## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From Period start date 01/10/2024 To Period end date 30/09/2025** ## **Charity name: Penarth Chamber Music Festival** ## **Charity registration number: 1195835** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The object of Penarth Chamber Music**
**Festival for the public benefit, is to**
**advance education in, and raise public**
**appreciation of, music and other arts**
**principally through, but not limited to,**
**the delivery of an annual festival,**
**concerts, performances and workshops.**| |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|**The charity delivered its annual festival**
**between June 19-22 including 18 public**
**events and 5 workshops in local primary**
**and special schools, a launch event on**
**Jan 7th, a 2 fundraiser concerts on**
**March 7th and an autumn concert on**
**Sept 20th**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have understood the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Not Applicable**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not Applicable**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Festival is reliant on the**
**contribution of volunteers over the**
**annual Festival. Volunteers are utilised**
**for concert ushering, front of house**
**work, stage management, hosting**| **artists, catering, marketing and advertising. Not Applicable** 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|**Over the 11 years since its creation,**
**the Festival has grown and developed to**
**become an important event in the local**
**community. Its main purpose is to**
**further the appreciation and**
**understanding of chamber music; it does**
**this through the provision of a series of**
**concerts delivered by outstanding**
**professional musicians, both locally-**
**based and from further afield.**
**As in previous years, the main base for**
**the 2025 Festival was Penarth Pier**
**Pavilion, but events were also provided**
**at All Saints Church, Penarth, Turner**
**House Gallery, and Windsor**
**Gardens’ Bandstand.**
**The 2025 Summer Festival**
**programme delivered 18 concerts,**
**workshops and talks,**
**featuring 22 esteemed musicians and**
**speakers, 8 young musicians and 4**
**young composers in a four-day**
**programme. Among the distinguishing**
**elements of the festival is the high quality**
**of musicianship, and the camaraderie**
**between the players. The festival draws**
**together the very best locally-**
**based professional artists, supported by**
**others from around the UK and Europe.**
**While the Festival is important to the**
**town as a high-**
**quality musical event, there is**
**also a consequential benefit to**
**businesses in Penarth. Although many**
**audience members live in the town,**
**others reside in the wider area around**
**Penarth and some travel to the town for**
**the duration of the festival. This**
**benefits local businesses through**
**spending in restaurants, cafes, bars,**
**shops, hotels and local transport.**
**The Festival is also hugely beneficial to**
**the local community through its Schools**
**andCommunity work. Musicians**
**and practitioners visit**| **local Special Educational Needs schools (Meadowbank and Ty Gwyn), delivering workshops and concerts to pupils who would otherwise not be able to travel to experience live concerts in traditional settings, owing to profound additional needs. Those who are able to leave their care settings are invited to a ‘Relaxed Concert’ at Penarth Pier Pavilion during the festival week. Additionally, the Festival delivered a Schools programme which offered a series of workshops in one of the Penarth schools – Victoria Primary School. This culminated in the participation of pupils from the school at a Family Concert. A partnership with local secondary school, Stanwell, saw 30 pupils attend one of the main festival concerts. As well as working with schools, the Festival is committed to nurturing emerging young musicians, something that it has prioritised since its inception. The 2025 Summer Festival held two Young Musicians’ recitals, showcasing the talent of local instrumentalists and ensembles. The festival also invites a young artist to join them for the week where they gain valuable experience working with established professionals and performing alongside them.It is encouraging that some of the young musicians from the early years of the festival have now entered the profession and can take their places in the main festival. A new development for 2025 was the introduction of an autumn concert that took place in September at All Saints Church, Penarth. Alongside the spring ‘launch concerts’, an autumn event help to maintain a connection with audiences across the year. It is hoped that in 2026 this autumn event will develop further, to provide a weekend ‘mini-festival’.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set |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|**In the year ended 30th September 2025**
**the Festival generated a surplus of**
**£5,690 which is a £11,291 improvement**
**over the deficit of £(5,601) in the**
**previous year.**
**Both income and expenditure were**
**down on the previous year, with total**
**income at £45,061 down £11,188 on the**
**2023-24 figure of £56,249.**
**Offsetting this reduction in income was**
**a reduction in expenditure of £22,479,**
**with total expenditure for the year at**
**£39,371 compared to £61,850 in the**
**previous year.**
**Total Reserves carried forward into**
**2025-26 were £15,296.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Festival retains a minimum of**
**£3,000 reserves at all times this is to**
**facilitate any unforeseen expenses, any**
**shortfall in funding for subsequent**
**years and ongoing administrative**
**expenses**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£15,296**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not Applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not Applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not Applicable**| ## **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|**Ticket Sales**
**Grant Funding**
**Donations**
**Programme advertising**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Not Applicable**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Increasing delivery costs.**
**Reliance on successful grant funding,**
**fund raising through membership**
**donations and hitting sales targets**| Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Charitable 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|**Recruitment to the Board has been by**
**recommendation and approach, after**
**identification of specific skills required**
**for the Trustee group. A quorum of**
**Trustees need to approve a**
**recommendation before an approach**
**can be made**| ## **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|| |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|Penarth Chamber Music Festival| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1195835| |Charity’s principal address|26 Clive Place
Penarth
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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(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Peter Bellingham|Chairman||| ||Huw Davies|Treasurer||| ||David Adams|Co-Artistic Director||| ||SallyBird|||| ||Robert Fokkens|||| ||Samantha Maskrey|||| ||Geraint Talfan
Davies OBE|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the 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** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Huw Davies Full name(s)** Gwyn Huw Davies **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 30/07/2026 ## **PENARTH CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL** **ANNUAL INCOME & EXPENDITURE STATEMENT 2024/25** |**INCOME**
**Ticket Sales**
Launch concert
-
Festival concerts
22,364
**Fundraising**
Grants
6,420
Friends donations
8,605
Concert donations
1,234
Other
-
Gift Aid
4,407
**Other Income**
Advertising
1,260
Programme sales
628
Merchandise & Raffle
116
Other
177
**TOTAL INCOME**
Prior year adjustment
**Adjusted total income**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Performance Costs**
Musician fees and expenses
26,011
Other performance costs
2,553
Commission fee
-
**Administrations**
Artistic Director fee
5,000
Producer fee
-
Festival Administration
1,000
Front of House/Stage Management
1,276
**Venue hire costs**
2,832
**Marketing**
2,569
**Other costs**
Reception
-
Exhibition
-
Office/General admin
256
Other professional services
366
Insurance
478
Accounts
420
Banking & Google Suite
341
**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**
Prior year adjustment
**Adjusted expenditure**
**Adjsusted SURPLUS / (DEFICIT)**
**Reserves brought forward into 2024-25**
**Adj for prior year accrued expenditure**
**Adj for prior year accrued income**
**ADJ SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) 2024-25**
**Reserves carried forward into 2024-25**
**Bank balance at 30 September 2024**
**Year to 30/09**|2,474
18,080
22,364
22,525
6,966
682
3,314
-
20,666
1,110
722
376
-
2,181
**45,211**
(150)
**45,061**
31,703
2,477
7,000
28,564
5,000
6,500
-
-
7,276
2,832
3,357
2,569
1,749
275
874
2,915
-
-
-
-
1,861
**43,102**
(3,731)
**39,371**
**5,690**
**9,606**
**5,690**
**15,296**
**13,268**
**/2025**
**Prior year t**|20,554
33,487
2,208
**56,249**
41,180
11,500
3,357
1,749
4,064
**61,850**
**(5,601)**
**15,207**
**(5,601)**
**9,606**
**o 30/09/2024**|Var v PY
(2,474)
4,284| |---|---|---|---| ||||1,810
(16,105)
1,639
552
(3,314)
4,407| ||||(12,821)
150
(94)
(260)
177| ||||(27)| ||||**(11,038)**
(150)| ||||**(11,188)**
5,692
(76)
7,000| ||||12,616
0
6,500
(1,000)
(1,276)| ||||4,224
525
(820)
275
874
2,659
(366)
(478)
(420)
(341)| ||||2,203
**18,748**
3,731
**22,479**| ||||**11,291**| ||||| ||||**5,690**| ||||| ## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Penarth Chamber Music Festival** ## **Charity Number 1195835** I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 30[th] September 2025. ## Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act), and that an independent examination is needed. ## It is my responsibility to: - Examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act; - Follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and - State whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## Basis of independent examiner’s statement My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair view” and the report is limited to those matters set out below. ## Independent examiner’s statement In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the requirements to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met; or (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Tina Jenkins ACMA 30[th] July 2026