|||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**London English Song Festival:**
**Trustees' Annual Report**|||||||| ||**From**|Period start date|||**T**
**o**|Period end date||| |||1|1|2020||31|12|2020| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** London English Song Festival **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1159818 N/A **Charity's principal address** 14 College Court, West Road London **Postcode SW3 4NL** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1
2
3
4|William Vann|Chair||| ||Matthew Kay|Treasurer||| ||Katie Emily Bray|||| ||Jonathan Langridge|||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| ||N/A|||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||| |N/A|||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
N/A|||| |N/A|||| **31st October 2021** **TAR** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted CIO - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the (eg. appointed by, elected by) charity trustees. ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The objects of the CIO are to advance the education of the public in the musical arts and in particular the art of English language song in all its aspects. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** (a) by organising and promoting the public performance of English song, and in particular an annual festival of English song recital in London and (b) complementary thereto or in connection therewith, by further providing for the public benefit in London and elsewhere in the United Kingdom as may be appropriate educational and vocal workshops and masterclasses and other activities to promote and encourage musical education and vocal performance. The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission of public benefit. **31st October 2021** **TAR** 2 **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: ## N/A - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** As noted in our 2019 TAR, the LESF undertook a major project in 2019 to perform and then record one of Hubert Parry’s masterpiece of choral writing, his 1888 oratorio _Judith_ . The work of the LESF in the first few months of 2020 was threefold: to close the funding gap from the Judith project, to organise and promote the release of the recording of Judith on Chandos Records, and to work towards our next revival project and festival. The Chair lent £9,293.03 to the LESF as an interest-free loan in 2019, to be paid back when the LESF could afford to do so. Fundraising in the first three months of 2020 totalled £11,500, and the loan was paid off in September. The record launch took place on March 2nd, with two artists (Sarah Fox and Kathryn Rudge) generously performing for expenses only. Chandos Records covered just over 50% of the total costs of £1,156.30, the remainder of which was covered by the money fundraised earlier in the year, which was above target. The event allowed the disc to be promoted directly to the musical press, and it subsequently spent seven weeks in the Classical Charts, significantly furthering the reach of our project. Finally, future projects: the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic towards the end of March stifled musical performances and projects for much of 2020. It was not considered appropriate to risk the LESF’s resources on any major projects at this stage, as they would be better used once the pandemic was over and live music returned. However, vocal scores of Parry’s _Prometheus Unbound_ and Stanford’s _Eden_ were compiled and printed for future use, and Jeremy Dibble has been reconstructing and typesetting the full scores of both for future LESF recording and performances projects, and so this frustrating time has nevertheless been used well. **31st October 2021** **TAR** 3 **Brief statement of the** The charity manages its funds, including any project-specific restricted **charity’s policy on reserves** funds, with a view to achieving parity over a project's lifecycle. In light of the charity's business model and limited financial risk exposure, the trustees currently set a minimum reserves level of £nil, and will review this annually. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. Fundraising is an important part of our work – by its very nature, our educational ventures make a loss, and so the support of private individuals and other charities is crucial. We successfully funded the entire _Judith_ project through fundraising, both from private individuals and via grants from other charitable organisations, and through our most successful ticket sales to date. As was noted in our 2019 TAR, the delay in receiving some of this funding until after the project completion created a short-term cash flow difficulty, which the Chair was able to cover through an interest-free loan on this occasion, but as was also noted in 2019, in future years it would be ideal if this were not necessary, and the Trustees will aim to ensure this isn’t a regular feature of LESF projects. ## **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)**|William Vann|Matthew Kay| |---|---|---| |||| |**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**|Chair|Treasurer| |||| |**Date**|31 October 2021|31 October 2021| **31st October 2021** **TAR** 4 ||**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**1159818**|**1159818**|**1159818**|**1159818**|**1159818**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01-Jan-20||**To**||Period end date
31-Dec-20|||| |||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|| |Loan advances|-||-||**-**||**-**||**9,293**|| |Donations|2,000||10,650.62||**-**||**12,651**||**49,833**|| |Gift Aid|-||-||**-**||**-**||**10,550**|| |Grants|-||583.35||**-**||**583**||**13,700**|| |Ticket sales
|-||-||**-**||**-**||**17,852**|| |~~**_Sub total(Gross income for_**~~
**_AR)_**|**2,000**||**11,234**||**-**||**13,234**||**101,228**|| |||||||||||| |~~**A2 Asset and investment sales,**~~
**(see table).**||||||||||| ||**-**
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**2,000**||**11,234**||**-**||**13,234**||**101,228**|| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |
Administration fees|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,396**|| |Loan repayments|-||9,293.03||**-**||**9,293**||**-**|| |Marketing-advisory & booking|-||-||**-**||**-**||**6,643**|| |Marketing- leaflets &flyering|-||-||**-**||**-**||**2,365**|| |Marketing-online|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,619**|| |Marketing-other|-||69.55||**-**||**70**||**250**|| |Marketing-print|-||-||**-**||**-**||**2,207**|| |Online presence (email&website)|168||-||**-**||**168**||**148**|| |Productioncosts- musicians|-||375.01||**-**||**375**||**88,889**|| |Productioncosts-programme|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,919**|| |Productioncosts- reception|-||781.29||**-**||**781**||**1,445**|| |Productioncosts-sheetmusic|163||-||**-**||**163**||**1,322**|| |Productioncosts-staging|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,568**|| |Productioncosts- venuehire|-||-||**-**||**-**||**3,098**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**330**||**10,519**||**-**||**10,849**||**112,870**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
~~**purchases (see table)**~~
Restricted funds relate wholly to the Judith project, with spend and donations relating to the concert in April 2019 of Parry's Judith at the
Southbank Centre and subsequent recording. This year marks the last with receipts or payments relating to the project. Donations have
been apportioned to the restricted fund wherever they were made explicitly for the Judith project, leaving a fund surplus at the closure of the
project of £612. This amount has been transferred in full to the unrestricted fund at the year end since all Judith-specific funding was made
on the basis that any excess, if available, was to be invested in other projects.||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
~~**purchases (see table)**~~||||||||||| |~~**,**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**330**||**10,519**||**-**||**10,849**||**112,870**|| |||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**1,670**||**715**||**-**||**2,385**||**- 11,642**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**612**|
|**- 612**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**117**||**- 103**||**-**||**14**||**11,656**|| |
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**2,399**||**-**||**-**||**2,399**||**14**|| |||||||||||| ||**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**London English Song Festival**
**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|**1159818**|**1159818**|**1159818**|**1159818**|**1159818**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01-Jan-20||**To**||Period end date
31-Dec-20|||| |||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|| |Loan advances|-||-||**-**||**-**||**9,293**|| |Donations|2,000||10,650.62||**-**||**12,651**||**49,833**|| |Gift Aid|-||-||**-**||**-**||**10,550**|| |Grants|-||583.35||**-**||**583**||**13,700**|| |Ticket sales
|-||-||**-**||**-**||**17,852**|| |~~**_Sub total(Gross income for_**~~
**_AR)_**|**2,000**||**11,234**||**-**||**13,234**||**101,228**|| |||||||||||| |~~**A2 Asset and investment sales,**~~
**(see table).**||||||||||| ||**-**
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**2,000**||**11,234**||**-**||**13,234**||**101,228**|| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |
Administration fees|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,396**|| |Loan repayments|-||9,293.03||**-**||**9,293**||**-**|| |Marketing-advisory & booking|-||-||**-**||**-**||**6,643**|| |Marketing- leaflets &flyering|-||-||**-**||**-**||**2,365**|| |Marketing-online|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,619**|| |Marketing-other|-||69.55||**-**||**70**||**250**|| |Marketing-print|-||-||**-**||**-**||**2,207**|| |Online presence (email&website)|168||-||**-**||**168**||**148**|| |Productioncosts- musicians|-||375.01||**-**||**375**||**88,889**|| |Productioncosts-programme|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,919**|| |Productioncosts- reception|-||781.29||**-**||**781**||**1,445**|| |Productioncosts-sheetmusic|163||-||**-**||**163**||**1,322**|| |Productioncosts-staging|-||-||**-**||**-**||**1,568**|| |Productioncosts- venuehire|-||-||**-**||**-**||**3,098**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**330**||**10,519**||**-**||**10,849**||**112,870**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
~~**purchases (see table)**~~
Restricted funds relate wholly to the Judith project, with spend and donations relating to the concert in April 2019 of Parry's Judith at the
Southbank Centre and subsequent recording. This year marks the last with receipts or payments relating to the project. Donations have
been apportioned to the restricted fund wherever they were made explicitly for the Judith project, leaving a fund surplus at the closure of the
project of £612. This amount has been transferred in full to the unrestricted fund at the year end since all Judith-specific funding was made
on the basis that any excess, if available, was to be invested in other projects.||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
~~**purchases (see table)**~~||||||||||| |~~**,**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**330**||**10,519**||**-**||**10,849**||**112,870**|| |||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**1,670**||**715**||**-**||**2,385**||**- 11,642**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**612**|
|**- 612**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**117**||**- 103**||**-**||**14**||**11,656**|| |
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**2,399**||**-**||**-**||**2,399**||**14**|| |||||||||||| 1 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 26/02/2021 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**|**the end of the period**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|Bank account
**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|| ||Bank account||**2,399**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||**2,399**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||OK|| |**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|| ||£375 of gift aid from 2020 donations
received Feb 2021 and will appear in 2021
receipts and payments accounts.||**375**||**-**||**-**|| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| ||_None_||
**_n/a_**||**-**||**-**|| ||Signature
_None_
**Details**
None - loan of 9,293 from p/y fully repaid.
**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**_n/a_**
**-**
**Fund to which**
~~**liability relates**~~
**Amount due**
~~**(optional)**~~
**Unrestricted**
William Vann
Print Name
Matthew Kay||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**When due**
~~**(optional)**~~|| |||||||||| ||||||||Date of
approval|| ||||Matthew Kay||||31-Oct-21|| ||||William Vann||||31-Oct-21|| 2 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 26/02/2021