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To support our team in exploring alternative funding options we have started hiring out our new sound system. This will help to generate extra income that can help with day to day costs for our work in the communities. We are supporting our team in El Salvador to explore an income generation pilot project that could help to generate funds towards the costs of our work in the future and help the charity become more sustainable. Sustainability is now a fixed agenda item for our Trustee Meetings. Students and teachers also get involved in small Scale fundraising activities. the income from which supports instrument repair. refreshments for the students, art material purchases and other small scale purchases. To ensure that the Music for Hope bands can continue striving for high standards and receive more exposure. our teacher team have sought out variou5 Opportunities to participate in community events throughout the year. The music teachers have been using social media platforms to keep our Facebook followers updated about our work, and we also started planning the curation of a CD of poem5 that will be converted to songs by many different band5 and musicians from Music for Hope. The poem5 are archived in the CAMENA, Mexico, and were written by different people who were fighting in the civil war in El Salvador during the 80's. The aim of this project is to keep the history of the communities alive through those poems and songs. This project will slarl in earnest in 2023. We also marked our 25 Year anniversary with a range of activities and events including a presentation and workshop at the el Sueno Festival in Wales, and a collaborative Music for Hope banner helping to raise the profile of Music for Hope in the UK. We have maintained our commitment to providing students and teacher5 Wlth instruments, equipment, and various learning materials. For example, a new sound sV5tem has been purchased which will help improve the performance of the music bands at events. To continue to improve ¢ommunication and coordination between Music for Hope collaborators locally arbd internationally, the UK team meets online bi-monthly and alway5 receive an update from El Salvador before discussing anything else. Our co-ordinator effectively acts as a bridge for communication between the two teams and we have several opportunities throughout the year for both teams to link up more directly, albeit mostly online. Our social media subgroup meets regularly lonlinel with our teachers to share skills and information on how our social media platforms are performing. One of our trustees travelled to El Salvador again this year and this is always a vital opportunity for deeper connection and tollaboration across our two teams. We always strive to improve our music classes and our teacher team do this through staying in regular contact with one another and sharing learning. They are also pr02Ctive in seeking out learning opportunities for themselves. Studerbts who completed their three-year scholarship have consequently been taking on leadership roles within their music centres which helps us in our aim to support the next generation of teachers. Our active social media plaiforms in 2022 included Facebook, Twitter as well as the recent addition of an Instagram account which has been kept on private mode whilst we become more familiar with the app and content editing. We have seen growth in our online following and have also continued to regularly update the website and blog. To capture and record the cultural history and legacy of Music for Hope and the Bajo Lempa we teach in the cultural aural traditions of the region. Our students have written original song5 thi5 year helping to preserve the history of the area and of Music for Hope, including setting poems written during the civil war to song. This year we also finalised and publicised an eBook that tells the story of Music for Hope from the perspective of students, teachers, Doc ID.. a21b588f861329d084b55bd8c661(M40849d3a50
translation of a video interview with one of our Salvadoran teaching team describing their weekly activities of work, study and everyday life- during 3 work p13cement that forms part of a professional skills optional module offered to second year students at the Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. The placement introduces British students to aspects of charity work and enhances their lingLJiStic competencies and cultural knowledge and awareness specifically with regards to El Salvador and Central America. In this way the charity works with young people in the UK, putting Central America onto their mental map. nurturing interests. and creating personal bonds- an opportunity that is open to few youn8 people in the UK. given the scarcity of in-roads for young people into charity and solidarity work with Latin America and the under- representation of Latin America in school curricula. Our social media engagement has developed further this year both in terms of increasing our follower community and increasing the knowledge and confidence of our team in using social media. The subgroup works closely with the teacher team to ensure suggestions are realistic and reflect the work of Music for Hope. In March 2022 the subgroup and teacher team embarked on exploring the p0551bility of In5tagram for Music for Hope and learning how best to use it. This will be rolled out publicly in 2023. Overall, our online community grew in 2022, despite losing followers on Twitter. We will continue to monitor thin8s as this platform undergoes si8nificant global changes. In 2022 we also began a pilot project linked to the recovery and transmission of historical memory by taking representatives from the music centres and the teaching team to Morazan, a region of El Salvador that has profound historical links with the communitie5 of the Bajo Lempa due to their shared histories ol persecution and resistance during the civil war. We visited the Civil war museum in Perkin, and also visited the site of the 1980 massacre of El Mozote in which approximately l(X)O civilians were murdered by state forces. The music centre representatives listened to the stories of survivors and reflected on those stories before writin8 songs about the histories that had been p89sed on. In this way those histories will be transmitted through music in the 8ajo Lempa communities. The trip to Morazan served three key purposes. Firstly, the shared experience helped integrate the students from the different community music centres. facilitating the formation of close friendship-bonds.. secondly it allowed the participants to learn about their recent history,. thirdly it facilitated the transmission of historical memory through cultural production (song-writing after listening to the histories told by survivors). The songs are now ready for recording and we hope to complete this in the coming year, Alongside the classes we organise and deliver every week, we are proud to facilitate social activities. encouraging different ages to mix and bond to strengthen the 6310 Lempa communities. As is our tradition at Music for Hope, we ended the year with a Christmas concert. This year the concert was in the community of Nueva Esperanza, and thanks to the good relationships and coordination between Music for Hope and the whole communitv, the concert was a complete succes5. Many people from the communities came to the event and others could enjoy the music through Facebook live. We were proud that many people both inside and outside of El Salvador could enjoy the good music produced by our students. We continue to go from strength to strength as an organisation, always reflecting, learning, and changing, whilst providing outlet5 for children and young people to grow together. In November 2022, our longstanding chairperson and founding member announced she will be standing down as chair over the coming months, but will still very much be involved in Music For Hope as a trustee. and will 5UPPOrt the transition of the next trustee set to become chair. Music For Hope expresses their heartfelt gratitude and will endeavour to carry on the work achieved over the last 25 years. Doc ID.. a21b588f861329d084b55bd8c661(M40849d3a50
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Music for Hope Year ending 31 December 2022 Recelpts and Payments Accounts 2022 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds 2021 Unrestricte Restrirted dfunds funds Total funds Totalfund5 Receipts CD and book sales Donations Gift aid Main project grant 857 2,736 857 2,886 230 2,482 505 230 3,932 505 20,000 150 1,450 16,000 16,0fy) 20,000 Total receipts 3.593 16,150 19,743 2,987 21,450 24,437 Payments Bank charges Banner painting costs Book5 printing costs Cd production Design fee Programme delivery in El Salvador Education trip English Language Support Accountancy and Independent examination Postage Project coordination 25 400 196 196 502 502 500 5QKI 22.296 600 250 22,296 600 2SO 20,015 20,015 200 400 400 29 29 4,400 ioi 4,400 145 4,800 4,800 36 103 215 2.400 Travel expenses Meeting expenses IT costs Website development 36 103 215 131 173 304 2,400 Total payments 204 28.916 29,120 1,281 27,415 28,471 Net of receiptsllpaymentsl 3,389 112,7661 19,3771 1,706 (5,965) 14,034) Transfers 112,7661 12.766 Cash funds last year end 12.025 12.025 11,423 4,631 16,054 Cash funds this year end 2,648 2,648 13,129 fl,334) 12,020 Doc ID.. a21b588f861329d084b55bd8c661(M40849d3a50
Music for Hope Year ending 31 December 2022 Statement of assets and liabllitles at the end of the year 2022 2021 Unrestricted Restricted funds funds Total funds Unrestricte Restrirted dfund5 fund5 Prior period Notes Cash funds 2,648 2,648 13,129 fl,334) 11,795 December 22 relating to the period 9SO 950 400 400 1,698 1,698 12,729 11,334) 11,395 Signed on behalf of the trustees: Andrew Redden Sophie Helsby Name Date 1311012023 io Doc ID.. a21b588f861329d084b55bd8c661(M40849d3a50