## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From** 1[st] April 2020 **To** 31[st] March 2021 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1166868 **Charity's principal address** 15 Dukesbridge Court Duke Street READING **RG1 4SA** Voces Academy ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Chika Robertson|||| ||Neil Ferris||01/04/20 – 19/03/21|| ||Peter Hanke|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Victoria Ely – Executive Director ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution adopted 3[rd] May 2016 Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) We seek individuals with a balance of arts management and board Trustee selection methods governance experience. Additionally, charity development experience is (eg. appointed by, elected by) prioritised. We also aim for a gender balance of trustees. Selection is dependent on the Voces Academy strategy need. ## **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. **TAR** March **2012** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**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)**|**To advance education in the arts for the public benefit, particularly in but**
**not exclusively choral and other music by providing:**
**a) vocational training courses, workshops and development**
**programmes and**
**b) performances, concerts and recordings of high artistic merit to the**
**general public**| |---|---| ||In planning activities for the year, trustees kept in mind the Charity
Commission’s guidance on public benefit during meetings.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Voces Academy has been unable to
continue with its normal schedule of training courses, workshops and
development programmes.
The cohort of students that was in place at the start of the pandemic were
provided with an online alternative for continued development for the
period up until the end of the academic year (July 2020).
Voces Academy has not undertaken any further activities since this time
due to restrictions on in-person activities and concerns around health and
safety.| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 ## Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** From the start of the pandemic until the end of the academic year (July 2020), Voces Academy ran a series of curated online development sessions for the cohort of students current at the time. The purpose of these sessions was two-fold: 1. To keep a thread of continued learning for the conducting students 2. To maintain a support group for the students as the arts industry was shut-down, providing a space for the conductors to freely discuss the psychological impact of the lockdown, share ideas and stay connected. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Voces Academy has been unable to undertake any additional activities and therefore did not run any futher events, workshops or activities during the 2020-21 year. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E** ## **Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** Longer term the policy on reserves is to develop a three-month balance of cash for expected liabilities. Finances continue to be reviewed regularly. ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **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. The financial situation of the charity has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The activities of the charity rely heavily on inperson meetings and therefore were unable to go ahead throughout the year. - Due to the loss of income due to the pandemic, the executive director was first given a 50% reduction in fees and eventually the cessation of payment entirely. There has been a hold on all other unnecessary expenses of the charity. No further increase of liabilities incurred through start-up costs. The loan provided for start-up is not secured against any assets of the charity and is not under any immediate requirement for repayment (only as and when the charity is financially able to do so). ## **Section F** ## **Other optional information** With the event of the COVID-19 pandemic still continuing, there has been no activity for Voces Academy during this year. It has continued to be difficult to plan and understand how the vocational training programmes will develop during this time. The charity has focussed on reducing costs in an effort to survive and is currently undergoing a reassessment of activities for post-pandemic conditions. As such, there are no planned activities for the 2021-22 year at present. ## **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)** Peter Hanke Chika Robertson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee Trustee **etc) Date** 26/01/2022 **TAR** March **2012** 5 |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Voces Academy**||**1166868**||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|1st April 2020
Period start date|**To**
31st Mar 2021
Period end date||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
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**795**
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**795**
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**7,121**
**- 6,326**
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**- 6,326**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
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**-**|**Endowment**
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**- 6,326**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Activities for GeneratingFunds|**-**|||||**-**| |Receipts from Charitable Activities|**795**|||||**31,020**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**795**|||||**31,020**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**31,020**| |||||||| |Cost of Activities for GeneratingFunds|**-**|||||**-**| |Cost of Charitable Activities|**7,121**|||||**46,124**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**7,121**|||||**46,124**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**46,124**| |||||||| ||**- 6,326**|**-**|**-**|**- 6,326**||**- 15,104**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**- 6,326**|**-**|**-**|**- 6,326**||**- 15,104**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 18/01/2022 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Account Receivable
Cash at bank and in hand
**Details**
**Details**
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Long term liability - start up capital
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
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**to nearest £**
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Academy Denmark
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Peter Hanke
Chika Robertson|**Endowment**
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approval| |||Peter Hanke|24/01/2022| |||Chika Robertson|26/01/2022| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 18/01/2022 2 Registered Charity 1166868 ## **Voces Academy** ## **Notes on Receipts and Payments Accounts** |**Notes on Receipts and Payments Accounts**|**Notes on Receipts and Payments Accounts**| |---|---| |For the period from
1st April 20
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31st Mar 21|| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |**B5 Liabilities**|Loans were extended privately for the purposes of providing start-up capital.
No immediate repayment is demanded. No liability is secured by an express
charge on anyof the assets of Voces Academy.|