**Charity Number:  1199110** 



## **FRIENDS OF TOWCESTER STUDIO BAND** 


## **REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** 

**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2024** 




## **FRIENDS OF TOWCESTER STUDIO BAND** 


## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE CHARITY AND ITS TRUSTEES** 

## **For the year ended 5 April 2024** 

|**Trustees**|The following are the Trustees who served|during the year:|
|---|---|---|
|||**Appointed**|
||Martin Johns (Chair)|28/09/23|
||Pauline Stevens (Treasurer)|27/05/22|
||Gail Devlin-Jones|27/05/22|
|**Address**|Friends of Towcester Studio Band||
||c/o 1 Briary Close||
||Towcester||
||Northamptonshire||
||NN12 6TA||
|**Charity Number**|1199110||





## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES** 

The Trustees present their annual report and financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 5 April 2024. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charity Commission guidance. 

## **Constitution** 

The charity was established on 1 December 2015 and registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 27 May 2022. 

## **Objects of the Charity** 

To promote brass band music for the benefit of the public by provision of raising money for and grant funding Towcester Studio Band 

## **Grant-making Policy** 

Friends of Towcester Studio Band seeks to support the additional needs of Towcester Studio Band through the provision of grants. 

Requests for Revenue and Capital grants will be considered and areas of support will include but are not limited to: 

Sheet music Equipment Instrument purchase/hire Instrument repair Uniforms Professional fees Training Bursaries Building maintenance 

## **Review of Activities and Future Plans** 

During 2023/24 income was received totalling £6,931.12 (2022/23 - £8,369.23).  individual donations totalled £4,847 (2022/23 – £7,152) and a grant of £1,000 (2022/23 - £0) was awarded by Towcester Town Council, specifically to purchase a replacement Eb bass for the band. 

Additionally, Gift aid of £1,084 (2022/23 – 1,083) was recovered. 

During 2023/24 total grants paid amounted to £6,073 (2022/23: £1,393). 

The breakdown of the grants made in 2023/24 is as follows: 

||**£**<br>375<br>3,588<br>2,110|
|---|---|
|Drum kit<br>Uniforms<br>Percussion equipment<br>**TOTAL**||
||**6,073**|





The Charity congratulates Towcester Studio Band on a successful year, during which the band qualified for the National Brass Band Championships (Section 3) representing the Midlands Region and also on its promotion to Section 2 from January 2024. 

## **Public Benefit** 

The charity’s objects are set out above under 'Objects of the Charity. Trustees have considered the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when setting its grant making policy. 

The Trustees thank the individuals and organisations who have made donations to the Charity during 2023/24. 



||**Friends of Towcester Studio Band**|**Friends of Towcester Studio Band**|**Friends of Towcester Studio Band**|**Friends of Towcester Studio Band**|**Friends of Towcester Studio Band**|**1199110**|**1199110**||**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||4/6/23||**To**||4/5/24|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Individual donations|**3,098**||**-**||**-**||**3,098**||**2,090**|
|Other donations|**310**||**-**||**-**||**310**||**2,860**|
|Ticket sales|**30**||**-**||**-**||**30**||**133**|
|Gift Aid|**1,084**||**-**||**-**||**1,084**||**1,083**|
|Xmas collections|**1,409**||**-**||**-**||**1,409**||**2,203**|
|Donation from previous non registered charity|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**21,714**|
|Grants to Towcester Studio Band|**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**1,000**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**6,931**||**-**||**-**||**6,931**||**30,083**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**6,931**||**- 0**||**- 0**||<br>**6,931**||**30,083**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Grants to Towcester Studio Band|**6,073**||**-**||**-**||**6,073**||**1,259**|
|Ticket income received in error|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**133**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**6,073**||**-**||**-**||**6,073**||**1,392**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see**<br>**table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**6,073**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**6,073**||**1,392**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**858**||**-**||**-**||**858**||**28,691**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**28,691**||**-**||**-**||**28,691**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|<br>**29,549**||**-**||**-**||**29,549**||**28,691**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Amount brought forward at 6 April 2024||||28691||**-**||**-**|
||Income over expenditure at 5 April 2024||||**858**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**29,549**||<br>**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|



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|**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**<br>**own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the<br>trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||||||Martin Johns|||||
||||||Gail Devlin-Jones|||||



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