Registered number: 1192386 MOSAIC VOICES (A CIO Foundation) TRUSTEES RF.PORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED.1151 DTr'CEMBEK 2024
MOSAIC VOICF.S (A CI() FOIINDATION) REFLRENCE AND ADMIIYISI"KATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY, IT TRUSTELS AND ADVISERS FOR THE YEAR EP*DED.11. DECEMBER 2024 Trustees M R Eiherton J Hemian Fl Selby T Toube DB Till Charity reRistered number 1192386 Registered office 5a Hansard M¢ws London W14 SBJ Aecounlanls Spenc¢r-Dai'is & Co C hartl'red Certilied Accounianls 4-6 Pelerborougyh Road Harrow 11A1 ?BQ
MOSAIC VOICES (A CIO FOUNDATION) TRLISTEF.4• KEPI)R"r FOR THE YF.AR ENDED 3151 DF.CEMBER 2024 Objectives Th¢ charity is focuss¢d on prLben'ing. dci'Lloping and prnmoiinLJ British-Jewish choral heritage, bringing this unique music lo audiLnces of all back&irounds acro%5 ihe IJK (d beyond. This io be done through lh¢ mL"dium of live perfonnanves. recordinbys. filni5. commissioning of new music. and ¢ducation progjrammes. wilh d view to crcating better undLf5tanding aVI Jewish Culture and relibJion. Activities MosaiL Voices is in its fourth year as a regjistered charity. and that period included delivery of live %acred 8ervices at lea%1 once per week al its home synagogTue. the historic New Wesi End Synagyogue in Bayswater. l.ondon. These included ihe Hi¥Jh Holvday ser%'icL'S for J¢wish New Year Day of AtonemLnl services, 'hICh reached several hundrcd members Ot. the communily as well as many visiiors from ihe LIK and 0er$eas. The calendar year opened with a landmark. sell-oul concert on 14 January 2024, lealuring th¢ world premiere of Time, a new comtK)sition willen b), Mosaic VoicLs RL5ident Composer. Benjamin Till. The concert was presented ai Ne Wesl End Synag¥u&Jue. This 25-rninute epic compo%iiion is splil into four movem¢nis 'hICh i¢"Il the slory ol-c)ur b¢autiful and hisloriL synagogu¢ alongside a I lebreth, sciiing i)r F.cclesiastes 3- "To evLry thingT there is a season. <ind a time to ¢i'cr)' purpose under the heai"cn. A lime io be born. and a time to dic, The rest of the texts featured in ihis ambilious. theatrical piece all come from ne'spaperS. mostly The Jewish Chronicle. BLnjamin spcnl a month Irdwling 'l-he JC s archiTrLS tor references to New West End, and uncovered couniless quirky. fascinaling, moving. heart- waming and comic slories about the synagpogue. The most noieworthy of ihese l<xts hae been sel to music. including the l 876 appeals for contributions Lo"ardS Ihc cost of building Ihe synagyoguL. IhL arrival ol. elLclric ligyhi in ihe building {11194). the famous sutlragL'iie incident in 1913, Chanukah parties in Second World Wiir bomb sh¢liers organiscd by shul members. into Telalively modern4lay events like lh¢ wotncn s march for Russian Jews in 1971, the 1997 announcemeni that New Wesi End had gone online. right up to 'l'he JC. s Sccrei Shul Gocr's rav¢ vIeW of the synagogue in ?019.
This concert also served as the firsl public announcement of a major new projecl. The Jew3 of Briiain. planned for liv¢ prcmier¢ and recordingT in 2016. 1.his will be an ambilious hi¥hly melodic. hour-long Lhoral work, speciall). comtx)sed by Benjamin Till. who will be working with up to 50 academics and mus¢unVlibrary curators to unearth snippets of iext that tell the 1.000 vear story of Ihe British-jewish community from their a1Val in 1066, and subsequent expulsion, 10 their retum in ihe 1650s, rig?ht through io the preseni day. The work is to be perfom]¢d by Mos(IiL VoiLes accompanied bN' a slring orcheslrd and percussionists. A number ofm'cll-known prescnier5. aciors and singjers Irom the Jewish ccimmunity arc likely to b¢ perforniin¥ as part of Ihis rL'cording and live Lvent. The texts used in the piece will come from a widc" varicly of sourccs. including) royal edicts. Postcards. leltcrs. nLwspapcr clippings. and ci'cn medieval gratliti. Each ILXI adds anviher aspe¢l to Ihc story. Some are witt>'. some are ihougihi-proi'okingy. som¢ are life-atTirniing. many are highly rnoving. They cover all the important lurning points for the Jewish communiiy, frum medieval pogroms through io assimilalion. thL' eleclion of ihe lirsl Jewish membcrs of Plialent, to the arrii'al of Jewish immigrdnis ai Ihe end of ihe 19, ccnlury, thc Baltle of Cable Street. the Kindertransport in 1939-40, thL' arrival of Jcws from thc Middle East in the 50s and 60s, right Ihrough to th¢ preseni day. Mosaic Voiles musiLal content online. "hICh is ai'ailable for free mosily on YouTube. Leived 6.165 views and th¢ channel has 545 reLyular subscribers. In Ma). 2024. Mosaic Voices rcleased a ne. music video. sung in Yiddish. of l.ii'c'i, Cye.selekh from the film, Psalm.s. For the period of 2024, Mosaic Voices. Musical DirlOr was Michael Ethcrton (also ils Founder) and its Comp05¢r in Residence Benjamin Till. Sigined on behalf of the trusl¢es by M R Etherton (Truslee)
Mosaic Voices Income 2nd Expenditute Account Year Ended 31 December 2024 Income Donations and sponsorslll"P Performance fees Sundry income T3x refunds ftftd interest 14,6(IX I C),452 Expenditute l)ruducuun cost5 InSUrnee 40(1 £ldvertising 2nd pubhcity I'l. cxpenses Sund4 ¢XPLIlSets Bank charges Ilccountancy ?1)8 4?1 i?0 Sbrplus of income over expendiwre 15.?89