## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31[st] January 2022**
## **Macclesfield Brass**
A charitable incorporated organisation, also known as MB.
## **Charity registration number 1167452**
## **Principal address**
30 Howey Lane Congleton CW12 4AE
## **Trustees**
The following trustees were reappointed at the AGM on March 31[st] 2021 : Elan Paton (Chair) Elizabeth Hudson
Jenny Lyons (Health and Safety officer)
The following new trustees were appointed : Amanda Moss (Treasurer) Caroline Proudlove
Karen Allgood and Jenny Birtwistle both retired as trustees at the AGM.
Trustees are appointed by the members at the annual general meeting. Appointments of trustees at other times may be made by the members or trustees. All appointments are held until the next general meeting at which the trustees retire and are eligible for reappointment.
## **Summary of activities**
This year has again been dominated by the response to the Covid-19 global pandemic. The band’s strategy over this period continued, namely :
- Keeping players playing and in touch during lockdowns through sending out weekly music.
- Providing opportunity for social interaction during lockdowns through Zoom sessions every fortnight.
- Running rehearsals when possible
Rehearsals resumed in May 2021 with comprehensive mitigations in place against the risk of catching covid. In July statutory covid restrictions were lifted and instead became advisory. The band continued with considered Health and Safety measures encompassing all risks including that of covid.
Players returned in greater numbers in September and by January a consistent number of players attended rehearsals. However, with the emergence of the omicron variant of covid-19 in January the band reviewed its risk assessment and some mitigations were strengthened. Numbers of players attending remained stable.
The band looked for opportunities to perform outdoors in a covid-safe environment. Preparation for these events helped motivate players to return and attend rehearsals regularly. We played at four events. These included a return to playing at Gawsworth on Remembrance Sunday and to carolling locally. The band were delighted to include two new events to celebrate our return to performing, being on the bandstand at a local park in Macclesfield, and further afield at Tatton Park, Knutsford.
In January the decision was made to actively recruit up to 6 beginners to play the cornet. Lessons would be provided by the band with a view to integrating the new players into the band during 2022.
Finances remain healthy as we go forward into 2022.
We look forward to returning to a full programme of events during 2022.
Many thanks to the trustees for another year of hard and challenging work. Karen Allgood and Jenny Birtwistle both retired at the AGM. They were thanked for their valued contribution to the charity since its inception. Amanda Moss and Caroline Proudlove were elected as new trustees. They have both settled in well to their roles and made important contributions to the running of the band.
## **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)**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|||Elan Mair Paton||Elizabeth Hudson|
|||Trustee
|||
|**Position (eg**
**Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|
Chair||Trustee||
||||||
||||||
||**Macclesfield Brass**|**Macclesfield Brass**|**Macclesfield Brass**|**No (if any)**
**1167452**|**No (if any)**
**1167452**|**No (if any)**
**1167452**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|01-02-21|**To**||Period end date
31-01-22|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,513**
**110**
**100**
**33**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,755**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,755**
**1,423**
**401**
**144**
**95**
**38**
**58**
**13**
**-**
**-**
**2,171**
**180**
**188**
**368**
**2,539**
**- 784**
**-**
**6,020**
**5,236**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,513**
**110**
**100**
**33**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,755**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,755**
**1,423**
**401**
**144**
**95**
**38**
**58**
**13**
**-**
**-**
**2,171**
**180**
**188**
**368**
**2,539**
**- 784**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Subscriptions|**1,513**||||||**1,226**|
|Gift Aid|**110**||||||**967**|
|Performance|**100**||||||**-**|
|Donations|**33**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**1,755**||||||**2,193**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**2,193**|
|||||||||
|
Rehearsal and meetingcosts|**1,423**||||||**1,346**|
|Gifts,donations,misc|**401**||||||**214**|
|Subscriptions|**144**||||||**125**|
|Insurance|**95**||||||**91**|
|Muzodo|**38**||||||**38**|
|Harness|**58**||||||**-**|
|Travel Expenses|**13**||||||**-**|
|TrainingDay|**-**||||||**400**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**2,171**||||||**2,214**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||||
|**,**
**Instruments and equipment**|**180**||||||**524**|
|
Music|**188**||||||**106**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**368**||||||**630**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**2,844**|
|||||||||
||**- 784**|**-**|**-**||
**- 784**||**- 651**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**6,020**|**-**|**-**||**6,020**||**-**|
||**5,236**|**-**|**-**||**5,236**||**- 651**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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**
None
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
None
Bank
**Details**
**Details**
Instruments
Equipment
Music
**Details**
None
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**5,236**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,236**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
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