Trustee's Annual Report (1st August 2019- July 31st 2020)
Membership
The mémbership totsl at the end of the year 2019-20 stood again at 88, of bvhom 6 are Life
Members. We again havè no Youth Memb8rs (12-1 n or Young Adutt members (18-241. This
means that there is no apparent change from last year, new members or r8-recrutt&J members
just balancing those who have mov&J away or rétired from dancing. The hard WO￿ ol the ceilidh
organisers has cleady had some effect. as perhaps did our appearance at Countryfile Live at
Castle Howard.
Charitable Aims
Our Charitable aims are to promote and teach Scottish COu￿ry Dancing and Music. To this end
we run adult dance classes catering for beginners to advanced. an annual Day Sch¢)ol for SCD in
September, 2 Highland Workshops annually, a Musicians. Workshop, a rasid8ntial weekend
ourse at Malhamdale HF, several ceilidhs for families with children, and an afternoon festival of
SCD at Harewood near Leeds, the White Rose Festival, culminating in an evening dance. In
addition, we run monthly socid dances including an annual Ball in November, run jointly with the
York Branch, all with live music from prestigious Scottish Country Danc8 bands.
Impact of Coronavirus
However, in common with other sport and leisure facilities. and RSCDS branches worfd-wide, our
programme this y8ar has been severely curtailed by Coronavirus and its accompanying
'lockdown' from March onwards, to comply with social distancing and other governm8nt and
health guidelines. SCD is aerobic Iso producing a8rosolsl and demands close contact with other
dancers. Initial cancellations were for all our Summer terTn and summer 2020 events" we have
recently had to cancel all our events for a further 3 months to the end of 2020 - and this may well
extend into 2021. Contact has been maintained with m8mb8rs through a monthly Branch
eNewsletter, and international weekly Zoom classes organised by RSCDS Head Office in
Edinburgh. Th8 Committee has met monthly. also by Zoom, to monitor changes in guidelin8s and
risk factors. and sadly. to finalty cancel venuès, musicians, MCS, and the few workshops we had
kept 'pending' for as long as possible.
Classos
We enjoyed two terms of ckgsses at the usual venues: Calverfey, Adel, West Park (Sp8n Lana),
Lidgett Park and St Margaret's. Ilkley, recruiting séveral new members at Adel and Spen Lane.
Newcomers. especially beginners are welcomed at all of these except the Calvarfey class. which
is aimed at experienced dancers. We still have no official train88 teachers, although there are
many willing and able experienc&d dancws to help with b8ginners. The day to day class admin is
also undertaken by volunteers.
Social Dances
Wè danced each month from September 2019 until February 2020, Including a Christrnas dance
with the Leeds SCD Club at St Chad's and the Annual Ball with York in November at Stockton-on-
the-Forest. Sadly, due to the Coronavirus, we had to cancel the March dance at which w8 Were
to C818brate our veteran member's 95th birthday - still a regular at class8s and social dances!
Day and Weekend Schools
The Day School in September 2019 started the dancing year off with a bang at th8 Qu88n's
Hall, Harrogate Rd; the feedback from the 20110 from Leeds) participants was very positive.
Heather Cowan was the tLrtor.' she had previously taught at RSCDS Summer School, Spring Fling
and the international RSCDS AGM in Perth. Music was provided by lan Slater. This was followed
by an evening dance to the music of Colin Dewar. with Dgbbie Crossléy (who had b88n a
participant at the day school1} as MC.
The Hlghland Workshop in (ktober 2019 was also well received and the Malharndale
Weekend was highly succ8ssful as usual. Bookings for 2020 (sadly now cancellgj) included a
waiting list.
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Musicians, Day vms held in February at St Chad s and drew a large group (22) of musicians
playing a wide range of instruments. Th8 tutor was lan Muir {Craigellachiel. currently RSCDS
Director of Music. 100% of the feedback forms wwe returned - all positive about the whole
event, including the tutor, the seiection of music. tuition and support. the venue and th8 lunchl
Whlte Rose Festlval
Unfortunately WRF 2020 was ore of the casua￿l&S of Coronavirus and had to be cancelled. We
I¢￿k forward to WRF 20211
Outreach and Famlly Events
Following the successful Famity Ceilidhs in May and June 2019, we ran morè in October and
November 2019 and a further one at the beginning of March 2020, shortly before lockdown. The
planned ceilidh for May was, of CQLbrse, cancelled, as have been those planned for this autumn -
and indeed the associated 6-week Winners, course planned for September and October 2020.
In August 2019. usually the only month with no planned events, we accepted an invFtation to
dance at Countryf 118 Live at Castle Howard, hoping to raise our profile in the Yorkshire area.
On two days of a sunny weekénd, we joined other folk dancers from around the country at one of
th8 grass 'stages' in the grounds. The first day followed heavy rain and the access to the site
initially very muddy, but the atmosphere was cheerful and friendly despite the wellies. We
demonstrated a programme of reels and strathsp8ys organiseA by Catherine ￿VSeY who had
quickly r6surrected demonstration t8ams of about two sets for each day. We danced to both
recorded music and Aan Harrison's piping. and successfully encouraged audience participation
with some ceilidh dances.
Publicity and Webslte
Adrian Dickin. our webmaster has given our website a smart n8w look this year, with new features.
including more photos. The Dancers. Newsletter 8dited and produced by Catherine Livsey, has
not appear￿ since February as the usual main route for distribution is through classes and social
dances. with a few sent to Lrfe Members and others who no longer attend classes regularly. The
(now monthly) eupdate is acting as the main vehicle for keeping in touch with members.
Advertising as usual has been through NW Leeds free magazine, Dancers, Newsletter, the
{international) RSCDS members, Scottish Country Dancer magazine and the Yorkshire Country
Dance Diary.
Committee & AGM 2019
We welcomed Marion Walbank as our new Chair in November 2019, and a relativdy new dancer.
Sharon Taylor as a new member. Alan Horsfall. serving out his last year on the Committee (for
nowl), was elected Vice Chair by the Committee at their first meeting in November 2019. We are
looking to recruit two more new members at the next AGM.
The family céilidhs, still a learning experience, occupied much of our efft)rts. The Seplember Day
School, October Highland Workshop and Musicians, Day all now run very smoothly.
From March on. the Committee resorted to Zoom for meetings (as well as for th8 weekly online
dance classes organised by Head Oflicel. These have not only honed our technical IT expertise.
but have encouraged us to streamline the fomat of meetings. with all reports distributed before
the meeting to enable the short time available through Zoom to be used for discussion and
decision making. As with the Newsletter. and Committee business, our finances have also all
gone 'online', including payment of membwship dues. except for thè few members who still have
no access to the internet or Wifi.
Evelyn Davidson Honorary Branch Secretaryrrrustae...
Ray Williams
Honorary BranchTreasurerrrrustso ...... . ..
Marion Walbank Honorary BranchChairrrrusto8 ...............................
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**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Leeds Branch** 

Profit and Loss Account for 1st August 2019 to 31st July 2020 

||**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Leeds Branch**|**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Leeds Branch**|**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Leeds Branch**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
||Profit and Loss Account for 1st August 2019 to 31st July 2020||||
||||||
|Ordinary Income/Expense|||||
||Income||||
|||White Rose Festival|||
||||Income|496|
|||Shop|||
||||Sales|18722|
||||Cost of Sales|4560|
|||Pre-Paid Ticket Fund||-71|
|||Income from Activities|||
||||Dance Admissions|2271|
||||Class Fees|2647|
||||PrePaid Tickets|3500|
||||Bookings|1090|
||||Malhamdale Bookings|9665|
||||Donations|1119|
||||RSCDS Subscriptions Recvd|1821|
||||Subscriptions and Donations-Other|240|
||||Bank Interest/Rewards Received|1503|
||Total Income|||47562|
||||||
||Expense||||
|||White Rose Expenditure||2489|
|||Shop Purchases||10600|
|||Shop Expenses||8743|
|||Malhamdale Hotel Costs||8623|
|||Malhamdale Sundry Costs||964|
|||RSCDS Subscriptions Paid||1465|
|||Hall Deposits||-110|
|||HallCosts||6437|
|||MusicianCosts||2175|
|||Teachers Costs||2602|
|||OtherCosts||316|
|||Internal Expenses||0|
|||PreviousYear Expenses||429|
||Total Expense|||44733|
||||||
|Net OrdinaryIncome||||2829|
||||||
|||Other Expense|||
||||Insurances|168|
||||Publicity andAdvertising|175|
||||Printing, stationery & postage|301|
||||SundryExpenses|170|
|||TotalOther Expense||814|
||||||
|**Profit for the Year**||||**2015**|





||**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Leeds Branch**|**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Leeds Branch**|**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Leeds Branch**|**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Leeds Branch**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||
||Balance Sheet up to 31st July 2020|||||
|||||||
|ASSETS||||||
||Fixed Assets|||||
|||Fixed Assets||||
||||Equipment||533|
|||Total Fixed Assets|||533|
||Total Fixed Assets||||533|
||Current Assets|||||
|||Other Current Assets||||
||||Old Dbtrs and Prepays||4394|
||||Shop Stock||7593|
||||WRF Provision Adjustment||2559|
|||Total Other Current Assets|||14546|
|||Cash at bank and in hand||||
||||Current Account|||
|||||Co-op Unrestricted Account|5524|
|||||Co-op Restricted Account|885|
||||Total Current Account||6409|
||||Savings Account||15492|
||||Petty Cash|||
|||||Undeposited Funds|76|
|||||Dance Cash|137|
|||||Monday Eve Class|28|
|||||Sunday Aft Class|69|
|||||Shop Petty Cash|228|
||||Total Petty Cash||537|
||||Shop Current Account||14986|
||||Shop Loan Account||-9273|
||||White Rose Account||1738|
|||Total Cash at bank and in hand|||29888|
||Total Current Assets||||44434|
|||||||
||CurrentLiabilities|||||
|||AccountsPayable||||
||||A/P||-110|
|||Total AccountsPayable|||-110|
|||OtherCurrentLiabilities||||
||||Old Crdrs andAccrls||8696|
|||TotalOtherCurrentLiabilities|||8696|
||TotalCurrentLiabilities||||8587|
|||||||
|NETCURRENT ASSETS|||||35847|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESS CURRENT LIABILITIES|||||36380|
|NET ASSETS|||||36380|
||CapitalandReserves|||||
|||CharityFunds|||36481|
|||RetainedEarnings|||-2116|
|||Profit for the Year|||2015|
||Shareholder funds||||36380|





**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society – Leeds Branch** 

The above main accounts were prepared by Ray Williams (Honorary Treasurer) 


The above accounts were approved by the Trustees on the        29[th] March  2021 

and signed on their behalf by Marion Walbank, Chair of the Trustees 

Marion Walbank (Honorary Chairman) 




**Royal Scottish Country Dance Society – Leeds Branch** 

## Examiner’s Reports on the Accounts of the above Charity 

The Accounts were Examined and Accepted by 

Main Accounts 

Rhona Thornton 

WRF Accounts 

Ray Williams (no day to day involvement in the running of this sub-group) 

Shop Accounts 

Ray Williams (no day-to-day involvement in the running of this sub-group) 

(The Examiners Reports are shown on the following pages) 



CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ￿LAND AND WALES
Independent examlnefs report on the
accounts
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ri￿on sethcffi 14S5Mbl dthe kt
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undertake the examin
twffied momtw of Iiwrt name
have eM)rleted my e*aminab"on I wnfifm th81 no matenal m￿er6
e C￿ to nry altentsw In connection the exarr•na*on Iclh
an that ds¢l(tsed t4ow'l Nvklch Jve8 Th c¥we to that In.
ny maltna ftspect
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. the attounts thd ￿ t¢*))￿{ Wlh the aWic4tle requirèmÈnts
corKerning the lomi aThJ t*)ntèrt of accounts 8èt ¢yJt in th•
Ch8nbes (Accounts and Rewrtsl RegulaJMs 2LK)8 (th?r Ih4n
ary reqwrernenl th81 the ￿¢tyJnts gve 8.truo and l*"r' vi8W
whch v4 not a T￿ller cw¢Jered ￿ pwt cl an mdeF*n￿t
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connecbon Ymth the Èx8min*on to thich attenton $hould
In reFrf)rt In ￿der lo 8natrl8 a uTrJwBtsndng crfthe
accounts to ￿ reached
Re￿8¢010¢• IIKTr m th*br*￿S rfllydond•ppty.
ltr- l-&1
Relevant prrfe¥sw
qualifKath)nlsl or tody16f

(HARITY (OMMISSION
FOR ENGLANO ANO WALES
Independent exarniner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Roport to the trusteesl
members of
RSCDS Leed5 Branch- Shop and WRF Accounts
On accounts for tho year
•nded
31. Juty 2020
Chaflty no
Ilf any)
1072452
Set out on pages
1and2
I report to the trustees on my examination
tharty lllhe Trust'l for the year ended 31
the
ourrts of the above
OR
Responslblhles and
basls of r•port
As the thartys trustees, you are responsible for the wepwation ol trbe
accounts Mi accordance vAlh the requirements of the Charrties Ac2 2011
Ilhe Acri.
I report in ￿SPea of my examriation of the Trust's aceounls earrled out
under sedion 145 of the 2011 Act and in cwrying out my examination, I
have follrNded all the applicable Directions given by the Charty Commissi
under 5eL1ion 14515llbl of the AL1.
Independent
examlnerfs statement
I have completed rny examination. I confwrn that no material matters have
come to my altenlicffj in wth the examination lother than Ihal
disclosed below'l Mthich gives me cause to believe Ihat in, any matenal
respect..
the accounling re¢￿d$ b%tre not kepl in accordance VMI SeCt￿n 130
the Charities Ad,. or
the accounts did not accord wth the accounting records", or
the accounts did not CoM￿Y the applicable requiremenls
coneeming the lorm and content of a¢count$ sel OLrt in the Ch¥rties
Acetsjnls and Rep￿ts1 Regulation5 2008 other than any requirement
tt)at the accounts give a Irue and fairf view Which is not a matter
Considered as part of an independent examinatiffi.
I have no coneems and have come ac*oss no other rnatters in connedic
wrth the examlnaticfj to vthith attention sttould be drawn in this report in
order to enabk a proper understanding of the accwnts lo be reathed.
' Please delete the words in the l)rackets rfthey do not aWy.
Date:
2010&2021
Slgned:
Name:
Ray Wlliams
Relevant prof•sslonal
IER
Oct 2018

quallficatlonlsl or body
Ilf any)..
Address..
4 Mill Way, Otley West Ycxkshire LS21 1FE
Section B
Dtsclosure
Only ¢omplele rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32. Independent examinalk￿ ol tharty accounts.. direL1icms
guidance for examiners).
Glve h•re brlef detalls of
any Items that the
•xamlner wl¥heJ to
dlsclos•.
Although l am the Treasurer fcf the main tharity I have examined the ACt￿nIS
for the sub gr￿pS of the Charrty that run independently and in vthich I have
no daY-t￿daY involvemerrt. These are the 8ranch Shop group thich sells
artides and malerial relevanl lo the work of the Charty and the ￿rte Rose
Fests'val Group cyganises ujr annual fe9t￿81.
Due to Corona Virus restriLlions I have not been able lo have physical acce
to the accounts bul have had electr￿1¢ copies crf most ol the necessary
information so that l o)Jld make reasonabty ccrnprehensive *x8minations of
the Accounts.
IER
Oct 2018