## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## Registered Charity No. 506886
18 Oakburn Road, Ilkley LS2 9NN
## _**DRAFT**_ **ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MAY 2025**
**Governing Document:** Constitution dated 13 October 2010 as amended 2 November 2022 **Officers and Management (Charity Trustees) Committee:**
**Chair:** C. Skidmore **Vice Chair:** R. Templar **Hon Secretary** : J. Simpson **Hon Treasurer:** D. Williams **Committee:** D. Bridgewater, P. Harris, P. Hurst, C. Rudman, L. Wellings, J. Wesley. **Bankers:** TSB, PO Box 373, Headingley Branch, Leeds LS14 9GQ **Independent Examiner:** SKS Bailey Group Ltd, 19 The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9LS
**Objects:** “The objectives of the Club shall be to educate the public in the arts and sciences, and in particular the art and science of music, by the presentation of concerts and other activities”
**Organisation:** The Club’s concerts are held within the King’s Hall complex, Station Road, Ilkley, and are widely advertised. All the organisers volunteer their services. **Financial Reserves:** The Piano and Development Fund is considered a Designated Fund. Non-designated funds should not normally exceed planned expenditure.
**Activities:** In the season 2024/25 we presented a full season of eight concerts which included highly successful debut recitals at the club for Mishka Rushdie Momen, the Ben Goldscheider Horn Trio and the Dudok Quartet from Amsterdam. Another first was a concert of music for recorder and accordion from Tabea Debus and Samuele Telari. We were extremely happy to welcome back the violinist, Chloë Hanslip with her current pianist, Danny Driver, and to hear again from the Treske Quartet, who had performed as students in our afternoon concerts. The season was rounded off by a greatly
entertaining song recital from Ailish Tynan and James Baillieu and a quintet programme of music by American composers from the virtuoso players of the Kaleidoscope Cahmber Collective.
For the fourth time we presented a short series of afternoon concerts, highlighting performances by students from the Royal Northern College of Music which were well attended. We also supported the ongoing Waterman series of piano recitals and master classes, including an outstanding performance from the runner-up in the 2024 Leeds Piano Competition, Khanh Nhi Luong.
The Committee has met on three occasions this year, and sub-committees have met as appropriate.
## **Chair’s Report**
2024/25 was another successful year for the Club. Although since the Covid pandemic we have not managed to sell all our subscriptions, we have continued to enjoy a lively interest in the purchase of individual tickets for our monthly concerts. We are grateful to Lindsey Wharmby for staffing our box office.
We were sad to have to close our secondhand CD stall during the year, a volunteer effort started by Tony Hudson which had earned considerable sums for the Concert Club over the years. We are glad to have passed on the remaining CDs to another local charitable cause.
We continue to benefit from a close relationship with the staff of the King’s Hall who respond sympathetically to our requests and do their best to support us in bringing firstclass music to Ilkley. We owe them a debt of gratitude.
committee considers to be sound.
_Chris Skidmore, August 2025_
## **Honorary Secretary’s Report**
We held three Committee Meetings in 2024-25 in local Ilkley venues, including the Clarke Foley Centre and All Saints Church. This year we introduced an element of digitalization to the process of making contracts with performers’ agents and we store contracts and booking forms on a secure shared Google Drive, making our administration more secure and more resilient.
_Jo Simpson, July 2025_
## **Honorary Treasurer’s Report**
I am pleased to report that the club finances remain strong. This year there has been a significant rise in the hire costs of the Kings Hall and there may be a further rise in the coming year. The additional costs of the hall hire have been offset by a slight reduction in artists’ fees, although this will he higher in the coming year.
The surplus made in the year has enabled us to transfer £4,000 to the Piano Development Fund and continues to give us the ability to be flexible in our future programming.
As ever the fact that the Club is able to maintain the quality of performers and make a surplus, is in no small part as a result of the work of all the volunteers, who give generously of their time in running all aspects of the Club.
_Donald J Williams, August 2025_
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
## **Year ending 31st May 2025**
|**_Income_**
Season Tickets
Single Tickets
Matinee performances
Donations
Gift Aid
Programme Sales
Advertising Revenue
Bank Interest and Dividends
CD Sales
Help Musicians donations
Total Income
**_Direct Charitable Expenditure_**
Artists' Fees and Expenses
Artists' Fees and Expenses re Matinees
Marketing inc brochure printing
Hire of Hall (including matinees)
Royalties
Piano Tuning, moving and servicing
Subscriptions
Printing of Programmes
Printing of Tickets
Finance Charges
IT expenses
Administration inc examiners fee
Help Musicians Donation
**_Total Expenditure_**
**_Income less Expenditure_**
Revaluation of Investment
**_Total Income_**
Accumulated Fund brought forward
Transfer to Piano and Development Fund
**_Accumulated Fund carried forward_**|**2025**
**£**
41,396
2,732
3,545
4,430
915
1,261
550
411
513
1,145
56,898
24,701
1,746
2,382
11,104
1,490
3,942
642
1,376
247
632
809
442
1,145
50.658
6,240
576
6,816
36,439
43,255
4,000
39,255|**2024**
**£**
38,645
2,992
3,047
7,002
1,191
1,295
550
500
708
1,198|
|---|---|---|
|||57,128|
|||27,183
1,520
2,178
9,431
600
2,106
543
1,635
242
643
1,485
682
1,198|
|||49,800|
|||7,328
1,476|
|||8,804
31,635|
|||40,439
4,000|
|||36,439|
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB BALANCE SHEET AT END MAY 2025**
|**_Current Assets_**
Investment
Charities Aid Foundation
ESG Income and Growth Fund Accumulation
Balances at Bank and in Hand
Debtors:
Tax recoverable re Gift Aid
Deposit for Hire of Kings Hall
**_Current Liabilities_**
Trade creditors
Accrual examiners fee
**_Net Current Assets_**
**_Represented by_**
Funds
General Reserve
Piano and Development Fund|**2025**
**£**
16,557
71,920
0
2,200
90,677
1,152
252
1,422
89,225
39,255
50,000
89,255|**2024**
**£**
15,982
72,377
0
0|
|---|---|---|
|||88,359|
|||5,668
252|
|||5,920|
|||82,439|
|||36,439
46,000|
|||82,439|
_Donald Williams, On behalf of the Committee, 31 July 2025_
## _**Notes to the Accounts: Year ended 31st May 2025**_
## _**1. Accounting Policies**_
_**General:**_ Ilkley Concert Club is a Registered Charity (506886). These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with applicable accounting standards and the Statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting by Charities.
_**Investments:**_ Investments are stated at market value as at the 31st May 2025.
## _**2. Piano and Development Fund**_
In the year ended 31st May 2008 the Club entered into an agreement with Bradford Council for the use of a new Steinway piano for which it made a payment of £7,000. In the year ended 31st May 2010 the Club made a further payment of £2,000. Under the agreement the club will make a 50% contribution towards the maintenance expenditure to be incurred in future years on the piano. The fund is available for that expenditure or such other expenditure as the committee may in future decide.
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **CHARITY NUMBER: 506886**
**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st May 2025**
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
**Contents of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st May 2025**
**Page**
**Report of the Independent Examiner 1 Balance Sheet 2 Notes to the Financial Statements 3 Statement of Financial Activities 4**
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Ilkley Concert Club**
I report on the accounts of the trust for the year ended 31[st] May 2025.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of accounts: you consider that the audit requirement of Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (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 145(5)(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 such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all 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 130 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.
D N Riley FCA SKS Bailey Group Ltd Chartered Accountants Suite 4, 10-12 The Grove Ilkley LS29 9EG
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2025**
|**_Fixed Assets_**
**_Current Assets_**
Investment
Charities Aid Foundation ESG Income & Growth Fund
**(2022 IFSL CAF UK Equity Fund B Income)**
Balances at Bank and in Hand
Deposit for hire of Kings Hall
**_Current Liabilities_**
Trade creditors
Accural
**_Net Current Assets_**
**_Represented by_**
**Funds**
General Reserve
Piano and Development Fund|**£**
**£**
-
-
16,557
15,982
71,920
72,377
2,200
-
90,677
88,359
1,152
5,668
270
252
1,422
5,920
89,255
82,439
39,255
36,439
50,000
46,000
89,255
82,439
**2025**
**2024**|
|---|---|
_Donald Williams, On behalf of the Trustees,_
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
## **Year ending 31st May 2025**
|**_Income_**
Season Tickets
Single Tickets
Donations
Gift Aid
Programme Sales
Advertising Revenue
Matinee performances
Bank Interest and Dividends
CD Sales
Total Income
**_Direct Charitable Expenditure_**
Artists Fees and Expenses
Artists' Fees and Expenses re Matinees
Marketing inc brochure printing
Hire of Hall
Royalties
Piano Tuning and moving
Subscriptions
Printing of Programmes
Printing of Tickets
Bank Charges
IT expenses
Administration
Independent Examination
**_Total Expenditure_**
**_Income less Expenditure_**
Revaluation of Investment (Note 1)
**_Total Income_**
Accumulated Fund brought forward
Transfer to Piano and Development Fund
**_Accumulated Fund carried forward_**|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
41,396
38,645
2,732
2,992
4,430
7,002
915
5,345
1,191
8,193
1,261
1,295
550
550
3,545
3,047
411
500
513
708
55,753
55,930
24,701
27,184
1,746
1,874
2,382
2,178
11,104
9,431
1,490
600
3,942
2,106
642
543
1,376
1,635
247
242
632
643
809
1,485
202
430
240
252
49,513
48,603
6,240
7,327
576
1,477
6,816
8,804
36,439
31,635
43,255
40,439
4,000
4,000
39,255
36,439
**2025**
**2024**|
|---|---|
|||
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31[st] May 2025**
## **1. Accounting Policies**
**General:** Ilkley Concert Club is a Registered Charity (506886). These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with applicable accounting standards and the statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting by Charities.
**Investments:** Investments are stated at market value as at the 31[st] May 2025. Any unrealised profit or loss has been taken to the income account.
## **2. Piano and Development Fund**
In the year ended 31st May 2008 the Club entered into an agreement with Bradford Council for the use of a new Steinway piano for which it made a payment of £7,000. In the year ended 31st May 2010 the Club made a further payment of £2,000. Under the agreement the club will make a 50% contribution towards the maintenance expenditure to be incurred in future years on the piano. The fund is available for that expenditure or such other expenditure as the committee may in future decide.
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **CHARITY NUMBER: 506886**
**ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st May 2025**
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
**Contents of the Financial Statements for the year ended 31st May 2025**
**Page**
**Report of the Independent Examiner 1 Balance Sheet 2 Notes to the Financial Statements 3 Statement of Financial Activities 4**
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Ilkley Concert Club**
I report on the accounts of the trust for the year ended 31[st] May 2025.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of accounts: you consider that the audit requirement of Section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (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 145(5)(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 such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all 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 130 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.
D N Riley FCA SKS Bailey Group Ltd Chartered Accountants Suite 4, 10-12 The Grove Ilkley LS29 9EG
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2025**
|**_Fixed Assets_**
**_Current Assets_**
Investment
Charities Aid Foundation ESG Income & Growth Fund
**(2022 IFSL CAF UK Equity Fund B Income)**
Balances at Bank and in Hand
Deposit for hire of Kings Hall
**_Current Liabilities_**
Trade creditors
Accural
**_Net Current Assets_**
**_Represented by_**
**Funds**
General Reserve
Piano and Development Fund|**£**
**£**
-
-
16,557
15,982
71,920
72,377
2,200
-
90,677
88,359
1,152
5,668
270
252
1,422
5,920
89,255
82,439
39,255
36,439
50,000
46,000
89,255
82,439
**2025**
**2024**|
|---|---|
_Donald Williams, On behalf of the Trustees,_
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
## **Year ending 31st May 2025**
|**_Income_**
Season Tickets
Single Tickets
Donations
Gift Aid
Programme Sales
Advertising Revenue
Matinee performances
Bank Interest and Dividends
CD Sales
Total Income
**_Direct Charitable Expenditure_**
Artists Fees and Expenses
Artists' Fees and Expenses re Matinees
Marketing inc brochure printing
Hire of Hall
Royalties
Piano Tuning and moving
Subscriptions
Printing of Programmes
Printing of Tickets
Bank Charges
IT expenses
Administration
Independent Examination
**_Total Expenditure_**
**_Income less Expenditure_**
Revaluation of Investment (Note 1)
**_Total Income_**
Accumulated Fund brought forward
Transfer to Piano and Development Fund
**_Accumulated Fund carried forward_**|**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
41,396
38,645
2,732
2,992
4,430
7,002
915
5,345
1,191
8,193
1,261
1,295
550
550
3,545
3,047
411
500
513
708
55,753
55,930
24,701
27,184
1,746
1,874
2,382
2,178
11,104
9,431
1,490
600
3,942
2,106
642
543
1,376
1,635
247
242
632
643
809
1,485
202
430
240
252
49,513
48,603
6,240
7,327
576
1,477
6,816
8,804
36,439
31,635
43,255
40,439
4,000
4,000
39,255
36,439
**2025**
**2024**|
|---|---|
|||
## **ILKLEY CONCERT CLUB**
## **Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31[st] May 2025**
## **1. Accounting Policies**
**General:** Ilkley Concert Club is a Registered Charity (506886). These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with applicable accounting standards and the statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting by Charities.
**Investments:** Investments are stated at market value as at the 31[st] May 2025. Any unrealised profit or loss has been taken to the income account.
## **2. Piano and Development Fund**
In the year ended 31st May 2008 the Club entered into an agreement with Bradford Council for the use of a new Steinway piano for which it made a payment of £7,000. In the year ended 31st May 2010 the Club made a further payment of £2,000. Under the agreement the club will make a 50% contribution towards the maintenance expenditure to be incurred in future years on the piano. The fund is available for that expenditure or such other expenditure as the committee may in future decide.