## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 19[th] December 2024 To 31[st] August 2025**
**Charity name: Loughborough Male Voice Choir**
**Charity registration number: 1211491**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**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 to the public**
**of choral concerts and recitals and by such**
**other means as the choir may**
**decide upon from time to time.**|
|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|**Regular meetings for rehearsal**
**purposes, presentations of performance**
**at concerts and other engagements.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Guidance has been issued to all**
**trustees so that they are aware of the**
**requirements.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The choir invites applications for grants**
**from the Gerald Morling Fund, set up**
**from the legacy of a former member to**
**encourage young musicians aged**
**between 11 - 19 to improve their music**
**skills.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38||
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**Maintaining and increasing membership**
**of the choir, with a focus on the social**
**and fellowship aspects of its regular**
**meetings.**
**Recruitment and retention of members**
**within the last 12-month period,**
**practising inclusive access and**
**financially supporting members by**
**request.**
**Maintaining the financial and artistic**
**viability of the choir through member**
**activity**
**Providing opportunities for improved**
**physical and mental health through**
**association and choral activity, as**
**indicated by many scientific studies.**
**Performances given which fulfil the**
**stated purposes.**|
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**During the year September 2024 to**
**August 2025, the Choir has given**
**concerts at:**
**Trinity Methodist Church,**
**Loughborough (26 October);**
**Yoxall Parish Church (7 December);**
**All Saints Church, Loughborough (12**
**December);**
**Emmanuel Church, Loughborough (19**
**December);**
**Sileby Methodist Church (5 April);**
**Trinity Methodist Church,**
**Loughborough (17 May);**
**Baginton Road United Reformed**
**Church, Coventry (21 June);**
**Queen’s Park, Loughborough (13 July).**
**The Choir has also attended to sing at**
**the Remembrance Service and the**
**Christmas Lights Switch-on in**
**Loughborough, and sang Christmas**
**carols in the town centre on 14**
**December.**
**The Choir has provided two sessions in**
**its“Bringing the Choir to You”**|
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|||**programme, in which the public is**
**invited to attend a rehearsal at a venue**
**away from out usual rehearsal space.**
**These were held at Quorn Village Hall**
**and Gorse Covert Community Centre.**
**The Learn to Sing Harmony course was**
**held over six weeks in January and**
**February, providing free tuition for**
**inexperienced singers.**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Please see the enclosed Statement of**
**Account**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held to ensure we can**
**meet our commitments, since many**
**members pay monthly**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£10,350**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**No fund in deficit**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No uncertainties**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47||
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|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:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**The charity is governed by a**
**Constitution, together with Local Rules**|
|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 are elected at each annual**
**general meeting of the charity. A new**
**trustee may also be appointed by the**
**members or the existing trustees. The**
**Music Director is an ex officio trustee**
**unless he/she gives notice of being**
**unwilling to fulfil this role.**|
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
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|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|Loughborough Male Voice Choir|
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|Other name the charity uses|LMVC|
|Registered charity number|1211491|
|Charity’s principal address|72 Tiverton Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 2RY|
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||Victor Wooding|Treasurer|||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for 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
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Victor James Wooding **Full name(s)** Anthony Kay
**Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 25[th] September 2025
## **Loughborough Male Voice Choir**
## **Treasurer's Report 2024/2025**
(Account period 1st September 2024 to 31st August 2025)
## **CURRENT ACCOUNTS 2024/2025**
## **Current Accounts**
**Brought forward from 2023/24 £10,213.47**
## **INCOME**
|**£**
Members subscriptons
5430.00
Gif Aid
1080.00
Concerts and Rafes
2756.00
Grants
1250.00
Donatons
250.00
Ebay
320.00
Metal/Cartridge Recycling
313.00
100 Club' income
348.00
**Total Income**
**£11,747.00**
**EXPENDITURE**
**£**
Professional Fees
5,400.00
TMC Room Hire
2,053.00
Expenses
1,803.82
Uniforms
650.00
Library
433.00
Tour subsidies
1,100.00
100 Club' prizes
170.00
**Total Expenditure**
**£11,609.82**
**Balance to be carried forward**
**£10,350.65**|**Expenses 2023/24**
**£**
Music
979.00
Insurance
313.00
Printng/postage/posters
449.00
Bank charges
62.82
**Total Expenses**
**£1,803.82**
**£**
**£10,350.65**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**10350.65**|
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V J Wooding 1st September 2025
## **Loughborough Male Voice Choir**
## **Treasurer's Report 2022/23**
(Account period 1st September 2022 to 31st August 2023)
## **CURRENT ACCOUNT 2022/23**
## **No. 1 account**
**Brought forward from 2021/22 £4,486.62**
## **INCOME**
|**INCOME**||
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|**£**
Members subscriptons
3382.00
Gif Aid (£450+£540)
990.00
Concerts and Rafes
935.00
Aucton
641.70
Donatons
390.00
Uniform contributons
330.00
Metal/cartridge Recycling
275.00
100 Club' income
252.00
**Total Income**
**£7,195.70**
**EXPENDITURE**
**£**
Professional Fees
3,300.00
TMC Room Hire
1,709.00
Expenses
946.05
Uniforms
640.00
Library Project
318.88
Polo/Sweat shirts
393.96
Lapel Pins
318.90
100 Club' prizes
126.00
**Total Expenditure**
**£7,752.79**
**Balance to be carried forward**
**£3,929.53**
V J Wooding
1st September 2023|**Expenses 2021/22**
**£**
Music
515.95
Insurance
197.00
Web hostng and sofware
89.26
Printng and postage
63.84
Bank charges
80.00
**Total Expenses**
**£946.05**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**£**
No. 1 account
£3,929.53
No. 2 account
£1,670.45
**Total**
**5599.98**|
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|**No. 2 ac**|**count**|||
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|**INCOME**||**£**||
|ShantyFol|k|1,867.00||
||**Total**|**1,867.00**||
|**EXPENDIT**|**URE**|||
|Air ambula|nce|500||
|Loros||500||
|Bank charg|es|41.03||
||**Total**|**1041.03**||
||||**£1,670.45**|