## **Trustees' Annual Report for the year** # **to 31 July 2023** ## Section A Reference and administration details ## **Charity name The Pleyel Trust** > **Registered charity number (if any) 1190757** **Charity's principal address** 9 Glen Avenue Sale **Postcode M33 6JQ** ## **Trustees** Chris Smail Adrienne Spilsbury Roger Turner Rosemary Whitesman Peter Connors Ian Laybourn ## **Artistic Directors:- Heather Bills, Harvey Davies** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) **TAR** **31 July 2022** 1 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The object of the Pleyel Trust is the advancement of the arts, in particular classical music, in Greater Manchester and the surrounding areas for the public benefit by educating the public and growing public understanding **Summary of the objects of the** and appreciation of classical music through the delivery of live events, **charity set out in its** performances and lectures. **governing document** The trust presented twelve concerts in the year under review, eight at Emmanuel Didsbury in the Beethoven Plus series and a further s to other groups and concert societies in the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. Further events have been delivered since the year end and **Summary of the main** continue to be planned in the Beethoven Plus series of education **activities undertaken for the** concerts. **public benefit in relation to these objects (include within** The Trustees confirm that in devising these programmes consideration **this section the statutory** has been given to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on **declaration that trustees have** public benefit, with the intention to widen these activities when **had regard to the guidance** circumstances allow. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** With this further development in mind, the aim of the Trust is to build up **benefit)** an operating fund so that when the opportunity arises the Ensemble is in a position to act quickly. To attract more Friends will help in this objective and reinforce the loyal support already in place in the audience. ## Section D Achievements and performance The covid pandemic has had the unfortunate effect, not foreseeable at **Summary of the main** the time of establishing the Trust, of preventing many of the kind of **achievements of the charity** educational and communities activities envisaged because venues such **during the year** as schools and care homes have been rendered inaccessible on health grounds. However, as soon as public concerts were allowed, the Ensemble resumed performances, introducing the public both to deserving works by lesser known composers and less well-known works by major composers. . **Section E Financial review** The trust plans to develop reserves sufficient to finance six months of **Brief statement of the** ordinary operations **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds** None **materially in deficit** **TAR** **31 July 2022** 2 ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** ## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)**[Christopher John Smail ] **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 29 May 2024 **TAR** **31 July 2022** 3 **The Pleyel Trust 1190757** **CC16a** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **For the year ended 31 July 2023** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Concert Income
**20,219**
Donations
**5,454**
Gift Aid reclaimed
**2,941**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 28,614**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last period**
**to the nearest £**| |Concert Income|**20,219**|**-**|**-**|**20,219**||**11,103**| |Donations|**5,454**|**-**|**-**|**5,454**||**3,408**| |Gift Aid reclaimed|**2,941**|**-**|**-**|**2,941**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **|**28,614**|**-**|**-**|**28,614**||**14,511**| |**A3 Payments**|**20,113**
**304**
**383**
**-**
**20,800**
**7,814**
**-**
**7,172**
**14,986**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Concert Expenses|**20,113**|||**20,113**||**13,081**| |Website|**304**|||**304**||**304**| |Admin|**383**|||**383**||**110**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**|**20,800**|||**20,800**||**13,495**| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||**7,814**|**-**|**-**|**7,814**||**1,016**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**7,172**|**-**|**-**|**7,172**||**6,156**| ||**14,986**|**-**|**-**|**14,986**||**7,172**| ## **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
**B1 Cash funds**|Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
Bank Account
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**14,986**
**-**
**14,986**
**-**
Print Name
Chris Smail|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Chris Smail|29 May2024| ||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 29/05/2024 1 **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
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The Pleyel Trust|Charity Name
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**(if any)**|1190757| ||||| ||1 to 2||| ||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**31/07/2023.**||| **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**

||29 May 2024| |---|---|---| |||| ||Hilary Ann Lowe|| |||| ||ACA|| |||| ||42 Dalston Drive|| ||Manchester|| ||M20 5LG|| 3 **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 3