## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date 01 04 2021 Period end date 31 03 2022 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name KLEZNORTH** **Other names charity is known by N/a** **Registered charity number (if any) 1182048** **Charity's principal address C/o Ian Stern** **48 Rawlinson Road Southport, Merseyside** **Postcode PR9 9NE** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Ian Stern Chair 2 Keith Lander Secretary 3 Aisha Walker 4 Fiona Frank 5 Alan Zinober Treasurer 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser** **Name** **Address** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) - Appointed by a resolution of the charity trustees - Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To advance the public in the subject of Klezmer music and dance, Yiddish song and associated cultural activities. The area of benefit is the whole of the UK, and anyone in the UK can participate regardless of age, religion or culture. We also welcome international visitors to events. March **2012** **TAR** 2 All charities are asked to declare that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. This was circulated to the Trustees and the following declaration made on 01/11/18 in correspondence with the Charity Commission: “Please can you confirm that you will adhere to the following guidance”: Yes, we will adhere to this guidance: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uplo ads/attachment_data/file/358536/the-advancement-of-education-for-thepublic-benefit.pdf **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)** The main activity undertaken by KlezNorth is the annual spring weekend held currently in Youlgrave, Derbyshire. In Spring 2021, because of Covid restrictions, we were unable to hold the weekend in Youlgrave but were successful in having the weekend on Zoom, which attracted international artists and teachers as well as an international audience. On 06.03.22, again because of Covid restrictions and concerns, we held a one day online Klezmer/Yiddish event on Zoom, which included workshops and a concert, again with international artists, teachers and audience. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Kleznorth continues to operate because of its fantastic informal group of volunteers, both on the Committee and in support, including all participants at the KlezNorth weekend who help with the large range of tasks required to support and feed up to 100 people. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: KlezNorth has a small fund, through donations, to offer bursaries to enable promising young musicians to participate in the KlezNorth weekend - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 6 March 2022 on-line Zoom Klezmer and Yiddish event, with workshop, concert and cultural activities. Well attended by participants from the UK and abroad. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** KlezNorth continues to maintain the policy of retaining adequate reserves to cover all contingencies, in tandem with insurance against adverse weather conditions in Derbyshire. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** No deficit ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: The vast majority of the funds of the income for KlezNorth comes from ticket sales. Most years the Jewish Music Institute provides a small grant and there are some donations by participants. - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - 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** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** > **Signature(s)** I Stern **Full name(s) Ian Stern Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 13.01.23** March **2012** **TAR** 5 |**KlezNorth 2021 Accounts**||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**2021**||**_2020_**||**Par5cipants**|| |**Income**||||||£| |Fees|**7978**||**_8100_**||accom|100| |Other|**2**||**_1_**||non res|70| |Grants|**300**||**_0_**||Sat only|60| |Bursary fund|**172**||**_115_**||Sat eve|25| |Other events|**0**||**_159_**||washer up|35| |Concert|**0**||**_772_**||non-paying|| |DonaFons|**191**||**_2854_**|||| |Refunds|**0**||**_-8100_**||Bursary fund|| ||||||Concert|6.5| |**Total Income**|**8643**||**_3901_**|||12| |||||||| |||||||| |Paypal fees|**340**||**_119_**|||| |||||||| |**Net income**|**8303**||**_3782_**||w/e supporter|100| ||||||w/e standard|70| |**Expenses**|||||Other|| |Hall|**0**||**_0_**||Concert|15| |YHA|**0**||**_0_**||Concert reduced|10| |Insurance|**0**||**_234_**||Young supporter Special|35| |Car Park|**0**||**_0_**||Manchester Uni|13| |Farmyard|**0**||**_0_**||IT Volunteers|| |Methodist Chapel|**0**||**_0_**||Other volunteers|| |ArFsts' fees and trave|**5501**||**_1450_**|||| |AcccomodaFon|**0**||**_0_**|||| |Tutors' food|**0**||**_0_**|||| |Website|**307**||**_19_**|||| |IT support|**427**||**_0_**|||| |Video|**500**||**_0_**|||| |PRS|**90**||**_0_**|||| |Saturday meal|**0**||**_125_**|||| |Bank charges|**2**||**_82_**|||| |Misc|**0**||**_42_**|||| |Films|**0**||**_0_**|||| |PA|**0**||**_0_**|||| |Concert fees|**0**||**_576_**|||| |Concert expenses|**0**||**_39_**|||| |||||||| |**Total Expenses**|**6827**||**_2567_**|||| |||||||| |**Surplus/defcit**|**1476**||**_1215_**|||| |||||||| |**Funds**||||||| 1 |b/f|**6318**||**_5103_**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |c/f|**7794**||**_6318_**|||| |||||||| |||||||| |**Represented by**||||||| |Deposits paid in advance:||||||| |YHA|**1368**||**_1368_**|||| |Tutors' coYage|**0**||**_177_**|||| |Creditors|**-2757**||**_-442_**|||| |Owed to commiYee|**0**||**_134_**|||| |||||||| |Balance in PayPal|**976**||**_3_**|||| |Balance in bank|**8207**||**_5078_**|||| |||||||| |**Total**|**7794**||**_6318_**|||| 2 |||| |---|---|---| |**Numbers**||**Income**| |**2020**||| |42||4200| |39||2730| |1||60| |1||25| |4||140| |17||| |104||7155| |||142| |70||455| |29||348| |||| |203||**8100**| |||| |**2021**||**Income**| |28||2800| |40||2800| |5||248| |48||720| |70||700| |6||210| |||500| |10||| |37||| |244||7978| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| 3