## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From Period start date 01-09-24 To 31-08-25 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Kingston Orpheus Choir** ## **Charity registration number: 1084914** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the society shall be to
promote, improve, develop and maintain
public education in and appreciation of the
art and science of choral music in all its
aspects by the presentation of choral
concerts; and for the general purposes of
such charitable bodies or for such other
purposes as the committee may from time
to time decide.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Rehearsal of choral music and the
presentation of public choral concerts.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have paid due regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit, including the
guidance ‘Public benefit: running a charity’
(PB2), in deciding what activities the charity
should undertake.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|In 2024- 2025 Kingston Orpheus Choir
rehearsed for 3 concerts, including works
by Bach, Britten, Haydn, Handel and
Mozart.
These works were unfamiliar to many
members of the choir, and after the
rehearsals and performances the members
had learned how to sing and interpret the
music. The concerts provided an
opportunity for members to gain confidence
of performing in public, and the audience
benefitted from being able to access a
good standard of classical performance in
their home area.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Our receipts exceeded costs by £444 over
this period. Our total cash assets were
£11,116 with no liabilities. £6,703 was the
value of our Charifund Investment, which is
included in the cash assets.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We consider our Charifund investment to
be our reserve, which we hold to ensure
that we can pay for any costs incurred,
particularly if we are unable to generate
revenue during the year, e.g. we if we are
unable to attract sufficient members to the
choir during the year.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£6,703 at the end of our financial year.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Not applicable.| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|No uncertainties about the choir as a going
concern.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
Our principal sources of funds are from
membership subscriptions, donations, a
grant from the Humphrey Richardson
Taylor Charitable Trust, and concert ticket
sales| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Our policy to invest our reserve in a low
risk, dividend generating fund (M&G
Charifund).| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The principal risk is that we are unable to
attract and maintain membership of the
choir which directly affects our income.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Written constitution.| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association.| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees (Committee Members), are
elected at the Charity’s Annual General
Meeting by the membership.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Kingston Orpheus Choir| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|1084914| |Charity’s principal address|Contact address:
14 Cowper Road, Kingston, Surrey, KT2 5PQ| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Sian McTear|Chair||| ||Caroline Dennis|Secretary||| ||Jonathan Fray|Treasurer||| ||Hannah Perry|||| ||Sheila Cheek|||| ||Mhairi Kelly|||| ||Karin Slack|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signed** **on behalf of the**|**charity’s trustees**|| |---|---|---| |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |||| ||Jonathan Richard Fray|Caroline Mary Dennis| |||| ||Treasurer|Secretary| |||| ||10/06/2026|10/06/2026| |||Organists|_£1,125.00_| |---|---|---|---| |nt|£1.13|Organ Hire|_£980.00_| |||Leaflets|_£99.04_| ||£25,692.38|Programmes|_£18.00_| |||Soloist Wines|_£0.00_| |||Refreshments|_£287.80_| |||Ticket Printing|_£13.99_| |||Cups|_£0.00_| #TfL CONFIDENTIAL Organists £1,725.00 TfL CONFIDENTIAL **£14,445.63** £25,318.45 £25,318.45 #TfL CONFIDENTIAL TfL CONFIDENTIAL ## **Kingston Orpheus Choir Income & Expenditure for the year ended 31st August 2025** |**Kingston O**
**2023/**
**2024**
£7,858.13
£0.00
£1,655.75
£0.00
£1,162.84
£0.00
£400.00
£0.00
£3,218.59
£590.00
£0.00
£114.14
£704.14
£360.84
£79.97
£440.81
£3,456.81
£0.00
£35.90
£768.75
£4,261.46
£16,483.13|**rpheus Choir Income & Expe**
**INCOME**
**SUBSCRIPTIONS**
Members' Subscriptions
Inland Revenue - Gift Aid
**DONATIONS & GRANTS**
Members' discretionary donations
HR Taylor Charitable Trust
Donations
Appearance fees
Royal Borough of Kingston
Kingston Arts|**nditure for the y**
**2024/**
**2025**
£8,443.56
£2,836.23
£2,470.54
£3,000.00
£3,091.73
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£8,562.27
£654.00
£0.00
£0.00
£654.00
£387.96
£71.03
£458.99
£4,128.25
£0.00
£0.00
£678.98
£4,807.23
£25,762.28|**ear ended 31**
**2023/**
**2024**
£4,109.00
£3,172.00
£2,100.00
£0.00
£0.00
£600.61
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£563.30
£79.99
£219.00
£104.00
£70.85
£11,018.75
£1,200.00
£0.00
£0.00
£1,275.00
£0.00
£0.00
£2,425.00
£590.00
£1,125.00
£1,470.00
£115.52
£13.75
£71.25
£322.80
£0.00
£0.00
£8,608.32
£19,627.07|**st August 2025**
Prepared by J.Fray,
9/29/2025
**2024/**
**2025**
**EXPENDITURE**
**OFFICIAL EXPENSES**
Musical Director
£4,235.00
Pianist
£3,190.00
Rent
£2,340.00
Piano Tuning
£0.00
Piano
£0.00
Music Hire
£550.37
Music Purchase
£14.35
Tea & Coffee
£20.00
Photography
£12.10
Key
£30.00
Website
£0.00
Advertising
£69.00
Refund
£75.00
£770.82 Music Hire and rehearsal
Making Music
£230.00
Insurance
£107.00
PRS
£0.00
£337.00 Society Membership, Insu
**£10,872.82**
**CONCERTS**
Venues
£1,320.00
Venue Deposits
£200.00
£1,520.00 Concert Venues & Depos
Temporary Event Notice
£0.00
Musical Director
£1,275.00
Orchestra
£4,890.00
Concert pianist
£0.00
Soloists
£3,761.80
Strengtheners
£475.00
£4,236.80 Soloists & Singers
Organists
£1,125.00
Organ Hire
£980.00
£2,105.00 Organ Hire & Organists
Leaflets
£99.04
Programmes
£18.00
Soloist Wines
£0.00
Refreshments
£287.80
Cups
£0.00
Ticket Printing
£13.99
£418.83 Concert Staging Costs
**£14,445.63**
**£25,318.45**
**Income greater than expenses:**
**£443.83**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**FUND RAISING**
Music hire
Christmas Cards
Sandwiches|||| ||**FINANCIAL EARNINGS**
Charifund Dividend
Interest(Business Reserve Account)|||| ||**CONCERTS**
Concert ticket sales
Come & Sing
Programmes
Wines/ refreshments|||| |||||| ## **Kingston Orpheus Choir** ## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31st August 2025** ||**ASSETS**|| |---|---|---| |**2024**||**2025**| |£0.00|Cash|£0.00| ||**Bank Accounts**|| |£361.95|Current|£734.75| |£3,606.60|Deposit|£3,677.63| |£6,424.62|M&G Charifund|£6,703.29| |£10,393.17|Total reserves (unrestricted)|£11,115.67| |£500.00|Piano|£500.00| |£10,893.17||£11,615.67| ||**LIABILITIES**|| |None||None| ||**NET ASSETS**|| |£10,893.17||£11,615.67| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**|Kingston Orpheus Choir| |---|---| ||| ||31/08/2025
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1084914| ||| ||1-2
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)| ||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**31/08/2025**.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities 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 matters 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. |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|**Date:**|05/06/2026| |---|---|---| |||| ||Timothy Richard Michael Povey|| |||| ||FCA|| |||| ||SA Ledgers Ltd|| ||57 Canbury Park Road|| ||Kingston KT2 6LQ|| 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER**