## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 01 2024 31 12 2024 **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 **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** THE NORTH WEST MUSIC TRUST’S OUTREACH PROGRAMME HAS REACHED OUT TO MANY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO ENJOY WORLD CLASS PIANO PERFORMANCE IN PLACES WHERE THERE 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 TO 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** 02/05/2025 March **2012** **TAR** 6 ## **North West Music Trust** Registered Charity 1099327 ## **Receipts and Payments Accounts** Year ended 31st December 2024 ## **£** ## **Receipts** **A1a Donations and other similar 44,505 - A1b Operating activities Sub-total (A1a+A1b) 44,505 A1d Other receipts 5,402 Total receipts 49,906** **Payments A2a Payments for generating funds 1,229 A2b Charitable payments: A2b (iii) Support costs 59,903 A2b (iv) Payments for management and administration costs 68 Sub-total (A2a+A2b) 61,199 A2c Other payments 4,806 Total payments 66,005 Net of Receipts (A1-A2) - 16,099 Cash funds last year end 24,172 Cash funds this year end 8,073** **Net of Receipts (A1-A2) Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end** **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** FFF ~~—Cti‘CCOCtC~~ t( Charity Name ## **Report to the trustees/ members of** North West Music Trust 31/12/2024 **Charity no** 1099327 **ended (if any)** ~~Pe~~ **Set out on pages** 3 of 3 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) ~~po~~ **Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. **responsibilities of** The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. ## **On accounts for the year ended** **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** It is my responsibility to: - examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, - to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and - to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. - **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. - **Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention - **examiner's statement** 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act - have not been met; or 2. to which, in my opinion, 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._ **Date:** 02/05/2025 **Signed:** ~~ee~~ **Name:** RODGER DEYN ~~pO~~ **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** ~~a~~ 1 **March 2012** **IER** **Address:** FLAT 2 OVERDALE BONVILLE ROAD ALTRINCHAM WA14 4QR ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems. 2 **March 2012** **IER** **Give here brief details of** NONE **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 3 **March 2012** **IER**