## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] April 2024 To 31[st] March 2025** ## **Charity name: Octandre Ensemble** ## **Charity registration number: 1174861** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance, develop and maintain the
public’s appreciation of and education in
the art of modern and contemporary music,
through the presentation of public concerts
championing the work of contemporary
composers, and the making and
dissemination of recordings.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|In 2024-25, Octandre performed sell-out
concerts at three major UK festivals
(Glasgow Cathedral Festival, Little
Missenden and LCMF), with programmes
including UK premieres. They also
workshopped and recorded a substantial
new work by Patrick John Jones at GSMD,
which has since been nominated for the
ISCM.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees have had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Patrick John Jones – workshop and**
**recording of**
**_Immense Bleak Electric_**
**_Advertisement of God_**
**(Sept 24)**
– This
project provided both educational and
professional benefit to the composer. The
work has since been selected by the British
Section of the ISCM, 2025.
**Glasgow Cathedral Festival**
**Performance (Sept 24)**
- Sell out concert
of
_time-space-sound-light_, a programme of
spatial chamber music by Christian Mason.
**Little Missenden Festival Performance**
**(Oct 24)**
- UK Premiere of Christian
Mason’s
_Figures in a landscape_, and
performances of works by Richard
Causton, Kaija Saariaho and Olivier
Messiaen.
**LCMF string trio performances (Dec 24)**
– World premiere sell out performances for
Laure Hiendl’s
_Chronochromatic Variations_
_III_
, as part of the London Contemporary
Music Festival.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the end of 24/25, the accounts were
balanced, with no moneys owed or owing
to or by the CIO.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees agreed that it is sensible to
hold £1,000-£2,000 as reserves. The
funds available from one project to the next
vary greatly. Taking that into account, the
Trustees resolved that the organisation
should seek, where possible, to hold back
at least 5% of a given project budget.
Reserves will be held to cover running
costs such as bank charges; unforeseen or
urgent project costs, or, in exceptional
circumstances, to top up project budgets.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£952.14| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|n/a| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|The CIO has no funds or subsidiary
undertakings that are materially in deficit| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|At the date of approving the report and
accounts, there are no uncertainties about
the charity’s ability to continue as a going
concern.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
The sources of funding for the CIO during
the period 2024/25 were: a Leverhulme
Research Grant (Patrick John Jones), and
concert fees from festivals (LCMF, Little
Missenden and Glasgow Cathedral
Festival)| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Appointed by resolution| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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| |---|---|---| |**Balance brought forward from 31 March 2023**|**£915.33**|| |Hire of Ensemble|£13,879.35|| |CD Sales|£14.15|| |**TOTAL INCOME**|**£13,893.50**|| |**PLUS BROUGHT FORWARD**|**£14,808.83**|| |||| |**EXPENDITURE**||| |Musicians’recording rights buyout|£450|| |Instrument Insurance|£25|| |Porterage|£95|| |Artists’travel and accommodation|£721.21|| |Bank Charges|£40|| |**SUB-TOTAL**|**£1,281.21**|| |Musicians’fees|£11,875.80|| |**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**|**£13,207.01**|| |||| |**BALANCE IN BANK ACCOUNT**|**£1,601.82**|| |LESS COMMITTED FUNDS:|£0|| |LESS ALLOCATED FUNDS:|£0|| |TOTAL OF COMMITTED & ALLOCATED FUNDS|£0|| |**WORKING ACCOUNT BALANCE**|**£1,601.82**||