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Annual Report 2021-22
Published October 2022

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Our Vision
To create a musical
community without barriers.
Our Mission
To empower people with profound
disabilities to find their voice through
music.
Our Values
Accessible, Aspirational,
Empowering, Trustworthy,
Responsive, Inclusive.
Organisational Objectives
l. To reduce isolation for Disabled participants and
families through music
2. To diversify our income generation
3. To ensure the voices of our participants are heard
4. To evolve a strong, effective and diverse organisation
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|Chair's Foreword||04|
|CEO Introduction||05|
|CEO Update||06|
|Review ofour Objectives||07|
|1.Reducing<br>Isolation through|Music|07|
|Overview<br>in Numbers||08|
|Highlighted<br>Projects||09|
|2.Diversification<br>of Income|Generation|13|
|Special Events||13|
|Corporate Supporters||13|
|Challenge<br>Events||13|
|Community<br>Fundraising||14|
|Trusts and Foundations||14|
|3.Voices of Participants to be Heard||15|
|Voices ofSoundabout||15|
|Media Interviews||16|
|Performances||16|
|4.Strong, Diverse and Effective Organisation||17|
|ED I Working Group||17|
|Participation||18|
|Environmental<br>Sustainability||19|
|Governance||19|
|Volunteers||20|
|Report ofthe Trustees and Financial Statements||21|
|Reference and Administrative|Details|22|
|Independent<br>Examiner's<br>Report||23|
|Statement of Financial Activities||24|
|Balance Sheet||25|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||27|





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Reducing Isolation for
Participants and
Families through Music
Overarching five-year delivery tsrgeL'
Reduce isolation faced by people with learning disabilities and their families, carers or
teachers by providing 10,000 meaningful musical opportunities per year.

Overview in Numbers
for Aprfl 2021- March 2022
The delivery of this target included a wide range of services such as: our online music
making provision, SEN schools music making work, training (both online and in-
person), Inclusive Choir delivery, working with families in their homes and delivering
multi-sensory projects.
weeklylfortnlghtly
music sessions
Inck)slve' Ctrtoirs
established
opportunities
32
choir leaders
trained
trainirysesStons
delivered
Emerging Leaders
graduating with
opportunities
136
406
families receivins
I:1 support
families registered on
current projects


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Report of the Trustees
and Unaudited
Financial Statements
for the year ended 31st March 2022
Ad Valorem Acwntsncy SeNlces UmFted
Chartered Certified Accountsnts
2 Manor Fam Court
Old Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK12 5NN
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|||||Notes|Unrestricted|funds|I|Resb icted|r|31.3.22||31.3.21||
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||||||(E)|||funds (8)|",|Total funds (f)||Total funds (f)||
||Income and endowments||from|||||||||||
||Donations<br>and legacies||||44,681|||||44,681||56,882||
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|I<br>' <br>t|Chadtable<br>activities<br>including<br> grants: restricted funds|||||||268,885||268,885||258,291||
|I <br>I<br>I|Chadtable<br>activities<br> grants: unrestricted|including<br>funds|||47,705|||||47,705|I|55,115||
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||Other trading activities||||49,981|||||49,981||81.,668||
||Investment<br>income|||||||||||35||
|:|Total||||142,388|||268,885||411,273||451,991||
||Expenditure<br>on|||||||||||||
||Raising funds||||7,642|||||||9,445||
||Chadtable<br>activities: <br>funds|restricted||||||268,364||268,364||193,101||
||Charitable<br>activities<br>unrestricted<br>funds||||130,621|||||130,621||184,803||
||Total||||138,263|||268,364||406,627||387,349||
||Net income||||4,125|||521||4,646||||
||Reconciliation offunds|||||||||||||
||Total funds brought|forward|||39,851|||91,686||131,537||66,895||
||Total funds carried|forward|||43,976|||92,207||136,183||131,537||





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||Notes|Unrestricted<br>(f)|funds|Restricted<br>funds (f)|l<br>I|31.3.22<br>Total funds (f)||31.3.21<br>Total funds (f)|
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|Fixed assets|||||||||
|Intangible<br>assets||1,015||||1,015||2,861|
|Tangible assets|10|8,401||||8,401||6,098|
|Total fixed assets||9,056||||9,056||8,959|
|Current assets|||||||||
|Stocks||652||||652||1,540|
|Debtors|12|7,295||||7,295||4,461|
|Cash at bank||33,907||92,207||126,114||141,528|
|Total current assets||41,854||92,207||134,061||147,529|
|Creditors|||||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within<br>one year||(6,934)||||(6,934)||(24,951)|
|Net current assets||34,920||92,207||127,127||122,578|
|Total assets less current<br>liabilities||43,976||92,207||136,183||131.537|
|Net assets||43,976||92,207|'|136,183||131,537|
|Funds|||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||43,976||39,851|
|Restricted funds||||||92,207||91,686|
|Totalfunds|14|||||136,183|I|131,537|



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||Income and endowments||from|||||||||
||onations<br>and legacies|||||(|66,882||||56,882|
||Chaditable<br>activities<br>restricted<br>funds|including||grants|||||258,291||258,291|
||Chaditable<br>activities<br>unrestricted<br>funds|including||grants:|||55,115||||55,115|
||Other trading activities||||||81,668||||81,668|
||Investment<br>income||||||35|||||
||Total||||||193,700||258,291||45L991|
||Expenditure<br>on|||||||||||
||Raising funds||||||9,445||||9,445|
||Chaditable<br>activities:|restricted||funds|||||193,101|||
|'|Chaditable<br>activities:|unrestricted|||funds||184,803||||184,803|
||Total||||||194,248||193,101||387,349|
||Net income/(expenditure)||||||(548)||65,190|||
||Recondliation<br>offunds|||||||||||
||Total funds brought|forward|||||40,399||26,496||66,895|
||Total funds carried|forward|||||39,851||91,686||131,537|





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|At 1stApril 2021and 31st March 2022|27,007|
|Amortisation||
|At 1stApdl 2021|24,146|
|Charge for one year|6~966|
|At 31st March 2022|25,992|
|Net book value||
|At 31stMarch 2022|1,015|
|At 31stMarch 2021|2,861|



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|||Plant and machinery<br>(g)||Fixtures and fittings<br>(g)||Totals (g)|
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||Cost||||||
||At 1stApril 2021|28,147||14,207||42,354|
||Additions|5,911||||1.911|
||At31st March 2022|34,058|||||
||Depmciation||||||
||At 1stApril 2021|23,093||13,163||36,256|
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||Charge for one year|3,445||523||3,968|
||At 31st March 2022|26,538||13686|**r** <br>L|40 224|
||Net book value||||||
|I|At 31st March 2022|7,520|i|521||8,041|
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||At 31st March 2021|5,054||1,044||6,098|






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|||31.3.22(8)|31.3,21IÃ)|
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|Stock||652|1,540|
|||31.322(5)|31.3.21(5)|
|Trade debtors||2,811|2,279|
|, Other debtors||2,000||
|Prepayments<br>income|and accrued|2,484|2,182|
|L<br>Total||7,295,<br>l|4,461|
|||31.3.22(8)|31.3.21(8)|
|Social secudity|and other taxes|3,846|3,161|
|Accrued expenses||3,088|21,790|
|Total||6,934|24,951|



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|||1.4.21Ã)|Net movement<br>funds (5)|in|31.3.22(8)|31.3.22(8)|
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|Unrestricted|funds|39,851|4,125||43,97||
|Restricted funds||91,686|521||92,207||
|Total funds||131,537|4,646||136,183||
|||Incoming|Resources||Movement|in|
|||resources (8)|expended<br>(E)||funds (6)||
|Unrestricted|funds|142,388|(138,263)||4,125||
|Restricted funds||268,885|(268,364)||521||
|Total funds||411473|(406,627)||||





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||Unrestricted|funds|40,399|(548)||39,851|
|'|Restricted funds||26,496|65,190||91,686|
|.|Total funds||66,895|64,642||131,537|
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|||resources (8)|expended (f)|funds (f)||
|Unrestricted|funds|193,700|(194,248)|(548)||
|Restricted funds||258,291|~93,101)|65,190||
|Total funds|||(387,349)|||



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|Restricted income funds|||||||||||
|Schools||||3,000||||||3,000|
|Building Bridges||||17,800|||50,000|52,885||14,915|
|Music Hubs||||20,224||||13,995||12,873|
|Family Community|Programme|||7,261|||29,178|28,760||7,679|
|Inclusive Choir||||18,639|||28,000|33,444||13,195|
|Equipment||||6,534|||4,266|6,594||4,206|
|Sounds Wild||||2,135|||5,400|2,756||4,779|
|Festivals||||5,000||||||5000|
|Leicestershire<br>SMS||||5,185|||||(5,185)||
|Peterborough<br>MH||||3,280|||||(3,280)||
|Wiltshire<br>Music Connect||||2,628|||||(2,628)||
|Family Support|||||||50,000|41,857||8,143|
|Schools Commissioned||Work|||||48,938|48,938|||
|Community<br>Commissioned|||Work||||9,630|9,830||(200)|
|Choir Commissioned||Work|||||36,829|29,305|11,093|18,617|
|Total resbfcted funds||||91,686|||268,885|268,364||92,207|
|Unrestricted<br>income||funds|||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>income funds||||39,851|||142,388|||43,976|
|Totalcharityfunds||||131,537|||411,273|406,627||136,183|



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