## **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|
||**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