## ALAMÍRE Charitable Trust 

Patrons: Patricia Brown, Christopher Page, Sandra Dawson and the Duke of Norfolk 

## **ANNUAL REPORT 2022-23** 

Charity: ALAMIRE Registration number: 1131843 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge CB2 3HU Trustees: Mr Richard Humphreys (Chairman), Dr Edward Wilson-Lee (secretary). Treasurer: Stephen Sherman 

## **STRUCTURE** 

Alamire Charitable Trust is currently structured with two Trustees (one acting as secretary) and a Treasurer who monitor and advise the use of funds for projects undertaken by the professional chamber choir ‘Alamire’, under the artistic direction of Dr David Skinner. 

## **ACTIVITIES & OBJECTIVES** 

One of the leading vocal consorts in the UK, Alamire has an enviable line-up of some of the finest consort singers under the directorship of Dr David Skinner. The ensemble has enjoyed unanimous critical acclaim for their recordings on the Obsidian label, including a Gramophone Award (and several nominations), Limelight Choral & Song CD of the Year (Australia), and a BBC Music Award nomination (Choral Category). Alamire’s activities include concerts, educational work, radio and television documentaries, and commercial recordings. 

## **ACHIEVEMENTS & PERFORMANCE** 

Reviews and accolades continue to be published concerning our 4-CD survey of William Byrd's early song collections (1588 and 1589) released earlier in 2022 and 2023. Both were picked as the top suggestion for Radio 3's 'Building a Library', and, as of writing this report, the latter is rumoured to be short-listed for a number of specialist awards in 2024. Concert highlights include Alamire joining forces with with the Continental ensemble Cappella Pratensis in a programme of music commemorating the Field of the Cloth of Gold, where the choirs of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France competed against one another. Our Anne Boleyn project was revived for a music and spoken word concert at St Martin’s Music in London, with actors playing Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn who read love letters to one another as well as Anne’s laments from the Tower of London before execution. Alamire was also invited to run a week of choral workshops for multi-national students in Avila, culminating in a concert in Las Navas. 

## **PUBLIC BENEFIT** 

All of our activities have helped increase public awareness of the history of English and European musical culture (a very rare and precious tradition that is as old as the great cathedrals). Dr Skinner and the ensemble have also brought to the public several examples of less well known music from the 15th and 16th centuries, which is now available on CD and all streaming platform, as well as in the form of television documentaries and published articles. 

## **INCOME FOR PROJECTS** 

In early 2023 a principal donor agreed to support our next project which will prove to be the most ambitious thus far, and marking the end of our recorded tributes to the William Byrd 400th anniversary celebrations: The Great Service and Anthems, with His Majesty’s Sagbutts & Cornetts. The album is due for release in September 2024. No project is started until full funding for it has already been secured. 



||**Alamire**|**Alamire**|**Alamire**|**Alamire**|**Alamire**|**1131843**|**1131843**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||9/1/22||**To**||8/31/23|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**40,000**||**-**||**-**||**40,000**||**-**|
|Gift Aid|**10,000**||**-**||**-**||**10,000**||**-**|
|Concert Income|**15,222**||**-**||**-**||**15,222**||**22,584**|
|Other|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,317**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**65,222**||**-**||**-**||**65,222**||**24,901**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**65,222**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**65,222**||**24,901**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Director's Fees + Research|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**6,600**|
|Artist's Fees|**8,500**||**-**||**-**||**8,500**||**39,572**|
|Travel + Subsistence|**1,389**||**-**||**-**||**1,389**||**19,636**|
|CD Purchases|**300**||**-**||**-**||**300**||**-**|
|PR + Advertising|**2,221**||**-**||**-**||**2,221**||**1,566**|
|Venue Hire + Office Expenses|**2,287**||**-**||**-**||**2,287**||**2,990**|
|Music + Books|**19**||**-**||**-**||**19**||**51**|
|Bank Chages|**102**||**-**||**-**||**102**||**100**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**15,818**||**-**||**-**||**15,818**||**70,515**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total payments_ **|<br>**15,818**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**15,818**||**70,515**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**49,404**||**-**||**-**||**49,404**||**-**<br>**45,614**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**5,836**||**-**||**-**||**5,836**||**51,450**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **|<br>**55,240**||**-**||**-**||**55,240**||**5,836**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|



|||**- 0**||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||**-**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**- 0**||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||**-**|||||||
||**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||**-**|||||**- 0**||
|||||||||||||||||||
||**_Total payments_ **|<br>**15,818**||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||**15,818**|||||**70,515**||
|||||||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||<br>**49,404**||**-**||||**-**|||**49,404**||||**-**|**45,614**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**- 0**||**-**||||**-**|||**-**|||||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**5,836**||**-**||||**-**|||**5,836**|||||**51,450**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||<br>**55,240**||**-**||||**-**|||**55,240**|||||**5,836**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**||||||**end of the period**||||||||||||
|||||||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|||||**Endowment**||
|**Categories**||**Details**||||||**funds**||||||||**funds**||
|||||||||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**||||||||**-**|||**-**|||||**-**||
|||||||||**-**|||**-**|||||**-**||
|||||||||**-**|||**-**|||||**-**||



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

04/06/2024 

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||**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**||**5,836**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||Agreement Error||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||||||Richard Humphreys||||4 June 2014|
||||||Edward Wilson-Lee||||04/06/2014|



CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

04/06/2024 

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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

**Report to the trustees/ members of** 

Charity Name Alamire 31/08/2023 1131843 1-2 

**On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any)** 

**Set out on pages** (remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets) 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 08/ 2023** . 

As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation 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 examiner's statement** 

I have completed my examination.  I confirm 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: 

- 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. 


07/06/2024 

**Signed: Date: Name:** 

Stephen Paul Sherman 

**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** 1 **October 2018** 

**IER** 



Fellow of the Institute of Accountants in England and Wales 

**Address:** 

10, Burdett Street, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, SN8 2QX 

## **Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . Nothing to disclose. 

**October 2018** 

2 

**IER**