## Diggle Community Brass Annual Report ## 2025 ## Registered Charity Number 1190209 Address: Diggle Band Club, Bankfield House, Huddersfield Road,Diggle, Oldham OL3 5PJ Names of Trustees: Mr Peter Griffin - Chair Mrs Anne Colley - Secretary Mr Brian Cliffe - Treasurer Mr Nigel Gratton Miss Rachel Colley ## Governance Diggle Community Brass is a constituted CIO. Our trustees are appointed by the membership, annually at the AGM. All trustees are volunteers, following Charity Commission guidelines for direction and development. Objects Our objects are to promote, improve, develop and maintain education and appreciation of brass band music, for the public benefit, in all its aspects, by the presentation of public brass band concerts and events, tuition in the playing of brass instruments and by other such means as the Band, through its Committee, shall determine from time to time. All Trustees will be advised to reacquaint themselves with this guidance. To be confirmed and minuted at the next Trustees meeting. ## Main activities The band has seen a period of transition over the last nine months as the resident Musical Director resigned his position in November 2024. A new MD agreed to take control in June 2025 and has brought a new dimension to the band. The number of active players has remained broadly static but continues to welcome players with additional needs in line with its stated inclusivity aims. The band has undertaken local concerts, Remembrance event, seasonal outdoor playing including providing music at religious events and, in June 2025, participation in Whit Friday processions, services and contests. Our development group, featuring primary school age players, was shelved in Sept 2024 due to the members moving onto secondary education. The band is exploring link up with schools further afield with a view to restarting a training group early in 2026. ## Achievements and performance Performances gave benefit both to players and event supporters, fulfilling personal enjoyment and recreation needs, besides large numbers comprising the audiences who obtained cultural enjoyment and enhanced well-being. In March 2025, several members of the band travelled to Belgium to participate in a workshop event with Willebroek Band. In June 2025 we were able to participate fully in the Whit Friday celebrations which are fundamental to our local heritage. It was an additional stage for the band and its new identity, besides an opening for new and developing players to experience belonging and community engagement. The band facilitated a number of players from Belgium to join the band to further education of the local event in Europe. The new players attracted during 2024 continue to improve and are now regular attendees at rehearsals, and some have indicated their intention to become involved in management of the band. The player swap contact group with other local bands in the area, continues to allow provision for all bands to perform concerts and field full bands at events. Attempting to preserve and expand the engagement of this group and to add further recruits will be one of the Band's future challenges. ## Financial review The band continues to aim to cover it’s basic running costs and continues to generate income through fundraising to further its objects. ## Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above Signature : Peter Griffin Full name: Peter Griffin Position : Chair Date 1/9/2025 |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Diggle Community Brass**||||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/07/2024|Period end date
**To**
310\06\2025||| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**2,167**
**1,296**
**1,250**
**18**
**-**
**514**
**-**
**-**
**5,245**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,245**
**69**
**398**
**673**
**1,145**
**1,666**
**1,185**
**850**
**227**
**-**
**6,213**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,213**
**- 968**
**-**
**8,972**
**8,004**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,167**
**1,296**
**1,250**
**18**
**-**
**514**
**-**
**-**
**5,245**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,245**
**69**
**398**
**673**
**1,145**
**1,666**
**1,185**
**850**
**227**
**-**
**6,213**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,213**
**- 968**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,167**
**1,296**
**1,250**
**18**
**-**
**514**
**-**
**-**
**5,245**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,245**
**69**
**398**
**673**
**1,145**
**1,666**
**1,185**
**850**
**227**
**-**
**6,213**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,213**
**- 968**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Memberships|**2,167**|||||**2,538**| |Fundraisingactivities|**1,296**|||||**1,441**| |Paid Performances|**1,250**|||||**700**| |Bank interest|**18**|||||**14**| |Instruments|**-**|||||**100**| |Donations|**514**|||||**1,404**| |Prize money|**-**|||||**300**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**5,245**|||||**6,497**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**6,497**| |||||||| |Website|**69**|||||**69**| |Music/equipment|**398**|||||**111**| |Insurance|**673**|||||**340**| |Admin|**1,145**|||||**1,374**| |Rent|**1,666**|||||**1,596**| |MD Expenses|**1,185**|||||**1,350**| |Transport|**850**|||||**845**| |uniforms|**227**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**6,213**|||||**5,685**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**5,685**| |||||||| ||**- 968**|**-**|**-**|**- 968**||**812**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**8,972**|**-**|**-**|**8,972**||**8,161**| ||**8,004**|**-**|**-**|**8,004**||**8,972**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 20/02/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
Band equipment
Instruments
**Details**
A.M. Colley
Signature
B. Cliffe|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
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**(optional)**
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Print Name
Brian Cliffe
Anne Colley|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**16,000**| ||||**20,000**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||B. Cliffe|Brian Cliffe|01/09/2026| ||A.M. Colley|Anne Colley|**01/09/2026**| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 20/02/2026 2