**Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 31 July 2025**
**Registered Charity Number: 501721/ACL**
## **Stafford Choral Society**
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|**Trustees**|**1**|
|**Trustees’ report**|**2**|
|**Independent Examiner's Report**|**3**|
|**Statement of comprehensive income**|**4**|
|**Statement of financial position**|**5**|
|**Notes to the financial statements**|**6**|
## **Stafford Choral Society**
## **Trustees**
## **Trustees**
Mrs Beryl Whincup (Chair) Mr Daniel Wills (Treasurer) Mrs Jane Evans Mr Mike Jones Mrs Philomena Trainer Mr David Law Mrs Gwyneth Pierpoint Mrs Pam Miles Mr Gerry Trainer Mrs Kathleen Squire Mrs Sarah Matthews
## **Principal Address**
19 Lawn Road Rowley Park Stafford ST18 0RA
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## **Stafford Choral Society**
## **Trustees’ report**
## **Objective**
To advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music in all its aspects by any means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public concerts and recitals.
## **The Trustees who manage Stafford Choral Society (“SCS” or “the Society”)**
Mrs Beryl Whincup (Chair), Mr Daniel Wills (Treasurer), Mrs Jane Evans, Mr Mike Jones, Mrs Philomena Trainer, Mr David Law, Mrs Gwyneth Pierpoint, Mrs Pam Miles & Mr Gerry Trainer, Mrs Kathleen Squire, Mrs Sarah Matthews.
## **Structure and Governance**
The governing document is the SCS Constitution which was adopted 15 May 1972 and amended on 17 September 2018. SCS is an unincorporated association. Trustees are appointed or reappointed at the Annual General Meeting.
## **Activities and Achievements**
Weekly rehearsals occurred between September 2024 and June 2025
The following concerts took place:
**23 November 2024:** Haydn’s Creation, performed at Rising Brook Baptist Church, Stafford
**16 December 2024:** Handel’s Messiah, performed at St Mary’s Church, Stafford.
**22 April 25:** Puccini Messa di Gloria & Lauridsen Lux Aeterna, performed at Rising Brook Baptist Church, Stafford.
**12 July 2025:** A selection of Modern Madrigals by John Rutter, George Shearing and others performed at the White Eagle Club Stafford.
## **Financial activities and position**
The cash held by the Society as at 31 July 2025 was £39,664.84 in unrestricted funds.
See attached accounts and notes.
## **Relationships with other bodies**
The Society is affiliated to the following:
Stafford District Arts Council
National Federation of Music Societies.
## **The Society’s principal address**
SCS’s principal address is 19 Lawn Road, Rowley Park, Stafford, ST17 9AJ
Signed:
Name: Daniel Alfred Wills, Treasurer
Date: 27 August 2025
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## **Stafford Choral Society**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of The Stafford Choral Society Under The Charities Act 2011**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Stafford Choral Society for the year ended 31 July 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 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 examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
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:
Name: Edward Sandy, ACA
Address: Gillan, Moreton Barn Farm, Tolldish Lane, Stafford, ST18 0RA
Date: 27 August 2025
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## **Stafford Choral Society**
## **Statement of comprehensive income**
## **For the year ended 31 July 2025**
|**Notes**
**Income**
Subscriptions
Income Tax Repayment
(Covs)
Bank Interest
Net Soc Committee
Fundraising
Concert Income
200 Club Net Contribution
**(ii)**
SDAC Grant
Sundry Income
**Total Income**
**Expenditure**
Concert Expenditure
Honoraria
Rehearsal Room Hire
**(i)**
Affiliation Fees
Sundry Expenditure
**Total Expenditure**
**Net Income/(Expenditure)**
Transfers Between Funds
**Net Movement of Funds**
Cash Funds b/f
**Cash Funds c/f**|**2025**
**2025**
**2025**
**General**
**Fund**
**Concerts**
**200 Club**
**£**
**£**
**£**
16,735
40
-
3,430
-
-
1,078
-
-
3,106
-
-
-
11,737
-
-
-
(1,498)
-
500
-
871
-
-
**25,220**
**12,277**
**(1,498)**
-
16,641
-
14,655
-
-
4,461
-
-
753
-
-
1,456
-
-
**21,325**
**16,641**
**-**
**3,895**
**(4,364)**
**(1,498)**
(4,364)
4,364
-
**(470)**
**-**
**(1,498)**
35,979
-
5,654
**35,509**
**-**
**4,156**|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
16,775
3,430
1,078
3,106
11,737
(1,498)
500
871
**35,998**
16,641
14,655
4,461
753
1,456
**37,966**
**(1,968)**
-
**(1,968)**
41,633
**39,665**|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
17,380
3,454
1,033
3,187
11,131
928
1,000
97|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**38,210**|
||||16,519
14,875
1,200
600
4,422|
||||**37,615**|
|||||
||||**594**|
||||-
**594**
41,038|
||||**41,633**|
## **Notes**
(i) Rehearsal room hire costs for spring and summer 2024 of £1,680.00 were not invoiced or paid until after the year end 2024.
So these costs are missing from 2024 and consequently must be added to 2025 Accounts.
(ii) Net 200 Club Contribution is reduced by: 1) Purchase of Keyboard / Amp / Stool / Stand and Carry Bag £2,348.91, and 2) Gazebos for Garden Party Net £144.02.
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## **Stafford Choral Society**
## **Statement of financial position At 31 July 2025**
||**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Current assets**|||
|Cash at bank and in hand:|||
|Current Account|10,555|12,962|
|COIF Account|23,786|22,708|
|200 Club Account|4,163|5,661|
|Cash in Hand|859|-|
||39,363|41,331|
|**Creditors: amounts falling due within one**|||
||-|-|
|**year**|||
|**Net current assets**|39,363|41,331|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|39,363|41,331|
|**Net assets**|39,363|41,331|
|**Capital and reserves**|||
|General Fund|35,200|35,670|
|200 Club|4,163|5,661|
|**Total funds**|39,363|41,331|
The notes on pages 6 to 7 form part of these financial statements.
They are signed on behalf of the Trustees by:
Daniel Alfred Wills, Treasurer
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## **Stafford Choral Society**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 July 2025**
## **General information and basis of accounting**
Unless stated otherwise, is that fixed assets are written down in full in the year of acquisition.
For simplicity, and to reduce unnecessary work, all elements of the 200 Club finances, apart from the net change in worth have now been extracted from the main accounts. Consequently, all that will be shown in income is 200 Club Contribution. The treasurer relies upon any peculiarities in 200 Club, such as accruals/deferrals, uncashed cheques, to be dealt with within those accounts and portrays here simply closing bank balance minus opening bank balance.
SCS owns the following physical assets which have zero book value:
|**Item**|**Location**|**Year Acquired**|**Cost £**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Staging|Stafford Grammar School|2008|650.95|
|Staging|Stafford Grammar School|2014|3,630.00|
|Hot Water Urn|Entrust|2017|72.00|
|Staging|Stafford Grammar School|2022|2,319.30|
|Handrails, trolleys, chairstops|Stafford GrammarSchool|2023|3,018.08|
|Keyboard, Amp, Stand, Stool|With MD|2024|2,348.91|
|Gazebos for Garden Party|19 Lawn Road|2025|144.02|
## **1. Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation of financial statements**
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention using the receipts and payments basis of preparation.
There are no assets of the Society that are capable of revaluation. All assets and liabilities are therefore included at their historical costs.
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## **Stafford Choral Society**
## **Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 July 2025**
## **2. Concert and Subscription Breakdown**
|**Income**
Ticket Sales
Choir Music Income
SDAC Grant
Programme & Advert Sales
Donations/Sponsorships
**Total Income**
**Expenditure**
Orchestra/Soloists/Equipment
Venue Hire
Music Costs
Printing/Publicity
Wine, Soft Drinks & Food
Flowers & Calligraphy
Staging & Transport
**Total Expenditure**
**Net Surplus/(Deficit)**
**Notes**
**Subscriptions**
Vice Presidents & Friends
Ordinary Members
**Total Subscriptions**|**November**
**Concert**
**Messiah**
**April**
**Concert**
**July**
**Concert**
**Total**
**22 Nov**
**2024**
**16 Dec**
**2024**
**12 Apr**
**2025**
**11 Jul**
**2025**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
2,485
3,303
2,631
1,090
**9,509**
658
-
400
400
**1,458**
-
-
500
-
**500**
219
-
175
-
**394**
66
-
161
-
**226**|
|---|---|
||**3,427**
**3,303**
**3,866**
**1,490**
**12,087**|
||2,097
1,870
5,648
400
**10,015**
900
560
900
350
**2,710**
553
-
1,110
850
**2,513**
119
280
312
45
**756**
-
212
-
60
**272**
131
-
110
-
**241**
376
-
328
-
**704**|
||**4,176**
**2,922**
**8,408**
**1,705**
**17,211**|
|||
||**(749)**
**381**
**(4,542)**
**(215)**
**(5,124)**|
||**£**
500
16,235
**16,735**|
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