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|**London English Song Festival:**
**Trustees' Annual Report**||||||||
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## 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||
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||||**Postcode**||**SW3 4NL**||
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||**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)**||
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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||
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||**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)**||
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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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## **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)**|
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**Name**
**Address**||||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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**7th November 2022**
**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.
**7th November 2022**
**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**
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**
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** None **in deficit**
## **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;
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**
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||**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**|
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||**For the period**
**from**||01-Jan-21
Period start date||**To**||Period end date
31-Dec-21||||
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|**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**||
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|~~**A2 Asset and investment sales,**~~
**(see table).**|||||||||||
||**-**
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_Total receipts_**|**375**||**4,612**||**-**||**4,987**||**13,234**||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
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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_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_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**||
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1
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)**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
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~~**(optional)**~~||
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|||||Date of
approval||
|||Matthew Kay||07-Nov-22||
|||William Vann||07-Nov-22||
2
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
26/02/2021