colston hall annual review 2012/2013
Annual Review 2013/2014
Emeli SandĂŠ
Bristol Music Trust Annual Review 2013/2014
“We have been delighted to sponsor Colston Hall over the past couple of years. The depth and breadth of talent they bring to Bristol is second to none. From top-flight comedy to deeply moving classical renditions, there is something for everyone to enjoy” Brewin Dolphin
In reflection 2013-14 has been our third year as an independent charitable trust, a year in which we have built on previous success and set ambitious goals for the future. In September 2013 the formerly council run Bristol Arts and Music Service came under the Trust’s management, providing the framework for a strong and coherent portfolio of learning and participation opportunities when combined with the acclaimed projects run from Colston Hall. This now united community of performing and teaching musicians will be able to make a real difference to the musical profile of our city. The programme at Colston Hall has also continued to develop as financial and marketing success have enabled more experimentation and allowed us to collaborate more confidently with local and national organisations. I was particularly proud of Bristol New Music, a weekend of cutting-edge events across the city, in concert halls, art galleries and on ferries, designed to appeal to intellectually curious visual arts attenders. This project was led by Bristol Music Trust and involved St George’s Bristol, Arnolfini, Spike Island and University of Bristol, and was curated by Out of the Machine, the team behind
the acclaimed Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Close working with St George’s Bristol is particularly important to us, as by planning together, we can ensure the best possible programme of music for all audiences. This work has now been recognised by Arts Council England with the award of National Portfolio status from 2015 for our two organisations to work together. This is the first time regular funding has ever been granted to music presenters in Bristol. The Trust remains steadfast in its aspiration to transform the dilapidated facilities of Colston Hall into a music centre worthy of a modern European city. Detailed designs are now in place and we continue to negotiate with Bristol City Council, as freeholders of the building, as well as a wide variety of potential public and private sources of funding. Louise Mitchell Chief Executive 3
Bristol Music Trust Annual Review 2013/2014
“The spectacular and utterly joyous Sunday afternoon concert from Ensemble MusikFabrik” The Telegraph
What a year We have enjoyed a programme of events across a wide variety of musical genres, as well as comedy, light entertainment, community events and educational presentations. We are developing an ever stronger artistic profile at Colston Hall and making steady progress in our ambition to increase the number of self-promoted events in both halls. Our own music promotions and co-promotions in our main auditorium included Ludovico Einaudi, Steve Earle, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Paloma Faith & the Guy Barker Orchestra, Billy Bragg and Bellowhead, who headlined our New Year’s Eve party. We had a strong classical programme with performances from international orchestras including the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Czech National Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra. Artists brought to us by national promoters included Echo and the Bunnymen, Counting Crows, Elvis Costello, Hugh Laurie, Joe Satriani, Robert Plant, Caro Emerald, Manic Street Preachers, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Bastille, Lawson, Jamie Cullum, Jools Holland, KT Tunstall, Del Amitri, Van Morrison and Bonobo. We also hosted comedy shows from Al Murray, Russell Kane, Jimmy Carr, Mickey Flanagan, Russell Brand, Sarah Millican, Greg Davies and Jack Whitehall. In addition, children’s theatre was presented in the main hall for the first time, with six sell-out performances of Room on the Broom. We relaunched our smaller more intimate hall as The Lantern in autumn 2013 to develop an independent profile. The 2013/14 music programme included King Creosote, The Bad Plus, Spiers & Boden, Ed Harcourt, Paper Aeroplanes, Snarky Puppy, The Magic Numbers, 4
Justin Currie, Agnes Obel, Tamikrest, Tunng, Radical Face, Owiny Sigoma Band, Robyn Hitchcock, Hidden Orchestra, Cass McCombs, Cate Le Bon, François and the Atlas Mountain and Lloyd Cole. Comedy performers in The Lantern included Shappi Khorsandi, Alex Horne, Robin Ince, Alexei Sayle, Chris Ramsey, Marcel Lucont, Paul Foot, Trevor Noah and Seann Walsh. Our free foyer performances featured local and upcoming artists, as well as providing performance opportunities for young people. We continue to coordinate the Routes South West touring programme, aimed at developing a network of venues and promoters in the South West, funded by The National Foundation for Youth Music. Finally, 2013/14 saw two major festivals take place at Colston Hall: Bristol New Music in February and the Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival in March. The Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival was in its second year and saw ticket sales increase by over 30 per cent. Highlights of Bristol New Music included Ensemble MusikFabrik performing a UK premiere of Harry Partch’s And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma using recreations of the instruments designed by Partch himself. Todd Wills Head of Programme
“Our family came to the Mini Messiah. The children were neither quiet nor sat still but – hooray – it did not matter because neither was anyone else, and there were no grumpy adults telling children to be quiet. We had such a brilliant experience!”
Audience member
Simple Things
Bristol Music Trust Annual Review 2013/2014
Bristol Plays Music Bristol Plays Music was launched in March 2013 as a strategic partnership between Bristol Music Trust and Bristol City Council to become Arts Council England’s music education hub for Bristol. On 1 September 2013, the Bristol Arts and Music Service was formally transferred from Bristol City Council to become an integral part of Bristol Music Trust. This work, together with the music education programme based at Colston Hall, has been rebranded as Bristol Plays Music and is planned to develop into a coherent, imaginative portfolio of musical opportunities for all young people with the ambition for Bristol to become recognised as a capital of young people’s music. The reach and expertise of Bristol Plays Music, together with the developing Colston Hall programme, now gives the Trust a unique opportunity to provide musical access for all. Bristol Plays Music at Colston Hall The team has continued to offer high quality participatory music workshops. Major education programme strands include: The Remix
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Academy, which provides open access weekly music workshops for 7-25 year olds, and has been relaunched as The MixRadio Remix Academy in recognition of an exciting sponsorship agreement with MixRadio to support young people’s music learning and performance until at least 2016; New Generation Takeover, an initiative aimed at young events producers; and the Remix Youth Ensemble, a multi-genre modern youth orchestra fusing live instruments with modern technology and production techniques funded by The Monument Trust. New projects include: Producer Uncovered (music production courses for adults) as part of our lifelong learning strand; and Rudling Voices Choir (a singing project for 11-16 year olds), which together with a growing number of bespoke music projects for schools, forms part of our schools and community strand. We have delivered Music Based Mentoring projects which aim to help young people with additional needs to improve their social and emotional resilience.
Bristol Music Trust Annual Review 2013/2014
We continue to be the lead partner for the Sound Splash Musical Inclusion programme, bringing together local and regional partners to provide music making projects in areas where there are currently limited opportunities available to children and young people in challenging circumstances, as well as to provide training and development support for music leaders, and to fund additional research into music provision across the region. Bristol Plays Music at Southmead The schools team delivers music tuition, projects and workshops, working with pupils of all abilities and backgrounds. We deliver individual or small group peripatetic music lessons to over 3,000 pupils in 75 schools across the city each week, working to develop the quality of tuition through regular lesson observation and feedback sessions for our tutors. Many pupils work towards graded music exams, which help motivate them and enhance their musical progression. We also run whole class music projects in most primary schools, giving many pupils their first musical experience. The team run five weekend and evening Music Centres, with almost 500 pupils of varying ages, ability and instruments playing in 19 weekly ensembles and orchestras. They offer the chance to rehearse and perform together, with performances taking place at Colston Hall, the Victoria Rooms and St George’s Bristol in the past year. We worked in partnership with Welsh National Opera to deliver a Singing Strategy for Bristol for a second year. The project continues to set up singing networks across schools designed to share ideas and expertise. Several high-profile events have been held, including a concert at Colston Hall involving 1,063 pupils from 25 schools, and a secondary boys singing workshop with Only Men Aloud and beatboxer Jason Singh. The Bristol Early Years Music Project was launched in May 2013. This uses music to improve the personal, social and emotional development of children aged up to 5 years, as well as provide training and development to early years’ practitioners.
“These events are fantastic opportunities for the children to help them develop, make friends and gain new skills. Keep it up!” Parent of holiday activity pupil 7
Bristol Music Trust Annual Review 2013/2014
Our year in numbers Bristol Music Trust’s third year of activity from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 has been a year of steady growth and increasing financial stability, and has resulted in an overall operational surplus of £192,652 on total incoming resources of £5,651,664. A further £108,189 of funds transferred with the Bristol Arts and Music Service on 1 September 2013, taking net incoming resources after transfers to £300,841. There has been a net reduction in restricted funds over the year of £148,770, offset against a £298,806 balance brought forward from 2012/13 due to the timing of grant activity, and £150,036 will be carried forward into the next financial year. Unrestricted funds of £35,413 are also brought forward from 2012/13, giving total funds of £635,060 to be carried forward into 2014/15. These figures are extracted from Bristol Music Trust’s full statutory Trustee’s Annual Report & Financial Statements which were approved by the Trustees on 7 July 2014, and on which auditors Baker Tilly UK Audit LLP gave an unqualified audit report. The full report will be submitted to the Charity Commission and to the Registrar of Companies and is available on the Colston Hall website.
• 4 08 performances for which 219,147 tickets were sold
• 3 ,000 pupils per week received peripatetic music lessons
• A n additional 33,192 tickets sold for future performances
• 4 98 pupils per week participated in orchestras and ensembles at our Music Centres
• 12% of tickets sold were concessions
• £5.6 million total incoming resources
• 183 shows in the main auditorium
• A n overall operational surplus of £192,652
• 149 performances in The Lantern
• Funds carried forward £635,060
• 72 free foyer performances • 4 free performances in the bar
• £ 177,393 gift aid payment from BMT Enterprises Ltd (all profits from our trading subsidiary are passed to Bristol Music Trust)
• 4 30 Bristol Plays Music at Colston Hall sessions and workshops to 375 individuals
• 9 6% of ticket purchases and enquiries dealt with at the first point of contact
• 135 young people and 176 music leaders have participated in the Sound Splash programme
• 86% of phone calls answered
• 5,676 pupils across 87 schools participated in first access projects 8
• 9 6% of customers are fairly satisfied or very satisfied with Colston Hall’s customer service
Bristol Music Trust Annual Review 2013/2014
Total incoming resources for the year ended 31 Mar 2014: £5,651,664
Voluntary income £1,738,332
One-off transfer of funds Activities for generating funds (BMT Enterprises Ltd)
£2,901,282
Investment income
£892,839
Charitable activities income £108,189 £11,022 Total resources expended for the year ended 31 Mar 2014: £5,350,823 £11,393 £715,446
£16,352 Commercial trading operations (BMT Enterprises Ltd) Cost of generating voluntary income Costs of charitable activities
£4,607,632
Governance costs
Total funds carried forward at 31 Mar 2014: £635,060
£300,841
Restricted funds b/f 1 April 2013 £298,806
Unrestricted funds b/f 1 April 2013 Net incoming resources 2013/14
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“Concert lover Margaret has sat in the same seat at Bristol’s Colston Hall for 33 years” The Bristol Post
Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival
Bristol Music Trust Annual Review 2013/2014
Future Bristol Music Trust will truly come into its own during the period of the 2014/15 to 2016/17 business plan. Our strategic vision for the next three years is to ensure that: • Colston Hall continues to develop as a strong, confident, creative, and artistically vibrant musical brand, with a reputation for creative excellence and diversity.
performance and educational opportunities in partnership with our venue, and developing a leadership role in all aspects of music education citywide.
• Bristol Music Trust develops its own brand as a leader, supporter, and innovator in the musical life of Bristol and the South West.
• We continue to build creative partnerships with local, national and international artists and organisations, to inspire and energise our music and educational programmes.
• The Trust is financially secure and commercially astute, maximising funds available for artistic and educational objectives, and building a responsive and fit for purpose business infrastructure. • We work with Arts Council England to make a dynamic and sustained contribution to the National Portfolio of arts organisations. • Plans for the building redevelopment are finalised, with an inspiring and pragmatic vision for the Colston Hall of the future, commitment from Bristol City Council is assured, and a bold fundraising campaign launched. • Bristol Plays Music enables Bristol to become the UK capital of young people’s music, providing
• We continue to develop our organisational culture to be creative, flexible, collaborative and professional; and to motivate our people to improve performance with appropriate HR policies and procedures, training and development, and managerial support. • Colston Hall becomes a welcoming, lively music hub for the city. • The next three years will see Bristol Music Trust further develop the financial and artistic confidence to present an increasingly coherent programme of performance and learning and participation opportunities, which will deliver measurable local benefit and attract attention on a national scale.
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Thank you to our partnerscolston hall annual review 2012/2013 Principal supporters Arts Council England Bristol City Council Major sponsors JLL MixRadio Renishaw Sponsors Brewin Dolphin CAPITA Gregg Latchams Ltd Irwin Mitchell IM KPMG Quilter Cheviot Wessex Water Corporate partners Arup Brewin Dolphin Trusts Dame Violet Wills Will Trust PRS for Music Foundation Quartet Community Foundation The Monument Trust The National Foundation for Youth Music Supporters Averys Wine Merchants BBC Music Magazine Bella & Fifi Flowers Bristol IT Company DAC Beachcroft Digital Visitor Evans Audio Harveys Cellars Marriott
Trustees Michele Balfe Marti Burgess Simon Chapman (Honorary Treasurer) Cllr. Simon Cook Paul Fordham Henry Kenyon (Chair) Marie McCluskey Sir Brian McMaster Andrew Nisbet Poppy Stephenson James Wetz Artistic partners Arnolfini Asian Arts Agency Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Bristol Ensemble Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival Bristol Music Industry Network English Folk Dance and Song Society Making Tracks Music Beyond Mainstream Out of the Machine Routes South West Spike Island St George’s Bristol University of Bristol Education partners Access To Music Arts Awards Arts Council England SW Aspiration Creation Elevation ACE AWP NHS BANES Music Services Basement Studios Bath Festivals Bath Spa University BBC Introducing in the West BBC Performing Arts Fund B creative Bridgwater College
Brisfest Bristol Brunel Academy Bristol Institute of Modern Music Bristol Music Education Partnership Bristol Youth Links Chipping Sodbury School City Academy Bristol City of Bristol College Cotham School Creative Youth Network Cultural Learning Alliance CMAZ Music DBS Drake Music Fairfield School Green Man Festival Henbury School Knowle West Media Centre Make Some Noise MixRadio Monument Trust MUSE Music Project Music Education Council Music Mark North Somerset Music Hub Princes Trust RiO South Gloucestershire Music Hub South West Music School Superact The Ethnic Minority and Travellers Achievement Service EMTAS The Hope School The National Foundation for Youth Music The Station Trinity Community Arts UK Music Welsh National Opera Weston College Wiltshire Music Centre Wiltshire Music Hub WOMAD Foundation Young Bristol
The list above represents current partners to March 2014. Cover image: Ensemble MusikFabrik
Bristol Music Trust Colston Hall, Colston Street, Bristol BS1 5AR box office 0844 887 1500 www.colstonhall.org
Bristol Music Trust is a charity registered in England & Wales (no. 1140898). A non-profit-making company limited by guarantee. Registered in England no. 7531978. VAT no. 108248327.