## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01 July 2020 Period start date To 30 June 2021 Period end date Charity name: Worthing Symphony Orchestra (WSO)** ## **Charity registration number: 1164531** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The Objectives of the WSO are to promote,**
**maintain, improve and advance education,**
**particularly musical education, and to**
**encourage the arts, including the arts of**
**music, drama, mime, dancing and singing.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The principal activity of the WSO for public**
**benefit is usually the continuation of the**
**annual programme of orchestral concerts**
**at The Assembly Hall in Worthing. There**
**would usually be eight concerts per**
**season (September to April/May), one of**
**which includes an additional hour-long**
**free concert for local schools.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees of the WSO take due regard**
**of the guidance in public benefit issues**
**issued by the Charity Commission and**
**believe this is reflected in the activities of**
**the WSO.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The WSO does not currently hold any**
**investments.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The support for the WSO, i.e. the general**
**management, administration, fundraising**
**and so on, is all undertaken by the**
**trustees and other volunteers. Without**
**the efforts of these individuals, the WSO**
**would cease to operate.**| |Other||**The WSO's musicians are fully**
**professional and self-employed, and are**
**paid on a concert-by-concert basis. The**
**marketing and graphic design activities**
**are also paid on a similar basis. As a**
**result, the orchestra has no paid**
**employees.**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The Covid-19 restrictions have meant that**
**WSO has been unable to put on any**
**concerts during this reporting period.**
**The only activity undertaken by WSO has**
**therefore been the introduction and**
**circulation of a free magazine - WSO**
**Music Matters - in both digital and printed**
**format, which has been circulated to our**
**regular supporters and other interested**
**individuals and organisations.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Due to the enforced lack of activity and**
**consequent lack of outgoings in the**
**reporting period, the financial position is**
**essentially unchanged and adequate**
**pending resumption of activities.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The WSO does not have sufficient funds**
**to warrant a reserves policy at the**
**present time.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Due to the pattern of funding concerts, as**
**the major activity of the WSO, it is not**
**considered necessary to specifically**
**allocate any of the funding held to a**
**specific'reserves' category.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The WSO has no uncertainty at the**
**present time about continuing as a going**
**concern on its current basis.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The principal source of funds for the**
**WSO is the ticket sales for each public**
**concert. Additional funding comes from**
**grants, donations, sponsorship**
**(particularly 'in kind' from Worthing**
**Borough Council/Worthing Theatres) and**
**from the membership of the Worthing**
**Symphony Society (WSS).**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal risk facing the WSO is of**
**maintaining and growing the audience**
**numbers in order to allow the concerts to**
**be financially viable, taking into account**
**other sources of funding and the setting**
**of ticket prices to be as affordable as**
**possible.**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions|Para 1.25|**Appointed by existing Trustees**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**n/a**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**n/a**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**This CIO, the Worthing Symphony**
**Orchestra, is supported by another**
**charity, the Worthing Symphony Society**
**(WSS).**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Worthing Symphony Orchestra| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charity number|1164531| |Charity’s principal address|4 Highdown Avenue
Worthing
BN13 1PU| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
1 Paul Baker
Chairman
2 John Gander
Administrator/Treasurer
3 SallyGibbins
4 John Gibbons
Musical Director
5 Sean McDonald
Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year **|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Paul Baker|Chairman||||| ||John Gander|Administrator/Treasurer||||| ||SallyGibbins|||||| ||John Gibbons|Musical Director||||| ||Sean McDonald|||||| |||||the report was||approved| |**Director name**||||||| |**n/a**||||||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf Ihe assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity's objects Detsils of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity's own assets Additional inforniation (optional) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of Name Address adviser nla Name of chief executlve or names of senior staff membèrs (Optional Infomiatlon) Exemptions from disclosure Reason for non4isdosure of ke nla nel details Other o tional infonnation The WSO Trustees are grateful to all those volunteers who make it possible for the Orchestra to continue its concert programme. Wfthout that help. the WSO would not be able to continue. During this reporting perlod. although there have been no concerts, we are very appreciative toward those who have contributed to the content of our magazine and to those who have roduced and distributed it. Declarations Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees Slgnature(s) Full namels) Posttlon (eg Secretary. Chair. etc) Paul Baker Chairman Date £ozL CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Recei tsand ents accounts CC16a For th• period To 01-￿3j Section A Receipts and payments Unr¢stri¢¢ed fund• Restricted Endowment fvnd• Total lund8 Last year Al R•cel 140 140 10 10 iO.L Tirjei So Gift s￿￿50T51￿p E¥wls $,1Q4 1,612 AR) 14•,962 InJurarKe & Fe M•ththThJ 8,677 1374 X*1 Muilc Hire S￿IK)r O•syn & Pnrt Othtra Pw) TUTh P[w￿rn￿* 116A93 770 6,e85 141.034 A4 Asset and In¥￿tMe Sub tot 4fj4S 141.834 Net of r•¢elpWpayments) . AS Tw¥ntyfer4 bgtween fund• A6 Ca•h fund• I￿1 ywr end C•sh fvnds this y•ar •nd 4318 21.020 8,318 CCXX R1 ISSI Section 8 Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unr85trictod R8strTrctod Endowm•nt funds Categorle Detalls Bl Cash fund8 21,020 fund• fvnth funds D•tall• 82 othor mon•lary a89•1• ***h Curr•nt v*lu• D•t*ll• 83 InvMtm•nt •M•ts D•tAII• B4 AM•ts r•t•ln•d fw th• ¢h•rity'• owft u D•t*ll• 85 Uablllll S4ned by rfft or trw*•s on behaKofal ￿ tru51• Date of roval CCXX R2 Issi CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts . Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Roport to the truste member¥ of t4)OITH ifrlG gym f rtQ*lY O £cHtsr On •ccounts for tho y•ar 3010612021 Charity no (11 any) IIGJ&21 S•t out on wg•8 I report to the trustees my exarnTht*)n of tr• aco)unts of the above ch&ity fft Tnjsf) for year erwjrrtj 30 0 10 2ozl. I re￿rt in re8P8(* of my ex￿*￿tiC￿ of the TiiAt'8 ac4(MJrt8 camed out under section 145 d the 2011 Ad WKI in carybng out my examination, I urKl8r serAion 1445)(b) of the A Ind•p•nd•nt •x•mln•rf• •l*t•m•nt •P*ats￿. Dekte [ ] appI￿at￿e. I have c¢%n￿ted my examination. I confim that no material matter5 have come to my attenti￿ ( ") in ￿nnectIOn with the exwnin*ion vknith gives me cw8e to be[￿ that in. any mateiial re8pect,: of the Art or the aC(¥)￿S rK)t accord Imth the acccAJntiry records; or the accowts d¥J ￿t cX)M￿Y vAlh the apthxble requlrements cOn￿Mil￿j the ft>nn arKI con*nt of acc￿nts set tyjt in the Chartkn'es (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2CX)8 other than any requirement that the ac