The Hepworth Silver Prize Band Registered Charity No. 1161654
Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the period 1 February 2022 to 31 January 2023
## **Objectives and activities**
## **Purposes of the Charity**
The Charity’s objectives are to maintain the traditions of brass band music; to develop, promote and improve the art and culture of music in all genres to people of all ages; and to advance the education of children and young people to enable them to appreciate, learn, and participate in brass band music making.
## **Activities**
The Band performs as a traditional British brass band. Its activities include concerts, both selfpromoted and for which the band is engaged; performance in competitions; video and CD recordings.
It also takes part in significant local events such as Hepworth Feast and the Holme Valley Remembrance Day service.
Some concert performances are fundraising events for other charities.
## **Public benefit**
The Charity and its trustees take care to conform with the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit requirements as set out in PB1 and PB2.
## **Volunteers**
The trustees, management committee and the players undertake their respective roles without any financial compensation.
## **Achievements and performance**
## **Concerts and engagements**
The band staged and promoted an annual series of concerts at venues in and around the Holme Valley including A New Years Viennese Concert, A Queens Platinum Jubilee Celebration Concert with New Mill Male Voice Choir, ‘Feast-Fest’ a free summer family music festival in Hepworth village, and the bands popular Christmas concert.
‘Feast-Fest’ included a live music stage with performances by the band and other local groups, drumming workshops and football skills coaching for children and young people.
The concerts were well supported, and the series was very well received by local community.
The band performed at the annual charity fundraising concert in Yeadon Town Hall for Aireborough Rotary Club. It took part in traditional Hepworth Feast celebrations; represented the village of New Herrington at Durham Miners Gala and took part in the Holme Valley Service of Remembrance.
The band also played carols for the Hepworth village Christmas service, and at the Christmas Eve sing in the village centre, as well as carolling in villages throughout the valley over the month of December.
## **Online concert series**
The band released episodes 3 and 4 of its online concert series, supported by the Arts Council National Lottery Fund, the Garfield Weston Foundation, and One Community Kirklees.
The series of online concerts was free to access across the band's social media platforms and has been watched by more than 16,000 people across the world including viewers from Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
## **Contests**
Hepworth competed at the Yorkshire Regional Championships, the Holme Valley Contest, the Spring Brass Band Festival, the Dr Martin Trust Contest, and the Scottish Open Championships as well as the summer season of march contests including the famous Whit Friday march contests.
The band enjoyed contest success winning the Holme Valley Contest, the Dr Martins Trust Contest and taking prizes at a number of local march contests.
## **Financial Review**
The charity’s income is derived from a combination of (i) collections, donations from corporate friends and public benefactors, (ii) fundraising events, (iii) grants and (iv) ticket and CD sales at concerts and other events. Care is taken that ticket prices are set at affordable levels.
Unrestricted income is spent on day-to-day running of the band, music director fees, staging and promoting the bands annual concert series, instrument repair and replacement, upkeep of uniforms and purchase of new music.
Christmas collections around local villages form a large part of the fundraising activities, and at Christmas 2022 we raised in excess of £4,000 towards the ongoing running costs.
Grants were received from Bright Green Community Trust, Hinchliffe Mill Brass Band Charity, Huddersfield Common Good Trust, Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, South Yorkshire Community Foundation and West Riding Masonic Charities which, together with grants from One Community Foundation and Holme Valley Parish Council, business donations and money raised by public appeal, enabled the band to successfully complete a major refurbishment of its band room rehearsal facilities.
The charity does not have an official reserves policy. However, the trustees are satisfied that the band has sufficient unrestricted funds to meet any unexpected expenditure over the next 12 months.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
**Address:** Hepworth Band, Dobroyd Mills, Hepworth Road, Jackson Bridge, Holmfirth HD9 1ET.
**Trustees who manage the charity:** John Green, chairman; Jonathan Armitage, secretary; Matthew Tinker, treasurer; Yvonne Embury, band manager; Graham Goldthorpe.
**Custodian trustees:** Stephen Lindley, Stephen Robinson, David Clegg.
## **Governance**
The Charity is an Unincorporated Association governed by Constitution adopted on 2 February 2015 as amended on 12 May 2015 as amended on 16 November 2015. The trustees are elected by the Charity in Annual General Meeting.
Approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by:
John Green, Chairman;
Jonathan R. Armitage, Secretary
## Hepworth Band Receipts and payments for the year 1 February 2022 to 31 January 2023
|**Receipts**
Appeals
Collections
Donations
Engagements
Grants
Gift Aid
Insurance (JL Turner donation)
Internet (JR Armitage donation)
Interest
Online Shopping
Prize Money
Sales
Sponsorship
Subscriptions
**Total Income**
**Payments**
4U Hosting (website)
Accommodation
Band Room Refurb
Bank charges
Borrowed Players
Coach Hire
Contest entry
Engagements
Electricity
Instrument hire
Instrument repair
Insurance
Miscellaneous
Music
MD fees
Ofce Equipment
Players’ Expenses
Publicity
Uniforms
**Total Expenses**
**Surplus/(Loss)**|**2023**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**band room**
**projects**
0
0
6,100
6,100
908
8,343
9,252
10,664
10,664
1,000
27,351
800
29,151
1,958
1,958
948
948
93
93
3
3
115
115
6,000
6,000
20
20
3,000
1,000
4,000
255
255
**29,106**
**38,652**
**800**
**68,559**
**2023**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**band room**
**projects**
93
93
2,255
2,255
54,270
54,270
233
233
370
370
1,625
1,625
1,130
1,130
3,568
3,568
265
265
780
780
285
285
948
948
1,458
1,458
45
45
9,000
9,000
1,163
1,163
3,834
3,834
3,980
3,980
0.00
0.00
**27,052**
**54,270**
**3,980**
**85,302**
**2,054.56**
**(15,618)**
**(3,180)**
**(16,743)**|**2022**
5,025
3,112
6,968
5,689
6,750
1,556
948
93
2
71
2,400
52
1,000
255|
|---|---|---|
|||33,921
**2022**
93
8,952
144
331
653
3,550
784
1,072
232
1,926
1,057
948
128
4,435
6,475
572
2,132
7,265
226.00|
|||40,975|
|||(7,054)|
## Hepworth Band assets and liabilities as at 31 January 2023
|General
Band room refurbishment
Band musical projects
**Total**
Cash
Current account (Barclays)
Deposit account (Barclays)
PayPal account
**Total Assets**
Balances at 1 Feb 2022
Surplus (Loss) for year
Balances at 31 Jan 2023|**Opening**
**Receipts**
**Payments**
**Transfers**
**Closing**
8,574
28,065
26,196
-
10,444
23,049
38,652
54,270
-
7,431
3,431
800
3,795
-
436
**35,054**
**67,517**
**84,261**
-
18,311
_These assets are represented by_
**Opening**
**Closing**
32
8,403
695
(7,673)
67
18,698
57,503
27,150
(34,567)
14,483
16,237
1,017
56,415
42,780
3,618
88
594
0
(540)
142
35,054
67,517
84,261
0
18,311
35,054
(16,743)
18,311|**Closing**
10,444
7,431
436|
|---|---|---|
|||18,311|
|||
18,311
35,054
(16,743)|
|||18,311|
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF
HEPWORTH BAND
I rert on the accounts for the year ended 31" January 2023
Respective rejponsibilities of the Trnstees and Examiner.
The Hepwonh Band trustees are reSnSIble for the prewon of the accounts. The trustees
consider that audits ar¢ not required for their r¢S1ve accounts for this year under section
144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 {tl¢ 201 l Act) and have eleded for their a¢¢ounts to be
independently examined.
It is my resw)nsibility to..
a) Examine th¢ accounts under section 145 of the 201 l Act: and
b) To follow the proceduffs laid down in the General Directions given by the
Charity commissio[S
c) To slate wh¢th¢r rtIcular matters have eA)me to my attention
Basij of Independent Examiner'$ Ststement
My examination was carried out in accordanc£ with the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission. An examination iTludeS a review of th¢ accounting records kept by the
Hepworth Band and a compari50n of the accounts presented to ihose records. It also includes
consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounls, and s¢eking explanations
from the Trustees ¢onc¢rning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all
the evidence ihat would be required in a full audit. and cons¢qu¢ntly IK) OnIOn is given as to
whether th¢ arxounts present a "true and fair view" and the reN)rt is limited io those matters
set oul in the statement below.
Independent ExAminer's Statement
In ¢otth¢¢tion with my examinatioo no matters have ¢om¢ to my attention..
which give me reasonable cause to IKli¢ve Ihat in any material respect the
requirements..
a) to keep accounting records in arxordance with scdion 130 of the 2011 Acl
b) to prepare accounts which wxord wilh the accounting records and comply with
the accounling reqUirnents of the 2011 Ad have not been met. or
2. to which, in my opinion. 8ttcntion should be drawn in order to enable a prOr
understanding of the Kcounts to reached.
Graham C M Latham
Date: 4th January 2024
27 Whit¢ W¢lls Gardens
Holmfirth
HD9 ITZ