## – Trustee Annual Report for Period August 2022 July 2023 

## Reference and Administraton Details: 

Charity name: London Sound Project 

Other names: LSP 

Registered Charity Number: 1179261 

Charity Principal Address:  Fordors Down, Fordton, Crediton, Devon EX17 3DB 

## Trustees: 

|#|Trustee Name|Ofce(if any)|
|---|---|---|
|1|Dr Barbara Kell|Chair|
|2|Catherine Vetere||
|3|Sam Sommerfeld|Musical Director|
|4|Barbie Antonis|Commitee Member|
|5|Nadine Vella|MembershipSecretary|
|6|PhilipChivers|Treasurer|
|7|Andrew Bailey||
|8|Karen Mochan||



## Structure, Governance and Management: 

The core objectives of LSP remain “TO ADVANCE, IMPROVE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, AND APPRECIATION OF, THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC IN ALL ITS ASPECTS BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC CONCERTS AND RECITALS.” 

The constitution was under review during this period with updates due in the following financial year. Alongside this, we also were reviewing policy and procedure to support good governance and management of the charity. 

## Objectves and actvites 

This year, rather than a Christmas gig, we hit the recording studio. Recording sessions were split by voice part, recording SATB separately. Editing and mixing followed the recording sessions.  The final stage was mastering where the tracks were produced to a quality to be published. All three are available now on all streaming platforms (Spotify/Apple Music/Spotify/AmazonMusic etc). 

This was a popular and interesting activity for members ! 

We sang three songs at the opening of a Storm Thorgerson retrospective at Lauderdale house in June. These were Pink Floyd’s ‘Coming Back to Life’, 10CC’s ‘The Things We Do For Love’ and Steve 

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Miller Band’s ‘Dance, Dance, Dance’ representing artists for whom Storm Thorgerson produced album art. 

Our main gig was in July was at the stunning Crypt on the Green at Clerkenwell. 

We opened with the evocative ‘Nica Libres at Dusk’ and reprised ‘Coming Back to Life’ and featured a moving SATB version of ‘Songbird’ as a tribute to Christine McVie. It was also a pleasure to invite Joey Hickman aboard for this gig; another brilliant musician who played accordion, trumpet and trombone and performed a personal version of ‘Summertime’ to the audience of 125. 

## Finances 

Our Gross Turnover for the period totalled £25,895 which is a substantial increase from the previous year as we continued to bounce back from the Pandemic. 

This was boosted by £2,600 recovered from previous years in Gift Aid and £1,300 received from our friends at Cecil Sharp House, ticket revenue owed from previous financial year. 

Our Gross Expenses for the period were £24,875. This reflects the increases for musicians, musical director and the activities described above. 

We breached the £25,000 income floor that requires us to submit externally reviewed accounts, as per the Charity Commission. This does not have to be by an accountant, so an experienced charity treasurer was engaged to assess and review the accounts. 

A tiered payments system was introduced to support members with lower income. 

Financial reserve policy remains at £3500. 

## Going Concern and Future Plans 

LSP has been running for over seven years. The committee have been working on developing our ‘foundations’ as a group. Part of this included a ‘Strategy Sunday’ back in April which was invaluable in bringing together the members and getting feedback and bouncing off ideas. 

Since then, we have welcomed Laura Norman to the team as Social Media Manager & Co Producer. She has brought so much experience to the committee, and we look forward to working with her in really driving the growth and breadth of LSP and what we can offer - as well as ensuring a longlasting healthy future for the choir. 

The intent was to grow back to the size and depth of our pre-covid levels and to test the boundaries of how large we might become. 

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||CashBook<br>20|CashBook<br>21|CashBook<br>22||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Aug-Dec|Jan-Mar|Apr-July||
|Reciepts|£8,619.00|£7,520.84|£9,755.35|£25,895.19|
|Expenses|£6,282.13|£5,245.35|£13,347.57|£24,875.05|





|London Sound Project|London Sound Project||Cash Book||Number 20||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||August 1, 2022|- December 31, 2022|||||
|Date|Detail|Bank|Membership|Membership|Gig Ticket|Refunds/|Donatons|Misc|
||||Fees S/O|Fees Cash|Sales|Overpayments|||
|Aug-22|Deposits|£    1,380.00|£      1,380.00||||||
|Sep-22|Deposits|£    1,290.00|£      1,290.00||||||
|Sep-22|EFDSS GENL|£    1,359.00|||£1,359.00||||
|Oct-22|Deposits|£    1,650.00|£      1,650.00||||||
|Nov-22|Deposits|£    1,590.00|£      1,590.00||||||
|Dec-22|Deposits|£    1,350.00|£      1,350.00||||||
|Cash Book|||||||||
|July 31, 2022|£          4,040.01||||||||
|Add Receipts|£          8,619.00||||||||
|Less Expenses|£          6,282.13||||||||
|CB Dec 31, 2022|£          6,376.88||||||||
|Bank Balance|||||||||
|December 31, 2022|£          6,376.88||||||||
||£          5,017.01||||||||



|Date|Detail|Bank|VAT||Rehearsal|MD Choir Reh|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Venues||
||### ZOOM.US 888-799-96|£14.39|£|2.40|||
||### SQUARESPACE INC.|£16.36|||||
||### ZOOM|£14.39|£|2.40|||
||### REBECCA APPLIN|£250.00|||||
||### SQUARESPACE INC|£19.31|||||
||### SAM SOMMERFELD LT|£935.30||||£300.00|
||### ZOOM|£14.39|£|2.40|||
||### NADINE VELLA|£108.04|||||
||### ST SAVIOURS NEW|£350.00|||£350.00||
||### EFDSS|£197.50|||£197.50||
||### SQUARESPACE INC|£20.15|||||
||### MARK LAWRENCE|<br>£900.00|||||
||### SAM SOMMERFELD LT|£685.30||||£200.00|
||### SAMUEL CAMPBELL|<br>£200.00|||||
||### ZOOM.US 888-799-96|£14.39||£2.40|||
||### MR S J WESTON|£200.00|||||
||### FERNANDO SANCHEZ|<br>£250.00|||||
||### SQUARESPACE INC.|£19.48|||||
||### MAKING MUSIC.|£246.00|||||
||### WHITE LION|£101.50|||||
||### MAKING MUSIC|£55.04|||||
||### SAM SOMMERFELD LT|£845.50||||£400.00|
||### MR PHILIP CHIVERS|£26.50|||||
||###SQUARESPACE|£18.19|||||
||###SAM SOMMERFELD LTD|£780.40||||£200.00|
|||£6,282.13|||||





|||||Arrangements|Transport &|Transport &|Band||PRS||Insurance|Web/site &|PPS|Pro Fees|Gig Venue|Sound &|Security|Charity|Printng/Ink|Misc|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Band|Rehearsal|Gig Fees||& Uploads|Travel||Choir|||||Social media|||Hire|Lights|||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||£               -|good||
|||||||||||||£         11.99||||||||||£         14.39|good||
|||||||||||||£         16.36||||||||||£         16.36|good||
|||||||||||||£         11.99||||||||||£         14.39|good||
|£|100.00|£|150.00|||||||||||||||||||£       250.00|good||
|||||||||||||£19.31||||||||||£         19.31|good||
|||||£            500.00|£|135.30||||||||||||||||£       935.30|good||
|||||||||||||£         11.99||||||||||£         14.39|good||
||||||||||||||||||||£108.04|||£       108.04|good||
|||||||||||||||||||||||£       350.00|good||
|||||||||||||||||||||||£       197.50|good||
|||||||||||||£20.15||||||||||£         20.15|good||
||||||||||||||||£900.00|||||||£       900.00|good||
||£120.00|||£230.00||£135.30||||||||||||||||£       685.30|good||
||||£200.00|||||||||||||||||||£       200.00|good||
|||||||||||||£11.99||||||||||£         14.39|good||
||||£200.00|||||||||||||||||||£       200.00|good||
||||£200.00|||||£50.00||||||||||||||£       250.00|good||
|||||||||||||£19.48||||||||||£         19.48|good||
||||||||||||£246.00|||||||||||£       246.00|good||
||||||||||||||||£101.50|||||||£       101.50|good||
|||||||||||£55.04||||||||||||£         55.04|good||
||£120.00||£100.00|||£225.50||||||||||||||||£       845.50|good||
||||||||||||||||||||||£26.50|£         26.50|good|Rev Davidson retrement gif|
|||||||||||||£18.19||||||||||£         18.19|good||
||||£400.00|||£180.40||||||||||||||||£       780.40|good||
|||||||||||||||||||||||£               -|good||
|||||||||||||||||||||||£               -|bad||





London Sound Project 

Cash Book Number 21 January 1, 2023 - Mar ch 31, 2023 

Date Detail Bank Membership Membership Gig Ticket Fees S/O Fees Cash Sales Jan-23 Deposits £2,729.86 £      1,590.00 Feb-23 Deposits £1,620.00 £      1,620.00 Mar-23 Deposits £3,170.98 £      1,680.00 

|Cash Book||
|---|---|
|Jan 1, 2023|£          6,376.88|
|Add Receipts|£          7,520.84|
|Less Expenses|£          5,245.35|
|CB Mar 31, 2023|£          8,652.37|



Bank Balance March 31, 2023 



|Refunds/|Donatons|GifAid|Misc|
|---|---|---|---|
|Overpayments||||
|||£1,139.86||
|||£1,490.98||
|||£2,630.84||





|Date||Detail|Bank||VAT|Rehearsal||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Venues|MD Choir Reh|
||1/6/2023|PHILIP SWAIN          LS||£80.00||||
||1/9/2023|MR PHILIP CHIVERS||£62.80||||
||1/10/2023|MR PHILIP CHIVERS||£50.00||||
||1/11/2023|SQUARESPACE INC.||£18.33||||
||1/23/2023|PRIMROSE HILL COMM||£202.50||£       202.50||
||1/27/2023|SAM SOMMERFIELD||£750.40|||£300.00|
||2/13/2023|REBECCA APPLIN||£200.00||||
||2/13/2023|SQUARESPACE INC.||£18.42||||
||2/16/2023|BARBARA KELL||£228.00||||
||2/20/2023|MR S J WESTON||£60.00||||
||2/22/2023|PRIMROSE HILL COMM||£270.00||£       270.00||
||2/27/2023|SAM SOMMERFELD LT||£790.40|||£300.00|
||3/1/2023|SAMUEL CAMPBELL||£60.00||||
||3/3/2023|NADINE VELLA||£47.99||||
||3/3/2023|NADINE VELLA||£21.98||||
||3/3/2023|NADINE VELLA||£21.98||||
||3/6/2023|Dropbox               IR||£95.88||||
||3/8/2023|SAM FEATHERSTONE||£825.00||||
||3/13/2023|SQUARESPACE INC.||£18.77||||
||3/17/2023|SAMUEL CAMPBELL||£60.00||||
||3/24/2023|PRIMROSE HILL COMM||£412.50||£412.50||
||3/28/2023|FERNANDO SANCHEZ||£60.00||||
||3/30/2023|SAM SOMMERFELD LT||£890.40|||£400.00|






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Arrangements Transport & PRS<br>Band Rehearsal Gig Fees & Uploads Travel Band Choir<br>£270.00 £180.40<br> £                 200.00<br>£60.00<br>£310.00 £180.40<br>£60.00<br>£60.00<br>£60.00<br>£40.00 £270.00 £180.40<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>




|Insurance|Web/site &|PPS|Pro Fees|Gig Venue|Sound &|Security|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Social media|||Hire|Lights||
||£         18.33||||||
||£         18.42||||||
||£       228.00||||||



£95.88 £825.00 £18.77 



## Charity Printng/Ink Misc 

|||£|80.00|£|80.00|good|Piano tuner for pub|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||£|62.80|£|62.80|good|Pub hospitality|
|||£|50.00|£|50.00|good|Karin|
|||||£|18.33|good||
|||||£|202.50|good||
|||||£|750.40|good||
|||||£|200.00|good||
|||||£|18.42|good||
|||||£|228.00|good||
|||||£|60.00|good||
|||||£|270.00|good||
|||||£|790.40|good||
|||||£|60.00|good||
|£|47.99|||£|47.99|good||
|£|21.98|||£|21.98|good||
|£|21.98|||£|21.98|good||
|||||£|95.88|good||
|||||£|825.00|good||
|||||£|18.77|good||
|||||£|60.00|good||
|||||£|412.50|good||
|||||£|60.00|good||
|||||£|890.40|good||
|||||£|-|good||
|||||£|-|good||
|||||£|-|good||
|||||£|-|good||
|||||£|-|good||





London Sound Project Cash Book April 1, 2023 - July 31, 2023 

Number 22 

|Date||Detail|Bank|Membership|Membership|Gig Ticket|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Fees S/O|Fees Cash|Sales|
||Apr-23|Deposits|£1,500.00|£      1,500.00|||
||May-23|Deposits|£1,620.00|£      1,620.00|||
||Jun-23|Deposits|£1,500.00|£      1,500.00|||
||Jul-23|Deposits|£4,806.40|£      1,650.00||£1,612.50|
||Jul-23|Cash|£328.95|||£160.00|



|Cash Book|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|CB Mar 31, 2023|£          8,652.37||||
|Add Receipts|£          9,755.35||||
|Less Expenses|£        13,347.57||||
|CB Jul 31, 2023|£          5,060.15||||
|Bank Balance|||||
|July 31, 2023|£          5,060.15||||
||Aug-Dec|Jan-Mar|Apr-July||
|Reciepts|8619|7520.84|9755.35|25895.19|
|Expenses|6282.13|5245.35|13347.57|24875.05|





Refunds/ Donatons Gif Aid Misc Overpayments Bar £200.00 £843.90 £500.00 £148.95 20 (Bourne Tix) 



|Date||Detail|Bank|Bank|VAT|Rehearsal|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Venues|
||4/11/2023|SQUARESPACE INC.||£17.92|||
||4/26/2023|SAM SOMMERFELD LT||£725.30|||
||4/26/2023|PRIMROSE HILL COMM||£305.00||£305.00|
||4/26/2023|SAM TIMOTHY SOMM||£51.35|||
||5/3/2023|REBECCA APPLIN||£123.85|||
||5/5/2023|NADINE VELLA||£70.18|||
||5/11/2023|SQUARESPACE INC.||£17.64|||
||5/12/2023|SAMUEL CAMPBELL||£60.00|||
||5/12/2023|JOEY HICKMAN          J||£48.14|||
||5/12/2023|JOEY HICKMAN          J||£48.14|||
||5/15/2023|MR S J WESTON||£60.00|||
||5/16/2023|ST JAMES CHURCH CL||£615.00|||
||5/17/2023|PRIMROSE HILL COMM||£330.00||£330.00|
||5/30/2023|KATINA KANGARIS||£219.30|||
||6/1/2023|SAM SOMMERFELD LT||£790.20|||
||6/1/2023|PRIMROSE HILL COMM||£330.00||£330.00|
||6/5/2023|HTTPS://ISLINGTON.||£21.00|||
||6/12/2023|SQUARESPACE INC.||£17.71|||
||6/14/2023|WAC ARTS REG CHARI||£180.00||£180.00|
||6/19/2023|SAMUEL CAMPBELL||£140.00||£         50.00|
||6/20/2023|JOEY HICKMAN||£64.44|||
||6/23/2023|ST JAMES CHURCH CL||£897.50|||
||6/23/2023|iZetle Merchant S||£34.80|||
||6/26/2023|AMZNMktplace||£50.96|||
||6/28/2023|SAMUEL CAMPBELL||£220.00||£100.00|
||6/28/2023|SAM TIMOTHY SOMM||£24.69|||
||6/30/2023|SAM SOMMERFELD LT||£1,780.60|||
||6/30/2023|AMZNMktplace||£94.95|||
||6/30/2023|BARBARA KELL          G||£79.76|||
||7/3/2023|MAJESTIC WINE||£668.34|||
||7/3/2023|47VICTORIA            VI||£200.00|||
||7/3/2023|EVENTBRITE BOOST||£115.00|||
||7/3/2023|AMZNMktplace          ON||£56.67|||
||7/3/2023|AMZNMktplace          ON||£14.99|||
||7/4/2023|JOEY HICKMAN          1||£645.00|||
||7/4/2023|PHIL DANTER           10||£330.84|||
||7/4/2023|SAMUEL CAMPBELL||£135.00|||
||7/7/2023|FERNANDO SANCHEZ||£687.00|||
||7/7/2023|SAMUEL CAMPBELL||£270.00|||
||7/10/2023|RUTH COWLING||£15.00|||
||7/11/2023|MATTHEW COOKE||£336.50|||





|7/11/2023|SQUARESPACE INC.|£17.45|
|---|---|---|
|7/13/2023|MR S J WESTON         L|£555.00|
|7/24/2023|REBECCA APPLIN|£469.50|
|7/24/2023|MISS M E LONG         08|£200.00|
|7/24/2023|BARBARA ANTONIS|£100.00|
|7/27/2023|SAM SOMMERFELD LT|£1,112.85|





|||||||Arrangements|Transport &|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|MD Choir||Band|Rehearsals|Gig Fees||& Uploads|Travel|
||£200.00||£40.00|||£230.00|£135.30|
||£100.00||||||£23.85|
||||||||£48.14|
||||||||£48.14|
||£200.00||||||£19.30|
||£200.00|||||£500.00|£90.20|
|||£|90.00|||||
||||||||£64.44|
||||£120.00|||||
||||||||£24.69|
||£700.00||£520.00||£250.00||£270.60|
||||£420.00||£225.00|||
||||£120.00||£150.00||£60.84|
||£135.00|||||||
||||£320.00||£255.00||£22.00|
||||||£255.00||£15.00|
||||||||£36.50|





||£300.00|£255.00|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||£180.00|£150.00||139.50|
|£100.00|£120.00|£450.00|£240.00|£202.85|
|£1,635.00|||||





|Band Choir|PRS|Insurance|Web/site &|Web/site &|PPS|Pro Fees|Gig Venue|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Social media||||Hire|
|||||£17.92||||
|||||£17.64||||
|£60.00||||||||
|£60.00||||||||
||||||||£615.00|
||||£|17.71||||
||||||||£897.50|
|£90.00||||||||





£17.45

|Sound &|Security|Bar|Charity|Printng/Ink|Misc||SUM||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Lights||Supplies|||||||
|||||||||£17.92|
|||||||£120.00||£725.30|
|||||||||£305.00|
|||||||£51.35||£51.35|
|||||||||£123.85|
|||||£70.18||||£70.18|
|||||||||£17.64|
|||||||||£60.00|
|||||||||£48.14|
|||||||||£48.14|
|||||||||£60.00|
|||||||||£615.00|
|||||||||£330.00|
|||||||||£219.30|
||||||||£|790.20|
||||||||£|330.00|
|||||||£21.00|£|21.00|
||||||||£|17.71|
||||||||£|180.00|
||||||||£|140.00|
||||||||£|64.44|
||||||||£|897.50|
|||||||£34.80|£|34.80|
|||||||£50.96|£|50.96|
||||||||£|220.00|
||||||||£|24.69|
|||||||£40.00|£    1,780.60||
|||||||£94.95|£|94.95|
|||||£79.76|||£|79.76|
|||£668.34|||||£|668.34|
|||£200.00|||||£|200.00|
|||||||£115.00|£|115.00|
|||||||£56.67|£|56.67|
|||||||£14.99|£|14.99|
||||||||£|645.00|
||||||||£|330.84|
||||||||£|135.00|
||||||||£|687.00|
||||||||£|270.00|
|||||||£15.00|£|15.00|
|£300.00|||||||£|336.50|





£         17.45 £       555.00 £       469.50 £200.00  £       200.00 £100.00  £       100.00 £    1,112.85 



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|good|New Zetle|
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|good|New Candle lights|
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|good|Float|
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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of London Sound Project
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the London Sound Project
(LSPI for the year ended 31 July 2023.
R6sponsibllltie8 and basis of report
As the charity trust88s of the LSP you are responsible for the preparatlon of the accounts in
accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111'the Act,).
I report in respeGt of my examination of the LSP'S accounts carried QLrt under section 145 of
the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions
given by the Charity Commission under section 145{51{b} of the Act.
Independent examln8r'8 statom6nt
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have Come to my
att6ntion in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe thal in any mat8ri81
respect..
1. accounting records were not k8Pt in ￿speCt of the LSP as reqUI￿d by section 130 of the
Act., or
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 to enable a proper
understanding oflhe accounts to be reaGhed.
Signed..
Name.. Paul Stephen Weaver
Diredor ECO Workshop CIC (0875328)
Address.. Cadbold Farmhouse, Pillerton Priors. CV35 OPQ
Date.. 28 De￿rnber 2023