## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01/04/2024 Period start date To 31/03/2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: The Longplayer Trust**
## **Charity registration number: 1087243**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP||
|---|---|---|
||reference||
|Summary of|Para 1.17|The Longplayer Trust was established at the end of 2000 to take|
|the purposes||responsibility for Longplayer’s upkeep for at least its first 1000-|
|of the charity||year cycle. This involves researching and implementing the means|
|as set out in||to keep Longplayer playing, ensuring its sustainability, and making|
|its governing||it available to as large a number of people as possible, sometimes|
|document||by overseeing one-off projects related to the theme of long time.|
|||The trust also looks after the listening post at Trinity Buoy Wharf,|
|||the website (http://longplayer.org) and a live internet stream.|
|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|**April 24**
The well received series of open public events:
_Longplayer Long_
_Afternoons_
[launched in June 2023] continued at the Experimental
Lighthouse in Trinity Buoy Wharf, with a sold-out talk by
celebrated writer Iain Sinclair on April 28th. More than 40 people
attended this event, with approx. £400 in donations raised
(inclusive of the June 2024
_Longplayer Long Afternoon_
event).
**May 24**
Discussions with the Roundhouse, Camden, began towards
producing a
_Longplayer Live_
event in April 2025: the centrepiece
of Longplayer’s 25 year anniversary. This incredibly ambitious
realising of
_Longplayer_
has only taken place once before in the UK
in 2009.
**June 24**
A
_Longplayer Long Afternoon_
took place on June 9th to coincide
with the London Festival of Architecture and the installation of a
“sound pavilion” at Trinity Buoy Wharf [“The Armadillo”, designed
by architecture studio Unknown Works]. Artist and
_Longplayer_
trustee Ansuman Biswas performed durationally in the Lighthouse
from 9am-5pm (the length of a working day), with the day
culminating in a public talk in the Armadillo between Biswas, Ella
Finer (interim chair) and Imogen Free (administrative producer).
The
_Long Afternoon_
was well attended with approximately 120
visitors across the day, and a new audience attending through the
Festival of Architecture. We received excellent feedback on social
media and email.
With support from Annenberg funding, Imogen Free took up a
temporary engagement role [June 2024-January 2025]; acting as
Longplayer Producer, Engagement and Operations. The majority
of engagement efforts were initially concentrated on making the
call for a new
_Longplayer_
chair to replace interim chairs Ella Finer
and Edie Culshaw. This call reached as wide and as diverse an
audience as possible via intensive communications efforts and
extending audiences and reach (accounts reached on Instagram
increased by 112% equivalent to 2.2k for the month).
**July 24**
On 4th July
_Longplayer_
trustees visited the
_Longplayer_
archive
held at Goldsmiths, University of London. Led by
_Longplayer_
Trustee James Bulley, the visit was intended to illuminate trustees
as to what materials are held, so as to 1) engage more fully with
the remit and ongoing management of the archive as well as 2)
decide what might be usefully made public as part of a permanent
exhibition in the Lighthouse. It was agreed that going forward The
Longplayer Trust will make small archive deposits each year so as
to maintain a record of activities.
On 10th July James Bulley led a curatorial site visit of the
Lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf, with the most immediate plans
to produce a sound design for the middle and upper floors of the
lighthouse, and longer term plans to design exhibition and
engagement zones on the middle floor.
Jem Finer developed a temporary listening post for the Arts
Festival in Watou, a village in Belgium, which ran from July to
September.||
|---|---|---|---|
After members of the Longplayer Trust developed funding bids for the support of the 25th anniversary year, Eric Reynolds generously pledged to finance the production of Longplayer Live in partnership with the Roundhouse, Camden. **August 24** On 27 August Longplayer trustee Gareth Evans met with Jem Finer to begin the sorting and installation of a small public library for the _Longplayer_ at the Lighthouse. This is an ongoing activity as part of the curatorial strategy for the Lighthouse which will be implemented over the next few years. A map of all Longplayer’s international Listening Posts, both past and present, was launched on Longplayer’s website so as to record the global reach of Longplayer and its audiences. **September 24** On the 14th and 15th September trustees and friends of Longplayer hosted visitors at the Lighthouse to help celebrate Trinity Buoy Wharf’s Open House weekends. The weekends were a big success, with around 300 visitors a day the first weekend [compared to the average 100]. On 10th September Jem Finer, Sam Collins, Ansuman Biswas, Ella Finer and Imogen Free [the Longplayer production team for Longplayer Live] met the Roundhouse’s senior producer and production manager to finalise plans for the Longplayer Live performance, rehearsals and workshops. A major component of the Longplayer Live production was the involvement of eighteen young performers [under 25]. With the Roundhouse, the Longplayer production team worked from September 2024 on planning workshops for the young performers for March 2025. Imogen Free and Ella Finer worked closely with the youth team at the Roundhouse, which has also informed the development of a Longplayer youth engagement strategy. **October 24**
Sam Kinchin Smith [Head of Special Projects at The London Review of Books] was welcomed as new chair of the Longplayer Trust and Tadeo Lopez Sendon [director of Abandon Normal Devices] was welcomed as a new trustee with expertise in cultural management and policy. Trustee Ella Finer and producer Imogen Free met with youth partner THAMES to discuss options for a Longplayer youth engagement pilot. Conversations with the Roundhouse youth team continued, with a focus on the legacy of this particularly significant instance of youth engagement. Imogen Free proposed we consider inviting the young people who work on Longplayer Live to become 'Longplayer youth stewards', to continue this relationship. Imogen Free prepared and circulated a new policy document for safeguarding guidelines.
**November 24** A merchandise initiative, instigated by friend of Longplayer Marcia Farquhar, launched with a limited edition calendar of artwork for 2025, created by artists responding to Longplayer. Additional merchandise for income generation included mugs, tote bags, t- shirts and post-cards.
Between 19th and 23rd November a temporary listening post featured at the 'Rainy Days’ festival in Luxembourg. **December 24** The Longplayer Conversation took place on 12th December at Swedenborg Hall with eminent writers Kate Briggs and Daisy Hildyard. This was a very successful event, selling out in advance with an engaged audience of 100.
On 31st December, the annual Longplayer birthday celebration was held at Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse, marking our entrance into the anniversary year: Longplayer’s 25 years.
## **January 25**
A high quality listening post at La Casa Encendida in Madrid was launched with an evening DJ set by Jem Finer. Longplayer was installed in a calm and quiet space leading to the open roof and will be open for at least a year.
A huge amount of work was undertaken by sound artist Daniel Jones in collaboration with Jem Finer towards improving the ease and accessibility of listening posts [by converting the algorithm to python playing from a raspberry pi] also benefitted other listening posts. For one, it enabled improvements to take place on the sound system and time-keeping at the Trinity Buoy Wharf listening post in the Lighthouse.
A PR strategy for Longplayer Live and the 25th anniversary year was developed thanks to Sam Kinchin Smith, Imogen Free and the communications committee.
In her role as Producer, Engagement and Operations Imogen Free continued producing mailouts and social media content, based on events past and future, on Longplayer archives and activities. She ensured the website was navigable and up to date with previous event content. Her main focus up to January 2025 was on youth engagement outreach and marketing with the Roundhouse towards Longplayer Live.
From January 2025 it was formally agreed Imogen Free would continue in her engagement role [funded by a large private donation to the charity] and would co-produce Longplayer Live at the Roundhouse with Sam Collins as technical producer.
**February 25** A full plan of curatorial updates, developed by trustee James Bulley with the support of Imogen Free, was circulated among all trustees. The sound system was updated as part of the curatorial strategy with the remaining plans to be unrolled over several years dependent on securing funding for each stage. These include: improving signage and access to donation points; designing and
arranging exhibition materials, developing the library area, and a dedicated young person’s area. **March 25** Preparations were underway for the major event Longplayer Live at the Roundhouse, planned for April 5th 2025. On 5th March workshops took place at the Roundhouse with young people who had applied to be part of the performance. These were well attended and warm feedback was received from the young performers about the care they experienced during the workshops as well as around their involvement more generally. On 20th March Longplayer organised for the young performers to meet some of the older artists taking part in Longplayer Live in an informal social event at the Roundhouse. SONIC SPACE TIME (a film about Longplayer by Danny Hammond) was released, containing footage of the Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse listening post where Longplayer has resonated for the past 25 years: https://longplayer.org/about/ **Funding** As well as the Annenberg grant, we continued to receive support through collections at the lighthouse, donations online, downloads of the Longplayer app and regular grant income from the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust. Eric Reynolds and Urban Space Management generously pledged to fund the performance of Longplayer Live at the Roundhouse with support of £30,000. We shared past work and encouraged further donations through Bandcamp. The Buying Time fundraising scheme continues to help stabilise our unrestricted funding and we received £3,800 this year. Listeners continued to sponsor bowls at a steady rate providing £7,000. Merchandise sales amounted to £3418. **Engagement** The overall visitor count for the listening post at the lighthouse in 2024 was 7790. As detailed above, increased engagement activities led to a swell of new audiences for Longplayer during 2024-2025. Accounts reached on Instagram have increased from 2.2k to 10k with consistent posting, reels and two experiments with boosting’ posts to reach new followers. Imogen Free developed a series of posts to come based on the archives, as well as a listening list of recommendations from Trustees, also shared via the newsletter. BBC Radiophonica podcast expressed interest in featuring Longplayer around its 25th anniversary. **Press** In 2024, Longplayer was selected to feature alongside hidden gems such as The Wallace Collection, in Hoxton Mini Press’s
|||guide book
_An Opinionated Guide to Free London_
:
https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-
to-free-london
Longplayer featured in a Telegraph Travel article on 31.12.24 as a
destination to visit in 2025:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-
kingdom/england/london/londons-last-truly-creative-quarter/
In February 2025, Chair of Trustees Sam Kinchin-Smith was
interviewed about Longplayer on CGTN:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bba8w8p36/
Jem Finer was interviewed in The Telegraph 24.03.25:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interviews/jem-finer-pogues-
interview-shane-macgowan/
Jem Finer talked about the 25th anniversary of Longplayer with
Robert Elms on BBC Radio London:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ktqsj2
Channel 4 News covered the 25th year Longplayer Live event at
the Roundhouse and features interviews with Jem Finer and some
of the young people who have since become involved as youth
ambassadors for Longplayer, this being their first encounter with
the artwork:
https://www.channel4.com/news/longplayer-a-piece-of-music-that-
lasts-for-1000-years-without-repetition|
|---|---|---|
|Statement
confirming
whether the
trustees
have had
regard to the
guidance
issued by
the Charity
Commission
on public
benefit|Para
1.18|Trustees of Longplayer have been sent the guidance issued by
the Charity Commission on public benefit in the context of
outlining their specific expectations and responsibilities.
The responsibility to ensure The Longplayer Trust is carrying out
its purposes for the public benefit is underscored by the Charity
Commission guidance: 1) to ensure trustees understand the
charity’s purposes as set out in the governing document; 2) to plan
what the charity will do, and what we collectively want it to
achieve; 3) to be able to explain how all of the charity’s activities
are intended to further or support its purposes; 4) to understand
how The Longplayer Trust benefits the public by carrying out its
purposes.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||
SORP
reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|---|---|---|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38||
|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|**Main achievements of the charity:**
●
Maintain Longplayer and public
engagement with the artwork.
●
Active ongoing engagement with
global community of listeners via
Longplayer’s live stream and app.
●
Active ongoing engagement with local
communities through “open” events at
the lighthouse in Trinity Buoy Wharf.
●
Promoting awareness of long term
thinking and sustainable practice via
engagement activities above as well
as listening posts, public
programming (especially towards the
25th anniversary year) and the
development of a youth engagement
programme.
**Difference the charity’s work has made to**
**the circumstances of its beneficiaries:**
The Longplayer Trust continues to maintain
the globally accessible online stream of
_Longplayer_as well as_Longplayer’_s main
listening post in London’s East End. Because
of its wide reach,_Longplayer_’s beneficiaries
are diverse in their circumstances. With the
plurality of_Longplayer_’s beneficiaries in mind
several key positive differences for those
accessing_Longplayer_have been identified
through online and in-person feedback
including on social media channels; through
engagement activities and through school
and university visits to the Lighthouse:
●
Offers a space of calm and
contemplation.
●
Visitors and listeners feel part of a
wide community.
●
With the development of a youth
engagement programme and a focus
on children’s activities in the
lighthouse, Longplayer also functions
as a space for study outside of formal
educational contexts.
Wider benefits to society as a whole:
●
Invites a connection to time which is
not simply linear and not focussed on
short term gain or accumulation.
●
Instills a commitment to sustainability;
raises awareness of our own human
impact in the short term for the long
term.||
|---|---|---|---|
## **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**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|Longplayer Trust’s financial position
strengthened at the end of the 2024-2025
period with an increase of £14,104 in cash
funds.
We headed into 2025 very strongly by
securing and receiving our largest grant to
date of £30,000 from Trinity Buoy Wharf
Trust towards Longplayer Live.
From April 2024 - March 2025 Longplayer
Trust increased revenue from bowl
sponsorship by £4000 on the previous year
(most bowls are now sponsored so this
scheme will end, and a new scheme needs
to be created); Buying Time sponsorship
increased by £1200 (annual subscription of
£100 per donor); and online donations
increased by £3000 from just £700 the
previous year.
We continued to receive the annual approx
£9600 grant from Trinity Buoy Wharf to cover
invigilation costs at the Lighthouse, a 10 year
annual programme of funding from Trinity
Buoy Wharf Trust, which is due to expire in
2027.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The reserves that Longplayer Trust sets
aside provide financial stability and the
means for the development of our principal
activity. We intend to maintain our reserves
at a level which provides enough funds to
cover three months’ key expenses in the
case of dissolution, and intend to use these
reserves in this manner if required. This level
of reserves should be maintained and should
rise as appropriate to match the growth of the
charity, and to ensure we can fulfil our
charitable aims successfully as the scale of
their effects grows. The Board annually
reviews the amount of reserves that are
required to ensure that they are adequate to
fulfil our continuing obligations.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£4,645|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in|Para 1.24|There are no funds in deficit.|
|deficit|||
|---|---|---|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|The challenging landscape for funding in the
UK is the main point of uncertainty.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust have committed
to funding our invigilators at the London
Living Wage for 10 years until 2027. The
eighth installment fell during this period. The
grant enables us to continue to open the
lighthouse to the public for free every
weekend of the year. It is incumbent upon
the Trust to begin the process of renewing
the grant or find an alternative source of
funding for the invigilators.|
## **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||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Declaration of Trust|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Longplayer is a Charitable Trust|
|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|Any existing trustee can recommend a new
trustee. This is then discussed at a quarterly
meeting and approved or denied by the
existing board.
The Longplayer Trust’s most recent trustee
and incoming chair were selected by a widely
advertised open call, as detailed in the
summary of the charity’s main activities for
the year.|
## **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 The Longplayer Trust
|||
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|n/a|
|Registered charity number|1087243|
|Charity’s principal address|31 Eyre St Hill
London
EC1R 5EW|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Ansuman
Biswas||||
||James Bulley||||
||Sam Collins||||
||Edie Culshaw|Outgoing Co-
Chair|||
||Gareth Evans||||
||Ella Finer|Outgoing Co-
Chair|||
||Jem Finer||||
||Lois Keidan||||
||Sam Kinchin
Smith|Incoming Chair|From October 2024
onwards||
||Tadeo Lopez
Sendon||From October 2024
onwards||
||Eric Reynolds||||
||Gavin Starks||||
||Mariam Zulfiqar||||
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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**|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets held
in this capacity|N/A|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|N/A|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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|**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**
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Signature(s)
Full name(s) [Jem Finer] Sam Kinchin-Smith
ee
Position (eg Trustee Chair
Secretary, Chair, etc)
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Date 27.01.26
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||||||**The Longplayer Trust**||||||||||**1087243**||||||||
||||**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
1/4/2024
31/3/2025
**For the period**
**from**
~~Se~~|||||||||||||||||||**CC16a**|
||**Section A Receipts and payments**
~~ee~~||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||||**Restricted**
**funds**||||**Endowment**
**funds**||||**Total funds**||||**Last year**|
||||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**|
||**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||
||Revenue||||**15,941**|||||||||**-**||||**15,941**||||**7,679**|
|||||||||||**39,633**||||**-**||||**39,633**||||**34,316**|
||Grants||||||||||||||||||||||
||Donations||||**8,132**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**8,132**||||**4,496**|
||Interest||||**51**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**51**||||**48**|
||Gift Aid||||**1,657**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**1,657**||||**-**|
||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||_(Gross income for AR)_|**25,781**
_(Gross income for AR)_|||||**39,633**||||**-**||||**65,415**||||**46,539**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~SSSS~~|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**_Total receipts_ **||**25,781**
~~DO) Ce) ee)~~|||~~DO) Ce) ee)~~|**39,633**
~~DO) Ce) ee)~~||||~~DO) Ce) ee)~~|**-**
~~DO) Ce) ee)~~|||||**65,415**||||**46,539**|
||**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||
01/28/2026
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|Producer|**2,523**||**7,677**||**-**||**10,200**||**9,900**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Engagement Officer|**923**||**7,677**||**-**||**8,600**||**-**|
|Stationery& Printing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Rent & Rates|**772**||**-**||**-**||**772**||**584**|
|Insurance|**489**||**-**||**-**||**489**||**334**|
|Office Costs|**501**||**-**||**-**||**501**||**588**|
|Website|**317**||**-**||**-**||**317**||**302**|
|Accounting|**539**||**-**||**-**||**539**||**474**|
|Consultancy|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Sonic Ray|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Bank Charges|**336**||**-**||**-**||**336**||**212**|
|Internet Streaming|**300**||**-**||**-**||**300**||**300**|
|Artists|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Lighthouse cleaningand maintenance|**506**||**-**||**-**||**506**||**232**|
|Invigilator Services|**-**||**9,598**||**-**||**9,598**||**8,446**|
|Marketing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Bowl Engraving& storage|**2,238**||**-**||**-**||**2,238**||**1,669**|
|Travel|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|EntertainingClients|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|BuyingTime|**13**||**-**||**-**||**13**||**12**|
|Morse Candle|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Foreign Exchange|**15**||**-**||**-**||**15**||**-**|
|Launches & Events|**703**||**-**||**-**||**703**||**1,479**|
|SoundingCircle|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Fundraising|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Audit|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Longplayer App|**66**||**-**||**-**||**66**||**79**|
|Longplayer Live|||**8,700**||**-**||**8,700**||**-**|
|Longplayer Afternoons|**1,202**||**-**||**-**||**1,202**||**-**|
|ListeningPosts|**4,916**||||**-**||**4,916**||**-**|
|Longplayer Conversation|**801**||**-**||**-**||**801**||**-**|
|Merchandise Costs|**496**||**-**||**-**||**496**||**235**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**17,657**||**33,653**||**-**||**51,311**||**24,846**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
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||**_Total payments_ 17,657**||||**33,653**|||||**-**||||**51,311**||||**24,846**||
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||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 8,124**||||**5,980**||||**-**|||||**14,104**||||**21,693**||
|**A5**|**Transfers between funds**
**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|**A6**|**Cash funds last year end**
**20,158**||||**22,893**||||**-**|||||**43,051**||||**21,358**||
||**_Cash funds this year end_ 28,282**||||**28,873**||||**-**|||||**57,155**||||**43,051**||
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**28,283**
**-**
**-**
**28,283**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**to nearest £**
**28,873**
**-**
**-**
**28,873**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|**-**|
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**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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**Fund to which Amount due When due Details liability relates (optional) (optional) - - - - -** ~~—===~~ Date of Signature Print Name approval Jem Finer 07.01.2026 ~~eee~~
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CCXX R5 accounts
ss
0112812026
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** The Longplayer Trust **On accounts for the year** 31 March 2025 **Charity no** 1087243 **ended (if any) Set out on pages**
(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 / 03 / 2025**
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
- _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date:** 23.12.2025 ~~|~~ **Name:** Mark Addis ~~Ps~~ **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** 10 Hazelwood Road, Hale, Altrincham, WA15 9AX
**Section B Disclosure** ~~Pe~~
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**