## **Brecon Singers** ## **(registered number 519070)** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report** ## **for the year end 31st December 2025** ## **Registration** Brecon Singers was registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales registered charity number 519070 on 21st July 1987. Its address for correspondence is 20 Swan Bank, Hay-On-Wye, HR3 5DW. ## **Trustees** Overall direction of the Brecon Singers is by the trustees and details of the trustees who served during the year ended 31st December 2025 and were serving at the date of the trustees’ report are set out below: Rosalind Reed Trustee John Neville Trustee Penelope Ashby Trustee ## **Structure, Governance, and Management** Brecon Singers is governed by its Constitution adopted on 10th February 1987 and amended on 7th July 1987 and further amended on 17th May 2017. Brecon Singers is managed day-today by a committee of volunteers who are the Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Secretary, Publicity OfWicer, Patrons Secretary, and Librarian. The Musical Director (who is not a volunteer) is also a member of the committee. The committee meets regularly throughout the year, as required. The volunteers are all unpaid and receive no private beneWits from the Brecon Singers. The volunteers are selected on the basis of the skills, knowledge, and experience needed for the effective administration of the Brecon Singers. The committee is elected annually at the Annual General Meeting. ## **Objectives and Activities** The objects of the charity are to educate the public in the art and science of music, and in particular choral works, by the presentation of concerts and other activities. Membership of the Brecon Singers is open to anyone interested in furthering its objects. Brecon Singers is a community choir with a membership of around eighty singers, providing the community with an opportunity to sing together, and to learn about choral music. The choir gives a number of public concerts during the year. ## **Public BeneLit** Above and beyond its weekly rehearsals for the community, the choir gave two concerts, one in St Mary’s Church and one in the Cathedral in Brecon for the beneWit of the public, and also was the guest choir for the Brecon Choir Festival in July. ## **Volunteers** The trustees and management committee are all unpaid volunteers (with the exception of the Musical Director). A signiWicant proportion of the charity’s funding is also provided by Friends and Patrons and other fundraising activities by the volunteers. Brecon Singers is very grateful for the support and help of its volunteers, and also its Friends and Patrons, who enable the charity to organise its main activities and therefore meet its objectives. ## **Achievements and Performance** Major achievements for the year were extremely well-attended and critically acclaimed concerts on 12th April performing Bach’s St John Passion, on 17th July performing Mendelssohn’s Elijah as the guest choir for the Brecon Choir Festival, and on 6th December performing Britten’s Ceremony of Carols and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Brecon Singers has a scholarship programme, funding singing lessons for a young scholar throughout the year, and provided her with the opportunity to sing with the choir at rehearsals and to perform as a soloist in concerts. ## **Declaration** The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ Report above. Rosalind Reed John Neville Penelope Ashby **BRECON SINGERS** ## **INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] DECEMBER 2025** |**Income**
Members’ Subscriptions
Patrons’ Donations
Tax Recovered from Gift Aid
Concert Income
Music Sales
Fundraising

Bank Interest

TOTAL
|**Expenditure**
11,983.24
Rehearsal Costs & Rent
1,875.00
1,650.00
Conductor & Pianist
7,888.25
2,143.68
Concert Expenses
8,042.88
7,340.36
Music Expenses
1,784.55
1,715.50
Administration & Sundries
788.80
2,801.45
2,775.41


30,409.64
TOTAL
20,379.48
**Excess Income over Expenditure 10,030.16**| |---|---| ## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31[ST] DECEMBER 2025** |**Bank Accounts**
NatWest Main Account

NatWest 95 day

Redwood 2 year 4.85%
Redwood 1 year 4.5%

Redwood 1 year 4.1%

Cash

|13,827.52
10,742.60
30,000.00
10,000.00
10,000.00
200.00
Balance on 31/12/2024
ProZit for the year

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74,770.12
|64,739.96
10,030.16
.| |---|---|---| |||74,770.12| 14th January 2026 I have examined the Income and Expenditure account from the books and information given and I certify them to be in accordance therewith Charles Law, Independent Examiner ## Brecon Singers (Charity Number: 519070) Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees For the year ended 31 December 2025 | report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025. ## Responsibilities and basis of report As the trustees of the charity, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act), treportin respect of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## Independent examiners statement | have cornpleted my examination. | confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe in any material respect: 1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the 2011 Act; or 2. The accounts do not accord with those records; or 3. The accounts do not comply with the applicable form and content set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view ‘ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination, | 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. . Charles Law Independent Examiner Oaklands Glasbury Hereford HR3 SLH 15 January 2026