## Annual Report October 2023- September 2024 OSCR Ref:- **SC051356** 1 ## **SUMMARY OF OUR THIRD YEAR** Our third year was about maintaining what we’d grown in our outstanding and unprecedented first year. Opening 7 brand new choirs in our first year meant it was hectic and busy. Our team had gone from 1 Choir Coach and 1 Accompanist, with a small team of helpers, to 3 Choir Coaches, 4 Accompanists, and 7 teams of volunteers. In our 3[rd] year, we concentrated on quality, making sure all choirs were running in a similar vein, and that the Singergie ethos of fun and inclusivity was prevalent in all we did. In our 3[rd] year we supported a number of other Community Groups in the areas where our choirs are, by performing at their events. These ranged in scale from small local village gala days, torchlight Christmas processions to larger events such as PRIDE, and WestFest at the Glasgow Bandstand. We decided that we would concentrate on supporting other charities and community groups, rather than do our own concerts and performances. This meant the other charities and community groups had larger footfall, raised more money, and raised awareness. This was also beneficial to our own members, many of whom have gone onto volunteer and take part in more community events. In early 2024, we put out a satisfaction survey to our members, and had almost 300 responses. 99.6% responded to say they loved attending their Singergie choir, and almost all reported improvements to their emotional, mental and/or physical health. We received many humbling comments where people reported that their lives had been changed. People reporting that they were able to reduce their dependence on medication and NHS services from being part of Singergie. This was for ailments such as depression, anxiety, asthma, COPD etc. 2 ## **STATISTICS** ~~—_—__~~ ## **What we’ve been doing (in numbers)** |Total Choir population:|1062| |---|---| |Total Choir Sessions:|336| |Songs learned:|40| |Youngest choir member:|12| |Oldest choir member:|92| |Audience figures:|20,000 (circa)| 3 ## **OUR MISSION AND VALUES** Our mission is to build a warm friendly and welcoming community, brought together in a free and fun environment through singing in a group. Singergie is strong on community building, giving people a sense of purpose, identify, belonging etc. We have a tea break at every choir, where we actively encourage members to mix and chat. We also regularly work with and support other community groups in our local areas and encourage our members to get involved with those too. In recognition that many of our members are struggling financially, we also provide all the lyrics as we appreciate not everyone has access to a computer and printer, and we wouldn’t want anyone to feel embarrassed by their circumstances. We also provide larger print lyrics for our visually impaired members, and ensure our venues are accessible. We are member led, we involve our members in the running of the choir in all aspects, including song choice, performance choices, fundraising groups, social activities etc. ## **CODE OF ETHICS AND CONDUCT** ## **We Aim** - To provide a safe physical and emotional environment during choir sessions. - To make each choir session a happy and enjoyable experience for everyone. - To be tolerant of differences. - To treat all others with kindness and respect. - To be considerate of the feelings of others. - To deal peacefully with any negative behaviour and disagreements. ## **We Ask that Members** - Fully participate and enjoy yourself. - Do your best to make each choir session enjoyable, for others and a good place to be. - Be kind, caring and tolerant of others. - Be respectful at all times and consider the feelings of others. - Take personal responsibility for your own belongings, actions and decisions on whether you are fit, able and well enough to attend a choir session. 4 ## **FINANCIAL STATEMENT** Analysis of Income for 2023 – 2024 (£) |Individual Donations|34,421.48| |---|---| |Company/Organisation donations|18,547.15| |Choir Fundraising|16,707.22| |Bank Interest|749.84| ||| |**Total Income**|**70,425.69**| Analysis of Expenses for 2023 – 2024 (£) |Analysis of Expenses for 2023 – 2024|(£)| |---|---| |**Expenditure**|| ||| |Coach Fees|16,469.00| |Musician Fees|27,991.61| |Venue Hire|8,283.00| |Catering/StationerySundries|2,132.57| |Insurance|543.00| |Marketing,Trainingand Events|9,174.50| |Badge Creation|49.53| |T Shirt Creation|7,232.00| |Travel Provision/Expenses|5,633.85| ||| |**Total Expenditure**|**77,509.14**| Funds as at 30[th] September 2024 - £18,123 5 **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Singergie** I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 30 September 2024 which are set out on page 5. ## **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 2006 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 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 [other than disclosed below*] to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. The matter that has come to my attention is that, in the course of my examination of the accounting records of the charity, it was noted that a number of receipts relating to the restricted funds of the charity were not provided for examination. I therefore could not match and check these transactions. The charity trustees are aware of the missing receipts and of the importance of maintaining full records of such transactions going forward. 6 ## **TRUSTEES** ## Trustees Chair and Founder: Treasurer: Secretary: Trustee: 7 Enter SC No. below APPENDIX 2 Enter charity name below ## **Singergie** ## **SC051356** |**Singergie**|**Singergie**|**Singergie**|**Singergie**| |---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||| |**For the period**
**from**|Period end date||| ||Day|Month|Year| ||30|September|**2024**| ## **Section A Statement of receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**
**current period**|**Total funds**
**current period**||**Total funds last**
**period**|**Total funds last**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||| |Donations|**34,421**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**34,421**|||**21,159**|| |Legacies|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Grants|**18,547**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**18,547**|||**21,270**|| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**16,707**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**16,707**|||**13,796**|| |Gross tradingreceipts|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Income from investments other than|||||||||||||| |land and buildings|**750**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**750**|**750**||**938**|**938**| |Rents from land & buildings|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Gross receipts from other charitable|||||||||||||| |activities|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_ 70,425**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**70,425**|||**57,163**|| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**|||||||||||||| |**investment sales**|||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Proceeds from sale of investments
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 70,425**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**70,425**
**57,163**
~~———=~~|||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities|**50**||||||||**50**|**50**||**3,306**|| |Gross trading payments|**-**||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Investment management costs|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Payments relating directly to charitable|Payments relating directly to charitable||||||||||||| |activities|**77,460**||||||||**77,460**|||**44,268**|| |Grants and donations|||||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Governance costs:|||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |Audit / independent examination|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Preparation of annual accounts|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Legal costs|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Other|Other**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**440**|**440**| ||||||||||**-**|**-**|||| |**_A3 Sub total_ **|**77,510**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**77,510**|||**48,014**|| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**|||||||||||||| |**investment movements**|||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**612**
Purchase of investments
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_A4 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**612**
**_Total payments_ 77,510**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**77,510**
**48,626**
~~———————~~|||||||||||||| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**7,085)**
**(**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,085)**
**(**
**-**
**-**
~~——~~||||||**-**
**-**
**-**||**(**
**(**|**7,085)**
**(**
**-**
**7,085)**
**(**||**8,537**
**-**
**8,537**|| APPENDIX 2 **Singergie** **SC051356** ## **Section B Statement of balances** |**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Investments**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**26,712**
**7,085)**
**(**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Cash and bank balances at start of year|||**-**|**-**||**26,712**|**18,175**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account|||**-**|**-**||**7,085)**
**(**|**8,537**| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**19,627**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**19,627**|**26,712**| |||-|
-|
-
**Fund to which**|
-
**asset belongs**||
-
**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|
-| |||||||||**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||None|||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Total**
**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**||**-**|
**-**| ||||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||None|||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Total**
**-**
**Fund to which liability relates**|**-**||
**-**|
**-**| ||||||||**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||None|||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Total**
**Fund to which liability relates**|||**-**|**-**| ||||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||None|||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Signature**|||**Total**
**Print Name**|||**-**|
**-**| |||||||||**Date of**
**approval**| / Statement of balances 2 December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **Singergie** **SC051356** ## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** **C1 Nature and purpose of funds** _(may be stated on analysis of funds worksheets)_ Singergie only has one general fund that supports the provision of all choir services. The grants paid to us thus far are in place to support Singergie as a whole group ## **C2 Grants** ## **C3a Trustee remuneration** |Turcan - Sir Hugh Fraser Foundation
National LotteryGrant
Link HousingGroup
Local GivingLtd
**Type of activity or project supported**
West Lothian Counci
Accounts Payable - Coop
- Christmas Celidh
WATIF Donation
Kingdom HousingGroup|**Individual /**
**institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**
**Institution**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**| |---|---|---|---| |||**2**|**200**| |||**1**|**1,044**| |||**1**|**500**| |||**1**|**1,680**| |||**1**|**423**| |||**1**|**500**| |||**1**|**4,000**| |||**1**|**10,000**| |||**1**|**200**| ||||| |||**Total**|**18,547**
| ||||| |If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to
a trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)|||**X**| |**Authority under which paid**|||**£**| ## **C3b Trustee remuneration - details** ## **C4a Trustee expenses** If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross this box (otherwise complete section 4b) ## **C4b Trustee expenses - details** ## **C5 Transactions with trustees and connected persons** |||| |---|---|---| ||Mileage to other choirs Q1 Q2|| ||Mileage to other choirs Q3|| ||Mileage to other choirs Q4|| |||| |||| |**Nature of relationship**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| / Notes 3 December 2007 **C6 Other information** APPENDIX 2 / Notes December 2007 4 APPENDIX 2 **Singergie** **SC051356** ## **Additional analysis (1)** ## **Analysis of receipts and payments** ## **1 Donations** |**1 Donations**||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |Choir Donations|**31,094**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**31,094**|**18,687**| |Other Donations|**3,327**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**3,327**|**2,472**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Total**|**34,421**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**34,421**|**21,159**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ## **2 Grants** |**2 Grants**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**||**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |West Lothian Counci|**200**|**-**||**200**|**150**| |Accounts Payable - Coop|**1,044**|||**1,044**|**-**| |Local Giving Ltd|**500**|**-**||**500**|**-**| |WATIF Donation|**1,680**|||**1,680**|**3,220**| |- Christmas Celidh|**423**|||**423**|**-**| |Kingdom Housing Group|**500**|||**500**|**-**| |Turcan - Sir Hugh Fraser Foundation|**4,000**|||**4,000**|**-**| |National Lottery Grant|**10,000**|||**10,000**|**10,000**| |Link Housing Group|**200**|||**200**|**400**| |Voluntary Sector Gateway West Lothian|**0**||||**5,000**| |Universty of Edinburgh|**0**||||**500**| |Schuh Trust|**0**||||**2,000**| |**Total**|**18,547**|**-**||**18,547**|**21,270**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ## **3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| |**Total**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||-|-|-|-|-|-| ## **4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Coach/Musician Fees|**44,460**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**44,460**|**27,333**| |Venue Hire|**8,283**||||**8,283**|**6,369**| |Catering/StationerySundries|**11,850**||||**11,850**|**684**| |T shirt supply|**7,232**||||**7,232**|**8,163**| |Travel Expenses|**3,324**||||**3,324**|**480**| |Badge Creation|||||**-**|**69**| |Trustee Expenses|**2,311**||||**2,311**|**1,170**| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| ||||||**-**|| |**Total**|**77,460**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**77,460**|**44,268**| ||-|-|-|-|-|-| Additional notes (1) December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **SC051356** ## **Singergie** ## **Additional analysis (2)** ## **5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds** |**5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 1 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**
**General Fund**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 2 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 3 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 4 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds last**
**period**| |Donations|**34,421**|||||**34,421**|**21,159**| |Legacies|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Grants|**18,547**|||||**18,547**|**21,270**| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**16,707**|||||**16,707**|**13,760**| |Gross tradingreceipts|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Income from investments other than land and buildings|**750**|||||**750**|**938**| |Rents from land & buildings|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Gross receipts from other charitable activities|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**
**Receipts from asset & investment sales**|**70,425**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**70,425**|**57,127**| |||||||-|| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets|**-**|||||**-**|| |Proceeds from sale of investments|**-**|||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**70,425**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**70,425**|**57,127**| |||||||-|| |**Payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Expenses for fundraisingactivities|**50**|||||**50**|**3,306**| |Gross trading payments|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Investment management costs|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Payments relatingdirectlyto charitable activities|**77,460**|||||**77,460**|**44,268**| |Grants and donations|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Governance costs:||||||**-**|**-**| |Audit / independent examination|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Preparation of annual accounts|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |Legal costs|**-**|||||**-**|**-**| |||||||**-**|**440**| |||||||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**
**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**|**77,510**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**77,510**|**48,014**| |||||||-|| |Purchases of fixed assets||||||**-**|**612**| |Purchase of investments||||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**612**| |||||||-|| ||**77,510**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**77,510**|**48,626**| |||||||-|| ||**7,085)**
**(**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**7,085)**
**(**|**8,501**| ||||||||| |||||||**-**|| ||||||||| ||**7,085)**
**(**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**7,085)**
**(**|**8,501**| |||||||-|| **Nature and purpose of funds** Additional notes (2) December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **SC051356** ## **Singergie** ## **Additional analysis (3)** ## **6 Breakdown of restricted funds** |**6 Breakdown of restricted funds**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts**|**Restricted fund**
**1 - enter name of**
**fund below**||**Restricted fund**
**2 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Restricted fund**
**3 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Restricted fund**
**4 - enter name of**
**fund below**|**Total restricted**
**funds**||**Total restricted**
**funds last**
**period**| |Donations
Legacies
Grants
Receipts from fundraisingactivities
Gross tradingreceipts
Income from investments other than land and buildings
Rents from land & buildings
Gross receipts from other charitable activities|**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**Receipts from asset & investment sales**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments|**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| |**Payments**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Expenses for fundraising activities
Gross tradingpayments
Investment management costs
Payments relating directly to charitable activities
Grants and donations
Governance costs:
Audit / independent examination
Preparation of annual accounts
Legal costs|**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| |Purchases of fixed assets
Purchase of investments|**-**|||||**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||-||| ## **Nature and purpose of funds** No restricted funds are in place Additional notes (3) December 2007