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# **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 01 2025 31 12 2025
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name London Welsh Rugby Club Choir**
**Other names charity is known by[LWRCC ]**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1160723
**Charity's principal address Old Deer Park Sports Ground, Old Deer Park**
**187 Kew Road Richmond, Surrey Postcode TW9 2AZ**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||**Robert Martyn Jones**|**Chairman**|||
||**Philip Kevin Hughes**|**Treasurer**|||
||**Colin Robert Taylor**|**Secretary**|||
||**James Alexander Boyle**||||
||**Stephen David McGrath**||||
||**William Barry Jones**||||
||**Stephen Jeremy Davies**|**Concert &**
**Tour Manager**|**From 7th April 2024**||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **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**|||
|**Bank**|Natwest Bank PLC|Moorgate Branch, PO Box 712, 94 Moorgate,
London EC2M 6XT|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) As a Charitable Incorporated Organisation of 45 members How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the Annual General Trustee selection methods Meeting held in April in accordance with the Constitution
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **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.
It is the policy of LWRCC to appoint Trustees who are mature individuals with considerable skills in management and marketing having qualifications and gained experience by holding responsible positions outside LWRCC.
LWRCC is a member of the National Federation of Music Societies (Making Music) who act as our Insurance Broker and provide information and support regarding legal and artistic developments with regards to Music Societies.
- LWRCC is associated with the London Welsh Rugby Club providing fund raising support to the Amateur section of that organisation and the London Welsh Trust by amongst other activities donating a prize to the runner up of the Young Welsh Singer of the Year and benefitting from the network of contacts provided by these two organisations.
- The Trustees have monthly management meetings to consider prospective engagements and ensure that any risks are mitigated by obtaining deposits and ensuring that the costs associated with these engagements are matched with income derived from the engagements
Monthly Accounts are prepared on an Cash Received and Paid basis in order to monitor the financial condition of the Choir and are tabled and considered by the Management Committee and Trustees
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The objects of the LWRCC are-:
1)To advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspect by any **Summary of the objects of the** means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public **charity set out in its** concerts and recitals with a focus on Welsh Choral Music; **governing document** 2)To further such charitable purposes as the Trustees in their absolute discretion shall think fit but in particular through the making of grants and donations.
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In planning our activities for the year, we keep in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our Trustees meetings.
The focus of our activities is to encourage the appreciation of Welsh Choral Music by giving regular concerts in support of many charitable causes and planning tours within the UK and Oversea to the same end.
**Summary of the main** causes and planning tours within the UK and Oversea to the same end. **activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to** We also provide Welsh Choral Music at formal ceremonies such as **these objects (include within** funerals, memorials and weddings of those who want such important **this section the statutory** ceremonies in the Welsh Idiom. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance** Through our contact in the Welsh Community being responsive to the **issued by the Charity** needs of students of Welsh Music and other needful Welsh causes by **Commission on public** making donations and supporting cultural events against strict criteria. **benefit)**
All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include 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**
We performed at Twenty Four engagements during the year with some exceptional opportunities to help promote activities and products related to The British and Irish Lions Rugby tour to Australia
We conducted a successful tour to Rome in Feb 2027 performing at the British Embassy and presenting the Welsh Anthem in the pre match ceremony at Stadio Olympico ahead of the Italy v Wales 6 nations encounter and We celebrated the 20[th] Anniversary of our NZ tour by singing at the Principality stadium before the Wales v NZ Rugby international in Nov 2025.
All these activities fostered our objectives of developing and promoting public interest in Male Choral Music especially that in the Welsh Tradition and in the process raised funds for the many well deserving Charities which requested our services.
Building on contacts made in Rome in 2025 we just concluded a successful tour to Berne Switzerland where we helped promote tourism for Wales to a very enthusiastic audience.
We have introduced additional rehearsals (Tuesday nights) to complement our monthly (First Sunday) rehearsal schedule at the Welsh Presbyterian Church at Clapham Junction to enhance and extend our repertoire as demand for our services grows.
We have also been successful in attracting new members (at east 6 in 2025) through promotions, performances and social media and continue to attract much interest.
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## **Section E Financial review**
We currently hold cash at the bank amounting to £31,786 all of which is **Brief statement of the** in unrestricted funds. These funds are held to meet the costs of the 2026 **charity’s policy on reserves** Tour to Berne. We also need to provide for the running costs of the Choir, rehearsals, accompanists, hall hire and music costs and to finance the set-up costs for UK and future International Tours, to be able to make generous donations to selected worthy charities and to meet any unexpected costs which may occur in these uncertain financial times
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
The main sources of funds have been fees received from our concert and social engagement activity in addition to the subscriptions our members pay to the Choir in the calendar month of January
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal In addition to the above we once more received a very generous
- sources of funds (including donation from a friend of the Choir to encourage us in the pursuit of our
- any fundraising); traditional Choral activities Wales and South London.
- • how expenditure has Our Expenditure included a donation to support the Amateur Section of
- supported the key objectives the London Welsh Rugby Club.
- of the charity;
In addition to the above we once more received a very generous donation from a friend of the Choir to encourage us in the pursuit of our traditional Choral activities Wales and South London.
- 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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|RMJ|PKH|
|---|---|---|
||Robert Martyn Jones|Philip Kevin Hughes|
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Chairman|Trustee|
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**Charity Name No (if any) London Welsh Rugby Club Choir 1160723 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2025 31/12/2025
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**13,069**
**2,350**
**7,280**
**310**
**120**
**-**
**3,700**
**-**
**26,829**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,829**
**4,560**
**232**
**1,706**
**45**
**1,197**
**991**
**395**
**752**
**1,883**
**2,000**
**1,554**
**702**
**1,995**
**252**
**530**
**1,500**
**100**
**400**
**3,427**
**346**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,567**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
1|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**13,069**
**2,350**
**7,280**
**310**
**120**
**-**
**3,700**
**-**
**26,829**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**26,829**
**4,560**
**232**
**1,706**
**-**
**-**
**45**
**1,197**
**991**
**395**
**-**
**752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,883**
**2,000**
**1,554**
**702**
**1,995**
**-**
**-**
**252**
**530**
**1,500**
**-**
**100**
**400**
**3,427**
**346**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,567**
2|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Concert Receipts|**13,069**||||**7,094**|
|MembershipSubscriptions|**2,350**||||**2,450**|
|Donations Received|**7,280**||||**8,000**|
|Interest Received|**310**||||**399**|
|Receipts from Sale of CDs|**120**||||**170**|
|Receipts from Internet Downloads|**-**||||**117**|
|Social media events|**3,700**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**26,829**||||**18,230**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||
||**-**|||||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||||**18,230**|
|||||||
|
Concert Fees paid to Professionals|**4,560**||||**4,200**|
|
UK Concerts Accomodation-Profs|**232**||||**-**|
|UK Concerts: Travel Payments Prof|**1,706**||||**1,372**|
|
UK Concerts: Fee Shared with Joint Choir|||||**655**|
|UK Concerts: Hall Hire|||||**-**|
|UK Concerts: Other Costs (Merthyr)|**45**||||**170**|
|
UK Concerts: Travel Cost Reimbursed|**1,197**||||**910**|
|Overseas Tours:Hotels|**991**||||**7,037**|
|Overseas Tours:Air Fares|**395**|||||
|Overseas Tours: Concert Fees|||||**550**|
|Overseas Tours: Local Travel etc|**752**||||**333**|
|Overseas Tours: Concert Income|||||**- 665**|
|Overseas Tours: Match Tickets|||||**100**|
|Overseas Tours: Participants
Contributions|||||**- 3,995**|
|Overseas Tours: Other Costs|||||**565**|
|Rehearsals: Accompanist Fees|**1,883**||||**1,343**|
|
Rehearsals: Hall Hire|**2,000**||||**1,400**|
|Rehearsals: Travel|**1,554**||||**1,476**|
|Music Purchased|**702**||||**178**|
|Choir Uniform + Coats: Payments less
Contributions|**1,995**||||**555**|
|Choir Uniform: Ties Beanies Etc less
Contribs|||||**- 30**|
|Bank Charges|||||**-**|
|
Print and Stationery|**252**||||**263**|
|
Post Telephone & Internet System|**530**||||**2,745**|
|
Donation: London Welsh Rugby Club|**1,500**||||**1,500**|
|
Recording Costs|||||**3,638**|
|
Donation: London Welsh Minis
Programme|**100**||||**115**|
|Donation Voyagers Barn Church Concert:|**400**||||**-**|
|20th Anniversary Dinner|**3,427**||||**-**|
|
MM Insurance Premium+Subs|**346**||||**156**|
|Subscriptions|**-**||||**114**|
|
Purchase of Equipment|**-**||||**470**|
|
Other Costs-|**-**||||**56**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**24,567**||||**25,211**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**table)**||||||||||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
|||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**24,567**||**-**|||**-**||**24,567**|||**25,211**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**2,262**||**-**|||**-**||**2,262**||**-**|**6,981**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**36,505**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**2,262**||**-**|||**-**||**2,262**|||**29,524**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the
trustees
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Natwest Current Account
Natwest Business Reserve Acc.
**Details**
Rmjones
Signature
Pkhughes|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,676**
**-**
**28,110**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,786**
**-**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
Print Name
PhilipKevin Hughes
Robert Martyn Jones|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||Pkhughes|PhilipKevin Hughes|03/05/2026|
||Rmjones|Robert Martyn Jones|**03/05/2026**|
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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 Welsh Rugby Club Choir
**On accounts for the year** 31 December 2025 **Charity no** 1160723 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-3 (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 31/12/2025 **DD / MM / YYYY** .
- **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 (other than that disclosed below *) 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** G G Williams **Date:** 27/05/2026 **Name:** Geoffrey Gray Williams **Relevant professional** Retired Chartered Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 10 Malden Road Watford WD17 4EW
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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** None **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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