2025-04-05-accounts - Music In Felixstowe

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Music in Felixstowe annual report 2024-25

The year 2024-25 was an extremely busy one for our charity with at least 2 paying concerts a month and many other free music opportunities.

In our concert series we have featured everything from classical to jazz, from a three piece ensemble to our Felixstowe Festival Orchestra. We have found that numbers continue picking up after the slump following the pandemic. Although most of our audience are in the older category we like to take our musicians to younger people, not only to children but also their parents. We feel that these are the people who most miss out on live music experiences. This is where our free concerts come to the fore as the audience is a completely different to those at our regular concert series. For instance, members of the orchestra played on the station platform, which was great fun for everyone including bemused passengers who came upon our music on their way to and from the trains. Members of the orchestra also played for our annual schools show involving around 100 primary school children, when we featured the story of Noah’s Ark.

The major production of the year is our annual Free Proms on the Prom which had this year, thanks to lovely weather, over 1,000 attendees during the course of the day. It covers a range of music including a jazz trio, solo soprano, well-known for her performances on cruise ships, a local folk band, the Felixstowe Community Choir with whom we perform several concerts over the year and the professional Felixstowe Festival Orchestra.

We put on a regular series in the school summer holidays where we pay young these young people have to do this. Some of them have also been invited to join in with our professionals in other concerts, for example we invited a young singer to be the musicians to put on a concert length performance. It is probably the only opportunity soloist in our Last Night of the Proms concert.

We are doing an increasing amount of community work. We are proud of our connection to the Home Instead charity and regularly play to the attendees, those suffering with dementia and their carers. We have played at care homes both in Felixstowe and beyond, and also at the Library for special groups including small children. It is very rewarding to see how the various groups respond to our music.

Music in Felixstowe wouldn’t be able to keep running without our trustees and volunteers, of which the oldest aged 93, does the box office at nearly all our concerts. She gets a great deal of satisfaction at doing something useful and meeting our audience. Other volunteers help run the charity, with particular mention of our administrator who helps with outside concerns, and our Friends secretary. The Friends donate a good deal over the year, many of them signing up to the tax relief scheme which brings in a substantial amount annually.

We have also had funding from Felixstowe Council and The Belacqua Trust with some other sponsorship and donations. A major influx into our funds this year was the sale of a cello donated to the charity and loaned to an elderly lady who died after having had the use of it for many years.

		MUSIC IN FELIXSTOWE	MUSIC IN FELIXSTOWE	MUSIC IN FELIXSTOWE	MUSIC IN FELIXSTOWE		1166786
		Receipts andpayments accounts						CC16a
		06/04/2024 05/04/2025 To For the period from ~~ee~~
	Section A Receipts and payments
		Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds		Endowment funds		Total funds	Last year
		to the nearest £	to the nearest £		to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £
	A1 Receipts
Door Take 16,676 - - Donations 11,658 - - Gift Aid Income 1,392 - - Grants Received 2,000 - - - - - *Sub total(Gross income for AR)31,726* - - ~~===> ~~						- - - - - -	16,676 14,989 11,658 13,453 1,392 1,437 2,000 4,200 - - 31,726 34,079 ~~>>~~
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - 8,550 - - - - - Sub total - - - - 8,550 *Total receipts* 31,726 - - 31,726 42,629 ~~——————~~
	A3 Payments
	Musician Fees	30,750	-	-	-	-	30,750	24,270
	Other Concert Costs	2,005	-	-	-	-	2,005	-
	Hire of Venue	2,695	-	-	-	-	2,695	3,075
	Advertisingand Promotional Costs	2,370	-	-	-	-	2,370	2,642
	Distribution Costs	87	-	-	-	-	87	-
	Catering	904	-	-	-	-	904	594
	Accountancy	360	-	-	-	-	360	360
	Stationery	599	-	-	-	-	599	489
	Volunteer Gifts	41	-	-	-	-	41	224
	Travel and subsistence	154	-	-	-	-	154	141
	Insurance	170	-	-	-	-	170	164
	Sundry	193	-	-	-	-	193	1,803

Sub total 40,328 - - 40,328 34,073 A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - Sub total - Total payments 40,328 - - 40,328 34,073 ~~——————~~ Net of receipts/(payments) - 8,601 - - - 8,601 8,556 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 11,039 - - 11,039 2,483 Cash funds this year end 2,438 - - 2,438 11,039 ~~===>~~

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

29/07/2025

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Signature Accountancy Fee Details Details Boudoir Grand Piano Violin Violin Santander Business Bank Account Cash on Hand Details Details *Total cash funds* Gift Aid Donations Receivable Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Endowment funds to nearest £
	2,338	-	-
	100	-	-
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	2,438	-	-
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			Current value (optional)
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			Current value (optional)
			1,500
			1,200
			500
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			When due (optional)





			Date of approval
Harriet Bennett	Harriet Bennett		29/07/2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

29/07/2025

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ MUSIC IN FELIXSTOWE members of On accounts for the year 5 APRIL 2025 Charity no 1166786 ended (if any) Set out on pages Pages 1 to 2 Headed: Section A Receipts and Payments and Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period.

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2025.

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed:		Date:	14/07/2025

Name:	Peter Ellington

Relevant professional	FAIA
qualification(s) or body
(if any):

Address:	Triple Bottom Line Accounting Ltd
	The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich. NR4 7TJ

October 2018

IER

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of No significant disclosures are necessary. any items that the examiner wishes to The records consist of books of accounts and summarised accounts for Music disclose . In Felixstowe.

As part of this year’s work we reproduce the final accounts using the underlying records. Records are maintained to a good standard

The charity does deal in cash due to accepting bucket donations however the charity has invested in technology to accept card payments.

October 2018

IER