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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date O S C fg From 01Day JulyMonth 2024Year To Day30 MonthJune Year2025
Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Charity name Scottish Chamber Choir SCIO Other names charity Is = Scottish Chamber Choir; SCC Registered charity number $C13058 Charity’s principal address 33/7 Oxford Street, Edinburgh Edinburgh
Postcode EH8 9PQ
Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report
Trustee SIGN Dates acted if Nameiot person name Office (if any) not for whole year (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Chair 2 Honorary Secretary 3 Honorary Treasurer 4 Committee Member 5 Librarian 8 Membership Secretary (joint) - Membership Secretary (joint) 8 Committee Member
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Reference and administration details
Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)
Name
Dates acted if not for whole year
Structure, governance and management
Type of governing document
The SCIO is an unincorporated association. The members of the SCIO are the members of the choir who pay the appropriate annual subscription. The SCIO is managed by a committee (The Trustees) consisting of various honorary office bearers and the Musical Director. The SCIO is affiliated
Trustee recruitment and appointment |= The Committee is elected from the Membership by the Members at the AGM, held in autumn each year.
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Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the financial period
Achievements
In addition to performing three highly successful concerts as described above, we are pleased to have been able to enhance our reserves with a surplus of £1,048.32. This will support our aspiration to mount a major performance of J S Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in December 2026. Further plans are already under discussion, taking us up to our 60" anniversary season in 2028-29.
Our AGM in October 2024 approved an updated constitution and unanimously appointed our current committee. Thanks are due to all members of the committee and above all to our music anecter | the time and energy they apply to ensuring the Choir continues to perform exciting and unusual repertoire to the highest possible standards.
Financial review
Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
The intent of our policy is to set a cash retention limit whereby the committee will not budget for an event, where an expected loss will reduce the choir’s cash position to less than 2 years’ potential losses, anticipating that each of 10 concerts over those 2 years loses £500.
Details of any deficit
This year recorded a £1,048.32 surplus which can largely be attributed to a couple of very successful concerts
Donated facilities and services (if any)
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Objectives and activities
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Charitable purposes The purposes of the SCIO are to promote, improve, develop and maintain appreciation of, and education in the art of music in all its aspects by the promotion of and participation in public and private performances and training, and without prejudice to the foregoing generality by the management of the choir known as “The Scottish Chamber Choir” and by such other means as the SCIO through its trustees may determine. Summary of the main activities The Scottish Chamber Choir exists in order to promote and share our passion in relation to these objects for singing. We seek to achieve this purpose by performing a wide repertoire of music, including under-represented composers, to a high standard in venues in Edinburgh and across Scotland. At the end of the 2024-25 season, we look back with a quiet sense of pride at what has been achieved, while simultaneously looking forward with determination to continue to raise our standards and push our musical boundaries outwards.
We performed three concerts during the season. In November 2024, an audience of over 140 delighted in our presentation of the Petite Messe Solennelle by Gioachino Rossini in the Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. In line withmost effectively)Rossini’s origingLiee.i companiment pianoannwas provided accordion.solely (and A notable feature of this concert was that all solo parts, some of which are rather demanding, were performed with great brio by members of the Choir. “Excellent concert. The final chorus and solo was exquisite. The choir's dynamic contrasts are excellent.” Our March 2025 concert in Stockbridge Parish Church took as its theme Re‘ johts” j ie primar Nordiceecomposers such highlight of this concert, however, was the Edinburgh premiere of The Lost Lichts, our second performance of this major work commissioned from respondedScottish composerwith immense and rome warmth lato haunting and audienceelegiac ofsetting 170 of post-First World War poems by women poets from North-East Scotland. “Fabulously skilled and engaged singing.” In keeping with our commitment to perform widely across Scotland, our final concert of the year brought a programme of ‘Summer Sun’ to Kelso Old Parish Church on 24" May 2025. A more select but equally enthusiastic audience greatly appreciated a programme that wove golden choral pieces such as Sheena Phillips’ Awrora Rutillat and our 2019 commission Summer Sun by Bound two major vais exquisite Seven Poems ofRobert Bridges and Palestrina’s Missa Brevis. Plans for the 2025-26 season are already well advanced, featuring ajoint performance with the Calton Consort and the Meadows Chamber Orchestra of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor in November, a Christmas concert in December, a programme built around Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb in March and (in June) performances of Rachmaninov’s Vespers in Edinburgh and Linlithgow.
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Other optional information
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) Position (e.g. Chair) Honorary Treasurer
Date 28th August 2025
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SCOTTISH CHAMBER CHOIR (SC013058)
Balance sheet as at 30th June 2025
| 2025 | 2024 | |
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| Profit & Loss Summary |
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| Bal b/f | £7,606.05 | £12,365.05 |
| Surplus / deficit for year | £1,048.32 | -£4,759.00 |
| Balance c/f | £8,654.37 | £7,606.05 |
| Representedby: | ||
| Current Account | £8,574.37 | £7,526.05 |
| Payments due to us | £0.00 | £0.00 |
| Petty Cash | £80.00 | £80.00 |
| Net Current Assets | £8,654.37 | £7,606.05 |
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Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
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Report to the | Charity name . .
trustees/members of Scottish Chamber Choir SCIO
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On the accountsnumberof the Period start date ; $C 13058 Period end date
charity forthe period = Oay =. Month = Year |. Day | Month; ___ Year
1 July 2024 to _ 30 June 2025 |
Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance
responsibilities Of with the terms of the Charities and Trustees Investment (Scotland ) Act 2005 and the
trustees and examiner Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. The charity trustees consider that the
audit requirements of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations do not apply. It is
my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) of the Act
and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities
examiner’s statement Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 .An examination includes a review of the
accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with
these records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the
accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees conceming any such matters. The
procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required for an
audit and consequently | do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.
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- Independent examiner's In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention statement 1. Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
-to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(!) (a) of the 2005 Act and regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounting Regulations and’
-to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounting Regulations
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SCOTTISH CHAMBER CHOIR (SC013058) Receipts and Payments
1st July 2024 to 30th June 2025
ist July 2023 to 30th June 2024
Notes
RECEIPTS
Subscriptions £7,368.50 Music Hire £147.19 Music Sales £80.61 Catering £115.00 Gift Aid £1,420.12 Concert Tickets/Programmes £5,666.00 eventsExtra fundraising £375.00 Donations £642.97 Commissions £1,152.00
RECEIPTS
Subscriptions £6,020.00 Music Hire £199.65 Music Sales Catering £25.00, Gift Aid £1,370.07 Concert Tickets/Programmes £5,149.50 1 Extra fundraising events 2 Donations 3 Commissions £4,957.00
™) Total Receipts £16,967.39 *
Total Receipts
£17,721.02
PAYMENTS
PAYMENTS
MD fees £7,270.00 MD fees £7,075.00 Concert Musicians £2,037.60 Concert Musicians £4,730.20 Commissions £1,169.10 4 Commissions £5,095.20 Scholars £0.00 Scholars £300.00 Music £802.67 5, Music £120.24 Rehearsal Venue hire £1,980.00 6 Rehearsal Venue hire £1,800.00 Concert venue hire £1,202.50 Concert venue hire £1,253.00 Zettle card reader fees £25.67 Travel £0.00 Travel £940.00 Printing £474.97 7 Printing £511.76 Making Music, insurance andF £538.40 Making Music, insurance anc £374.12 Miscellaneous £418.16 8 General Admin £280.50
Total Payments
Season balance
| £15,919.07
£1,048.32
Total Payments £22,480.02 Season balance _£4,759.00
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