**Page 1** ## **Camerata Ireland** ## **Company Limited by Guarantee** ## **Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report)** ## **Year ended 31 March 2023** The trustees, who are also the directors for the purposes of company law, present their report and the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2023. ## **Reference and administrative details** **Registered charity name** Camerata Ireland **Charity registration number** NIC106890 **Company registration number** NI035573 **Principal office and registered** The Courtyard **office** Clandeboye Estate Bangor County Down BT19 1RN **The trustees** Mr M G D'Arcy Ms R M O'Mahony Ms N A Wright Mr Roger Alan Pollen Mr Simon Taylor Mr Kieran Tobin Ms J Hastings (Appointed 1 August 2022) **Company secretary** Mr B Douglas **Independent examiner** Elaine Mulholland on behalf of Johnston Graham Limited 216/218 Holywood Road Belfast BT4 1PD ## **Structure, governance and management** ## **Governing Document** The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006. The charity was registered with the Charities Commission NI on 15 December 2017. ## **Risk Management** The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. **Page 2** ## **Camerata Ireland** ## **Company Limited by Guarantee** ## **Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report)** _**(continued)**_ ## **Year ended 31 March 2023** ## **Objectives and activities** The company's objectives have been set out below. ## **Musicians** - Pro-actively research and seek out the best Irish musicians, from north and south, both emerging from conservatories and colleges in Ireland and overseas and those already established, to play in the orchestra. - Ensure that the best of players are motivated and facilitated to perform with Camerata Ireland, without diminishing their other freelance opportunities. - Ensure that all Irish players, at home or abroad, are aware of Camerata Ireland and the opportunities to play with it as a vehicle for professional development. - Create opportunities for Irish and international soloists and conductors to perform with Camerata Ireland. ## **Education and outreach** - Discover and encourage the young musician at an advanced stage in their musical development or starting their professional music career, by offering performance and mentoring opportunities. This would be through masterclasses at the Clandeboye Festival in Co Down every August, but also by inviting young musicians on tour with Camerata Ireland where they can perform alongside our established musicians as members of the orchestra or as soloists. ## **Mission statement** - Camerata Ireland, a world-class chamber orchestra from the island, north and south, expresses the vitality and excellence of Irish musicianship by performing, at home and abroad, under the artistic leadership of international pianist Barry Douglas. In setting objectives and planning activities for the year, the Trustees continue to give careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland's guidance on public benefit to ensure that the activities have helped to achieve the charity's purposes and provide a benefit to the beneficiaries. Page 3 Camerata Ireland Company Limited by Guarantee Trustses. Annual Report Ilncorporating the Directorfs Report) (eonlthv Year ended 31 March 2023 Achievements and performance The impact of Covid-19 continued to be felt this season particulaty with respect to the orchestra's intemational touring programme, wh￿h has nol yet restarted fijlty. Nonetheless. a number of p￿StigIOuS events and concerts tc¥Jk plxe in 2022-23, many of them postponed from prevM?us years. The 2022-23 season opened with a 'mini tourf in May and June 2022, starting wrth a concert In the National Concert Hall, Dublin, where the orchestra is an asscKiate ensemble. This collaboration provides an important opportunity to showcase the orchestra in the Republic of Ireland. This concert was followed by pwiously postponed concerts taking place in Teatro Principal. Vrtoria. Spain and Unwersity Concert Hall. Limerick. The Limerick performance was later broadcast on Lyr￿ FM. The 2022 Clandetwe Festival took pl￿ in August as a fulty INe event for the first time since 2019, with 13 concerts taking place over 8 days, featuring international guest soloists as well as musicians from Northem Ireland and the RepublK of Ireland. The Festwal was a great success but saw reduced audience numbers compared to 2019. Due to uncertainty in the preceding months. the decision was taken not to run the Camerats. Ireland Academy as part of the FeslNal. However, a number of students who had taken part in the online masterclasses in 2021 were invtted to perfomi. The Academy continues to be part of Camerala Ireland's core actrvty, wrth many participants going on to perform with the orchestra and as soloists dunng the Clandeboye Festival. For the first time. the orchestra concert was recorded by Classic FM and broadcast in September 2022 as part of the radio station's 30th anniversary ¢elebrations. The orchestra's pLgnned US Tour. wh￿h wa$ originalty due to take place in 2022 and then postponed to 2023. wll now lake place in 2024_ This tour will mark the beginning of the orchestra's 25th annwersary in 2024. Financial revlew Camerata Ireland sh¢)wed a dthit for the year of £17.654. resultin9 in a net deficit posrtion of £5.554. The Director$ acknowledge that the deficrt was due to the sudden rising costs of accomm(MJation in May 2022, and reduced sponsorship income due to the curtailment ol the orchestra's intemational touring programme. The Directors are confident that this is a temporary srtuation, and that there is a strategy in place for deficit reduction in 2023-24. Small company provisions This report has been prepared in accordance wrth the provIs￿n$ apPlUb￿ to companies entitled to the small Companies exemption. The trustees, annual report was approved on 30 November 2023 and sign&J on behalf of the toard of trustees by.. Mr Kieran Tobin Trustee