**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 01 2025 31 12 2025
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1205200
Newark Town Band
**Charity's principal address** 3 Bancroft Road Newark Nottinghamshire **Postcode NG24 1SJ**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members Trustee selection methods
- (eg. trust, association, company)
(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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To advance the education of the public in the art and science of Brass Band music through the provision of public band concerts, contests and recitals and providing training in brass music skills.
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The band has had mixed contesting success with 4[th] place in the NEMBBA Spring contest, 9[th] place in the Areas contest, improving our standing in the third section, and 4[th] place in the Autumn NEMBBA contest.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
We have continued our role within Newark with civic duties such as the VE-Day and Air Bridge commemoration services, Armed Forces Day, and Remembrance Parade, and have also had a number of performance engagements during the year including St Giles and Claypole churches, Race to the Castle, Bandstand concert and Brass Crescendo, and a selforganised Christmas concert, culminating in a busy Christmas season with a total of 12 engagements across the two bands.
The Training Band has continued during the year, with a number of new players and performances at St Giles, Barnby in the Willows plus contributions to the bandstand and other concerts. We have also been the recipient of residual funds from the now-dissolved Lincoln Beevor Band, identified as a restricted fund.
The Trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission when exercising powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant.
## **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.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** The band has performed seventeen public concerts, two private concerts **achievements of the charity** including contributing to a primary school curriculum event, three civic **during the year** engagements, four Christmas carol performances, and competed in three contests during 2025. The training band has performed in three of the public concerts and additionally made three public performances without the main band.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The charity holds 3 months operating costs as a general reserve.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially** No funds are materially in deficit. **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) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date**
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Newark Town Band 1205200
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01/01/2025 31/12/2025
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
Paid Engagements 3,450 - - 3,450 4,425
Concert Income 704 - - 704 1,729
Donations and Grants 1,080 - - 1,080 1,750
Contest Prizes 25 - - 25 105
Fundraising 46 - - 46 245
Gift Aid 398 - - 398 753
Subscriptions 2,161 2,161 2,838
Uniform deposits - - - - 20
Beevor Band monies - 6,490 - 6,490 -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 7,864 ] 6,490 - 14,354 11,865
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Uniforms - - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 7,864 6,490 - 14,354 11,865
A3 Payments
Rent 2,010 - - 2,010 2,229
MD Expenses 3,225 220 - 3,445 3,655
Concert costs 125 - - 125 285
Instruments and Equipment - - - - -
Contest Costs 1,173 - - 1,173 1,321
Miscellaneous expenses 89 22 - 111 81
Stationery 115 - - 115 255
Insurance, Website and Subscriptions 1,245 57 - 1,302 851
Training 170 - - 170 -
Sub total [ 8,152 ] 299 - 8,451 8,677
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Instruments 26 - - 26 1,000
Uniforms 575 - - 575 -
Music 466 - - 466 268
Sub total [ 1,067 ] - - 1,067 1,268
Total payments [ 9,219 ] 299 - 9,518 9,945
Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,355 6,191 - 4,836 1,920
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 12,614 - - 12,614 10,694
Cash funds this year end 11,259 6,191 - 17,450 12,614
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
05/05/2026
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Debtors
Gift Aid
Bank
Petty Cash
2026 insurance advance payment
**Details**
**Details**
Instruments
Music / Stands / Banners
Uniforms
Miscellaneous assets
**Details**
Concert hall hire
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**10,960**
**6,490**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,960**
**6,490**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**200**
**-**
**698**
**-**
**400**
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**Fund to which**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
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Unrestricted
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Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**285**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**32,205**
**6,431**
**5,341**
**418**
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**When due**
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Date of
approval|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
05/05/2026
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