| Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period |
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Period end date | ||||||||||||
| 12 | 7 | 2020 | 11 | 7 | 2021 | ||||||||||
| Section A Reference and administration details |
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| Charity name | SONGBOUND | ||||||||||||||
| Other names charity is known by |
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| Registered charity number (if any) |
1170427 | ||||||||||||||
| Charity's principal address | 17 OAK HALL ROAD | ||||||||||||||
| WANSTEAD | |||||||||||||||
| LONDON | |||||||||||||||
| Postcode | E11 2JT | ||||||||||||||
| Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity | |||||||||||||||
| Trustee name Ofce (if any) Dates acted if not for whole year Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
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| 1 JOE WALTERS | |||||||||||||||
| 2 ALISON PONSFORD-HILL |
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| 3 OLIVER HUNT | |||||||||||||||
| 4 RATNA MERUGUMALLA |
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Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable incorporated organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
The trustees assess and approve/deny proposals for charity initiatives.
Songbound’s previous partnership with Salaam Bombay Foundation, based in Mumbai, India, came to end during the previous financial year, due to concerns from Salaam Bombay about recent regulatory changes in India regarding working with overseas charities. This change has led to the trustees considering how to accelerate plans for establishing a charity in India to run Songbound projects directly. This has been a long term ambition for the trustees. However, there have been significant challenges this financial year due to the regulatory environment for overseas funded projects in India, and COVID19. COVID-19 has also forced the pause of lessons for the children that Songbound was previously funding. During this period that trustees have taken the opportunity to reflect on the future of the charity, improve safeguarding processes and documentation and continue the search for trustees of the new charity in India.
Section C Objectives and activities
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Our charitable objects are: “to advance the education of the public by encouraging the understanding, appreciation and development of music in India and Sri Lanka”. This means we exist to: - provide psychological and physical relief for very disadvantaged children through regular and ongoing singing in choirs Summary of the objects of - provide professional training and employment opportunities the charity set out in its for local adult musicians so that they can become leaders of governing document their own children’s choirs - provide workshop and leadership opportunities in India and Sri Lanka for expert practitioners in music education - provide a broad and non-denominational curriculum of varied music from around the globe. - provide the opportunity for children to feel empowered through the composition of their own music and lyrics
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When planning our activities for the year, Trustees referred to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and our own agreed objectives to aid decision-making. The main activities undertaken for the public benefit were as follows, but had to be adapted due to COVID-19 restrictions:
- As stated above, unfortunately during this period the charity’s work in Mumbai had to be paused due to the closure of schools and community centres (where singing sessions usually take place) due to COVID-19. The trustees have been making plans to restart the sessions as soon as possible after the schools and centres reopen.
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)
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
| Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year |
See above |
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Section E Financial review
| Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves |
Songbound has few regular administrative expenses, each of which is small. It does not employ staf or have premises, and all governance resources are donated in kind by the trustees. On that basis the reserves can be set lower than a charity with higher regular expenses, and the trustees have set the level at 5% of income. Given that the income for the current reporting period was lower, the trustees met this reserves policy and held excess cash above this reserve amount. The trustees are examining whether this reserves policy is still appropriate. |
| Details of any funds materially in defcit |
No funds were materially in defcit. |
| Further fnancial review details (Optional information) | |
| Youmay chooseto 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. |
There was very little movement in the charity’s fnances this year, given the pause in operations. |
Section F Other optional information
N/A
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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)[Joe Walters] Oliver Hunt Position (eg Secretary, Trustee Trustee Chair, etc) Date 9 May 2022
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Songbound 1170427
Receipts and payments accounts For the period Period start date Period end date To from 7/12/2020 7/11/2021
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Section A Receipts and payments
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Cash funds b/fwd 26,352 - - 26,352 32,716
Donations 1,761 - - 1,761 3,965
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
28,113 - - 28,113 36,681
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 28,113 - - 28,113 36,681
A3 Payments
Website 88 - - 88 88
Travel - - - - 2,472
Administration, payments to contractors,
sundry 3,879 - - 3,879 7,643
Insurance 322 - - 322 126
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Sub total [ 4,289 ] - - 4,289 10,329
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 4,289 - - 4,289 10,329
Net of receipts/(payments) [ 23,824 ] - - 23,824 26,352
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end [ 23,824 ] - - 23,824 26,352
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Endowment |
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| Categories | Details | funds | funds | funds | |
| B1 | Cash funds | Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ 23,824 - - 23,824 OK |
to nearest £ OK |
to nearest £ - - - - - - - - OK |
Date of approval
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
Oliver Hunt joe Walters 9-May-22 9-May-22