**Annual Report of the Trustees of the New London Music Association 30[th] September 2023 Charity Reg. 1179200** 


## **Background** 

The New London Music Association (NLMA) was registered as a Charity in July 2018.  It is a continuation of the New London Music Society (NLMS) which was formed in 1981 by the conductor Terence Lovett.   The change of name was required to alter governance arrangements in becoming a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and amending the Constitution. 

## **Activities and Objectives** 

The object of NLMA, as stated in the constitution, is: 

_“To promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects, by such ways as The CIO shall from time to time determine, including the organisation of music schools.”_ 

## **Trustees and Structure** 

1. There were six Trustees of the Association in place in 2022-23: Philip Meaden (Foundation Trustee, Chair), Suzanne Meaden (Foundation Trustee, Treasurer), Lorraine Collins (Foundation Trustee), Tessa Crilly (Secretary – appointed 17[th] June 2020), Jacob Ashworth (appointed 17[th] June 2020), Euan McCandless (appointed 1[st] September 2020). 

2. To address the concerns about NLMS’s constitution expressed by the committee in previous years, the following process was decided: 

   - a. That a new organisation, called New London Music Association (NLMA), should be set up as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundation Model); this was done and the NLMA constitution was approved by the Charity Commission in June 2018. 

   - b. That at the NLMS Year End of September 30 2019, NLMS would be wound up and its assets transferred to NLMA.  In practice, this process has taken longer than anticipated, exacerbated by the 2020/22 pandemic.  Full transfer of assets from NLMS to NLMA was complete by 30[th] September 2023. 

3. NLMS will continue to be the trading name of NLMA. 

4. The Society’s correspondent is Dr Teresa Crilly, Secretary of NLMA, appointed as a Trustee by the four Foundation Trustees on 17/06/2020. 

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## **Transitional Status of NLMS and Joint Meetings with NLMA** 

It should be noted that meetings with trustees of NLMS (Tessa Crilly, Euan McCandless and Jacob Ashworth) have been held jointly with trustees of NLMA (Philip Meaden, Suzanne Meaden, Lorraine Collins, Tessa Crilly, Jacob Ashworth, Euan McCandless).  The two charity names, as NLMS transitions to NLMA, represent one body and one set of activities.  NLMS continues to be the trading name, as a historic brand and identity, for NLMA activities. 

## **Finance** 

1. In the year ending 30th September 2023 NLMA’s operational income of £126,215 exceeded (adjusted) expenditure of £99,581, giving an operational surplus of £26,634. 

2. Receipt of funds from NLMS of £14,868 and a bequest from Cynthia Gomme, former Administrator of NLMS, raised receipts to £44,542. 

3. Reserves for NLMA stood at £107,589 as at 30[th] September 2023. 

4. The financial data below reflects the transition between charitable entities NLMS and NLMA. 

## **Consolidated Income and Expenditure 2022/23 for NLMS and NLMA** 

||**NLMA**|<br>**NLMS**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Income|£126,215|0|£126,215|
|Expenditure|-£99,688|0|-£99,688|
|Unexplained adjustment|£107|||
|Total Surplus|£26,634|0|£26,634|



## **Consolidated Assets 2022/23 for NLMS and NLMA** 

||**NLMA**|**NLMS**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|
|1st October 2022|£63,047|£14,868|£77,915|
|Unexplained adjustment|£40||£40|
|Bequest C Gomme|£3,000||£3,000|
|Asset Transfer|£14,868|-£14,868|£0|
|Surplus/Deficit against Income & Expenditure|£26,634|£0|£26,634|
|Balance as at 30th September 2023|£107,589|£0|£107,589|



## **Courses** 

In 2022 - 2023 NLMA offered two major events: (i) a string chamber music weekend; and (ii) a second offering in the longstanding and successful series of residential music summer schools. 

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## **(i) Chamber Music Weekend – Easter School** 

The chamber music weekend consisted of pre-formed string quartets, coached by an established professional quartet.  It took place 14[th] – 16[th] April 2023 at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. 

## **(ii) Music Summer School** 

The Summer School took place in August 2023 at Downe House School.    The offer consisted of four courses: two orchestras, (the Symphony Orchestra for those of Grade 8 standard, and the Sinfonietta for those of Grades 5-7), the String Ensemble (for early stage players) and the Choir – “Choral Singing for Pleasure”.  The course features specialist tutors who coach sectional rehearsals focused on concert repertoire for both orchestras and the choir. 

The charity’s motto is ‘Friendship in Music’, representing the ethos of the summer school. 

Approved by the Trustees, and signed on their behalf by: 


Teresa Crilly, Secretary of the New London Music Association _22[nd] July 2024_ 

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123.738
5.115
81.951
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118.623
81.346
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3,177
1,820
1.271
119.894
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Honoraniijrn PayTrent
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558
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21.505
2,796
38￿16
450
269
107
31
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477
94,449
39.145
Net surplus
27,021
44,457

|||**N L M A Summer School**|**N L M A Summer School**|**N L M A Summer School**|**N L M A Summer School**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**Balance Sheet**||||||
||**as at 30**<br>**th**<br>**September 2023**||||||||
||||||||||
|||||**NOTES**||**2023**|||
||||||**£**||**£**||
||||||||||
|Current Assets|||||||||
||||||||||
|CAF Cash Account|||||75,899||||
|CAF Gold Accounts|||||33,262||||
||||||||||
||||||109,161||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
|Plus: Short Term Assets|||||||||
|Debtor||||3|200||||
||||||||||
|Total Current Assets|||||200||||
||||||||||
|Less: Current Liabilites|||||||||
|Accruals||||4|||4,246||
||||||||||
|Total Current Liabilities|||||||4,246||
||||||||||
|Net Assets|||||||105,115||
||||||||||
|Income and Expenditure|||||||||
||||||||||
|Balance at 1stOctober 2022|||||||61,469||
|Bequest C Gomme|||||||3,000||
|Assets from NLMS|||||||13,625||
|Net surplus for theyear|||||||27,021||
||||||||||
|Balance at 30thSeptember 2023|||||||105,115||
||||||||||



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4.745
Total Fees
4.745
3.168
310
26
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150
Sundry
5.239
4704
494
2.991

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Less.. Fee refunds
128,483
5,115
605
123,368
89,041
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3,177
1.906
1.820
1,271
124.639
90.861
Interest ￿CeIved
Donations
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591
26
175
160
75
91,297
Total Income
126.215
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Insurance
Subscflptlon
Bank Char8e5
Card Charges
Bar Asslstante
Miscellaneous
68.175
263
43,520
1.562
23,Tr)5
2,796
365
107
98
31
2C
477
99,688
43.849
Net surplus
26,527
47.448

||**N L**|**M A Summer & Easter School**|**M A Summer & Easter School**|**M A Summer & Easter School**|**M A Summer & Easter School**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**Balance Sheet**||||||
|||**as at 30**<br>**th**<br>**September 2023**|||||||
||||||||||
|||||**NOTES**||**2023**|||
||||||**£**||**£**||
||||||||||
|Current Assets|||||||||
||||||||||
|CAF Cash Account|||||78,606||||
|CAF Gold Accounts|||||33,262||||
||||||||||
||||||111,868||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
|Plus: Short Term Assets|||||||||
|Debtor||||3|200||||
|Prepayment||||5|367||||
||||||||||
|Total Current Assets|||||567||||
||||||||||
||||||||||
|Less: Current Liabilites|||||||||
|Accruals||||4|||4,396||
|Fees in advance||||6|||450||
||||||||||
|Total Current Liabilities|||||||4,846||
||||||||||
|Net Assets|||||||107,589||
||||||||||
|Income and Expenditure|||||||||
||||||||||
|Balance at 1stOctober 2022|||||||63,047||
|Unexplained Adjustment|||||||40||
|Bequest C Gomme|||||||3,000||
|Assets from NLMS|||||||14,868||
|Net surplus for theyear|||||||26,634||
||||||||||
|Balance at 30thSeptember 2023|||||||107,589||
||||||||||



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||||**N L**|**M A Summer & Easter School**|**M A Summer & Easter School**|**M A Summer & Easter School**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||
|||||**as at 30**<br>**th**<br>**September 2023**||||
|||||||||
||**NOTES**||**DETAILS**|||**£**||
|||||||||
||**1**||**Bank Interest**|||||
||||Cash Account|||121||
||||Gold Account|||470||
|||||||591||
|||||||||
||**2**||**Miscellaneous expenditure**|||||
||||Covid tests|||109||
||||Earplugs|||19||
||||First Aid|||10||
||||First Aid|||14||
||||Student Flight|||150||
||||Lifeguard|||150||
||||FX Charge|||25||
|||||||477||
|||||||||
||**3**||**Debtor**|||||
||||P Harper|||200||
|||||||||
||**4**||**Accruals**|||||
||||Accountancy|||600||
||||Tutors Bonuses|||2,796||
||||Honoranium Payment|||1,000||
|||||||4,396||
|||||||||
||**5**||**Prepayment**|||||
||||HinsleyHall 2024|||260||
||||S Bingham(Printing)2024|||107||
|||||||367||
|||||||||
||**6**||**Fees in advance**|||||
||||Easter School 2024(J Wilson)|||200||
||||Easter School 2024(L Walker)|||250||
|||||||450||
|||||||||
||||**Bursaries**|||2,820||
|||||||||



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## **Accounts NLMA 2022/23** 


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Charity Name No (if any)<br>New London Music Association 1179200<br>Receipts and payments accounts CC16a<br>For the period  Period start date Period end date<br>To<br>from 01/10/2022 30/09/2023<br>Section A Receipts and payments<br>Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>Total funds Last year<br>funds funds funds<br> to the nearest<br>to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £<br>£<br>A1 Receipts<br>Summer School Income 121,470 0 0 121,470                    83,602<br>Easter School Income 4,745 0 0 4,745                      7,695<br>Unexplained adjustment 147 0 0 147                             -<br>Bequest C Gomme 3,000 0 0 3,000                             -<br>Transfer from NLMS 14,868 0 0 14,868                    15,599<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>Sub total  (Gross income for<br>144,230 0 0 144,230                 106,896<br>AR)<br>A2 Asset and investment<br>sales, (see table).<br>0 0 0<br>0 0 0 0                               -<br>Sub total  0 0 0 0                               -<br>Total receipts 144,230 0 0 144,230             106,896<br>A3 Payments<br>Summer School Expenditure 93,449 0 0 93,449                    39,145<br>Easter School Expenditure 5,239 0 0 5,239                      4,704<br>Honorarium to a Trustee 1,000 0 0 1,000                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>0 0 0 0                             -<br>Sub total 99,688 0 0 99,688                    43,849<br>A4 Asset and investment<br>purchases, (see table)<br>0 0 0 0<br>0 0 0 0<br>Sub total 0 0 0 0                               -<br>Total payments 99,688 0 0 99,688              43,849<br>Net of receipts/(payments)                44,542                       -                         -                  44,542               63,047<br>A5 Transfers between funds                        -                       -                        -                                  -                        -<br>A6 Cash funds last year end  £63,047                      -                        -                   63,047                      -<br>Cash funds this year end              107,589                       -                         -                107,589               63,047<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|NLMA Summer and Easter School|||**£107,589.00**||**£0.00**|**£0.00**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|||**107,589**||**-**|**-**|
||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments<br>account(s))|||OK||OK|OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**£0.00**||**£0.00**|**£0.00**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||**£0.00**||**£0.00**|**£0.00**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**||||**£0.00**||**£0.00**|**£0.00**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||**£0.00**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||||
|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print Name|||Date of<br>approval|
|||||T.E. Crilly|||22/07/2024|
|||||Suzanne Meaden|||**22/07/2024**|



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