## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|Period start date||Period end date|Period end date|Period end date| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**From**|1|9|2021|**To**|31|8|2022| Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Furness Music Centre **Other names charity is known by** FMC **Registered charity number (if any)** 1112934 |**Charity's principal address**|
Dunnerholme Crossing|
Dunnerholme Crossing| |---|---|---| ||Kirkby-in-Furness|| ||Cumbria|| ||**Postcode**|LA17 7TU| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Jean Ashworth|||| ||Tim Baxter|Secretary||| ||Elisabeth Donachie|Assistant Treasurer||| ||Peter Fitzpatrick|Treasurer||| ||David Gillam|||| ||John Lawrence|Chairman||| ||Fiona Roberts|||| ||Graham Wood|||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |Not Applicable|| ||| ||| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**Address**||| |Not Applicable||| |||| |||| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Not Applicable 1 Section B Structure, governance and management ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Furness Music Centre is governed by a Constitution that was last amended and adopted on 5[th] May 2012 How the charity is constituted Furness Music Centre in an unincorporated organisation - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Trustees are selected by nomination and election at the Annual General Meeting - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** Furness Music Centre has formally adopted the following policies and procedures: You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - Children and Vulnerable Adults Protection Policy - Children and Vulnerable Adults Protection Procedure - Compliments, Comments and Concerns Policy - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - Equality and Diversity Policy - Health and Safety Policy • the charity’s organisational Furness Music Centre has a single board of trustees who meet monthly. The structure and any wider network Director of Music and the Choral Director are also invited to attend trustees' with which the charity works; meetings. Furness Music Centre is a member of Making Music, through which it obtains Public Liability, Property and Trustees insurance. - relationship with any related parties; The trustees consider that Furness Music Centre does not encounter any major risks as a result of its operation. Financial risks are considered and addressed by a minimum reserves policy of £10,000 which represents more than six months operating costs - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. The Charity has established an Operating Company, FMC ProdCo Ltd, so that Orchestra Tax Relief can be claimed. FMC ProdCo Ltd. Is a limited company registered in England, No.13968493. It has three directors, Elisabeth Donachie, Tim Baxter and Peter Fitzpatrick and its purpose is to make all preparations for concerts given by FMC. The orchestral elements of these costs are eligible for Orchestra Tax Relief (50% until 31 March 2023, 35% between 1 April 2023 until 31 March 2024, and 25% thereafter). The Directors of FMC ProdCo Ltd are bound by a Deed of Trust which requires them to take appropriate direction from the Trustees of FMC, and a Shareholders Agreement which requires them to sell their £1 stake in FMC ProdCo Ltd. to a nominated trustee of FMC should they resign as a trustee. 2 ## Section C ## Objectives and activities The charitable objectives of Furness Music Centre are: **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects** a) To advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by any means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public concerts and recitals. b) To assist and support such charitable institutions or purposes as the trustees shall from time to time determine This year was the first full year of operation following the Covid-19 pandemic. The trustees were very pleased to be able to re-start ‘normal’ activities, including rehearsals in The Muse at Dowdales School and concerts across the Furness area. Almost all members returned to ‘active duty’ with several new members joining throughout the year. The first performance opportunity of the year was in support of the South Cumbria Music Festival Gala Concert on 22[nd] October 2022. FMC was very well represented with the Choir performing several pieces, mainly ‘a capella’, the Chamber Music Group performing a Telemann Oboe Concerto and several other members giving individual performances The Winter Concert held in Abbey Road Baptist Church was our first full concert in two and a half years. Thankfully we remembered how to do it! We presented a varied concert of traditional favourites and less commonly heard pieces with music from the 16[th] to the 21[st] Century Our forces were slightly affected by the ‘tail’ of the pandemic with some members contracting the dreaded virus just before the concert, and it was noticeable that our audience numbers were lower than a couple of years earlier. The other notable change was that FMC finances had entered the 21[st] century with the ability to pay for entry to the concert by card! Our Spring Concert took place at a new venue, Salthouse Pavilion, which proved very welcoming with good facilities. The programme included two world premieres! The choir rose to the challenge of Daffodils, a suite of three movements setting Wordsworth’s words to music commissioned by Cumbria Rural Choirs for the 250[th] anniversary of William Wordsworth’s death and described as neo-baroque by its Cumbrian composer, Tamsin Jones. A smaller section of the choir also performed Ian Hare’s Springtime in Lakeland, also in five movements using Wordsworth’s poems and also commissioned by Cumbria rural choirs. Ian is an accomplished organist, composer and teacher based in Penrith Not to be outdone, the orchestra gave rousing performances including two Argentinian Tangos, excerpts from Star Wars and culminating in a pulsating rendition of music from Pirates of the Caribbean! The summer found us once again in Grange-over-Sands at the Victoria Hall, joined by some members of the Windermere Orchestra including music from Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Arnold’s Little Suite for Orchestra, with the choir continuing to perform wonderful four-part ‘a capella’ pieces plus a medley of ‘Rodgers & Hammerstein on Broadway’. A fitting finale consisted of three pieces from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story performed by the combined choir and orchestra. FMCjuniors continued to re-establish in-person instrument tuition with over 40 children receiving lessons in violin, flute and clarinet at Sir John Barrow School and Church Walk School in Ulverston. After school activities transferred to Ulverston Victoria High School and we are already seeing the benefit of this with a number of students continuing lessons having transitioned from primary to secondary education. 3 **Summary of the main activities (continued)** We were also able to re-establish our summer tour with approximately 40 members touring Yorkshire for fiver days in July 2022. Those members who joined the tour enjoyed the hospitality of a three start hotel with excellent facilities for evening entertainment, and played nine concerts over the five days across east and west Yorkshire from Scarborough to Brough and over to Skipton and Settle ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further Music Centre Furness relies on volunteers to operate: statements, where relevant, about: - The trustees commit their time to manage the charity’s operation - policy on grant making; - Two trustees organise the summer tour, and - policy programme related investment; • Many members help at concerts and other events - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D ## Achievements and performance **Summary of the main** The main achievement of this year was to re-establish FMC as a viable **achievements of the charity** organisation following the pandemic, with increased participation and new **during the year** members in all ensembles, and with all ensembles continuing to grow in capability and confidence. 4 ## Section E Financial review **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit** Furness Music Centre has resolved to maintain a minimum reserve of £10,000 on the basis that this represents the full operating costs for two terms At the end of the financial year Furness Music Centre held reserves of approximately £10,500 including a loan of £1,500 to FMC ProdCo Ltd. To provide working capital. This represents a deficit over the year of approximately £2,500. There are no funds in deficit ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Furness Music Centre has a number of sources of funds: You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - A grant is received annually as a result of an agreement with the - relevant about: Cumbria Music Hub to provide opportunities for children and young - • the charity’s principal sources of people to make music and develop their skills. We are grateful to the funds (including any Department for Education, The Arts Council and Cumbria Music Hub fundraising); that arrangements have been made to continue this funding, despite - • how expenditure has supported operations being disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic the key objectives of the charity; • Membership subscriptions provide a regular income from members. Many members who pay their subscriptions by standing order have - • investment policy and continued to do so, and some members have also made donations - objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. • The provision of instrumental tuition provides another source of income, and we are grateful to a number of instrument tutors who volunteer their time to support this - Expenditure relating to the operation of the charity includes: • Furness Music Centre contracts for the services of professional music tutors – the Musical Director who is responsible for all musical aspects of the charity, the Choral Director who leads the choir - • Rent for Furness Music Centre rehearsals on Saturdays and FMCjuniors operations on Tuesday evenings. This expenditure is significantly less this year with rehearsals only take place for one half term - • Relevant insurance is obtained via Making Music, which is a membership organisation for music organisations - • The Furness Music Centre web site uses the Making Music Platform which has improved the information that we are able to provide to members. The annual cost of the Making Music Platform is no more than the hosting costs of the previous web site and is considered excellent value for money ## Section F Other optional information Furness Music Centre owns number of instruments available to support members and music tuition. A number of these have been donated to the charity, and some have been purchased. The instruments used by primary-age pupils at FMCjuniors are owned by Furness Music Centre 5 ## 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)**
**Position (e.g. Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||John Lawrence|Peter Fitzpatrick| ||
Chair|Treasurer| |||| ||26 June 2023|| 6 |**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Furness Music Centre**|||**1112934**|| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period from**|01/09/2020
Period start date|**To**|Period end date
31/08/2021|| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,379**
**31,445**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,379**
**31,445**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,379**
**31,445**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,379**
**31,445**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |A1a Donations,legacies and other minor receipts|**9,379**||**-**||**-**||**9,379**||**25,893**| |A1b(i)Operatingactivities to further charity's objects|**31,445**||**-**||**-**||**31,445**||**16,431**| |A1b(ii)Operatingactivities togenerate funds|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**214**| |A1c Investment income receipts|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**5**| |A1d Other receipts(not countingas Gross Income)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**40,824**||**-**||**-**||**40,824**||**42,544**| ||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||**40,824**||**-**||**-**||**40,824**||**42,544**| ||**-**
**100**
**43,428**
**1,425**
**-**
**70**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**100**
**43,428**
**1,425**
**-**
**70**
**-**
**-**
**-**||| |A2a Payments for Generating Funds|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |A2b(i) Charitable Payments - Grants Paid|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**291**| |A2b(ii) Charitable Payment - Charitable Activities|**43,428**||**-**||**-**||**43,428**||**27,912**| |A2b(iii) Charitable Payments - Support Costs|**1,425**||**-**||**-**||**1,425**||**4,150**| |A2b(iv) Charitable Payments - Management & Administration|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |A2c Other payments (not counting as "Expenditure")|**70**||**-**||**-**||**70**||**2,798**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**45,023**||**-**||**-**||**45,023**||**35,152**| ||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**||| |**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||**45,023**||**-**||**-**||**45,023**||**35,152**| ||||||||||| ||**- 4,199**||**-**||**-**||**- 4,199**||**7,392**| ||**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**12,988**||**-**||**-**||**12,988**||**11,036**| ||**8,789**||**-**||**-**||**8,789**||**18,427**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
FMCjuniors Musical Instruments - Flutes
FMCjuniors Musical Instruments - Vioilins
FMCjuniors Musical Instruments - Clarinets
FMC Musical Instruments - Violin
FMC Musical Instruments - Cellos
FMC Musical Instruments - Double Bass
FMC Musical Instruments - Trumpets
FMC Musical Instruments - Xylophone
**Details**
**Details**
Current Account
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,789**
**-**
**-**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,789**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**8,789**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**8,789**||**-**||**-**| |||OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
Print Nam||||OK| |||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**2,800**| |||||||**3,250**| |||||||**2,100**| |||||||**500**| |||||||**3,850**| |||||||**700**| |||||||**700**| |||||||**150**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**When due**
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