## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **From** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 13 May 2024 **To** 31 August 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Kingfisher Chorale **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1208235 **Charity's principal address** Church Farm Laughton Lutterworth **Postcode** LE17 6QE ## **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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||John Robert
Whitehead|Treasurer|Appointed 07/09/2025|| ||Dr ANNE LILY
FRANCES
WHITEHOUSE|Chair||| ||Sarah Louise
Clayton||Appointed 11/01/2026|| ||MRS
BERNADETTE
WOODS|||| ||MISS GRACE
BALE|||| ||MRS ASTRID
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**Address**||| |**Bank**|Nat West plc|| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Unincorporated association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are elected and appointed annually by members at the AGM Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** - Membership of Kingfisher Chorale is open to singers who have passed an - You **may choose** to include audition as detailed in the constitution. - additional information, where relevant, about: The Trustees oversee the day to day running of the Chorale. - • policies and procedures adopted for the induction and There are policies in place for Safeguarding, Anti-bullying, Equal opportunities and conflict of interest. - 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** March **2012** **TAR** 2 The objects of Kingfisher Choral are to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and appreciation of the art and science of music in all its aspects, by the presentation of public concerts and **Summary of the objects of the** recitals, and by any other such ways as the society, through its trustees, **charity set out in its** may decide from time to time. **governing document** The initial period covered by this first Annual Return to the Charity Commission covers the period of 13 May 2024 to 31 August 2025, going forward we will report annually. We are grateful to members of the Chorale who assisted in setting up the Charity, and we hope that this will assist the Chorale to maintain financial stability, as well as open our work up to possible donors in the future. **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 We are grateful to Giles Turner our Musical Director for the time and expertise invested in the music we perform and which gives pleasure and education to both audiences and performers alike. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Two concerts were performed at St John the Baptist in Clarendon Park, and St Mary’s, Melton Mowbray on the theme of “Love”. The new season commenced with the usual weekend of rehearsal and vocal training, leading to a concert of Bach Motets at a new venue of Clarendon Park Congregational Church which proved a successful venue and concert. The usual Christmas concerts were performed to packed audiences in the Guildhall in the lead up to Christmas 2024. Spring concerts on the theme “O Clap your hands” were performed in April at Melton Mowbray and Clarendon Park, and the season ended with a concert of seasonal works, once again in Clarendon Park Congregational Church on the theme ‘Woven”. March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** The Chorale took the decision to change bank during this year, and **Brief statement of the** completed this task shortly after the period end. The Chorale operates a **charity’s policy on reserves** current account and deposit account only. **Details of any funds materially** Not applicable. **in deficit** **Further financial review details (Optional information)** The principal source of funds remains income from concerts in the form You **may choose** to include of takings, and also the subscriptions received from members. The additional information, where concerts during this period resulted in a small deficit for the period. 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** The coming year will see a renewed effort to market the concerts and music performed by the Chorale utilising more social media. The concert programme will follow a similar pattern to that in previous years. The recruitment of new voices, in particular bass and tenor voices, remains an objective. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** J R Whitehead **Full name(s)** John Robert Whitehead **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 20 May 2026 March **2012** **TAR** 6 **Kingfisher Chorale** **No (if any)** ## **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts** **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 13-May-24 31-Aug-25 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
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**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
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**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
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**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
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Takings|**6,999**||**-**||**-**||**6,999**||**-**| |Subscriptions|**4,902**||**-**||**-**||**4,902**||**-**| |Donation|**221**||**-**||**-**||**221**||**-**| |Interest|**109**||**-**||**-**||**109**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**12,231**||**-**||**-**||**12,231**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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Venue Hire & Music hire/cost|**3,410**||**-**||**-**||**3,410**||**-**| |Performers|**2,976**||**-**||**-**||**2,976**||**-**| |Publicity& Sundries|**599**||**-**||**-**||**599**||**-**| |Finance Charges|**334**||**-**||**-**||**334**||**-**| |Rehearsal Fees & Venue|**4,116**||**-**||**-**||**4,116**||**-**| |Insurance|**141**||**-**||**-**||**141**||**-**| |Website & Subscriptions|**994**||**-**||**-**||**994**||**-**| |Miscellaneous|**347**||**-**||**-**||**347**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**12,917**||**-**||**-**||**12,917**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**- 686**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**5,086**||||||||**-**| ||**4,400**||||||||**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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John Robert Whitehead|**Endowment**
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**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| ||_J R Whitehead_|John Robert Whitehead|20-May-26| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 20/05/2026 2