## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 01 2023 31 12 2023 **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details North West Music Trust **Charity name** North West Music Trust **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1099327 **Charity's principal address** 19 Green Hall Close Atherton MANCHESTER **Postcode** M46 9HP **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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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 (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||WILLIAM WOOF|CHAIR||| ||JOYCE
PLUMPTON|VICE CHAIR &
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TREASURER||| ||JUDY
WESTERDALE|SECRETARY||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **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** Type of governing document CONSTITUTION (eg. trust deed, constitution) TRUST How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) ELECTED Trustee selection methods - (eg. trust, association, company) (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. March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF PIANO MUSIC THROUGH THE PROVISION OF **Summary of the objects of the** MASTER-CLASSES, CONCERTS, RECITALS AND PERFORMANCES **charity set out in its governing document** THROUGH THE TRUSTEES’ REGARD FOR THE GUIDANCE ON PUBLIC BENEFIT, AS ISSUED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION, THE NORTH WEST MUSIC TRUST UNDERTOOK A SERIES OF OUTREACH EVENTS WHICH BROUGHT THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PIANO AND ITS TIMELESS MASTERPIECES TO MANY FOR WHOM THIS WOULD NOT OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE. THE SERIES INCLUDES VENUES BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC. **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)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 ## **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. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance THE NORTH WEST MUSIC TRUST’S OUTREACH PROGRAMME HAS **Summary of the main** REACHED OUT TO MANY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO ENJOY **achievements of the charity** WORLD CLASS PIANO PERFORMANCE IN PLACES WHERE THERE **during the year** IS LITTLE OR NO PROVISION. FEEDBACK HAS BEEN ENORMOUSLY POSITIVE AND THE TRUST FEELS ITS EFFORTS ARE AMPLY JUSTIFIED TO CONTINUE THE PROGRAMME. THE TRUST HAS GIVEN FURTHER GRANTS TO A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS AND HAS INCREASED ITS STOCK OF INSTRUMENTS TO LEND OUT FREE OF CHARGE TO THOSE WHO NEED THEM AND HIRE OUT FOR A SELECT NUMBER OF EVENTS FROM WHICH THE PUBLIC WILL BENEFIT. March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** NORTH WEST MUSIC TRUST IMPLEMENTS A POLICY OF HAVING **Brief statement of the** AT LEAST SIX MONTHS’ OPERATION COSTS **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** **Further financial review details (Optional information)** ## 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** ~~_ ee~~ **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)** JOYCE PLUMPTON **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** VICE CHAIR & **etc)** ACTING TREASURER **Date** 20/09/2024 March **2012** **TAR** 6 ## **North West Music Trust** Registered Charity 1099327 ## **Receipts and Payments Accounts** Year ended 31st December 2023 ## **£** **Receipts A1a Donations and other similar 35,766 A1b Operating activities 11 Sub-total (A1a+A1b) 35,777 A1d Other receipts 4,239 Total receipts 40,016** **Payments A2a Payments for generating funds 1,051 A2b Charitable payments: A2b (iii) Support costs 27,522 A2b (iv) Payments for management and administration costs 72 Sub-total (A2a+A2b) 28,644 A2c Other payments 4,717 Total payments 33,361 Net of Receipts (A1-A2) 6,655 Cash funds last year end 17,517 Cash funds this year end 24,172**