## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] August 2024 Period start date To 31[st] July 2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Salford Choral Society** ## **Charity registration number: 510583** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To promote, improve, develop and maintain
public education in, and appreciation and
enjoyment of the art and science of choral
music in all its aspects by the presentation
of public concerts and recitals| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|ln pursuing our aims for the public benefit,
the choir believes that it impacts on
people's lives in two ways.
1.
Choir members are involved in a
creative, enjoyable, and fulfilling
educational activity, providing them with the
opportunity to develop vocal technique,
musical repertoire and knowledge. By
providing a Sing Day each year, this
opportunity is extended to non-choir
members and the wider public.
2.
For audiences, we aim to present
high-quality, exciting, and innovative
performances which are a cultural
experience but also educational in the
sense of extending their musical
knowledge.
Additionally, the Committee is conscious
that the choir’s activities should be both
affordable and open to all. There is a
reduced membership subscription for
pensioners or those in receipt of benefits.
Full-time students are not required to pay
the membership subscription.
In 2023 we introduced a community ticket
programme, where 30 tickets for each
concert are offered free to a range of
voluntary and student organisations, with
the aim of opening up access to choral
music to new audiences. This has proved
very successful.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity|Para 1.18|The Trustees have complied with the duty
in Section 4 of the Charities Act 2011 to
have due regard to public benefit guidance
published by the Charity Commission.| 1 Commission on public benefit ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|n/a| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|n/a| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Alongside the Committee, a number of
choir members provide significant voluntary
support to enable the successful running of
the choir, including running the website,
providing cakes and books for fund-raising
sales, and organising events such as Sing
Days.| |Other||n/a| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|9th November 24, Mendelson’s Elijah,
Royal Northern College of Music with
National Festival Orchestra, and five
professional soloists.
8thDecember 24, Handel’s Messiah, Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester
with Baroque in the North as orchestra and
four professional soloists
8thApril 25 Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast
Royal Northern College of Music with
National Festival Orchestra, musicians
from University of Manchester and a
professional soloist. This concert was a
collaboration with Oldham Choral Society.
5th July 25 – Summer Concert at Peel Hall,
University of Salford. ‘It’s Showtime’ with a
range of music from musical theatre.
Soloists came from the choir.
**Other Events**
Sing Day on Belshazzar’s Feast. 90+
singers from across the Northwest
attended.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set. Performance of fundraising Para 1.41 activities against objectives set. Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives 2 Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Society holds reserves to increase the
likelihood that it will be able to meet
contractual and informal commitments to
suppliers in the event of fluctuations in its
income streams (principally subscription
receipts and the sale of concert tickets).| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|The amount of reserves held varies during
the course of the financial year.
Since most subscriptions are pre-paid,
reserves are highest in the first quarter of
the year and lowest at the financial year-
end. At the end of FY 2024/25 the Society
had net current assets of £ 6,471.
Additionally, Salford Choral Society is the
sole beneficiary of the Salford Choral
Society Trust and can draw on the latter’s
resources subject to the consent of its
Trustees. At the end of FY 2024/25 the
Trust had assets of £16,584.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|n/a| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|The Trustees consider that there are no
material uncertainties that cast doubt on
the charity’s ability to continue as a going
concern.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Subscription from members, profit from
sing day, concert ticket sales and
programme sales.
Fundraising such as raffles, cake sales and
donations at concerts| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Maintaining membership numbers, rising
costs for concert production and
rehearsals.| |Other||| 3 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Written Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|According to the constitution the
management of the Society shall be in the
hands of a Committee consisting of a
Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Society
Contact, and other members; the Officers
and other Committee members shall be
elected by and out of the Society’s
members at the Annual General Meeting.
The named officers serve as trustees for
the society.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works Para 1.51 Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Salford Choral Society| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|n/a| |Registered charity number|510583| |Charity’s principal address|74 Moss Lane
Bramhall
STOCKPORT
Cheshire
SK7 1EJ| ||| 4 ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Claire Pallett|Chair||Salford Choral Society
members| ||John Young|Treasurer||Salford Choral Society
members| ||Angela Ager|Secretary||Salford Choral Society
members| ||Elizabeth Ann
Howard|Society Contact||Salford Choral Society
members| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets held in this
capacity|n/a| |---|---| |Name and objects of the charity on whose
behalf the assets are held and how this falls
within the custodian charity’s objects|n/a| |Details of arrangements for safe custody
and segregation of such assets from the
charity’s own assets|n/a| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |n/a||| n/a ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details n/a ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** 5 **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Angela M Ager|| ||
Secretary|| ||20thApril 2026|| ||20thApril 2026|| 6 |**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---| |**Salford Choral Society**|**510583**||| |**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**| |01/08/2024
Period start date
**For the period**
**from**|31/07/2025
Period end date
**To**||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**47,815**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,815**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,815**
**48,828**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48,828**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48,828**
**- 1,012**
**-**
**7,483**
**6,471**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**47,815**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,815**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,815**
**48,828**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**48,828**
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**48,828**
**- 1,012**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||**47,815**|||||**36,807**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**47,815**|||||**36,807**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**36,807**| |||||||| ||**48,828**|||||**36,195**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**48,828**|||||**36,195**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||| |**,**|**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**36,195**| |||||||| ||**- 1,012**|**-**|**-**|**- 1,012**||**612**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**7,483**|**-**|**-**|**7,483**||**6,871**| ||**6,471**|**-**|**-**|**6,471**||**7,483**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 30/04/2026 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**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**755**
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**5,716**
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**-**
**6,471**
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John Young
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approval| |||John Young|08-Oct-25| |||AngelaAger|08-Oct-25| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 30/04/2026 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees** Charity Name Salford Choral Society **On accounts for the year** 31 July 2025 **Charity no** 510583 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) **Report to the trustees** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/07/2025** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the 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:** 16 April 2026 **Name:** MR Dean R Logan **Relevant professional** FCA **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** Ground Floor, 7 Neptune Court, Hallam Way, Whitehills Business Park, Blackpool, FY4 5LZ ## **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). **Oct 2018** 1 **IER** **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **Oct 2018** 2 **IER**