## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From** Period start date **T** Period end date Day Month Year **o** Day Month Year **1 August 2023 31 July 2024**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** The Viola Commissioning Circle
**Other names charity is known by** The VCC
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1179223
**Charity's principal address** 11 Heathfield South Twickenham, London **Postcode** TW2 7SR
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
## **Trustees in office August 2023 to July 2024**
|1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||David John Challen
CBE||||
||Sir Christopher
Owen Hum KCMG||||
||Peter Smart||||
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundation) (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods Appointed by resolution of the charity trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|To promote improve, develop, maintain, and advance education and the
arts for the public benefit, in particular through the promotion, support and
encouragement of the art of music and all other art forms and specifically,
but not exclusively, by commissioning or supporting the commissioning of
musical works for the viola with or without other instruments or voices
which in connection therewith may include public performances,
masterclasses, coaching, open rehearsals, workshops, talks and lectures,
outreach programmes, publication of scores and parts and recordings.|
|---|---|
||ln accordance with the objects of the Charity, the past underwritten viola
concerto from CASSANDRA MILLER received further performances
including its German premiere (June 2024, Ludwigsburg Festival
Orchestra) and at the BBC Proms (July 2024, BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra).
As part of V10LA, the charity’s project aim to create ten new major works
for viola and orchestra by 2030, Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto
received its world premiere in Helsinki (February 2024, Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra).
The charity held a VCC reception in partnership with Faber Music to raise
funds for the inaugural VCC Composer Prize, launched in the 24/25
Season.
The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit.|
|||
|Section D|Achievements and performance|
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**||
||The BBC Proms and German premieres of the Cassandra Miller Viola
Concerto given by Lawrence Power and the BBC Philharmonic /
Ludwigsburg Festival Orchestra respectively, together with the world
premiere of the Magnus Lindberg Viola Concerto with Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra all achieved critical acclaim.
The Lockdown Commissions continue to inspire young viola players
globally, with new performances of the works.|
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**Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** Unrestricted funds will be retained to meet operating costs while the **charity’s policy on reserves** expendable endowment will be used to support the underwriting of commissions and to meet any shortfall on underwritten pieces. If necessary, funds are transferred from the endowment to meet any deficit in unrestricted funds.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include The charity’s principal source of funds is from the charity’s supporters. additional information, where Further funding for specific commissions may be sought from charitable relevant about: grant makers.
● the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any Funds are held in a bank current account. Interest-bearing deposit fundraising); accounts for funds not immediately required have been opened. ● how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; ● investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
**Section F Other optional information**
We should like to thank the members of our Advisory Council for their invaluable guidance and advice and the many generous donors who have entrusted their funds to us as Underwriting Members. We are also most grateful to our donors and Friends for their support.
Please see the lists on our website http://viola-cc.org.uk
## **Section G Declaration**
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Peter Smart **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Trustee **Date** 5th June 2025
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## **Balance Sheet 31st July 2024**
|**Fixed Assets**
Fixtures & Fittings
**Current Assets**
Debtors, prepayments & accrued income
Lloyds Current Account
Nationwide Instant Saver
Nationwide 45 day notice account
**Current Liabilities**
Trade creditors
Accruals & deferred income
**Net Current Assets / (Liabilities)**
**Net Assets / (Liabilities)**
**Representing**
Unrestricted reserve brought forward
Surplus (deficit) for the period
Unrestricted reserve carried forward
Endowment reserve brought forward
Surplus (deficit) for the period
Endowment reserve carried forward
Total reserves carried forward|-
-
-
5,873
-
50,000
55,873
1,180
630
1,810
54,063
**54,063**
927
15
**942**
57,121
(4,000)
**53,121**
**54,063**
**2024**|**2023**|
|---|---|---|
||-
5,873
-
50,000|-|
|||-
4,000
2,178
3,000
50,000|
||55,873|59,178|
||1,180
630|-
1,130|
||1,810|1,130|
|||58,048
**58,048**|
|||1,879
(952)|
|||**927**|
|||67,213
(10,092)|
|||**57,121**|
||||
|||**58,048**|
## **Income & Expenditure**
## **31st July 2024**
|**Unrestricted**
**Income:**
Donations / legacies
425
Partner Income
-
Grants
-
Bank interest
1,525
**Total Income**
**1,950 **
**Expenditure:**
Underwriting fees
Administrator fees
4,000
Marketing
125
Development
1,180
Commissioning fees
-
Professional fees
630
**Total Expenditure**
**5,935 **
**Net Income / (Expenditure)**
**(3,985)**
**before transfers**
Transfer between funds
4,000
**Net Income / (Expenditure)**
**15 **|**Endowment**
-
-
-
-
**-**
-
-
-
-
-
**-**
**-**
(4,000)
**(4,000)**|**Total**
**2024**
425
-
-
1,525
**1,950 **
-
4,000
125
1,180
-
630
**5,935 **
**(3,985)**
-
**(3,985)**|**Total**
**2023**
300
4,000
308
838|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**5,446 **|
||||-
960
-
-
14,400
1,130|
||||**16,490 **|
||||**(11,044)**
-|
||||**(11,044)**|