**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 January 2024 31 December 2024
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
DIVERSITY CHOIR
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1130737 **Charity's principal address** 7 SOUTHERN STREET LONDON **Postcode N1 9AY**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Susan Rudy|Treasurer|||
||Susan Kendrick|Secretary|||
||Payal Anand||||
||Roger Blake||||
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||Rex Melville||||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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**Address**|||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) The trust was registered with the Charity Commission on the 27 July How the charity is constituted 2009 (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods The trustees are elected at the Annual General Meeting as a vacancy arises
- (eg. trust, association, company)
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include The trustees are part of a wider committee for Diversity additional information, where relevant, about: The committee is managed by our Chair and made up of Chair, Treasurer and Secretary; the other trustees; voice part • policies and procedures representatives; concert managers. adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- Diversity Choir is one of a number of choirs for the LGBT community
- • the charity’s organisational in London and we liaise with them informally and work together. structure and any wider network with which the charity We are also part of a network of LGBT choirs in this country and works; throughout Europe and participate in festivals such as Hand in Hand
- • relationship with any related relationship with any related for LGBT choirs in the United Kingdom and Various Voices for parties; European choirs.
- relationship with any related relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ART OF CHORAL MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS, RECITALS AND SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE Summary of the objects of the CHOIR, THROUGH ITS COMMITTEE, SHALL DETERMINE. charity set out in its governing document**
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In planning our activities for the year, the trustees had in mind the guidance from the Charity Commission on public benefit and kept that guidance in mind at our committee meetings.
We held two concerts for the public in the year in June and December, showcasing a wide range of music from classical to show tunes and popular music. It is the policy of the choir to showcase music written by women composers, whose compositions are more marginalised, alongside more well known pieces by composers of all genders.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Most, though not all, members of the choir are drawn from the LGBT community and we also supported a number of charitable events such as a service for National Hate Crime Awareness Week, a church service to mark Pride month, and to mark the anniversary of the bombings of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
Choir members are able to apply to the choir committee for grants towards the cost of festival events such as Hand in Hand and Various Voices to assist with their individual budgets.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
The choir is managed wholly by volunteers, though we pay an honorarium to our Director of Music and Assistant Director of Music who work on a self-employed basis.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
In the first part of the year, the choir’s focus and activity was to prepare for its summer concert, held in June at St Mary-at-Hill Church in the City of London. We performed a range of music with classical music represented by pieces by Clara Schumann and the _Lesser Doxology_ from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s _All-Night Vigil_ . More modern pieces included ‘Hail Holy Queen’ from Sister Act and a setting of Nina Simone’s ‘I wish I knew how it would feel to be free’.
Our Christmas concert took place at St Paul’s Knightsbridge, again showing the same diversity of range of music as well as a number of popular Christmas carols which all the audience joined in with.
In August, the choir participated in the Hand in Hand Festival in Bristol where over 50 choirs and vocal ensembles from the LGBT community took part in the 3 day festival. Diversity performed at the Bristol Beacon and in street performances during that period.
As a voice within the LGBT community, we sought to support a number of events and services marking important occasions and anniversaries for our community. The 30[th] April marked the 25[th] anniversary of the bombing at the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, aimed specifically at the gay community and we participated in the commemoration event in the gardens of St Anns Soho. We also took part in the annual service for Pride month in June and for National Hate Crime Awareness week in October.
Membership of the choir continues to grow following the loss of a significant number of members during the Covid pandemic and we are now back at the levels of members that we had prior to the pandemic.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
We seek to hold at least the equivalent of at least 12 months expenditure in reserve and remained comfortably within that figure throughout 2024.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Our main source of revenue comes from members’ subscriptions, concert revenue and gift aid.
We have not applied for any grants from any government body during the year.
Our expenditure is on honoraria for our music directors, as well as the cost of putting on concerts and hiring rehearsal space. All go towards achieving our objects of promoting choral music for the public.
We do not have a specific investment policy and do not have funds available for investment.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Susan Rudy **Full name(s)** Corinne Iten **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc) Date** 25 October 2025
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||**DIVERSITY CHOIR**
**Charity Name**|**DIVERSITY CHOIR**
**Charity Name**|**DIVERSITY CHOIR**
**Charity Name**|**1130737**
**No (if any)**|**1130737**
**No (if any)**|**1130737**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2024
Period start date|**To**||31/12/2024
Period end date|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**830**
**20,394**
**8,068**
**20**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,312**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,312**
**3,168**
**8,294**
**8,400**
**2,159**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,021**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,021**
**7,291**
**-**
**7,671**
**14,962**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**830**
**20,394**
**8,068**
**20**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,312**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,312**
**3,168**
**8,294**
**8,400**
**2,159**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,021**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,021**
**7,291**||**Last year**
**to the**
**nearest £**|
|Donations and Legacies|**830**||||||**-**|
|Charitable Activities|**20,394**||||||**16,859**|
|TradingActivities|**8,068**||||||**3,870**|
|Income from investments|**20**||||||**18**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
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|~~**_Sub total_**~~~~_(Gross income for_~~
_AR)_|
**29,312**||||||**20,747**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**20,747**|
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Cost of charitable activities|**3,168**||||||**3,848**|
|Cost of trading activities|**8,294**||||||**9,467**|
|Honararia and employee costs|**8,400**||||||**12,125**|
|Administration costs|**2,159**||||||**1,660**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**22,021**||||||**27,100**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**27,100**|
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||**7,291**|**-**|**-**||**7,291**||**- 6,353**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**7,671**|**-**|**-**||**7,671**||**14,024**|
||**14,962**|**-**|**-**||**14,962**||**7,671**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
25/10/2025
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## **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**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts
and payments account(s))
**Details**
CAF Bank account
**Details**
Signature
~~2~~|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**14,962**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,962**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Corinne Iten(Chair)
Susan Rudy (Treasurer)|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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approval|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report
on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
DIVERSITY CHOIR
On accounts for the year
ended
31ST DECEMBER 2024
Charity no
(if any)
1130737
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity Illhe Trust") for the year ended 3111212024.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
basis of report accounts in accordance with 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 Garrying OLrt my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent
examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in. any material respect,.
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Act-, or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records,. or
the accounts did not comply wilh the applicable requirements
concerning the fom and content of accounts set out in the Charities
{Accounts and Reports} Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns 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 p
oper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
811012025
Name:
ZHIQIANG WANG
Relevant professional
qualificationls) or body
(if any):
MBA, CIMA FINALIST
Address:
22 ELSINORE ROAD, LONDON,
SE23 2SL, UK
IER
October 2018