
## **Financial Accounts** 

## **COMBER BRASS** 

1st January 2023 – 31st December 2023 

NIC No. 108370 Principal Address: Gospel Hall, 2A Cherryvalley Drive, Comber, Co. Down.  N. Ireland.  BT23 5BS 




## **COMBER BRASS - NIC 108370** 


Statement of Receipts & Payments for the year ending 31st December 2023 

|_Consolidated Accounts_<br>**Receipts**<br>Musical Services<br>CSB Membership Subscriptions<br>Youth Band Membership Subscriptions<br>Personal Donations<br>Grants / Funding Awards<br>Easy Fundraising<br>Corporate Donations<br>Gift Aid Receipts<br>Whit Fri Member receipts<br>Interest Received<br>**_Total Receipts_**<br>**Payments**<br>Instrument Purchases<br>Gifts / donations made<br>Conducting fees<br>Insurance<br>Contesting & Registration Fees<br>Miscellaneous<br>Instrument Maintenance<br>Office & Stationary<br>Rent<br>Sheet Music<br>Uniforms<br>Web Hosting / Muzodo<br>Bank/Finance Charges<br>Whit Friday Expenditure<br>**_Total Payments_**<br>**_Net Receipts/Payments_**||**2023**<br>£2,930<br>£3,450<br>£1,375<br>£1,326<br>£338<br>£224<br>£900<br>£1,162<br>£2,006<br>£84<br>**£13,795**<br>£1,405<br>£30<br>£2,770<br>£343<br>£409<br>£195<br>£563<br>£166<br>£1,214<br>£308<br>£225<br>£84<br>£32<br>£0<br>**£7,744**<br>**£6,051**||**2022**<br>£1,750<br>£2,535<br>£338<br>£2,222<br>£338<br>£181<br>£250<br>£0<br>£3,035<br>£0<br>**£10,649**<br>£2,485<br>£0<br>£3,060<br>£439<br>£298<br>£205<br>£51<br>£247<br>£830<br>£97<br>£0<br>£120<br>£10<br>£4,384<br>**£12,226**<br>**-£1,577**|
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## **COMBER BRASS - NIC 108370** 


Combined Account Reconcilliation for the year ending 31st December 2023 

|**Opening Balances**<br>Current A/C<br>Old Current A/C<br>Youth Band A/C<br>Reserve A/C<br>Special Fund A/C (Whit Friday 2024)<br>Cash & cheques on hand<br>**Total**<br>**Closing Balances**<br>Current A/C<br>Old Current A/C<br>Youth Band A/C (closed 14 Nov '23  )<br>Reserve A/C<br>Special Fund A/C (Whit Friday 2024)<br>Cash & cheques on hand<br>**Total**<br>**_Net Total balances_**<br>**_Net Receipts/Payments_**<br>**_Accounting variance_**|**2023**<br>£5,782<br>£887<br>£795<br>£100<br>£0<br>£0<br>**£7,563**<br>£4,975<br>£6<br>£0<br>£5,154<br>£3,479<br>£0<br>**£13,614**<br>**£6,051**<br>**£6,051**<br>**£0**|**2022**<br>£0<br>£9,140<br>£0<br>£0<br>£0<br>£0<br>**£9,140**|
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|||£5,782<br>£887<br>£795<br>£100<br>£0<br>£0<br>**£7,563**|
|||**-£1,577**|
|||**-£1,577**|
|||**£0**|






## **COMBER BRASS - NIC 108370** 


## Statement of Assets & Liabilities for the year ending 31st December 2023 

|**Bank & Cash Deposits**<br>Current A/C<br>Old Current A/C<br>Youth Band A/C (closed 14 Nov '23  )<br>Reserve A/C<br>Special Fund A/C (Whit Friday 2024)<br>**Total**<br>**Property**<br>Instrument inventory<br>Music library<br>Office equipment<br>Miscellaneous<br>**Total**<br>**Other Assets**<br>Cash & cheques on hand<br>Invoices outstanding<br>Awards/grants yet to be paid<br>**Total**<br>**Liabilities**<br>Invoices yet to be paid<br>Miscellaneous<br>**Total**|**2023**<br>£4,975<br>£6<br>£0<br>£5,154<br>£3,479<br>**£13,614**<br>£46,000<br>£5,100<br>£180<br>£600<br>**£51,880**<br>£0<br>£3,620<br>£10,000<br>**£13,620**<br>£0<br>£0<br>**£0**|**2022**<br>£5,782<br>£887<br>£795<br>£100<br>£0<br>**£7,563**<br>£50,000<br>£5,000<br>£200<br>£500<br>**£55,700**|**2022**<br>£5,782<br>£887<br>£795<br>£100<br>£0<br>**£7,563**|**2022**<br>£5,782<br>£887<br>£795<br>£100<br>£0<br>**£7,563**|
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|||||£0<br>£600<br>£338<br>**£938**<br>£151<br>£0<br>**£151**|



Approved by the trustees on 31st January 2024 and signed on their behalf. 

____________________________ Lawrence Baalham Chairperson 

_____________________________ Maurice Baalham Treasurer 




## **COMBER BRASS - NIC 108370** 


## **Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2023** 

- 1 All band funds are unrestricted, no endowment or restricted funds are held. 

- 2 The Youth Band A/C, Reserve A/C and Special A/C (Whit Fri 2024) are deposit only savings accounts. Some further rationalisation of accounts to be undertaken as part of the transition to online banking. 

- 3 Instrument Inventory and Music Library valuations are from full appraisals conducted in 2023 which update the qualified estimates shown in the 2022 accounts. 

- 4 Gift Aid receipts is a cumulative claim for the previous years 2019-2022. 

- 5 Outstanding invoices refer to musical services provided by the band over the Christmas period but which were not settled in this reporting period. 

- 6 The ACNI 'Musical Instruments for Bands' award of £10,000 was announced in Dec 2023 but was not received in this reporting period. 

