## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date
Period end date
Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 January 2022 **To** 31 December 2022
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Tredegar Town Band Society
**Other names charity is known by** Tredegar Band / Tredegar Town Band
**Registered charity number (if any)** 514731
**Charity's principal address** 8 Dolwyddelan Close
Grove Park, Blackwood Gwent **Postcode** NP12 1GG
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
David Alwyn Treasurer
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Powell
2 David Carey -
3 Iwan Fox President
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Trust Deed
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Society
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Election by members Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
Provide tuition, instruments and music for members totalling 35 people in the Gwent Valleys. Take part in concerts, competitions, local processions, carnivals and other fund raising activities in the local community and more widely.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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The band has continued to provide free musical tuition and instruments to its members during the year in an area that is one of the most deprived in Wales. It has been involved in numerous concert and fund raising activities on behalf of other charitable organisations – in particular the Velindre Cancer Centre.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The band recovered strongly post Covid 19 and the lockdown restrictions that hampered the operations of the band during 2020 and 2021. The band became Welsh Champions at the regional finals in Swansea in March 2022 and represented Wales at the European Championships in Birmingham in April 2022.
In the summer, the band become the first brass band to perform twice at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall – firstly with the National Orchestra of Wales in Gavin Higgins’ Concerto Grosso and also at our own ‘late night’ Prom.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
The band only has one unrestricted reserve for the activities of the charity
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
No deficit on reserves
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
## **Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** David Alwyn Powell
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc)**
**Date** 4 December 2023
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Tredegar Town Band Year ended 31 December 2022 Receipts and payments account**
|**Receipts**
Grants, donations and contributions
Contest prizes
Concerts and performances
Income from recordings and merchandise sale
Recoverable VAT
**Payments**
Musical director fees
Hotel, transport and travel costs (net of contributions)
Utilites and insurance
Other costs
**(Deficit)/Surplus of receipts over trading payments**
**Capital expenditure**
Instruments and uniforms
**Deficit for the year**
Opening cash
Deficit for the year
**Closing cash**|**2022**
**£**
52,627
4,376
22,042
561
0
**79,606**
28,800
40,009
6,215
13,789
**88,813**
**-9,207**
1,165
**10,372**
**-**
36,952
10,372
-
**26,580**|**2021**
**£**
34,669
2,036
5,220
1,800
2,412
**46,137**
21,000
12,791
2,385
7,273
**43,449**
**2,688**
2,875
**187**
**-**
37,139
187
-
**36,952**|
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All balances are attributable to unrestricted reserves
Signed on behalf of the Trustees on 4 December 2023
## **DA Powell**
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Tredegar Town Band Society **On accounts for the year** 31 December 2022 **Charity no** 514731 **ended (if any)**
**Set out on pages**
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**Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. **responsibilities of** The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year **trustees and examiner** under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
**Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** by the Charity Commission. 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 the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
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**March 2012**
**IER**
**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 Charities Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities 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.
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|JD Bound
**Date:**|4 December 2023|
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|**Section B Disclosure**|||
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
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**March 2012**
**IER**
**Give here brief details of** No matters to report **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**March 2012**
**IER**