**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 August 2024 31 July 2025 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1205158 Besses Boys’ Band Besses Boys ’Training Band/Besses youth Band/ Besses Band **Charity's principal address** 26 Parr fold Bury **Postcode BL9 8JB** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||BradleyHirst|Chairman||| ||David Fox|||| ||David Wilkinson|||| ||Mark Wilkinson|||| ||WendyGray|||| ||Chris Goring|||| ||David Hirst|Treasurer||| ||Leslie Fielding|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution 2022 - (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by members Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 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. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To promote, develop and maintain public education, and appreciation of the art and science of brass band music in all its aspects by public performance or otherwise, including the training and education of brass **Summary of the objects of the** players and by other such ways as the band through its trustees shall **charity set out in its** determine. **governing document** March **2012** **TAR** 2 Competing in National Brass Band Finals in Cheltenham Stand Church Concert with Nicola Fox (soprano) St. Margarets church concert with Training Band (fund raising for lady Wilton Hall and St. Margarets Church) March and Hymns for Prestwich Remembers (Prestwich Village) Christmas Concert at Stand Church with Affetside Choir Christmas concert at Dukinfield Moravian Church Christmas concert at Greenmount cricket Club Christmas concert at Sedgley Park RUFC with Training Band Christmas carolling Simister Village, Slatterys and public houses in local **Summary of the main** area. **activities undertaken for the** Summer Concert at Derby High School with Training band **public benefit in relation to** Boarshurst Band Club concert **these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** Supporting NWABBA contests at Buxton and Regional Finals at **had regard to the guidance** Blackpool (Areas),Blackburn & Darwen March and Hymn Tune Contest **issued by the Charity** and Whit Friday contest throughout Tameside and Saddleworth **Commission on public benefit)** Supporting Brass Bands England Youth Championships in Hull ( March 2025) ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance All concerts were very well received by both audiences and organisers. **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** Successful joint concert with other musical groups and singers hopefully **during the year** to be repeated at future dates. Continued good contest results :- National Finals 2024 3[rd] prize in 2[nd] Section Buxton Contest 2[nd] prize Blackburn& Darwen 2[nd] Prize Whit Friday at Droylesden Continued development and success of the Training band playing their own concert (Tea & Tunes) as well as supporting the main band at various concerts and performing again at BBE Youth Championships in Birmingham (March 2026). Receiving the Kings Award for Voluntary Service in November 2024. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** Any reserves are held to facilitate the continued running of the band as **Brief statement of the** illustrated in the accounts provided. **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 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. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** David John Hirst **Full name(s)** Bradley James Hirst **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairman Treasurer **etc)** **Date** 29.05.2026 March **2012** **TAR** 5 TAR Maich 2012 **Charity Name No (if any) Besses Boys Band 1205158 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Aug-24 31-Jul-25 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |||||**Unrestricted**
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**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||| |Concert Income||||**7,813**||**-**||**-**||**7,813**||**8,084**|| |Subscriptions||||**4,163**||**-**||**-**||**4,163**||**3,313**|| |Donations||||**1,257**||**-**||**-**||**1,257**||**14,374**|| |Miscellaneous sales||||**52**||**-**||**-**||**52**||**773**|| |Fund Raising||||**1,515**||**-**||**-**||**1,515**||**2,458**|| |Prize monies||||**950**||**-**||**-**||**950**||**700**|| |From TrainingBand||||**215**||**-**||**-**||**215**||**643**|| |Grants||||**-**||||||**-**||**1,994**|| |Petty cash||||**7**||||||**7**|||| |Bank Interest||||**50**||||||**50**|||| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||
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