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**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
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)**|
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|1
2
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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**||
||N/A||||
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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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|**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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**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.
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**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include N/A further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|2022 saw the LESF undertake two major projects. The first was our project to
create the very first recording of Parry’s oratorio_Prometheus Unbound_, and
therefore fill a surprising gap in the recording history of major works of British
vocal music, thus promoting awareness of this work and encouraging future
performances. Our fundraising commenced in 2021 and was noted in our last
TAR. 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 was
estimated at £60,000 in our 2021 TAR; during the course of planning the project,
some aspects were tailored, mostly relating to orchestral costs (not all the
musicians were required for every recording session) and the final total cost of
the project was £57,694. Chandos Records, the record label, covered all the
costs of sound recording and production, as well as creating video footage of
the recording.
In addition to planning the overall project, a wide range of private donors had
been approached during 2021. Some chose to donate funds immediately
(£4,612) whereas others pledged to give funds at a later date. Several grant-
giving charitable trusts were also informally approached, and formal applications
were made in 2022. Grants from charitable bodies and private donations made
directly in support of this project were approximately £19K each, fulfilling one of
our aims stated in previous years for grants to reach a similar level of that of
private donations.
The recording itself was a success and completed as planned, in spite of the
major complicating factor of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II on the first day
of recording. Much credit must be given to all the musicians, contractors and our
recording venue (St Jude on the Hill Church in Hampstead) for making sure the
recording went ahead in difficult circumstances. The album has since been
released in September 2023: full details will appear in our 2023 TAR, but suffice
to say that it has been a resounding success, in terms of sales and chart
position and also in terms of critical reception.
The other, smaller LESF project in 2022 was to promote a performance of
Benjamin Britten’s_Noye’s Fludde_in Chelsea, London. Over eighty Children from
a mixture of state schools and the independent sector, school teachers and
professional musicians from the London Mozart Players joined forces for a
performance at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street on 17th June. This was a hugely
rewarding experience for the children and, at a total cost of £3,894, a relatively
low cost venture. It was also an important trial for a potentially larger scale
rollout of multiple performances of this work across London in future years.|
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**Section E Financial review**
**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 Fundraising is an important part of our work – by its very nature, our additional information, where educational ventures make a loss, and so the support of private relevant about: individuals and other charities is crucial.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including Funds raised in 2022 (plus some dating to 2021) were raised from a any fundraising); mixture of private supporters and grants from our charitable bodies. Most
- • of this was given towards the _Prometheus Unbound_ project, therefore how expenditure has restricted (£39,803). All this restricted income was spent on that project
- supported the key objectives within 2022. There was also £14,998 of unrestricted funding, which was
- of the charity;
- • investment policy and spent on a mixture of the _Fludde_ project, the balance to be carried over into 2023 and future _Prometheus Unbound_ project and the _Noye’s_ objectives including any projects. This consisted of a mixture of private donations, Gift Aid
- ethical investment policy receipts and a small amount of royalty income from the LESF’s _Judith_ adopted. recording in 2020. Owing to receipts exceeding £25K in 2022, we appointed an Independent Examiner, Debbie Edwards, to carry out an Independent Examination.
## **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|
|---|---|---|
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|**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**|Chair|Treasurer|
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|**Date**|30th October 2023|30th October 2023|
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||**London English Song Festival**|**London English Song Festival**|**London English Song Festival**|**London English Song Festival**|**London English Song Festival**|**1159818**|**1159818**||**CC16a**|
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||**_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_**|||||||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||**Period start date**||**To**||**Period end date**|||
||||**1-Jan-22**||||**31-Dec-22**|||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Loan advances|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Donations|10,496||19,884||**-**||**30,380**||**4,987**|
|Gift Aid|4,164||-||**-**||**4,164**||**-**|
|Grants|-||19,920||**-**||**19,920**||**-**|
|Royalties|338||-||**-**||**338**||**-**|
|Ticket sales|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total(Gross income for AR)_**|
**14,998**||**39,803**||**-**||**54,801**||**4,987**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|
**14,998**||**39,803**||**- 0**||**54,801**||**4,987**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Administration fees|-||111||**-**||**111**||**-**|
|Loan repayments|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Marketing - advisory & booking|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Marketing - leaflets & flyering|113||-||**-**||**113**||**-**|
|Marketing - online|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Marketing - other|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Marketing - print|96||-||**-**||**96**||**50**|
|Online presence (email & website)|168||-||**-**||**168**||**-**|
|Production costs - musicians|3,517||51,711||**-**||**55,228**||**-**|
|Production costs - programme|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Production costs - other|0||374||**-**||**375**||**-**|
|Production costs - reception|-||-||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Production costs - sheet music|-||862||**-**||**862**||**-**|
|Production costs - staging|-||1,910||**-**||**1,910**||**-**|
|Production costs - venue hire|-||2,725||**-**||**2,725**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|
**3,894**||**57,694**||**-**||**61,588**||**50**|
|||||||||||
|In the prior year (calendar year 2021), 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 began towards the Charles Parry_Prometheus Unbound_recording project, which is the only
Restricted Fund relating to financial activity in either 2021 or 2022. Activity in 2021 was 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.
The current year saw the recording project come to fruition during sessions in September 2022, achieving the project's aim of securing a high-quality
professional recording of this excellent but previously unrecorded work. Further details on the project including the original prospectus and cost estimate
are retained at http://londonenglishsongfestival.org/prometheus-unbound-2022/. The costs of the Prometheus Unbound project totalled £57,694 and
were met partly by Restricted donations and partly by Unrestricted receipts. All payments directly relating to the project have been treated as Restricted,
and the credit balance in the Restricted Fund has been transferred to the Unrestricted Fund at the conclusion of the project, leaving a zero balance for
Restricted funds at the year end. Remaining activity in year (badged as Unrestricted) principally related to the performance of Britten's Noye's Fludde at
Holy Trinity, Sloane Square in June 2022.||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total payments_ **|
**3,894**||**57,694**||**- 0**||**61,588**||**50**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**11,104**||**-**
**17,891**||**-**||**-**
**6,787**||**4,937**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**
**13,279**||**13,279**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**2,724**||**4,612**||**-**||**7,336**||**2,399**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Administration fees|||-|||||111||||**-**|||||**111**||||**-**|||
|Loan repayments|||-|||||-||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|Marketing - advisory & booking|||-|||||-||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|Marketing - leaflets & flyering|||113|||||-||||**-**|||||**113**||||**-**|||
|Marketing - online|||-|||||-||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|Marketing - other|||-|||||-||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|Marketing - print|||96|||||-||||**-**|||||**96**||||**50**|||
|Online presence (email & website)|||168|||||-||||**-**|||||**168**||||**-**|||
|Production costs - musicians|||3,517|||||51,711||||**-**|||||**55,228**||||**-**|||
|Production costs - programme|||-|||||-||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|Production costs - other|||0|||||374||||**-**|||||**375**||||**-**|||
|Production costs - reception|||-|||||-||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|Production costs - sheet music|||-|||||862||||**-**|||||**862**||||**-**|||
|Production costs - staging|||-|||||1,910||||**-**|||||**1,910**||||**-**|||
|Production costs - venue hire|||-|||||2,725||||**-**|||||**2,725**||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|||**3,894**|||||**57,694**||||**-**|||||**61,588**||||**50**|||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|In the prior year (calendar year 2021), 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 began towards the Charles Parry_Prometheus Unbound_recording project, which is the only|||||||||||||||||||||||
|Restricted Fund relating to financial activity in either 2021 or 2022. Activity in 2021 was 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.||||||||||||||||||||||||
|The current year saw the recording project come to fruition during sessions in September 2022, achieving the|||||||||||||project's aim of securing||||||||a high-quality|||
|professional recording of this excellent but||previously unrecorded|||||work. Further details|||on the project including||||||the original prospectus|||||and cost estimate|||
|are retained at http://londonenglishsongfestival.org/prometheus-unbound-2022/. The costs of the Prometheus||||||||||||||Unbound project totalled £57,694 and||||||||||
|were met partly by Restricted donations and partly by Unrestricted receipts. All payments directly relating to the project have been treated as Restricted,||||||||||||||||||||||||
|and the credit balance in the Restricted Fund has been transferred to the Unrestricted Fund at the conclusion|||||||||||||of the project, leaving a zero balance for|||||||||||
|Restricted funds at the year end. Remaining activity in year (badged as Unrestricted) principally related to the||||||||||||||performance of Britten's|||||||Noye's Fludde at|||
|Holy Trinity, Sloane Square in June 2022.||||||||||||||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||**- 0**|||||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|||**- 0**|||||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_ **|||**3,894**|||||**57,694**||||**- 0**|||||**61,588**||||**50**|||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|||**11,104**||||**-**|**17,891**||||**-**||||**-**|**6,787**||||**4,937**|||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**13,279**|||||**13,279**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**2,724**|||||**4,612**||||**-**|||||**7,336**||||**2,399**|||
|CCXX R accounts (SS)
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|**_Cash funds this year end_ **|
**549**||**-**||**-**||**549**||**7,336**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Bank account||||**549**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**549**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|_None - gift aid all received in year_||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||
||**Details**||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|_None_||||**_n/a_**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|_None_||||**_n/a_**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**|||
||||||||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|None|||||||||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||||||Matthew Kay||||30-Oct-23|
||||||William Vann||||30-Oct-23|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** LONDON ENGLISH SONG FESTIVAL (CIO) **On accounts for the year** 31 DECEMBER 2022 **Charity no** 1159818 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (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 **31/12/2022**
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date: 30 October 2023 Signed: Name:** DEBORAH EDWARDS, FCPFA **Relevant professional** Chartered Public Finance Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** The Rectory, Church Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 7HQ
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## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight 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** .
## **N/a**
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