## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **1 Sept** 2021 31 Aug 2022 **From 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** 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. The Band successfully returned to using the space in a former school that it had rented for many years before the pandemic, on Friday **Summary of the main** evenings during school term times. **activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to** The Band engages, and pays for the services of, tutors and directors of **these objects (include within** music and jazz, who together provide individual and group lessons and **this section the statutory** direct group rehearsals and performances. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance** The Band and the groups and individuals within it perform their rehearsed **issued by the Charity** pieces at solo recital evenings and end of term concerts and the Band **Commission on public** performs at local events, including local charity events. **benefit)** 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**_ ▪ Continuing to implement its long- term “ _Full Circle_ ” project by obtaining funding to extend subsidised membership fees to young adults (in addition to child members and families). ▪ (As previously recognised in academic research) maintaining children’s engagement in music -making during the difficult transition from primary to secondary school. ▪ Recruiting a teenage member of the band to be a youth representative on the B and’s management committee . ▪ Involving another teenage member of the Band in the recruitment process for percussion tutor roles. ▪ Running a successful promotion campaign, and open evening, mostly targeted at recruiting young adult members. ▪ Welcoming young adult members to the Band and retaining them within it, in particular by ensuring that we play interesting repertoire, and by encouraging interaction and social activities. These members are often new comers to the area from other parts of London, the UK, and the World. ▪ Welcoming older, late-starters, to the Band, and encouraging and supporting them within the Band. ▪ Consolidating our resumption of in-person, multi-generational, musicmaking from the summer of 2021 onwards, and successfully returning to our Friday evening base at the Shadwell Centre in Limehouse. ▪ Striving to be “ _London’s friendliest band_ ”. _**Becoming more ambitious and enriching the experience of Band members**_ ▪ C ommissioning two pieces for our Jazz Big Band (“ _East End_ ” and “ _Tower Hamlets_ ”), both specially composed for us by an up and coming jazz composer and instrumentalist. ▪ Premiering a piece, “ _Swing_ ” commissioned to celebrate the eightieth birthday of our oldest member, written by an established conductor/composer who has been associated with the band for a number of years. ▪ Taking part in the Contemporary Music for All (“CoMA”) festival at Queen Mary University of London and premiering a new piece, “ _Hooligan_ ”, with a giant massed ensemble, based on the singing of football crowds. ▪ Recruiting new volunteers to our “ _comms_ ” team and enhancing our communications with members, with visually attractive and informative regular Sunday and Friday emails. March **2012** **TAR** 3 ## ## performance - Creating videos of members ’ experiences of the Band – and involving younger members in the project. - Increasing the range of band merchandise sold at our events. - Improving the organisation of our events, enlisting new volunteers to help with setting up before and taking down after the event, and with transport. - Moving to a new system for collecting members subscription/termly fees. ## _**Working in partnership**_ - Collaborating, at the CoMA festival, with London Sinfonietta, CoMA London, CoMA Singers, and the QMUL Chamber Ensemble. - Taking part in our local community Big Lunch event. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **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 2023 March **2012** **TAR** 5 **A1** **East London Community Band** **1142255** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** For the period **01-Sep-21 31-Aug-22** To from ## **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 £**
**22,585**
**591**
**1,186**
**387**
**17,000**
**194**
**258**
**170**
**160**
**42,531**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**22,585**
**591**
**1,186**
**387**
**17,000**
**194**
**258**
**170**
**160**
**42,531**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Membershipfees|**22,585**||||**-**||**22,585**||**18,341**| |Friends of the band donations|**591**||||**-**||**591**||**627**| |Concert receipts|**1,186**||||**-**||**1,186**||**-**| |Individual donations|**387**||||**-**||**387**||**1,625**| |Grants - allocated between unrestricted
and restricted funds|**4,000**||**13,000**||**-**||**17,000**||**8,200**| |EasyFund raising/Amazon/PayPal|**194**||||**-**||**194**||**132**| |Just Givingfund raising|**258**||||||**258**||**205**| |Sale of merchandise (part included in
concert receipts)|**170**||||||**170**||**649**| |Sundry receipts|**160**||||**-**||**160**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**29,531**||**13,000**||**-**||**42,531**||**29,779**| ||**-**
**-**
**29,531**
**19,289**
**-**
**500**
**412**
**200**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**74**
**144**
**228**
**-**
**-**
**42**
**20,889**
**1,274**
**797**
**2,072**
**22,961**
**6,570**
**-**
**12,967**||**-**
**-**
**13,000**
**13,000**
**-**
**13,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
1||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**29,779**| ||||||||||| |Directors of music and tutors' fees**-**
allocated between unrestricted and
restricted|**19,289**||||||||**25,595**| |Main venue hire|**-**||||||||**-**| |Other venue hire|**500**||||||||**200**| |Subscription and insurance|**412**||||||||**497**| |Instrument repair|**200**||||||||**-**| |Festival entryfee|**-**||||||||**-**| |Transport|**-**||||||||**-**| |Travel|**-**||||||||**370**| |Stationeryandprinting|**74**||||||||**226**| |Website design and hosting/platform fee|**144**||||||||**153**| |Buyingmerchandise|**228**||||||||**305**| |Recruitment costs|**-**||||||||**300**| |Sundry payments -|**-**||||||||**268**| |Bank charges|**42**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**20,889**||||||||**27,914**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |Music/Composition|**1,274**||||||||**-**| |Equipment and instruments|**797**||||||||**1,204**| |**_Sub total_ **
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|||||||||| ||||||||||**1,204**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||**29,118**| ||||||||||| ||**6,570**||**-**||**-**||**6,570**||**662**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**12,967**||**-**
1||**-**||**12,967**||**12,305**| **A2** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **19,538 - - 19,538 12,967** |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
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
Main venue hire
Concert venue hire
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**19,538**
**-**
**19,538**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**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)**
Unrestricted
**1,800**
Unrestricted
**200**
Print Name
Richard Colin Peat|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Richard Colin Peat|26-Jun-23| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Sectlon A Independent Examlner'g Report Report to the trusteesl members of East L(xKIC￿ Community Band On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) 1142255 31 August 2022 Set out on pages A1 and A2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 31108 12022. Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chartties Act 2011 ("the Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Com mission naer section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi 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. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Date: 26 June 2023 Independent examinerfs statement Signed: Name: Margaret Elizabeth Falshaw Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 23 Adine Road London E13 8LL Sectlon B Dlsclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018 th• •x•mffi •J•rnVlatp￿ of ch•nly •co)unty dir•dion• •n **A1** **East London Community Band** **1142255** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** For the period **01-Sep-21 31-Aug-22** To from ## **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 £**
**22,585**
**591**
**1,186**
**387**
**17,000**
**194**
**258**
**170**
**160**
**42,531**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**22,585**
**591**
**1,186**
**387**
**17,000**
**194**
**258**
**170**
**160**
**42,531**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Membershipfees|**22,585**||||**-**||**22,585**||**18,341**| |Friends of the band donations|**591**||||**-**||**591**||**627**| |Concert receipts|**1,186**||||**-**||**1,186**||**-**| |Individual donations|**387**||||**-**||**387**||**1,625**| |Grants - allocated between unrestricted
and restricted funds|**4,000**||**13,000**||**-**||**17,000**||**8,200**| |EasyFund raising/Amazon/PayPal|**194**||||**-**||**194**||**132**| |Just Givingfund raising|**258**||||||**258**||**205**| |Sale of merchandise (part included in
concert receipts)|**170**||||||**170**||**649**| |Sundry receipts|**160**||||**-**||**160**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**29,531**||**13,000**||**-**||**42,531**||**29,779**| ||**-**
**-**
**29,531**
**19,289**
**-**
**500**
**412**
**200**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**74**
**144**
**228**
**-**
**-**
**42**
**20,889**
**1,274**
**797**
**2,072**
**22,961**
**6,570**
**-**
**12,967**||**-**
**-**
**13,000**
**13,000**
**-**
**13,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
1||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**29,779**| ||||||||||| |Directors of music and tutors' fees**-**
allocated between unrestricted and
restricted|**19,289**||||||||**25,595**| |Main venue hire|**-**||||||||**-**| |Other venue hire|**500**||||||||**200**| |Subscription and insurance|**412**||||||||**497**| |Instrument repair|**200**||||||||**-**| |Festival entryfee|**-**||||||||**-**| |Transport|**-**||||||||**-**| |Travel|**-**||||||||**370**| |Stationeryandprinting|**74**||||||||**226**| |Website design and hosting/platform fee|**144**||||||||**153**| |Buyingmerchandise|**228**||||||||**305**| |Recruitment costs|**-**||||||||**300**| |Sundry payments -|**-**||||||||**268**| |Bank charges|**42**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**20,889**||||||||**27,914**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |Music/Composition|**1,274**||||||||**-**| |Equipment and instruments|**797**||||||||**1,204**| |**_Sub total_ **
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|||||||||| ||||||||||**1,204**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||**29,118**| ||||||||||| ||**6,570**||**-**||**-**||**6,570**||**662**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**12,967**||**-**
1||**-**||**12,967**||**12,305**| **A2** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **19,538 - - 19,538 12,967** |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
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
Main venue hire
Concert venue hire
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**19,538**
**-**
**19,538**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**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)**
Unrestricted
**1,800**
Unrestricted
**200**
Print Name
Richard Colin Peat|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Richard Colin Peat|26-Jun-23| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2