## **THE EXETER BACH SOCIETY Registered charity number 1120011**
Annual Report and Financial Statement Year ended 30 June 2025
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **From 1[st] July 2024 To 30 June 2025**
Reference and administration details
## **Charity name THE EXETER BACH SOCIETY**
**Registered charity number 1120011**
**Charity's principal address c/o R Flack**
**29 Churchill Road St Thomas Exeter Postcode EX2 9BU**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 M M Bjornevoll Chair
N du Buisson Treasurer and
2 Membership The members at the Annual
Secretary
General Meeting or by
3 R Flack Secretary co-option between meetings
4 G Humphries
5 A Scorer
6 K S Scorer
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**Names of other trustees who acted during the year.**
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Name
Rachel Sturley To 8 March 2025
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## **Names and addresses of adviser**
|**Names and addresses of**|**adviser**||
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
|**Bank**|Lloyds Bank|High Street, Exeter, EX4 3ZB|
|**Musical Director**|||
Jonathan Lucas Wood ( until 30 June 2025)
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**Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document[Constitution ] How the charity is constituted[Trust deed ] Trustee selection methods[By election at Annual General Meeting, co-option between AGM’s ]
## **Objectives and activities**
|**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**|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 but in particular
through the presentation of and the study of the works of Johann
Sebastian Bach.
B. To further such charitable purpose or purposes as the
trustees in their absolute discretion shall think fit but
in particular through the making of grants and donations**.**|
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||In planning our activities for the period, the trustees kept in mind the
Charity Commissions guidance on public benefit.
The main focus of the Society’s activities during the year continued to be
the public performance of the works of J S Bach, as well as other
composers. This was the 30thAnniversary Season of the Choir and so it
was felt appropriate to celebrate by holding the Choir’s main concert J S
Bach’s ‘Mass in B Minor’ in Exeter Cathedral ( see below)
At 30 June 2025, the Society had a membership of 63**.**
The Society’s activities in our 30thSeason included:
Our autumn concert held at St Davids Church, Exeter which included
Mozart’s Requiem as well as Tavener’s ‘Song for Athene’
As noted above, our spring concert was held at Exeter Cathedral where
an audience of 432 (our biggest ever) attended our performance of the
‘Mass in B Minor’.
The Choirs final concert of the season took place at St Margarets church,
Topsham, where the Choir presented a slightly different event, a (sung)
illustrated talk ‘ The making of the Mass’ , illustrating how J S Bach
borrowed from earlier works to compile his final great work.
The Choir said goodbye to its Musical Director, Jonathan Lucas Wood at
the conclusion of the season, we wish him well. Matthew Jeffrey has
subsequently been appointed as his successor.|
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## **Financial review**
The Society received income of £29,221 in the year, whilst spending **Brief statement of the** £26,695. The increase in income was a consequence of increased **charity’s policy on reserves** subscriptions as well as increased ticket income from performing in the the Cathedral.
The Society’s total reserves at 30 June 2025 totalled £3,828 and were unrestricted in nature. These reserves are held in order to fund the Society’s ongoing programme of musical events.
## **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 (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|R W G FLACK
N DU BUISSON|
|---|---|
||Raymond William George Flack
Nicholas Du Buisson|
||Secretary
Treasurer|
||27 November 2025|
||27 November 2025|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on page**|Charity Name
EXETER BACH SOCIETY|
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||30 JUNE 2025
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
**1120011**|
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(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)|
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30 June 2025 **DD / MM / YYYY** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed: Date:** 24/6/2026 **Name:** THOMAS SCORER **Relevant professional** N/A **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 51 ANTHONY ROAD EXETER EX1 2SS
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|**EXETER BACH SOCIETY**||||||||||
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|**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1120011**||||||||||
|**Year End Financial Statement, July 2024- June 2025**||||||||||
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|**RECEIPTS AND PAYMENT ACCOUNT**||||||||||
||**Year ended 30th June 2025**|||||**Year ended 30th June 2024**||||
||**In**|**Out**|**Surplus**|||**In**|**Out**|**Surplus**||
||||**(Deficit)**|||||**(Deficit)**||
||£|£|£|||£|£|£||
|**Concerts and Performances**||||||||||
|Winter Concert|4,161|(5,576)|(1,415)|Mozart Requiem||4,505|(4,525)|(20)|Messiah|
|Spring Concert|10,307|(9,792)|515|Mass in B Minor||2,020|(4,003)|(1,983)|Brahms Reqiuem|
|Summer Concert|1,134|(150)|984|The Making of the Mass||1,221|(849)|372|A Night at the Opera'|
|Workshop|1,488|(837)|651|Mozart Requiem||1,649|(600)|1,049|Brahms Workshop|
|Coffee morning|-|-|-|||210|(150)|60||
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||17,090|(16,355)|735|||9,605|(10,127)|(522)||
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|Membership Fees|8,106|(160)|7,946|||7,425|-|7,425||
|Gift aid|1,840|-|1,840|||-|-|-||
|Cost of rehearsals|-|(7,910)|(7,910)|||-|(5,561)|(5,561)||
|Donations and friends|125|-|125|||-|-|-||
|Scores|154|(189)|(35)|||180|(180)|-||
|Teas/Coffee/ raffle|110|-|110|||486|-|486||
|Advertising and Sponsorship|
-|-|-|||-|(480)|(480)||
|Marketing|30|(330)|(300)|||-|-|-||
|Making Music Subscription|-|(351)|(351)|||-|(367)|(367)||
|Bank Interest|29|-|29|||51|-|51||
|Previous year: Summer
concert|1,736|(1,400)|336|||272|(200)|72||
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||29,220|(26,695)|2,525|||18,019|(16,915)|1,104||
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|**Bank and cash balances brought forward**|||2,504|||**Bank and cash brought**
**forward**||1,400||
|**Bank and cash balances carried forward**|||5,029|||**Bank and cash carried**
**forward**||2,504||
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|**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIBILITIES**||||||||||
|**As At 30th June 2025**|||**30.6.25**|||||**30.6.24**||
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|**Bank and cash balances**||||||||||
|Lloyds Current Account|||3,929|||Lloyds Current Account||448||
|Lloyds Deposit Account|||1,088|||Lloyds Deposit Account||2,044||
|Cash in hand|||12|||Cash in hand||12||
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||||5,029|||||2,504||
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|**Other Assets**||||||||||
|Gift Aid|||-|||Gift Aid||1,600||
|Subs|||70|||Subs||-||
|Coffee , tea & raffle|||193|||Coffee , tea & raffle||-||
|Scores|||36|||Scores||-||
|Summer concert|||250|||Summer concert||-||
|Adverts|||300|||Adverts||300||
||||849|||||1,900||
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|**Liabilities**||||||||||
|Salvation Army-Rehearsals|||390|||Rehearsals||730||
|Summer concert|||1,610|||Summer concert||669||
|Postage-Scores|||20|||Postage-Scores||-||
|Marketing|||30|||Marketing||-||
||||2,050|||||1,399||
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|**NET ASSETS**|||3,828|||||3,005||
|**Split:**||||||**Split:**||||
|General funds|||3,828|||General funds||3,005||
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|We certify that the above Receipts and Payments account and associated summary of assets and liabilities a||||||||re an accurate representation||
|of the finances of the Exeter Bach Society at 30 June 2025.||||||||||
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|SECRETARY:|R W G FLACK|||||||||
||**RAYMOND WILLIAM GEORGE FLACK**|||||27 November 2025||||
|TREASURER|N DUBUISSON|||||||||
||**NICHOLAS DU BUISSON**|||||27 November 2025||||
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