## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From April 2022 Period start date To April 2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Emerging Voices** ## **Charity registration number:** 1183043 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To promote social inclusion among
people who are socially excluded from
society, or parts of society, as a result
of their negative mental health, to
relieve the needs of these socially
excluded people and assist them to
integrate into society through the
development and delivery of music-
based activities and experiences.| |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|Choirs, music projects, one-to-one
instrumental tuition, recording and
performance opportunities.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have made decisions to
the benefit of adults who experience
mental ill health accessing Emerging
Voices. This has been achieved
through regular contact with
beneficiaries, music tutors and local
services who support adults with mental
health problems. All trustees on joining
the board have received, read and
understood the Charity Commission
guidance on the essential duties of a
trustee, including that on public benefit.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **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|A wellbeing choir for adults with lived
experience of mental ill health
continued its rehearsals in Harrogate.
The choir has benefitted members
through the physical and psychological
benefits that singing provides and as an
opportunity to socialise.
A sub-group from the wellbeing choir
took part in a song-writing project,
collaborating together to write their own
group song then perform and record it
in a professional studio. This creative
and expressive experience was
immensely empowering to
beneficiaries, and the production of
their own song to share with friends and
family extremely rewarding.
The choir went on to perform this and
other songs in a joint concert with other
wellbeing choirs in York. For many, this
was the first time that they had
performed in public, so provided a real
boost in confidence and sense of
achievement.
The charity has funded one-to-one
instrumental tuition for 4 adults with
mental health issues in 2022/23. The
regular tuition has provided individuals
with routine and purpose, students| often reporting that it is the one thing they look forward to in the week. Singers accessing tuition were able to participate in a Singing Showcase, achieving their own goals in performing to an audience. The role of co-conductor in an existing choir for adults using mental health services was funded by Emerging Voices for part of 2022. The Assistant Director has lived experience of mental ill health and was previously a member of the choir. The role has enabled this person to progress taking on leadership of the choir when the choir Director has been away. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Both the song-writing project and Harrogate Wellbeing Choir concert Achievements against Para 1.41 involved several day trips for a group of objectives set beneficiaries to York, where they made and cemented close friendships. Both experiences took place in modern and socially-valued spaces (a university, a recording studio, a Creative Centre, etc.), working towards our aims of socially integrating those who are often excluded from parts of society. Tuition and performance opportunities enabled adults with lived-experience of mental ill-health to progress as singers and instrumentalists, crucially changing the perception of these individuals from ‘service users’ to musicians and artists and thus aiding their social integration. Feedback from participants is overwhelmingly positive as to the effects of the charity’s activities on their general wellbeing, thus meeting our objective of relieving the needs of our beneficiaries. Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|During this financial year the charity
unfortunately encountered a situation
that involved legal fees (£2260), extra
admin hours and other related costs,
resulting in us ending the year in deficit
(of £2389) and overdrawn (by £802) for
the first time in our history. This
situation has now been completely
resolved and there are no further costs.
The trustees were and remain
determined to increase funds, primarily
by applying for funding from a broad
range of organisations and also through
fundraising, in order to fund future
activities and build unrestricted
reserves. It should be noted that the
projects and finances of the charity
hitherto and since have functioned well
and been fully solvent, but for this
exceptional incident. We thus have no
concerns about the charity continuing
as a going concern.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|0| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Although the charity does not currently
hold reserves, it is our aim to obtain and
build reserves in the future to the
approximate amount of six months
running costs, in order to absorb
unexpected expenditure or periods of
reduced income.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|See above.| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Primarily funding applications. The charity have also acquired funds The charity’s principal through payment for services, individual sources of funds (including Para 1.47 donations and fundraising schemes any fundraising) such as lotteries. Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 |social investment policy
adopted||| |---|---|---| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Due to the issues referred to above, the
unrestricted funds and reserves of the
charity were severely depleted.
Therefore a focus on fundraising/
applying for grants that provided
unrestricted funding was a priority until
the charity had recovered its financial
stability. The charity still continues to
focus on building reserves and
diversifying funding streams to mitigate
financial risk when any given grant term
comes to an end.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|Charity Commission Scheme| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO (Foundation)| |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|Every trustee must be appointed for a
term of two years by a resolution
passed at a properly convened meeting
of the charity trustees. In selecting
individuals for the appointment of
charity trustees, the charity trustees
must have regard to the skills,
knowledge and experience needed for
the effective administration of Emerging
Voices.| |**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|Potential trustees have an initial
conversation then informal interview led
by the Chair and others on the board.
They may attend a meeting on a trial
basis. They are provided with guidance,
for example that of the Charity
Commission on the Essential Trustee.
They must sign their understanding of
key principles in the form of a letter
from the Chair. They are required to
have an Enhanced DBS, provided by
the charity. On joining the board they
are given past minutes, accounts etc.
and are updated fully on the recent
activities of the charity as part of their
training.| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|In this accounting period Emerging
Voices ran projects in partnership with
Converge, an organisation based at
York St John University providing
courses for adults who use mental
health services. For example, certain
students who had come through| Converge were offered 1:1 tuition, while events such as the Singing Showcase were run by both Emerging Voices and Converge for such individuals. Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Emerging Voices| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1183043| |Charity’s principal address|6 Willis Street, York. YO10 5BE.| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||LucyColeman|Chair|N/A|| ||Laurie Farnell|Trustee|N/A|| ||Chloe Gartery|Trustee|10/01/23–present|| ||Jack McNeill|Trustee|10/01/23–present|| ||Simon Taylor|Trustee|10/01/23–present|| ||John Ashton|Trustee|01/03/23–present|| ||Catherine Birch|Trustee|2019-March 22|| ||Michael Bonshor|Trustee|2019-Jan 23|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for 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**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **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)** Chloe Fletcher **Full name(s)** Chloe Fletcher **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 22.02.2024 **Energing Voices** **No 1183043** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **For the period** 24/03/2022 23/04/2023 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted funds funds** **Endowment funds** **Total funds Last year** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |**Donations and legacies**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Donations by individuals|**297**||**567**||**-**||**864**||**-**| |**Charitable activities**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Payment for services|**1,290**||**-**||**-**||**1,290**||**-**| |Performance related grant|**1,000**||**1,760**||**-**||**2,760**||**-**| |**Other trading activities**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Income from fund raising events|**97**||**-**||**-**||**97**||**-**| |Income from local lotteries|**116**||**-**||**-**||**116**||**-**| |**Investments**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Other**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,799**||**2,327**||**-**||**5,126**||**-**| |**A1 Receipts**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**297**
**1,290**
**1,000**
**97**
**116**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,799**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**297**
**1,290**
**1,000**
**97**
**116**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,799**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**567**
**-**
**1,760**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,327**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**567**
**-**
**1,760**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,327**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**864**
**-**
**1,290**
**2,760**
**-**
**97**
**116**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,126**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**864**
**-**
**1,290**
**2,760**
**-**
**97**
**116**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,126**|**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Donations and legacies**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Donations by individuals|**297**||**567**||**-**||**864**||**-**| |**Charitable activities**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Payment for services|**1,290**||**-**||**-**||**1,290**||**-**| |Performance related grant|**1,000**||**1,760**||**-**||**2,760**||**-**| |**Other trading activities**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Income from fund raising events|**97**||**-**||**-**||**97**||**-**| |Income from local lotteries|**116**||**-**||**-**||**116**||**-**| |**Investments**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Other**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,799**||**2,327**||**-**||**5,126**||**-**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**-**
**-**
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**2,799**||**-**
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**2,327**||**-**
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**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |**Raising funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Charitable activities**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |1:1 Tuition|**45**||**305**||**-**||**350**||| |Events (concerts etc)|**-**||**166**||**-**||**166**||**-**| |Recording work|**-**||**127**||**-**||**127**||| |Communitas choir|**620**||**-**||**-**||**620**||| |Harrogate choir|**7**||**2,327**||**-**||**2,334**||| |Songwriting project|**-**||**709**||**-**||**709**||**-**| |Admin directly relating to charitable
activities above|
**210**||**-**||**-**||**210**||**-**| |**Other**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Admin for core charity|**221**||**-**||**-**||**221**||**-**| |Phone, internet, website and social
media|
**187**||**-**||**-**||**187**||**-**| |DBS checks|**34**||**-**||**-**||**34**||**-**| |**Extraordinary expenditure**|||||||**-**||| |Admin|**200**||**-**||**-**||**200**||| |Legal|**2,260**||**-**||**-**||**2,260**||| |Banking|**97**||**-**||**-**||**97**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**3,881**||**3,634**||**-**||**7,515**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**- 1,082**||**- 1,307**||**-**||**- 2,389**||**-**| ||**-**||**- **|
|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**279**||**1,307**||**-**||**1,586**||**-**| ||**- 802**||**-**||**-**||**- 802**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 22/02/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Bank account
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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**liability relates**||**Cost (optional)**
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