## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From** Period start date **To** Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **1 August 2024 31 July 2025**
|Section A Reference and administrationdetails|Section A Reference and administrationdetails|
|---|---|
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|**Charity name**|The Viola Commissioning Circle|
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|**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 ANDERS HILLBORG received further performances in the
UK (October and November 2024, Scottish Chamber Orchestra) as part
of Nordic Music Days.
MAGNUS LINDBERG’s viola concerto received its UK premiere
(November 2024, Philharmonia Orchestra) and the viola concerto from
CASSANDRA MILLER was nominated for an Ivors Award.
Furthering the V10LA project, the charity’s aim to create ten new major
works for viola and orchestra by 2030, two new works by ERIKA FOX and
ANNA CLYNE were underwritten.
The charity held a crowdfunder to raise further funds for the VCC
Composer Prize, which was launched in May 2025.
The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit.|
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|Section D|Achievements and performance|
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**||
||The Scottish and UK premieres of the Anders Hillborg and Magnus
Lindberg viola concertos were given by Lawrence Power and the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra respectively, both achieved
critical acclaim.
The Lockdown Commissions continue to inspire young viola players
globally, with new performances of the works. In July 2025 the viola
concerto from ANDERS HILLBORG was performed by young violist Ionel
Ungureanu with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
The VCC Composer Prize was launched in May 2025 searching for new
composers to write for viola in a chamber setting.|
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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 additional information, where relevant about:
● the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
The charity’s principal source of funds is from the charity’s supporters. Further funding for specific commissions may be sought from charitable grant makers.
Funds are held in a bank current account. Interest-bearing deposit 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** 14th December 2025
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## **Balance Sheet 31st July 2025**
|**Current Assets**
Debtors, prepayments & accrued income
Lloyds Current Account
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|-
20,047
31,000
51,047
-
660
660
50,387
**50,387**
942
(676)
**266**
53,121
(3,000)
**50,121**
**50,387**
**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|
||-
20,047
31,000|-
5,873
50,000|
||51,047|55,873|
||-
660|1,180
630|
||660|1,810|
|||54,063
**54,063**|
|||927
15|
|||**942**|
|||57,121
(4,000)|
|||**53,121**|
||||
|||**54,063**|
## **Income & Expenditure**
## **31st July 2025**
|**Unrestricted**
**Income:**
Donations / legacies
12,742
Gift Aid
2,132
Bank interest
1,603
**Total Income**
**16,477 **
**Expenditure:**
Underwriting fees
13,000
Administrator fees
5,820
Marketing
422
Commissioning
221
Office costs
30
Professional fees
660
**Total Expenditure**
**20,153 **
**Net Income / (Expenditure)**
**(3,676)**
**before transfers**
Transfer between funds
3,000
**Net Income / (Expenditure)**
**(676)**|**Endowment**
-
-
-
**-**
-
-
-
-
-
-
**-**
**-**
(3,000)
**(3,000)**|**Total**
**2025**
12,742
2,132
1,603
**16,477 **
13,000
5,820
422
221
30
660
**20,153 **
**(3,676)**
-
**(3,676)**|**Total**
**2024**
425
-
1,525|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**1,950 **|
||||-
4,000
125
-
-
630|
||||**5,935 **|
||||**(3,985)**
-|
||||**(3,985)**|