## **Spectra Ensemble** 

## **Trustees’ report for the year ended 5 April 2025** 

The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2025. 

## **Reference and administrative details** 

|**Charity name:**|Spectra Ensemble|
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|**Charity registration number:**|1185940|
|**Registered office address:**|7 Blenheim Drive|
||Oxford|
||OX2 8DH|
|**Trustees:**|Ms Florence Carr|
||Ms Giulia Sartori Conte|
||Mr Jonathan Cross|
||Mr Mark Galtrey|
||Ms Cressida Peever (resigned 4 October 2024)|
||Ms Susanna Stranders|



## **Structure, governance and management** 

The charity is an Association Model CIO governed by articles of association adopted on 20 March 2019. Spectra Ensemble was registered as a charity on 22 October 2019. 

## **Objectives and activities** 

The purpose of the charity, as set out in the governing document, is: 

To promote and foster for the benefit of the public the understanding and appreciation of opera, as well as associated aural and visual arts, through the provision of public performances and related educational events. 

Our activity generally consists of operatic performances and educational workshops through which we challenge traditional definitions of opera and open opera up to new audiences. 

The charity trustees have complied with the duty in section 4 of the 2006 Act to have due regard to guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission. 




## **Achievements and performance** 

We received a grant of £3,952 from the Marchus Trust towards a planned production of an Arnold Schoenberg opera but we have still not been able to raise sufficient funds to deliver a production. 

The year has not seen any other activity. We are cognisant of our responsibilities as a charity to deliver activity for the public benefit and we are conscious that Spectra Ensemble has not been able to do that this year. We have resolved as trustees to come to a decision about Spectra Ensemble’s ongoing viability before reporting again. 

## **Financial review** 

Spectra Ensemble holds restricted reserves of £7,952 and unrestricted reserves of £5,920.87 at the end of this financial year. 

The restricted reserves consist of a donation towards our next production (whatever that may be) and a grant towards the production of a specific piece by Arnold Schoenberg. We recognise that we have a responsibility to return these funds if we are not able to apply them to the purposes for which they were originally given. 

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in notes to the accounts and comply with the charity’s governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland issued in October 2019. 

This report was signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees by 

## _Mark Galtrey_ 

Mark Galtrey, Trustee 23 January 2026 



||**Spectra Ensemble**|**Spectra Ensemble**|**Spectra Ensemble**|**1185940**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**<br>**from**|06/04/2024|**To**|05/04/2025||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>6,090<br>100<br>181<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br> **6,371**<br>-<br>-<br> **-**<br>**6,371**<br>3,720<br>311<br>100<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>**4,131**<br>-<br>-<br>**-**<br>**4,131**<br>**2,240**<br>**-**<br>**3,681**<br>**5,921**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>3,952<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>**3,952**<br>-<br>-<br>**-**<br>**3,952**<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>**-**<br>-<br>-<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**3,952**<br>**-**<br>**4,000**<br>**7,952**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|<br>Theatre Tax Relief|6,090||-|6,090|-|
|Reimbursement of late filingfee|100||-|100|-|
|Memberships|181||-|181|180|
|Productiongrants|-||-|3,952|-|
|Gift Aid|-||-|-|2,114|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**6,371**||**-**|**10,323**|**2,295**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales (see table)**||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||
||||**-**|**10,323**|**2,295**|
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|<br>Accountancyservices|3,720||-|3,720|-|
|IT services|311||-|311|-|
|Late filingfee|100||-|100|-|
|Set,costume andpropexpenses|-||-|-|53|
|Repayment of loan|-||-|-|1,500|
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|**_Sub total_**|**4,131**||**-**|**4,131**|**1,553**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment purchases (see**<br>**table)**||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
||||**-**|**4,131**|**1,553**|
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||**2,240**||**-**|**6,192**|**741**|
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||**3,681**||**-**|**7,681**|**6,940**|
||**5,921**||**-**|**13,873**|**7,681**|



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**|Barclays current account<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Endowment funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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|||5,921|7,952|-|
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|||5,921|7,952|-|
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|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Endowment funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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