2021-12-31-accounts - London English Song Festival

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London English Song Festival: Trustees' Annual Report
From	Period start date			T o	Period end date
	1	1	2021		31	12	2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

London English Song Festival

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1159818

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	Charity's principal address	Charity's principal address	14 College Court, West Road	14 College Court, West Road	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
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	Charity's principal address	Charity's principal address	14 College Court, West Road	14 College Court, West Road	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)

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Type of adviser Name Address
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Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) N/A
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TAR

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)

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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.

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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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

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic towards the end of March 2020 stifled musical performances and projects for much of 2020 and into 2021. As was noted in the LESF’s 2020 TAR, 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. Also as noted in 2020, vocal scores of Parry’s Prometheus Unbound and Stanford’s Eden were compiled and printed for future use, and Jeremy Dibble reconstructed and typeset the full scores of both for future LESF recording and performances projects. The LESF’s work in 2021 was, therefore, spent fundraising for and planning a project to revive and record Hubert Parry’s oratorio Prometheus Unbound as soon as was reasonably possible following the end of the pandemic, with a view to doing the same with Eden in 2024, the centenary of Stanford’s death.

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) is one of Britain’s best-loved composers. His choral music and hymns are part of the fabric of British music, such as the coronation anthem I was glad, his extended church anthem Blest Pair of Sirens and his hymns Jerusalem and Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (the latter extracted from his oratorio Judith). His larger works for chorus and orchestra, though popular in their day, had been largely overlooked in recent years until the LESF’s critically-acclaimed revival of Judith at Royal Festival Hall in 2019, and subsequent recording for Chandos Records, released in 2020.

Prometheus Unbound, written for the Gloucester Festival in 1880, is a powerful and dramatic work, strongly influenced by Wagner yet showing clear signs of Parry’s developing, individual compositional voice. The critic H. C. Colles wrote: “Prometheus shows a sense of forceful declamation which English music had not known since Purcell” and the musicologist Ernest Walker: “If we seek for a definite birthday for modern English music, September 7, 1880, which Prometheus saw the light at Gloucester…has the best claim.”

Yet Prometheus Unbound has never been recorded, and has not been performed at all for several decades. The total cost of making this recording is estimated at £60,000.

As well as planning the overall project, a wide range of private donors were approached during 2021. Some chose to donate funds immediately (£4,611.62) whereas others pledged to give funds at a later date. Several grant-giving charitable trusts were also informally approached, formal applications to be made once the project’s dates had been confirmed.

Plans for live performances of music were, owing to the continued effects of the pandemic, also put on hold throughout 2021, though an outline plan for a festival of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams was drawn up in consultation with stakeholders including a venue, Cadogan Hall, and potential performers.

The LESF looks forward to recommencing its work with a vengeance in 2022.

7th November 2022

TAR

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 None in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

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.

2021 was very much about raising funds for future projects. All donations this year were from private supporters towards the Prometheus Unbound project, and there was also a small amount of Gift Aid recovered from HMRC relating to donations in 2020.

investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

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, Chair Treasurer etc) Date 7 November 2022 7 November 2022

7th November 2022

TAR

	London English Song Festival *Charitable Incorporated Organisation*	London English Song Festival *Charitable Incorporated Organisation*	London English Song Festival *Charitable Incorporated Organisation*	1159818	1159818
	For the period from	01-Jan-21 Period start date	To	Period end date 31-Dec-21

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	-	-	-	-	-
Donations	375	4,612	-	4,987	12,651
Gift Aid	-	-	-	-	-
Grants	-	-	-	-	583
Ticket sales	-	-	-	-	-
~~*Sub total(Gross income for~~ AR)*	375	4,612	-	4,987	13,234

~~A2 Asset and investment sales,~~ (see table).
	-	-	-	-	-
~~*Sub total*~~	-	-	-	-	-

*Total receipts*	375	4,612	-	4,987	13,234
A3 Payments
Administration fees	-	-	-	-	-
Loan repayments	-	-	-	-	9,293
Marketing- advisory& booking	-	-	-	-	-
Marketing- leaflets & flyering	-	-	-	-	-
Marketing- online	-	-	-	-	-
Marketing- other	-	-	-	-	70
Marketing-print	50	-	-	50	-
Onlinepresence(email & website)	-	-	-	-	168
Production costs - musicians	-	-	-	-	375
Production costs -programme	-	-	-	-	-
Production costs - reception	-	-	-	-	781
Production costs - sheet music	-	-	-	-	163
Production costs - staging	-	-	-	-	-
Production costs - venue hire	-	-	-	-	-
**Sub total **	50	-	-	50	10,849
A4 Asset and investment ~~purchases(see table)~~ Restricted funds started the year at zero following the completion of the Judith project, including the consented use of excess from that project towards future projects. Donations in 2021 related entirely to the Parry_Prometheus Unbound_recording project and have been treated as Restricted. Activity in the year has been limited due to the timing of future projects; the marketing expense relates to the correction of an immaterial prior period error discovered upon additional reconciliation work.
A4 Asset and investment ~~purchases(see table)~~
	-	-	-	-	-
**Sub total **	-	-	-	-	-

*Total payments*	50	-	-	50	10,849

*Net of receipts/(payments)*	325	4,612	-	4,937	2,385
A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end	-	-	-	-	-
	2,399	-	-	2,399	14
*Cash funds this year end*	2,724	4,612	-	7,336	2,399

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

26/02/2021

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
Categories B1 Cash funds	Details Bank account	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 2,724	Restricted funds to nearest £ 4,612	Endowment funds to nearest £
	Bank account	2,724	4,612	-
	*Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	2,724	4,612	-
				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 None Signature None Details None Details None - gift aid all received in year Details	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) *n/a* - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) *n/a* - Fund to which ~~liability relates~~ Amount due ~~(optional)~~ Matthew Kay William Vann Print Name		Endowment funds to nearest £
				-
				Current value (optional)
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				Current value (optional)
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				When due ~~(optional)~~

				Date of approval
		Matthew Kay		07-Nov-22
		William Vann		07-Nov-22

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

26/02/2021