## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 20/08/24 Period start date To 31/03/25 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Ashington Colliery Band** ## **Charity registration number: 1209662** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To improve, promote and develop public**
**appreciation and enjoyment of brass**
**band music in all its forms. To advance**
**the education of the art of brass band**
**music to the community through public**
**performance, recruitment and training. To**
**raise the importance of traditional brass**
**band music to keep the heritage alive in**
**Ashington and surrounding areas.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The band has continued to successfully**
**promote its objectives.. The participation**
**in a number of charity and Christmas**
**concerts over the above period n**
**reflecting this. The vast majority of**
**donations to the band earned this way**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees continue to follow guidance**
**issued by the charity commission on**
**public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The main achievements of the charity**
**during the above period include –**
**Performing at heritage events e.g. miners**
**picnic, Woodhorn mining museum to**
**enhance public appreciation of**
**importance of brass band music in the**
**areas heritage**
**Participation in national events eg**
**Armistice enhancing the wider benefits**
**of brass band music**
**Performing a wide range of concerts and**
**contests educating the public in an**
**appreciation all the different forms brass**
**band music offers .This has also led to**
**the recruitment of new players into the**
**organisation.**
**Developing a relationship with the local**
**Yamaha school of music to further**
**recruitment and opportunity. **| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Income for the above period £12.068,35**
**Expenditure £4,414.42**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhy they areheld|Para 1.22|**Rent & Electricity, ,maintenance of**
**instruments, new music, new equipment**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**For the above period amount of reserves**
**held higher than normal due to final**
**donation by the now defunct ladies**
**committee. **| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**None**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Donations for performing at concerts,**
**fairs, heritage events as well as some**
**donations from local firms**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees apply via the trustees**
**application form. Following meeting with**
**all trustees and induction outlining**
**expectations coupled with necessary**
**vetting, the application is put to general**
**membership for approval**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Ashington Colliery Band| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1209662| |Charity’s principal address|7 Burnside
Ashington
Northumberland
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Trevor Herbertson|Secretary/Treasurer||| ||Peter Scott|Chair||| ||Daryl Rose|Asst. Secretary||| ||Ian Cameron|||| ||Natalie Tidy|||| ||Aidan Johnson||14/11/25-Present|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |Corporate trustees– names ofthe directors at the date thereportwas approved|Corporate trustees– names ofthe directors at the date thereportwas approved|Corporate trustees– names ofthe directors at the date thereportwas approved| |---|---|---| |**Director name**|None|| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for None safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **None** ## **Other optional information** ## **None** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
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**Date**|T Herbertson|P Scott| |---|---|---| ||Trevor Herbertson|Secretary/Treasurer| ||

Peter Scott|| ||09/12/2025|| ||09/12/2025|| ## **ASHINGTON COLLIERY BAND** ## **CHARITY COMMISSION – FIRST SUBMISSION – 20/08/24 – 31/03/25** ## **STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE – 20/08/24 – 31/03/25** |**INCOME**||
**EXPENDITURE**| |---|---|---| |**Donation – Bothal Estates**|**£300.00**|**Brass- Euphonium service £240.00**| |**Donation – Triple Auto**|**£800.00**|**Thank You Gift £40.00**| |**Donation S. Bell Property**|**£500.00**|**Music stand lights £390.96**| |**Cambois Comm Association**|**£100.00**|**Van Hire £167.95**| |**Donation Bothal Church**|**£250.00**|**Music – Test piece/xmas £344.53**| |**Donation Blyth Rotary**|**£400.00**|**Contest entry fee £140.00**| |**Charities Trust-Coca Cola**|**£1,000.00**|**Durham League fee £50.00**| |**Donation Ashington M.Soc**|**£300.00**|**Bb Bass valve repair £63.80**| |**Donation Easy Fundraising**|**£71.60**|**New Music £98.99**| |**Donation Frank Swindle**|**£50.00**|**Printer Paper £27.48**| |**Donation Ladies Comm**|**£7,596.75**|**Percussion- Cow Bell £57.20**| |**Donation Triple J Auto**|**£200.00**|**Band Room Rent £1440.00**| |**Prosper Procurement**|**£500.00**|**Baritone/horn repair £660.00**| |||**New Drum Skins £193.51**| |||**Electricity Bill £500.00**| |**TOTAL INCOME**|**£12,068.35**|
**TOTAL EXPENDITURE £4,414.42**|