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|Trustees||Mr G CArmitage|
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|||Mr TField|
|||Ms Rosie Millard OBE|
|||Mr RA Polom|
|||Ms CFrancis|
|||Ms DLeacock|
|||Ms SPui San Lok|
|||Mr PTibber|
|||Mr M Durham|
|Chief Executive||Ms SShaw MBE|
|Charity number||1031800|
|Company|number|2884347|
|Registered|office|Lewis Gardens|
|||High Street|
|||Colchester|
|||Essex|
|||CO1 1JH|
|Auditors||Whittles|
|||Whittle &Partners LLP|
|||The Old Exchange|
|||64West Stockwell Street|
|||Colchester|
|||Essex|
|||CO11HE|
|Solicitors||Ellisons|
|||Headgate Court|
|||Head Street|
|||Colchester|
|||Essex|
|||CO1 1NP|





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|Trustees report|3-9|
|Statement ofTrustees responsibilities|10|
|Independent<br>auditor's report|11-13|
|Consolidated<br>Statement offinancial activities|14-15|
|Consolidated<br>Balance sheet|16|
|Charity Balance sheet|17|
|Consolidated<br>statement ofcash flows|18|
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|Donations<br>and legacies||1,316,314||1,316,314|1,068,725||1,068,725|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||
|Learning<br>&education<br>Artistic programme<br>Investments||12,522<br>21,264<br>21,454|17,917<br>176,744|30,439<br>198,008<br>21,454|25,528<br>40,910<br>23,110|286,303<br>171,405|311,831<br>212,315<br>23,110|
|Other income||328,476||328,476|441,036||441,036|
|Total income||1,700,030|194,661|1,894,691|1,599,309|457708|2057017|
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|Costs ofgenerating<br>voluntary<br>income<br>Trading costs||25,253<br>125,036||25,253<br>125,036|35,718<br>237,011||35,718<br>237,011|
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|Charitable<br>activities||||||||
|Learning &education<br>Artistic programme|8<br>8|421,972<br>793,935|107,256<br>158,042|529,228<br>951,977|417,563<br>924,991|150,202<br>244,260|567,765<br>1,169,251|
|Total charitable<br>expenditure||1,215,907|265,298|1,481,205|1,342,554|394,462|1,737,016|
|Total resources||||||||
|expended||1,366,196|265,298|1,631,494|1,615,283|394,462|2,009,745|
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|resources||333,834|(70,637)|263,197|(77,569)|104,841|27,272|
|Other recognised gains and losses||||||||
|Revaluation<br>of|tangible|||||||
|fixed assets||||||64,520|64,520|
|Net movement|in funds|333,834|(70,637)|263,197|(77,569)|169,361|91,792|
|Fund balances|at1|||||||
|April 2020||86,910|281,856|368,766|164,479|112,495|276,974|
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|Tangible assets|||16||35,621||34,257|
|Heritage<br>assets|||15||79,400||79,400|
|Investment<br>properties|||17||175,000||175,000|
||||||290,021||288,657|
|Current assets||||||||
|Stocks|||20|32,527||37,357||
|Debtors|||22|161,600||126,897||
|Cash at bank and in|hand|||428,403||31,401||
|||||622,530||195,655||
|Creditors: amounts|falling|due within||||||
|one year|||23|(235,588)||(115,546)||
|Net current assets|||||386,942||80,109|
|Total assets less current liabilities|||||676,963||368,766|
|Creditors: amounts|falling|due after||||||
|more than one year|||24||(45,000)|||
|Net assets|||||631,963||368,766|
|Income funds||||||||
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|Revaluation<br>reserve||||64,520||64,520||
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|||||290,120||287,851|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors|||205,501||119,436||
|Cash at bank and in|hand||365,762||25,457||
||||571,263||144,893||
|Creditors: amounts<br>one year|falling due within|23|(228,060)||(104,433)||
|Net current assets||||343,203||40,460|
|Total assets less current liabilities||||633,323||328,311|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due after||||||
|more than one year||||(45,000)|||
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|Income funds|||||||
|General restricted funds|||146,683||217,336||
|Revaluation<br>reserve|||64,520||64,520||
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|Cash generated<br>from operations|||||374,036||
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|Purchase oftangible fixed|assets|||(27,035)||(4,641)|
|Interest received||||1||3|
|Net cash used in investing|activities||||(27,034)||
|Financing activities|||||||
|Proceeds ofnew bank loans||||50,000|||
|Repayment<br>ofbank loans||||||(16,057)|
|Net cash generated from/(used||in)|||||
|financing<br>activities|||||50,000||
|Net increase in cash and cash equivalents|||||397,002||
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||Donations<br>and gifts<br>Grants||||89,800<br>1,226,514|57,198<br>1,011,527|
||||||1,316,314|1,068,725|
||Grants receivable for|core activities|||||
||Arts Council England||||'1 079514|814527|
||Essex County Council<br>Colchester Borough Council||||50,000<br>97,000|97,000|
||University<br>ofEssex|||||100,000|
||||||1,226,514|1,011,527|
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||||Learning &|Artistic|Total|Total|
||||education|programme||2020|
|||||||f.|
||Sales within charitable|activities|30,439|198,008|228,447|524,146|
||Analysis<br>by fund<br>Unrestricted<br>funds||12,522|21,264|33,786||
||Restricted funds||17,917|176,744|194,661||
||||30,439|198,008|228,447||
||For the year ended 31 <br>Unrestricted<br>funds|March 2020|25,528|40,910||66,438|
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||Rental income||21,453|23,107|
||Interest receivable||1|3|
||||21,454|23,110|
|6|Other income||||
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||Other income||288,504|209,981|
||Room and|venue hire|25,439|101,395|
||Auditorium|programme|14,533|129,660|
||||328,476|441,036|
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||||2021|2021|||
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|Direct costs|||121,419|153,916|275,335|368,270|
||||296,644|538,495|835,139|896,447|
|Share ofsupport costs (see note 9)|||217,609|386,861|604,470|771,267|
|Share ofgovernance||costs (see note 9)|14,975|26,621|41,596|69,302|
||||529,228|951,977|1,481,205|1,737,016|
|Analysis<br>by|fund||||||
|Unrestricted|funds||421,972|793,935|1,215,907|1,342,554|
|Restricted funds|||107,256|158,042|265,298|394,462|
||||529,228|951,977|1,481,205|1,737,016|
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||Staffcosts||281,240||281,240|297,647||297,647|
||Depreciation||25,671||25,671|41,028||41,028|
||Office costs||3,285||3,285|13,814||13,814|
||Insurance||27,842||27,842|27,100||27,100|
||Communication||24,481||24,481|47,206||47,206|
||Recruitment|and|||||||
||training||5,748||5,748|8,889||8,889|
||Utilties||82,920||82,920|132,041||132,041|
||Building costs||99,712||99,712|145,314||145,314|
||Computer<br>and telecoms||40,398||40,398|46,238||46,238|
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||subscriptions||13,173||13,173|10,440||10,440|
||Bad debts|||||1,550||1,550|
||Audit fees|||9,807|9,807||8,750|8,750|
||Accountancy|||3,000|3,000||3,000|3,000|
||Legal and professional|||13,691|13,691||42,740|42,740|
||Board and committee||||||||
||expenses|||5,290|5,290||860|860|
||Bank charges|||9,808|9,808||13,952|13,952|
||||604,470|41,596|646,066|771,267|69,302|840,569|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||The analysis of auditor's<br>remuneration|||is as follows:|||
||Fees payable tothe|group's|auditors|and associates:|2021|2020|
|||||||6|
||Audit ofthe groups|annual|accounts||9,807|8,750|
||Non-audit<br>services||||||
||All other non-audit|services|||3,000|3,000|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|General||||59|54|
|Employment<br>costs||||2021|2020|
|Wages and salaries||||791,161|778,285|
|Social security costs||||47,229|57,205|
|Other pension costs||||27,907|26,052|
|||||866,297|861,542|
|The number ofemployees|whose annual|remuneration|was 660,000or more|||
|were:||||||
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|||||equipment|fittings|equipment|||
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||At 1April 2020|||192,080|337,396|370,244|48,708|948,428|
||Additions|||||27,035||27,035|
||At 31March|2021||192,080|337,396|397,279|48,708|975,463|
||Depreciation|and impairment|||||||
||At 1April 2020|||174,135|330,555|360,773|48,708|914,171|
||Depreciation|charged|in the year|10,369|6,841|8,461||25,671|
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||At 31March|2021||7,576||28,045||35,621|
||At 31March|2020||17,945|6,841|9,471||34,257|
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||Additions|||||27,035||27,035|
||At 31March 2021|||186,310|337,396|397,279|48,708|969,693|
||Depreciation|and impairment|||||||
||At 1April 2020|||169,272|330,555|360,773|48,708|909,308|
||Depreciation|charged|in the year|9,463|6,841|8,461||24,765|
||At 31March 2021|||178,735|337,396|369,234|48,708|934,073|
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||Other debtors|||||||73,910|65,602|
||Prepayments<br>and||accrued income|||||30,465|3,332|
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||Amounts|owed by subsidiary|||undertakings|||52,797||
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||Other taxation and|social security||9,671|15,298|
||Deferred income||26|595||
||Trade creditors|||44,810|20,990|
||Other creditors|||3,218|4,661|
||Accruals and deferred income|||172,294|74,597|
|||||235,588|115,546|
||Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year||||
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|||||2021|2020|
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||Other taxation and social security|||9,671|15,298|
||Trade creditors|||41,487|14,657|
||Other creditors|||3,218|4,661|
||Accruals and deferred income|||168,684|69,817|
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||||Balance at 1|incoming|Resources|Balance at 31|
||||April 2020|resources|expended|March 2021|
|||||6|6|6|
||First Site Developnrent|Appeal|1,251||(1,251)||
||Artwork fund||79,400|||79,400|
||Col8ctors Group - Artists support||22,082|1,951||24,033|
||Tate - Circuit||437|||437|
||Refugee Action Restaurant||1,912|||1,912|
||TIre Britishness project||9,472|||9,472|
||Royal Opera House||1,094|||1,094|
||Coode-Adams<br>Firstsite|Trust|2,000|||2,000|
||Youth Music||25,349||(16,594)|8,755|
||Children in Need||1,774||(1,774)||
||Perci1 Bilton Charthj||500|||500|
||New Geographies - Wysing||(3,151)||(5,000)|(8,151)|
||Garfretd Weston Lighting||37,334||(2,640)|34,694|
||Arts Council Collection||10,580|121,564|(143,127)|(10,983)|
||Holiday Fun||54,430|15,966|(70,838)|(442)|
||Black Essex||26,825||(3,536)|23,289|
||Art Fund||6,969|||6,969|
||NHS COV)D project|||30,000||30,000|
||Ar!Fund &BBCCommissioning|||10,000||10,000|
||Holiday Fund Easter 21|||15,180|1'3,287)|11,893|
||T1re Great BigArt Exhibition||||1'17,247)|(17,247)|
||Otlur||3,598||(5)|3,593|
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|||f.|||
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|Tangible assets||35,621||35,621|
|Heritage assets|||79,400|79,400|
|Investment<br>properties||175,000||175,000|
|Current assets/(liabilities)||255,139|131,803|386,942|
|Long term liabilities||(45,000)||(45,000)|
|||420,760|211,203|631,963|
|Analysis ofnet assets between funds|||||
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
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|Fund balances at 31March 2021 are represented|by:||||
|Tangible assets||35,620||35,620|
|Heritage assets|||79,400|79,400|
|Investment<br>proper ties||175,000||175,000|
|Investments||100||100|
|Current assets/(liabilities)||211,400|131,803|343,203|
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|Cash generated fro|m operatio|ns|2021|2020|
|Surplus for the year|||263,197|27,272|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||
|Investment<br>income|recognised|in profit or loss||(3)|
|Fair value gains and|losses on|investment<br>properties||20,000|
|Depreciation<br>and impairment||oftangible fixed assets|25,671|41,028|
|Movements<br>in working capital:|||||
|Decrease in stocks|||4,830|1,613|
|(Increase)/decrease|in debtors||(34,703)|88,619|
|Increase/(decrease)|in creditors||114,447|(137,494)|
|Increase in deferred|income||595||
|Cash generated<br>from operations|||374,036|41,035|





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|35|Analysis ofchanges in net funds||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||At 1 April|Cash flows|At 31March|
|||2020||2021|
|||||f.|
||Cash at bank and in hand|31,401|397,002|428,403|
||Loans falling due within one year||(5,000)|(5,000)|
||Loans falling due after more than one year||(45,000)|(45,000)|
|||31,401|347,002|378,403|



