## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period From 01/04/22 Period start date To 31/07/2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: The Marches Community Choir** ## **Charity registration number: 1099360** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Advancement of Public Appreciation &**
**Knowledge of music by active**
**participation in public choral**
**performances and related activities in**
**the Marches area of Shropshire.**| |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|**In the fifteen-month period covered by**
**this report, the choir has given five**
**public concerts covering the following**
**areas.**
**Opera, oratorio, and other sacred music**
**and led the public in singing carols at**
**the Christmas Big Sing**| |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 observed Charity**
**Commission public benefit guidance in**
**all decisions and activities.**| **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|**Works performed by the choir between**
**01/04/2022 - 31/07/23**
**July 2022 - Opera Arias & Choruses**
**(Mozart,Verdi,Puccini,Lehar,Sullivan)**
**Autumn 2022 – Handel’s Messiah**
**Dec. 22 - Christmas Carols-The Big Sing**
**March 2023- Dvorak– Mass in D & Te**
**Deum and Shubert Mass in G**
**June 2023 - Coronation Concert**
**These concerts have enabled the people**
**of the Shropshire Marches to enjoy live**
**classical music of a high standard,**
**including the services of professional**
**musicians, locally and at reasonable**
**cost. Live music is also believed to**
**enhance the mental health of both**
**audience and participants**| ## **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|**Dev.Fund(Reserves) £5,180.91**
**Choir (current) Acc. £9,055.99**
**Cash (Float) £ 150.00**
**TOTAL £14,386.90**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held as a contingency**
**against future significant loss of income**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£ 5,180.91**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None at present**| |||| ## **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|**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|**election of officers & trustees at annual**
**general meeting**| ## **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 Marches Community Choir| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1099360| |Charity’s principal address|Totterton Home Farm
Lydbury North
Shropshire
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Heather Willis|Chair & Trustee||Members| ||Philippa Whitaker|Secretary& Trustee||Members| ||Carys Palmer|Treasurer & Trustee||Members| ||HollyGodman|Trustee||Members| ||Sarah Screen|Trustee|Until 31/03/23|Members| ||Hazel Cribb|Trustee||Members| ||Thomas Till|Trustee|From 01/04/23|Members| ||Katherine Taylor|Trustee|From 01/04/23|Members| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Not Applicable 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** Digitally signed by Holly **Signature(s)** Godman Holly Godman Date: 2024.04.15 20:14:44 +01'00' Holly Godman **Full name(s)** Carys Angharad Palmer ~~a~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer Trustee **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 15th April 2024 ~~Pp~~ Marche3 Communit Choir Income and Ex enditure Account For Th Period ril 2 to 31 Jul 2023 01104122 - 31107123 31103122 Income: Subscriptions Payments for Scores Concert Income Other Singing Income 8.716.25 215.60 11,748.31 515.00 21,195.16 4,327.50 188.50 2,622.00 90.00 7.228.00 Donations HMRC Gift Aid Raffles & Fund Raising Sundries Bank Inlerest 10.01 3,069.00 1.132.00 901.23 69.62 572.50 81.90 0.86 655.26 26,377.02 Expendlture". 7,883.26 Rent Conductor Feesl Travel Scores Printing Concert Artists Concert Resources & Staging Refreshments Insurance Misc Bank Charges Administration 2,973.50 5.030.00 683.63 1,652.23 7,990.00 1.411.82 163.35 875.00 1,995.50 372.68 621.06 2.441.00 1,434.90 210.50 95.00 362.75 96.00 189.99 655.02 124.70 863.72 Excess of Income over Expenditurel (Expenditure over Income) 21.547.97 8,694.38 £4 829.05 811.12 Summa hoir AJ Total Balance at 01 April 2022 5,127.29 4.430.56 9,557.85 Movement in the Year 150.00 53.62 4,625.43 4.829.05 Balance at 31 July 2023 150.00 5,180.91 9 055.99 14 386.90 A ditors C rtificat I confirm I have prepared the above account from the books and records of the Marches Community Choir and the Excess of Income over Expenditure is in accordance therewilh. Clive Sawyer CTA Marche3 Communit Choir Income and Ex enditure Account For Th Period ril 2 to 31 Jul 2023 01104122 - 31107123 31103122 Income: Subscriptions Payments for Scores Concert Income Other Singing Income 8.716.25 215.60 11,748.31 515.00 21,195.16 4,327.50 188.50 2,622.00 90.00 7.228.00 Donations HMRC Gift Aid Raffles & Fund Raising Sundries Bank Inlerest 10.01 3,069.00 1.132.00 901.23 69.62 572.50 81.90 0.86 655.26 26,377.02 Expendlture". 7,883.26 Rent Conductor Feesl Travel Scores Printing Concert Artists Concert Resources & Staging Refreshments Insurance Misc Bank Charges Administration 2,973.50 5.030.00 683.63 1,652.23 7,990.00 1.411.82 163.35 875.00 1,995.50 372.68 621.06 2.441.00 1,434.90 210.50 95.00 362.75 96.00 189.99 655.02 124.70 863.72 Excess of Income over Expenditurel (Expenditure over Income) 21.547.97 8,694.38 £4 829.05 811.12 Summa hoir AJ Total Balance at 01 April 2022 5,127.29 4.430.56 9,557.85 Movement in the Year 150.00 53.62 4,625.43 4.829.05 Balance at 31 July 2023 150.00 5,180.91 9 055.99 14 386.90 A ditors C rtificat I confirm I have prepared the above account from the books and records of the Marches Community Choir and the Excess of Income over Expenditure is in accordance therewilh. Clive Sawyer CTA