## **Financial Accounts** 

## **COMBER BRASS** 

1st January 2025 – 31st December 2025 

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 2025 

|_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 Friday 2024 Member receipts<br>Interest Received|_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 Friday 2024 Member receipts<br>Interest Received|**2025**<br>£8,435<br>£3,516<br>£840<br>£8,023<br>£7,830<br>£104<br>£500<br>£1,621<br>£0<br>£205|**2024**<br>£5,835<br>£3,432<br>£780<br>£6,458<br>£10,000<br>£142<br>£0<br>£321<br>£3,304<br>£139|
|---|---|---|---|
||**_Total Receipts_**|**£31,074**|**£30,412**|
|**Payments**||||
|Instrument Purchases||£786|£15,704|
|Gifts / donations made||£612|£371|
|Whit Friday 2024 Expenditure||£0|£7,267|
|Whit Friday 2025 Expenditure||£0|£150|
|Hiring Charges||£345|£200|
|Conducting fees||£5,255|£3,660|
|Youth Workshop||£733|£0|
|Insurance||£507|£247|
|Contesting & Registration Fees||£495|£229|
|Miscellaneous||£0|£167|
|Instrument Maintenance||£0|£40|
|Office & Stationary||£5,177|£181|
|Rent||£1,200|£1,350|
|Sheet Music||£212|£927|
|Uniforms||£1,939|£476|
|Web Hosting / Muzodo||£132|£132|
|Bank/Finance Charges||£1|£1|
||**_Total Payments_**|**£17,393**|**£31,101**|



_**Net Receipts/Payments**_ 

**£13,681** 

**-£690** 

## **COMBER BRASS - NIC 108370** 

## Combined Account Reconcilliation for the year ending 31st December 2025 

|||**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Opening Balances**||||
|Current A/C||£2,197|£4,975|
|Old Current A/C||£6|£6|
|Reserve A/C||£10,278|£5,154|
|Special Fund A/C (Whit Friday 2026)||£443|£3,479|
|Cash & cheques on hand||£0|£0|
||**Total**|**£12,924**|**£13,614**|
|**Closing Balances**||||
|Current A/C||£4,544|£2,197|
|Old Current A/C||£6|£6|
|Reserve A/C||£18,208|£10,278|
|Special Fund A/C (Whit Friday 2026)||£3,848|£443|
|Cash & cheques on hand||£0|£0|
||**Total**|**£26,605**|**£12,924**|
|**_Net Total balances_**|**_Net Total balances_**|**£13,681**|**-£690**|
|**_Net Receipts/Payments_**||**£13,681**|**-£690**|
|**_Accounting variance_**|**_Accounting variance_**|**£0**|**£0**|



## **COMBER BRASS - NIC 108370** 

## Statement of Assets & Liabilities for the year ending 31st December 2025 

|||**2025**|**2024**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Bank & Cash Deposits**||||
|Current A/C||£4,544|£2,197|
|Old Current A/C||£6|£6|
|Reserve A/C||£18,208|£10,278|
|Special Fund A/C (Whit Friday Marches)||£3,848|£443|
||**Total**|**£26,605**|**£12,924**|
|**Property**||||
|Instrument inventory||£53,700|£56,000|
|Music library||£5,400|£5,300|
|Office equipment||£5,000|£150|
|Miscellaneous||£1,200|£1,350|
||**Total**|**£65,300**|**£62,800**|
|**Other Assets**||||
|Cash & cheques on hand||£0|£0|
|Invoices outstanding||£2,500|£5,000|
||**Total**|**£2,500**|**£5,000**|
|**Liabilities**||||
|Invoices yet to be paid||£0|£0|
||**Total**|**£0**|**£0**|



Approved Approved by the trustees on 5th January 2026 and signed on their behalf. by tne trustees on dtn sant -and signed on their behalf. 

____________________________ _____________________________ Lawrence Baalham Iavuranca Raalham ~ Maurice Baalham Maurice Baalham Chairperson Treasurer 

## **COMBER BRASS - NIC 108370** 

## **Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2025** 

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

- 2 The Reserve A/C and Special A/C are deposit only savings accounts. 

- 3 Gift Aid receipts is in respect of qualifying donations that were made in the year ending 31st December 2024. 

- 4 Receipts of Grants / Funding Awards amounts to 3 awards from the ACNI,  £2270 under their 'Small Capital Grant Programme', £2400 under their 'New Small Grants Programme'and  £3778 under their 'Travel Awards for Bands Programme' 

- 5 Expenditure on Office and Stationary includes 3 x iPpad Pro tablets funded by a personal donation, together with a laptop, audio and video recording equipment grant funded by ACNI. 

- 6 Uniform expenditure largely relates to new outdoor weatherproof branded jackets purchased for both senior and youth band members. 

- 7 The instrument inventory valuation is based on the current RRP of comparable instruments and a 'sum of years' depreciation calculation. 

- 8 Outstanding invoices refer to musical services provided by the band over the Christmas 2025 period but which were not settled in this reporting period.