## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From: 01/09/2022 (Period start date) To: 31/08/2023 (Period end date)**
**Charity name: eavesdropping CIO**
**Charity registration number: 1181977**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|_The objects of the CIO are specifically restricted_
_to the following:_
_1._
_the advancement of the performing arts,_
_specifically music, for the public benefit,_
_in particular but not exclusively by:_
_(a) providing a programme of public_
_performances devoted to new music;_
_(b) providing a dedicated forum for_
_research in order to further dialogue_
_within the new music community;_
_(c) providing professional development_
_and performance opportunities for_
_artists identifying as female, thus_
_advancing equal opportunities in an_
_historically male-dominated_
_profession;_
_(d) promoting the highest standards_
_and supporting engaged risk-taking_
_in the creation and performance of_
_new musical works; and_
_2._
_the advancement of the education of the_
_public in general in the subject of music,_
_in particular but not exclusively by:_
_(a) promoting a broad and diverse_
_repertoire of new music;_
_(b) promoting individual and collective_
_knowledge in the specific areas of_
_live performance, commissioning_
_and programming;_
_(c) raising awareness of the charity’s_
_activities through information_
_media._|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts|Para 1.17 and 1.19|_eavesdropping is an annual series of live_
_performances and a symposium celebrating_
_new music, founded by soprano Juliet Fraser in_
_2017. Its overarching charitable objects are the_
_advancement of the performing arts,_
_specifically music, for the public benefit, and the_
_advancement of the education of the public in_
_general in the subject of music._|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have had
regard to the guidance issued
by the Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18|_The trustees confirm that they have had regard_
_to the guidance issued by the Charity_
_Commission on public benefit._|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a whole|Para 1.20|_eavesdropping’s activity included a four-day_
_festival and forum, held at Cafe OTO; two_
_training workshops; continuation of the_
_podcast series; three outpost events for Britten_
_Pears Arts. A Producer, a Podcast Producer and_
_a Fundraiser were appointed to support the_
_Artistic Director. The return to live_
_performances and the expansion of our activity_
_has had a demonstrably positive impact on the_
_artists and audiences that we seek to reach as_
_part of our charitable objects._|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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|---|---|---|
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|_N/A_|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|_N/A_|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|_N/A_|
|Other||_N/A_|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|_The charity held £415 in its Co-operative Bank_
_account at the year’s end. This amount includes_
_restricted funding for the next season._|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|_Reserves of £2000 are held in the main charity_
_account, allowing a full season of artists to be_
_paid even if a whole festival had to be cancelled._|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|_£0_|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|_Reserves drawn on to fund 2023 activity. To be_
_replaced during the next year._|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|_N/A_|
|---|---|---|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|_N/A_|
## **Additional information (optional)**
|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|
|---|---|---|
|You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|_N/A_|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any social
investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|_N/A_|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|_N/A_|
|Other||_N/A_|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document|Para 1.25|_Constitution_|
|How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|_Charitable Incorporated Organisation_|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|_New trustees are selected and appointed by the_
_current charity trustees, in accordance with the_
_following constitutional provisions:_
_1. Apart from the first charity trustees,_
_every trustee must be appointed for a_
_term of three years by a resolution passed_
_at a properly convened meeting of the_
_charity trustees._
_2._
_In selecting individuals for appointment_
_as charity trustees, the charity trustees_
_must have regard to the skills, knowledge_
_and experience needed for the effective_
_administration of the CIO._|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|_The charity trustees will make available to each_
_new charity trustee, on or before his or her first_
_appointment:_
_(a) a copy of the current version of this_
_constitution; and_
_(b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’_
_Annual Report and statement of_
_accounts._|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider|Para 1.51|_N/A_|
|network with which the
charity works|||
|---|---|---|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|_N/A_|
|Other||_N/A_|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|_eavesdropping CIO_|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|_eavesdropping_|
|Registered charity number|_1181977_|
|Charity’s principal address|_81 Cressy Houses_
_Hannibal Road_
_London E1 3JF_|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint**
**trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||_LOUISE MARSHALL_|_N/A _|||
||_JACQUELYN BELL_|_N/A _|||
||_FAYJENNETT_|_N/A _|||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name** _N/A_
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** _N/A_
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held _N/A_ in this capacity Name and objects of the _N/A_ charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for _N/A_ safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser** _N/A_
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
_Juliet Fraser_
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details _N/A_
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
|---|---|---|
||JULIET FRASER|LOUISE MARSHALL|
||
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR|TRUSTEE|
||8 December 2023|8 December 2023|
**eavesdropping CIO**
**1181977**
## **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts**
**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/09/2022 31/08/2023 **To from**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|
Ticket sales|**2,962**||**-**||**-**||**2,962**||**-**|
|Arts Council Englandgrant|**-**||**9,405**||**-**||**9,405**||**661**|
|PRS Foundationgrant|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**4,400**|
|Hope Scott Trustgrant(VOICEBOX)|||**1,000**||||**1,000**|||
|Donations|**650**||**-**||**-**||**650**||**400**|
|Gift Aid|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**788**|
|Outpost events(consultancy)|**566**||**-**||**-**||**566**||**-**|
|BBC Radio 3|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|PayPal revenue|**139**||**-**||**-**||**139**||**-**|
|Misc income|**104**||**1,375**||**-**||**1,479**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**4,421**||**11,780**||**-**||**16,201**||**6,249**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**6,249**|
|||||||||||
|
Artists' salaries|**472**||**3,901**||**-**||**4,373**||**-**|
|Other salaries|**1,006**||**4,383**||**-**||**5,389**||**255**|
|VOICEBOX salary|||**429**||||**429**|||
|Consultancy/Partner fees(TONIC)|**1,200**||**-**||||**1,200**|||
|Artists' expenses|**-**||**2,353**||**-**||**2,353**||**-**|
|Access costs|**510**||**-**||||**510**|||
|Venue hire|**-**||**3,111**||**-**||**3,111**||**-**|
|Documentation and tech|**1,016**||**1,800**||**-**||**2,816**||**-**|
|Publicity|**-**||**293**||**-**||**293**||**500**|
|Website hosting/digitalplatforms|**261**||**-**||**-**||**261**||**261**|
|PLI|**568**||||||**568**|||
|Misc costs (misc. event costs; ticket
reimbursements)|**363**||**-**||**-**||**363**||**35**|
|Bank charges|**14**||**-**||**-**||**14**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**5,409**||**16,270**||**-**||**21,679**||**1,051**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**1,051**|
|||||||||||
||**- 989**||||||||**5,199**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**832**||||||||**694**|
||**- 157**||||||||**5,893**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £** 08/12/2023
**Categories Details**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
~~1~~
|**B1 Cash funds**|Co-operative Bank||**-**|**157**||||**571**|**571**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||**-**|**157**||||**571**|||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))||OK||||OK||||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted**|**funds**|||**Endowment**|
|||||**funds**|||||||**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||||**Cost (optional)**||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||||**Cost (optional)**||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**|||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**Fund to which**|||**Amount**|**due**|||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**||||**(optional)**||||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|PRS Foundation 2/2||Restricted funds|||||**2,100**|||**08 September 2023**|
||Juliet Fraser||Restricted funds||||**-**|**1,375**|||**11 September 2023**|
||BPA 2/2||Unrestricted funds|||||**283**|||**29 September 2023**|
||BBC Radio 3||Unrestricted funds||||**tbc**||||**tbc**|
||||||||||**-**|||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print||Name|||||Date of approval|
|||||JACQUELYN BELL|||||||08-Dec-23|
|||||FAY JENNETT|||||||08-Dec-23|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
08/12/2023
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