## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
Period Start Date: 1st September 2024 Period End Date: 31st August 2025
## **Reference and Administration Details**
|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|Inchant|Inchant|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Registered Charity Number**||1203519||
|**Charity’s Principal Address**||26 Northmead
Ledbury
Herefordshire
HR8 1BE||
|||||
|**Name of Trustee**|**Office (if any)**||**Dates acted (if not for whole year)**|
|Harry Boulton|Chair|||
|Anna Barlow|Treasurer|||
|Abby Henderson|Secretary|||
|Emma Warren||||
|Chloe Kiely||||
**Name of Advisor (Optional) Address**
## **Name of Chief Executive or Names of Senior Staff Members (Optional)**
**Structure, Governance and Management**
|**Type of Governing Document**|Constitution adopted 12th June 2023|
|---|---|
|**How the Charity is Constituted**|Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)|
**Trustee Selection Methods**
Appointed by the existing members of the board of trustees, by means of a vote
## **Additional Governance Issues (Optional)**
_You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:_
- _Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees_
- _The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works_
- _Relationship with any related parties_
- _Trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them_
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF CHORAL MUSIC BY THE ORGANISATION AND/OR PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS AND RECITALS, RECORDINGS, WORKSHOPS, AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.
## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects**
December 2024 - Winter Tour
This year, we did a three-concert tour of Cheltenham, Ledbury and Abergavenny, supported by the Andrew Harris Charitable Foundation and the Oakdale Trust. Collaborating with harpist Anwen Mai Thomas, we performed to over 250 people across the three days, and gave a workshop at a state school in Hereford. We were particularly keen to bring our choir of young professional singers to this part of the country, where people don’t have much access to professional choral music.
Feedback from audiences across the tour was overwhelmingly positive, praising the quality of the performances, the diversity of the repertoire, and the atmosphere created at each concert. We made good connections with the three venues, all of which expressed interest in hosting us for future performances. Testimonials from students at the workshop were very positive, and since working with us, several of the students have started to conduct school ensembles.
February 2025 - Concert
We returned to Belsize Library for another cosy, relaxed concert between the bookshelves. The choir performed unaccompanied music including short pieces and William Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices. Audience members commented on the ‘unpretentious’ feel of the concert, and the ‘informal, relaxed atmosphere’.
## **Additional Details of Objectives and Activities (Optional)**
_You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:_
- _Policy on grantmaking_
- _Policy programme related investment_
- _Contribution made by volunteers_
## **Achievements and Performance**
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The Winter Tour was by far our most ambitious project yet, and we were delighted with the warm reception we received. It was also our biggest fundraising challenge so far, and we are very grateful to the Andrew Harris Charitable Foundation and the Oakdale Trust. We were featured in local press; ticket sales exceeded our expectations; and we were invited back by all venues. Due to the amount of planning involved, we’re not able to do another tour this year, but hope to do it again in 2026.
In all of our concerts this year, we have maintained our commitment to programme at least 50% music by female composers. We have been pleased to find our performances attracting audience members who don’t normally attend classical music performances, and we continue to receive overwhelmingly positive feedback in post-concert surveys and conversations.
This year we have started making links which we hope will help us develop our reach in the coming years. Our conductor Emma is beginning a PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, with plans to use Inchant as the choir for concerts and a potential CD recording. We have also pitched a concert to a classical music festival, which may lead to an exciting collaboration if our proposal is accepted.
## **Financial Review**
|**Brief statement of**
**the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**|We currently have no plans to actively build reserves. We have an
insubstantial number of financial reserves, and any accrued
reserves will be reinvested into future projects at the trustee’s
discretion. We continue to factor financial risk into every project
where applicable and have no dependencies on reserves.|
|---|---|
|**Details of any funds**
**materially in deficit**|Not applicable|
## **Further Financial Review Details: (Optional)**
_You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:_
- _The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)_
- _How expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity_
- _Investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted_
## **Other Optional Information**
## **Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Full Name(s)**|Harry Boulton||
|**Position**|Chair||
|**Date**|7 Sep 2025||
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Inchant 1203519
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01/09/2024 31/08/2025
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Grants - 1,000 - 1,000 3,680
Concert Fees 1,500 - - 1,500 -
One-off Donations 100 - - 100 105
Ticket Sales 2,203 - - 2,203 307
Sub total (Gross income for
3,803 1,000 - 4,803 4,092
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 3,803 1,000 - 4,803 4,092
A3 Payments
Singer Costs - 3,400 - 3,400 350
Other Musician Costs 300 100 - 400 100
Conductor Costs 300 - - 300 -
Venue Hire 230 - - 230 105
Tour costs - Travel 724 - - 724 -
Tour costs - Accommodation 676 - - 676 -
Tour costs - Subsistence 456 - - 456 -
Stationary 7 - - 7 -
Marketing and Advertisement 16 - - 16 213
Finance Costs 3 - - 3 -
Sub total [ 2,711 ] 3,500 - 6,211 768
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Concert Equipment - - - - 546
Marketing Equipment - - - - 65
Sub total [ - ] - - - 611
Total payments 2,711 3,500 - 6,211 1,379
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,092 - 2,500 - - 1,408 2,713
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 166 2,547 - 2,713 -
Cash funds this year end 1,258 47 - 1,305 2,713
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
22/06/2026
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
N/A
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
N/A
Natwest Account
Paypal Account
**Details**
**Details**
Concert Equipment
Marketing Equipment
**Details**
N/A
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,161**
**47**
**97**
**-**
**1,258**
**47**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Restricted
**546**
Restricted
**65**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
Print Name
Anna Barlow|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
22/06/2026|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
22/06/2026
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