• Welcome
  • Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concert Diary 2021
    • Newsletter Request
    • 25 Feb 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Thomas Ang, piano
    • 4 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Vivaldi
    • 11 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Saint-Saëns Centenary
    • 18 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Music for the Lute
    • 25 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Musicals: 1960 to 1990
    • 1 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Ibrahim Aziz, viols,
    • 8 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Royal Wedding Music
    • 15 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Albinoni 350
    • 22 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Yehudi Menuhin 105th
    • 29 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Sexual Intrigue, Opera
    • 6 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Buck Brass Quartet
    • 13 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: String Quartets
    • 20 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Stravinsky Selection
    • 27 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Organ Selection
    • 27 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Organ Selection Part 2
    • 3 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, accordion / bayan
    • 10 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Julian Bream guitarist extraordinaire
    • 17 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Instruments: Unusual, Rare, or just plain weird,
    • 24 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Summer Music Fest
  • Surrey Music Diary
  • LCAS Charity
  • Artistes
  • Composers
  • Archive & Unpublished
    • 2020 Archive >
      • Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concert Diary 2020
      • 27 Feb 2020 3pm Marina Kan piano
      • 23 Apr 2020 Concert for St George's Day
      • 1 May 2020 Music on May Day Online
      • 8 May 2020 Music for VE Day 75th Online
      • 14 May 2020 Piano à Deux Online
      • 20 May 2020 Wednesday at the Organ: Clocks Cathedrals
      • 28 May 2020 Music on Thursdays Guitars & Friends
      • 4 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: String Quartets
      • 11 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Cello Tango
      • 18 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Organs of Paris Online
      • 25 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Flute Fest Online
      • 2 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Virtual Viola
      • 9 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Multi Piano
      • 16 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Sackbutt to Trombone
      • 23 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Harp Haven
      • 30 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Oboe Omnibus
      • 6 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Gentle Guitar
      • 13 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Unusual Instruments
      • 20 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Viola da Gamba
      • 27 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Music & the Military
      • 3 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Choral Music
      • 10 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Clarinet Compilation
      • 17 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: The Voice
      • 24 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Beethoven 250
      • 1 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Eddie Lee's Jazz on Thursday
      • 8 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Diphonon Viola & Accordion Duo
      • 15 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Marion Bettsworth, organ
      • 22 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: CarmenCo - telling Carmen's story
      • 29 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Phil Hopkins, classical harmonica
      • 5 Nov 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Musical Fireworks
      • 12 Nov 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Music of the Musicals
      • 18 Nov 2020 FINAL Wednesday at Christ Church Live Organ Concert - Mark Brafield
      • 17 Dec 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Carols with CarmenCo
    • Christ Church Leatherhead
    • 2013 Anthony Cairns Concerts
    • 2012 Anthony Cairns Concerts
    • HGS1965
    • Bitsa
    • W-I-P
MUSIC IN SURREY

Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society - The Charity

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The legal bits

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    Who we are



    What we do


Who we are

The Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society was founded in 2013 to secure the future of Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead's Churches.

The Society's trustees bring a broad experience of musicianship, business and charity management, and represent different expressions of faith.

Each year surplus funds, beyond retained reserves for LCAS and for its work with Leatherhead Trinity Primary School, are distributed to the hosting churches in proportion to the events hosted.

LCAS has raised funds for and directly donated to NewSPAL: New Surrey Performing Arts Library as it prepares to take over management of the SPAL collection.


September 2013: HMRC approved LCAS under Ref EW02213 (meaning we are able to claim Gift Aid on qualifying donations)

April 2016: LCAS became a registered charity in England & Wales No 1166764



Charitable objects (as registered with the Charity Commission)

Leatherhead Concert and Arts Society is a Christian organisation which aims to advance, promote and encourage the study and practice of the arts of music, dance, speech, literature and drama, in particular through the organisation of concerts, recitals and other events in Leatherhead Surrey and surrounding areas.

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What we do

LCAS runs 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead's Churches, each week from April to November.

Music on Thursdays runs mostly chamber concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church, and Wednesdays at Christ Church is a series of monthly organ concerts.

Concerts usually last 35-40 minutes, although some can be a little longer, depending on the artiste and the repertoire they have chosen.

LCAS puts high quality musical performance within reach of those who perhaps no longer have evenings out, or for whom the cost of a London concert ticket, plus the fares, are just out of reach.

The performers are students of the Royal Academy of Music, recent graduates of London's internationally renowned music conservatoires, or local musicians who have reached that same level of study and performance.

Sometimes we add in extra concerts, for example, an evening concert on International Make Music Day - June 21st.

The final concert in September each year is titled Jazz on Thursday, introducing a young performer from the Jazz department of one of London's music conservatoires, or perhaps a recent graduate.

Each October our concerts are part of the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival which brings together up to 100 performing and creative events through the month.


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Education

Each school term we invite musicians to introduce their instruments to the pupils of Leatherhead Trinity Primary School. This gives the pupils an opportunity to experience live music - something they probably do not find in their daily lives.

Their individual responses can be remarkable, and we hope this work may inspire some pupils to take up playing an instrument when the opportunity arises either at Trinity, or when they reach their secondary school.

Over their 7 years at the School pupils will encounter at least 21 instrument combinations - piano, strings, woodwind, brass, reeds, and voice.

Leatherhead Trinity has representatives of each of Leatherhead's covenanting churches on its Board of Governors - Anglican, Methodist, and United Reformed. It is one of Surrey's largest primary schools.

LCAS has been pleased to donate to and to raise funds for the charity NewSPAL: New Surrey Performing Arts Library. NewSPAL has been approved by Surrey County Council to take over management, and ultimately ownership, of the county's collection of music, drama, dance, and film resources.

The SPAL collection is used by the county's amateur and professional musicians and teachers and so is key to the work of local choirs, orchestras, drama, and play-reading groups.

Being the third largest such collection in the country SPAL is also a cornerstone of the nationwide inter-library loans service for sets of musical scores and play-scripts.



Funding

Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts, run by LCAS, are always free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. This is our principal source of funds, so we are basically self-funding. We suggest donations in the range £6 to £10 per person per lunchtime concert. That helps to cover for those who are on benefits and want to enjoy a concert.

Additional support has come from three further sources. We claim HMRC Gift Aid on qualifying donations, we have been pleased to welcome sponsorship by local law firm Julie West Solicitor, and LCAS has a small but dedicated group of subscribing Members.

Exceptionally, during the COVID crisis of 2020 LCAS applied for subsidies to contribute to the costs of recording musicians 'as live' for five October concerts which were part of the annual Mole Valley Arts e-Live/Alive Festival.

LCAS' membership of Making Music gives the Trustees access to favourable rates for public liability insurance, practical help preparing our annual Performing Rights Society return, and access to much online and seminar-based advice.

Surplus funds are donated to the hosting Churches, at a level agreed at each AGM, in recognition of the facilities they provide for us.

We welcome new Members. The cost is just £20 for three years - which is clearly NOT enough to fund three years of concerts, but does give you a say in the running of the Society, through its Annual General Meeting at which the Trustees are elected each year.

♣  Click here for our current Membership Form  ♣
♦  Click here for the CURRENT LCAS Constitution  ♦

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Proposals & Documents for Special General Meeting Online
at 2pm on Thursday 20th May 2021

1.  2020 Financial Statement and Treasurer's Notes


2.   Full Constitution as a result of passing amendments in "Constitutional Amendments May 2021"
♦  Click here for the complete LCAS Constitution being proposed at the SGM on 20 May 2021 ♦


OR


Shorter version showing only the sections to be amended
♦  Click here for the document: "Constitutional Amendments May 2021" to be proposed at the SGM on 20 May 2021 ♦

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Charity Commission logo
Leatherhead Trinity School logo
NewSPAL: New Surrey Performing Arts Library logo

Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival logo
International Make Music Day logo - 21st June
Royal Academy of Music logo
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society is a music charity registered in England & Wales No 1166764.

Please note: LCAS cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies in or amendments to the information on this website.
Please check with the event organiser before you commit to any expenditure
Registered address: 31 Elmer Cottages • Fetcham • KT22 9BU
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Specialists in property law, wills, probate and lasting powers of attorney.
Julie West Solicitors are pleased to support Leatherhead’s lunchtime concerts

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LCAS, Leatherhead CXoncert & Arts Society, logo, HMRC Ref EW 02213,
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  • Welcome
  • Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concert Diary 2021
    • Newsletter Request
    • 25 Feb 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Thomas Ang, piano
    • 4 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Vivaldi
    • 11 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Saint-Saëns Centenary
    • 18 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Music for the Lute
    • 25 March 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Musicals: 1960 to 1990
    • 1 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Ibrahim Aziz, viols,
    • 8 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Royal Wedding Music
    • 15 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Albinoni 350
    • 22 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Yehudi Menuhin 105th
    • 29 April 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Sexual Intrigue, Opera
    • 6 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Buck Brass Quartet
    • 13 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: String Quartets
    • 20 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Stravinsky Selection
    • 27 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Organ Selection
    • 27 May 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Organ Selection Part 2
    • 3 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, accordion / bayan
    • 10 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Julian Bream guitarist extraordinaire
    • 17 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Instruments: Unusual, Rare, or just plain weird,
    • 24 June 2021 Music on Thursdays Online: Summer Music Fest
  • Surrey Music Diary
  • LCAS Charity
  • Artistes
  • Composers
  • Archive & Unpublished
    • 2020 Archive >
      • Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concert Diary 2020
      • 27 Feb 2020 3pm Marina Kan piano
      • 23 Apr 2020 Concert for St George's Day
      • 1 May 2020 Music on May Day Online
      • 8 May 2020 Music for VE Day 75th Online
      • 14 May 2020 Piano à Deux Online
      • 20 May 2020 Wednesday at the Organ: Clocks Cathedrals
      • 28 May 2020 Music on Thursdays Guitars & Friends
      • 4 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: String Quartets
      • 11 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Cello Tango
      • 18 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Organs of Paris Online
      • 25 June 2020 Music on Thursdays Flute Fest Online
      • 2 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Virtual Viola
      • 9 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Multi Piano
      • 16 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Sackbutt to Trombone
      • 23 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Harp Haven
      • 30 July 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Oboe Omnibus
      • 6 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Gentle Guitar
      • 13 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Unusual Instruments
      • 20 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Viola da Gamba
      • 27 Aug 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Music & the Military
      • 3 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Choral Music
      • 10 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Clarinet Compilation
      • 17 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: The Voice
      • 24 Sep 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Beethoven 250
      • 1 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Eddie Lee's Jazz on Thursday
      • 8 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Diphonon Viola & Accordion Duo
      • 15 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Marion Bettsworth, organ
      • 22 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: CarmenCo - telling Carmen's story
      • 29 Oct 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Phil Hopkins, classical harmonica
      • 5 Nov 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Musical Fireworks
      • 12 Nov 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Music of the Musicals
      • 18 Nov 2020 FINAL Wednesday at Christ Church Live Organ Concert - Mark Brafield
      • 17 Dec 2020 Music on Thursdays Online: Carols with CarmenCo
    • Christ Church Leatherhead
    • 2013 Anthony Cairns Concerts
    • 2012 Anthony Cairns Concerts
    • HGS1965
    • Bitsa
    • W-I-P