## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 30 May 2023 To 31 August 2024** ## **Charity name: Canticum** ## **Charity registration number: 1203310** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To educate the public in the art and**
**science of music by the establishment**
**and maintenance of a chamber choir**
**which will perform choral concerts.**| |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|**Performing concerts**| |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**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All singing members are volunteers and**
**perform at concerts.**
**Significant additional contributions are**
**made by the choir’s chair, treasurer,**
**librarian and secretary.**| |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|**Concert performances in 2023/24 were:**
**“The Elizabethans” St Peter’s Eaton**
**Square 9 November 2023**
A programme of choral works composed
during the reigns of Queens Elizabeth I
and II
**Marie Curie “Carols in the City”,**
**Southwark Cathedral, 6 December 2023**
**Christmas concert, St Saviour’s Pimlico,**
**13 December 2022**
**RAF Club Carols December 2023**
**Evensong/ Arvo Pärt Passio, Tonbridge**
**School 25 February 2024**
**“Echoes of the Cross”, St Stephen**
**Walbrook, 7 March 2024**
Scarlatti Stabet Mater and Arvo Pärt Passio
**Open rehearsal, St Saviour’s Pimlico, 4**
**June 2024**
**“A Shakespearean Serenade”, St**
**Bartholomew the Great, 10 July 2024**
Music set to texts by or inspired by
Shakespeare.
**The choir recorded a piece by a**
**contemporary composer during the**
**season.**| |||| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Income excluding the initial transfer of**
**assets from Canticum Novum and pre-**
**paid subscriptions for the 2024/25**
**season was around £1,800 above**
**expenditure. The charity remains in a**
**healthy financial position with total cash**
**funds of around £23,000.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves of around the cost of**
**promoting a large scale concert**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£10,000**| |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|**No uncertainties**| ## **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|
**Donations from members, gift aid,**
**concert ticket sales, fees for choral**
**performances**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Unsuccessful concert promotion**
**Failure to recruit sufficiently skilled**
**choir members and conductor**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**Seek volunteers from among choir**
**membership**| ## **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|
**n/a – no further trustee appointments**
**anticipated**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Trustees, singing members and music**
**director**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**Canticum CIO was registered on 30 May**
**2023. It was formed to take over the**
**charitable activities of Canticum Novum**
**(charity number 1014780).**
**The trustees of Canticum Novum**
**requested and were granted an**
**indemnity from Canticum Novum.The**
**remaining assets of Canticum Novum**
**were transferred to Canticum CIO during**
**2023/24. Canticum Novum was wound**
**up and removed from the Charities**
**register during 2023/24.**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Canticum| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1203310| |Charity’s principal address|44 Hitherfield Road,| |---|---| ||London| ||SW16 2LN| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Susan Porter-
Thomas|Chair||n/a| ||Angus Saer|Treasurer||n/a| ||NancyBuchanan|||n/a| ||James Pepler|||n/a| ||Nicholas Pyke|||n/a| ||EmilyRoberts||Resigned 14 July2023|n/a| ||Richard Murray||Appointed 14 November
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**Director name**||| |---|---|---| |**n/a**|**n/a**|**n/a**| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**n/a**|**n/a**|**n/a**| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **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**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**n/a**|n/a|n/a| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** n/a ## **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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|James Pepler|Susan Porter-Thomas| |---|---|---| |||| ||James Pepler|Susan Porter-Thomas| |||| ||Trustee|Chair| ||17 October 2024|| ||17 October 2024|| ||**Charity Name**

**CANTICUM**
|**Charity Name**

**CANTICUM**
|**Charity Name**

**CANTICUM**
|**No (if any)**
**1203310**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
**5/30/2023**|**To**|Period end date
**8/31/2024**|| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**
Transfer from Canticum Novum
**19,880**
Concerts
**11,825**
Subscriptions
**9,100**
Gift Aid
**1,730**
Bank interest
**444**
CD sales
**20**
**-**
**-**
**42,999**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 42,999**
**A3 Payments**
Concerts & recordings
**10,184**
Conductors
**5,600**
Rehearsal venues
**2,875**
PRS & Insurance
**609**
Website
**432**
Bank charges
**60**
Other
**436**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 20,196**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 20,196**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 22,803**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 22,803**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**19,880**
**11,825**
**9,100**
**1,730**
**444**
**20**
**-**
**-**
**42,999**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**42,999**
**10,184**
**5,600**
**2,875**
**609**
**432**
**60**
**436**
**-**
**-**
**20,196**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,196**
**22,803**
**-**
**-**
**22,803**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||**-**|**19,880**|**-**| ||||**-**|**11,825**|**-**| ||||**-**|**9,100**|**-**| ||||**-**|**1,730**|**-**| ||||**-**|**444**|**-**| ||||**-**|**20**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**42,999**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**42,999**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**10,184**|**-**| ||||**-**|**5,600**|**-**| ||||**-**|**2,875**|**-**| ||||**-**|**609**|**-**| ||||**-**|**432**|**-**| ||||**-**|**60**|**-**| ||||**-**|**436**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**20,196**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**20,196**|**-**| ||||||| |||**-**|**-**|**22,803**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**22,803**|**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**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**
Bank current account
Bank savings account
Concert float
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Angus Saer
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,233**
**-**
**21,370**
**-**
**200**
**-**
**22,803**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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AA SAER
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**funds**
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**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||Angus Saer|AA SAER|9/22/2024| ||||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the Irusteesl members of On accounts for the year ended 31 2c42* Charity no (If any) fLo'221a Set out on pages I rBport to the trustees on my examination of the a counts of the above I S Responsibilitles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 1"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{5llbl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material fflatters have come to my attention lolher than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe thal in, any material respect.. accounting ￿COrdS were not kept in accordance with 5eGtion 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examine¢s statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination lo which attenllon should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. P18ase delete the words in the brackets if Ihey clo not apply. 22 SEP ZOZg Signed: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualificationlsl or body lif any}: C IL)%TI fuTE Address: i É A-TWrtI1S fl fJ 60BX IER October 2018 Sectioii B Disclosure Only complele if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of chaiity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detalls of any items that the examlnorwishes to disclose. J I IER October 2018