## **ANNUAL REPORT 2024** 

of 

## The Salisbury Chamber Chorus Charity number 1161010 

15 Barnack Business Centre, Blakey Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 2LP 

## **Trustees:** 

David Hugh Charles Pardoe, Martyn Paul Davies, Karen Elizabeth Malim, Anthony Kent Fiona Jackson 

## **Management:** 

The Trustees form a management committee with the Musical Director in attendance.  The Trustees are drawn from the membership and are all volunteers. No Trustee has any form of remuneration for their services to the Charity. 

## **Activities:** 

The Chamber Chorus undertook a wide variety of performance events during the calendar year as listed below: 

- 16/17 November 2024 - Poulenc Gloria & Bernstein Chichester Psalms - St Thomas's Church, Lymington and St Thomas’s Church Salisbury 

- 29 June 2024 - _A Festival of Operetta_ - Medieval Hall, Salisbury 

- 22 June 2024 - _Free Concert_ - Salisbury Market Square, Salisbury 

- 4 May 2024 - _Vivaldi Four Seasons and Faure Requiem_ - Romsey Abbey, Romsey 

- 16/23 March 2024 - _Faure Requiem and Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms_ - St Peter's Church, Stockbridge and Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Wilton 

We also took part in the Salisbury Festival of Choirs on 26[th] April which raised nearly £8,000 in aid of the Salisbury Hospice and St Thomas’ Church Salisbury who hosted the festival. 

The Trustees consider that the activities listed above were commensurate with and fulfilled the stated objectives of the Charity as per its Constitution which states: 

The objects of the society shall be: 

_To advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by any means the Trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public concerts and recitals_ 

SCC Trustees 16[th] October 2025 

Salisbury Chamber Chorus. Registered Charity No. 1161010. 



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accounts. charity'5 loJ$tees con&¥Jer thal an 8udit Is not
ired for this year under sectron 4312) of the Charities Act 1993
(the 1993 Acll and that independent examination is ntr8ded.
is my ￿$s￿)nSibilIty to-.
examine Ihe accounts under S￿l0n 43 rl Iho 1993 Act,
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Ind￿leS a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and
comparf8t￿ d the account$ presented Y+ith those record$. It also
Indthyes cons*J8ro)on of any unusual ittms Dr disdosures in the
accounts. and seeking eX￿anatiOnS from the trustees fAncernin9
any such matters. Thè P￿>￿edUreS undertaken do rtot provide all
the evidertè that￿￿U￿ be required in an audit. and ￿nsequen￿Y
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