QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
12021516 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 August 2023

End date: 31 July 2024

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

Directors report
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Directors' report period ended 31 July 2024

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 July 2024

Principal activities of the company

The company's principal activity during the period was running and promoting a community choir in Lewisham, London.



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 August 2023 to 31 July 2024

Jacob Shirley
Priya Bose
Sarah Kersey


The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006

This report was approved by the board of directors on
11 March 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jacob Shirley
Status: Director

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

2024 2023


£

£
Turnover: 6,541 6,155
Gross profit(or loss): 6,541 6,155
Administrative expenses: ( 6,286 ) ( 6,150 )
Operating profit(or loss): 255 5
Profit(or loss) before tax: 255 5
Tax: ( 32 ) ( 1 )
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 223 4

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Balance sheet

As at 31 July 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 4,390 835
Total current assets: 4,390 835
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 3,360 ) ( 60 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 1,030 775
Total assets less current liabilities: 1,030 775
Total net assets (liabilities): 1,030 775
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 1,030 775
Total members' funds: 1,030 775

The notes form part of these financial statements

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 July 2024 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 11 March 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Jacob Shirley
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 2 3

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Trade creditors 3,360
Taxation and social security 60
Total 3,360 60

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

QUAGGY COMMUNITY CHOIR CIC

Company Number: 12021516 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 July 2024

Company activities and impact

Quaggy Community Choir was founded in 2017 to improve the musical literacy and skills, as well as the health and wellbeing of local people through active participation in communal singing. Our founding principles and core aims remain central to our activities. Over the past financial year, we have welcomed a number of new singers to our choir from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and nationalities. We were proud to support two of our singers through pregnancy and welcomed both their newborn babies to the choir, ensuring the sessions was welcoming and comfortable to enable the new mothers to feed and change their babies. Continuing to sing with the choir provided routine, support and all the positive benefits of singing during the challenges of the perinatal period. In April 2024, we sadly lost a well loved singer. This was the first loss for our choir. A small group of singers attended and sung at the funeral and were very proud to do this. We took the decision to increase our suggested rates and thanks to the continued generosity of our singers, contributions have remained stable despite the ongoing effects of the ongoing Cost of Living crises which has hit people hard in our region of South East London. In November 2023, we were approved to join the Lewisham Community Lottery. Lewisham Community Lottery is a weekly lottery that raises money for good causes in Lewisham. 60% of ticket sales go to good causes - 50% to us and 10% to a central fund. Funds are sent directly to the choir every month and this has provided the choir with a small regular income. We have been proud to take part in a number of events, many of which supported local good causes. Our events programme has been broader, offering singers a wider range of performance opportunities. In December 2023, we took part in Sing Out for Christmas - a collaboration with our friends in the Lewisham Sing Out Choirs. This concert was in aid Mottingham Foodbank. We also took part in Lewisham Winter Market - a paid event which brought in some income for the choir - and ended the year with a busk at London Charing Cross Underground Station as part of Choirs for Change, an initiative raising funds from Health Poverty Action. This final event of the year was in collaboration with KT6 Vocal Group. On Make Music Day 2024 (21st June), we busked at London Waterloo Station in collaboration with KT6 Vocal Group. The busk was in aid of St Christopher’s Hospice and we raised £225.53 for the hospice in total. On 7th July 2024, we took part in a free wine and cheese concert at St. Mary the Virgin, Lewisham, a local church at the heart of the community. This was a collaboration with the Lewisham Sing Out Choirs, with funds raised going towards the restoration of the church - a site of local historic interest.

Consultation with stakeholders

We carried out a survey in December 2023 which requested feedback on the past year. We received 25 responses. 96% rated the quality of Jake’s sessions as very high with the remaining 4% rating the sessions highly. We received some fantastic feedback on how singing had impacted singers’ mental health: “Being part of the choir has improved my wellbeing as I love being with people and like making new friends. I get a sense of achievement from mastering the songs, and doing that with others.” “I love being part of the choir and regularly tell my friends that joining has been my best decision I've made this year. It has a positive impact on my mental health and I always come away from rehearsals feeling better, no matter how I enter. It's fun, gives me a sense of community, and adds routine to my week. I always look forward to it.”

Directors' remuneration

The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £4800. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
24 February 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Priya Bose
Status: Director