## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1.9.23 Period start date To 31.8.24 Period end date** **Charity name: Kidderminster Choral Society** ## **Charity registration number: 1193796** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Rehearsing, and performing choral**
**works.**| |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|**Three choirs (adult and youth choirs):**
**Kidderminster Choral Society**
**Wyre Forest Young Voices**
**Primary Chords**
**Each group performed three individual**
**and one concert together for the sharing**
**of music, education and enjoyment of**
**the public.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Contribution from many volunteers,**
**including officers of the Society**
**throughout the year to ensure that all**
**members are provided with a**
**meaningful experience. Also to promote**
**and put on concerts for the public.**| |||| Other ## **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|**Nine concerts plus a Christmas concert**
**collaboratively involving all three**
**choirs, were successfully performed to**
**members of the public in a variety of**
**venues within the community.**
**Encouraging growth in membership**
**across all three choirs after the**
**restrictions of the Covid pandemic.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Slight improvement towards recovering**
**after the pandemic**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**To cover potential deficits. Bursary**
**awards given at Trustee’s discretion.**
**Facilitate cash flow.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£21,851**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**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|**People who volunteer for the positions.**
**Main committee (which is elected by the**
**membership), subsequently voted for at**
**meetings.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Making Music Guidance**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Kidderminster Choral Society| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Wyre Forest Young Voices, Primary Chords| |Registered charity number|1193796| |Charity’s principal address|Laxtons
Shelsley Beauchamp
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR6 6RA| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Caroline Lee|Chairman||All membership| ||Jayne Beddall
Hurdman|Membership
secretary||All membership| ||LindsayWhite|Secretary||All membership| ||Richard Gunn|Treasurer||All membership| ||John Gaston|President||All membership| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** Declarations Th• tru•to•• declar• that th•y havo approv￿ th• try•t￿. report abov•. Slgn¢d on behalt of tho eharlty'• tr￿1•8* SlgnatuNl•) Full nam¢ls} Posltlon (eg S•er•tary, halr. etcl Caroline Lee Lirthay While Chair Secretary KIDDERMINSTER KCS INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 202312024 Klddermln*8r Choral So¢kty immT Totsl d￿rdS 2024 Totsl zoi> INCOME Forest Youn8 Volces É11.555 OONANONS Kts IlX)CLUB BSCRlPnONS TOUR SU85CAIPTIONS CKETSALES PROGPAMFM ADVERTISIIIfjISAIES SALE OF MUSI MEACWD15E EXtERP4AL EVEpif5 INTEREST ￿EcE￿￿o INTEHP4ALGRAP*T bAR SALES RAFFLÈ WORKSHOP PROCEED5 REIMBURSEMEP4T5 TOVR REPAVME•4T DONAnO+I FOH CONCERT GROWtN INETHICAL INVESYMÉIrtSUNDAC (HILARY EDWARD58UASARYI £6. £2.XQ £20.314 £iS.14S 13,115 £10,249 E5.310 E6.263 E2.743 É1.286 £21,851 £9,478 £13,828 £20.61I £0 ti.402 ui Éo É6tsP ElnX7 EO EO ED Éo EO E177 É36 £in £629 E6.057 f6M57 TOTAL INCOME 3,542 E26,144 £4W22 £74,508 £45,369 EXPEP4DITLIRE PROFESSIONALFEE5 COSTOF PROGRAMMES ADVEAnsiNfjlpu•ucffY PRS FEES peRFORMMCEIHEHEARSAL HALL HIAE PROJECTOR FEEtsTAGE DECORAnlY15 INSTRUMENTIIIRE INSURAF4CE HIRVPURfHASE OF MUSIC UNIFORM PLIRCHL%ts PRINTINGI5TATIOP4ERVIP05TAfjI ZOOM CMARGES WENSITE CHARGES MAKINQ MUSIC MfM•ERSHIP TWINNINfj SQCIETY STOHAGE IANK CHARGEVINTEAEST ACCOUNTAf4LY FLOWERSIPRISENTS TOL*R C05T5 CONceRTthM flEFftiSMMtNTS ANNUAL ￿N￿ER CHAMBEH OF COMMEACE FIRST AIOTKAIIIING OTHEH EXPEIIThTURE DSL TRA1141NG COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SAVETIIECHILDREN É16.331 E?.519 £156 É4S .145 £26.073 £30.7S5 £1.4 1.21$ £339 £&7t6 £20 £0 £4.142 É2.489 EO £2C E993 E337 £6Jg £￿6 El Éfv? ED É2S Éi.s E265 E611 £144 E275 E25 £65 É271 E624 E21• E191 E207 C307 Cl.QJ7 125P £0 £0 ¢356 £0 £21S £0 TOTAL EXPENOITUAE £27,527 £20.705 £J.101 E5L340 £50,281 SURPLUSIDEFICIT FOR 102312024 £16,015 £5A39 £1,714 £23.168 £4,9Jl KIDDERMINSTER OIOIRscofisouDAIED OALA14CE5HEEfASAT31 AUGLIST2024 BANK￿cOUNTs GENEUI COIF É16.173 £21JS1 t2.246 20.998 £38mS E23.144 DEeTOR5 PAYMENTS IN ADVAtrKE £195 É295 CAEDNOA5 CREDITo￿lPA0vIS GAW FROM SHEWARO SUB5CRIPTION5 RECEIVEDINADVAIICE MIDFULLV WIRED WBsaRmOP4FU14D ACCRUALS £0 E3.¢XII Éo 43.rix) £4 £1.150 E4.rA15 £6.63Q IIETCURREIIT A55ÉT5 £16.*]9 HILARYEDWAROS BEQUEsr £9.( TOTALlItT A55m RESERVES AFTIJNED EARNIPIGS SURPLVSIIDEFKryI FOA ThE PEAK)D £)OA21 ¢73,161 TOTALRESERVES É25,PJ9 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl mombgrs of Kidderminsier Ch(xal Society On ac¢ounts for the year endod 31 August 2024 Charlty no 1193796 Ilf any) Set out on pag9• One of Two I report lo the trustees my examinaknon of the accounts of the above charity Ilhe Trust") lor the y•ar ended R•8pDn8lblllU•s and As tha chanty truste8s of the Tru3l, you are re$￿sIble lor the preparat basis of ￿pOrt ol the accounts in accorrjancè wrth the r8quir8rn8nis of the Chanties Act 20111.lhe Acri. I report in respect of my examinat*)n of the Trust's aCC￿nts Carri4d out und8r section 145 of the 2011 Act and In carrying my examinal￿n. I have followed the applicable Directions 9iven by the Chanty Commiss•)n uThJer s•ction 14515llbl of th? Acl. I havè COMp￿ted rny examinatK)n. I r￿fim7 Ihal no mat*ial mott¢rs hovg corne lo my attention lolher than that disclos8d b8low'l in cDnnectson ¥wth Ihe examination which gIV8s me cau89 to believe that in. any matarfal re8pecl'. aceounling records were not kept In accordanc• wtlh 130 ol the Act or th• ae¢ounts do not accord ￿th Ihe accounkn"rvJ fKud$ Indèpond•nt •x*mlner's stat•m•nt I have no concerns 8nd hav8 com8 across no olher matter6 in cKJnnecti wbth thg exarnination lo which artenlion shoukl te dra￿ in ordar lo anabl proper understanding of the arwunts lo be reach8d. ' Heasa ￿8￿18 Ihg wor¢ls in the brack•ts rflh•y do not 8pply. Slgn•d'. 6/3 202£ Naffle.. Mr John Ful man FCCA Rolevant profe••lonal ' Chart•r•d Certbf*d Acc(Juntsnt FCCA quallfl¢allonl81 or body Addr•••'. MoUntr￿1￿ House, 661 HvJh Stre81 Kin9swinlord, West MId￿nd￿. DY6 8AL IER O¢tobor 2018 Soction B Disclosure Only cornplete if the examiner need5 to highlight matters ol concem (see CC32. Independent examination ol tharity ac¢cxJnts: directions aTrJ guidan￿ lor examiners). Glvo har• brl•l detall¥ of any i¢gms that the èxaminer wish*¥ to d18clo￿. IER Qctobfjr 2018 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Xkldgmiln*t•r Chor41 Sts¢l•ty Receipts and payments accounts CC16a Forthe pe￿0d To 0110912023 31I0812Q24 Section A Receipts and payments Unros¢Adod fuDd$ Rèstricted funds Endowm•nt futld Total funds Last y•4r toth• M4r••l£ Kwe1m￿S1orchOr￿s Fartslyouno Pr¥natyCttords Z6.144 4.822 4.412 Sub tot8llGross income for ARI A2 As*•t and Inv•itsNnt #a￿$, leres1fece￿0dOnd￿Ufvn￿g 1.1 Sub total Tol81 rntelpt$ 16,•76 3Pa m•nts KIddOnn￿￿19rChQr￿so￿ Fore41 Yo Chord I7.￿7 21.210 J.1 Pma Sub total A4 ￿1•¢ and Inv••tm•nt ur¢hi*•¥, thbl• Sub total Tot•1 p•ym•nt¥ 51.695 51.U90 P4•t olrne•lptpJlp•ym•ntsl A5 Trnn*f•rn b•tw••n fvnds AO Calh fundi li•t y••r Cash lunds Ihls y••r qnd 14711 ."£££"2 23.244 38.025 38,025 CCXX RI ISSI Sectioi) B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unr*stri¢tsd funds R05trKted End0*7n•nl lunds t4 ￿•￿*1( Cat•9OtI 81 Cash funth COIF Fu Total c•sh ft#7d$ lun¢J• t•nw•ilt 15.057 fund* Thds B2 Other mon•taryas5•ts 83 Inv•stm•nt oH•t• Bd r•taln•d for th• C￿rIty'S 4￿n FwiOt•*h*h U•bllltl•• S¥na¢ur• CCXXR2 IS81