## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] September 2023 Period start date To 31[st] August 2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Bledington Music Festival**
## **Charity registration number:1166804**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To provide 3 classical concerts in the**
**village church**|
|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|**Tickets are sold to the public for each**
**concert**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Due regard has been observed**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Bledington Music Festival does not**
**make grants**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers run the event, selling tickets,**
**entertaining musicians etc.**|
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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 charity has provided concerts in the**
**medieval church. The village of**
**Bledington is at least 25 miles from a**
**large town/city such as Oxford or**
**Banbury.**|
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The chrity was in a good financial**
**position**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Approximately £1,000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|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 charity is in the process of being**
**wound down.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**N/A**|
|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|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Chosen from volunteers**|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Bledington Music Festival|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1166804|
|Charity’s principal address|The Meade, Icomb, Cheltenham, GL54 1JH|
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||Helen Yates|Treasurer|||
||Robin Oldridge|PublicityManager|||
||Jennifer Beacham|Secretary|||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **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 the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**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**|JJ Beacham|Helen Yates|
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||Jennifer Jean Beacham|Helen Jane Yates|
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Secretary||
||5thJune 2025||
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## BLEDINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL 2024
## BALANCE SHEET
|**INCOME**|**INCOME**||**EXPENDITURE**|**EXPENDITURE**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||2024|2023||2024|2023|
|Tickets|0.00|4824.50|Artists|1000.00|4000.00|
|Progs||147.40|Instruments|0.00|1925.00|
|Fundrs/dons/gift aid|0.00|3569.31||||
|Adverts|120.00|
1225.00|Lunches|94.39|384.19|
|School Perf.|0.00|450.00|Web & Print|911.99|2090.35|
|Bar|0.00|430.00|Adverts|0.00|0.00|
||||Marketing|0.00|72.00|
|Sundries
|0.00|231.87|Donations|0.00|0.00|
|Loan||4000.00|Sundries|247.37|621.14|
|Adjustment|0.00|0.00|Loan|0.00|4000.00|
||||Adjustment||50.00|
|**Total**
|**120.00**|**14878.08**||**2253.75**|**13796.68**|
|Opening Bank balance Sept 2023||3452.86||||
|Income 2024||120.00||||
|Expenditure 2024||2253.75||||
|Balance||2646.48||||
|Closing Bank Sept 2024||2646.48||||
|Closing Friends Bank||250.00||||
|Closing Loan||0.00||||