## **Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestral Society** ## **Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2023** ## **Contents** ||Page| |---|---| |Annual Report|2| |Independent Examiner's Report|3| |Statement of Financial Activities|4| |Balance Sheet|5| |Main Concerts account|6| |Notes to the accounts|6 to 8| |Debtors and Prepayments|7| |Creditors and Accruals|7| |Fixed Assets analysis|7 & 8| **Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestral Society Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2023** The Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestral Society (also known as **Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra** or simply **SPO** ) is registered with the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales (No 506840) and is governed by constitution first adopted 14 November 1891 and last revised in September 2016 The address of the correspondent is **Felicity Fuller, 4 Moorvale, Marsden HD7 6AG.** General e-mail: _info@spo.org.uk_ Some officer-specific e-mail addresses are also given on our website, _www.spo.org.uk , w_ hich has further information about our activities and future events. The voting members of the committee, also called _trustees_ , were as listed below (officers are asterisked). Gordon Beever . . . . . . . . . President* Christopher Woodhead . . . Vice-President*, Secretary* and Committee Chairman* Felicity Fuller . . . . . . . . . . Treasurer* Elizabeth Pearson . . . . . . Joint Ticket Secretary* Jennifer Nicks. . . . . . . . Librarian* Andrew Marshall Les Measures Sue Morgan Ruth Aldred Hayley Mason Bruce Jones Kevin Cook Nareece Forrest Adam Harris Officers and other committee members are elected by Society members at the Annual General Meeting, held within six months of the financial year-end. At its first committee meeting, the new committee elects a chairman from among its number. The non-voting non-trustee members of the committee are the Patrons' Representative (normally elected by the patrons present at the AGM) and any other co-optees. None are members of the Society and were:- Gordon Beever . . . . . . . . . Patrons' Representative Peter Pearson . . . . . . . . . . Joint Ticket Secretary Matthew Chadbond . . . . . Leader* ## **Objectives, Organisation and Activities** The objectives of the Society are to promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and appreciation of the art and science of orchestral music in all its aspects by the presentation of public orchestral concerts and recitals and by such other ways as the Society may determine, through its committee. The Society has an Equal Opportunities Policy that is distributed to all members and is available on request. Acceptance of a new member may be dependent upon there being vacancies in the relevant section. The Society has no employees, all the work involved in running it being performed by volunteers. The management of the Society, and its performances and the control of its finances are vested in the committee, which conducts its business through monthly meetings. Four sub-committees, namely Finance, Programming, Concert Management and Personnel, whose members are drawn from the main committee, meet on an ad hoc basis to assist the main committee in its work. The Society is a member of Making Music (The National Federation of Music Societies) and Huddersfield Arts Council. The orchestra rehearses at least once a week, with a break of approximately eight weeks in the summer. Currently it performs four ( _main)_ concerts per year in Huddersfield Town Hall. ## **Review of Progress and Achievements** It has been another busy and successful year for all connected with Slaithwite Philharmonic Orchestra, which has seen a total of eight concerts presented in different venues. The 4-concert series in Huddersfield Town Hall continues to form the central plank of the Society’s activities. Here 3 major symphonies were performed to high acclaim from audience members: Mahler 6, Bruckner 7, and Korngold in F”. Alongside symphonic works were outstanding solo contributions from Christian Jones (bass trombone – Chris Brubeck Concerto), Rivka Golani (viola – Ellin White Crucifixion), and Patrick Addinall (trumpet – Hodgson Trumpet Concerto). Perhaps the highlight of the season was the SPO’s return to the world of Opera with well received performances of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci performed by a very skilled cast expertly directed by Heritage Opera’s Sarah Helsby Hughes. The production would not have been possible without the gratefully received financial assistance of _Kirklees Year of Music 2023,_ a year-long project celebrating music making in the local area. Three concerts were also presented in Slaithwaite Civic Hall to large and appreciative audiences, including in a new initiative (to be repeated next season) a very successful Christmas Concert. These Civic concerts are becoming increasingly important to the Society providing performance opportunities to society members, an opportunity to reach new audience, and a much welcome financial contribution to SPO funds. Finances were further bolstered by an invitation to perform a proms concert in Tatton Park, Cheshire in August. The Society continues to be expertly led by ever enthusiastic and innovative music director and principal conductor Benjamin Ellin, now in his fifteenth year with the Society, very ably assisted by the skilled musicianship of leader Matthew Chadbond. Financial statements show the Society in good health. Of continuing concern is the low attendance at Town Hall concerts. SPO is not alone in this and other groups face similar challenges, not helped by the disappearance this year of nearby parking facilities. **Finances** The attached financial statements show the current state of the finances that the committee consider to be sound. The charity's bankers are Lloyds TSB Bank at Slaithwaite Huddersfield and the charity also has a deposit account with the Charities Official Investment Fund (COIF). The charity also wholly owns and runs a SPO Productions Ltd, company number 10958201, a non-trading vehicle created in order to facilitate claims under the HMRC Orchestral Tax Relief Scheme, whose bank is Lloyds TSB at Slaithwaite, Huddersfield. ## Felicity Fuller On behalf of the Managing Committee. ## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestral Society** I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 30 June 2023, as set out on pages 4 to 8 ## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 43 (7)(b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## **Basis of independent examiner's report** My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. ## **Independent examiner's statement** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: - (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act have not been met; or - (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ## Robert Maginnis Mr Robert Maginnis Independent Examiner Date: 13 September 2023 ## Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) for the year ended 30 June 2023 |General Fund (unrestricted)
Annual Interest: Lloyds
Annual Interest: COIF Charities Deposit Fund account
Annual Interest: COIF Charities Income Fund income shares
Members' subscriptions
Income tax claim
Sales of books
'Light' orchestra performances
Donation from Friends of Slaithwaite trust
General donations
Individual Patrons' donations
Corporate Patrons' donations
Main concerts account
BJH concert
Orchestral Tax relief for Production Company
Sundries(includes transfers between bank accounts)
Meeting & Rehearsal room hire
Depreciation (annual) on tangible assets
Management and administration of the Society
Fees on card sales
Insurance
Purchase/Maintenance/hiring of instruments and hardware
Over accrued last season
Music hire - not for concerts
Making Music and other subscriptions
Music Director and stand-ins remuneration
Bad debts written off
Sectional rehearsal costs
Income /expenditure re outgoing personnel
Accountant's fee
Fixed Asset Disposals (write-out or sale)
All purchased written out items (cost of purchase)
From revaluation fund (re items written out in 2004)
All items (refund of accumulation of depreciation)
Increase / decrease in value of investment
Prior Year Adjustment
Fund Total brought forward
Fund Total carried forward|Income
Gross
Expenditure
Gross
£
£
-
-
629
-
52
-|2023 Net
2022 Net
£
£

-
-

629
37
52
63| |---|---|---| ||680
-|680
100| ||5274
-
1297
-
-
-
190
91
3359
-
1893
-
603
-
920
-
30664
32686
25000
3500
3861
-
1644
1495
-
2021
-
705
-
130
-
28
-
211
-
326
202
-
-
-
-
395
-
6150
-
430
-
150
-
170
-
-
-
-
-
-|
5274
5145

1297
922

-
33

100
-

3359
-

1893
865

603
616

920
766

(2022)
1324

21500
-

3861
-

149
(282)

(2021)
(2191)

(705)
(34)

(130)
(88)

(28)
-

(211)
(151)

(326)
(240)

202
-

-
(71)

(395)
(242)

(6150)
(5270)

(430)
-

(150)
-

(170)
170

-
-

-
-
-
-
-| ||75588
48489
1023
-|
27099
1372
1023
(1896)| ||76611
48489|
28123
(524)| |||41| |||28164
(524)| |||71397
71921| |||99561
71397| 4 Balance Sheet at 30 June 2023 |Assets and liabilities
Fixed assets (tangibles) book value
Fixed assets (investments) book value
Current assets
Debtors and Prepayments
Balance in COIF Deposit Fund
Balance in Lloyds TSB Bank current a/c
Cash in hand
Production Co bank balance
Creditors and Accruals
Net current assets
Net assets
Financed by
Unrestricted Income Funds
General Fund|2023
£
£
6081
26327
29031
27749
8930
19
3777
69506
2353
2353
67153
99561
99561
99561|2023
£
£
6081
26327
29031
27749
8930
19
3777
69506
2353
2353
67153
99561
99561
99561|2022
£
£
67
25304
3909
26980
18562
117
1358
50926
4866
4866
46059
71431
71431
71431|2022
£
£
67
25304
3909
26980
18562
117
1358
50926
4866
4866
46059
71431
71431
71431| |---|---|---|---|---| ||69506||50926|| ||2353||4866|| ||2353||4866|| |||||| |||99561||71431| |||99561||71431| |||99561||71431| The financial statements on pages 3 to 7 were approved by the Managing Committee on 13/09/2023 and signed on its behalf by: ## Felicity Fuller ## Felicity Fuller The accompanying notes are an integral part of this Balance Sheet. 5 Main concerts accountfor year ￿ded 30 June 2023 (' rtotns ￿ualty Shar￿ across 811 concerts) 1st 2rKI 3rd 4th Sept Tatton Totsl Income CortK)18te Patr[￿ trk8t5 Patron tickets seas(￿ tickets si￿￿ tickets Gross Ipre commissk)n d&1ucts"onl 295 435 923 1110 295 1180 1742 4722 435 638 11 435 1326 1111 935 1101 1154 2469 515 158 2731 575 le 2764 515 162 3167 515 243 eA)5 1154 935 14025 2120 723 PIiMJiamme advertiseTvEnts Piogiatntn8 sa18S Sry)nsorship l Grant for concerts Exlra income Total Income 239 3705 3142 7925 805 1211 935 9500 30664 Expendlture Soknists. I ctrK)i¢s fees atKI expenses Leaderfs fee Extra players, lees and expenses Concert hall hi18 including stewarding Fl(wets l(Y hall and perfOr￿￿r5, tnbutes Music hir8 and retum postage Commission on tscket sales by lfjrklees Piogiatntne design and printiw P05ter5 atKI fliers deS￿n and pioductK)n Library display and wblicity distnbub'on Piospectus deS￿n 8nd production Hospitalty (Ind￿1r￿j Corwrate Patron ￿5[At￿lty) Instruments" Ihire fee, transp(￿, i[suran￿) Perfottning Rights Society fee Sceneryl props Advertising If8C8book etcl Extra Music diredor I condudor costs T(tsl expendibjre 389 320 485 1515 340 170 1755 210 1175 415 1755 3105 7230 20 3(￿3 221 1289 616 1880 125 1(M) 100 74 1105 82 56 267 59 559 237 251 239 518 236 107 311 114 475 132 62 74 69 132 79 132 132 735 214 132 121 195 132 130 579 529 1221 3110 678 1405 210 1405 114 900 4984 110D 32696 4816 3929 11914 473 655 407 Suiplus I Ideliatl on concerts 116741 118031 14881 139891 555 528 4516 120221 Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2023 1. Accounting Policie8 General These accounts have been p￿PAred uThler Ihe higkncal cost convenb.on IBS m￿ffied by any revaluati￿ of listKI mu%eal irstrumentsl, and in accordance wth apFlicable acc(yJnting s￿dardS Statetnent of Recommended Piactice on Accounbrvj by Chatrties. Depreciation Depreciation Is [￿vKIed on all tangible fixed assets on a straight line tr>asis, based M Iheir estmated useful life a￿ a residLHI value of zero. The annud ￿[Centage rate of depreciatK)n for each asset is SIKM on pag8 8 2023 2022 2. Management and Administration cost analysis Expendable office tnalerids, 5tab"onery, toner. ink etc P￿tage. telephone and travel Duplicating18tt8r5, accounts, fotm5, c(Kntn(rt88 P8pers 8tc. Hire of rooms frx meets.ngs 117 14 189 319 20 167 ## **Notes to the accounts for the year ended 30 June 2023** ## Employees remuneration and expenses The Society has no employees and all the work of running it is provided free of charge by members and friends The Society engages one conductor on a regular basis, and several stand-ins when needed For concerts, the Society also engages extra players and soloists on a one-off basis, their total costs are shown in the concert breakdown. Trustees' and co-opted members' remuneration and expenses No voting member of the Managing Committee nor any person connected with them has received or is due to receive any remuneration for the year, either directly or indirectly, from the society's funds. Aggregate out of pocket expenses reimbursement to members of the Managing Committee for telephone and travel was:- £ 63.90 ## **Debtors and prepayments** ## **Debtors** |SPO: Members' subs & 1 patron||399.00|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |SPO: Adverts this & previous seasons||1310.00|||| |SPO: Donation pledged||1025.00|||| |SPO: BJH ticket money||25000.00|||| |SPO: Tax reclaim to end season 2023||1297.09|||| |Debtors total|||29031.09||| |**Prepayments relating to next season**|||||| |Prepayments total|||0.00||| |**Debtors and prepayments total**|||29,031.09||| |**Creditors and accruals**|||||| |**Creditors**|||||| |Creditors total|||0.00||| |**Accruals**|||||| |SPO Prod Co: Soloist & accompanists||1200.00|||| |SPO Prod: KMC June concert & meeting|||||| |room||1153.02|||| |Accountant's fee||0.00|||| |Accruals total|||2353.02||| |**Creditors and accruals total**|||2353.02||| |**Investments in COIF Charities Funds**||Fixed|Interest|Investment|| |||Income|Accum.|Accum.|Total| |Original Cost (24/6/99)||2422|3859|3352|9633| |No of shares held||1743.12|1248.05|58.45|| |Book Value|||||| |||B|A|R|| |Balance brought forward||2053.22|10499.35|12750.95|25303.52| |End of year balance||2049.73|10734.48|13542.58|26326.79| |Increase / (decrease) in value||-3.49|235.13|791.63|1023.27| |Income distributions received during the year (see page 4)||52.19|||| |Total income distributions prior to this year||4629.27|||| ||Total||||| ||since||||| ||purchase|
4681.46|||| 7 DEPRECIATION OF TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS Original cost Instruments Hardware Music Total 671 6719 Balance brought for¢rfard Purchases during the y8ar Deduct original value of any wrillen out items Deduct original cost of any written out items S71 6719 671 6719 7390 Accumulated Depreclatlon Balance brought foNard Charge for the year Ded￿1 *cum. depreCiat￿n of any written out iiems End of y8ar balanco 603 603 705 672 837 672 1309 Book value li.e. remaining value of assets) Balance brought fonvard Bought during the year End of year balance a-b=d 88 68 8719 6047 6081 Financed by.. Cost Component accumulated depreciation As above totals column 2 Column 5 671 637 6719 672 8047 7390 1309 6081 colutnn 7 Asset detalls Purchased in Year Cost Depreciation annual accumulated Remaining Value Value Rale % Inslrumer)ts Column=> Glockenspiel and stand RAT concert stands. 60 2004 2023 671 8719 7390 5.00 10.00 637 672 1309 34 6047 6081 672 705 90.00 COST OF DEPRECIATION THIS YEAR.. 705.42 GRAND TOTAL 6080.54 NOTES.. Purchases are dated by the year end le.g. 2004 covers purchases from 11712003 10 3016120041 A full year's depreciation is applied for the year of purchase regardless of the actual date of the event Fully depreciated items M¢)ich are still in use.. Ilf a value is alongside. il is the original cost ICI, or revaluation IRI, and they have been written out this yearl D trumpet Double bass bag Cymbals bag 2, 14" C￿nbo1$ and covers 2. 20" Cymbals Tamtsm, sland & cover 25 & 28 pedal timpani Snare drum 2, 22" cymbals X5dophone 3.5 octave 2 ' Cymbal Stands 30" Pedal timpano T￿In cassette deck Original music library Doublè bass 18" cymbal and stand Bass Drum 22.5" Pedal timpano Tenor drum&case Light Orchestra Music 2 . Cymbal Cradles Bass Drum Cradle 2 C Trumpets & mules Harry Potter music 2002