## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 1[st] September 2022 **Period start date To** 31[st] August 2023 **Period end date** **Charity name:** London City Orchestra **Charity registration number:** 1197207 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the Society shall be to advance,
improve, develop and maintain public education
in, and appreciation of, the art and science of
music in all its aspects by any means the
trustees see fit, including through the
presentation of public concerts and recitals.| |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|During this period, London City Orchestra has
put on five public concerts showcasing a range
of music, including one concert in association
with a choral society.| |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 had regard to the Charity
Commission’s guidance on public benefit.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|-
The orchestra provides an opportunity
for nearly 100 musicians to benefit from
making music together, and has put on
5 public concerts, reaching over 750
members of the public.
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For each term, the charity has
continued to sponsor musicians who
would not otherwise have been able to
afford to play in the orchestra.
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Our concerts have broadened the
scope of music available to the public,
including a UK premiere, and music by
female composers which have been
only rarely performed.| **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|With £5,584.52 in its bank account on 31
August 2023, the London City Orchestra was in
a healthy financial position at the end of the
period.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The London City Orchestra aims to hold at
minimum £2,000 in its reserves at any time.
This is to ensure we can pay invoices for
musicians, conductors and other people who
provide services.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Minimum of £2,000| |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. We are strengthening our fundraising
activities, increasing member subscriptions and
exploring projects such as selling merchandise
to boost our income in response to the cost of
living crisis.| **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|

Member Subscriptions

Concert Ticket Sales

Charitable Donations| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|None| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Rising costs of venue hire and industry standard
rates for paying musicians and conductors.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Making Music model constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association| |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|Trustees are elected by members at general
meetings of the charity.| ## **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|London CityOrchestra| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1197207| |Charity’s principal address|B/M London City Orchestra
PO BOX 12
LONDON
WC1N 3XX| ||| ## **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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Thomas
Fotheringham|Chair||| ||Zara Chiu Lea|||| ||Philip Keller|||| ||Pablo Urbina|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 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 N/A 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 **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Thomas Fotheringham **Full name(s)** Thomas Fotheringham **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** **Date** 27/06/2024 **Charity Name No (if any) London City Orchestra 1197207** ## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** ## **CC16a** |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
1 September 2022|**To**
|Period end date
31 August 2023| |---|---|---|---| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Concert Income
**16,441**
MembershipSubscriptions
**8,242**
Donations
**4,742**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,425**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 29,425**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**4,592**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,592**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,592**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,441**
**8,242**
**9,334**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,017**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,017**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||_17,627_| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**4,592**|**-**|**34,017**|**17,627**| |**A3 Payments**
Conductor fees
**7,180**
Guestplayer fees
**8,399**
Venue hire and PRS fees
**11,419**
Soloist fees
**2,432**|**A3 Payments**
Conductor fees
**7,180**
Guestplayer fees
**8,399**
Venue hire and PRS fees
**11,419**
Soloist fees
**2,432**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**7,180**
**8,399**
**11,419**
**2,432**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Conductor fees|**7,180**|**-**|**-**|**7,180**|**-**| |Guestplayer fees|**8,399**|**-**|**-**|**8,399**|**-**| |Venue hire and PRS fees|**11,419**|**-**|**-**|**11,419**|**-**| |Soloist fees|**2,432**|**-**|**-**|**2,432**|**-**| 07/10/2024 1 |Marketing|**1,900**||**-**||**-**||**1,900**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Music hire|**1,142**||**-**||**-**||**1,142**||**-**| |Event refreshments|**1,316**||**-**||**-**||**1,316**||**-**| |Miscellaneous|**3,025**||**-**||**-**||**3,025**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**36,813**||**-**||**-**||**36,813**||**21,541**| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**36,813**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**36,813**||||**21,541**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**- 7,388**||||**4,592**||||**-**|||||**- 2,796**||||**- 3,914**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**- 7,388**||||**4,592**||||**-**|||||**- 2,796**||||**- 3,914**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**7,388**
**-**
**-**
**7,388**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Agreement Error
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment funds**| 07/10/2024 2 |**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**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value (optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value (optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due (optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| ||||| ||||| 07/10/2024 3 ## **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**
**Set out on pages**|Charity Name
The London City Orchestra|Charity Name
The London City Orchestra|Charity Name
The London City Orchestra| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31 August 2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1197207| ||||| ||1-2
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 08 / 2023** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** 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 examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention 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. |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**||25/06/2024| |---|---|---| |||| ||Dorothy Lin|| |||| ||n/a - gross income for Charity is below £250k|| |||| ||51 Sclater Street|| ||E16FU|| ||London, UK|| 1 **October 2018** **IER** **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** Nothing to disclose. The accounts are kept in digital format, on a cash basis, and have **details of any items** sufficient detail for each record. **that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER**