## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **1 Sept** 2020 31 Aug 2021 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** East London Community Band **Other names charity is known by** ELCB **Registered charity number (if any)** 1142255
**Charity's principal address** 8 Maria Terrace London **Postcode** E1 4NE
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
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||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **����������������������������� 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**
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## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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:
- tuition to children and adults in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and other London boroughs;
- rehearsal and performance opportunities for its members; and
- � 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.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** The Band continued its activities online after the onset of the pandemic **public benefit in relation to** and, as and when possible during this reporting period, at two local **these objects (include within** churches. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** It engages, and pays for the services of, tutors and directors of music and **had regard to the guidance** jazz, who together provide individual and group lessons and direct group **issued by the Charity** rehearsals and performances. **Commission on public benefit)** 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.
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**_ � ( ����������������������������������������������������������� engagement in music-making during the difficult transition from primary to secondary school. � Retaining young adult members (who are often new comers to the area, from other parts of London, the UK, and the World), in particular by encouraging and initiating social activities. � Implementing a long- ��������������������������� involving obtaining funding for extending subsidised membership fees to young adults (in addition to child members and families). � Maintaining a consistently ���������������������������������������� online activities across the generations during the pandemic. � Achieving a return to in-person, multi-generational, music making in the summer of 2021. � �������������������������������������������������������������� farewell to younger members leaving London for university elsewhere in the UK. � �������������������������������������������� _**Becoming more ambitious and enriching the experience of Band members**_ � Further developing the dedicated jazz programme introduced in the reporting year ended 31 August 2019. � Maintaining the involvement of our excellent first director of jazz on his relocation to Scotland. � Recruiting, through a rigorous application, audition and interview process, an excellent new director of jazz. � Providing on- ���������������������������������������������������������� members to showcase pieces to their fellow members and receive supportive comments from our director of music. _**Working in partnership**_ � Collaborating with our local music education service and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra on an online music project. _**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
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
and directors of music. � 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. � Inc ������������������������������������������������������������� �������� in our online ����������������������������������������������� open forum for members to present to the Band on their hobbies, pastimes and interests. � Consulting our membership on their preferences for virtual and inperson activities. � Re-establishing, online our Premier Band for those in the early stages of playing an instrument and our younger members. � Opening our first (virtual) ELCB Seasonal Charity Gift Shop selling mugs, beanies and calendars, the latter with original illustrations by a professional cartoonist and artist who is a member of the band. � Benefitting from the imagination, commitment and energy of our remarkable director of music and director of jazz in preparing and presenting inclusive, instructive and absorbing online content, including work on a massed piece for the whole band. � ������������������������������������������ music-making to mark the end of lockdown, including performance of the massed piece and a warmly received concert in Victoria Park.
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **Section E Financial review**
T ������������������������������ seek to retain sufficient reserves to cover **Brief statement of the** ������������������� and foreseeable future shortfalls in membership **������������������������������** subscriptions.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
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## **Signed �����������������������������������**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Richard Colin Peat **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 29 June 2022
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**East London Community Band**
## **A1**
**1142255**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**01-Sept-20 31-Aug-21** For the period from To
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**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 £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Membershipfees|**18,341**||||**-**||**18,341**||**23,953**|
|Friends of the band donations|**627**||||**-**||**627**||**627**|
|Concert receipts|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**913**|
|Individual donations|**1,625**||||**-**||**1,625**||**3,997**|
|Grants - allocated between unrestricted and
restricted funds|**1,200**||**7,000**||**-**||**8,200**||**3,000**|
|EasyFund raising/Amazon/PayPal|**132**||||**-**||**132**||**19**|
|Just Givingfund raising|**205**||||||**205**||**497**|
|Sale of merchandise|**649**||||||**649**||**240**|
|Sundry receipts|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**205**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**22,779**||**7,000**||**-**||**29,779**||**33,450**|
||**-**
**-**
**22,779**
**18,595**
**-**
**200**
**497**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**370**
**226**
**153**
**305**
**300**
**268**
**20,914**||**-**
**-**
**7,000**
**7,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,000**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**33,450**|
|||||||||||
|
Directors of music and tutors' fees**-**
allocated between unrestricted and
restricted|**18,595**||||||||**33,915**|
|Main venue hire|**-**||||||||**3,520**|
|Other venue hire|**200**||||||||**200**|
|Subscription and insurance|**497**||||||||**407**|
|Instrument repair|**-**||||||||**-**|
|Festival entryfee|**-**||||||||**185**|
|Transport|**-**||||||||**422**|
|Travel|**370**||||||||**-**|
|Stationeryandprinting|**226**||||||||**244**|
|Website design and hosting/platform fee|**153**||||||||**18**|
|Buyingmerchandise|**305**||||||||**101**|
|Recruitment costs|**300**|||||||||
|Sundry payments|**268**||||||||**428**|
|**_Sub total_ **||||||||||
||**20,914**||**7,000**||**-**||**27,914**||**39,439**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||
|Music/Composition|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**354**|
|Equipment and instruments|**1,204**||**-**|||**-**||**1,204**||**2,249**|
||||||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,204**||**-**|||**-**||**1,204**||**2,603**|
||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**22,118**||**7,000**|||**-**||**29,118**||**42,043**|
||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**662**||**-**|||**-**||**662**||**- 8,593**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end -**|||||||||||
|**Opening balance column F**|**12,305**||**-**||**-**|||**12,305**||**20,898**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**12,967**||**-**|||**-**||**12,967**||**12,305**|
**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
29/06/2022
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
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Gift aid claim - estimated
Signature
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**12,967**
**-**
**12,967**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Print Name
RichardPeat|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
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||||Date of approval|
|||RichardPeat|29-Jun-22|
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
29/06/2022
2
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
East London Communty Band
On accounts for the year
ended
31 August 2021
Charity no
(if any)
1142255
Set out on pages
A1 and A2
I report to the tnjstees on my examination of accounts of the above
charily I'the Tru5t"} for the year ended
Rasponslbilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation
basis ot rnport of the accounts in accordance wrth the requirements of the Chanties Act
2011 {"the Act°}.
I report in respect of my examination of the Tnjst's accounts carried Olrt
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed thè applicable Directions given by the Chanty Commission
under section 14515){bl of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connection wrth
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
resp8Ct.'
accounting records were not kept in accordanc* 1th section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not acconl with the accA)unting records
Indepond•nt
examinerfs stat•m•nt
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable
proper understanding of the accounts to be reac*ed.
' Please d81et8 the worrls in the brackets if they do not apply.
Slgned:
26 June 2022
N•me:
Margaret Elizabeth Falshaw
R•levant protssslonal
qualification(s} or body
(It any):
Address:
23 Adine Road
London
E13 8LL
IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of conrn (see CC32,
Independent examination of Charity accounts.. direGtions and guidan for
examiners).
Glve here brief details of
any items that the
•xaminer wishes to
dlsclose.
IER
October 2018