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|||||||Statement|of|Pfnanclal<br>Acgvltles||(Including|Income snd Expenditure||Account)||
|||||||||for the year ended 31 March 2023|||||||
|||||||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|2022|
|||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted||2023|funds|funds|Total|
|||||||||funds|funds||Total|(as restated)|(as restated)|(ss restated)|
|||||||Notes||2|||2|2|2|2|
|Income and|endowments|||fram:||2|||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies<br>Charitable<br>actmlies|||- page 17-18|||||296,717|||296,717|341,663||341,063|
|Production/Creative|||I earning||- page|17 - 18||340,619||189,079|529,698|291,605|323,177|614,782|
|Investments||||||||2,459|||2,459|131||131|
|Other||||||||12,804|||12,804|7,925||7,925|
|Total||||||||652,599||189,079|84l,678|641,324|323,177|964,501|
|Expenditure|on:||||||||||||||
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|Production/Creative|||Learning||-page|19||708,974||174,287|883,261|527,422|291,161|818,583|
|Other||||||4||6,300|||6,300|7,310||7,310|
|Total||||||||715,274||174,287|889,561|534,732|291,161|825,893|
|Net Income|/ (expenditure)|||||||(62,675)||14,792|(47,883)|106,592|32,016|138,608|
|Transfers<br>between<br>funds||||||15,16||56,201||(56,201)|||||
|Nst movement<br>In funds:||||||||(6,474)||(41,409)|(47,883)|106,592|32,016|138,608|
|Reconcgfallon<br>ot funds:|||||||||||||||
|Total funds|brought|forward||||||449,684|128,679||578.363|343,092|96,663|439,755|
|Total funds|carried forward|||||15,16||443,210||87,270|530,480|449,684|128,679|578,363|





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|Income trom donations||and legacies|||||||
|Grants|||||||||
|Arts Council England|||||||||
|ACE - NPO||||||221,452||221,452|
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||||25,000||25,000||
|London Borough of Tower||Hamlets|||38,213||88,045||
|||||||63,213||113,045|
|||||||284,665||334,497|
|Donations|||||||||
|Other||||||12,052||7,166|
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|Income from charitable||activities|||||||
|Production/Creative|Learning|||Income|||||
|In-house<br>productions||||||25,735||7,075|
|Box office||||||33,575||28,478|
|Youth Theatre fees||||||19,640||17,773|
|Careers<br>in Theatre fees||||||2,836||5,383|
|Co-production<br>fees||||||27,010||32,085|
|Exchange for Change||||||10,984||6,713|
|Half Moon Presents||||||36,848||51,038|
|Digital touring<br>/ on-demand||||||245||3,450|
|Creative Learning<br>additional|||projects|||57,727||61,901|
|LBTH — Education<br>SLA||||||5,000||5,167|
|LBTH - Youth services SLA||||||70,000||67,783|
|Equipment<br>/ space hire||||||9,096||3,472|
|Other income||||||41,923||1,287|
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|Project specific funding|||||||||
|Grants/Donations|||||||||
|Action for Bow||||||12,322||5,885|
|Access Media CIC||||||3,111||22,356|
|Aldgate<br>& Allhallows|Foundation|||||14,760|||
|Apples<br>& Pears Foundation||||||||746|
|Arts Council<br>England|- Capital|||Fund||||10,740|
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|ATG||||||9,685|
|Austin<br>8 Hope Pilkington|Trust||||1,000||
|Basket Makers Charitable||Trust||||1,000|
|BBCChildren<br>in Need|||||10,245|27,511|
|Buzzacott|||||1,250||
|Charles S French Charitable|||Trust|||2,500|
|Chapman<br>Charitable<br>Trust||||||2,000|
|Chartered<br>Secretaries<br>and||Administrators|||1,000|1,000|
|Charterhouse<br>in Southwark|||||1,500||
|Charterhouse<br>Trust||||||5,000|
|City Bridge Trust|||||2,302||
|Clarion Community<br>Grant||Award|||5,000|11,000|
|Co-operative<br>Local Charity||||||1,191|
|The Coin Trust|||||4,000|12,000|
|D C R Allen Charitable<br>Trust||||||4,000|
|Derek Shuttleworth<br>Educational||||Trust|3,000|6,000|
|East End Community<br>Foundation|||||6,570|6,153|
|Fitton Trust||||||600|
|Fund 4 Ruby||||||7,500|
|Garrick Charitable<br>Trust|||||2,500||
|Hadley Property Group||||||5,575|
|Harold<br>Hyam Wingate|||||5,000|5,000|
|Henry Smith Charity|||||35,933|11,690|
|Jack Petchey Foundation|||||16,942|7,798|
|Leche Trust|||||1,500||
|Leathersellers'<br>Charity||||||9,960|
|London Bridge Community||Fund||||2,000|
|M & G Prudential<br>Foundation||||||1,700|
|Merchant<br>Taylors Charity|||||7,040|7,040|
|Noel Coward<br>Foundation|||||2,000|2,000|
|National<br>Heritage<br>Lottery||||||30,701|
|Norton Rose Fulbright|||||1,800||
|Ocean Regeneration<br>Trust|||||3,071|6,480|
|Our Time||||||4,585|
|Prudential<br>Pic Small Donations||||Fund|1,500||
|Queen<br>Mary University<br>of|I|ondon|||6,000||
|RTR||||||5,540|
|Sheldon Trust|||||10,000||
|St Olave's and St Saviours||Foundation|||700|650|
|StJames Place Charitable||Foundation|||10,000|6,925|
|Schroder Charitable<br>Trust|||||5,000|4,000|
|Souter Charitable<br>Trust|||||3,000|2,000|
|Tesco Community<br>Fund||||||1,000|
|Theatre Passport grants|||||6,103|6,120|
|Tower Hamlets<br>Holiday<br>Hunger|||||3,930|3,855|
|Unity Theatre|||||1,000||
|Westfield East Bank Creatives||||||14,430|
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|Expenditure|on charitable|||activities|||
|Production/Creative|||Learning costs||||
|Salaries|||||346,398|380,237|
|In-house<br>production|||||55,017|11,371|
|Co-production|||||24,663|14,038|
|Exchange for|Change||||40,416|81,333|
|Venue programming|||||36,959|23,763|
|Creative<br>Learning||programme|||155,528|171,899|
|Youth Theatre|||||53,221|48,813|
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|Support costs|—page||20||163,559|83,879|
|Governance<br>costs||—page 20|||7,500|3,250|
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|Support and governance||costs||||||
|Office overheads||||||||
|Light/heat|||21,967|||9,031||
|Water|||345|||102||
|Telephone/fax|||2,731|||2,645||
|Insurance|||9,448|||8,762||
|Building<br>maintenance|||9,098|||13,119||
|Equipment<br>costs / maintenance|||22,517|||15,502||
|Website development|/ maintenance||3,026|||2,553||
|Cleaning|||2,237|||3,420||
|Depreciation|||59,811|||7,062||
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|Administration<br>costs||||||||
|Fees|||7,181|||1,000||
|Staff training|||1,675|||977||
|Travel/transport|||9,240|||5,359||
|Entertaining|||916|||618||
|Printing/postage/stationery|||972|||910||
|Marketing<br>/ audience|development||3,841|||3,826||
|Subscriptions/licences|||2,785|||3,280||
|Access / Board development|||370|||521||
|Sundries|||1,739|||1,943||
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|Bank charges|||2,217|||1,520||
|Box office fees|||1,443|||1,729||
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|Accountancy/consultancy||||||350||
|Audit|||7,500|||2,900||
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||||||31 March|2023|||||||||
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|Fixed assets|||||||||||||||
|Tangible assets||||||||399,156||||||458,967|
|Current assets|||||||||||||||
|Debtors||||10|43,818||||||28,953||||
|Cash at bank and|in|hand|||260,112|||||283,437|||||
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|Llablltles|||||||||||||||
|Creditors: amounts||falling|||||||||||||
|due within one year||||11|(172,606)|||||(104,115)|||||
|Net current assets||||||||131,324||||||208,275|
|Total assets less|current||||||||||||||
|liabilities||||||||530,480||||||667,242|
|Creditors: amounts||falling|due||||||||||||
|after more than|one year|||12||||||||||(88,879)|
|Net assets||||||||530,480||||||578,363|
|The funds ofthe|charity||||||||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||15|||||||||||
|—General<br>fund||||||||'112,089||||||130,136|
|- Designated<br>funds||||||||331,121||||||319,548|
|||||||||443,210||||||449,684|
|Restricted<br>funds||||16||||87,270||||||128,679|
|Total charity funds||||||||530,480||||||578,363|
|The trustees<br>have|prepared||these accounts||in accordance||with|section|398of the|Companies|||Act|2006 and|
|section 138of the|Charities||Act 2011.These||accounts are||prepared<br>in||accordance|with||the special|||
|provisions<br>of Part|15of the||Companies|Act relating to small companies|||||and constitute||the annual accounts||||
|required<br>by the Companies|||Act 2006 and are for circulation||||to members||of the company.||||||





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|||||Notes|2|2|
|Cash flows from operating<br>activities||||21|(10,601)|42,500|
|Cash flows from Investing<br>activities:|||||||
|Dividends,|interest and rents from|investments|||2,459|131|
|Purchase|of property,<br>plant and equipment|||||(12,146)|
|Net cash|provided<br>by investment|activities|||2,459|(12,015)|
|Repayments<br>of borrowing|||||(15,183)|(14,172)|
|Net cash|provided<br>by financing|activities|||15,183|14,172|
|Change<br>in|cash at bank and<br>in hand<br>in the||reporting|period|(23,325)|16,313|
|Cash at bank and in hand at the beginning|||of the reporting||||
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|Depreciation<br>of tangible|fixed assets|59,811|7,062|
|Bank interest<br>payable||6,300|7,310|
|Auditors'<br>remuneration||||
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|Salaries and wages|310,193|343,339|
|Social security costs|28,532|29,262|
|Pension costs|7,673|7,636|
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|1 April 2022|432,853|65,672|29,506|14,440|542,471|
|Disposals||(39,716)|(29,506)||(69,222)|
|31 March 2023|432,853|25,956||14,440|473,249|
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|On disposals||(39,716)|(29,506)||(69,222)|
|Charge for year|49,712|6,489||3,610|59,811|
|31 March 2023|49,712|9,941||14,440|74,093|
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|Trade debtors||10,354|11,484|
|Other debtors|||17,469|
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||Other taxation/social|security|17,755|15,622|
||Other creditors||8,652|10,644|
||Accruals||16,015||
||Deferred income (note 13)||41,305|62,666|
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|Prior year adjustment||||67,214|
|Balance|at 1 April|2022 (as restated)||62,666|
|Amount|released|to incoming|resources|(62,666)|
|Amount|deferred|in the year||41,305|
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||Operational|reserve|70,000||||70,000|
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|Youth Theatre|||23,050|(23,050)|||
|Artistic Programme|||5,000|(5,000)|||
|Speech Bubbles|||3,833|(3,833)|||
|Careers|in Theatre|1,629|5,000|(6,629)|||
|ASCs|||55,617|(55,617)|||
|Creative|Play|4,243|24,456|(28,699)|||
|Summer|School|7,040|7,040|(7,040)||7,040|
|Trainees|||12,500|(5,173)||7,327|
|Bursaries|||18,613|(18,613)|||
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|Fixed assets||96,663|20,425|(3,452)||113,636|
|Youth Theatre|||42,324|(42,324)|||
|Artistic Programme|||47,261|(47,261)|||
|Speech Bubbles|||22,000|(22,000)|||
|Careers|in Theatre||17,575|(15,946)||1,629|
|HLF|||28,481|(28,481)|||
|ASCs|||44,526|(44,526)|||
|Creative|Play||18,440|(14,197)||4,243|
|Summer|School||13,965|(6,925)||7,040|
|Trainees|||16,430|(16,430)|||
|Bursaries|||26,526|(26,526)|||
|Other|||25,224|(23,093)||2,131|
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|Tangible fixed|assets|350,000|49,156|399,156|
|Net current assets||93,210|38,114|131,324|
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||8|8|
|Expiry date:|||
|Within one year|5,888|5,888|
|Between one and five years|23,552|5,888|
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|Cash at bank and in hand|283,437|(23,325)||260,112|
|Debt due within one year|(15,183)|(73,696)||(88,879)|
|Debt due after one year|(88,879)||88,879||
||(104,062)|(73,696)|88,879|(88,879)|
|Net funds|179,375|(97,021)|88,879|171,233|





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|21.|Reconciliation<br>of net income/(expenditure)|Reconciliation<br>of net income/(expenditure)|Reconciliation<br>of net income/(expenditure)|Reconciliation<br>of net income/(expenditure)|to net cashf low from operating<br>activities||
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||Net<br>income/(expenditure)<br>for||the||(47,883)|138,608|
||reporting<br>period|(as<br>per|the||||
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||Depreciation||||59,811|7,062|
||Dividends,<br>interest and rents from|||investments|(2,459)|(131)|
||(Increase)/decrease|in debtors|||(14,865)|(11,494)|
||Increase/(decrease)|in creditors|||(5,205)|(91,545)|
||Net cash outflow from operating|||activities|(10,601)|42,500|



