Stanmore Choral Society Annual Report 2021-22
Stanmore Choral Society Registered CIO No. 1174548 Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statements Year ending 31[st] July 2022
Trustees: Maureen Dunning (Chair) Frances Goldingay (Secretary) Gillian Goldsmith (Treasurer) Bridie Williams
Robert Stonehouse
Cathie Nevin
Dagmar Steffelbauer
Musical Director Alexander Turner
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Trustees and administration
The Society is managed by a committee whose members constitute the Trustees of the charity.
The trustees for 2021-22 are:
Frances Goldingay, re-appointed 8[th] October 2018
Gillian Goldsmith, re-appointed 8[th] October 2018 (standing down)
Maureen Dunning re-appointed 8[th] October 2018 (standing down)
Robert Stonehouse, re-appointed 19[th] January 2022
Bridie Williams, re-appointed 2[nd] November 2020
Dagmar Steffelbauer, appointed 19[th] January 2022 Cathie Nevin, appointed 2[nd] November 2020
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Objectives
The objectives of the Stanmore Choral Society are the study and practice of choral music in order to foster the public knowledge and appreciation of such music by means of public performance.
Management
The Stanmore Choral Society is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation governed by a constitution (Association Model having Members in addition to Trustees) and registered by the Charities Commission on 7[th] September 2017
The trustees are appointed by the membership, normally at the AGM to serve for a fixed term of office as specified in the constitution.
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- Performances of Choral Music during 2021 22
Sunday 12 Dec 2021 Christmas Concert First half - Excerpts from The Messiah Second half - Family friendly Carol concert
Sunday 20th March 2022 Spring Concert Haydn – Insanae Et Vanae Curae Vivaldi – Gloria Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus Mozart – Coronation Mass
Saturday 2nd July 2022 Summer Concert Chilcott - Jazz Mass Shearing - Songs and Sonnets Todd – Three Jazz Hymns
Activities and achievements for the year
For Stanmore Choral Society, the 2021-22 season has been a time of considerable change. After the difficult years of the Covid pandemic, live music making was at last able to resume, with the option to join rehearsals on Zoom.
The three concerts of the year were led by three different musical directors. Firstly, Harry Bradford, on his final concert with Stanmore, led an enjoyable rendering of extracts from The Messiah which reminded members of how inspiring it is to sing with a whole choir, and two lovely soloists, Sapphire Armitage and Olivia Shotton. The second half of the concert featured carols both new and familiar, with a large audience enjoying playing their part in the music making. As always, the children stole the show with their contribution.
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The spring concert, led by James Mooney-Dutton, featured Mozart’s Coronation Mass, a challenge for the choir which proved very rewarding. This was accompanied by Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus , Vivaldi’s Gloria and Haydn’s Insanae Et Vanae Curae . The line-up on the night was completed by soprano Tara Bungard, mezzo-soprano Lucy Taylor, tenor Nicholas Keay and bass Charles Pott.
The music-making was shared with a large audience in the church, and watched on Zoom by those who couldn’t be there in person.
For the summer concert, the choir was delighted to welcome Alexander Turner as the new musical director. He ensured that rehearsals were positive and productive, as he led singers into the challenging rhythms of Chilcott’s Jazz Mass . The accompaniment of a jazz trio, Chris Pott on percussion, Oscar Ho on double bass and James Mooney-Dutton on piano added to the lively atmosphere. The concert also included Shearing’s settings of a number of Shakespeare’s songs and sonnets, from the wistful “Who is Sylvia? to a rousing version of “Fie on Sinful Fantasy”. The third piece was Todd’s Three Jazz Hymns”, a new take on some old favourites.
Choir rehearsals continued to take place in the Church Hall at St William of York, and the hospitality of Rev. Canon Michael Munnelly, followed by his successor Fr. Jonathan Goodall was appreciated. Concerts were held at St Mary the Virgin, and the choir enjoyed the use of this lovely venue. There was sadness at the departure of our President, Father Edward Lewis but warm wishes for a good retirement. As always, the choir is really appreciative of the work of James. He is more than the choir accompanist – he once again stood in between musical directors and kept the music flowing, as well as being a font of knowledge on all things musical.
The choir always depends on a lot of members to keep the music going, and this year was no exception. Thanks go to Gillian Goldsmith, who has been the treasurer for nine years, and taken the
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Stanmore Choral Society Annual Report 2021-22 Stanfflore Chotal Sotsety Annual Report2021-22 choir through some difficult years. Choir members have appreciated her hard work and cheerful attitude. and will miss her when she moves to a choir nearer home. Also standing down is chair Mo Dunning, who has given 11 year5 of Service in the chair and taken on so much to keep the choir running; fortunately, she will still be singing with the sopranos and offering help at events. So many people have taken on tasks during the year to ensure 5traightfDrward running of rehearsals and a warm welcome at concerts. The disruptions caused by Covid have left the choir with some challenges. The programme for 2022-23 has some very exciting music. starting with a Come and Sing in October- hopefully choir members will continue to play their part in encouraging new members and in helping to keep the choir running smoothly. Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf Chair Secretary Treasurer Prige 6 out of 11
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Financial Performance 2021-22
With some caution but enthusiasm we returned to face-to-face rehearsals, but not at the usual St William of York as it was undergoing repairs. For the Autumn term we rehearsed in the lovely St Michael & All Angels’ Church in Harrow Wealdstone. It was more expensive, however, so our rehearsal costs increased. Most of our members returned and some who didn’t attend for the entire year continued to pay the full subscription for the year. I want to thank them for their generosity. On our books we had 43 members, although some only joined for a term.
We performed just one concert in the Autumn term, an extended Christmas concert which was well attended. We made a very small loss of £31. We made a larger loss of £1,003 for the Easter concert. This is because it required 4 soloists and is in keeping with the tradition performing a more expensive concert at Easter. We also hired a small organ as the choir had kindly donated funds for it in 2020. James, who competently took over from Harry in the spring term, mitigated the higher cost of the concert by taking some rehearsals without an accompanist. Our thanks go to James for ably conducting and accompanying the rehearsals at the same time. The summer concert was the first for our new conductor, Alexander Turner. It departed from the choir’s usual style, being a shorter concert with no interval and refreshments were served at the end. Consequently, we only charged £10 a ticket, instead of our usual £16. The choir made a loss of £682. Given that covid is still here, the audience numbers at all concerts were understandably lower than normal, but the audience sizes were nevertheless respectable.
It was not appropriate to hold any fund-raising events, nor to carry out previous activities such as raffles and refreshments during the rehearsals so there were fewer opportunities to raise funds. I
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claimed for gift aid for 2020-21 and 2021-22 and so we are up to date with it.
We made an overall loss of £1,259, leaving the choir with a balance of £3,122. The loss is due to factors such as a more expensive rehearsal venue for one term, no fund-raising events, reduced revenue at the summer concert because of cheaper tickets and reduced audience sizes at all the concerts.
Next year the finances will be tight as unfortunately the predicted number of choir members will be just 33. I have proposed that the subscriptions are raised to £165, which is still less than inflation (which is very high). The committee have accepted the subscription level of £165. In addition, the choir will be formally asked if they want to donate on top of that.
I have left the choir to join a more local one, and so I have resigned as treasurer. I have enjoyed my time immensely and I wish Stanmore Choral Society every success.
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Statement of Financial Activity
Receipts
| Receipts | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Note | 2021_22 | 2020_21 | ||||
| Subs Donations Friends Gift Aid fund raising concert sales miscellaneous music hire/purchase HMRC |
(restricted) | (unrestricted) | total | (restricted) | (unrestricted) | total | |
| - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ |
6,229 £ - £ - £ 1,983 £ 74 £ 3,610 £ 0 £ 150 £ 200 £ |
6,229 £ - £ - £ 1,983 £ 74 £ 3,610 £ 0 £ 150 £ 200 £ |
- £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ |
5,265 £ 100 £ - £ 2,336 £ - £ - £ 14 £ - £ - £ |
5,265 £ 100 £ - £ 2,336 £ - £ - £ 14 £ - £ - £ |
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| 1 2 |
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| 3 4 |
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| Total Receipts | - £ |
12,246 £ |
12,246 £ |
- £ 7,715 £ 7,715 £ |
Payments
| Payments | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Note | 2021_22 | 2020_21 | ||||
| rehearsal venue rehearsal conductor rehearsal accompanist rehearsal miscellaneous concert venue concert conductor concert accompanist concert musical professionals concert miscellaneous website charges and development Insurance and Performing Rights bank charges miscellaneous music hire/purchase HMRC |
(restricted) | (unrestricted) | total | (restricted) | (unrestricted) | total | |
| - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ 430 £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ |
1,338 £ 3,500 £ 1,996 £ - £ 550 £ 1,083 £ 588 £ 2,210 £ 445 £ 305 £ 183 £ 98 £ 130 £ 450 £ 200 £ |
1,338 £ 3,500 £ 1,996 £ - £ 550 £ 1,083 £ 588 £ 2,640 £ 445 £ 305 £ 183 £ 98 £ 130 £ 450 £ 200 £ |
- £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ |
- £ 3,204 £ 2,412 £ 138 £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ 279 £ 220 £ 81 £ 20 £ - £ - £ |
- £ 3,204 £ 2,412 £ 138 £ - £ - £ - £ - £ - £ 279 £ 220 £ 81 £ 20 £ - £ - £ |
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| 5 6 |
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| 7 3 4 |
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| Total Payments | 430 £ |
13,075 £ |
13,505 £ |
- £ |
6,354 £ |
6,354 £ |
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| Net receipts / (payments) Total Funds brought forward balance at end ofyear |
430 -£ 829 -£ 1,259 -£ - £ 1,361 £ 1,361 £ - £ 4,381 £ 4,381 £ 510 £ 2,510 £ 3,020 £ 430 -£ 3,552 £ 3,122 £ 510 £ 3,871 £ 4,381 £ |
Notes
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Gift Aid claimed is from 2021_22 and 2020_21
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Fundraising is from raffles, refreshments at rehearsals pre lockdown and sale of uniform
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3 Music puchase of Will Todd books increased the usual cost of music procurement
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HMRC fined SCS £200 for late submission of tax return, we successfully appealed and HMRC reimbursed the fine
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this comprises soloists, bumpers, organ hire (paid by donations in restricted fund in 2019_20), instrumentalists, piano tuning
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this comprises soloists gifts, concert publicity, concert refreshments, programme printing
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this comprises auditor fee, advert for the new conductor, plastic folders for the choir music
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| BALANCE SHEET For the year ended: ASSETS Current Assets Cash at bank and in hand Net Current Assets RESERVES Represented by: Unrestricted fund Restricted fund Total reserves |
31 July 2022 2021_22 £ 3,122 |
31 July 2021 2020_21 £ 4,381 |
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| 3,122 | 4,381 | |
| 3,042 80 |
3,871 510 |
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| 3,122 | 4,381 |
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Stanmore Choral Society Annual Report 2021-22 stanmore Choral Society Trustees. Annual Report & Financial staternents, Septe]Dber 2022 Independent EX8ner, s Report to the Trustee3 0£ the SLinmore Choral Society ask oflndependentx•mlne$ report My examination was carried out in accordarKe with general Difertlons given by the Charity Commission. An examlnatlon includes a revitw of the actounting records kept by the Society and a comparlson of the accounts psented with those retords. It also includes consideratlon of any unusual items or distlosurÈs in the aceounts. 5eeklng explanations from you as committee members cOrerni% any suth mattér Indèptndentexamlnerfs statemert In connection with my examination. no matter has come to my attention. l. which gives me reasonable cause to believe ihat in any material respect the requirement.. il to keep pri)praccountin8 reeords in accordarKe with Section 130 of the 2011 Act,. and ill to prepa accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply wlth the accounting reouirements of the 2011 Att have not been fflet.. or 2. towhich. in my opinion. attention should be drawn in orderto enable a pmper understanding of the accoLbnts to be reached. Prige 11 out of 11