Cor M￿'blOn Gwalo Trustees Report for the period 110812024 - 31/07/2025 Charity: Cor Meibion Gwalia/Gwalia Male Choir Chariry Number: 1169319 Clo Canolfan Cymry llundaIn￿0lldOD Welsh Centre 157-163 Grays Inn Road London WCIX 8UE Trustees". Richard Hopkin (Chairnian) Eben Owen Colin Sanford (Treasurer) lohn Taylor Mark Tittle Trustees Report: Chairman's Report I hope you all agree that the year 10 31° July 2025 saw us continue to grow as a choir, recruit new members. win an increasing number of paid engagements and continue our charitable work. It is really only now, with the benefit of hindsight, that we can see the damage that Covid did to us, bui I hope that we are now fully recovered. I will defer to Colin (as Treasurer) and Wyn (as Musical Director) for details on finance and our musical output respectively, but I will mention a few highlights. recruitment, we have been pleased to welcome new members to our ranks. Growing our numbers has helped our musical balance and improved our confidence across the board, as well as helping with our financial position. On a sadder note. we were of course deeply sorry to lose Robin Roberts earlier in 2025. On administration, your committee has met regularly throughout the year 10 stay on top of the administrative burden of keeping the choir going. During the course of the year we completed the introduction of new policies and pr¢xedures, approved at the lasi AGM, which were required by the tharity Commission. Good progress has been made on our social media and website. In addition we have acquired new ues and shins and are in the process of finalising the review of our repertoire. Our strategy remains 10 ensure that we have enough paid engagements 10 ensure that the choir is sustainable, able to afford 10 pay our professional musicians and carry out charitable or "at cost" engagemenis from time to time. See the lisi of our engagemenis overleaf. Highlights past and to come include". Singing successfully as a group of just six at a paid funeral engagement in Siitingbourne. A very strong performance over the St. David's Day celebrations period- five engagements in all, three of which were paid. Recording both an EP of Welsh Wassail songs for global commercial release in November and three Welsh songs for inclusion in the British library's folk sound archive: Perforniing at prestigious venues such as the Royal Military Chapel, Grals Inn, the Mansion House, the British Museum, Tallow a]andlers' and Stationers, Halls, Royal Lallcaster Hotd and Lambeth Palace. New friendships with Gernlan Winds (which may lead to a tour in 2026) and Building a stronger relauonship with our friends in the LWRCC and joining them at Old Deer Park to cheer on London Welsh RFC alld have fun: and An exciting tour to Lille in December 2025 for the year-end concert of Choeur Hommes d'Agache. Rehearsals on the whole have been reasonably well ariended, with our average attendance continuing to improve to 22 men. Cerys Matthews our President has been kept informed throughout, and we remain grateful for her continuing suppon, and also for her perforniance with us at the British Museum to celebrate the re-opening of the British Library Reading Room. Also to Alison for the separate personal tuillon she provides alongside our rehearsals, and for taking pan as a soloist ai our joint concert with Onllwyn l*tvc. I am very grateful to all of you for your support and hard work in showing up for rehearsals, performances and sourcing new gigs and members. to my fellow Comrnittee members and Trusiees for helping 10 manage the admillistrative burden, especially in organising each concert. to our professiona] musicians for their expert guidance, encouragement and support, to all conttibuting 10 our digital marketing (social media and website) and IP issues and to our supporters and volunteers especially here at the LWC for all the help they have given throughoui the year, and continue to provide Treasurer's Report The year ending July 2025 has resulted in another profit following the previous year's good result. Income for our events and member subscripuons. have both increased on 2023124. As expected, our expenses have also increased. Our rehearsal costs are broadly in line with last year. bui our event costs have increased by a larger margin. This is mainly due to having both of our professionals utilised for most events this year as opposed to just one on over half of our events in the same period last year. The number of engagements were similar 10 lasi year - however, this year, more of our events were at a discounted rate, or just to cover our costs. St David's day weekend was a bumper time for our earnings, with four events in three days. This included the two Food & Drink Wales events which were very lucrative. Because of our second consecutive profitable year, our retained fi￿aS have improved again. We have jUSE over £4,1XX) of available funds, once we pay all of our bills. Gift aid will make an appearance in next year's accounts, once the claim has been paid. The outlook for the following financial year is good, especially as we haven't had a discounted gig so far. Ii will obviously be important to have a busy St David's day week as in previous years. These financial staiements have been reviewed and verified, independently, by Lekha Patel CGMA. Signed on behalf of the current trustees. Richard Hopkin Chairnian & Trusiee C6r Meibion Gwalia/Gwalia Male Choir 6th May 2025 Cyfarfod Cyffredinol Blynyddol cynhaliwyd 19ed Tachwedd 2025 Annual General Meeting held IW November 2025 ## **Cor Meibion Gwalia Income and Expenditure Account as at 31st July 2025** |**Cor Meibion Gwalia**
**Income and Expenditure Account as at 31st July 2025**||| |---|---|---| ||2024-25|2023-24| |**Income**||| |Member donations|3,972.50|3,350.00| |External donations|0.00|100.00| |Engagements (fees and ticket sales)|14,040.00|12,900.00| |Royalties from Downloads/CD Sales|52.41|57.25| |**Total income**|18,064.91|16,407.25| |**Expenditure**||| |Committee expenses|322.21|128.07| |Uniform Costs|98.17|736.90| |Insurance|94.08|94.08| |Nat Ass of Choirs subscription|53.00|53.00| |Musician engagement fees|6,087.89 43%|4,248.75| |Beermats/Business cards|78.98|0.00| |Rehearsal costs|9,980.00 40%|9,205.00| |Sheet Music costs|52.20|0.00| |**Total Expenditure**|16,766.53|14,465.80| |**Excess of Income over Expenditure**|1,298.38|1,941.45| |**BALANCE SHEET as at 31 JULY 2025**||| |**CHOIR ACCUMULATED FUNDS**|31 July 2025|31 July 2024| |**Balance as at 31 July**|4,037.91|2,620.53| |**REPRESENTED BY**||| |**Current Assets**||| |Cash at bank|7,311.91|7,213.09| ||7,311.91|7,213.09| |**Less Current committed funding**||| |Advance Payments|0.00|0.00| |Fees & expenses payable|3,154.00|4,442.56| |Engagement advances|120.00|150.00| ||3,274.00|4,592.56| |**TOTAL AVAILABLE FUNDS**|4,037.91|2,620.53|