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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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