som Music Socie Ann rEn During the year ending 30 November 2023 Epsom Music Society staged 4 classical concerts free of entry to showcase Ukrainian refugee musicians. These events attracted donations to support the musicians. We also staged several ticketed live tOFFclass jazz concerts. "Grassroots Jazz" established in the previous year continued to address the shortfall in Government funding for the arts as we came out of Covid. It was widely felt that the available monies in the Culture Recovery Fund were assigned too eagerty, without proper planning. and with little consideration for the smaller organisations, especially Ihose who operate in non permanent venues such as pubs, church halls. community centres and the like. These clubs invariably work on a shoestring. and (more often than not) are chaired by promoters of the older generation. Within this generation, there is (Gompletely understandable) hugely lower incidence of inlerneUIT proficiency, which in turn leads to chronic underuse of social media to promote events. In addition to this, there is a hugely reduced rale of bid submissions to the available money via Arts Council England from these promolers. This is definitely attribuled to the same causation a lack of the required skills required lo make a coherent and competitive online bid. There are dozens of professional bid writers bidding for this same pol of money. Pitting these promoters against these professional bid writers is never going to see a good result for grassroots venues. The likelihood of SUC$$ is close to zero. With reduced audience numbers. the profit margin b8cam8 smaller for clubs, and for many, this became completely unmanageable. As some clubs began to close we decided to do something about it. A total of 4 clubs were awarded grants in 2022.2023. The Trustees Lionel Blackman Nigel Price Richard Tomlinson 7. September 2023
Epsom Music 1197449 Account for Financial Year 1st December 2022 to 30th November 2023 EXPENSES Accountant fee loo Concert venue hire 1543 Grants 4600 Musician expenses Musician fees 196.05 7170 Printing Promotion and social media Audio services Total 929.34 270.02 1050 15858.41 Income Concert tickets 10407.52 Donations 5245.87 Total 15653.39 Deficit Balance c/d 21.22 Balance 30/11/2023 -205.02 11018.12 10813.1 Lionel Blackman LLB MA Solicitor Epsom Music Upper Chambers 7 Waterloo Road Epsom l(r19 8AY