APKM(UK) TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR 2020-2021
The Trustees report a year of activity adjusted to suit the conditions of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns. Compared to last year, income was higher but expenditure was reduced due to the pandemic.
Unlike previous years, a group of members and of Volunteers was unable to take part in the annual international pilgrimage in May, in Lourdes, France. Plans for our participation in the pilgrimage in May 2020 had already been under way when the Covid-19 lockdown forced us to abandon them. Plans for the pilgrimage in 2021 were changed when it became clear that this would be an online event. Planning has already started for a pilgrimage in 2022.
The Association’s annual church service in Balham, London in June was replaced by an online service.
Our annual carol concert in December 2020, normally in St Clement Dane’s church on the Strand in central London, which would have been the 10[th] annual concert and therefore a special event was replaced by an online event. This consisted of a recorded introduction and then recordings of parts of previous concerts. The recording was officially played and made available via YouTube, first in Britain and Europe, and later separately in America and the rest of the world, with a worldwide total of over 2,000 viewings. Access to the opening and later to the online recording was by donation and the amount raised was £2,006 as shown in the financial report, of which £1,080 was received via PayPal. We are grateful to the Ave Verum choir and the St John Paul II choir from Balham, under the joint artistic direction of J Pokert and of P Salomoński – and also to Schola Cantorum, the choir of the Polish Parish in Ealing, under the direction of Katarzyna Fuksa for allowing us to include recordings of their performances, and to P Salomoński for assembling the online event and to those who assisted him. Naturally we hope to return to St Clement Dane’s church, to celebrate our 10[th] concert physically.
Members also continued to raise funds through contacts and through personal lobbying. Total APKM UK revenue for the year was £26,025.15. Total expenditure was £7,499.64 of which the main elements were Cadet Unit expenses of £1,642.30 and donations to Poland of £5,376.
Visits to the St Kolbe Polish retirement home by a group led by P Salomoński were unfortunately suspended this year.
Afternoon teas for the elderly were organised only a few times, between lockdowns, by members in the library of the Parish of Christ the King in Balham, South London and were supported by members of the APKM(UK) cadets. The cadets were present at services in the Association’s conventual church in Balham despite lockdown restrictions; we express thanks to them and their parents and organisers, as also to our Volunteers, for their continuing support under this year’s difficult conditions.
As outgoings were reduced by pandemic restrictions, there was a surplus for the year of £18,525.51, with assets in the bank of £60,519 at the end of March 2021, so we are in a financial situation well able to continue and expand our work in the future once restrictions end.
Wlodzimierz Mier-Jedrzejowicz on behalf of the Trustees
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