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Charity Name No (if any)
Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra 295781
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 1st May 2024 30th April 2025
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Grant from Friends of the Orchestra 3,000 3,000 10,000
Donations 2,152 1,956 4,108 3,740
Patrons 12,050 12,050 12,350
Playing members subs 4,735 4,735 4,290
Fundraising (+Gift Aid via Justgiving) 2,198 2,198 1,854
Gift Aid 3,406 3,406 3,568
Advertising revenue 400 400 750
Advance season ticket sales 29,519 - - 29,519 26,781
Other ticket sales 26 - - 26 666
Box office sales 35,839 - - 35,839 49,825
Sponsorship incl programmes - - - - 1,000
Bank interest 755 - - 755 631
Orchestra Tax Relief via RTWSOPL 33,353 - - 33,353 34,721
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127,433 1,956 - 129,389 150,176
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Total receipts 127,433 1,956 - 129,389 150,176
A3 Payments
Fees:conductors, players via RTWSOPL 78,886 - - 78,886 83,736
Special events (centenary, new MD etc 7,723 7,723 4,750
Printing of programmes 978 - - 978 1,385
Music hire via RTWSOPL 2,927 - - 2,927 2,689
Venue hire via RTWSOPL 24,816 - - 24,816 24,921
Marketing 4,255 - - 4,255 4,050
PRS 1,684 - - 1,684 866
Advertisements 2,475 - - 2,475 1,773
Misc Direct Costs including education 748 1,560 - 2,308 3,787
Admin 3,346 3,346 3,099
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Sub total [ 127,838 ] 1,560 - 129,398 131,056
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 127,838 1,560 - 129,398 131,056
Net of receipts/(payments) - 405 396 - - 9 19,120
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 38,874 2,404 - 41,278 22,158
Cash funds this year end 38,469 2,800 - 41,269 41,278
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 30/05/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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**B3 Investment assets**
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**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
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**1,013**
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**37,456**
**2,800**
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**2,800**
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Date of
approval| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 30/05/2025 2 **2018** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 1st May 2024 **To** 30th April 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA **Other names charity is known by** RTWSO **Registered charity number (if any)** 295781 **Charity's principal address** 11A High Street Pembury Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Postcode TN2 4PH** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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12|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Ms Frances
Armstrong|Chairman||| ||Mr Andrew Muir|DeputyChairman||| ||Mrs Gale Smith|Minutes Secretary||| ||Mrs Alexandra
Dicken-Woollard|Treasurer||| ||Mrs Anne Parker|Orchestra Manager
and Gen. Secretary||| ||Mrs Libby
Summers|Librarian||| ||Mrs Zoe Hayward|News Editor||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** None ## **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**||| |None||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** None March **2012** **TAR** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution adopted at an AGM on 4[th] July 2014. Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) The charity comprises Honorary Officers, Annual Subscribers and Playing How the charity is constituted Members. Seven Trustees manage its affairs, retire annually but may be (eg. trust, association, company) re-elected. New Trustees are inducted and trained by existing Trustees. Trustees are appointed by the members at a duly constituted General Trustee selection methods Meeting - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: The Charity is a member of Making Music, the UK’s membership organisation for leisure-time music, and has used their general guidance in such matters as arranging insurance and risk management. - policies and procedures 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 exists to promote the musical education of the inhabitants of Royal Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding area, through the study and practice of orchestral music, in order to foster public knowledge and appreciation of such music by means of public performance. March **2012** **TAR** 2 The Charity put on its regular season of six orchestral concerts in Tunbridge Wells. Three free chamber concerts were also scheduled during the summer, one presenting the orchestral world of the French horn, and another bringing together a range of wind instruments. Our Education Outreach programme again held a brass masterclass at a Tunbridge Wells secondary school; this time focussed on the trombone. Members of the orchestra also visited and played at The Rosewood School, a residential school for teenagers with profound mental health issues, run by Kent County Council. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** The Charity’s Education Officer held workshops in two local primary **public benefit in relation to** schools this year, with children drawn from 5 different schools in the area. **these objects (include within** Many then attended an orchestra performance with their families. In **this section the statutory** addition, school children and students of all ages were able to attend any **declaration that trustees have** of our classical concerts for a flat £5 ticket fee, regardless of the regular **had regard to the guidance** seat price. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** We continue to maintain community pages on social media, encouraging **benefit)** We continue to maintain community pages on social media, encouraging and enabling fellow music charities from across the area to publicise their concerts and other activities via our website, Instagram, X and Facebook accounts. We also offered concert tickets to other charities (such as the Samaritans) to help with fundraising. Our Trustees have remained mindful of Charity Commission guidance on what constitutes public benefit, and have continued to seek ways to widen access to orchestral and classical music in the Tunbridge Wells area, in line with the Charity’s core objectives. ## **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. All our Trustees and player members are volunteers, some acting in a professional capacity – for example, negotiation with soloists of performance contracts, or placing advertising in local media. In addition to the player members, the orchestra also contracts professional players on a concert-by-concert basis to make up the full symphony orchestra as required by the programme chosen. Three Trustees also serve as directors of RTWSO Productions Ltd, a company established in 2018 to administer production expenses. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance The orchestra performed its regular series of 6 concerts from October **Summary of the main** through to April, with a renowned soloist performing at each concert. The **achievements of the charity** number of tickets sold for this 6-concert series continued the upward **during the year** sales trend achieved year on year since covid, although no special ‘7[th] ’ concert was added this year. The Charity always tries to support community initiatives led by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, and this year donated tickets to new audience members and some younger hosts as part of the ‘Silver Sunday’ events run by the Council and Age UK Tunbridge Wells, to introduce older members of the community to new activities. This year we have said goodbye to our longstanding Music Director, Roderick Dunk. Rod’s final concert in April 2025 was very well attended, and he leaves us with enormous thanks from the whole orchestra. In May 2024 a series of workshops was held to determine a short list of candidates to replace him. The three candidates selected each conducted one of our regular Sunday concerts, and the orchestra voted for Peter Selwyn to become the new Music Director and our regular conductor. He has been appointed from 1 May 2025. |**Section E Financial review**|**Section E Financial review**| |---|---| |**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**
**Further financial review details**
You**may choose**to include
additional information, where
relevant about:
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the charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising);
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how expenditure has
supported the key objectives
of the charity;
•
investment policy and
objectives including any
ethical investment policy
adopted.|| ||The Charity holds sufficient reserves to pay expenses anticipated ahead
of the following season’s ticket sales.| ||None| ||**(Optional information)**| ||Our principal sources of funds are revenue from ticket sales and
donations from Friends, patrons and other supporters. We also benefit
from Orchestra Tax Relief.
The Friends of RTWSO kindly donated £3000 at the end of the season,
which will be used to purchase stage ‘risers’ for performances requiring a
larger orchestra than normal, and to help with the cost of venue hire (our
regular rehearsal and function venue now being compelled to charge us
VAT under rule changes for private school facilities hire).
The ‘restricted funds’ section of our accounts relates to donations made
specifically for the furtherance of our Education Outreach activities.| March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **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** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Frances Armstrong|Alexandra Dicken-Woollard||| |||
CHAIRMAN||TREASURER|| |||20/07/2025|||| March **2012** **TAR** 5 **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** |**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**| |---|---|---|---| |**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**|||| ||Charity Name
The Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra||| ||||| ||30 April 2025|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|295781| ||||| ||1 and 2
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||| ||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30 April 2025.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(“the Act”).||| I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed: Date:** 21/07/2025 **Name:** S Rosling **Relevant professional** FCCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Ashdown Hurrey Auditors Limited 20 Havelock Road, Hastings East Sussex, TN34 1BP **Oct 2018** 1 **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **Oct 2018** 2 **IER**