
**The Opera Makers CIO** 

**1188116** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

## **CC16a** 

**For the period** 21/02/2020 31/12/2020 **To from** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
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|Arts Council Grant(H&F)7/5/2020||**-**||**12,121**||**-**||**12,121**||**-**|
|Easyfundraising16/11/2020||**122**||||**-**||**122**||**-**|
|Transfer of assests from The Opera Makers||**354**||||**-**||**354**||**-**|
|CIC(regNo 12042566)26/11/2020|||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**476**||**12,121**||**-**||**12,597**||**-**|
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
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|<br>Arts Council Grant(H&F)7/5/2020|**-**||**12,121**||**-**||**12,121**||**-**|
|Easyfundraising16/11/2020|**122**||||**-**||**122**||**-**|
|Transfer of assests from The Opera Makers<br>CIC(regNo 12042566)26/11/2020|**354**||||**-**||**354**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**476**||**12,121**||**-**||**12,597**||**-**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**476**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**12,121**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**12,597**|||
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|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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|<br>Arts Club Venue Hire Della Jones<br>Masterclass 14/10/2020|**105**||**-**||**-**||**105**||**-**|
|Jan Capinski professional recording fee<br>Della Jones Masterclass 23/11/2020|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**285**||**-**||**-**||**285**||**-**|



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|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||
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|**_Total payments_**|**285**||**-**|||**-**||**285**||**-**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**191**||**12,121**|||**-**||**12,312**||**-**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**191**||**12,121**|||**-**||**12,312**||**-**|



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

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**191**<br>**-**<br>**191**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**12,121**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**12,121**<br>OK<br>**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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Signature Print Name Date of approval Stefan De Wachter 02/09/2021 Keith Clancy 03/09/2021 Peter Petzal 05/09/2021 

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## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period** 

**From: 21 February 2020** 

**To: 31 December 2020** 

**Charity name: THE OPERA MAKERS CIO** 

**Charity registration number: 1188116** 

**Company number: CE020811** 

## **Objectives and activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|‘Objects’ as stated in the Constitution are as<br>follows:<br>(A) the advancement of the education of<br>musicians at the start of their professional<br>careers, by bridging the gap between full-<br>time study and employment, including (but<br>not limited to) through: (i) the provision of<br>career mentorship; (ii) the provision of<br>musical and theatrical coaching and<br>masterclasses; (iii) the provision of<br>meaningful work opportunities and<br>experience; and (iv) fostering the creation of<br>valuable and long-lasting networks to<br>support career development; (B) the<br>advancement of education of the general<br>public, including (but not limited to) through:<br>(i) staging of accessible opera productions;<br>(ii) production of supplementary materials<br>which engage target audiences; and (C) the<br>advancement of the arts, including (but not<br>limited to) through: (i) the creation of<br>immersive opera productions; and (ii) the<br>development of new collaborative practices<br>for creating and staging operas; (iii)<br>reinventing the narratives of standard<br>repertoire operas and collaborating with<br>practitioners from other disciplines.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|The Opera Makers began the process of<br>producing Hopes and Fears, a new opera<br>based on the music of Debussy created with<br>the support of Shine Cancer Support UK and<br>telling the stories of two women living with<br>incurable cancer, to be performed at<br>Grimeborn Opera Festival in summer 2020<br>(this project was then postponed until<br>summer 2021 due to Covid restrictions).  In<br>the autumn we presented a livestreamed<br>masterclass from the Arts Club in central|





|||London, with Della Jones, featuring four<br>emerging artists.  The Opera Makers also<br>produced a series of short videos entitled<br>"The 12 DAYS* (*Ditties, Arias & Yuletide<br>Shenanigans) of Christmas", and raising<br>funds for the emerging artists involved.<br>These activities contributed to the purposes<br>of the charity including, without limitation, to<br>the advancement of the education of<br>musicians at the start of their professional<br>careers, and was the first step towards<br>achieving our mission of staging accessible<br>operas and developing new artistic and<br>social collaborations.|
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|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees confirm that they have had<br>regard to the Charity Commission guidance<br>on public benefit.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Not applicable. The Opera Makers CIO does<br>not make Grants.|
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38|As stated above, it is a key objective of<br>The Opera Makers CIO to promote: (A) the<br>advancement of the education of musicians<br>at the start of their professional careers, by<br>bridging the gap between full-time study and<br>employment; (B) the advancement of<br>education of the general public; and (C) the<br>advancement of the arts, and this central to<br>the planning of all past, current and future<br>activities.|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|Significant support from volunteers was<br>given to allow the activities to date to take<br>place.<br>A large proportion of the work carried out by<br>the team is on a voluntary basis. Total<br>Volunteer hours were recorded as 1,000<br>hours. This in-kind support is deemed to be<br>valued at £10,000 (equivalent to £10 per<br>volunteer hour). However, this valuation has<br>only been considered for internal purposes<br>and has not been included in the FY20<br>Annual Financial Report.<br>The CIO also benefitted from the generous<br>support of Della Jones in giving a<br>masterclass for emerging artists without fee.<br>This in-kind support is deemed to be valued<br>at £300. However, this valuation has only<br>been considered for internal purposes and|





has not been included in the FY20 Annual Financial Report. Not applicable. Other 

## **Achievements and performance** 

|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|The Charity secured funds from Arts Council<br>England to support Hopes & Fears, a new<br>opera based on the music of Debussy and<br>created with Shine Cancer Support UK (to<br>be performed September 2021).  This<br>project will provide paid work and training to<br>emerging artists as well as bringing opera to<br>a broad audience and promoting the<br>relevance of the artform, while building new<br>collaborations with other social enterprises<br>and testing new ways of creating work.<br>The Charity assumed The Opera Makers<br>CIC.  By becoming a charity; The Opera<br>Makers CIO committed publicly to its core<br>objectives, and opened up broad<br>opportunities for fundraising to support its<br>goals.<br>The Charity produced a live-streamed and<br>professionally recorded masterclass with its<br>patron, Della Jones, offering 4 emerging<br>artists a platform to train and perform during<br>a global pandemic, and also providing them<br>with vital recorded materials for auditions<br>etc.  The masterclass was watched by over<br>1,500 people online.<br>The Charity produced a series of "tongue in<br>cheek" videos inspired by the 12 Days of<br>Christmas, reaching an audience of over<br>1,000 online and raising in excess of £800<br>(received in the following financial year) for<br>the artists involved, all of whom had lost<br>Christmas singing income due to the<br>pandemic.|
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**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41|The key objectives of The Opera Makers<br>CIO's activities in the financial year were (i)<br>to plan and secure appropriate resources for<br>the production of the first full show of The<br>Opera Makers CIO, entitled "Hopes &<br>Fears", scheduled to take place in 2021 and<br>(ii) to promote a masterclass for young<br>singers led by The Opera Makers CIO's|
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|||patron, Della Jones. These key objectives<br>align with the objectives set out in The<br>Opera Makers CIO's Constitution.<br>The Trustees are satisfied that this was<br>clearly achieved as further detailed in this<br>report.|
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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41|The forecast cost of Hopes & Fears<br>(including "in-kind" support) has been set at<br>£35,777 and it was the objective to raise<br>sufficient funds to cover this requirement. As<br>at the end of this financial year, £12,121 has<br>been raised towards the production of Hopes<br>& Fears. The Opera Makers also formed key<br>relationships with other funding bodies, and<br>partnerships with "in-kind" supporters whose<br>funding activities were then suspended in<br>this year due to the Covid 19 pandemic.<br>It is therefore expected that in the next<br>financial year the CIO will be able to raise all<br>outstanding funds for this project.|
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41|Not Applicable. The Opera Makers CIO does<br>not currently have sufficient funds to allow<br>investment.|
|Other||Not applicable.|



## **Financial review** 

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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|**Income: £12,597**comprised of:<br>Arts Council England Grant (Hopes and<br>Fears): £12,121<br>Assets transferred from The Opera Makers<br>CIC: £354<br>Crowdfunding (easyfundraising.org): £122<br>**Expenditure: £285**relating to:<br>Jan Capinski professional recording (Della<br>Jones Masterclass): £180<br>Venue Hire (Della Jones Masterclass): £105<br>**Net Income in 2020: £12,597**<br>**Cash Balance**: On 31 December 2020, the<br>Cash Balance held in The Royal Bank of<br>Scotland plc charity account was**£12,312.**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity holds no reserves and has no<br>policy in place in respect of reserves.|





|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None|
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|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|The Opera Makers are currently raising<br>funds on a project-by-project basis, with core<br>costs kept to a minimum and mainly covered<br>by volunteer services to the charity as well<br>as small donations raised through<br>crowdfunding platforms such as<br>easyfundraising.org and PayPal Giving.|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|NA|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|In principle, there are no uncertainties<br>regarding the charity continuing as a going<br>concern. Plans for activities taking place in<br>2021 are well advanced and appropriate<br>funding has been secured to ensure their<br>viability (provided that no further restrictions<br>due to the pandemic are imposed on arts<br>venues).|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Current key funding sources include: private<br>donations (including in-kind support),<br>crowdfunding (including<br>easyfundraising.org), grants/trusts (including<br>Arts Council funding).<br>The Opera Makers CIO registered for Gift<br>Aid on 23/08/2020.|
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46|Not Applicable. The Opera Makers CIO does<br>not currently have sufficient funds to allow<br>investment.|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The principal ongoing risks are the lack of<br>sufficient fundraising and the risk of further<br>Government restrictions on gatherings and<br>events due to the Covid-19 which may affect<br>the activities scheduled for 2021.|
|Other||Not applicable.|



## **Structure, governance and management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:||Not applicable.|
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|Type of governing document:<br>for example,|Para 1.25|Constitution.|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation.|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.|Para 1.25|Since inception, there have been three<br>Trustees. The Trustees continue to seek<br>additional Trustees to increase their number.|





||election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees||Prospective Trustees are identified by<br>invitation only based on knowledge,<br>experience and ability to contribute to the<br>needs and objectives of The Opera Makers<br>CIO. Selection is made by discussion with<br>existing Trustees, the Artistic Director, the<br>Musical Director and the production team. A<br>more structured recruitment process may be<br>adoptedin thefuture.|
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and<br>training of trustees|Para 1.51|If and when appointed, new Trustees shall<br>be provided with copies of<br>the Constitution, Charity Commission<br>Guidelines and any existing Annual and<br>Financial Reports. Access shall also be<br>given to all key online archive material: e.g.<br>budgets, minutes of meetings, etc.|
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51|The Trustees, the Artistic Director, the<br>Musical Director and the production team<br>regularly engage in discussions about the<br>organisational structure, definition of posts,<br>roles, responsibilities and lines of<br>communication.<br>The Artistic Director - Rebecca Hunt<br>(professionally, Becca Marriott) - and the<br>Musical Director - Panaretos Kyriatzidis - are<br>assisted by the production and<br>organisational support team - Dominic<br>Mattos and Joana Fragata (the**Core Team**).<br>All these roles are performed on a voluntary<br>basis. The Core Team meets regularly in<br>person or electronically.<br>Trustee Meetings take place regularly and<br>contact is maintained between meetings<br>electronically. A Business Plan is in place<br>and subject to ongoing review.|
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51|Not applicable.|
|Other||Not applicable.|



## **Reference and administrative details** 

|Charity name|**The Opera Makers CIO**|
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|Other name the charity uses|**The Opera Makers**|
|Registered charity number|**1188116**|
|Charity’s principaladdress|**15 Greenway, SW20 9BQ London, United Kingdom **|





## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|**Trustee name**<br>**Office (if any)**<br>**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**<br>**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**<br>1 Peter Petzal<br>Chair of the Trustees<br>2Keith Mortimer<br>Clancy<br>Trustee<br>3Stefan Francies<br>Denjis De Wachter<br>Trustee<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20<br>Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 



|Description of the assets<br>held in this capacity|None|
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|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|Not applicable|
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|Not applicable|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

**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)**|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)**|||
|Rebecca Hunt (professionally, Becca Marriott) - Artistic Director<br>Panaretos Kyriatzidis - Musical Director<br>Dominic Mattos - Producer<br>Joana Fragata - Organisational Support|||



## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

Not applicable 

## **Other optional information** 

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## **Declarations** 

**The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors** 

**Signature(s)** Keith Mortimer Clancy Stefan De Wachter **Full name(s)** Peter Petzal 

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