Bert Jansch Foundation Annual Report and Financial Statements
Year ended 31 December 2020
Registered Charity no. 1162678 c/o19 Sneyd Road, London NW2 6AL
https://www.facebook.com/bertjanschfoundation https://www.twitter.com/BertJanschFdn
Trustees: Adam Jansch Charlotte Crofton-Sleigh Geraldine Auerbach Karen Kidson Bernard Butler Serena Cross Leonard Lowy
Registered Office: 19 Sneyd Road, London NW2 6AL
Bankers: Barclays Bank 46/49 Broad Street, Stamford PE9 1PZ
Annual Report for the year 2020
The Bert Jansch Foundation has been active in addressing its aims of supporting acoustic musicians with education and early career opportunities. Here is a summary of the activities of the Bert Jansch Foundation in 2020.
| Bert Transcribed — Bert Jansch Song Book | page 3 |
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| Bert Jansch virtual gigs | page 3 |
| Workshops report 2020 | page 4 |
| Bert Jansch Young Artists | page 4 |
| Bert Jansch Foundation Awards 2020 | page 4 |
| Around the world in 80 plays – For Bert Jansch | page 5 |
| Bert Jansch Foundation Studio | page 5 |
| Bert Jansch Foundation Newsletter | page 5 |
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Bert Jansch Foundation – Annual Report 2020
Bert Transcribed — Bert Jansch Song Book
This book, with 24 songs was published by Music Sales in August 2017. It continues to receive good reviews and is selling well. A second print run was made in December 2018.
Music Sales has since been taken over by American company, Hal Leonard. Staff are the same but processes slightly different. The transcription team is similar headed by Jon Riley and fans are clamouring to have the next volume. The next batch of thirty songs is completely ready. Hal Leonard has not yet agreed to publish volume 2. Geraldine is still patiently working on it.
Bert Jansch Gigs - Virtual
We had been hoping to arrange a live gig at the Cheese and Grain in Frome in June 2020 but after this had to be cancelled because of Lockdown we arranged four Virtual gigs in July and again in November. For each gig, we invited four of our Around the World in 80 Plays artists to offer a 30 minute set. This enabled the Bert Jansch Foundation to promote and highlight especially the young artists who have participated in the 80 plays project. BJF Young Artist Dariush Kanani hosted each gig and interviewed the artists . The tech side was handled by James Brooke of the Bert Jansch studio, Frome. They were livestreamed and available for playback on the BJF Facebook page and apparently more than 20 thousand people have since looked at them.
You can see one of them here:
https://www.facebook.com/763997147002806/videos/2739541542931512 We paid Dariush for his hosting. There was no other expense or income. We asked for donations first time for Save our Venues then for BJF.
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2020 Workshops Report
Workshops went virtual in 2020 because of the Covid-19 lockdown . Nine workshops of three hours each were held over Zoom in May and again in October. There were three teachers, Jon Riley, Dariush Kanani and Paul Wassif. They each ran three sessions with a maximum six students, who paid £50 for one, or £40 each if buying more than one. Karen devised signup and payment sheets and we published this poster.
They were managed by Bert Jansch Young Artist, Dariush Kanani and the technical manager was James Brooke of the Bert Jansch studio in Frome. They were very popular and although not sold out, the project broke even or made a small profit. https://bertjanschfoundation.org/workshops
Bert Jansch Young Artists
In 2019 BJF decided to appoint two BJF ‘Young Artists’. These would be chosen from people who were highly talented but also motivated and able and willing to take Bert’s name and the work of the Foundation further. We chose two outstanding young guitarists Dariush Kanani and Sam Grassie (Sam looks and plays uncannily like a young Bert). They were officially appointed in April 2020 for two years. Dariush Kanani has excellently managed our gigs and workshops in 2020. Sam has run and will run more jam sessions, and both are working on a short list of songs for the Bert Inspired albums. It’s wonderful to have young artists working with the foundation. We will support their careers and they will support the Foundation and we will see how this goes. You can read about them on our website.
Awards:
This year we gave four awards. Two to students from Goldsmiths University of London (Goldsmiths Department of Music are very appreciative and manage the process very efficiently encouraging their students to engage in projects and apply for grants.
We supported Dylan Trenouth for The Art of the Song: Four days of tailored “Song Surgery” with Jane Taylor, a published singer/songwriter herself and coach to various other songwriters. We also supported Cassandra Layton with a total spend of £1000 to Goldsmith.
Directly we supported two of our 80-plays youngsters. We helped Campbell Baum who himself supports many young artists by organising gigs, tours and recordings. We gave him £500 to support a compilation album featuring arrangements of traditional songs, each performed by a different artist. We also gave £200 to Elliott Morris to support a recording of original songs. Total spend for 2020 was £1700. You can read about the recipients here https://bertjanschfoundation.org/grants
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For Bert Jansch: Around the World in 80 Plays .
https://80plays.bertjanschfoundation.org/the-artists/tommy-emmanuel/
This amazing project where five Yamaha LL-TA guitars are travelling round the world (at Yamaha’s expense) is drawing to a close. At present one is sailing round Northern California; one is in Scotland, one with Beth Orton and one in London. Nearly of the potential 80 artists are already on the beautiful website. Several more artists and performed their songs and sent their videos and their artist pages are being processed. Guitars were locked down and restricted in their movements – but started moving again, being taken in for cleaning and servicing before being sent out gain. Beth Orton is about to play her song. We are nearing the end of the project …..
Cheese and Grain: Bert Jansch Studio
BJF is very pleased to partner with the Bert Jansch Studio in its Virtual gigs and workshops. Both our young artists want to record their next releases at the studio and have spoken to the relevant technical people. When Covid permits we will help them with this.
BJF Newsletter
A further three email newsletters were distributed in Spring Summer and Autumn of 2020. The mailing list on MailChimp has approximately 300 people who have contacted the Bert Jansch Foundation for various reasons and who have been asked if they would like to be on the mailing list. These have been compiled by Geraldine Auerbach but she would like somebody to take this role in future – maybe the BJF Young Artists, Dariush and Sam.
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Bert Jansch Foundation Profit & Loss 2020
INCOME
| Donation/sponsorship Songbook sales Event revenue EXPENSES Grants Event expenses Website sundries Bert Jansch Foundation Balance sheet as at 31st December 2020 Fixed Assets Current Assets Barclays Current a/c carried forward at close of 2020 Barclays Saver a/c carried forward at close of 2020 Total Current Assets Total Net Assets Represented by: Saver Balance b/fwd from end of 2019 Current Balance b/fwd from end of 2019 Interest earned in 2020 Fixed Assets Net Profit Balance c/fwd to 2021 |
£0.00 £803.00 £2,002.48 TOTAL INCOME £2,805.48 -£1,700 -£2,210.00 £475 paid for 2019 workshops -£903.55 -£33.00 Total Expenses -£4,846.55 Net Profit -£2,041.07 55.00 £ £149.17 £19,712.57 £19,861.74 £19,916.74 19,945.01 1,945.23 12.57 55.00 £ (£2,041.07) £19,916.74 |
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Bert Jansch Foundation Balance Sheet 2020
| Date Songbooks 14/02/2020 29/05/2020 14/08/2020 20/11/2020 Net book revenue Workshops 07/01/2020 07/01/2020 07/01/2020 14/01/2020 14/02/2020 17/03/2020 28/05/2020 26/06/2020 26/06/2020 26/06/2020 04/11/2020 04/11/2020 04/11/2020 04/12/2020 total workshop costs Online gigs costs 01/09/2020 total event costs Event income 19/05/2020 26/05/2020 26/05/2020 01/06/2020 05/08/2020 29/09/2020 total workshop income Net Workshop Revenue Grants 05/08/2020 14/09/2020 24/12/2020 24/12/2020 Total Grants Sundries Website 13/03/2020 20/04/2020 26/06/2020 06/07/2020 Total Website costs |
Amount Description Notes £161.00 HAL LEONARD EUROPE MS02640 BGC songbook royalties £166.00 HAL LEONARD EUROPE MS02640 BGC songbook royalties £247.00 HAL LEONARD EUROPE MS02640 BGC songbook royalties £229.00 HAL LEONARD EUROPE MS02640 BGC songbook royalties £803.00 -£175.00 TH+J FAIRHURST DEC19 BJF WORKSHOP BBworkshop tutor payments 2019 events -£175.00 JOHN RILEY DEC19 BJF WORKSHOP BBP workshop tutor payments 2019 events -£125.00 MR D KAGHAZKANANI DEC19 BJF WORKSHOP workshop tutor payments 2019 events £800.00 ENGLISH FOLK DANCE CSHBJF010 BGC workshop ticket revenue/hire refund -£730.00 EFDSS INV 27563 BERTJ01 BBP workshop venue hire -£60.00 PRONTAPRINT U3M INVI072190 BBP workshop publicity graphics -£60.00 PRONTAPRINT BJFVIRTUAL I072300 BBP workshop publicity graphics -£225.00 PAUL WASSIF 3X VIRT WORKSHOPS BBP workshop tutor payments -£225.00 JOHN RILEY 3 X VIRT WORKSHOPS BBP workshop tutor payments -£300.00 MR D KAGHAZKANANI 3XVIRT WKSHP ADMIN Bworkshop tutor payments -£150.00 JOHN RILEY 2X OCT WORKSHOPS BBP workshop tutor payments -£225.00 PAUL WASSIF 3X OCT WORKSHOPS BBP workshop tutor payments -£300.00 MR D KAGHAZKANANI 3XONLINE WORKSHOPSworkshop tutor payments -£60.00 PRONTAPRINT I072474 VIRT FLYER BBP workshop publicity graphics -£2,010.00 -£200.00 MR D KAGHAZKANANI PARTICIPANTS GIGS BBgigs host and organisation payment -£2,210.00 total 2020 event costs -£1,735.00 £30.00 LAWRANCE BJ BEN LAWRANCE BGC workshop participant fees £30.00 COATES I P Ian Coates BGC workshop participant fees £30.00 COLE RA Bob Cole BGC workshop participant fees £50.00 LAWRANCE BJ BEN LAWRANCE BGC workshop participant fees £1,782.48 PAYPAL PPWDL452222225DN7S BGC workshop participant fees £80.00 MR B & MRS R MAC BRIAN MACKENZIE BGC workshop participant fees £2,002.48 -£207.52 Net 2020 event revenue £267.48 -£300.00 CASSANDRA LAYTON GOLDSMITH GRANT Bgrant -£700.00 DYLAN TRENOUTH B JANSCH FDN GRANT BBgrant -£200.00 ELLIOTT MORRIS BJFGRANT NEWCASTLE BBgrant -£500.00 CAMPBELL BAUM BERT JANSCH GRANT BBgrant -£1,700.00 -£33.00 Flowers for John Renbourn's family when Ben died -£47.99 KRYSTAL HOSTING 846153 BBP website -£468.00 IGLOO CREATIVE LTD 2259 WEB UPDATES BBwebsite -£330.00 IGLOO CREATIVE LTD INV 2290 UPDATES BBPwebsite -£57.56 KRYSTAL HOSTING 918050 BBP website -£903.55 |
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