## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **From** Period start date **To** Period end date 1 09 2024 31 08 2025 **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 234280 New London Singers **Charity's principal address** 11 Chaffinch Road Beckenham Kent **Postcode BR3 4LT** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for whole year appoint trustee (if any)** - **Trustee name Office (if any) year** - 1 Tim Jones Chair 2 Alistair Cromwell Treasurer Secretary To 9 December 2025 - 3[Kate Roscoe ] Bloomer - 4 Susanna May Secretary From 9 December 2025 5 - 6 7 8 9 - 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 1 March **2012** **TAR** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** ● The three trustees together with the librarian and the repertoire You **may choose** to include lead form the management committee. additional information, where ● The management committee meets monthly during choir terms. relevant, about: - The management committee meets monthly during choir terms. - relevant, about: ● Other volunteers from the membership take on roles such as - ● policies and procedures managing choir numbers and organising events. 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** The charity’s objects as set out in the constitution are ‘to advance education by encouraging and promoting the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of choral music, particularly the performance of church music.” March **2012** **TAR** 2 In the year ending 31 August 2025 the main activities that the choir has undertaken have included: - Weekly rehearsals for the choir members, learning and improving our understanding and appreciation of choral music. - Three musicianship workshops, helping the choir understand musical form and how choral music developed. **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)** - Extending the range of our repertoire to include and help promote contemporary composers. - Performing to the public in four concerts during the year: - Dona Nobis Pacem: An a capella concert featuring sacred and secular music from a variety of composers at St Gabriel’s church, Pimlico in October 2024 - Christmas concert: A concert featuring Christmas music including audience participation at St James’ church, Piccadilly. - A performance of the St John Passion by JS Bach at St James’ Church, Sussex Gardens in March 2025. - Deer’s Cry: An a capella concert featuring sacred and secular music from a variety of composers at St Peter’s Church, Eaton Square in June 2025. - Across all concerts we estimate that we performed to 650 audience members and our ticket pricing is designed to encourage younger people to experience choral music. ## **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. 3 March **2012** **TAR** Section D Achievements and performance ● Maintaining an active membership of up to 40 members and **Summary of the main** encouraging and proactively recruiting new members. **achievements of the charity** ● Improving choral standards and musicianship through rehearsal, **during the year** workshops and performance. ● Holding four public performances during the year reaching approximately 650 people. ● Extending the range of repertoire to include and help promote contemporary composers. March **2012** **TAR** 4 **Section E Financial review** **Charity’s policy on reserves Brief statement of the** The charity holds approximately six months’ worth of expenditure in **charity’s policy on reserves** reserve to provide for unforeseen events. In addition the charity has working capital to allow it to meet the up front costs of performances and concerts ahead of donations and ticket revenue which helps to meet those costs. **Details of any funds materially** No funds are in deficit. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include The charity’s principal source of funds is membership additional information, where subscriptions. The subscriptions cover the cost of rehearsing as relevant about: well as helping meet the costs of performances alongside the ● the charity’s principal revenue from ticket sales. sources of funds (including The principal costs of the charity are the costs of rehearsing choral any fundraising); music: fees for the musical director, venue hire and music hire and ● how expenditure has the costs of putting on concerts and performances for the public. 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** Alistair Cromwell **Signature(s)** Tim Jones Alistair Cromwell **Full name(s)** Tim Jones **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair Treasurer 5 March **2012** **TAR** Date 12 May 2025 TAR Marth 2012 **New London Singers** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **For the period** 1 September 2024 31 August 2025 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Endowment Restricted funds Total funds Last year funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Membership subscriptions||**-**|**9,612-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**9,612-**|||**-**|**10,529-**|| |Gift aid||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**800-**|| |Donations||**-**|**1,370-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,370-**|||**-**|**1,566-**|| |Concerts||**-**|**14,836-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**14,836-**|||**-**|**8,827-**|| |Other musical events||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,000-**|| |Online recordings||**-**|**869-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**869-**|||**-**|**970-**|| |Bank interest||**-**|**100-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**100-**|||**-**|**135-**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**26,787-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**26,787-**|||**-**|**24,827-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross_|_income for AR)_||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||||||||||| |**(see table).**|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||**_Sub total_**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||||||||||||||||||||| ||**_Total receipts_ **||**-**|**26,787-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**26,787-**|||**-**|**24,827-**|| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||| |Concert performances|||**-**|**15,891-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**15,891-**|||**-**|**8,986-**|| |Other musical events|||**-**|**1,004-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,004-**|||**-**|**750-**|| |Rehearsal costs|||**-**|**11,479-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**11,479-**|||**-**|**12,495-**|| |Administration|||**-**|**19-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**19-**|||**-**|**371-**|| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 6/11/2026 1 |Insurance||**-**|**280-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**280-**|||**-**|**268-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Miscellaneous||**-**|**409-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**409-**|||**-**|**362-**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**29,082-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**29,082-**|||**-**|**23,232-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**-**|**29,082-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**29,082-**|||**-**|**23,232-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**-**|**2,295-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,295-**|||**-**|**1,595-**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|**22,891-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**22,891-**|||**-**|**21,296-**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**-**|**20,596-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**20,596-**|||**-**|**22,891-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ||||||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||||**Endowment**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Categories**|**Details**||||**funds**||||||||**funds**|| ||||||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|| |**B1**|**Cash**|**funds**|Bank current account|||**-**|**9,722-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||Bank deposit account|||**-**|**10,874-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**_Total cash funds_**|||**-**|**20,596-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||(agree balances with receipts and payments account
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**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| |||Tim Jones|12 May 2026| |||Alistair Cromwell|12 May 2026| CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 6/11/2026 4 CHARITY COMMISSION, FOR ENGLAND AND WALES | Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examlner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of New London Singers On accounts for the year •nded 31 AwJust 2025 Charlty no 234280 (If any) Set out on pages I report to the truslees on my examinatron of the accourrts of the abovp chanty Dhe Trust") for the year ended 3110812025. Responslbllftles and As the charity trustees ol the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in ￿£1rdan￿ with the reqUI￿rnerrts of Ihe Chants'es Act 2011 (Ihe Acf). I report in respect of my examination ol the Trust's accounts caryied out under sedion 145 of the 2011 Acl and in carrying OLrt my examination, I have followed the applicable Dire(*ons given by the CharFty Commission undef section 145{5){b) of the Act. I have ￿mpleted my examinatson. I ￿nfirni Ihat no material matters have come to my attention in connection wtth the examination whith me cause to believe that in. any material reS￿t.. ae£ounling fe(x)rds were not keo in actordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord wtth the acc<)unting records Independent examinerfs statement I have ¢(￿t￿mS and have CO￿ &ross no other mattets in Conneth'on with the exaMinatiC￿ to whith attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the ￿OUnts to be reathed. ' Hease e the ffi7rds in Ihe brad(ets rf they do not apply. Slgned: 10106126 Name: Marti John Atkins Rfrlovant profosslonal qua15fl¢atlon($) or body (11 any): Chartered Accountant Address: Graeme Bruce & Partners LLP 940 G￿n Lanes London N212AD IER October 2018 Section 8 Disclosure Only complele if the examiner need8 lo h￿h1￿h1 matters of corrArn (￿e CC32. Inde￿r￿lent exan¥natM)n crf chathy Kca￿lS. dwa(*ons arml guMlanc4 for exarThner8). Glv• h•r• brf•f d•t*lls of any ft•ms that th• examln•rwlshM to dIsclo￿. IER October 2018