## **Receipts and Payments for the year ended 31st August 2025** |**Receipts**
Members' Subscriptions
Concerts and Broadcasts
Fees and Income
_Less:_Expenses
Overseas and UK Tours
Income
_Less:_Expenses
Legacy
Income
_Less:_Expenses
Recordings
Donations/Reimbursements
_Less:_Expenses
Donations
Bank Interest/Charges
Balance Carried Over|**2025**
**£**
12,360.00
11,822.42
-17,074.42
-5,252.00
783.00
-2,960.79
-2,177.79
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
713.75
129.24
------------
5,773.20|**2024**
**£**
12,448.75| |---|---|---| |||8,833.09
-7,713.74| |||1,119.35| |||0.00
0.00| |||0.00| |||0.00
-1,000.00| |||-1,000.00| |||0.00
0.00| |||0.00
721.25
289.79
------------
13,579.14| Registered Charity 512325 |Balance Brought Forward
**Payments**
Rehearsal Fees
Music Scores
Postage, Telephone, Stationery
Publicity and Advertisements
Dresses
Sundry
Debt Written Off
(Deficit)/Surplus For The Year|**2025**
**£**
5,773.20
12,831.00
0.00
200.38
200.38
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-1,862.45
2,661.18
798.73
0.00
------------
13,830.11
------------
-8,056.91
=======|**2024**
**£**
13,579.14
12,258.99| |---|---|---| |||-52.99
447.28| |||394.29
0.00
0.00| |||0.00
0.00| |||0.00| |||-566.57
669.31| |||102.74
0.00
------------
12,756.02
------------
823.12
=======| Registered Charity 512325 ## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST AUGUST 2025** |||**2025**|**2024**| |---|---|---|---| |||**£**|**£**| |**Current Assets**|||| ||Debtors|2820.00|3793.78| ||Bank Balances|15385.94|22459.65| |||------------|------------| |||18,205.94|26,253.43| |**Current Liabilities**|||| ||Creditors|86.78|77.36| |||------------|------------| |||18,119.16|26,176.07| |||**=======**|**=======**| |**Represented By:**|||| |Accumulated Fund|||| |Balance at Beginning of Year||26,176.07|25,352.95| |(Deficit)/Surplus for Year||-8,056.91|823.12| |||------------|------------| |**Balance at End of Year**||18,119.16|26,176.07| |||------------|------------| Presented at the AGM, 15[th] January 2026. Chairperson: Prof John Gregory Secretary: Mrs Heather Jones Treasurer: Mr Duncan Ingrams **Cardiff Polyphonic Choir** Registered Charity 512325 ## **Annual Report for the year to 31st August 2025.** ## **Constitution, Administration and Membership of the Choir:** Cardiff Polyphonic Choir is registered with the Charity Commission (No. 512325) and constituted by deed. The Charity is administered by a management committee comprising: Officers: Chairperson - Professor John Gregory Secretary - Mrs Heather Jones Treasurer - Mr Duncan Ingrams Other Members: Fran Hathaway, Manager; Judith Dray, press and publicity office; and Elin Cadifor and Neil Burgess as 2 representatives from amongst the ordinary members (not being otherwise elected to the Executive Committee) of the Choir. The Charity’s Music Director during this year was Mr Tom Blunt (from September 2022). ## **The objectives of the Choir:** The objectives of the Choir shall be to educate the public in the arts and sciences, in particular the art and science of music, by the presentation of concerts and other activities. Although Cardiff Polyphonic Choir is an amateur choir, it is an organisation which accepts and solicits payments. Therefore, professional standards for preparation, learning, rehearsing and performance continue to be of fundamental importance. Registered Charity 512325 ## **The year 2024-2025** The choir year 2024/2025 was uninterrupted by global or concrete related events, allowing us to concentrate on our 60[th] anniversary musical performances. The anniversary celebrations started with a stunning concert in the iconic setting of Llandaff Cathedral, performing three contrasting yet complementary Marian works: Durante’s setting of the _Magnificat_ ), Colin Mawby’s _Ave Verum_ , and Poulenc’s _Litanies à la Vierge Noire_ . These were then followed by Mozart’s _Requiem_ . Thomas Blunt conducted. In December we returned to St John the Baptist Church, Cardiff to perform an evening of Christmas carols. We were conducted by Stephen Wood and accompanied by Philip Aspden. A collection was taken for Parkinson’s UK Cymru. On St David’s Day 2025 we presented music inspired by the works of William Shakespeare in St German’s Church, Adamsdown. Featuring pieces by George Shearing, Robert Pearsall, and Emma Lou Diemer, as well as Welsh composers Richard Elfyn Jones and Mansell Thomas. Thomas Blunt conducted. In March we welcomed our new accompanist Catherine Milledge and said a fond farewell to Dai Thomas with a meal in Llandaff. 2025 provided an opportunity to return to touring. This time to Bourg-en-Bresse. 2 concerts were performed. The first in the Co-cathédrale included Duruflé’s Requiem. We were supported by a financial contribution from the local Organ Society for supporting their 2025 Mardis de l’orgue season. The conductor was Aaron Shilson with Philip Aspden again accompanying Our 60th anniversary year concluded in June with a return to All Saints Church, Penarth. The programme was centred again on Durufle’s Requiem. We were conducted by Thomas Blunt, once more accompanied by Philip Aspden. After the concert there was a celebratory wine reception as we toasted our six decades of music. Registered Charity 512325 ## **Concert, Broadcasts and Tours:** |**Date**|**Concerts**| |---|---| ||| |16/11/2024|**Mozart Requiem**
With works by Poulenc, Durante and Colin Mawby
Llandaff Cathedral| ||Loss of £3245.40| ||| |14/12/2024|**Christmas Charity Concert**
St John the Baptist Church, Cardiff| ||Loss of £602.25, Charity collection £680| ||| |1/3/2025|**Art to Enchant**
St German’s Church, Adamsdown| ||Loss of £817| ||| |27/5/2025|**Duruflé Requiem (Tour)**
With other music
Co-cathédrale Notre-Dame, Bourg-en-Bresse| ||Total Tour Loss of £2177.79| ||| |28/5/2025|**An Evening of Welsh Music (Tour)**
Domaine de la Garde, Bourg-en-Bresse| ||See above| ||| |28/6/2025|**Duruflé Requiem**
With music by Bruckner, Richard Vaughan, Rheinberger and Villette
All Saint’s Church, Penarth| ||Loss of £591.78| Registered Charity 512325 ## **Legacy:** |**gacy:**|**gacy:**| |---|---| ||| |**The legacy**|**of Mr Clifford Pike – update as at end of 2025 accounts**.| |Major Work
(£14000 allocated)|£14,000 was spent on Monteverdi Vespers, if offset against income, approx
£8600 remained, some of which used to support the Mozart Requiem| |Website update
(£1000 allocated)|£1057 has been spent on the website update, photography and 4 further
years of ‘hosting’| |Young Singer’s
Bursary (5 x £1000)|£4400 (incl £600 member bursary) has been spent in the years 2018-2020,
2022-2023, 2023-2024
No bursarywas awardedin 2020-2021, or 2021-2022| |Commission
(£4000 allocated)|£504.85 has been spent; Calon Lan (for Tour to Lund), harmonies to ‘O
Come’ (for the BBC carols at RWCMD), and Tall the Mighty Mountains Stand
(T Jones for ‘Polys Selection’)| |Recording
(£6000 allocated)|£600 for the choir’s virtual recording of Justorum Animae
£180 for booking of the Acapella studio (currently on hold)| ## **General:** Included in the subscriptions and other incomes is Gift Aid of £2188.75. Gift Aid is claimed in full on all donations and subscriptions. _Choir members are reminded that they must pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that the Choir reclaims on their subscriptions in the appropriate tax year (currently 25p for each £1.00). If a member’s circumstances change and they no longer pay tax on their income and capital gains equal to the tax that the Choir reclaims, the member should notify the Treasurer that they wish to cancel their Declaration. We also need to know if you change your address._ ## **Notes on the accounts:** The legacy expenditure is noted separately in the accounts, although the terms of the endowment do not place any stipulation on its use as in the above table. Please sign up for Easyfundraising which costs you nothing, and this year raised £34.71. Subscriptions were £195 (£65/term), with student rates offered (£100/ year for full time students). These were increased to £225 (£75) with student rate of £120 for the 2025/26 year. Allowance will be made for any member in hardship. Members’ donations supported the choir funds to allow for this leniency. Registered Charity 512325 Sundry expenses / income include: |Social event (wine sales)|£|+190.07| |---|---|---| |Easyfundraising|£|+34.71| |Gift Aid interest|£|+30.39| |Banking compensation|£|+150.00| |Making music membership and Insurance|£|-394.00| |Website Hosting and Management|£|-358.00| |Bursary (one term only)|£|-400.00| |Charitydonations, gifts and celebrations|£|-51.90| ## The Balance Sheet records: ## Debtors: |Inland Revenue - Gift Aid 2024-2025
Concert Venue deposit (2026-2027)|£ 2,413.13
£ 406.87| |---|---| ||£ 2,820.00| ## Creditors: |PRS Christmas 2024 (Charity concert)
PRS Spring concert 2025 (Art to Enchant)
Tour gifts repay|£ 22.25
£ 38.53
£ 26.00
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