Treasurer’s report to ABC AGM accounts for year ended 31 Dec 2025
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The accounts show an excess of income over expenditure for 2025 of £3421.51.
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There were two London concerts in the year, the programme for the first, on 8[th] March in St Clement Danes, entitled Intimations of Mortality, included a number of a capella works for the choir and two organ pieces played by Paul Ayres. The audience of 109 resulted in a surplus of £1681.64.
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Our second concert, on 11[th] October, in the recently renamed Smith Square Hall, was a performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This extremely successful concert was enjoyed by an audience of 431.
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We were very grateful to receive three major sponsorships, of £1000 from the L G Harris Trust, £2000 from The Old Bank Dentistry, and £2000 from Lonsdale Window Fashions. Our fund raising team generated a further £1600 from life friends, programme advertising and other donations, and we extend our thanks to all who supported this concert financially leading to a deficit of £91.02 which has been more than offset by a Gift Aid claim of £807.75 for this event.
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For the St Clement Danes concert the expenditure column for both programmes and ticket sales includes Jumblebee/Zettle fees. For the October concert the commission charged by Smith Square Hall for both programmes and tickets is included.
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The Gift Aid claimed for the October concert contributed to a total of £1110.54 from HMRC for the year and we are very grateful to all of our members who have gift aided their subscriptions and donations, and particularly to Will Hale who collated and submitted the claims.
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Our first full year with the reserve account with Virgin Money returned £164 of interest in 2025, and at the year-end held a balance of £9172.58.
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We continue to be grateful for the support of our Friends, who contributed £884 to our funds during the year, and we extend our thanks to Sian Rees who administers our Friends scheme.
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Our March 2026 concert in St Clement Danes will be a performance of Rachmaninov’s Vespers interspersed with solo violin music. This concert is budgeted to break even with an audience of approximately 65, but please do your utmost to sell tickets for this concert to at least equal the audience of 100 achieved last March!
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In October 2026 we are planning a performance of Brahms’ Fest-und Gedenkspruche, again in St Clement Danes.
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As suggested at the last AGM, we have opened an easyfundraising account and we are yet to receive our first payment from them. Details were circulated to all members, but if you have not registered and wish to join the scheme please contact me and I will let you have the details.
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In summary, the accounts show that the choir is in a healthy financial position for the activities planned for 2026 with funds of £12,818 in our accounts.
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Finally, I would like to express my thanks to Paul Heggs for making an independent review of the year’s accounts.
R Polley
10 February 2026
ABC Accounts 2025
Intimations of Mortality 8 March 25
| Intimations of Mortality 8 March 25 | |
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| Ticket sales Music hire and purchase Membership and donations Rehearsals Concert (Venue, organist/repetiteur, orchestra, soloists) Publicity Programmes Sponsorship Bach Mass in B minor 11 October 2025 Ticket sales Music hire and purchase Membership and donations Bar Rehearsals Concert (Venue, organist/repetiteur, orchestra, soloists) Publicity Programmes Sponsorship Other income Friends Gift Aid Interest Other donations Other expenditure Bank charges Making Music Stock depreciation |
Income Expenditure Profit £2,180.00 £76.21 £924.60 £841.96 £1,590.00 £821.53 £1,327.00 £89.61 £207.00 £63.65 £0.00 £4,901.60 £3,219.96 £1,681.64 £13,510.00 £2,365.52 £113.50 £88.40 £2,940.00 £0.00 £0.00 £962.08 £20,004.08 £71.18 £498.00 £337.26 £6,676.00 £23,737.50 £23,828.52 -£91.02 £884.00 £1,110.54 £163.63 £234.40 £0.92 £560.76 £0.00 £2,392.57 £561.68 £1,830.89 |
| Totals Balance sheet: Stock of music Debtors Cash Advance payments Creditors Bank Reserve Account Net assets Retained profit brought forward Profit / (Loss) for year Written off debts and credit Retained profit carried forward |
£31,031.67 £27,610.16 £3,421.51 End 2025 End 2024 £350.00 £350.00 £807.75 £0.00 £0.00 £28.00 £264.91 £3,540.00 -£436.50 -£545.65 £3,645.19 £3,501.12 £9,172.58 £3,508.95 £13,803.93 £10,382.42 £10,382.42 £11,443.94 £3,421.51 -£1,061.52 £0.00 £0.00 £13,803.93 £10,382.42 |
127 Lockesley Drive Orpington BR5 2AD 12th February 2026 Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Anton Bruckner Cholr I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Anton Bruckner Choir (the Trust) for the year ended 31 December 2025. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordan with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {'the Act'l. I report in respect of my examination ofthe Trust's accounts carried out under sedion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)(b) of the Act. Independent examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect.. 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act,. or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or 3. the accounts do not compty with the applicable requirements Conrning the fom and content of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no cOnrnS and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Paul M Heggs