## **Inner Voices**
## **Inner Voices
Report of the Trustees for the year 2023-2024**
The trustees present their annual report and audited financial statements for the year 2023-24 and confirm they comply with the Charities Act 1993, as amended by the Charities Act 2006, the trust deed and the Charities SORP 2005.
## **Reference and Administrative Information**
Charity Name: Inner Voices
Registration Number: 1144419
Address:
9A South Ealing Road, W5 4Qt
## **Board of Trustees**
Edward Watkins Joanna West Kathryn Pugh Joe Adams Emma Watkins
## **Conductor**
Ralph Allwood
## **Independent Examiner**
Carl Moloney
## **Bankers**
NatWest, Brixton Branch
## **Inner Voices
Report of the Trustees for the year 2023-24**
## **Structure, governance and management**
## **Governing document**
Inner Voices is constituted as a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commission in October 2011 under charity number 1144419. It is governed by a deed of trust last updated in November 2010.
## **Organisational structure**
The charity trustees are responsible for the general control and management of the charity. All five trustees give their time freely and receive no remuneration or other financial benefits.
The trustees meet together as a body three times a year and are responsible for all decisions taken in relation to running the choir and the activities provided by the charity.
## **Recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The existing trustees are responsible for the recruitment of new trustees. When selecting new trustees we take into account competence in providing advice on the following matters: child protection; musical direction; state education in London; finance and accounts; fundraising and running events.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **Our aims**
**** The objects of the charity are set out in the charity’s trust deed and are summarised as follows:
- i) to advance the musical education of a group of pupils from a consortium of inner London state schools by providing the financial means for maintaining a choir for the most gifted singers among the schools’ pupils.
- ii) to use these finances to ensure that the choir benefits from a high standard of musical leadership.
## **Overview**
The choir started our 13th year of rehearsing and performing together in September 2023 with 50 singers from a number of partner schools across inner London including:
The Grey Coat Hospital, St Marylebone, St Michael’s (Southwark), Graveney, Ark Greenwich Free School, Westminster City School, Pimlico Academy and the West London Free School
This group of singers reflected inner London’s demographic with around a third being in receipt of free school meals, a majority belonging to BAME groups and the gender balance being nearly 50/50 male to female.
## **Events**
The year was a successful one with a good range of events including:
Nine Lessons and Carols in St Gabriel's Pimlico Evensong in St Paul's Cathedral Tour to Italy Gala Concert – London Grammar’s Truth is a Beautiful Thing Summer concert with Voce Chamber Choir Our Founder’s wedding
## **Contributions from schools and parents**
The choir is mostly funded by donations from grant-making bodies and private donations. These charges are waived for pupils on free school meals.
## **Grants and large donations**
Wogen Anniversary Trust
The Williams Serendipity Trust
Together with grants from schools and parents these large donations covered our ninth year’s funding. We retained the surplus for the year 2024-25.
## **Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities**
The charity trustees are responsible for preparing an annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP; make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees for the purposes of charity law who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 1.
Approved by the trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Edward Watkins
|Period start date
Inner Voices
Annual accounts for the period|Period start date
Inner Voices
Annual accounts for the period||Charity No|
|---|---|---|---|
||Period start date
|**01-Sep-23**
**To**|Period end
date|
|||||
|**Section A**|**Statement**|**of financial activities**||
|**Recommended categories**
**by activity**
**Details of own**
**analysis**
**Incoming resources**
**Incoming resources from**
**generated funds**
Voluntary income
Activities for generating funds
Investment income
**Incoming resources from**
**charitable activities**
**Other incoming resources**
**Resources expended**
**Costs of Generating Funds**
Costs of generating voluntary
income
Fundraising trading costs
Investment management costs
**Charitable activities**
**Governance costs**
**Other resources expended**
**_Total funds carried forward_**
**Total funds brought forward**
**_Net movement in funds_**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before_**
**_transfers_**
Gains and losses on investment assets
Gains and losses on revaluation of fixed assets
for the charity’s own use
**Other recognised** **gains/(losses)**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before_**
**_other recognised gains/(losses)_**
**Gross transfers between funds**
**_Total resources expended_**
**_Total incoming resources_**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
21,527
-
-
21,527
18,472
21,851
-
-
21,851
12,681
28
-
-
28
-
3,000
-
-
3,000
900
-
-
-
-
-||
|||46,406
-
-
46,406
32,053||
|||-
-
-
-
-
623
-
-
623
1,444
4,801
-
-
4,801
2,888
-
-
-
-
-
58,010
-
-
58,010
28,529
600
-
-
600
600
-
-
-
-
-||
|||64,034
-
-
64,034
33,461
(17,628)
-
-
(17,628)
(1,408)||
|||-
-
-
-
-||
|||(17,628)
-
-
(17,628)
(1,408)||
|||-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-||
|||(17,628)
-
-
(17,628)
(1,408)||
|||65,392
-
-
65,392
66,800||
|||47,764
-
-
47,764
65,392||
Page 1
## **Section B Balance sheet**
|**Fixed assets**
**Tangible assets**
**Investments**
**_Total fixed assets_**
**Current assets**
**Stock and work in progress**
**Debtors**
**(Short term) investments**
**Cash at bank and in hand**
**_Total current assets_**
**Creditors: amounts falling due within**
**one year**
**_Net current assets/(liabilities)_**
**_Total assets less current liabilities_**
**Creditors: amounts falling due after**
**one year**
**Provisions for liabilities and charges**
**_Net assets_**
**Funds of the Charity**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted income funds**
**Endowment funds**
**_Total funds_**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all
the trustees||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
F01
-
-
-|
**Restricted**
**income funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
F02
F03
-
-
-
-
-
-|
**Restricted**
**income funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
F02
F03
-
-
-
-
-
-|**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
**£**
**£**
F04
F05
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||-|-|-|-
-|
|||-
-
-
51,764|-
-
-
-|-
-
-
-||
||||||-
-
-
-
-
-
51,764
65,239|
|||51,764|-|-|51,764
65,239|
||||||-
-|
|||-|-|-||
|||||||
|||51,764|-|-|51,764
65,239|
|||||||
|||51,764|-|**-**|51,764
65,239|
||||||4,000
-
-
-|
|||4,000
-|-
-|-
-||
|||||||
|||47,764|-|-|47,764
65,239|
|||47,764
-|-|-|47,764
65,239
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|||47,764|-|-|47,764
65,239|
|||Signature||Print|Date of
approval
Name|
Page 2
## **Section C Notes to the accounts**
## **Note 1 Basis of preparation**
## **1.1 Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared on the basis of historic cost (except that investments are shown at market value) in accordance with:
- Accounting and Reporting by Charities – Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2005);
- and with the Charities Act.
As the charity is a small charity with reference to the SORP it has prepared the accounts on a cash receipts and payments basis and included some accruals and prepayments where it aids the user of the accounts' understanding.
## **1.2 Change in basis of accounting**
There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and methods of accounting) since last year.
## **1.3 Changes to previous accounts**
No changes have been made to accounts for previous years.
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
|**Note 2**|**Accounting Policies**|
|---|---|
|**INCOMING RESOURCES**||
|**Recognition of incoming**|These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:|
|**resources**|· the charity becomes entitled to the resources;|
||· the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and|
||· the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.|
|**Incoming resources with**|Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income)|
|**related expenditure**|the incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA.|
|**Grants and donations**|Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional|
||entitlement to the resources.|
|**Tax reclaims on donations and**|Incoming resources from tax reclaims are included in the SoFA at the same time as the gift to|
|**gifts**|which they relate.|
|**Contractual income and**|This is only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.|
|**performance related grants**||
|**Gifts in kind**|Gifts in kind are accounted for at a reasonable estimate of their value to the charity or the|
||amount actually realised.|
||Gifts in kind for sale or distribution are included in the accounts as gifts only when sold or|
||distributed by the charity.|
||Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SoFA as incoming resources when|
||receivable.|
|**Donated services and facilities**|These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources|
||expended) where the benefit to the charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and|
||material_._The value placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the|
||service or facility received.|
|**Volunteer help**|The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is described in the|
||trustees’ annual report.|
|**Investment income**|This is included in the accounts when receivable.|
|**Investment gains and losses**|This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments and any gain or loss resulting from|
||revaluing investments to market value at the end of the year.|
**EXPENDITURE AND LIABILITIES Liability recognition** Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources. **Governance costs** Include costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters. **Support Costs** Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **ASSETS**
**Tangible fixed assets for use by** These are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and cost at least £500. They **charity** are valued at cost or a reasonable value on receipt.
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 3 Details of certain items of expenditure**
## **3.1 Trustee expenses**
|**3.2 Fees for examination or audit of the accounts**
Other fees (for example: advice, consultancy, accountancy services)
paid to the independent examiner or auditor
Number of trustees who were paid expenses
Nature of the expenses: all normal travel or reimbursement expenses
undertaken in the course of running the charity
Independent examiner’s or auditors' fees for reporting on the
accounts
Total amount paid|**This year**
**Last year**
-
-
**£**
**£**
-
-
**This year**
**Last year**
**£**
**£**
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
|**Note 4**|**Paid employees**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**7.1 Staff Costs**|||||
||||**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**|
|**Gross wages, salaries and benefits in kind**|||9,225|8,290|
|**Employer’s National Insurance costs**|||-|-|
|**Pension costs**|||-|-|
|||**Total staff costs**|9,225|8,290|
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**Section C Notes to the accounts (cont)**
## **Note 5**
## **Transactions with related parties**
## **4.1 Remuneration and benefits**
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Amounts paid or benefit value
Legal authority (eg order,
Name of trustee or connected party
governing document) This year Last year
£ £
Edward Watkins Governing document - -
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## **4.2 Loans**
|**Due to trustees and**
**related parties**
**Due from trustees and**
**related parties**|
**Name of trustee or**
**connected party**
**Legal authority**|**This year**
**Last year**
**£**
**£**
**Amount owing**|
|---|---|---|
## **4.3 Other transaction(s) with trustees or related parties**
|**Name of the trustee or**||**Description of the**|**This year**|**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**related party**|**Relationship to charity**|**transaction(s)**|**£**|**£**|
||||||
||||||
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Docusign Envelope ID: 4D593F9D-3CAE-4A09-9A17-31D5B255E374
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**|Charity Name
Inner Voices||
|---|---|---|
||||
|**On accounts for the year**|31 August 2024
**Charity no**|1144419|
|**ended**|**(if any)**||
||||
|**Set out on pages**|1-6||
||(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)|(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)|
||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above||
||charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**31 / 08 / 2024**.||
|**Responsibilities and**|As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the||
|**basis of report**|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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- **Independent** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to
- **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report 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._
|**Signed:**||**Date:**|11 June 2025|
|---|---|---|---|
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|**Name:**|Carl Moloney|||
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|**Relevant professional**|Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand|||
|**qualification(s) or body**||||
|**(if any):**||||
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Docusign Envelope ID: 4D593F9D-3CAE-4A09-9A17-31D5B255E374
**Address:** 7 Grandison Road, London, SW11 6LS
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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** .
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