## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01/04/2022 Period start date To 31/03/2023 Period end date**
## **Charity name: We Are The VOICE**
## **Charity registration number: 1185099**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|We Are the Voice Children’s Choir sings for
the climate, trees, oceans, wildlife facing
extinction and for the children’s futures. We
record and perform unique, original material
and act as environmental ambassadors. We
raise awareness of various environmental
issues, including plastic pollution. We believe
singing raises spirits, helps alleviate ‘eco-
anxiety’ and helps win-over hearts and minds,
whilst inspiring community action.|
|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|The charity has been training and rehearsing
the choir formed in 2019. We have
performed at national flower shows, award
ceremonies, including the International
Green Apple Awards at The Houses of
Parliament, theatres, eco-fairs, festivals and
have written and recorded three new songs
to raise awareness of various environmental
issues.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All of the trustees are aware of the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on public
benefit in regard to the objectives and
activities of We Are The Voice.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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SORP reference NA Para 1.38 Policy on grant making NA
Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|Two major performances of a new show
entitled I AM THE Earth were staged for
Earth Day and for a Climate and Nature
Festival. Further public performances took
place for national flower shows, eco fairs,
festivals and award ceremonies, including
The International Green Apple Awards at
The Houses Of Parliament and an invitation
to perform on the Disneyland stage in Paris
in 2024. We have created and recorded 3
new songs and the choir expanded its
intake.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of theperiod|Para 1.21|We paid for recordings and musicians and
theatre props and have reserves to continue
into the coming year.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|The balance in the bank account is sufficient
and will be used in the new financial year.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£6,175|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|NA|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|NA|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|N/A|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Donations came from businesses.|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|The charity policy is to invest its funds into
developing the choir and the songs it sings
so its performances raise awareness of
environmental issues by the general public
and the choir members themselves.|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The main risks facing the charity are the lack
of sufficient donations to afford a social
media expert to promote the choir and the
lack of funds to support some admin help.|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||NA|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 29 Aug
2019|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|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|The trustees are selected by election to post
or appointed by the Chair.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|none|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The charity chair a trustee, the trustees the
volunteers and the children in the choir.|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|NA|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|We are the Voice|
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|Other name the charityuses|na|
|Registered charitynumber|1185099|
|Charity’s principal address|8 Somerset Close
Hersham
Walton
KT125JS|
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|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|
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||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body)**
**entitled to**
**appoint trustee**
**(if any)**|
|1|Niamh Johnson
Mrs|Chair|Whole year|Trustees|
|2|Eliza Searle MRS|Trustee|Whole Year|Trustees|
|3|Alison Trott
Mrs|Trustee|Whole year|Trustees|
|4|Richard Searle
Mr|Trustee|Whole year|Trustees|
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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 0 held in this capacity Name and objects of the NA charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for NA 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**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**|
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||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||||
||Mrs Niamh Johnson Chair||||
## **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) Full name(s)** Mrs Niamh Johnson **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 14/11/2023
**Charity Name No (if any) We Are The Voice 1185009**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
## **CC16a**
|||**Recei**|**Recei**|**pts and pay**|**ments ac**|**c**|**ounts**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**For the period**
**from**||01/04/2022|**To**||31/03/2023||
|**Section A Receipts and**||**payments**|||||||
|||**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||**6,830**||**-**
|**-**||**6,830**||
|Grants|||**-**|**1,925**
|**-**||**1,925**||
|Subscriptions||**1,330**||**-**
|**-**||**1,330**|**-**|
|Uniform|||**193**|**-**
|**-**||**193**|**-**|
|Misc Receipts (including hall refund)|||**208**|**-**
|**-**||**208**|**-**|
|Misc Receipt|||**44**|**-**
|**-**||**44**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**8,605**||**1,925**
|**-**||**10,530**|**-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||
|**(see table).**|||||||||
|Cash in bank as at 31/03/22||**2,446**||**-**
||**-**|**2,446**||
||||**-**|**-**
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Sub total_**|**2,446**||**-**
||**-**|**2,446**|**-**|
||**_Total receipts_ **|**11,051**||**1,925**
||**-**|**12,976**|**-**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Running Costs, including studio time,|||||||||
|uniform costs, website, PC costs||**5,751**||**-**
|**-**||**5,751**||
|Trustee unique services - music mixing &|||||||||
|mastering (below|industry rate)|**1,050**||**-**
|**-**||**1,050**||
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**_Sub total_ **|**6,801**||**-**
|**-**||**6,801**|**-**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
||||**-**|**-**
||**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**
||**-**|**-**||
||**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**-**
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Total payments_ **|**6,801**||**-**
||**-**|**6,801**|**-**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**4,250**||**1,925**
|**-**||**6,175**|**-**|
|**A5 Transfers**|**between funds**
||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**
|||**-**|**-**
|**-**||**-**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**4,250**||**1,925**
|**-**||**6,175**|**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Balance in bank, as at 31/03/23|**6,175**||**-**|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|**6,175**||**-**|**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|Agreement Error|Agreement Error||OK|
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||**funds**||**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**||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print Name|||Date of
approval|
|||Niamh Johnson|||22/11/23|
|||Alison Trott||||
||||||22/11/23|