## **APPENDIX 1**
||Period start date|Period start date|Period start date||Period end date|Period end date|Period end date|
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|From|1|April|2025|To|31|March|2026|
Scottish Charity Regulator
Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator**
## **Reference and administration details**
**Charity name** Aberdeen Concert Band **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC036864 Charity’s principal address** 44 Westfield Park Stonehaven
**Postcode AB39 2EF**
## **Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report**
|Joanne Cranswick|Chair||Members at AGM|
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|Raymond Penny|Treasurer|||
|Sean Cooper|Secretary|||
|Michelle Wright||||
|Hannah Morrison||||
|Katherine Parker||||
|Karen Stewart||||
|Colin Hunter|Musical Director|||
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**APPENDIX 1**
## **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**|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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|**Structure, governance and management**|||
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|**Type of governing document**
**Trustee recruitment and appointment**|||
||Aberdeen Concert Band (The Association) is an unincorporated
association governed by its constitution||
||By nomination at AGM||
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|**Objectives and activities**|||
|**Charitable purposes**
**Summary of the main activities**
**in relation to these objects**|||
||The objective of the association as stated in the constitution is to advance
the education of the people of Aberdeen and surrounding areas by
promoting and encouraging their participation in music.||
||The band meets weekly during the school term to practice and play
together.
The band also provides tuition and coaching free to band members and at
a subsidised rate to non-members. (Non-members generally are working
up to the level where they can join the band for performance)||
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## **APPENDIX 1**
## **Achievements and performance**
|**Summary of the main achievements of**
**the charity during the financial period**|The past year has been a very busy one in terms of both preparing new
pieces to play and supporting new causes.
We continued to support various churches and sheltered housing
complexes by visiting them with both the entire band for carol concerts
and small ensembles for sheltered housing complexes.
We took part in the Scottish Concert Band Festival both at local level and
Nationally at the Concert Hall in Perth. The band achieved a Gold Level
Award at both events.
We also played in the Arts Centre in Aberdeen where we did a fundraising
concert in aid of their funds.
The Arts Centre had lost their local authority funding and needed
assistance to maintain their place in the community where they provide a
venue for many amateur dramatic, dance and musical groups to perform
and meet.
To mark our 25thyear we also commissioned a piece of music by Alan
Fernie called Granite|
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## **Financial review**
|**Brief statement of the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**
**Details of any deficit**
**Donated facilities and services (if any)**|The reserves are used for buying and maintaining musical instruments
which are the ownership of the association. The reserves are also used to
buy musical scores for the band to play in performance at charitable
events in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. These reserves are also used to
subsidise musical tuition|
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||This year the band had several large purchases and events which were
unusual and would be rarely repeated together.
Commission of piece of Music(Granite) by Allan Fernie to commemorate
our 25thyear. £1790
SCBF transport and entry £1130
Banners for Music Stands £1932
Music Scores £1200|
||See above|
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## **APPENDIX 1**
## **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)**
**_OSCR will accept_**
**_digital or typed_**
**_signatures_**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (e.g. Chair)**
**Date**|Joanne Cranswick|Raymond Penny|
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|||Raymond George Penny|
||Chair|Treasurer|
||1/4/2026|**1/4/2026**|
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