## **Annual Report for the Charity Commission – The Choral Evensong Trust** 

**Reporting Period:** 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023 **Charity Number:** 1190208 

**Website:** https://choralevensong.org **Principal address:** 20 Willow Road, London, NW3 1TJ 

## **1. Overview of Charitable Objectives and Activities** 

The Choral Evensong Trust was established to promote the appreciation and accessibility of choral evensong, a traditional, free-to-attend Anglican service combining spoken and sung prayer in the heart of local communities, through education, outreach, and digital resources. Our mission is to introduce and engage the public with this rich cultural heritage, fostering a deeper understanding of its historical, musical and religious significance. 

## **2. Achievements and Performance** 

The website choralevensong.org remains central to our outreach. In 2023, we enhanced the user experience with updated resources and interactive features such as livestream schedules to support newcomers and enthusiasts in finding and understanding choral evensong services nationwide. Visitor engagement had thousands of users regularly accessing our “Find a Service” feature. 

## **3. Financial Review** 

The Trust’s financial position remains stable, supported by donations and grants. We allocated funding to maximize outreach and digital development. 

## **4. Plans for 2024** 

In the coming year, the Trust aims to further its mission by: 

- Developing additional online resources and how-to guides, including videos and improved social media content, to increase accessibility. 

- Expanding partnerships with schools and community groups. 

- Hosting regional events to bring choral evensong to wider audiences. 

## **5. Public Benefit** 

The Trustees confirm that all activities undertaken in 2023 were aligned with our charitable objectives and provided public benefit, in accordance with the Charity Commission’s guidance. 



## **6. Structure, Governance and Management** 

## **Governing document** 

The British Pilgrimage Trust is constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and is governed by its Constitution. 

## **Trustees:** 

Ralph Allwood Rupert Sheldrake Sir Jonathan Jones Guy Hayward 

## **Approved by the Trustees on:** 

31st Oct 2024 

## **Signed:** 

Guy Hayward 

## **Independent Examiner:** 

C&GB Associates 37-39 Millgate Thirsk Y07 1QR 



||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**THE CHORAL EVENSONG TRUST**|||||**1190208**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||1/1/23||||12/31/23|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,905**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,905**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**2,905**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Fundraising costs|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Advertising & Marketing|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**329**|
|Website costs|**1,871**||**-**||**-**||**1,871**||**2,720**|
|Accountancy fees|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**120**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**1,871**||**-**||**-**||**1,871**||**3,169**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**1,871**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**1,871**||**3,169**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**-**<br>**1,871**||**-**||**-**||**-**<br>**1,871**||**-**<br>**264**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**5,607**||**-**||**-**||**5,607**||**5,871**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|<br>**3,736**||**-**||**-**||**3,736**||**5,607**|
|||||||||||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at Bank||||**3,736**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**3,736**||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||||||Guy Hayward||||31st Oct 2024|
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