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2025-08-31-accounts
Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
From Period start date To Period end date
01 09 2024 31 08 2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Thomas Tallis Society

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 247258

Charity's principal address 35 Dinsdale Road

London

Postcode SE3 7RJ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for
**whole year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Nigel Press Chair 1 Sept 2024 – 24 Feb
2025
Caroline Molloy Chair 25 Feb 2025 onwards
Alice Shelton Secretary& Treasurer

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name 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

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted

Constitution

Association

Election by members Trustee selection methods

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include The Members appoint a Committee from amongst their number at the additional information, where Annual General Meeting. Other volunteer committee members are corelevant, about: opted from time to time.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The study and practice of music (including choral music) in order to foster the public knowledge and appreciation of such music by public performances.

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The main activities undertaken for the public benefit are the rehearsals and subsequent performance of concerts by the Thomas Tallis Society Choir and Orchestra.

The Trustees are confident that performance of such concerts constitute a public benefit according to the guidance of the Charities Commission.

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)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

This year 2024-25, TTS’s 59[th] year, we have performed five concerts over the year.

The second point to highlight is that by the end of the year, we had increased the number of Patrons to 51, a tribute to the variety of programmes and standard of the concerts.

This has also been the ninth year of the Choral Ambassador scheme which we launched in 2015. Although we only had only one Choral Ambassador, we hope to relaunch the scheme in 2026.

Looking at the audience figures for the year, we had over 1000 people attending concerts, so an average of >200 attendees per concert, pretty impressive given the range of repertoire covered. This meant that income versus expenses was improved over last year’s losses.

Concerts

We started the year with ‘Rosa Mystica’ conducted for a second time by Olivia Shotton in a vocally demanding programme of Britten and Cozzolani.

For many the first time singing AMDG, well known for being very difficult repertoire, but a great sense of achievement in being able to pull it off. Choir and audience alike were entranced by the Cozzolani, a composer that all thought should be better known and more often performed.

We suffered a bit with illness and it was a smaller choir that performed in the end. Olivia was also under the weather but was as enthusiastic as ever and the concert went very well. We sold fewer tickets in advance then ever before but we sold plenty on the door with over 110 attending on the night.

After the Spem concert last year, November was another polychoral extravaganza, this time of music from renaissance Rome. Again the concert was sung from the galleries which involved significant stage management as we moved from 2 choirs to 3 choirs to 4 choirs. Some physical arrangements of the choirs worked better than others, something to remember for next time.

‘Polychoral’ on the poster seems to work to sell the concert. We sold nearly 200 tickets in

advance, pretty much all of the pews, and we had another 60 turn up on the door, choir stalls were sold as were most of the side nave seats.

As well as being popular with the audience, we had a choir almost double the size of the Rosa Mystica choir. We were joined by cornett, sackbuts and recorders.

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Section D Achievements and performance

December saw Respighi’s Lauda per la Natività del Signore as the central piece in the programme. Probably new to everyone except Stephen Jackson who proposed it. It is scored for wind and piano duet, with Angel, Mary and Shepherd solos, beautifully sung by Emma, our choral ambassador, Katherine Allen and Will Searle.

The concert also included Christmas motets and carols for the audience.

For a pretty unknown work as the headline of the concert, we sold a lot of tickets, over 200 in advance and more than 70 on the door. Perhaps it was the poster – the painting is in St Alfege and was bought in Italy from the artist by one of our Patrons.

In March an ‘a capella’ concert of penitential motets culminating with the Howells Requiem. The programme included Jonathan Dove, Arvo Part, Alonso Lobo and TTS’s third performance of Kerensa Briggs Media vita.

Howells provided some opportunities for step out solos from the choir and we had solo violin pieces to break up the programme. We had more than 160 in the audience.

The final concert of the season was Magnificent Magnificats, two contrasting settings of the Magnificat with St Paul’s Sinfonia full orchestra on this occasion.

The Schubert Magnificat relatively unknown before to the choir and the Taylor Scott Davis totally new. A couple of well known Fauré pieces were added to the programme to help sell it.

The choir and orchestra enjoyed the programme but it turned out to be a much more expensive concert to put on than anticipated. The orchestral scores alone were more than £600 to hire and we had buy some copies of the Scott Davis. This together with the cost of St Paul’s Sinfonia took the cost to over £8500. The audience was over 200 but with these costs, we cannot get close to breaking even.

Nevertheless, the response from the audience was enthusiastic, reaffirming the confidence they have in us. Our Patrons tell us they may not know the repertoire but can encourage others to come, secure in the knowledge that they’ve enjoyed previously unknown works performed by us. Equally it seems the choir continue to be attracted to perform works they have not had the opportunity to get to know in other choirs.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

The charity has no assets and no ongoing financial commitments. Incoming funds are used to enhance the quality and variety of the concert programme. The size of the reserves fund is not large enough to warrant consideration of an investment programme in the current economic climate. We have reserves and the support of our Patrons and we want to continue to provide interesting concerts in the public benefit.

This year we have been particularly careful with pre-commitment budgeting given the unusual deficit on the concerts in the last financial year. We have returned to a much more predictable spend and income on concerts this year.

The only surprise financially during the year was the cost of the Magnificat concert in terms of hiring orchestral for little performed / new works. This should be taken into account in future planning of any orchestral concerts.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include We continued our Choral Ambassador scheme and we continued the additional information, where Spem project access via our website using funds to support website relevant about: hosting.

Section F Other optional information

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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) ALICE SHELTON Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Secretary and Treasurer ] Date 19 April 2026

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Charity Name No (if any) Thomas Tallis Society 247258 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/09/2024 31/08/2025

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
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25,854
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25,854
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25,854
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28,995
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28,995
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28,995
- 3,141
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24,086
20,945		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £
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25,854
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25,854
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25,854
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28,995
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28,995
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28,995
- 3,141		 Total funds
to the nearest £
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25,854
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25,854
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25,854
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28,995
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28,995
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28,995
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Fund Raising 25,854 25,854 -
Donations - - -
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 25,854 25,854 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
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Cost of Fund Raising 28,995 28,995 -
Grants - - -
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**Sub total ** 28,995 28,995 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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**Sub total ** - - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
- 28,995 -
- 3,141 - - - 3,141 -
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24,086 24,086 -
20,945 - - 20,945 -

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
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
Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
Fund raising
Donations
Signature		 Unrestricted
funds
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funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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asset belongs
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Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
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Alice Shelton		 Endowment
funds
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funds
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When due (optional)
Date of approval
Alice Shelton 19th April 2026

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustee members of Thomas Tanis Socthi Qn accounts forthe year ended 31 August 2025 harlty no (If any) 247258 Set out on pagos Respecthie The chariivs trustees are responsible ts the preparation of the accounts in respO￿lbIlItIeS of accordance with the requirements of the Ch￿itIeS Act 2011 (Ihe Act.). trustees and examlnor The chariVs trustees ¢onsKler that an audit ts not required for thls year under seclion 144 of the Act and that an independent examination 1$ needed. It is my reswnsiL¥lity to: examine the accounts urnler sedion 145 of the Charities ACL to follow the applicable Directions given by the Charty Commission (under section 145(5)(bl of the Act, and to state wFEther particular matters have come to my attention Basls of independent My examliation was carried out in accordan￿ with general Directions gNen examiner's statement by the Chanty Conlnission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records keFrt by the charty and a oomparison of th& accounts presented ￿th those records. It 81so ir￿lUdeS consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in tre a¢¢ounts, and seeking explanations from the tnjstees GOn￿ming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequentty no QFMnion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fairf vi&v and the report is limrted to those matters set out in the statement below. Independont In connection with my eXarn￿at￿n, material matters have Come to my examinerfs ststement attention wlNch gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with seGtion 130 of the Charities Act or the accounts do not accord with accounting r￿ordS I have no c(K￿en￿ and have ¢iyne across no other matters in connection with th8 examin.￿ to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper und8rstandiry of the accounts to be reacPd. . Rease delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Slgned: zo Name: MALCOLM DAVID REID Relevant professlonal quallfi¢ation(sl or body {rf any): FCA IRN: Mt)R01092 IER May 2018

Address: 18 Robertson House GilLErt Close London SE18 4PR Section B Disclosure Onty complete rf the examiner needs to hohl￿ht rnatt￿￿ of ￿n￿M (see CC32. Independent examination of chanty accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brief detalls of any Items that the examlner wlshes to dlsclose. IER May 2018