## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **.** Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 11 2020 **.To** 31 10 2021
.Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Corbridge Chamber Music Festival**
## **Other names charity is known by**
## **Registered charity number (if any)1171185**
**Charity's principal address 71 Heath Road**
**Glossop**
**.Postcode .SK13 7BA**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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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 existing Trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The advancement of public education in the arts, in particular the art of chamber music, by the organisation of chamber music festivals in Corbridge in the county of Northumberland.
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The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. An online fund raising concert in April brought chamber music to an audience which at the time could not attend live concerts.
**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)**
Despite restrictions due to the pandemic a Festival was held in Corbridge July 30 – August 1. The audiences appreciated hearing live chamber music again with repeated concerts meaning that as many as possible were able to attend. The premiere of a commissioned piece and the involvement of a young wind quintet extended the audiences experience of chamber music. The renowned Schubert scholar Brian Newbould gave an excellent informative talk increasing appreciation of a performance of Schubert’s Piano Trio. Local children were involved in an interactive Family Workshop of music and moving hands.
The main concerts were recorded and made available on YouTube reaching an even larger audience.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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.Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Having pre-recorded our entire festival for online delivery in August 2020, the period from November 2020 to June 2021 was largely spent with the Trustees and Artistic Directors wondering exactly what kind of festival we would be able to deliver! Luckily, National Covid restrictions were lifted just a matter of days before the 2021 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival, and we were able to proceed with live concerts, albeit with distancing, ventilation and sanitizing. The festival introduced a number of new features this year. We invited our first ever Young Ensemble in Association to participate, Lumas Winds, a wind quintet comprised of students at the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music. We embraced other art forms too, collaborating with dancer Mayuri Boonham, the UK’s leading exponent of South Asian dance, in a reworking of the festival’s 2018 commission from Huw Watkins, Four Fables. Mayuri’s knowledge of Bharatanatyam was shared with a large audience of children and their families in our ‘Dancing Hands’ workshop. Always looking to find ways to break down barriers, we decided to present two concerts in a more informal setting this year, giving our late-night concerts in the Corbridge Parish Hall with our audience seated around tables with candlelight and ‘bring your own refreshments’. Two concerts, ‘Upbeat’ and ‘Contemplation’ were made up of short pieces for many different instrumental combinations, all of which were given relaxed spoken introductions. We still incorporated some challenging repertoire, by Gyorgy Kurtag for example, and audiences seemed to love the variety on offer. The festival explored the work of composers from diverse backgrounds. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet opened the festival, whilst John Meyer’s Raga Music saw clarinetist Robert Plane collaborating with Mayuri Boonham’s improvised dance. We heard new work too, Shivelight’ by Sarah Jenkins being the latest in a string of commissions by the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival. And, not only did we include wellloved works by Schubert in the festival, we invited the world’s leading Schubert scholar, Brian Newbould, to give a very well-received lecture. The extra safety measures, organizing of the distancing of audience and the repeating of two of the concerts in order to be able to offer each concert to as many audience members as wanted to come made for a challenging festival for both musicians and Trustees and volunteers. After the uncertainty of the previous year and a half, everyone was more than happy to go the extra mile to make the 23[rd] Corbridge Chamber Music Festival such a success.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**A fund was built up in the first few years of the festival when the organising musicians did not pay themselves so there was a reserve for future years. It is aimed to maintain this reserve.**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
As audiences were limited due to Covid restrictions the Festival was only viable due to the generosity of Patrons and Friends. As some money from the sale of tickets did not come in until just after the end of our financial year the actual loss made was just under £2000 which was felt to be good given the circumstances.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **.Section F Other optional information**
## **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) Maureen Cox Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Secretary etc) Date 23/01/22**
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||**Corbridge Chamber Music Festival**
**1**|**Corbridge Chamber Music Festival**
**1**|**Corbridge Chamber Music Festival**
**1**|**Corbridge Chamber Music Festival**
**1**|**171185**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|01/11/20||**To**|31/10/21||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Ticket Sales
**5,786**
Patrons & Friends Donations
**9,976**
Trusts
**800**
Gift Aid
**1,170**
Fund RaisingConcert Donations
**1,089**
Online Festival Donations
**551**
**-**
**19,372**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 19,372**
**A3 Payments**
Artists fees & expenses
**14,459**
Venue hire
**1,615**
Piano hire, tuning & insurance
**2,090**
Recording for online Festival
**2,490**
Publicity
**435**
Refreshments for receptions
**244**
Website
**1,272**
Lights for music stands
**110**
Insurance
**147**
Stationery & Card Reader
**167**
Bank charges
**132**
**_Sub total_ 23,161**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 23,161**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 3,789**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**11,338**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 7,549**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**||**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,786**
**9,976**
**800**
**1,170**
**1,089**
**551**
**-**
**19,372**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,372**
**14,459**
**1,615**
**2,090**
**2,490**
**435**
**244**
**1,272**
**110**
**147**
**167**
**132**
**23,161**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,161**
**- 3,789**
**-**
**11,338**
**7,549**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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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**||
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|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**7,549**
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OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
Maureen Cox
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**Fund to which**
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**Fund to which**
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|||Maureen Cox|23/01/22|
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