## **St Albans City Band (Charity No. 1199618)** ## **Trustees Report 11 July 2022 to 31 March 2023** This report should be read in conjunction with the return and accounts submitted for St Albans City Band charity number 1102355 (the old charity) SACB 1199618 was established as the trustees of SACB 1102355 believed that i. a new, simplified constitution was needed for the charity, ii. Trustees needed to be more protected by a limited liability legal structure, and iii. The ownership/control of the property owned by SACB 1199618 would be better managed under the trustees of the charity rather than by separate property custodian trustees. SACB 1199618 was established on 11 July 2022 with the charity commission. The trustees decided to leave this charity dormant until the end of the financial year (31 March 2023) to simplify reporting. SACB 1199618 therefore did not trade or own assets during this period. The old charity traded up until 31[st] March 2023 and the accounts for the old charity have now been submitted for that period. The minutes of the final AGM of the old charity, and the first Annual Meeting of the SACB 1199618 can be found appended to this document. Micah Gold Richard Sved Secretary Chair St Albans City Band Annual Meeting of the new St Albans City Band CIO 1199618 Annual General Meeting (final) of St Albans City Band Charity no. 1102355 13[th] December 2023 ## **Present:** Ethan Haley – Community Band, Trustee John Campbell – Musical Director Community Band Jenny Hill – Community band & Safeguarding Officer Ian Mann - Treasurer Jay Joseph – Training Band Polly Napper – Librarian & Concerts Yngve Scrom – Community Band Richard Sved – Community band and Chair Jake Cullingford – youth band Trevor Chrome – Adult training band Micah Gold – Community Band, Secretary Chris Suss – Community Band Jay Joseph – Training Band Stephen Cullingford – father of Jake Chris Hughes – Youth Band Christine Reig ## 1. Chairman’s Report (See attached) ## _**St Albans City Band Annual Meeting, 13[th] December 2023**_ _**Chair’s update**_ 2. Community Band Report – John Campbell - Various concerts (4?) that were successful - - Jenny playing sop now great - - Ethan Haley solo - - Need stronger regular attendance and could do with stronger solo/principal cornters **Project Band:** still to establish. Possible collaboration with Jonathan Pippin and Tariq may be interested in conducting. **RSv:** What is kind of music/direction for the CB? **JC:** Need a full band first. **CH** suggested we tap further into Hertfordshire Music service to spread our word. All agreed. 3. Youth Band Report Stepen gave report on behalf of Simon ## _**St Albans City Band Annual Meeting, 13[th] December 2023 Youth Band report**_ _The St Albans city youth band has gone from strength to strength since its first rehearsal on the 7th of June. We have grown from 3 members to 10, have learnt over 15 pieces of music. We plan to continue to increase our membership during 2024 and to continue performing alongside the St Albans City Band and hopefully the adult training band._ _I would like to work towards entering the youth band for the BBE Youth band championships in 2025 which would involve expanding the band to include more low brass and percussion which I think will be achieved through word of mouth and the current advertising through Facebook._ _The youth band wouldn’t be where it is today without the hard work of the children and the dedication of the parents. I hope the band_ Simon was particularly mentioned for his teaching style and ability to inspire and make young people feel comfortable. 4. Adult Training Band Jay gave the ATB report _**St Albans City Band Annual Meeting, 13[th] December 2023**_ ## _**Adult Training Band report**_ From 9 players to 2 bands and 13 players. A vote of thanks was proposed to Beth and ATB members at the meeting gave her much praise and talked about training band feeling like a family. ## 5. Librarian/Concerts Polly gave report. 9, 8, 10, 11, 6 – av about 9 – Community band attendance Nov/Dec ’23. Community band needs help – bumping along the bottom a bit. Concert organising take a long time: venue, promotion, deps, refreshments. Beth also said SACB needs help. Polly encouraged youth/training band participants to get involved organising a concert. RSv proposed a vote of thanks to Polly (and a round of applause) Access to standard concert venues, contacts, networks for deps was proposed to be held on the shared drive for others to use. ## **The meeting was closed** ## **The old charity 1102355 AGM was opened (final AGM)** Micah gave a report on the process of moving from old charity to new, why, and the stage we are at. The objects of closing the old charity and moving all SACB assets to a new CIO were: - To make sure we could understand how the band is supposed to work - To reduce liability risk for trustees - - To bring the custodianship of the property into the charity – simplicity Ian Mann gave the Financial report and last accounts of the old Charity ## **St Albans City Band 1102355 Accounts April 1st 2022- March 31st 2023** |Opening Balance|51,515.89| |---|---| |Expenditure for this year|31,987.04| |Income for this year|27,119.73| |Closing Balance|46,648.58| |Overall Cost this Year|4,867.30| This is mainly due to a steady income from the hire of the downstairs part of the band room from Zhoosh. As a charity we shouldn’t be making a profit and therefore a decision was made at the May 2023 Committee meeting to increase spending particularly on Training and Beginners Band both Instruments and Music so next year’s accounts will see a bigger expenditure despite Zhoosh renewing the downstairs lease hire. A big Thank you to Nick for all his hard work for this renewal. Listed below is the main Income and Expenditure. Jenny Hill independently examined the figures, and made some adjustments as below. These have the same operating loss, and apart from some minor repostings, the only major change made is that there was a £4,000 overpayment by the tenant subsequently refunded by us which has been netted off, meaning that we’re now below the £25k independent exam threshold. |||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Income and Expenditureyear ended 31 March 2023**||||||| |||||||||| |||**Income**|**23,484.23**
**£**|||**Expenditure**|**29,107.46**
**£**|| |||||||||| ||Member subscriptions||1,536.00
£||ConductingExpenses||4,935.00
£|| ||Engagements||1,000.00
£||Concerts||1,458.67
£|| ||Concerts||568.42
£||Music Purchases||402.29
£|| ||Prize Money||-
£||Business Rates||1,296.48
£|| ||Hire/Lettings||17,459.69
£||Instruments & Equipment||7,622.00
£|| ||Miscellaneous||-
£||Insurance||2,795.36
£|| ||Recharges to tenant||2,920.12
£||Service Charges||6,467.43
£|| ||||||Website Management||352.19
£|| ||||||Miscellaneous/Solicitors||2,045.37
£|| ||||||Electricity||1,732.67
£|| ||**Defcit for theyear**||**5,623.23**
**£**|||||| |||||||||| ||Total||29,107.46
£||Total||29,107.46
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