KLFC - Chair’s Report - AGM – October 2[nd] 2023
This report covers September 2022 to August 2023 and has seen Ben complete his second year as Music Director, and Jo as accompanist will have completed 19 months.
At present our membership is 94 members, and we warmly welcome those who have joined during the past year – we hope you are enjoying the music-making.
We have had a good year, and, with our hardworking and enthusiastic committee, our indomitable accompanist, and our doubly hardworking and enthusiastic Music Director, produced some wonderful concerts.
We started off the year by completing auditions for everyone and then headed into our rehearsals for The Messiah. It was a wonderful performance, but the train strike on the day of the concert caused stress not only to our MD but also to our Treasurer. But, despite all the problems, we performed a wonderful concert.
In the new year we had our Social Event, The Cabaret and Hog Roast. This was well attended, and some lovely and amusing show pieces were performed with our usual high standard – of course! Great fun was had by all. And the amount of wonderful food brought in by members was amazing.
In the new year we had the sadness and the privilege to sing at Grace’s memorial – to sing the pieces of music Grace had asked for, and to hear the pieces Ben played that she had also asked for. A time to remember a lovely lady.
February saw a new logo for King’s Lynn Festival Chorus, and in April Ben suggested to the committee the possibility of a choir tour. Exciting! This we are looking into.
April also saw our performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor which was so appreciated by our audience, and we received such a good crit from Andy Tyler. It was definitely a good hard sing, but so worth it.
And then, we all got stretched again, in a different direction, for the Gilbert & Sullivan. What fun we had. And so wonderfully well received by a huge audience. They enjoyed it as much as we did!
We have had a really good year, producing some wonderful music across a gamut of musical styles. Many thanks go to our committee – they really have worked hard – even across the summer hols. We have met 9 times through the year, always with delicious cake at the end of the meetings. And thanks to our publicity team of Helen and Gill, who have worked tirelessly at getting our concerts publicised across the county.
Our many thanks go to Jo for her amazing piano playing – I never quite know how she plays all four voice parts at the same time. And thank you, on the quiet, for giving us the odd note when we can’t find it!
And, of course, huge thanks to our wonderful MD, who not only takes the rehearsals and conducts the concerts (always with a smile), but also produces all the art work for the posters, all the wording for the programmes, sourcing and keeping in touch with all the musicians and soloists for our concerts, all the markings for the orchestral scores - so much more than we see. Thank you from us all.
So much goes on behind the scenes, but I must say, it is a privilege to work with such a good team.
Jan Willson, Chair of KLFC, 02/10/2023
King's Lynn Festival Chorus
Income & Expenditure General Fund Account Year Ended 31st August 2023
General Fund
| General Fund | |
|---|---|
| Income Subscriptions Gift aid Hire / sale of music Donations Concert income Concert Sponsorship Contributions - refreshment Bank interest Easy Fundraising Miscellaneous Expenditure MD / Assist MD / Accompanists Rehearsal rooms Purchase / hire / refund music Insurance / PRS / Making Music Concert expenses: Musicians MD / Assist MD Hire of orchestra scores Printing / Publicity Printing Venue hire Instrument hire St John's Ambulance Box Office Website / Zoom subs Refreshments Miscellaneous Postage Surplus / (Deficit) General Fund Reserves Balance 1st September 2022 Surplus / (Deficit) for the year Balance 31st August 2023 Represented by NatWest bank Add outstanding debtors Less outstanding payments Add prepayments Equals card Cash float |
2022-23 2021-22 £ £ 15,822 14,008 0 2,307 1,390 2,641 862 656 15,445 11,889 3,000 0 0 121 7 28 59 357 25 |
| 37,025 31,591 14,833 10,237 1,541 1,929 760 2,733 744 391 25,256 10,686 2,050 1,800 350 2,102 1,092 0 0 1,350 1,835 700 895 369 759 1,580 0 235 1,871 0 31 258 249 128 112 |
|
| 52,257 34,620 |
|
| (15,232) (3,028) |
|
| 27,420 30,448 (15,232) (3,028) |
|
| 12,188 27,420 |
|
| 12,297 22,730 0 4,361 (450) 0 140 0 101 229 100 100 |
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| 12,188 27,420 |
King's Lynn Festival Chorus
Income & Expenditure Restricted Fund Account Year Ended 31st August 2023
| Restricted Funds Muriel Brindle Fund Opening balance 1st September 2022 Income Expenditure Closing balance 31st August 2023 St Matthew Passion Fund Opening balance 1st September 2022 Income Expenditure Closing balance 31st August 2023 Total restricted funds Represented by NatWest Bank Muriel Brindle Fund St Matthew Passion fund Total |
2022-23 2021-22 £ £ 2,329.76 2,329.76 - - - - |
|---|---|
| 2,329.76 2,329.76 |
|
| 8,428.96 7,966.46 71.25 462.50 - - |
|
| 8,500.21 8,428.96 |
|
| 10,829.97 10,758.72 |
|
| 2,329.76 2,329.76 8,500.21 8,428.96 |
|
| 10,829.97 10,758.72 |
In(leiK'ndÉbiil eiaininÉ'r'5 rewirl lil Ihi. Tru%l(Y% lif King'% l.i'nn I,c'stiiul C hiiru% I'llif Churit.) I report lo the charity Trustees on my examination of Ihe accounts of the Charity for the year ended 31 August 2023. Ri'sponsibililii's ancl bllsiti of n.1rI As the Trustees of the Charily you are responsible for Ihe preparation of the accounls in accordan with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('Ihe 2011 Acl'l. I report in respecl of my examination of the Charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying oul my examinalion I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515)(bl of the 2011 Acl. n(Ic'pcnili'nt iiiumincr's stlltemenl I have completed my examination. I confirm Ihal no mallers have come lo my allenlion in connection wilh Ihe examination giving me cause lo believe that In any malerial respecl.. 1. accoLJnling records were not kept in respecl of the Charity as required by se¢lion 130 of the 2011 Act.. or 2. the accounts do not accord with Ihose recds. or 3. the accounls do not comply with the applicable requiremenls concerning the form and conlenl ol accounls sel out in Ihe Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulalions 2008 other than any requiremenl that the accounts give a 'true and fair. view which is nol a maller considered as part ol an Independenl examination. I have no concerns and have come across no olher maltets In connection wilh the examinalion lo which allenlion should be drawn in Ihis report in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounls lo be reached. This report Is made solely to Ihe Charily'5 Tfustees. as a body, In accordance wilh Pari 4 of Ihe Charilies (Accounts and Rewrt51 Regulaiions 2008. My work has been vnderlak¢n 50 that I mighl Slalo to the Charity's Truslees those mallers l am fequired lo slale lo them an Indepenoeni examinees reporl and lor no other purpose. I do Th)l accepl or assume responsibilily lo anyone olhtsr Ihan the Ch8rity and Ihe Charily's TnJslees as a body, lor my work or lor Ihis report. Signed". Jonathan M 8eart Reciory CotiaEo. 5t Andrew'5 Lan Congham, PE32 IOU