JazzLeeds
Charity number 1178875
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 30 September 2024
JazzLeeds
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2024
| Contents | Page |
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| Trustees' report | 2 to 10 |
| Examiner's report | 11 |
| Receipts and payments account | 12 |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | 13 |
| Notes to the accounts | 14 to 15 |
Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
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Trustees' report for the year ended 30 September 2024
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
Ramesh Narayanan Chair Steve Crocker Rosemary Holmes Steve Ross Karen Gourlay Sophie Speed Hayley Harding Joseph Allen
Appointed 10 May 2023 Appointed 12 February 2024 Appointed 12 February 2024
Charity number 1178875 Registered and principal address Bankers 11 Gledhow Park Drive HSBC Leeds 33 Park Row LS7 4JT Leeds LS1 1LD
Registered in England and Wales
Independent examiner
Katy Sargeant ACA West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO 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, and is governed by a constitution as amended on 28 July 2023.
Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees
The trustees of the charity are appointed at a properly convened meeting of the trustees.
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Objectives and activities
The charity's objects
To promote, improve, develop and maintain public appreciation of music in jazz and similar genre by:
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(i) the presentation of high quality artist's work in the city of Leeds and farther afield if necessary;
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(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;
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(iii) such other means at the trustees discretion.
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.
As a charity, one of JazzLeeds aims is to use live music to bring communities together and promote wellbeing.
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.
Achievements and performance
This report looks at our JazzLeeds activity over the 12 month period September 2023 to August 2024, assesses our achievements and whether we have achieved our goals. Details of our programme are given in the appendix.
In total we put on 91 concerts and events – fewer than last year, which is in line with our desire to “do less, but do it better”. We programmed a total of 125 bands during the year.
Our audiences increased significantly with our total audience exceeding 8,000 for the first time and an additional 1,500 or so people attending our two festival stages at Cookridge Street (Leeds Jazz Festival) and Regent Street (Chapel Allerton Arts Festival).Our evening audience average was around 72 (61 the previous year), our Sunday afternoons was around 67 (62 the previous year).
We held a total of 16 evening concerts and 4 festival evening concerts during the year. We decided in future to run our evening series just between September and April (with other evening gigs as part of our two festivals), due to smaller audiences for regular concerts in the summer months.
One special concert in the autumn was a Black Lives matters event presentation to steel pannist Dudley Nesbit.
Our Christmas concert featured young musicians from Roundhay School who had all been part of our Jazz Education project.
Our spring season included our two Conservatoire Collection concerts in April with six final year bands from the Leeds Conservatoire BA Jazz Course.
We presented two youth big bands from Grammar School at Leeds and Leeds University Union Big Band, the latter where we also supported students from the University to let them see how to run concerts.
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Achievements and performance (continued)
As part of the Leeds Jazz Festival in May we put on 11 bands in total with two highly successful evening concerts - Alan Barnes plays Goodman, and the Fergus McCreadie trio, a successful LJF festival launch event at Seven Arts and a well-attended (if rather wet!) Cookridge Stage event with an eclectic mix of seven Leeds bands.
Our summer season included a popular pay as you feel Courtyard summer series in July/August.
At the Chapel Allerton Arts Festival Concerts during August/September we programmed two evening concerts – Carioca Soul and Adam Glasser playing jazz music from South Africa. We were one of the sponsors of the Chapel Allerton Arts Festival this year.
The partnership with Howard Assembly Room continued with two successful concerts featuring Jasmine/Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat and Tom Ollendorff with Aaron Parks.
Our bi-monthly rush hour jazz events in Seven Arts bar (with a visiting guest playing with the JazzLeeds trio) continue to flourish. Pay as you Feel events proved very popular during the year generating good collections to pay the bands (in one case over £600!).
At Northlight Arts we continued our presence there with Sunday morning workshops with Dom Moore, the evening Instant World Orchestra with Richard Ormrod and our monthly jam sessions. There was no jazz choir this year – it will hopefully return soon. The Jazz Workshop has around 20 regular players, and the Instant World orchestra a pool of 25 musicians.
Our jam sessions continued monthly at Northlight, but the venue does not seem to attract the same audience members as at Seven Arts; the number of playing musicians is usually 10 -15. We are engaging Ben Gilbert to run the workshops in the autumn to see if the Jam Sessions can be revitalised somewhat.
We started the process of upgrading our unreliable website, and refreshing our marketing using Split designs. This included a number of focus groups with over 100 of our supporters and partners in June 2024 – most of the feedback was very positive.
Support bands - we used fourteen support bands with our evening gigs, mainly young musicians from the Leeds scene, although Seven Arts put a temporary stop on this in the summer.
Our Jazz Education Projects jointly with Leeds Junior Conservatoire ran again at Roundhay School, City of Leeds School and Allerton Grange School using funding from the Mohn-Westlake foundation. Dave Evans and Joe Moore were our tutors.
Funding – we were successful in a bid to the Combined West Yorkshire Authority for an increase in our funding - from around £5000 per year from Arts at Leeds to over £8000 for the next two years under the new funding arrangements . This is a highly competitive process. We must be doing something right!
Did we achieve our goals in 2023/24?
Our main goals in 2023/4 from our Arts at Leeds funding award were as follows with comments indicating whether these were achieved :
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Achievements and performance (continued)
JazzLeeds at the Festivals
We will work with the Leeds Jazz and CAAF festival teams to deliver events during the festival in May (LJF) and with the Chapel Allerton team to deliver events in September. The events promoted by JazzLeeds are:
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l Big Events (two evening concerts were held as part of LJF, two at CAAF. We also held two city centre events with Howard Assembly Room. Our international programme was a further 16 events)
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l Supporting local musicians (14 support bands, Leeds Conservatoire collections, two festival events with a total of 12 local bands)
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l A free for audience event – several were held - Cookridge Street/Regent Street tents, our summer Courtyard series, our bi-monthly Rush Hour concerts
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l Community workshops at Seven Arts and Northlight in Chapel Allerton
Diversity
Our performances featured evening bands led by rising star jazz women performers -Jasmine (Jasmine Myra) and Gravy Boat (Emma Johnson) and concerts led by a number of established artists – for example Ingrid Laubrock, Alcyona Mick and Tori Freestone. We held a special concert in the autumn for Black Lives Matter, and featured groups such as the HUM gospel choir at Chapel Allerton Arts Festival.
We carry out annual monitoring of our audiences. In 2024 the gender split amongst our audience is Male 55%, Female 45 % - more balanced than in previous years. The ages of our audiences - 58% were between 25 and 64, 33% 65 + This was similar to previous years except with a slightly greater proportion in the older age bracket. Our audience has more of the people in the richest age sectors for disposable income which is a good place to be. We’d like more 16-24 year olds though
The ethnicity split in our audience in 2024 was 80% white.20% non white (of which Asian origin was 3%, Black origin 7%, Mixed 4% and other 6%) Our audience is therefore slightly more diverse than UK average (82% White 2021 Census) and the same as the diversity levels within the Leeds population (79% White in 2021 census)
Jazz Education
The aim of our Jazz Education project is to enhance jazz music education provision in Leeds, using three Leeds secondary schools and also running a community Jazz education project.
The elements have been
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l To run a school Jazz band (this has been continuing at Roundhay School during 2023/4, taught by Dave Evans)
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To offer a taster day of music making to young people in the school who do not usually get involved in music - specifically targeting young people from non-white cultural backgrounds. Funding has been sought from Leeds Inspired, and the Mohn-Westlake Foundation to carry this out at Leeds City Academy
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l To work jointly with Leeds Junior Conservatoire to further develop the project
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l Community Jazz Workshops – we have run the Jazz Workshops and Richard Ormrod’s Instant World Orchestra at Northlight
Jazz in Communities 2023
JazzLeeds is still seen as being largely a Chapel Allerton provider of jazz. We need to initiate concerts in 2024 elsewhere in the city as a means of JazzLeeds becoming a citywide provider.
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Achievements and performance (continued)
Leeds as a City of Jazz
We helped Leeds celebrate its jazz heritage:
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l Jazz talk and contribution to East Street Arts Untold stories by Steve Crocker and a Civic Trust walk in New Briggate
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l Xero Slingsby concert at Seven Arts May 2024 with Fergus Quill
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l JazzLeeds celebration of our JazzLeeds history with an exhibition of art by Joe Dunn (July 2023)
JazzLeeds regular programme 2023/4
We will run a programme of national/ international concerts, local/and community jazz events, days of jazz at the Chapel Allerton Arts Festival, Rush Hour jazz concerts jazz workshops and jazz jam sessions - all achieved.
These goals were met in whole or in part with the exception of item 4 – jazz in communities. However the 2024/5 goals for our future funding have added a number of new targets for us – on partnership work and environmental targets for example.
Thoughts for the future !
It has been a highly successful 12 months for JazzLeeds both artistically and financially.
We are addressing some of our big issues – e.g. that of marketing/web presence and the future of our jazz jam sessions.
The next big future issue for JazzLeeds is undoubtedly succession planning, and also how we continue to “do less, but do it better” in future. We will also need to work out how our Education programme fits into the current changing provision for music in Leeds. We will need to monitor the changes in running our jazz jam sessions. Finally need to look again at our participation in both the Festivals we are currently involved in. We also have to be mindful of our relationships with our partners – these are generally good at present, but experience elsewhere shows how fragile the existence of independent arts bodies can be!
Steve Crocker Appendix Autumn 2023
Autumn International/national evenings
We organised 8 evening concerts during this period at Seven (apart from one at Howard Assembly Room *) There were 8 support bands.
05/10/2023 Julian Siegel Quartet (support Will Powell quartet ESP)
19/10/2023 Andrew McCormack Quartet with Denys Baptiste (support Alec Robinson trio)
26/10/2023 Nigel Price Trio (support Quiet jazz project)
09/11/2023 Ari Hoenig with Tom Ollendorff (support Equilibrium - Harry Stobart trio)
16/11/2023 Greg Abate Quartet (support Jascha Bingham trio)
26/11/2023 *At Howard Assembly Room - Emma Johnson Gravy Boat (support) and Jasmine
30/11/2023 Hip Harp Tony Kofi Alina Bzhezhinska (support from Viridian)
14/12/2023 Hejira, the Music of Joni Mitchell – two performances (support, Instant World Orchestra)
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Achievements and performance (continued)
Autumn regional and local bands, jam sessions and rush hour jazz
We put on 22 concerts during this period, at Seven apart from one at Northlight **.
06/09/2023 Rush Hour Tony Burkill
10/09/2023 Atom String Quartet
17/09/2023 Enrico Tomasso and Derrick Harris group
20/09/2023 Rush Hour Jazz with Tina Featherstone
01/10/2023 Tom Sharp Jazz Orchestra
4/10/2023 Rush Hour Jazz with James Lancaster
8/10/2023 Liz Fletcher + trio
15/10/2023 Victor Estevez Latin Sextet
18/10/2023 Rush Hour Jazz with Rod Mason
22/10/2023 Jam session @Northlight **
29/10/2023 Pan Jumby (Black Lives Matter award)
01/11/2023 Rush Hour Jazz with Raquel Alvaro
05/11/2023 Aadal
12/11/2023 Dean Stockdale Quartet - Celebrating Oscar Peterson
15/11/2023 Rush Hour Jazz with Nicki Allan
19/11/2023 Sueli Gil’s Latin Band
3/12/2023 JDM trio – Walsh/Longhawn/Taylor
6/12/2023 Rush Hour Jazz with John and Kathy Dyson
10/12/2023 The 007's - Rod Mason's Bond Band
17/12/2023 JazzLeeds Schools Christmas Concert (Roundhay, Junior Conservatoire, Composers)
20/12/2023 Rush Hour Jazz with Brendan Duffy
24/12/2023 Christmas Eve - afternoon jazz jam in the Seven bar
Spring 2024 Evening series
We organised 8 evening concerts during the Spring, all at Seven apart from one at Howard Assembly Room
*. One concert was cancelled and re arranged **
25/01/2024 Ron Bottomley's - Final Big Band
08/02/2024 **Caroline Boaden's "Sum of All (cancelled, snow
22/02/2024 Noble/Simpkins duo (Jerry Liu Septet support)
10/03/2024 * Howard Assembly Room - Tom Ollendorf trio with Aaron Parks, (support from Olivia Cuttill and Tom Harris )
21/03/2024 Ben Clatworthy Quartet Northlight (support from Charlie Folland & his band)
18/04/2024 Matt Carmicheal Quintet (Paper Daisies in support)
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Achievements and performance (continued)
25/04/2024 Jo Harrop + (The Daisy Drew Quartet in support).
09/05/2024 Fergus Quill - Xero Slingsby Quintet (support from FIR)
Spring regional and local bands, jam sessions and rush hour jazz
We put on 32 concerts during this period, at Seven Arts apart from the four monthly jam sessions at Northlight ** .
14/01/2024 Edison Herbert Quartet
17/01/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Ron Burnett
21/01/2024 Ozzy Moysey Ancient Infinity orchestra
28/01/2024 Northlight jam**
04/02/2024 Jami Sheriff Quartet
07/02/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Ed Kainiek
11/02/2024 Alcyona Mick and Tori Freestone
18/02/2024 Kjetil Mulelid and WAKO Quartet
21/02/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Tessa Smith
25/02/2024 Northlight jam **
03/03/2024 Andy Panayi with Richard Wetherall trio
06/03/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Andy Henderson
17/03/2024 Jeff Hewer quartet
20/03/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Stuart Garside
24/03/2024 Sunday Jazz Conservatoire Collection 1 - Reece Fogg Quartet, FIR and Paper Daisies
31/03/2024 Easter Sunday Jazz: jam at Northlight **
03/04/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Dudley Nesbitt
07/04/2024 Sunday Jazz Conservatoire Collection 2 Zak Parlby Quartet, Nuala Murphy Quartet and Jacob Booth Quartet
14/04/2024 Jazz Defenders
17/04/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with John Settle
21/04/2024 Jazz jam Northlight **
28/04/2024 Grammar School at Leeds Big Band and Tutor band
01/05/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Brendan Duffy
05/05/2024 Stuart McCullum trio with Sam Vicary and Steve Hanley
12/05/2024 Leeds University Union Big Band
15/05/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with John Scully
19/05/2024 Munch Manship Quartet
Our input into Leeds Jazz Festival 2024
22/05/2024 LJF launch - Rush Hour Jazz with Dan Barker Bey
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Achievements and performance (continued)
23/05/2024 Benny Goodman tribute featuring Alan Barnes with Derrick Harris
24/05/2024 Fergus McCreadie trio
25/05/2024 LJF jam session at Seven
27/05/2024 Cookridge Street LJF Stage 1- 8pm
Hot club of Halifax
Viridian - Pedruam Agahi
Salsa Como Loco
Maranello Trio
IWO
Olivia Cuttill Quintet Vipertime
Summer 2024
In our summer programme we held 21 concerts and events, programming 26 bands. 02/06/2024 We Bop
05/06/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Emily Brown
09/06/2024 Dave Bristow Quintet
- 16/06/2024 MU Quintet
19/06/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Tony Burkill
23/06/2024 Northlight Jam **
30/06/2024 Abtuse (held in the bar at Seven)
03/07/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Bev Beirne
07/07/2024 Salsa Como Loco
14/07/2024 BD Lenz Trio
17/07/2024 Rush Hour Jazz with Ros Lewis
21/07/2024 Caroline Boaden's "Sum of All" with Livia Clementi support (re-programmed from February)
Seven Arts Courtyard concerts
28/07/2024 Little Big Band
04/08/2024 The Rhythm Section (at Northlight **)
11/08/2024 Stuart McDonald and Stuart Garside Quintet
18/08/2024 John Taylor's Blues Spectrum
21/08/2024 Rush Hour Tessa Smith
25/08/2024 Bank Holiday Jazz Jam
Chapel Allerton Arts Festival 2024
29/08/2024 Carioca Soul (evening concert)
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Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 30 September 2024
Achievements and performance (continued)
31/08/2024 Adam Glasser Quartet - a celebration of South African jazz (evening concert)
01/09/2024 Jazz Sunday at CAAF Regent Street stage
HUM Gospel Choir
Tom Sharp Big Band
Back Chat Brass
Louis Louis Louis
Gustavo Andrade and the Brasukas
Financial review
The net payments for the year were £1,098, including net reciepts of £2,789 on unrestricted funds and net payments of £3,887 on restricted funds.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £47,143.
JazzLeeds has a policy of retaining a reserve of a minimum of 25% of annual turnover, which based on the 23-24 financial year equates to approximately £15,000.
The trustees acknowledge that current reserves are in excess of the amount stated in the policy, and will be reviewing the policy in the coming year. In addition, there are a number of planned activities (identified in 22/23) but due to take place in 24/25 to expend the excess reserves.
Approved by the board of trustees on 29/4/2025
Steve Crocker (Trustee)
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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of JazzLeeds
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 30 September 2024, which are set out on pages 12 to 15.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Katy Sargeant ACA
24/6/25
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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Receipts and payments account for the year ended 30 September 2024
| Notes 2024 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants and donations (2) 3,009 Sales and fees 45,703 Fundraising 1,673 Bank interest 608 Total receipts 50,993 Payments Artists' pay 39,154 Artists' expenses 593 Venue payments 350 Technical payments 587 Marketing and PR 5,576 Subscriptions 206 Insurance 297 Independent examination 630 Other fees and travel 446 Bank charges 153 Equipment purchase 38 Office costs 174 Total payments 48,204 Net receipts / (payments) 2,789 Fund balances brought forward 44,354 Fund balances carried forward (3) 47,143 |
2024 Restricted funds £ 6,203 - - - 6,203 500 - - - 4,440 - - - 5,150 - - - 10,090 (3,887) 9,400 5,513 |
2024 Total funds £ 9,212 45,703 1,673 608 57,196 39,654 593 350 587 10,016 206 297 630 5,596 153 38 174 58,294 (1,098) 53,754 52,656 |
2023 Total funds £ 18,498 37,185 2,935 318 58,936 38,602 1,399 1,652 655 4,182 67 287 480 3,909 180 163 112 51,688 7,248 46,506 53,754 |
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| Statement of assets and liabilities as at 30 September 2024 2024 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 47,140 Cash in hand 3 Total cash funds 47,143 |
2024 Restricted £ 5,513 - 5,513 |
2024 Total £ 52,653 3 52,656 |
2023 Total £ 53,749 5 53,754 |
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| Assets retained for the charity's own use Yamaha upright piano Yamaha PA i-Zettle card reader Liabilities Accruals |
2024 £ 960 960 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 29/4/2025
Steve Crocker (Trustee)
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Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 30 September 2024
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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Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 30 September 2024
| 2 Grants and donations Leeds City Council (LCC) Leeds Community Foundation (LCF) Music Leeds Jazz North Other donations 3 Restricted funds Balance b/f £ LCF - Mohn Westlake Arts Fund 8,900 Jazz North 500 LCC - Culture Fund - 9,400 |
2024 Unrestricted funds £ 1,250 - - - 1,759 3,009 Incoming £ - - 6,203 6,203 |
2024 Restricted funds £ 6,203 - - - - 6,203 Outgoing £ 5,150 500 4,440 10,090 |
2024 Total funds £ 7,453 - - - 1,759 9,212 Transfers £ - - - - |
2023 Total funds £ 4,750 8,900 2,046 500 2,302 18,498 Balance c/f £ 3,750 - 1,763 5,513 |
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Fund name
Purpose of restriction
LCF - Mohn Westlake Arts Fund JazzLeeds Education Project. For extra-curricular work with three local schools to encourage young people to play jazz music. Jazz North Promoter’s Bursary aimed at supporting young jazz musicians new to performing live. LCC - Culture Fund International artists, Community bands, Improved marketing.
4 Related party transactions
Trustee expenses
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
Trustee remuneration and benefits
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
Other transactions with trustees or related parties
| Other transactions with trustees or related parties Steve Crocker Trustee Payment for performances at concerts Name of trustee or related party Relationship to charity Description of transaction |
2024 £ 550 550 |
2023 £ - - |
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