## BUTE ARTS SOCIETY 

## Registered Charity Number SCO20555 

Principal Address: Tarfside, Ascog, Isle of Bute PA20 9EU 

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period ist July 2024 to 30" June 2025 


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## Structure, Government and Management 

## The governing document is a Trust Deed 

Trustees are recruited and appointed by existing Trustees. 

## Objectives and Activities 

The Society exists to foster, promote and increase the interest of the public, adults students and school pupils in cultural and fine arts, and to do so through the promotion of live classical and traditional music concerts on the Isle of Bute. 

The Society promotes monthly concerts and occasional gala events to encourage artistes to perform for rural and island communities. This affords quality live music to island residents who would otherwise incur considerable travel and accommodation costs due to restricted ferry timetables. All concerts are free to students and schoolchildren. 

## Performance in the period under review 

The number and scale of concerts has been increased and audiences also have increased. In anticipation of the return of the piano loaned to the Society by the Rothesay Pavilion, a fundraising programme was initiated resulting in the delivery of a Yamaha concert grand piano in 

early July 2025, thanks to the outstanding generosity of many national charities, businesses and 

individuals who collectively donated the £35,000 required. 

## Reserves 

The Trustees operate on the basis of holding a bank balance adequate to support continued concerts should donor support be interrupted. 

The Society operated at a surplus during the period under review. 

The Trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above 

Signed on behalf of the Trustees: 

|BUTE ARTS SOCIETY|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Registered Charity No. $C020555|||||
|Income& Expenditure Account|||||
|Ast July2024<br>to 30th June2025|||||
|Income||||£|
|Ticket sales||||17,136|
|Season Tickets||||4,300|
|Grants|||||
|Chamber Music Scotland|||1500||
|For Bute|||5000||
|Bute Island Foods|||1000||
|Anonymous Donor|||1700||
|Pear Tree Fund|||4000||
|Syson Foundation|||4000||
|Piano Appeal|||9486||
|Argyll & Bute Council|||4000||
|Spill the Beans|||2000||
|Mann Foundation|||1750||
|Bute Jazz|||1000||
|Lord & LadyBonamy|||1000||
|Howat Trust|||1000||
|Stafford Trust|||3250||
|Hugh Fraser Foundation|||2000||
|The Foyle Foundation|||7500||
|||||50,186|
|Sponsorship|||||
|Donations|||||
|Friends of Bute Arts Society|||80||
|Patrons|||2240||
|Fyne Homes|||286||
|||||2,606|
|Programme Advertising||||550|
|||||74,778|
|Expenditure|||||
|Artists’ fees||||24,653|
|Travel & Accommodation||||3,232|
|Piano Tuning , move etc.||||1,016|
|Advertising||||1,806|
|Stationery, printing & postage||||2,885|
|Making Music membership fee/PRS||||1,585|
|Venue Hire||||2,373|
|Website costs||||732|
|Sundries||||705|
|Cost of supporters' reception||||29|
|Yamaha Piano purchase||||34,985|
|Cash retained for Box office cash fioat||||7S|
|||||74,306|
|Surplus/(Deficit)||||4n|
|Bank reserves at start of period||||27,696|
|Bank reserves atendofperiod||||28,168|
|Box Office Cash Float||||75|
|||||28,243|
|Deposit paid on HMS Pinafore 2025/26 f.y.||1062|||
|Printing paid 2024/25 iro2025/26||610|||
|A&BC grant forSummer Season concerts|25/26|2000|||
|Bute Jazz sonsorship of jazz weekend|25/26|1000|||
|Advance ticket sales - summer season|25/26|2300|||
|2025/26 patronage in advance||250|||
|2025/26 season tickets in advance||210|||
|||||7,432|
|Uncommittedreservesaretherefore||||20,811|



This excludes pledged donations not yet received. 

## Registered charity number SC 020555 

## Independent Examiner’s Report on the Accounts for the period 01.July 2024 to 30 June 2025 

## Respective Responsibilities of trustees and examiner 

The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1)(d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1)(c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. 

## Basis of independent examiner’s statement 

My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, | do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. 

## Independent examiner’s statement 

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention 

1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1)(a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and 

   - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations 

## Have not been met, or 

2. towhich, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached