THE NIGHT WITH…
TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
for the year ended
31 March 2025
Charity No: SC048739
Scottish Charitable Incorporated Association. Company No: CS003646
THE NIGHT WITH …
TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For the Year ended 31 March 2025
| Contents | Page |
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| Trustees' Annual Report | 1 |
| Independent Examiner's report | 6 |
| Receipts and Payments Account | 7 |
| Statement of Balances | 8 |
| Notes to the Accounts | 9 |
THE NIGHT WITH… Trustees’ Annual Report For the Year ended 31 March 2025
Page 1.
Introduction
The Trustees present their annual report with the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Reference and Administrative Information
Charity Name:
The Night With … (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Charity Registration Number: SC048739 Company Registration Number: CS003646 (SCIO)
Principal Address
1 Westview Terrace Dunlop, KA3 4AJ
Trustees
Independent Examiner
Hollis Accounting Limited 3 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh, EH3 7HW
THE NIGHT WITH… Trustees’ Annual Report For the Year ended 31 March 2025
Page 2.
Structure, Governance and Management
Governing Document
The charity was formed by constitution to be a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) on 3 October 2018. It is registered in Scotland with OSCR the Scottish Charity Regulator.
Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees
The Trustees during the period and those appointed before the signing date are listed above. Trustees are appointed by the existing trustees, and there are a maximum of 8 and a minimum of 4 trustees. The board consists of
in his role as CEO & Artistic Director. joined the board in April. The Trustees are the members of the charity.
Trustees are recruited through advertisement in various sources, the programme brochures, social media, and the charity’s own networks in order to produce a Board with a variety of skills and expertise, as well as experience of the sector.
Objectives and Activities
The primary objective of The Night With … is to advance performing arts and culture, primarily classical music and sonic art through:
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Increasing public exposure to and appreciation of classical music and sonic art;
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reaching out to new audiences;
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National and international touring;
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Developing national and international collaborations and platforms for international working; and
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encouraging high standards
THE NIGHT WITH... Trustees, Annual Report For the Year ended 31 March 2025 Page 3. Achievements and Performance At our last AGM, our main activity for 2024 was to release three albums, and return to ourtouring model for the 2024/25 season. We were also awaiting news on fundraising for the season and whether we were through to the second stage of Creative Scotland's Multi-year Funding programme. Fundraising. 2024/25 season and albums We are delighted to share that on the 30th January we found out we were successful with our Multi-year Funding bid from Creative Scotland. They have awarded us £101,146 for the first year, starting April 2025, and indicative amounts of £132,268 in years two and three. This is a massive achievement and allows us to make longer term collaborative plans with other organisations. In other fundraising news we have successfully raised what we needed for the 2024/25 season. We have so far programmed three programmes from the 2024125, the Ensemble Écoute concert, as part of the season due to delayed responses to funding applications. This was a collaborative programme with the ensemble that involved them hosting a composer residency in Paris and a tour in Ireland which was followed in November by a Scottish tour hosted by us. This had a total of 105 audience members attending in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. The Hathor Consort were in February with the premiere of Monody from Soosan Lolavar which we commissioned alongside music by and . We had a total of 190 people at these concerts. Finally we are part way through the Rookh Quartet tour, based around Alisson Kruusmaa's Three Night Songs which we commissioned for the festival in 2023. We have presented one concert in Edinburgh with 66 people attending. Aberdeen and Glasgow still to take place in April. The rest of the season will include, Stockholm Chamber Brass preforming newworks b in October and a trio of performing a new piece by in September along with a composer selected from our call for scores. All these concerts will be toured in our usual fashion. In 2024 we released Voices of Venus with Juice Vocal Ensemble recorded during the 2022 season and The Night With... Live Vol 4, recorded during the festival. On 16th May we will be releasing solo album Mue which will be toured Glasgow. Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin and Merthyr Tydfil thanks to a PRSF Beyond Borders grant.
THE NIGHT WITH… Trustees’ Annual Report For the Year ended 31 March 2025
Page 4.
Financial Review
The surplus for the period amounted to £65,404 (2024: deficit of £22,348) from income totalling £133,787 (2024: £93,825) and expenditure of £68,383 (2024: £116,173). The total funds held at the bank as at 31 March 2025 amounted to £69,749. (2024: £4,345).
Taxation
The SCIO is recognised as a charity by HM Revenue and Customs as a charity for tax purposes.
Risk Management
The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, and believe they have systems in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks.
Reserves Policy and Going Concern
As our work is funded on a break-even project by project basis each year, The Night With… does not yet have a formal reserves policy. This will be reviewed at our next AGM in light of unrestricted donations to our new friends scheme, income from recordings, Easyfundraising donations and income from tax relief. We have secured enough funds to cover our core operating costs and as such the board is confident The Night With… is a going concern.
Plans for the future
Along with the future activity mentioned above we are also part of PRSF’s New Music Biennial, commissioning Stef Conner to write for Ensemble 1604 for concerts in Bradford in June and the Southbank Centre in July.
Thanks to the MYF we are intending to release four more albums in this financial year and programme the 2025/26 season which will be a similar format to previous seasons – five programmes toured. However, this is at the very early stages of planning.
The Night With… is in the strongest and most stable position it has ever been in with multiple high-profile concerts on the horizon and being part of the Multi-Year portfolio. We are looking forward to a positive and successful 2025.
THE NIGHT WITH… Trustees’ Annual Report For the Year ended 31 March 2025
Page 5.
Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities
The charity trustees are responsible for preparing a Trustees' Annual Report and the Accounts in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in Scotland requires the charity trustees to prepare accounts for each financial year which show a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, of the charity for that period. In preparing the accounts, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the method and principles in the applicable Charities SORP;
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make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the accounts;
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operational existence.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). They are also responsible for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Date: 05/09/2025
Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The Night With…
Page 6.
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025, set out on pages 7 to 11.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity’s Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).
The charity 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 Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). 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 I 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
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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 (as amended), and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations (as amended)
have not been met, or
- to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Hollis Accounting Limited
Address 3 Melville Crescent Edinburgh
EH3 7HW
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THE NIGHT WITH ... Statement of Receipts and Payments for the year ended 31 March 2025
| Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total Note 2025 2025 2025 £ £ £ Receipts Donations including gift aid 1,518 2,931 4,449 Grants & Sponsorship 2 4,000 115,505 119,505 Gross trading activities 2,973 - 2,973 Interest received 2 2 Orchestra tax relief received 6,858 6,858 Total Income 15,351 118,436 133,787 Payments Gross trading payments 2,935 4,698 7,633 Charitable activities 3 5,476 55,274 60,750 Total Expenditure 8,411 59,972 68,383 Net income/(expenditure) 6,940 58,464 65,404 Transfers between funds 4 - - - Surplus/(deficit) for the year 6,940 58,464 65,404 |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total 2024 2024 2024 £ £ £ 1,411 - 1,411 900 86,562 87,462 4,952 - 4,952 - - |
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| 7,263 86,562 93,825 |
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| 4,633 5,596 10,229 4,317 101,627 105,944 |
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| 8,950 107,223 116,173 |
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| (1,687) (20,661) (22,348) |
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| (5,111) 5,111 - |
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| (6,798) (15,550) (22,348) |
Page 8.
THE NIGHT WITH ... Statement of Balances As at 31 March 2025
| THE NIGHT WITH ... Statement of Balances As at 31 March 2025 |
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| Note Bank and cash in hand Opening balances (Deficit)/Surplis for the period Closing bank & cash Other Assets Grants owed Total other assets Liabilities Creditors Accruals Total liabilities |
Unrestricted Funds 2025 £ 4,345 6,940 |
Restricted Funds 2025 £ - 58,464 |
Total Funds 2025 £ 4,345 65,404 69,749 - - 12,919 1,500 14,419 |
Unrestricted Funds 2024 £ 11,143 (6,798) |
Restricted Funds 2024 £ 15,550 (15,550) |
Total Funds 2024 £ 26,693 (22,348) |
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| 11,285 | 58,464 | 4,345 | - | 4,345 | |||||
| - | - | - - |
23,358 23,358 |
23,358 | |||||
| - | - |
23,358 | |||||||
| 11386 1,500 |
1,533 - |
738 1,500 |
9,180 - |
9,918 1,500 |
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| 12,886 | 1,533 | 2,238 | 9,180 | 11,418 |
The accounts were approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf by:
05/09/2025
Chair of the Trustees
The notes on pages 9 to 11 form part of these accounts.
THE NIGHT WITH ... Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 Page 9. l. Accounting Policies Basis of preparation These accounts have been prepared on the Receipts and Payments basis in accordance with the Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). Nature and purpose of funds Unrestricted funds are those that may be used at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objects of the charity. The trustees maintain a single unrestricted fund for the day-to-day running of the club. Restricted funds may only be used for specific purposes. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for specific purposes. Related party transartions Trustees Remunerotion.. The Trustees are considered to be the key management personnel. The CEO & Artisitc Director is also a Trustee, as set out in the constiution, and is remunerated for his services in the role as CEO and Artistic Director. During the year he received reimbursed expenses totalling £nil (2024: £nil}, contractual payments for services totalling £21,790 (2024: £15,280}, and commission fees of £2,000 {2024: £4,000) was paid £1,160 (2024: £3,844) for marketing & PR consultancy and related travel. No other Trustees received any remuneration or reimbursement of expenses (2024: nonel. There were £nil donations to the charity by Trustees in the year (2024: £2.000).
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THE NIGHT WITH ...
Notes to the Accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
| 2. Grant and sponsorship Unrestricted Restricted income Funds Funds Total 2025 2025 2025 £ £ £ Arts Council of Northern Ireland - - Creative Scotland - 70,282 70,282 Fenton Arts Trust Grant - - - Hugh Fraser Foundation - 4,000 4,000 RVW Trust Grant - 1,000 1,000 The Hinrichsen Foundation - 500 500 William Syson foundation 4,000 - 4,000 PRS Foundations - 19,626 19,626 Nimar Charitable Trust - 5,000 5,000 Foundation Scotland - 2,500 2,500 Hope Scott Trust - 2,000 2,000 The Foyle Foundation - 5,000 5,000 Other Grants 5,597 5,597 RCS fee donated - - - Sponsorship - - - 4,000 115,505 119,505 3. Expenditure on Charitable UnrestrictedRestricted Activities Funds Funds Total 2025 2025 2025 £ £ £ Producer fees 3,000 18,200 21,200 Performer & commission fees 350 4,423 4,773 Marketing, advertising & design 1,005 3,559 4,564 Printing, post & stationery 6 7 13 Venue hire 300 2,550 2,850 Travel costs 145 5,713 5,858 Accommodation 69 432 501 Equipment hire & purchase 100 887 987 Miscellaneous costs 33 481 514 Bookkeeping - 3,120 3,120 Other concert production - 13,656 13,656 Other festival costs 87 106 193 Insurance - 640 640 Production costs 381 - 381 Independent Examiner's fee - 1,500 1,500 Total Expenditure 5,476 55,274 60,750 |
Unrestricted Restricted Funds Funds Total 2024 2024 2024 £ £ £ - - - - 61,312 61,312 - 3,000 3,000 - 4,000 4,000 - 1,000 1,000 - 3,000 3,000 - 2,250 2,250 - 5,000 5,000 - 5,000 5,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,000 2,000 900 - 900 |
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| 900 86,562 87,462 |
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| UnrestrictedRestricted Funds Funds Total 2024 2024 2024 £ £ £ - 17,155 17,155 - 47,647 47,647 1,212 8,591 9,803 9 173 182 - 7,050 7,050 487 6,862 7,349 - 3,236 3,236 - 3,471 3,471 24 214 238 - 1,965 1,965 - 2,551 2,551 - 1,083 1,083 - 1,316 1,316 611 313 924 1,974 - 1,974 |
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| 4,317 101,627 105,944 |
Income and expenditure are accounted for on a cash basis.
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THE NIGHT WITH ...
Notes to the Accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
| THE NIGHT WITH ... Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 |
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| 4. Movements in Funds 2024/25 Restricted funds Albums and CDs PRS New Music fund 2024 Main season/Festival 2023 Main Season/Festival Unrestricted funds General Fund Total funds 2024/25 |
At 1 Apr. 2024 £ Income £ - 2,931 - 15,600 - 81,547 - 18,358 - 118,436 4,345 15,351 4,345 15,351 4,345 133,787 |
Expenditure £ Transfers £ At 31 Mar. 2025 £ (601) - 2,330 (3,563) - 12,037 (38,193) 743 44,097 (17,615) (743) - |
| (59,972) - 58,464 |
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| (8,411) - 11,285 |
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| (8,411) - 11,285 |
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| (68,383) - 69,749 |
Purposes of Restricted Funds
2023 Festival: Represents funds received from Creative Scotland and other charitable trusts towards the running of the 2023 main season/Festival.
2024 Festival: Represents funds received from Creative Scotland and other charitable trusts towards the running of the 2024 main season/Festival.
Albums and CDs: Funds received from Creative Scotland and crowdfunding towards the release of recordings of performances.
PRS New music fund: Funds received from the PRS foundation towards the production of new music.
Transfers are in line with funding agreements and by decision of the Trustees.
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