Year 2023 

## **Blackdowns Early Music Projects** 

## **Charity Number: 1156177** 

Annual Report by the Trustees 

2023 was another exciting year for Blackdowns Early Music.  The two main choral concerts celebrated important anniversaries, the 400[th] year since the death of William Byrd on July 4[th] 1623 and an unusual set of Vespers composed in the same year by the Italian Ignatio Donati.  The former concert compared the works of Byrd with Thomas Weelkes and the Danish composer Mogens Pedersøn, both of whom also died in that same fateful year.  Their music will have been familiar to the other composers having shared performances in London. 

The second main event comprised a set of Donati’s Vespers which proved to be a most remarkable work from Milan.  A feature of our performance was the inclusion of an orchestral choir played by a band of graduating students.  This has  become  a  feature  of  some  of  our  programming,  giving  colour  to performances  as  well  as  a  rare  performing  experience  to  up  &  coming musicians. 

As in recent years, we also designed a series of smaller monthly concerts in local  parish  churches,  giving  an  opportunity  for  local  audiences  to  hear professional  musicians  in  a  wide  variety  of  educative  musical  styles  and instruments. 

Audiences for each of the events were good and our control of costs was further improved. The gross profit of £ 5,412 managed to offset the £6,034 loss of the previous year which had included the B minor mass in the final Grand Baroque performance in Exeter Cathedral. 

In  summary,  the  funding  of  £8,700  carried  forward  into  2024  is  very satisfactory. 

28[th] October 2024 

Trustee:  Geoffrey Bass 

Signed remotely by Trustees Roger Williams, Malcolm Plastow & Alison Baily 



BLACKDOWN EARLY MUSIC PROIEcr
Detalled profil and loss . 31 DÈcofflbw 2023
Incon
Ticket Sale5
Subscription
Gift Aid
Donation
Grants/ Loss Buarantees
Pro8ramme sales
Singers accomodation
Food
Misc
Bank interest
TOTAL INCOME
11.081
10,710
2,181
13
3,950
261
1,200
378
35
17.750
3.792
IZ4
341
290
Expenses
Venue Hire
Musicians
Advertising
Instrument hire
Poster and leaflets
Tens Licences
Meals & Drink
Accomodation and tran5POrt
Revenue Share
Donatlons
Misc
TOTAL EXPENDrruRE
218
4,564
21,754
453
L344
21
6.752
4.492
3,557
351
711
21930
673
35,845
Gross proliv Iloss)
Signed:
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Jane Alagappa
ACA

BLACKDOWN EARLY MUSIC PROJECT
Profft and lo￿ and Balance Sheet- 31 Oecemkn2023
2023
Turnover
Cost of Sales
Gross loss / profft
Admlnlstrative expenses
Operdtin8 loss/ profft
ProfftlL055 forthe perlod
28.341
{2I930)
5.412
1267)
29,810
135,8451
(6,0341
1257)
(4291)
(6,2911
Current assets
Accrued Income and Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
3.631
Credwtors . amounts falling due within one year
(￿)
1751
Net Curr•nt assets
&701
3.556
8,701
3,556
Capltsl and reseryes
Profit and loss account
3,556
5,14M
9,848
16.2911
Shareholders funds
3￿56
Signed..
Al•p
( f/lO/2
Jane Alagappa
ACA