## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**1**|**April**|**2024**||**31**|**March**|**2025**| |**From**||||**To**|||| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** NONSUCH DULCIMER CLUB **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1184249 **Charity's principal address** Flat 10 Holmwood House 6 Purshall Close Redditch **Postcode** B97 4PD ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||SALLY ELIZABETH
WHYTEHEAD|CHAIR||Members| ||JAMES LOW CORMIE|||Members| ||SANDRA HUDSON|||Members| ||WILLIAM JAMES DUDDY|||Members| ||CHRISTINE ANN FITT||19/10/24 – 31/03/25|Members| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** March **2012** **TAR** 1 **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**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** Constitution dated 20/10/2018 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members or appointed by charity trustees. Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** - The charity is run on a day to day basis by a committee consisting of the - You **may choose** to include trustees and other volunteers. - additional information, where relevant, about: The charity is a member of the NCVO, Making Music as well as the - • policies and procedures Cimbalom World Association and is an affiliate member of EFDSS. The adopted for the induction and Cimbalom World Association and EFDSS provide networking and music specific opportunities. The NCVO and Making Music in particular are - training of trustees; invaluable in providing advice, training, tools and self-assessments for the - • the charity’s organisational trustees and committee. structure and any wider network with which the charity Following the adoption of a risk management policy, the trustees have works; continued to work on and update the risk register. We have developed a - • relationship with any related regular cycle of reviewing our policies and procedures. parties; We continue to review our progress using the NCVO "Trusted Charity - • trustees’ consideration of Essentials" online tool to help target our ongoing policy development. major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**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)**|To advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and
appreciation of, the art, heritage and science of music in all its aspects,
and in particular as they relate to the hammered, plucked and mountain
dulcimer families of musical instruments (including international variants),
primarily but not exclusively within the British Isles and by any means the
trustees see fit; including through the presentation of public concerts,
recitals, workshops, lectures, festivals, conferences, exhibitions and the
provision of grants in support of these aims.| |---|---| ||Our member-led online sessions, which started in 2020, were continued
into 2024/25. We adjusted our approach with 2 different regular sessions
approximately monthly. We continued with a range of online events using
a mix of professional tutors and volunteers as they have proved
beneficial even though in-person events have resumed. This includes a
new series of online educational beginner sessions for both mountain
dulcimer and hammered dulcimer. We also supported online events and
teaching from other related organisations and musicians.
This year we ran a full programme of in person events, continuing to
provide revised COVID guidelines for them.
Our members attend many festivals and community events where they
promote dulcimers, with information and support from the club.
We helped a member in Italy with publicity to run community based
Mountain Dulcimer events.
We strengthened the relationship with the Morpeth Gathering and we
were invited to hold a ‘meet the dulcimer’ event and run a ‘have a go’
session which was extremely well supported. Associated with this, we
organised our annual Spring Fling event in nearby Newcastle. As part of
this initiative, we link up with the local folk community before and during
the event. This includes a programmed visit to the well-known Bridge
Folk Club and a presentation by a notable Northumbrian folk musician as
guest speaker.
We continued our residential Annual Weekends in October 2024 at The
Hayes, Derbyshire with workshops at three levels for both hammered and
mountain dulcimers, as well as concerts and music sessions and our
Annual General Meeting, with 69 people attending.
We continued to develop our YouTube channel, with a range of videos
from our events.
We published a quarterly newsletter ‘Nonsuch News’. This provides
information about events, educational material and items of interest to
those interested in dulcimers. This is sent out to all members.
We loaned hammered dulcimers to 12 players over the year.
We have a bank of 24 mountain dulcimers which are used for workshops.
They were used several times in 2024-2025, and members of the public
had the opportunity to play an instrument with support from an expert.
This year, it included a project running over several weeks for a group of
women with learning disabilities, in collaboration with Sheffield based
charity “Under the Stars”.
The charity trustees confirm that they have had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit, and have followed
this in planning and undertaking our activities.| March **2012** **TAR** 3 ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include We had 35 volunteers helping us with various aspects of organisation further statements, where over the period (not including trustees). relevant, about: - policy on grant making; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main** We adjusted our Spring Fling event in Newcastle to incorporate a **achievements of the charity** hammered dulcimer tutor. We continued to develop our relationships with **during the year** the local community for this event, creating a blueprint for future years. Over the year, there was an 8% increase in members to 371. New members often join having attended beginners’ workshops at festivals or community events. We have also managed to attract some younger members, particularly students who have a discount to attend our Annual Weekend. We published (4) newsletters for members, and a membership directory. We continue to develop our policy documents and operating plan as a basis for a successful and well managed charity. ## **Section E Financial review** The Nonsuch Dulcimer Club ensures it has sufficient cash reserves at **Brief statement of the** any time to cover all its outstanding commitments. **charity’s policy on reserves** For the reporting period we had a written reserves policy. This policy sets a reserve of £17,0000 for 2024/25, based on potential commitments over the year, as well as cash flow for general expenses. Maintaining these reserves will not impact our ability to implement club programmes. March **2012** **TAR** 4 The trustees review the level of reserves that are required at least annually to ensure that they are adequate to fulfil our continuing obligations. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** At the end of the period, we had 371 members. The membership fees (which have remained at £10 per annum for UK members for many years) covered our basic operating costs. You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); Additional variable income is generated by organising our workshop events throughout the year, which support our key objectives. These are designed generally to break even, but as they are popular we sometimes make a small surplus which is used to further the aims of the charity. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - Our accounts are prepared on a receipts and payments basis. This year - of the charity; our accounts show a surplus of £8,662. The income and expenditure for - • investment policy and our events span more than one year, and this accounts for £6,344 of this objectives including any figure. About £2000 of the remaining surplus is from general club ethical investment policy activities and donations while the rest can be attributed to our events. 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) Full name(s)** Sally Elizabeth Whytehead Sandra Hudson **Position (e.g. Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Chair ] Trustee **Date** 16th July 2025 16[th] July 2025 March **2012** **TAR** 5 **CC16a** **Charity Name No (if any) NONSUCH DULCIMER CLUB 1184249** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1/4/2024 31/3/2025 |**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 £**| |General Club (Trading Receipts)|**5,632**|









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|**5,632**||**5,139**| |Online Workshops 2023|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,080**| |Online Workshops 2024|**260**||**-**||**-**||**260**||**-**| |Spring Fling 2023 (In Person)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Spring Fling 2024 (In Person)|**130**||**-**||**-**||**130**||**1,300**| |Spring Fling 2025 (In Person)|**1,870**||**-**||**-**||**1,870**||**-**| |Annual Weekend 2023|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**27,928**| |Annual Weekend 2024|**26,741**||**-**||**-**||**26,741**||**-**| |Loan Instrument Deposits (Received)|**-**||**300**||**-**||**300**||**300**| |Gift Aid|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |General Donations|**293**||**-**||**-**||**293**||**170**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**34,926**||**300**||**-**||**35,226**||**36,916**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| |
Loan Instrument Sales|**-**||||||||**320**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||||||||**320**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**37,236**| ||||||||||| |
General Club (Trading Costs)|**2,635**|










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|**2,635**||**1,626**| |Online Workshops 2023|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,917**| |Online Workshops 2024|**418**||**-**||**-**||**418**||**-**| |Spring Fling 2023 (In Person)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**100**| |Spring Fling 2024 (In Person)|**301**||**-**||**-**||**301**||**1,444**| |Spring Fling 2025 (In Person)|**703**||**-**||**-**||**703**||**-**| |Annual Weekend 2023|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**23,215**| |Annual Weekend 2024|**20,897**||**-**||**-**||**20,897**||**-**| |General Admin/Governance Costs|**1,311**||**-**||**-**||**1,311**||**1,386**| |Loan Instrument Deposits (Returned)|**-**||**250**||**-**||**250**||**300**| |Charitable Grants/Donations (England/Wales)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Charitable Grants outside England & Wales|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**26,265**||**250**||**-**||**26,515**||**29,987**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |
Loan Instrument Purchases|**-**||||||||**300**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**300**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**30,287**| ||||||||||| ||**8,662**||||||||**6,949**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**25,339**||||||||**19,751**| ||**34,001**||||||||**26,700**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Bank|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**33,600**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,411**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Bank|**33,600**|**1,411**|**-**| 16/07/2025 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** ## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf ||Paypal||**401**|||||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Cash||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**34,001**||||**1,411**|||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||||||| ||account(s))||OK||OK|||||OK| ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|||||**Endowment**| ||||**funds**|||**funds**||||**funds**| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to**|**nearest £**||||**to nearest £**| ||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||Loan Instrument Inventory||Unrestricted|||||**-**||**11,215**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||**Fund to which**||**Amount**||**due**|||**When due**| ||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**|||||**(optional)**| ||Instrument Deposits||Restricted|||||**350**||| |||||||||**-**||| |||||||||**-**||| |||||||||**-**||| |||||||||**-**||| ||Signature||Print|Name||||||Date of approval| ||||Sally Elizabeth Whytehead|||||||16/07/2025| ||||Sandra Hudson|||||||16/07/2025| 16/07/2025 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl members of NONSUCH DULCIMER CLUB On accounts for the year ended 31 MARCH 2025 Charity no (rf any) 1184249 Sèt out on pagès I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charty {W]e Trust.) for the year ended 3110312025 Responsibilities and As the charity lrnstees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance wtth the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acri. I report in resFe¢t of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 ofthe 2011 Act and in tsrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)Ib) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I CA)nfirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect: accounting records were not kept in accordance wth section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not acix)rd with the accounting recor Independent examiners statement I have no concerns and have cwje across no other matters in connection with the examinalion to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the account5 to be reached. Signed: Date: 0810812025 Name: Peter David Answer Relevant professional quallficationls) or body (rf any): Address." 11 Atherstone Court Two Mile Ash Milton Keynes. MK8 8AE Section B Disclosure Only c4)mplete if the examiner needs lo highlight matters of COn￿rTr {see CC32, Independent examination of charity a(l￿nts.. directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018 Give here brief detsils of any items that the examiner wishe5 to disclose. IER October 2018