BATfERSEA CHORAL SOCIETY
ANNUAL TRUSTEES. REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED
31st August 2025

BATTERSEA
CHORAL SOCIETY
Registered Chartty No.. 1200589
ANNUAL REPORT
For the year ended 31 August 2025
ObjeGts
The Objects of the Sorxty are to advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in,
arKI 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 events.
Governance and Admlnlstratlon
The Society operates under the tems of the Constitution it adopted in May 2022. tt is a charity
registered with the Charities Commission. charity number 1200589.
The principal address of the Society is 5 Emle Road, LorKlon SV120 OHH.
The Souety is administered by a committee as defined in its Constitution. All the Committee
roles are filled by members of the Society and all paid up members are eligible for any of the
roles. All Committee members offer themselves for ￿eleCtIOn at the Annual General Meeting
each year. The Committee members are the Trustees of the Chartty. No trLth is paid for his
or her ro￿. For the year ended 31 August 2025 these roles were occupied as follow5:
The Officers
. Chaiman
¥ Secretary
. Treasurer
Je￿rnY Nicholson
Lucy Newmark
Gillian Broadley
Other members of the committee
• Librarian
. Sponsorshipladvertising officer
. cOn￿rt manager
. Assistant concert manager
. Publicity officer
. Membership offi￿r
Ann Morgan (appointed 17109124)
Diana Macfarlane
Nicola Ellard
Hazel Johnson (reswned 25102125)
Louise Riley (resigned C6105125)
Janet Bonthron
The Music Director attends meetings except when his fees are being discussed.

Employees
The Society has no employees. During the year end&d 31 August 2025 the Music Director and
accompanist were retained in a freelan￿ capacty. Other mustcians are hired on an ad hoc
basis as required.
Publlc Benefft
In planning our programme the Committee is mindful of the Society's obj'ects. Our aim is to
perfomi a varied repertoire and to provide easy access at a reasonable price to our events and
to membership of the Society.
During the year the Society gave three concerts.. our traditional Christmas con￿rt. Verdi's
Requiem and a summer concert of Mozarfs Vesperae Solonnes de Confessore and Haydn's
Maria Theresa Mass.
All three ¢on¢erts were held at our regular venue of Holy Trinity Church. Sloane Square. At our
Christmas concert our chosen charity, Wandsworth mU￿c, hekl a retiring collection and we
donated the net proceeds of that evening's bar to that chaiity.
The Society val￿$ being open to all singers regardless of gender. ethnicrty or religion.
Reduced subscription rate5 are offered for the under 30s and those who are in r￿lpt of
beneffts. The Society does not fomially audrtion although our website ex￿aInS thal some
experien￿ of choral singing is desirable. Potential new memters are invited to join a few trial
rehearsals.
The Society offers a scholarship for a young musician each year. This year we trialled a new
scholarship for a young choral corKluctor and we were pleased to award it to Alice Habis, who
started with us in the summer term 2024 and served for all three temis of the current year.
Reserves Policy
The Trustees consider it prudent that the Society should maintain reserves sufficient to cover
the nomial experKSiture of the Society for one year or the cost of one con￿rt, whichever is the
greater. As at 31 August 2025 we held reseNes of £26.510. Normal expenditure for the year
was £23,280 and the cost of our most expensive concert was £20,375 (including the additional
payment of £1,110 made to the orchestra which was fund￿1 by a donation).
Financial Revlew
The rec￿pts and payments account for the Society is set out on page 5 of this report.
Income for the year Inon-concert and cOn￿rt combined) was £69.446 (2024.. £61,760) of which
£2,220 {2024: £2,310) was in donations. All of the donati¢)ns re￿iVed during the year were
speafically to enhance the amount paid to our or¢hestral players and were spent according to
these tenns. Both the Society and the orchestral player5 are extremely gratefijl for such a kind
dona'on. Subscnptions increased to £26,87712024: £24.075) as membership grew on the back
of the investment in marketing last year and ts'cket sales were £25,343 (2024.. £21.4711. The
S¢xiety beneffted from the receipt of GfftAid. which amounted to £4.649 (2024: £4.022).

Non concert expenditure was largely the same as last year at £23,280 {2024.' £22,681)
refiecting a rnodest increase in music professional fees set off by a reduction in reheatsal s
costs (the prior year had some costs from previous years included).
cOn￿rt expenditure rose to £45,872 {2024.. £40,584) ￿llectirtg the large Ord￿straI and soloist
forces required for the Verdi and the relatively large forces employed for the summer concert.
As is normal, our Christmas concert was the only one to retum a surplus of £2,259. The Verdi
concert made a kJSS of £9.553, despite selling out. and the summer MozartlHaydn GOn￿rt
made a loss of £6,600. refflecting the harsh realty of putting on concerts of choral music.
Overall the Society made a surplus of £294 {2024: deficit for the year of £1.485).
As a resu￿, the reserves of the Society stand at £26,510 (2024'.£26,216), ￿presented by cash.
The Swety prepares its accounts on a receipts and payments basis. as pemiitled under S133
of the Chafities Act 2011.
Flnanclal Controls
The ffinancial controls operated by the SOC￿ indude:
An annual budget is prepared which is approved by the Committee
Performance against budget is reviewed by Ihe Committee tennly
Payments from the Society's bank account all r&Juire two SP3naturesloTrline approvals
Subscripts'ons and ticket sales to members are fully recorded against a register of
members and all other advan￿ tickets are sold via an external ticketing agency. Onty a
very small number of ticket sates are made for cash.
As required by the Charities Commission, the accounts of Society are subject to an
independent examination each year.
Gillian Broadley
Treasurer
Jeremy Nicholson
Chainnan
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BAThERSEA CHORAL SOCIETY
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT
31 AUGUST 2025
Independent Examlner's report to tho trusteos of Batter8ea Choral Soclety (Reg Charfty
no 1200589
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charty (the Yrusf) for
the year ended 31st August 2025 set out on page 5.
Responslbllltles and basls of report
As charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in
accordance wrth the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Act").
I report in respwt of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under s145 of the Act
and in carying out my examinati¢)n, I have followed the applicable direclions given by the
Charity Commission under 214(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent Examlnor* ststement
I have completed my examination. l confinn that no material matters have come to my attention
in connection with the exarnination which give me cause to believe that. in any material respect..
accounting records were not kept in aC￿rdan￿ vthh section 130 of the Act. or
the accounts do not accord with the accountiro records.
I have no concems and h
to which attention
be reached.
ome across no other matters in connection with the examination
n in order to enable a proper urKlerstsnding of the accounts to
SigngJ.'
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25.un
26.877
•52
3.169
24.07S
1.215
852
3.169
4.649
Grft
4.649
d.022
35.64Y
35.Y7
31.192
14.121
14.121
13.113
4.339
1$1
392
163
155
1SS
41t
411
231
231
1425
733
23280
2J.280
22,881
12287
13.287
0.531
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2S.343
25.343
21.471
1.417
1.417
1.310
2220
2.220
33 699
2.310
3.637
22.570
4.279
8.748
19.280
3.705
4.279
.748
842
755
743
491
S73
1.249
1.597
416
2.379
2.31•
PRS
151
42.235
J.037
45.872
¢11.gni
{11.9731
110.0101
(1.4•5)
26.21ti
27.701
20.216
26.510