## **JazzLeeds Annual Report 2021**
This report covers a number of different aspects of the JazzLeeds year up to the end of September 2021.
The Covid pandemic has continued to make it a difficult year for everyone involved in live music. During the previous year (2020) despite intermittent lockdowns we managed to still put on 34 live bands, 18 online video programmes and 4 radio presentations.
We were locked down again totally between November 2020 and May 2021 but since then restrictions have gradually been lifted and we’ve returned with **50 live music events** - 39 concerts, six community jazz cafes and five “Rush Hour Jazz” gigs in the Seven Arts bar. The events included the **JazzReset21 Festival** in July and the **Jazz and Blues Picnic** in September. The majority of the bands were from the Northern regions but we also held a number of national and international concerts too.
Our **main venue** through all this has been Seven Arts Leeds. With Inkwell no longer available we moved our workshops and some jazz sessions down to the Café at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm. This has been a venue for folk music and they were more than willing to welcome live jazz there too.
## **2021 live music series**
These were all live concerts held either in the main room at Seven Arts to a limited audience, or (during August) pay as you feel events outside in the courtyard
- **About Time** with **Malcolm Strachan** 20 May
- **Tessa Smith Quintet** 23 May
- **What’s New** with **Ian Shaw, Iain Ballamy, Jamie Safir** 27 May
- **Louise Gibbs "Loves you Madly** " 30 May
- **The Long Game** with **Liam Noble** 03 June
- **Satori** with **Josephine Davies** 10 June
- **Ben Powling Quartet** 13 June
- **Four Corners** with **Byron Wallen** 17 June
- **Caroline Boaden Quintet** 20 June
- **Andrew McCormack** solo and trio 24 June
- **Sontuno** 27 June
- **Derrick Harris Quartet** 08 July
- **Backchat Brass** 25 July
- **Abtuse** 01 August
- **John Settle’s “Vibeology”** 08 August
- **Flying High Band** 15 August
- **Imaji** (John Meikle - Tom Richardson - James Hobbis) 22 August
- **Jenny Smith Quartet** 29 August
- **Nic Svarc Quartet** 12 September
- · **Mangorata** 19 September
## **JazzLeeds Reset Festival July 17-18 July**
With number restrictions still very much in place we decided to hold a low key JazzLeeds Festival as a two-day event, rather than attempt to put on something more major at City Centre venues. The two day festival was held both inside and in the courtyard at Seven Arts. The festival was a sell-out; the courtyard events were a particular success, aided by some excellent weather.
- **Dennis Rollins and Shri Shriram**
- **Nicola Farnon Quartet**
- **Ysbryd**
- **Fergus Quill Trio**
- **Emily Brown Quintet**
- **Nic Svarc/Joe Moore**
- **Terri Shaltiel**
- **Jonah Evans Trio**
- **Pan Jumby**
- **Lady and the Tramps**
- **Lawrence Marshall**
- **ORB** (Ormrod-Baxter-Rosser)
## **Chapel Allerton Arts Festival and the Jazz Picnic 1-5 September 2020.**
The Chapel Allerton Festival was “on tour” this year and we were pleased to participate with two evenings at Seven Arts and another Jazz and Blues picnic at Gledhow Sports Club. This was a spectacular success with nearly 500 tickets sold, stalls, four excellent bands, a really appreciative audience, a helpful venue and some lovely weather. We will do it again!
- **Eliot Richards plays Lester Young** 01 September
- **Lucas Oravec Quintet with Alex Garnett** 02 September
- **Leeds Youth Jazz Rock Orchestra** 05 September
- **The Big Easy** 05 September
- **James O Hara Blues Band** 05 September
- **Ubunye** 05 September
We held **six** community **Jazz Cafés** - at Seven Arts on 6 Jun, 4 July, 11 July, and 10 October with two more at our new venue - Meanwood Valley Barn Café on 14 August and 11 September – a chance for many local musicians to play/sing.
We also held **five** rush hour jazz events in the Seven Arts Bar with guests **John Quinn** 02 June **Brendan Duffy** 07July **John Scully** 04 August **Eliot Richards** 01 September and **Will Howard** 06 October and the JazzLeeds
trio.
## **Thanks**
Many thanks are due - to **Seven Arts** for allowing us to put the gigs on there, and waiving room hire and tech costs, to **Gledhow Sports Club** who hosted our Jazz and Blues picnic, to **Chapel Allerton Arts Festival** for restarting the festival this year, to **Leeds Inspired and Arts at Leeds** for funding us, to **Music Leeds and Jazz North** for their encouragement, to our **Board of Trustees** who have offered advice and guidance, and last but not least to **our jazz volunteers and supporters** - we couldn't have got though the year without them.
Steve Crocker Chair JazzLeeds Trustees October 2021
## JazzLeeds
Charity number 1178875
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 30 September 2021
## JazzLeeds
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2021
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 3|
|Receipts and payments account|4|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|5|
|Notes to the accounts|6 to 7|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service**
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## JazzLeeds
## Trustees' report for the year ended 30 September 2021
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates** Steve Crocker Chair Jamil Sheriff Rosemary Holmes Steve Ross Ben Gilbert Resigned October 2021 Karen Gourlay
## **Charity number**
The charity was registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, number 1178875, on 21 June 2018.
**Principal address Bankers** 11 Gledhow Park Drive HSBC Leeds 33 Park Row LS7 4JT Leeds LS1 1LD
## **Accountants**
West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 21 June 2018.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed at a properly convened meeting of the trustees.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
To promote, improve, develop and maintain public appreciation of music in jazz and similar genre by: (i) the presentation of high quality artist's work in the city of Leeds and farther afield if necessary; (ii) engaging individuals through music in order to develop their interests, skills, capacities and capabilities, and thereby providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare, well-being and promotion of community cohesion.
(iii) such other means at the trustees discretion.
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## JazzLeeds
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2021
## **Objectives and activities (Continued)**
## **The charity's main activities**
JazzLeeds is a volunteer led organisation providing an extensive and sustainable programme of Jazz, associated music events and related community activities. JazzLeeds encourages and develops the local music and creative arts scene, supports new jazz activities, including promoting European and International collaboration and develops new audiences for jazz.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our JazzLeeds trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the promotion of the arts and culture, the promotion of volunteering and the advancement of education.
As a charity, one of JazzLeeds aims is to use live music to bring communities together and promote well-being. The lockdown has caused high levels of anxiety and depression amongst both our audiences and musicians. Our survey (June 2020) found that around half of our regular audiences were unwilling to attend indoor concerts. When possible we have tried to provide opportunities for both listening to, and playing music. We have tried to bring people together, providing some social interaction, albeit at a distance. We believe that over the summer we were the only jazz group in the north who were able to present live performances. A small "bubble" of volunteers organised and ran these concerts. The enthusiasm and joy with which gigs were received had a very positive impact on all involved.
## **Achievements and performance**
The Covid pandemic has continued to make it a difficult year for everyone involved in live music. During the previous year (2020) despite intermittent lockdowns we managed to still put on 34 live bands, 18 online video programmes and 4 radio presentations.
We were locked down again totally between November 2020 and May 2021 but since then restrictions have gradually been lifted and we’ve returned with 50 live music events - 39 concerts, six community jazz cafes and five “Rush Hour Jazz” gigs in the Seven Arts bar. The events included the JazzReset21 Festival in July and the Jazz and Blues Picnic in September. The majority of the bands were from the Northern regions but we also held a number of national and international concerts too.
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £4,770, including net receipts of £720 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £4,050 on restricted funds.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £42,243.
The JazzLeeds policy is to keep three months of turnover in reserve for unplanned events: currently we exceed this amount.
Signed on behalf of the board of trustees on 11 May 2022
Stephen Crocker (Trustee)
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## JazzLeeds
## Receipts and payments account
## for the year ended 30 September 2021
|Notes
2021
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
3,200
Sales and fees
15,406
Fundraising
-
Interest
-
**Total receipts**
18,606
**Payments**
Artists' pay
(3)
14,009
Artists' expenses
518
Venue payments
-
Technical payments
419
Printed marketing
273
Social media marketing
1,832
PR
16
Bank and vendor charges
-
Subscriptions
55
Insurance
284
Equipment purchase
-
Accountancy and Independent examination
480
**Total payments**
17,886
720
**Fund balances brought forward**
41,523
**Fund balances carried forward**
(4)
42,243
**Net receipts / (payments)**|2021
Restricted
funds
£
5,432
-
-
-
5,432
1,382
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,382
4,050
(1,050)
3,000|2021
Total
funds
£
8,632
15,406
-
-
24,038
15,391
518
-
419
273
1,832
16
-
55
284
-
480
19,268
4,770
40,473
45,243|2020
Total
funds
£
6,500
18,263
891
5
25,659
15,712
303
768
437
1,667
1,055
638
264
240
276
135
480
21,975
3,684
36,789
40,473|
|---|---|---|---|
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## JazzLeeds
|Statement of assets and liabilities
as at 30 September 2021
2021
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
42,241
Cash in hand
2
**Total cash funds**
42,243
**Other monetary assets**
Leeds Inspired grant 2021 final payment
**Assets retained for the charity's own use**
Piano upright yamaha U1 piano at Inkwell
Yamaha stage pas PA system with two microphones
i-Zettle card reader and phone
**Liabilities**
Accountancy
**Approval of the accounts**|2021
Restricted
£
3,000
-
3,000|2021
Total
£
45,241
2
45,243
£
153
£
432|2020
Total
£
39,846
627
40,473|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 11 May 2022
Stephen Crocker (Trustee)
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## JazzLeeds
## Notes to the accounts
## for the year ended 30 September 2021
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## JazzLeeds
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 30 September 2021
|**2 **|**Grants and donations**||2021|2021|2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||funds|funds|funds|funds|
||||£|£|£|£|
||Arts Council||-|-|-|2,500|
||Leeds City Council (Arts@Leeds)||3,000|3,000|6,000|4,000|
||Leeds Inspired||-|2,432|2,432|-|
||Donations||200||200|-|
||||3,200|5,432|8,632|6,500|
|**3 **|**Restricted funds**
Leeds Inspired 2020
Leeds Inspired 2021
Arts@Leeds|Balance b/f
£
(1,050)|Incoming
£
1,050
1,382
3,000|Outgoing
£
-
1,382
-|Transfers
£
-
-
-|Balance c/f
£
-
-
3,000|
|||(1,050)|5,432|1,382|-|3,000|
||**Fund name**
Leeds Inspired 2020
Leeds Inspired 2021
Arts@Leeds|**Purpose of restriction**
Towards the Jazz Picnic in September 2020
Towards the JazzLeeds Reset21 Festival
ARG Restart grant towards recovering activities|||post-COVID-19||
## **4 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
|**Name of trustee**
**Reason**
**Legal authority**
Jamil Sheriff
Performance fees
Governing document
Ben Gilbert
Performance fees
Governing document|2021
£
140
50
190|2020
£
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
No trustee received any other remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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