## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **1 Sept** 2024 31 Aug 2025
**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
7|**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||||
||Sarah Mossop||||
||Leigh Henson||||
||Atalanta Hersey||||
||||||
## **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**
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Constitution
Association
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected by members/appointed by trustees
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
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. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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 meets on Friday evenings during school term times.
**Summary of the main** The Band engages, and pays for the services of, tutors and directors of **activities undertaken for the** music and jazz, who together provide individual and group lessons and **public benefit in relation to** direct group rehearsals and performances. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** The Band and the groups and individuals within it perform their rehearsed **declaration that trustees have** pieces at showcase recital evenings and end of term concerts and the **had regard to the guidance** Band performs at local events, including local charity events. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** Membership of the Band and access to lessons is open to anyone. **benefit)** 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 provide subsidised participation and tuition for children, young adults and families. ▪ (As previously recognised in academic research) maintaining children’s engagement in music -making during the difficult transition from primary to secondary school. ▪ Appointing a new director of music who is under 30 years of age. ▪ Retaining a teenage member of the band as the youth representative on the B and’s management committee and retaining a young person under 30 as one of our trustees. ▪ Continuing our mid- term “Showcase” performances , and our end of term concerts solo performance slots, to give members, younger and older, a chance to play their pieces to a supportive and appreciative audience. ▪ 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. ▪ Retaining ambitious and enthusiastic music directors and tutors. ▪ Striving to be “ _London’s friendliest band_ ”. _**Becoming more ambitious and enriching the experience of Band members**_ ▪ 0rganising, promoting and presenting an evening of music (ELCB 50) at a commercial venue, featuring each of our ensembles. The evening was an exhilarating end to our celebration of the 50th anniversary of our founding as Tower Hamlets Youth Band. More than 400 current and former band members, friends and family attended the event. ▪ Championing contemporary British classical and jazz composers by premiering at ELCB 50 two new pieces for our Jazz Big Band and a substantial new composition for our Concert Band. The composers are both under 30 years old. ▪ Screening at ELCB 50 and our subsequent summer concert, a video documentary to record our 50th anniversary year. ▪ Obtaining a professional recording of ELCB 50 and making it
March **2012**
**TAR**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
available to members on CD.
- 0rganising, promoting and presenting a farewell end of year concert for our much loved departing director of music.
- Arranging a Movie Night concert for our concert band and a Big Band Midsummer Jazz night.
- ▪ Performing increasingly challenging and rewarding arrangements, while maintaining accessibility to all members.
- Continuing to enhance our communications with members, with visually attractive and informative regular Sunday and Friday emails, and regular messages from our director of music.
- Further increasing the range of band merchandise sold at our events.
- Continuing to improve the organisation of our events, enlisting new volunteers to help with setting up before and taking down after the event, and with transport.
- Providing a tea stand, and encouraging members to make and/or donate cakes and snacks for sale on the stand.
- Surveying our members on their views on, and experiences of, our activities.
## _**Working in partnership**_
- We continued to build on our partnerships with venues such as St Paul’s Shadwell and St Dunstan’s Stepney Green, where we provided a 1940s themed programme for the 80th Anniversary End of World War II commemoration in May 2025.
- We also developed new relationships with Live 90 Hackney Wick and the Royal Foundation of St Katharine at the Yurt Café.
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** 30 June 2026
March **2012**
**TAR**
5
**East London Community Band**
**1142255**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC16a**
|**For the period**
**from**|01-Sep-24
Period start date|**To**|31-Aug-25
Period end date|
|---|---|---|---|
## **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|**37,834**||**-**||**-**||**37,834**||**36,932**|
|Friends of the band donations|**773**||**-**||**-**||**773**||**927**|
|Individual and corporate donations|**667**||**-**||**-**||**667**||**1,420**|
|Concert ticketing catering and merchandise
receipts|**4,534**||**-**||**-**||**4,534**||**2,376**|
|Term time cateringand merchandise receipts|**3,431**||**-**||**-**||**3,431**||**1,489**|
|Sale of merchandise (now incuded in the
item above)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,846**|
|Gift aid|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Grants - allocated between unrestricted and
restricted funds|**1,000**||**7,081**||**-**||**8,081**||**17,000**|
|Easy Fund raising/Amazon|**183**||**-**||**-**||**183**||**77**|
|Just Givingfund raising|**791**||**-**||**-**||**791**||**281**|
|Performance fees|**230**||**-**||**-**||**230**||**700**|
|ELCB Fest(other related receipts)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**581**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**49,444**||**7,081**||**-**||**56,525**||**63,630**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**63,630**|
|||||||||||
|
Directors of music and tutors' fees**-**
allocated between unrestricted and
~~restrictedfunds~~|**36,393**||**10,747**||**-**||**47,141**||**42,402**|
|
Main venue hire|**2,500**||**-**||**-**||**2,500**||**1,800**|
|Other venue hire|**5,583**||**-**||**-**||**5,583**||**1,450**|
|Subscription and insurance|**566**||**-**||**-**||**566**||**543**|
|Transport/travel|**96**||**-**||**-**||**96**||**224**|
|Stationeryandprinting|**363**||**-**||**-**||**363**||**303**|
|Website,zoom, google|**583**||**-**||**-**||**583**||**337**|
|Buyingmerchandise|**532**||**-**||**-**||**532**||**1,791**|
|Performers' fees|**759**||**-**||**-**||**759**||**-**|
|Recruitment|**600**||**-**||**-**||**600**||**-**|
|Bankand payment service processing
|**995**||**-**||**-**||**995**||**831**|
|~~h~~
50th anniversaryvideo|**750**||**-**||**-**||**750**||**750**|
|ELCBFest expenses, including hire of stage|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**4,989**|
|Repairs|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**-**|
|Sundryexpenses|**70**||**-**||**-**||**70**||**138**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**49,889**||**10,747**||**-**||**60,637**||**55,558**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Music/Composition - allocated between
unrestricted and restricted funds|**4,730**||**1,000**||||||**842**|
|Equipment and instruments|**821**||**-**||||||**985**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**5,551**||**1,000**||||||**1,827**|
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**55,440**
**- 5,996**
**-**
**20,137**|||||||||
||||||||||**57,385**|
|||||||||||
||**- 5,996**||**- 4,667**||||||**6,245**|
||**-**||**-**||||||**-**|
||**20,137**||1
**8,000**||||||30/06/2026
**21,892**|
_**Cash funds this year end**_ **14,141 3,333**
**- 17,475**
**28,137**
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**|**Details**
None
**Details**
Instruments
Stands, chairs, banner
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Gift aid claim - estimated
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Accrued expenses
Music
Other equipment|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**14,141**
**3,333**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,141**
**3,333**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**12,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**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)**
1,800
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
RichardPeat (Treasurer)|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of approval|
|||RichardPeat (Treasurer)|30-Jun-26|
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
30/06/2026
2
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
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report on the accounts
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uThJer seciknn 145{5)**from**|01-Sep-24
Period start date|**To**|31-Aug-25
Period end date|
|---|---|---|---|
## **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|**37,834**||**-**||**-**||**37,834**||**36,932**|
|Friends of the band donations|**773**||**-**||**-**||**773**||**927**|
|Individual and corporate donations|**667**||**-**||**-**||**667**||**1,420**|
|Concert ticketing catering and merchandise
receipts|**4,534**||**-**||**-**||**4,534**||**2,376**|
|Term time cateringand merchandise receipts|**3,431**||**-**||**-**||**3,431**||**1,489**|
|Sale of merchandise (now incuded in the
item above)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,846**|
|Gift aid|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Grants - allocated between unrestricted and
restricted funds|**1,000**||**7,081**||**-**||**8,081**||**17,000**|
|Easy Fund raising/Amazon|**183**||**-**||**-**||**183**||**77**|
|Just Givingfund raising|**791**||**-**||**-**||**791**||**281**|
|Performance fees|**230**||**-**||**-**||**230**||**700**|
|ELCB Fest(other related receipts)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**581**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**49,444**||**7,081**||**-**||**56,525**||**63,630**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**63,630**|
|||||||||||
|
Directors of music and tutors' fees**-**
allocated between unrestricted and
~~restrictedfunds~~|**36,393**||**10,747**||**-**||**47,141**||**42,402**|
|
Main venue hire|**2,500**||**-**||**-**||**2,500**||**1,800**|
|Other venue hire|**5,583**||**-**||**-**||**5,583**||**1,450**|
|Subscription and insurance|**566**||**-**||**-**||**566**||**543**|
|Transport/travel|**96**||**-**||**-**||**96**||**224**|
|Stationeryandprinting|**363**||**-**||**-**||**363**||**303**|
|Website,zoom, google|**583**||**-**||**-**||**583**||**337**|
|Buyingmerchandise|**532**||**-**||**-**||**532**||**1,791**|
|Performers' fees|**759**||**-**||**-**||**759**||**-**|
|Recruitment|**600**||**-**||**-**||**600**||**-**|
|Bank charges and payment service
processing charges|**995**||**-**||**-**||**995**||**831**|
|50th anniversaryvideo|**750**||**-**||**-**||**750**||**750**|
|ELCBFest expenses, including hire of stage|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**4,989**|
|Repairs|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**-**|
|Sundryexpenses|**70**||**-**||**-**||**70**||**138**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**49,889**||**10,747**||**-**||**60,637**||**55,558**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Music/Composition - allocated between
unrestricted and restricted funds|**4,730**||**1,000**||||||**842**|
|Equipment and instruments|**821**||**-**||||||**985**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**5,551**||**1,000**||||||**1,827**|
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**|**55,440**
**- 5,996**
**-**|||||||||
||||||||||**57,385**|
|||||||||||
||**- 5,996**||**- 4,667**||||||**6,245**|
||**-**||1
**-**||||||26/06/2026
**-**|
**A6 Cash funds last year end** _**Cash funds this year end**_
|**20,137**|
|**8,000**|
|**-**||**28,137**||**21,892**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**14,141**||**3,333**||**-**||**17,475**||**28,137**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
None
**Details**
Instruments
Stands, chairs, banner
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Gift aid claim - estimated
**Details**
[Cash at Bank - total £17,475 - Cell F479]
**Details**
Accrued expenses
Music
Other equipment|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**14,141**
**-**
**-**
**14,141**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**12,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
1,800|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**3,333**
**-**
**-**
**3,333**
OK
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||Accrued expenses|1,800|**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
Signature
Print Name
Date of approval
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
~~26/06/2026~~
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