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- Sing Inside: Annual Report and Accounts 2021 22

The trustees are pleased to present the annual report and accounts of Sing Inside for the year ended 31 March 2022.

Contents

Reference information ........................................................................................................... 1 Structure, governance and management .............................................................................. 2 Chair’s statement – Nigel Rothband ...................................................................................... 3 Chief Executive’s statement – Maisie Hulbert ....................................................................... 3 Report of the trustees: Our objectives ................................................................................... 4 Our work ............................................................................................................................... 5 Remote learning resources ................................................................................................ 5 Face-to-face provision ....................................................................................................... 5 Volunteer engagement ...................................................................................................... 6 Anti-racism ........................................................................................................................ 6 Volunteer demographic data .......................................................................................... 7 What have we learnt? ...................................................................................................... 10 What’s next?.................................................................................................................... 11 Financial review .................................................................................................................. 11 Additional disclosures required for CIOs .......................................................................... 11 Reserves policy ............................................................................................................... 12 Accounts ............................................................................................................................. 13 Independent examiner’s report ............................................................................................ 15

Reference information

Charity name : Sing Inside

Registered CIO number : 1182678

Registered address : Sing Inside, International House, 12 Constance Street, London, E16 2DQ

Trustees

Nigel Rothband (chair, appointed 28.03.2019) Andrea Brown (appointed 28.03.2019) Claudia Vince (appointed 09.12.2020) Áine Jackson (appointed 14.12.2020)

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Jonathan Lucas Wood (appointed 21.12.2020) Jenny Mercer (appointed 21.01.2021) Edward Smyth (appointed 03.09.2021)

Executive team

Maisie Hulbert (chief executive officer) Kate Apley (head of volunteer engagement) Giverny McAndry (head of policy) Jonathan Schranz (head of development) Clover Willis (musical leadership executive)

With thanks to local volunteer committees based in Cambridge, Oxford and York, as well as volunteer project officers.

Structure, governance and management

Sing Inside was registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) on 28 March 2019 with registered charity number 1182678. Sing Inside's governing document is its constitution (last updated March 2019). The trustees confirm that the financial statements comply with the requirements in section 24 of Sing Inside’s constitution and with section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 which permits noncompany charities to prepare receipts and payments accounts provided the charity’s gross income does not exceed £250,000.

Sing Inside provides group singing workshops in prisons across England and Wales. We enable all participants to enjoy singing with others free from judgement or assessment, inspiring hope and confidence, and facilitating connection to others.

We train confident, inspiring community music leaders who deliver engaging, accessible singing sessions. We prioritise enjoyment in our approach to learning to increase confidence, promote teamwork and encourage participants to recognise their individual contribution to a shared goal.

Our executive team oversees three local committees made up of volunteers who organise workshops with prisons local to them, in Cambridge, Oxford and York. Our relationships with prisons in Staffordshire, London and the south east and all new prison partnerships are managed by the executive team.

During the 2021-22 financial year, Sing Inside continued to face a difficult external landscape with most prisons in England and Wales cancelling face-to-face educational and rehabilitative provision due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Prison experienced and continue to experience serious staff shortages and many entered site lockdowns at short notice. For a charity with limited resource in terms of capacity and finances, this made it very difficult to plan ahead and shape projects with clear expectations around prison involvement.

Later in the year some face-to-face work resumed. Sing Inside continued to work on a hybrid offer, through a key project at HMP Woodhill in August 2021 in which physical packs accompanied a day-long session, during which the group created a recording of Bill Withers’ Lean on Me. This recording was broadcast on National Prison Radio later in the autumn

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alongside an interview with our chief executive, encouraging listeners to join Sing Inside on visits as soon as possible and reiterating our focus on enjoyment and connection to others.

In December 2021, volunteers provided Christmas visits in HMP Wayland and HMP Full Sutton. These sites unfortunately re-entered lockdown in early 2022 which delayed our return to the prisons, but the charity was able to return to HMP Woodhill in March 2022. Sing Inside has also focused this year on rolling out our musical leadership training, which was delivered to volunteers in York, Oxford and Cambridge during 2021-22, upskilling new musical leaders to lead our workshops as we return to face-to-face work more consistently.

Sing Inside also formed its first ever three year strategy, which will run from April 2022 to March 2025. This focuses our resource on prioritising fun in our singing sessions, aiming to boost wellbeing after a significant period of isolation, and blending remote learning into a hybrid approach to boost engagement between workshops. The strategy also sets clear goals on the sustainability of the organisation and stabilising our operating model to ensure all our teams are properly resourced and managed. We have also formed our first anti-racism action plan, focusing on embedding our work in local communities, diversifying our volunteer base through building relationships and connections with other local groups, and ensuring our musical outputs and procedures are reviewed through an anti-racist lens. We look forward to starting work on delivering this strategy.

Chair’s statement – Nigel Rothband

I am proud, particularly in the last year, to be the Chair and a supporter of Sing Inside. The charity has emerged from the pandemic with greater clarity, a brand new three year strategy and a more flexible approach.

Despite the ongoing and significant challenges of delivering singing workshops in prisons, the executive team have continued to show resilience, creativity and determination. Their passion for the charity’s purpose and their enthusiasm are both infectious and inspiring.

This year we will begin to implement our new strategy which includes piloting our exciting ambassador scheme, remunerating our staff and continuing to connect with our local communities. Thank you to my fellow trustees, all our volunteers, supporters and the executive team for your continued commitment and support.

Chief executive’s statement – Maisie Hulbert

This year has been a uniquely challenging year for Sing Inside. The picture in prisons has made it difficult to work closely with people and meaningfully involve them in designing our work due to very low levels of face-to-face provision, and challenges gathering feedback forms from our in-cell provision. As prisons start to reopen, we are seeing a variety of issues surfacing: most importantly for our service design, we are facing a mental health crisis in prisons following a period of such intense isolation, with the Justice Committee estimating that up to 70% of people in prison could be suffering with poor mental health. The practical delivery element of our work is also under more pressure than I have ever experienced before, with staffing levels extremely low and this creating a lack of capacity within the service for activities to resume to anything like pre-pandemic levels. I remain hopeful that this will change as

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prisons adapt to post-pandemic ways of working, and am proud of the entire team’s tenacity, adaptability and determination to deliver as much as possible within incredibly tight constraints.

I am very proud of a number of key pieces of work, most importantly setting our first three year strategy. This will shape our work for years to come, and includes key objectives such as remunerating our team, piloting our Ambassador Scheme to place the voices of people in prison at the heart of workshop design and delivery, and deepening our connections to local communities. Piloting our musical leadership training over the last year has also been a huge success, with volunteers across the country now ready to lead on our workshops and develop their own musical leadership skill. This is a significant benefit as it will allow us to provide more workshops, at a time when confidence building in prisons has never been more needed. I would like to thank our board of trustees, executive team, local committees and volunteer base for all their support over the last year, and I look forward to working with them as we begin to deliver the strategy.

Report of the trustees: our objectives

Sing Inside’s objectives as a charity are set out in our governing document as follows.

" To advance the education of the public in the art of music by:

All of Sing Inside's activities focus on delivering public benefit in line with these purposes. This is usually achieved through delivering day-long workshops and multi-day courses in prisons; however, due to the significant limitations posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, we were not able to return to normal levels of activity during 2021-22. We delivered our objectives in Q1 and Q2 by creating a set of remote learning resources which included a focus on black and minoritised composers and songwriters in line with our anti-racism objectives, which we were then able to deliver face-to-face teaching on when a small number of visits resumed in Q3 and Q4. Sing Inside also focused on work we could deliver outside of prisons in line with our second charitable objective by upscaling our musical leadership training and delivering three sessions over the year, developing musical leaders to support workshop delivery as soon as it can resume.

The trustees have referred to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when setting our objectives and in planning our future activities.

In this report we describe our main activities over the year and how we have continued to develop our organisation and deliver impactful work despite significant limitations posed by the pandemic. We also explore what we have learnt, and how we intend to work in the future to achieve our new strategy.

What have we delivered?

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We are grateful to a number of funders who supported our work over the year, including the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust; the John and Susan Bowers Foundation, and the Neighbourly Foundation, as well as numerous generous donors and our regular supporters.

Our work

2021-22 provided more flexibility than the previous business year to return to face-to-face work, but it was still a challenging year for Sing Inside. With access to prisons consistently restricted, it was difficult to know whether our remote learning resources were reaching people effectively, and to gather feedback about the content. Nonetheless we focused on delivering work where we could, and continued to build on our strategic foundations to ensure we could resume face-to-face working from a strong position.

Remote learning resources

In the first half of the financial year, we were keen to continue reaching people in prison with new resources. We delivered a learning pack which included historical information and quizzes on composers from racially minoritised backgrounds, and the music we provided was accompanied by information about social context and the implications for Black, Asian and minoritised communities. We also included exercises on writing and reading music, and three song learning sessions delivered via audio CD.

To enable this work in the next business year we have built a partnership with the company Socrates, who are developing in-cell technology via tablets which people in prison can access. We hope to provide resources as these devices are rolled out and seek feedback from those in prison directly, to understand how remote delivery can supplement and enrich our face-toface sessions.

Face-to-face provision

During the business year, we were able to deliver a total of four face-to-face workshops: two in HMP Woodhill in August 2021 and March 2022; and one in each HMP Full Sutton and HMP Wayland, both in December 2021. These sessions were clearly greatly appreciated by people in prison, who had spent a huge amount of time on their own and valued the opportunity to connect with others. We expect that as prisons open, there will be high demand for activities which encourage improved wellbeing and social connection.

Our visit to HMP Woodhill in August 2021 was an opportunity for us to bring together our remote learning resources with in-person work. The remote learning resources which we distributed in summer 2021 formed the basis of the workshop, and were distributed to

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participants in advance. On the day, we learned the song Lean on Me together and recorded this with the band backing track provided on the in-cell resource CD.

Following the workshop, this track was edited together with audio of our volunteers from across the country. The final track was broadcast on National Prison Radio in September 2021, demonstrating the power of singing to lift spirits and connect people despite significant barriers. We hope to continue utilising the remote learning resources we have been able to distribute already as a basis for in-person workshops, giving participants a chance to review the music we plan to learn and explore warming up exercises as well as musical activities in advance of sessions.

Volunteer engagement

Musical leadership training

Sing Inside’s new musical leadership training, designed by our musical leadership executive, gives participants the opportunity to understand our approach to musical pedagogy in the prison environment, and why we use the methods we do. It also provides training and support on delivering workshops, upskilling volunteers to deliver sessions in the future. We delivered three musical leadership training sessions throughout this year, which were highly successful and trained 21 volunteers. We hope to deliver five sessions in the next business year. Feedback included the following comments:

Face-to-face prison workshops

We also delivered four face-to-face sessions in three prisons. 32 volunteers attended prison visits, and as in previous years we found that they had interesting and at times very moving experiences working with people in prison as equal partners. Feedback included the following comments:

Question: what did you enjoy most about today’s session?

Anti-racism

In June 2020, Sing Inside committed to becoming an actively anti-racist organisation, and over 2021-22 we began adapting our services to start this journey. This work included:

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Volunteer demographic data

So far 128 out of a total of 795 contacts who have registered an interest in volunteering with us have filled out an EDI form and selected the fields they are happy to complete. As of March 2022 our demographic data on our volunteers is below. We have only included data fields where at least one submission was received and provided the total number of submissions for each category.

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Gender (N=128)
1 [1]
40
86
Male Female Non-binary Other
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Sexual orientation (N=78)
7
8
38
17
8
Heterosexual Homosexual Bisexual Prefer not to say Other
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Age (N=128)
1
11
14
4
62
6
30
18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 or over Prefer not to say
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Disability (N=128)

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6 10
112
Yes No Prefer not to say
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Ethnicity (N=128)
Prefer not to say 2
Black Caribbean 1
Other Asian background 4
Asian British 2
Chinese 5
Other mixed/multiple ethnic background 3
White and Asian 2
White other 12
White British 30
White Scottish 2
White Welsh 1
White English 64
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
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Religion (N=127)
Other 5
Prefer not to say 13
Muslim 2
Jewish 4
Christian (all denominations) 49
No religion 54
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Ethnicity
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What have we learnt?

In the past business year we have learnt a huge amount about the ways in which we work, and the next steps we need to take to keep growing and developing. Some of our key learning has included:

has included:
Key learning point How we will act
Limited access to feedback from people in
prison limits the development and tailoring
of our activity		 Piloting our Ambassador Scheme will lay
the foundations for more consistent contact
with people in prison across all sites we
work in. We are currently seeking a wide
range of funding to support this work
Team capacity and connection has been a
challenge due to a lack of face-to-face work		 Remunerating key team members is now a
strategic priority, and includes provision for
more consistent and engaged management
and connection of our teams through
training and annual engagement events
The external environment and ongoing
challenges within the prison system have a
clear and significant knock-on effect on our
work		 Partnering with other organisations to
strengthen our hybrid offer, should
challenges accessing prisons persist;
monitoring changes in the environment and
working closely with prison based contacts
to understand the specific challenges on
their sites and how we can adapt our
workshops to support them.

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What’s next?

In 2022-23 we hope to pilot our Ambassador Scheme, which will develop and deepen our relationships with people in prison by providing them with an opportunity to engage consistently with Sing Inside, developing a range of skills along the way. We are working closely with partners and prisons to shape and roll out this work, as well as seeking funding for the programme. We are also beginning work on broadening our engagement with potential communities of volunteers to diversify and increase our volunteer base, including building relationships with local volunteering and music groups to understand the specific local volunteering environment and the kinds of opportunities Sing Inside can offer. We will also focus in 2022-23 on restarting face-to-face work in as many of our partner prisons as possible, ensuring we can rebuild relationships and work with prisons to better understand the postCovid environment and the role of Sing Inside within that context.

Financial review

Non-company charities (including CIOs) where gross income does not exceed £250,000 are permitted to prepare accounts on a receipts and payments basis. The accounts record transactions from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022. These accounts can be found on page 13 of the report and a summary is provided below for clarity.

Sing Inside recorded net receipts of £4,517 in the year ended 31 March 2022 (2021: £5,432). This comprised receipts of £10,191 (2021: £11,668) and payments of £5,674 (2021: £6,236).

Receipts received during the year relating to restricted funds were £1,600 and reflected funds awarded for ongoing digital development costs and to fund our return to face-to-face work. Unrestricted receipts received during the year amounted to £8,591 with this split between charitable activities (£1,600) donations and legacies (£8,762), and other trading activities (£171).

Total payments of £5,674 were made in the year reflecting overheads (£1,864), visit travel (£839), development (£2,680) and publicity and fundraising (£291).

Cash is the only asset of Sing Inside at the reporting date. The statement of assets and liabilities shows total cash balances at 31 March 2022 of £26,278 (2020: £16,329). Of this total, restricted cash funds amount to £2,583.

Although gross income in the year did not exceed £25,000 and an independent examination of the accounts was not required by law, the charity arranged one as a matter of responsible financial governance. The examination was undertaken by Chris Jebb ACA and the independent examiner’s report is included below. There were no conflicts of interest identified between the examiner, the executive team and / or the trustees and no payment was made to the independent examiner for their services.

Additional disclosures required for CIOs

The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012 do require the following information to be given by way of note:

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It is noted for Sing Inside that there was nothing to disclose in respect of either a) or b).

Reserves policy

Reserves are that part of a charity’s unrestricted funds that is freely available to spend on any of the charity’s purposes. Sing Inside maintains free unrestricted reserves:

The board of trustees will review the above criteria with reference to Sing Inside’s business plan and determine the target level of free reserves to meet these commitments. The basic target level of reserves to be reviewed annually is six months of operating expenditure to allow for a managed wind-down if necessary. At present, due to several years of reduced activity and expenditure as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the board are maintaining free unrestricted reserves at six months of our 2019-20 operating expenditure – the last year when Sing Inside delivered activity at standard levels, during which our total expenditure was £14.79k. Our reserves are currently held at £7,500. The board of trustees will from time-totime designate funds from free reserves for significant project costs.

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Accounts

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Sing Inside 1182678
Receipts and payments accounts
From 01/04/2021 To 31/03/2022
Section A: Receipts and payments
Prior period
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total
(01/04/2020 -
funds funds funds funds
31/03/2021)
£ £ £ £ £
A1 - Receipts
Charitable activities 1,600 - 1,600 1,750
Donations and legacies 8,762 - - 8,762 10,137
Other trading activities (171) - - (171) (219)
Sub-total (Gross income for AR) 8,591 1,600 - 10,191 11,668
A2 - Asset and investment sales
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub-total - - - - -
Total receipts 8,591 1,600 - 10,191 11,668
A3 - Payments
Visit travel 611 228 - 839 (235)
Overheads 1,402 462 - 1,864 2,468
Development 2,080 600 - 2,680 3,312
Publicity and fundraising 291 - - 291 691
Sub-total 4,384 1,290 - 5,674 6,236
A4 - Asset and investment purchases
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub-total - - - - -
Total payments 4,384 1,290 - 5,674 6,236
Net receipts / ( payments ) 4,207 310 - 4,517 5,432
A5 - Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 - Cash funds last year end 19,488 2,273 - 21,761 16,329
Cash funds this year end 23,695 2,583 - 26,278 21,761
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Section B: Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Categories Details of bank accounts
funds funds funds
£ £ £
Central account 15,383 2,583 -
Cambridge account 4,512 - -
B1 Cash funds Oxford account 3,800 - -
York account -
Petty cash account - - -
Total cash funds 23,695 2,583 -
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Details
funds funds funds
£ £ £
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B2 Other monetary assets - - -
- - -
Fund to which Current value
Details Cost (optional)
asset belongs (optional)
- -
B3 Investment assets - -
- -
Fund to which Current value
Details Cost (optional)
asset belongs (optional)
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B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own
- -
use
- -
Fund to which Amount due When due
Details
liability relates (optional) (optional)
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B5 Liabilities -
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf Date of
of all the trustees Signature Print name approval
Jonathan Lucas Wood 24/09/2022
Nigel Rothband (Sep 25, 2022 00:29 GMT+1) Nigel Rothband 25/9/2022
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Independent examiner’s report

The independent examiner’s report can be found on the next page of this document.

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustee¥l members of Sing Inside On accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 Charlty no lif any) 1182678 Set out on pages I report to the trustee5 on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") forthe year ended 31103 12022. Responslbllltles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible forthe preparatN)n basis of report of the accounts in accordance wrth the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'lhe Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accwnts carried oui under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5){b) of the Act. I have tompleted my examination. I confimi that no material matters have Come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ") in connection with the examination which gives me cause to bdieve thal in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examinerfs statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order lo enable 8 Froper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please dolete the words in the brackets if they do not 8ppfy. Signed: Dato: 2010912022 Name: Chris Jebb Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any).. ACA- ICAEW Address: 47 Serrtrys Orchard, Exminsler Exeter EX6 8UE IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure Only compiete rf the examiner needs to hIgh￿ght matters crf concem (see CC32, Independerrt examination of chartty aCC￿nts. directlons and gu1￿Ce f éxaminers). Glve here brlef detalls of any Items that the examiner wlshgs to disclosè. IER October 2018

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