## Friends of Favela Brass April 2024 to March 2025 Chair's report The year has been a successful one with donations and funding at a level which enabled us to meet our charitable object to provide support for activities which develop the skills, capacities and capabilities of disadvantaged children in Rio de Janeiro to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals. In this way our charitable purposes are achieved through financial and practical assistance; we support the work of the Brazilian based charitable organisation Associação Musical Favela Brass (AMFB). Our serving trustees are unchanged but now all 4 are living in England and we still communicate through online meetings to facilitate liaison with the CEO of AMFB. The trustees are all aware of the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission and are sent all the updated and new guidance as it is issued. In the year 2024 to 2025 we continued to purchase musical instruments, percussion and brass and other equipment to enable to provide music lessons individually and in groups. We have been able to fund a new development which is the provision of individual external examinations through the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM). Many of the students achieved distinctions boosted their selfconfidence as well as the experience of making music under examination. The examination plan will continue from November this year (2025) to encourage progression in the quality of musicianship. Our fund-raising followed the patterns of previous years including a very successful Ceilidh organised together with a Doncaster charity which enables physically disabled children to water-ski and other related activities. A new departure was the sale of two commissioned paintings along with the usual card sales, online sales of pre-loved items. **Friends of Favela Brass 1194144 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/04/24 31/03/25 **To from** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Fundraisingevents
**2,285**
Donations
**1,815**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,100**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 4,100**
**A3 Payments**
Musical instruments
**2,650**
Other equipment
**783**
Bank charges
**53**
Music Exam Fees
**757**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 4,243**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 4,243**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 143**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**2,737**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,594**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
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**-**
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**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
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**-**
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**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,285**
**1,815**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,100**
**2,650**
**783**
**53**
**757**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,243**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,243**
**- 143**
**-**
**2,737**
**2,594**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||||**2,412**| |||||**1,280**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**3,692**| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| |||||**3,692**| |||||| |||||**3,501**| |||||**334**| |||||**56**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**3,891**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||| |||||**3,891**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**|**- 143**|**- 199**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**2,737**|**2,936**| ||**-**|**-**|**2,594**|**2,737**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
bank account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Nil
**Details**
Nil
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,594**
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**2,594**
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OK
OK
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**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
John Kerr
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**Unrestricted**
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**Restricted**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||John Kerr|25/06/25| |||||