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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date 8 January 2024
Period end date 31 December 2024
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Access for Music **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1206438 **Charity's principal address** CLAREMONT CENTRE 21 CLAREMONT ROAD SALE **Postcode M33 7DZ**
## **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)**
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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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) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by Trustees to serve for 3 years in the first instance 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**
The advancement of music education for children principally in the Trafford area who face barriers that hinder their access to music provision, their musical progress, and their ability to reach their potential by
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
a. Sourcing and making available, grants and funding for accessible music education. b. Commissioning services that provide equitable access to a music education. c. Supporting research to further understanding of the impacts of equitable access to a music education and to disseminate the results.
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Paying regard to Charity Commission Guidance on processes and policies necessary for a new charity including guidance on public benefit the trustees have established essential policies concerning the recruitment and conduct of trustees together with a Trustee Handbook and policies related to conflicts of interest, ethical fundraising, data protection (including registration for GDPR), financial controls, and complaints. A developing website is in place, together with other awareness raising media. This work underpins a Five-Year Strategy with milestones to guide the charity’s work. Further work on governance matters for 2025 onwards will be set out in yearly action plans.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** With sufficient funds available by the middle of the year Trustees were **public benefit in relation to** able to commit to joining a national Awards for Young Musicians project **these objects (include within** in partnership with Young Sounds and to commission Trafford Music **this section the statutory** Service to deliver the project from September 2024. 12 year 3 children **declaration that trustees have** from St Alphonsus Primary School in Old Trafford have been gifted a **had regard to the guidance** clarinet and are receiving weekly tuition in small groups during term time. **issued by the Charity** By delivering in school the project removes both financial and **Commission on public** transportation barriers to learning. Impact evaluation is carried out by **benefit)** Young Sounds and discussed with trustees. At the time of reporting funds are in place for the second year of what is intended to be a four-year project. Subject to funding our aim is to replicate this work in at least one other area of Trafford where there are barriers to music education.
## **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 achievements of the charity during the year**
Our main achievements in the charity’s first year have been to
- Establish the basis for sound governance through the development of essential policies and processes and a five-year strategy.
- Create a website and promotional materials to create awareness of the charity.
- Initiated our first project for children in one of the underserved areas of Trafford.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the**
The charity reserve policy is to maintain sufficient unreserved funds to cover known or expected expenses for the next 6 months
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
No optional information provided
- 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)** Samit Gupta **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc)**
**Date** 27th Oct 2025
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Charity Name No (if any)
Access for Music 1206438
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period From to
To
from 08/01/2024 31/12/2024
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
Friends of TMS 1,000 2,564 - 3,564 -
Sale District Festival 1,000 - - 1,000 -
Sundry donations 269 - - 269 -
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Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 2,269 ] 2,564 - 4,833 -
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(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 2,269 2,564 - 4,833 -
A3 Payments
Website development and maintainence 196 - - 196 -
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Sub total [ 196 ] - - 196 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Total payments 196 - - 196 -
Net of receipts/(payments) 2,073 2,564 - 4,637 -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
Cash funds this year end 2,073 2,564 - 4,637 -
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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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))
Co-op Bank
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**Details**
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**to nearest £**
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**2,564**
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