## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From: 1 May 2023 to 30 April 2024** ## **Charity name: The Lindow Ensemble** ## **Charity registration number: 1189479** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**(1) To advance the arts and culture for**
**the benefit of the public in Greater**
**Manchester and Cheshire and (2) to**
**advance education for the benefit of**
**current students and recent alumni of**
**the Royal Northern College of Music**
**(‘RNCM’) and other institutions of higher**
**musical education**| |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 ensemble is a string ensemble that**
**typically consists of 12 players. They**
**include full-time professionals, students**
**or recent alumni of the RNCM and**
**amateur players of a high standard. Its**
**main activities are to perform concerts**
**of chamber music and to deliver**
**educational and community projects.**
**In 2023-24 it has performed three**
**concerts, one in Didsbury, Manchester,**
**one in Wilmslow, Cheshire and one in**
**Bolton, Greater Manchester.**
**In partnership with Bolton Music Service**
**it has delivered an educational project at**
**Mere Hall, Bolton (the home of Bolton**
**Music Service) and in four primary**
**schools in Bolton and Tameside,**
**Greater Manchester.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees confirm that, in giving**
**these concerts and delivering the**
**educational project, they have had**
**regard to the guidance issued by the**
**Charity Commission on public benefit.**| ## **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|**As stated above, in 2023-24 the**
**ensemble has given three concerts, one**
**in Didsbury, Manchester, one in**
**Wilmslow, Cheshire and one in Bolton,**
**Greater Manchester. In total some 140**
**members of the public have attended.**
**All the programmes have included**
**lesser-known works by 20thand 21st**
**century composers as well as more**
**familiar repertoire. The ensemble**
**believes that thereby it has given**
**members of the public both enjoyment**
**and a wider appreciation of chamber**
**music. Many have made generous**
**donations to assist in the future**
**development of the ensemble.**
**As regards students and recent alumni**
**of the RNCM, five have participated in**
**the ensemble’s activities:**
**Four have rehearsed for and performed**
**in the above concerts as players. One of**
**these has also participated in the**
**educational workshops referred to**
**below. One has participated in the**
**workshops alone.**
**The ensemble also performed a new**
**work from a RNCM student composer in**
**March 2024. He is a member of the**
**ensemble.**
**The ensemble believes that thereby it**
**has given all five RNCM students and**
**alumni substantial assistance in the**
**transition to a musical career.**
**This year, in partnership with Bolton**
**Music Service, the ensemble has also**
**delivered an educational project at Mere**
**Hall, Bolton (the home of Bolton Music**
**Service) and in four primary schools in**
**Bolton and Tameside, Greater**
**Manchester. Bolton and Tameside are**
**both Levelling Up for Culture Places as**
**defined by Arts Council England,**
**meaning that they are currently**
**underserved in the arts.**
**The project had two components: (a)**
**five interactive string quartet**
**workshops, aimed at developing**
**children’s knowledge and appreciation**| **of music and its cultural and geographical origins; (b) a concert at Mere Hall, Bolton, the home of Bolton Music Service, aimed at aspiring young players and their families. For part of this concert students of Bolton Music Service performed side by side with members of the ensemble.** ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**As shown by its accounts, the ensemble**
**has cash assets of £1860 at the end of**
**the period. The concerts and the**
**educational project have been delivered**
**within budget and this sum, which**
**includes savings from earlier years,**
**comprises a modest excess of income**
**over expenditure.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The ensemble became a CIO in May**
**2020 and to date has no reserves policy.**
**It will review the situation as it becomes**
**more firmly established.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1860**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**This year the ensemble has been**
**fortunate in receiving private donations,**
**grants from music trusts and**
**foundations and a grant from Arts**
**Council England (final instalment)**
**amounting in total to £9674. The**
**ensemble is truly grateful to all**
**concerned. If the ensemble is to**
**continue as a going concern, and in**
**particular if it is still to deliver**
**educational projects, it will require a**
**regular annual income of at least that**
**amount and, depending on the project,**
**probably more. It will pursue all**
**appropriate fundraising activities to**
**achieve this.**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|**Foundation model for a Charitable**
**Incorporated Organisation, whose only**
**voting members are its charity trustees.**| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|**A Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(‘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 ensemble has four trustees, three of**
**whom were first charity trustees. They**
**were appointed by personal**
**recommendation. The constitution**
**provides that, apart from first charity**
**trustees, every trustee must be**
**appointed for three years by a resolution**
**passed at a properly convened meeting**
**of charity trustees. In doing so the**
**charity trustees must have regard to the**
**skills, knowledge and experience**
**needed for the effective administration**
**of the CIO.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**The Lindow Ensemble**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**None**| |Registered charity number|**1189479**| |Charity’s principal address|**30 Broadway**
**Wilmslow**
**Cheshire**
**SK9 1NB**| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**John Andrew**
**Phillips**|**Chair**||| ||**Adrienne Patricia**
**Spilsbury**|**Secretary**||| ||**Joanna Ceri**
**Wood**|**Treasurer**||| ||**Michael Andrew**
**Sambrook**|||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|**None**| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|**N/A**| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|**N/A**| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **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) John Andrew Phillips** **Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 13 July 2024** **Charity Name No (if any) The Lindow Ensemble 1189479 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-May-23 30-Apr-24 ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds** |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Bank a/c openingcredit
**6,804**
Income from trust funds
**6,783**
Donations
**1,391**
Ticket sales
**816**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,794**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 15,794**
**A3 Payments**
Artistic director fees
**2,498**
Section leader fees
**5,700**
Student and alumni fees
**4,175**
Hire ofperformance venue
**420**
Marketing (Social Sparks Marketing)
**687**
Website renewal
**243**
Publicliabilityinsurance
**71**
Bolton MBC (project partner)
**1,640**
**-**
**Sub total 15,434**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 15,434**
**Net of receipts/(payments) 360**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**Cash funds this year end 360**
**to the nearest £**
**Sub total**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**1,500**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**
**6,804**
**8,283**
**1,391**
**816**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,294**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,294**
**2,498**
**5,700**
**4,175**
**420**
**687**
**243**
**71**
**1,640**
**-**
**15,434**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**15,434**
**1,860**
**-**
**-**
**1,860**|**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**6,804**|**-**| ||||**8,283**|**-**| ||||**1,391**|**-**| ||||**816**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**17,294**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**17,294**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,498**|**-**| ||||**5,700**|**-**| ||||**4,175**|**-**| ||||**420**|**-**| ||||**687**|**-**| ||||**243**|**-**| ||||**71**|**-**| ||||**1,640**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**15,434**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**15,434**|**-**| |||||| ||**1,500**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,860**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**1,500**||**1,860**|**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank account closing credit
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
John A Phillips
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**360**
**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**360**
**1,500**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
John Andrew Phillips
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||John A Phillips|John Andrew Phillips|11-Jun-24| |||||