## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 09 2020 31 8 2021
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## Section A Reference and administration details
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|**Charity name**
Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**1166140
**Charity's principal address**The Old House, College Road, Wolverhampton
**Postcode**
**WV6 8QE**|Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra||
||The Old House, College Road, Wolverhampton||
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||**Postcode**|**WV6 8QE**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Jonathan Harper Publicity manager Committee
2 Ruth Srodzinsky Treasurer Committee
3 Alain Anderton Chair Committee
4 Rory Freckleton Secretary Committee
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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**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Company How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected by committee
- (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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The object of the Society shall be to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and appreciation of the art and science of music in all aspects by the presentation of public concerts and recitals and by such ways as the society through its committee shall determine from time to time.
Giving of three concerts a year following a full programme of rehearsals of the orchestra. Putting on a play day where anyone can come and play their orchestral instrument. Supporting other local musical societies by providing orchestral players for their concerts.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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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**
Due to the Covid crisis, the orchestra did not rehearse between September 2020 and May 2021. Rehearsals resumed in May 2021 with safeguarding measures in place following Government guidelines. The intention was to resume a normal pattern of rehearsals and concerts from September 2021.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
It is the policy of the orchestra not to run the operational reserves of the orchestra below £5000.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- 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**
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## **Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra Registered CIO with Charity Commission No 1166140**
## **ACCOUNTS for year ending August 31st 2021**
||**£**||
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|**Brought forward at beginning**|||
||**187**||
|**of theyear**|**53**||
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|**Receipts**|||
|Subscriptions|696||
|Concert Receipts|0||
|Gift Aid|0||
|Donations|0||
|Concert/Gig Fee|0||
|Play Day Income|0||
|TimpHire|0||
|**Total Receipts**|**696**||
|**Payments**|0||
|Rehearsal Room Hire|315||
|Concert Venue Hire|0||
|Extra Players|0||
|Soloists|0||
|Conductor: rehearsals|504||
|Conductor: Concert and playday|0||
|Leader|105||
|Making Music: Insurance and PRS|268||
|Publicity and Printing|0||
|Music Hire|16||
|Website|0||
|Miscellaneous|30||
||123||
|Total Payments|8||
|**Receipts less Payments**|**-542**||
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|**Summary of Total Funds at Year**|||
|**end**|||
||183||
|Nat West|32||
|Cash in tin|0||
||**183**||
|**Total Funds atyear end**|**32**||
|_reconciliation_|||
||187||
|_Funds bf_|53||
|_Surplus_|-542||
||**_182_**||
|**_Funds cf_**|**_11_**||
|**_Variance_**|**_121_**||
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||**Bank rec**
**31.08.21:**|
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||Bank balance as
at
31/08/2
1
18332|
||plus uncredited income
0|
||less uncleared cheques
121|
||**revised bank balance**
**as at**
**18211**|
||Cash book to
date|
||Funds/Cash brought forward at beg of
year
18753|
||income
696|
||expens
es
1238|
||**Cash book balance ie actual balance**
**18211**|
||**Varian**
**ce**
**0**|