## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **From** Period start date Period end date **1 Sept** 2019 31 Aug 2020 **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by** ELCB **Registered charity number (if any)** 1142255 East London Community Band **Charity's principal address** 8 Maria Terrace London **Postcode** E1 4NE ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Suzanne Gorman|Chair||| ||Robert Whittle|Secretary||| ||Richard Peat|Treasurer||| ||Jonathan Ticher|||| ||Samantha Holcombe|||| ||Sarah Mossop|||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** N/A N/A ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members/appointed by trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**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 (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|To advance the education of children and adults in the London Borough
of Tower Hamlets and surrounding boroughs by the provision of tuition
and courses in music and performances.| |---|---| ||During the reporting year, the Band continued to fulfil its objectives by
providing:
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tuition to children and adults in the London Borough of Tower
Hamlets and other London boroughs;
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rehearsal and performance opportunities for its members; and
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performances for the benefit of the local community.
Before the onset of the pandemic, the Band rented space in a former
school on Friday evenings during school term times.
The Band continued its activities online after the onset of the pandemic.
It engages, and pays for the services of, tutors and a director of music,
who together provide individual and group lessons and direct group
rehearsals and performances.
The Band and the groups and individuals within it perform their rehearsed
pieces at solo recital evenings and end of term concerts and the Band
performs at local events, including local charity events.
Membership of the Band and access to lessons is open to anyone.
The trustees have had regard to guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit.| ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## Section D Achievements and performance During the reporting year, the Band achieved the following: **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** _**Maintaining the multi-generational and diverse membership of**_ **during the year** _**the Band**_ ▪ Recruiting and retaining young adult members, in particular by encouraging and initiating social activities, and by seeking to promote the band to young adults (who are often new comers to the area, from other parts of London, the UK, and the World). ▪ (As recognised in academic research) maintaining children’s engagement in music-making during the difficult transition from primary to secondary school. ▪ Initiating a long- term project “Full Circle” involving seeking funding for extending subsidised membership fees to young adults (in addition to child members and families). ▪ Maintaining a consistently high level of involvement in the Band’s online activities across the generations during the pandemic. ▪ Striving to be “London’s friendliest band”. _**Becoming more ambitious and enriching the experience of Band members**_ ▪ Again taking part in the National Concert Band Festival “NCBF”) , achieving a Silver Award for the Concert Band, a Gold Award for the Jazz Big Band and a special award for the Big Band rhythm section. • Accepting an invitation for the Jazz Big Band to take part in the national finals of the NCBF at the Royal Northern School of Music and Drama. Setting up a crowdfunding page and raising monies to fund the trip, including through a generous private donation. ▪ Further developing the dedicated jazz programme introduced in the previous reporting year. The programme is made up of three new ensembles: o Jazz Stompers. A New Orleans style marching band. A relaxed and fun group learning tunes by ear, aimed at those looking for a first taste of playing in a jazz ensemble, but open to all. o Jazz Big Band. A traditional big band playing compositions and arrangements by the likes of Count Basie, Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington. Open to young and older members. o Jazz Combo. A smaller group for those looking to explore jazz repertoire and individual improvisation in more detail. ▪ Facilitating a social event for members of those recently formed ensembles. ▪ Facilitating the performance of our Jazz Combo at Jazz @ St. Ants March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance jazz club. - Giving further opportunities to members of the Band to compose and arrange music for the Band and performing the compositions and arrangements at end of term concerts or external events. - Putting on two lunchtime busking sessions of Christmas Carols in the City of London and an evening Carols session at a local supermarket. - Putting on mid-term recital evenings and end of term concert recitals to showcase and encourage developing musical talent in the Band. - Continuing to b roaden the Band’s repertoire and introducing more challenging works. - Welcoming two new self-employed tutors. - Arranging for the sale of limited edition prints of Dizzy Gillespie created by one of our members, to raise money for the Band. - Finding and adopting an improved venue for our Christmas and end of term concerts and other events. - Winning a grant to purchase a new keyboard and accessories. _**Working in partnership**_ - Entering into a project in collaboration with our local music education service and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. - Encouraging our members to get involved in other community cultural activities, including the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park tour. - Encouraging our young members to take part in a consultation on provision of music-making in our local area. - Taking part in the Contemporary Music for All (“CoMA”) International Festival (see below). ## _**Promoting contemporary music**_ - Further building on our successful participation in Making Music’s “Adopt a Composer” scheme, making contemporary music a regular part of our Concert Band’s repertoire . - Taking part in the Contemporary Music for All (“CoMA”) International Festival at People's Palace, QMUL, Mile End - playing a piece composed by one of our members, and receiving the following comments from the Director of CoMA: - " I want you to thank the members of the ELCB and the audience they brought with them to the Festival for being part of what proved to be an exceptional day by any standards, bringing all ages together to celebrate the creation of new music which in itself is such a life affirming and beautiful thing. March **2012** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance ELCB's performance was a major contribution to the joyous atmosphere with Zoe’s wonderful piece demonstrating the remarkable energy, dedication and talent across all ages that makes the Band so special and a leading example of inclusive music making in the UK." _**Meeting the challenges of the pandemic**_ ▪ Benefitting from having carefully nurtured a very strong community ethos across the Band, including its self-employed professional tutors and directors of music. ▪ In the first period of the pandemic: o changing our membership fee arrangements to be responsive to members’ circumstances ; and o changing our tutor and director of music fee payment arrangements to make payments in advance rather than arrears. ▪ Pulling together and showing great resilience in the face of the crisis - sustaining core activities even under the most difficult of circumstances and without external emergency funding. ▪ Benefiting from the genuine love people have for the band, reflected in generous individual donations from members and their friends and families, the loyalty and commitment of tutors, and the immense amounts of time and effort devoted by its volunteers, trustees, and directors of music to innovate and keep the Band going. ▪ Being one of very few amateur music-making organisations which have been able to continue to function at near normal levels of activity and participation during the crisis. ▪ Providing technical support to members for our weekly virtual programme. ▪ Including social activities, band announcements and a “Members’ Corner” in our online sessions. Through “Members’ Corner” giving and open forum for members to present to the Band on their hobbies, pastimes and interests. March **2012** **TAR** 5 Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 6 ## **Section E Financial review** T he Band’s general policy is to seek to retain sufficient reserves to cover **Brief statement of the** one term’s expenses and foreseeable future shortfalls in membership **charity’s policy on reserves** subscriptions. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **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)** **Full name(s)** Richard Colin Peat **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 29 June 2021 March **2012** **TAR** 7 **A1** **East London Community Band** **1142255** ## **Final receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **01-Sep-19 31-Aug-20** For the period from To |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |
Membershipfees|**23,953**||||**-**||**23,953**||**22,568**| |Friends of the band donations|**627**||||**-**||**627**||**526**| |Concert receipts|**913**||||**-**||**913**||**1,396**| |Individual donations|**3,997**||||**-**||**3,997**||**270**| |Grants - allocated between unrestricted and
restricted funds|**1,000**||**2,000**||**-**||**3,000**||**10,000**| |EasyFund raising|**19**||||**-**||**19**||**-**| |Just Givingfund raising|**497**||||||**497**||| |Gift aid claim(including previousyears)|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**6,693**| |Sale ofprints|**240**||||||**240**||| |Contribution toperformance expenses|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**600**| |Sundry receipts|**205**||||**-**||**205**||**406**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**31,450**||**2,000**||**-**||**33,450**||**42,459**| ||**-**
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**31,450**
**33,915**
**3,520**
**200**
**407**
**-**
**185**
**422**
**244**
**18**
**101**
**428**
**39,439**
**354**
**249**
**603**
**40,043**
**- 8,593**
**-**
**20,898**
**12,305**||**-**
**-**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,000**
**2,000**
**2,000**
**0**
**-**
**-**
**0**||**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**42,459**| ||||||||||| |
Directors of music and tutors' fees**-**
allocated between unrestricted and
restricted|**33,915**||||||||**28,892**| |Main venue hire|**3,520**||||||||**-**| |Other venue hire|**200**||||||||**470**| |Subscription and insurance|**407**||||||||**407**| |Instrument repair|**-**||||||||**-**| |Festival entryfee|**185**||||||||**370**| |Transport|**422**||||||||**278**| |Stationeryandprinting|**244**||||||||**276**| |Website design and hosting|**18**||||||||**-**| |Buyingframes forprints|**101**||||||||**-**| |Sundry payments|**428**||||||||**349**| |**_Sub total_ **|||||||||| ||||||||||**31,041**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |Music/Composition|**354**||||||||**295**| |Equipment and instruments|**249**||||||||**1,612**| |**_Sub total_ **
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end -**
**Opening balance column F**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**1,906**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||**32,947**| ||||||||||| ||**- 8,593**||**0**||**-**||**- 8,593**||**9,512**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**20,898**||**-**||**-**||**20,898**||**11,386**| ||**12,305**||**0**||**-**||**12,305**||**20,898**| **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 29/06/2021 1 **A2** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds - Closing balance**
**column F**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B2 Other monetary assets**|
**Details**
None
**Details**
Instruments
Stands, chairs, banner
Music
Other equipment
Cash at bank
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**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Gift aid claim - estimated
Signature
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**12,305**
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**12,305**
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RichardPeat|**Endowment**
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**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||RichardPeat|29-Jun-21| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/06/2021 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Rèport lo the trusteesl members of East London Community Barm On accounts for the yeaT ended 31" August 2020 Charlty no {rfany) 1142255 Set out on pa9es A1 and A2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the atKwe charity (Ihe Trust-) for the year ended 3110812020 Rosponslbllltles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in accLYdance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ￿h0 Acr). I report in respect of my èxamination of the Trust's ac(x)unts carried out under Section 145 of the 2011 Act and in Carying out my examination, I have follo￿d the applicable Directions given by the Charfty Commission under sectÉon 14515)(bl of the Act. I have ccxnpleted my examination. l (x)nfinn that no material mattérs have come to my attention {other than that disclos&J below "l in connection w¢th the examination which gives me cause to believè that in, any material respect: atcounUng rec%>rds were not kept in ac￿rdanCe with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the acwuntlng records IndO￿ndant gxaminer's statement I have no concerns and have come afXOSS no other matters In connèctlon wilh the examination to which attention should b6 drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Pleas8 delete the %wrds in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Signed.. Dat•: 26° Junè 2021 Name: Margaret Falshaw Relevant professional qualiflcatlon(s) or body Irf any): Address: 23 Adine Ri)ad London, E13 8LL IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the e￿mIner negts to highlyht matters of o)ncem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Not applicable Give here brief detslls of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018