.53|0.00|84626.53||81546.93| ## 9 **Trustees remuneration** The trustees received no remuneration (nil) during the year. 10