## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2024**
**COMPANY NUMBER** 03761808
**CHARITY NUMBER** 1077836
**TRUSTEES’ REPORT ....................................................................................................................... 2 PLANS FOR THE FUTURE .............................................................................................................. 10 REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS ................................................................................ 11 STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT ......................................................................... 12 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT ........................................................................................... 14 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................ 15 BALANCE SHEET .......................................................................................................................... 16 ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS .......................................... 18**
**SCENE AND HEARD TRUSTEES’ REPORT**
**for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT**
The trustees of Scene and Heard are pleased to present their annual report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 April 2024.
The financial statements are prepared to meet the requirements for a directors’ report and accounts for Companies Act purposes and comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006, the charity's Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Statement of Recommended Practice – Accounting and Reporting by Charities (the FRS 102 Charities SORP).
## **CHAIRMAN’S REPORT**
Established in January 1999, financial year 2023-2024 was Scene & Heard’s twenty-fifth year of operation. We are pleased to report that it was a full and successful year supporting marginalised young people through theatre, playwriting and the arts, bringing them together with scores of volunteer theatre professionals.
Somers Town continues to be an area of multiple deprivation, feeling the effects of decades of austerity, overcrowding and poverty. Our projects improve opportunities for young people in the area, increasing wider participation in a historically under-served community.
Over the last year, we delivered Scene & Heard’s core schedule of five playmaking courses with the addition of three theatre trips, serving 20 newly referred and 47 existing beneficiaries. We engaged 31 additional children through our Arts Hub programme, and we mounted three productions welcoming hundreds of audience members to celebrate in the success of our young people. We devised and successfully delivered a brand-new course, ‘Stage Two’ and we continued to build our new home as a vibrant Arts Hub, offering equal access to all and creating a welcoming cultural space. In addition, we kicked off Scene & Heard's 25th anniversary with a series of initiatives to mark a quarter of a century of realising young imaginations on and off the stage.
Our successful **staff team** of four full-time positions remain unchanged **:**
- **CEO & Artistic Director Rosalind Paul MBE** continues to oversee all aspects of the charity, managing staff, volunteers, beneficiary and wider community relations, running projects and productions as well as curating our new Arts Hub.
- **Finance & General Manager** Catherine Hylton is responsible for managing the building as well as all financial procedures.
- **Head of Development** Natasha Shaw maintains a successful fundraising and donor relationship building profile.
- **Arts Officer** Kathryn Wee supports the artistic activities of the charity, relationships with children and families.
Bookkeeper Ashis Roy of **NRV Tax Ltd** works remotely in conjunction with our Finance & General Manager using Quickbooks and maintaining our financial records.
Fiona Mallin-Robinson remains with us on a freelance basis as **Strategy Advisor.** Instrumental in securing our new home, and taking the lead in developing our Strategic Plan, she supports the staff team and trustees as and when required.
We continue our work as a **Centre of Excellence** , sharing knowledge and best practice in the education, arts and charity sectors.
We are part of the **Cultural Camden Steering Committee** alongside major institutions in our borough including The British Library, The British Museum and The Roundhouse.
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Our **partnerships** with our long-standing feeder primary schools, **Edith Neville** and **St. Mary & St. Pancras** continue as they refer children to our playwriting courses. We also work closely with our geographical neighbours **Plot 10 After School Club** , where many of our children attend. We enjoy a positive ongoing relationship with **Regent High School** where the majority of our Member Playwrights go for secondary education and have recently made stronger connections with **Maria Fidelis Catholic School** also in Somers Town where a number of our older children go for secondary education.
We continue to be supported by our many **Patrons** , high profile individuals from the Theatre, Film, Television and Arts world who champion of our work. In this our 25[th] Anniversary Year a number of them recorded messages to be played in our pop-up museum:
_**Scene & Heard makes me feel inspired and excited and thrilled and full of the possibility of what theatre can do. My favourite thing about Scene & Heard is watching the playwrights come down to take their applause at the end of each play, I always love that moment and seeing their faces.**_ **Michael Sheen, Actor and Scene & Heard Patron**
_**The best thing about Scene & Heard for me is watching, in real time, a young person realise how wonderful the world can be and how much they deserve a place in it whoever they are, wherever they come from.**_ **Nina Sosanya, Actor and Scene & Heard Patron**
Scene & Heard is a Member of The Chartered Institute of Fundraising, The Small Charities Coalition, the NCVO, The Directory of Social Change and the Centre for Social Justice Alliance. CEO & Artistic Director Rosalind Paul was appointed **MBE** in the New Year Honours 2022 for charitable services to Theatre, to Young People and to Families in Somers Town, London Borough of Camden. The charity holds **The Queens Award for Voluntary Service** , received in 2011, and **Centre for Social Justice Award** 2015 **,** in recognition of the best of small grassroots charities working to alleviate issues surrounding poverty and disadvantage.
## **Our purposes and activities**
The purposes of the charity are to advance education for the public benefit of the children of Somers Town, London, by the teaching and promotion of the arts, in particular but not exclusively the art of drama and playwriting.
Scene & Heard is a unique mentoring project that partners the inner-city children of Somers Town, London with volunteer theatre professionals. We give children intensive one-to-one adult attention enabling them to write plays which are then performed by professional actors. Our performances give the children immediate and public experiences of success, raising their aspirations and boosting their self-esteem. Scene & Heard is committed to producing the highest quality theatre with and for the Somers Town Community. Our work improves literacy skills and attitudes towards education and develops communication and social skills.
In order to have a profound and long-term positive impact on the children we serve, we offer more than a one-off experience, children are invited back to work with us year after year. We work with siblings, building up lasting relationships with families and with the wider Somers Town community. We currently have 429 Member Playwrights aged nine to 30+
## **We aim to:**
- boost children’s self-esteem and raise aspirations through personal experiences of success
- give each child high quality one-to-one mentoring
- offer the children positive adult role models from beyond their normal experience
- run courses using playwriting and other drama skills to benefit the children of Somers Town
- tailor courses to the developing needs of each child
- provide an environment where each child feels they can offer something of value
- continue working with each child through a series of courses from age nine onwards
- remain a significant presence in the lives of the children and their families
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Our commitment to our 400+ theatre professionals who volunteer their services to us includes:
- providing a uniquely challenging and rewarding experience
- providing the opportunity to develop their professional skills and contacts
- accommodating schedules to ensure that they can volunteer whilst maintaining professional commitments
- offer support, advice and broker professional relationships to enhance their careers
## **Public Benefit**
We serve the wider community of Somers Town, providing high-quality theatre in the community. We aim to create a space where everyone is welcome. To this end we:
- professionally produce regular seasons of innovative new writing for a public audience
- do not charge for performances
- produce our work within the community we serve
- provide free Drama Drop In and Creative Arts Week programmes for local children
- maintain a wealth of free online content for the benefit of children, their families, local schools, the wider Somers Town Community and our arts professional volunteers
- offer free bespoke support to individuals
- open our Arts Hub home to the local community and the wider theatre professional arts and charity sectors
To mark our 25[th] Anniversary year we commissioned an academic study to investigate and measure the impact of **25 Years of Scene & Heard** on the community of Somers Town Camden.
## **Our Impact**
- 73% of children who have worked with Scene & Heard have achieved education level 3 or above, compared with 58% in St Pancras and Somers Town (2021 census)
- Referring teachers’ assessments state: 92% of children improve their literacy after a Scene & Heard course; 100% improve their relationships with their peers; 95% participate more in class. In addition, teachers report that 70% of families improve their relationships with the school after a Scene & Heard production
- 100% of children feel that their play was successful and describe their experience positively and enthusiastically
- 429 children have written a play for professional production by Scene & Heard and 82% have come back to do more with us
- Our Teachers’ Pack _**Playwriting the Scene & Heard Way** ,_ available on our website and the _TES_ website, continues to be hugely popular with teachers around the world. We are proud to share our work with the wider community and demonstrate best practice in this way
_**The children have really benefitted from this experience and really enjoyed it! They are so proud of their plays and are definitely more confident speaking/contributing in different situations now.**_
## **Ruby Nasser, Head Teacher, Edith Neville Primary School**
## **Events and Courses in the year May 2023 – April 2024**
- _**Stage One**_ Workshop Weekend – May 2023. Ten of our Member Playwrights aged 11-14 completed this course; their first introduction to performance, returning to Scene & Heard to continue their journey with us and develop playwriting and communication skills
- _**Playmaking One**_ – Summer Term 2023. Ten children new to Scene & Heard, aged 9-10, took our term-long flagship course of one-to-one mentoring across weekly after school classes, intensive Writing Weekend and rehearsals, culminating in four public performances of _Paintbrush and Pen – The Arty Plays_ July 2023
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- _**Stage Two**_ – Autumn Term 2023. Twelve young people were engaged in a **brand-new course** across a range of activities including a theatre trip, after school sessions to create a world alongside a live illustrator, three workshop days during half-term, a local public sharing of work and a party
- _**Playmaking One**_ – Autumn Term 2023. Ten new children aged 9-11 took our second flagship course culminating in four public performances of _Fancy Footwork – The Dazzling Plays_ November 2023
- _**Replay**_ – Spring Term 2024. All ten places were taken up by children aged 10-11, who had previously completed _Playmaking One_ either in Autumn 2022 or Summer 2023, to create the first of our anniversary plays _**25 Years On – The Silver Jubilee Plays**_
In addition, we developed our **Arts Hub programmes** aimed directly at local children who may not be referred to our Playwriting programmes:
- **Drama Drop In** – Spring term 2023. Weekly after school classes of drama games and activities free to the local community regularly engaged 20 children
- **Creative Arts Week** – August 2023. Delivered in the summer holidays for children from the local area, 25 children aged 7-11 from six primary schools across Camden participated in the week culminating in a public sharing of work
We broadened how we support our beneficiaries:
- We welcomed two older Member Playwrights for **Work Experience** at the Scene & Heard HQ, where they supported the team in a range of activities.
- We expanded our **Young Ambassador** program, recruiting an additional two older Member Playwrights to get involved in all things Scene & Heard, supporting Writing Weekends and productions as well as actively participating in our 25th Anniversary events.
- We undertook three **theatre trips into the West End,** taking nine Member Playwrights to see to see ‘Oklahoma!’ in May 2023, a group of eight to see ‘Hamilton’ in February 2024 and another group of nine to see ‘Back to The Future’ in April, providing meaningful cultural encounters for our young people while continuing our long-term engagement with them.
- We maintained **regular contact with Member Playwrights** offering bespoke advocacy and support as and when required.
We mounted three professional theatre productions, welcoming **1,560 audience members** to our performances, producing amazing theatre with and for the Somers Town community. We have effectively established our new home as an **Arts Hub** and resource for the local community, offering programmes to engage local children in free drama activities. We have maintained and developed new partnerships across the sectors we work in, continuing to build our profile as a leading community arts project in Camden.
In addition to our own programme, we provide **studio hires** to theatre artists and visitors from like-minded organisations. In the last year, over **1800 people** have visited our space to take part in creative activities including: LIFEbeat creative Practice Training, The Wright School, offering professional theatre practitioner development, The Vindicate Company rehearsals, Young Camden Foundation workshop, Snipple Animation meeting, Smile Productions and Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival. Studio hires help to financially support our core work whilst welcoming diverse cultural arts organizations and activities into the area.
In the year May 2023 – April 2024 Scene & Heard worked with over 160 volunteer theatre professionals; Actors, Directors and Writers. We hired a number of freelance designers and technicians on a project-by-project basis as well as some additional support staff for our 25[th] Anniversary projects. Our volunteer base has approximately 400+ active members. All volunteers undergo child protection training and an enhanced DBS check. We work to give our arts professionals a wholly positive experience, accommodating their professional careers and valuing their expertise. We reimburse their travel expenses to ensure that no one is out of pocket in volunteering for us and this year hosted a workshop in ‘Developing your Creative Practice’, advising on effective applications to Arts Council England for those producing their own work.
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## **Scene & Heard volunteers** 2023-24 among many others have included:
David Ahmad – Actor, _The Crucible, Hamlet_ (National theatre) _The Kite Runner_ UK, _Potted Potter_ New York Liz Crowther – Actor TV _The Chelsea Detective, Doctors, Shakespeare & Hathaway_ Margaret Cabourn-Smith - Actor TV _Trying, Buffering, Motherland, Miranda, Holby City, Catastrophe_ Henry Everett – Actor, _The Crucible, Anthony & Cleopatra_ (National Theatre) _Scandaltown_ (Lyric Hammersmith) Daniel Fraser – Actor TV, _The Art Lovers Grantchester, The Crown, Doctors, Holby City_ Jonny Freeman – Actor, _Eastenders, MI High, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders_ Don Gilet – Actor, _Sherwood, Shakespeare & Hathaway, Midsomer Murders, Holby City, Eastenders_ Greg Haiste – Actor, W. End: _Fawlty Towers, Nell Gwyn_ , _39 Steps_ , _Quiz,_ RSC
Mariam Haque – Actor TV, _Some Brave Girls, Henpocalypse, Midsomer Murders, Plebs, This is going to Hurt_ Rebecca Lee – Actor, _The Pillowman, Small Island_ (National theatre), _Jerusalem, Twelfth Night_ (Watermill Theatre) Rachel Louise Miller – Actor _Standing at the Sky’s Edge (National Theatre)_ west End Musicals Amy Milburn – Director, Associate Director _The Play that goes wrong,_ Resident director _Guys and Dolls,_ West End Ben Moor – Actor, Writer, Comedian, _A Very English Scandal, The Queen’s Gambit, Taboo_ Joseph Prowen – Actor, _A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night_ (RSC), _Piaf_ , Nottingham Playhouse Matthew Steer – Actor TV, _Shardlake, The Ipcress File, Dangerous Liaisons, Becoming Elizabeth_ Susie Trayling – Actor, W. End: _Harry Potter & The Cursed Child,_ RSC Phoebe Waller Bridge – BAFTA & Emmy Award winning Actor & Writer, _Fleabag, Killing Eve_ Jamie Wilkes – Actor, RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, TV _The English, Finding Alice, His Dark Materials_
## **Fundraising**
Scene & Heard raises funds through applications to grant making trusts, corporate sponsorship, benefactors (high wealth individuals), our Eyes & Ears Individual Giving scheme, one-off donations and our own fundraising efforts. Scene & Heard abides by the Code of Fundraising Practice and the requirements of the Fundraising Regulator, updating our policies and procedures in line with changes to the code and best practice in the sector. Scene & Heard does not use any third parties to raise funds, such as a professional fundraiser or commercial participator.
Scene & Heard is in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our Privacy Policy (available on our website) and our Data Protection Policy reflect the law. We have Legitimate Interests Assessments for all individuals whose data is essential for the delivery of our courses and events: our Member Playwrights, our volunteers (including trustees and patrons), our regular donors & funders, local community organisations (including schools and local government) and other creative industry partners with whom we may collaborate.
All our marketing and fundraising information contains clear instructions on how to change communication preferences and we respond to any requests within the legal time frame. We also have a transparent complaints procedure. Scene & Heard continues to ensure that our data procedures and policies are in line with all relevant legislation.
Eyes & Ears income increased by 10% this year. We also raised £17,398 from our Benefactors, high wealth individuals with a commitment to our work in Somers Town.
Our Head of Development continues to pursue our **Fundraising Strategy** that is underpinned by our Strategic Plan 2021 – 2026. The strategy includes the aim to continue to diversify our income streams, notably with **Corporate Sponsorship** and **Legacy Giving** . It includes plans to expand our **Eyes & Ears Individual Giving Scheme** by increasing the number of donors.
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We enjoy a positive and successful relationship with our corporate sponsors and are pleased to report that our income from Corporations increased by 18% this year. Our sponsors are:
- Film and TV production company, **Sister,** continue to support us as their charity partner.
- Our neighbours Phoenix Court Works who have funded us for the third time this year through the **Phoenix Court Works Foundation.**
- Argent LLP and The Kings Cross Partnership.
Scene & Heard would like to take this opportunity to **thank the following trusts and foundations** for their support of our work in 2023-2024:
Backstage Trust John Lyon's Charity BBC Children in Need Joseph Mindel Trust The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation The Russell Kin Trust The Carlile Family Foundation The Shadworth Hodgson Bequest Crescendo The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Thompson Family Charitable Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Tom Ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust The Gosling Foundation Wellington Management UK Foundation The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Our fundraising events this year:
- Our fifteenth annual **Anniversary Pub Quiz** took place in The Brondes Age, Camden in February 2024. This new venue allowed us increased capacity for our 25[th] anniversary celebrations. Hosted by volunteer Jez Worsnip of The Quiz Team with a special guest round by Patron Samuel West.
- **Audience donations** collected during a week of performances of _The Play That Goes Wrong_
- **Numerous Volunteers** raised funds through their own activities and online giving campaigns including Barbara Barnes, Suzanne Cave, Ben Moor.
## **Merchandise**
Merchandise sales continue to bring a small but steady income at our productions each year with **Christmas cards** and our 20[th] Anniversary book _Only Cheese Can Leave – The Universal Truths of Scene & Heard_ proving popular. This year, we updated our merchandise stock with baseball caps, keep cups, keychains and 25[th] Anniversary stickers.
## **In Kind donors**
- **Slaughter & May** continue to give us legal support whilst negotiating the lease of our new building
- **The Quiz Team** provided our annual pub quiz
- **Ian Bass Illustrations** creates all of the illustrations for our flyers, Christmas and greetings cards
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## **Summary**
Scene & Heard’s total income in 2023-24 was £410,459, down slightly from £479,229 in the previous year. Expenditure for the year was £396,370 compared with £374,518 in 2022-23. We finished the financial year with unrestricted funds of £688,042 of which £211,930 were free reserves, and with restricted funds of £51,251 making up total funds of £739,293.
Accountancy firm JS2 continue to provide our independent financial examination.
## **Income**
Funding from trusts and foundations in 2023-24 continues to make up 53% of total income for the year.
Our corporate income comprised our ongoing partnership with Sister, Phoenix Court Works Foundation and The Kings Cross Central Limited Partnership.
Statutory income came from Camden Council and Big Local.
In order to ensure access for all, we do not charge for tickets to our performances, but we do receive consistent amounts in audience donations.
We were able to claim Gift Aid on our Individual donations, including Eyes & Ears and one-off donations.
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## **Expenditure**
Total expenditure of £396,370 was an increase of 6% on the 2022-23 total. Charitable Activities accounted for 81% of total expenditure (the same as the previous year) with the remainder attributed to Fundraising activities.
We continue to increase our budgets for Member Playwrights’ expenses and Volunteer Artists’ expenses to support our beneficiaries and volunteers during the ongoing cost of living crisis. We have used the Hilary Mantel Member Playwright fund to continue to provide full catering for all Member Playwrights, volunteers and staff during all full day events on our courses.
We have used designated funds from the Kathryn Finlay Future Fund to make further improvements to our building. In August we replaced external gates that were not fit for purpose with welcoming, practical and accessible new ones. Now that these are complete, we don’t anticipate any further capital spend on the building; the balance of the KFF Fund will be used to support our ongoing increased running costs of the building.
We spent two thirds of our designated 25[th] Anniversary funds on four days of celebrations and popup museum for all our stakeholders and beneficiaries.
Scene & Heard has been delivering work for 25 years and has an excellent track record of financial stability. We monitor and review our expenditure continuously.
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## **PLANS FOR THE FUTURE**
We are currently mounting a series of events to mark our **25th Anniversary.** We created a spectacular **Pop-Up Museum celebrating 25 Years of playmaking in Somers Town** which was opened by HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh. The museum was free and open to all in May 2024. In addition we hosted a series of parties for all our major stakeholders.
We have created and are in the process of sharing widely our **Longitudinal impact measurement study** , which will serve as an excellent resource for funders and future development partners.
We were recently announced as **charity of the year for the Mayor of Camden, 2024-2025** . This is all the more poignant as the Mayor is a Scene & Heard parent, we have worked with her family since 2010. We are delighted to have this opportunity to both celebrate the impact of Scene & Heard in the borough and raise the profile of our work with marginalised communities through the arts.
_**“Scene & Heard is a charity I’m passionate about. They provide incredible opportunities for children in Somers Town, allowing them to work with professional actors and to develop their creativity and confidence. My children have benefited greatly from taking part in Scene & Heard programmes. ”**_ **Cllr Samata Khatoon, Mayor of Camden and Scene & Heard Parent**
We will continue to deliver our core **schedule of courses** : two _Playmaking One_ courses and _Replay._ In addition, we will offer _**Writeback**_ our biennial course for older beneficiaries which in 2024 will be run in Partnership with The British Library.
We will plan regular **theatre trips** giving new cultural experiences to our Member Playwrights.
In addition to our flagship mentoring playwriting and performance courses, we will run our successful **Drama Drop In and Creative Arts Week** programmes for local children. As with all of our work, children will be able to experience activities that encourage achievement and success completely **free of charge ensuring equal access for all** .
Scene & Heard continues to expand opportunities for older children and Member Playwrights. We will:
- Further develop our **Member Playwright noticeboard** on our website
- Develop our **Young Ambassadors Programme**
- Work with local corporate sponsors to develop new and different **Work Experience opportunities** for our Members
- Host an arts based **Careers Fair** _‘Behind The curtain’_ for older Members to alert them to some of the many opportunities in the world of theatre, film and tv; connecting our young people to a range of sectors and roles they may be interested in but cannot readily access
- • We are working in partnership with **Camden Youth Theatre** to host ‘taster sessions’ of their drama workshops for our older Member Playwrights and those interested in pursuing performance or technical theatre activities
We will continue to develop our **HQ** as an **Arts Hub** , encouraging leading theatre professionals and like-minded organisations whose values chime with our own, to come and work in our space.
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## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
**Company number** 03761808 (England and Wales) **Charity number** 1077836 (England and Wales) **Principal and** 128A Chalton Street, London NW1 1RX **Registered office**
## **Directors and trustees**
The directors of the charitable company (the charity) are its trustees for the purposes of charity law. The trustees, officers and staff serving during the year and since the year end were as follows **:**
**Trustees** Keith Ackerman (Chair from 09/18) Emma Bell Brónagh McCann Resigned 12/23 Joanne Millard Tracey Mullett Resigned 09/23 John Nevin (Deputy Chair from 09/18) Anthony Obiezekpazu Jim O’Shea Appointed 03/24 Emily Plosker Andrew Porter John Rolph David Stewart (Treasurer from 12/19) **Staff** CEO & Artistic Director — Rosalind Paul MBE Finance & General Manager – Catherine Hylton Head of Development – Natasha Shaw Arts Officer, Courses & Productions – Katie Wee **Bookkeeping** NRV Tax Ltd appointed March 2023 **Strategic Consultant** Fiona Mallin-Robinson **Banks** CAF Bank, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4JQ The Cooperative Bank Plc, PO Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP Triodos Bank, Deanery Road, Bristol BS1 5AS Reliance Bank Ltd, Faith House, 23-24 Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EB Virgin Money, Sunderland SR43 4JB **Independent** JS2 Ltd, One Crown Square, Church Street East, **Examiners** Woking, Surrey, GU21 6HR
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## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
Scene and Heard is a company limited by guarantee governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 22 March 1999, and is a registered charity. Each member of the company has agreed to contribute £10 in the event of the charity winding up. The CEO, Strategy Advisor and all trustees are members: Keith Ackerman, Emma Bell, Fiona Mallin-Robinson, Jo Millard, John Nevin, Anthony Obiezekpazu, Jim O’Shea, Rosalind Paul, Emily Plosker, Andrew Porter, John Rolph and David Stewart. All members are actively involved in the work of the charity.
There can be no less than three trustees. New trustees are appointed by the board. The trustees meet regularly to direct the charity’s affairs. There are four full time employees. All staff and trustees undergo enhanced DBS checks. In addition, our bookkeeper and strategy advisor support the charity on a freelance basis. We also hire freelance production staff on short term contracts when required.
New trustees have an orientation programme which includes: seeing a production, meeting the staff and a number of volunteers. They are given a **Trustee Welcome Pack** , papers and briefing on their legal obligations under charity and company law, on the charity’s decision-making process and financial performance. Trustees are encouraged to attend appropriate external training.
**Related parties** : None of our trustees receive remuneration or other benefit from their work with the charity. Any connection between a trustee or employee of the charity and any individual or organisation which is paid to work with or for the charity must be disclosed to the full board of trustees in the same way as any other contractual relationship with a related third party. In the year under review no such related party transactions were reported.
**Pay policy for senior staff:** The Trustees consider the board of Trustees and the senior management team comprise the key management personnel of the charity in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the Charity on a day-to-day basis. All trustees give of their time freely and no trustee received remuneration in the year. Details of trustees’ expenses and related party transactions are disclosed in Note 2 to the accounts.
Staff salaries are reviewed annually by the remuneration committee, a sub-committee of Trustees.
**Risk management** : At the annual review of the strategic plan, trustees assess the risks which the charity may face and the systems and procedures which mitigate the risks identified. Scene & Heard is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The trustees’ review has identified that financial sustainability is one of the charity’s main risks.
The Trustees are pleased to report that the organisation is in a strong position from which to deliver all our planned activities for the next year and we regularly review our fundraising strategy, to ensure that our growth and development is sustainable.
A key element in the management of financial risk is a strong reserves policy.
**Reserves** : The trustees have reviewed the charity’s need for reserves in line with the guidance issued by the Charity Commission. The trustees have identified that general funds should be sufficient to safeguard the charity’s service commitment in the event of delays in receipt of grants and to ensure continuity in the event of a large variation of income, enabling the charity to run efficiently and meet the needs of the beneficiaries for at least 6 months. This includes the obligations that would result from a decision to wind up the charity, to cover staff notice periods, governance costs, overheads and contractual commitments.
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In order to guarantee the above, the Trustees have designated that reserves equivalent to at least six months’ operating costs be held by the charity to ensure it can meet its future obligations as they fall due. The reserves amount for the financial year 2024-25 is £211,930.
In line with our long-term planning, **The Kathryn Findlay Future Fund** initially set up to secure the future home of Scene & Heard, has been utilised to cover moving and setting up costs including a number of improvements to the building to make it suitable for our purposes. This year we replaced our external gates. We will continue to hold a reduced fund retained for ongoing and unforeseen building related costs.
## **Small Company Exemptions**
This report is prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
Signed on behalf of the board of directors and trustees:
**Keith Ackerman** Trustee & Chairman
**David Stewart** Trustee & Treasurer
Date
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**Independent Examiner’s Report to the Members of SCENE AND HEARD for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 30 April 2024 as set out on pages 15 to 25.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
This report is made solely to the charity's trustees, as a body. My work has been undertaken so that I might state to the charity's trustees those matters which I am required to state to them in an independent examiner’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility to any party other than the charity and charity's trustees as a body, for my examination, for this report, or for the statement I have given below.
## **Independent Examiner's statement**
The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; or
- the accounts do not accord with such records; or
- the accounts do not comply with relevant accounting requirements under section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
- the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **JOHN SPEED FCA FCIE**
JS2 Limited One Crown Square Woking Surrey GU21 6HR
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**SCENE AND HEARD STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES Including Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
|**Scene & Heard: DRAFT Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 30th April 2024**
**Note**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2024**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2024**
**Total Funds 2024**
**Income from:**
£
£
£
Donations & legacies
1
277,192
111,966
389,158
Other Trading Activities
(Fundraising)
1
8,878
-
8,878
Income from investments
(Bank interest)
1
12,423
-
12,423
**Total income:**
**298,493**
**111,966**
**410,459**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
2
76,106
-
76,106
Charitable activities
2
200,526
119,738
320,264
**Total expenditure:**
**276,632**
**119,738**
**396,370**
**NET INCOME:**
21,861
(7,772)
14,089
Total funds at beginning of year
666,181
59,023
725,204
**Total funds at end of year**
**688,042**
**51,251**
**739,293**|**Scene & Heard: DRAFT Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 30th April 2024**
**Note**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2024**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2024**
**Total Funds 2024**
**Income from:**
£
£
£
Donations & legacies
1
277,192
111,966
389,158
Other Trading Activities
(Fundraising)
1
8,878
-
8,878
Income from investments
(Bank interest)
1
12,423
-
12,423
**Total income:**
**298,493**
**111,966**
**410,459**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
2
76,106
-
76,106
Charitable activities
2
200,526
119,738
320,264
**Total expenditure:**
**276,632**
**119,738**
**396,370**
**NET INCOME:**
21,861
(7,772)
14,089
Total funds at beginning of year
666,181
59,023
725,204
**Total funds at end of year**
**688,042**
**51,251**
**739,293**|**Scene & Heard: DRAFT Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 30th April 2024**
**Note**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds 2024**
**Restricted**
**Funds 2024**
**Total Funds 2024**
**Income from:**
£
£
£
Donations & legacies
1
277,192
111,966
389,158
Other Trading Activities
(Fundraising)
1
8,878
-
8,878
Income from investments
(Bank interest)
1
12,423
-
12,423
**Total income:**
**298,493**
**111,966**
**410,459**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
2
76,106
-
76,106
Charitable activities
2
200,526
119,738
320,264
**Total expenditure:**
**276,632**
**119,738**
**396,370**
**NET INCOME:**
21,861
(7,772)
14,089
Total funds at beginning of year
666,181
59,023
725,204
**Total funds at end of year**
**688,042**
**51,251**
**739,293**|Total Funds
2023
£
458,276
18,348
2,605|
|---|---|---|---|
||**298,493**||**479,229**|
||76,106
200,526|-
76,106
119,738
320,264|64,923
309,595|
||**276,632**|**119,738**
**396,370**
|**374,518**|
||21,861
666,181|(7,772)
14,089
59,023
725,204|104,711
620,493|
||**688,042**|**51,251**
**739,293**|**725,204**|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derives from continuing activities.
The annexed notes form part of these financial statements
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## **SCENE AND HEARD BALANCE SHEET as at 30 April 2024 Company Number 03761808**
## **BALANCE SHEET**
|**BALANCE SHEET**|||
|---|---|---|
|Note
**FIXED ASSETS**
Improvement for leasehold
Plant & Machinery
5
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank and in hand
Debtors
Prepayments & accrued income
**Current liabilities**
Trade Creditors
PAYE & NICs
Pension contributions
Accruals
Deferred income
4
Creditors:
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
6
**FUNDS**
**Unrestricted**
General Unrestricted
Designated
Total Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL FUNDS**
7|**2024**
£
45,002
21,761|2023
£
16,358
29,015|
||66,763
676,267
20,015
10,276|45,373
678,388
603
11,620|
||706,558
(1,485)
(3,173)
(1,297)
(8,073)
(20,000)
(34,028)
672,530
**739,293**
211,930
476,112|690,611
(1,364)
(5,226)
(1,296)
(2,894)
-|
|||(10,780)
679,831|
|||725,204|
|||200,808
465,373|
||688,042|666,181|
||51,251|59,023|
||**739,293**|725,204|
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**SCENE AND HEARD BALANCE SHEET as at 30 April 2024 Company Number 03761808**
For the year ended 30 April 2024 the Company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Directors' responsibilities:
- (i) The members have not required the Company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476
- (ii) The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime. They were approved, and authorised for issue, by the directors on 9 September 2024 and signed on their behalf by:-
Keith Ackerman David Stewart Trustee Trustee
Date Date
The annexed notes form part of these financial statements
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**SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**Company number** 03761808 (England and Wales) **Charity number** 1077836 (England and Wales) **Principal and Registered office** 128A Chalton Street London NW1 1RX
## **Basis of preparation of accounts**
These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102). The Charity is a public benefit entity for the purposes of FRS 102 and therefore has also prepared the financial statements in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (The FRS 102 Charities SORP) and the Charities Act 2011.
## **Going Concern**
The trustees have assessed whether the use of the going concern basis is appropriate and have considered possible events or conditions that might cast significant doubt on the ability of the Charity to continue as a going concern. The trustees have made this assessment for a period of at least one year from the date of approval of the financial statements. In particular the trustees have considered the Charity’s forecasts and projections and have taken into account the limitations around holding courses and impact on future trust & foundation funding. After making enquiries the trustees have concluded that there is a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The Charity therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity and have not been designated for other purposes. Restricted funds are funds received to be used for particular purposes. Designated funds are funds earmarked by the trustees for a particular project or commitment, but which remain part of the unrestricted funds and are not legally restricted to the designated purpose.
## **Income**
Donations and legacies are received by way of subscriptions and donations and are included in full in the statement of financial activities when received. Income that is received that does not meet the criteria for recognition of income because entitlement to the income does not exist at the balance sheet date is recorded as deferred income. Income from fundraising ventures is shown gross under Other trading with the associated costs included in the costs of Raising funds. Bank interest is included in the statement of financial activities when received under Investment income.
## **Expenditure**
Expenditure is included in the Statement of Financial Activities on an accrual’s basis, inclusive of any VAT which cannot be recovered.
Expenditure has been included in the following cost categories:
**Raising funds** is costs incurred encouraging people and organisations to contribute financially to the charity’s work. This includes the cost of staging special fundraising events.
**Charitable activities** costs are expenditure on meeting the charity’s objectives (as opposed to the cost of raising the funds to finance these activities). Such costs include the direct costs of the charitable activities together with an allocation of the support costs and governance costs that enable these activities to be undertaken.
## **Operating leases**
Rental charges are charged on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.
Items of equipment are capitalised where the purchase price exceeds £2,000. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write down the cost of each asset to its estimated residual value over its expected useful life. The depreciation rates in use are as follows:
Leasehold Improvements 5 years straight line Plant & Machinery 5 years straight line
## **Significant judgements and sources of estimation uncertainty**
The preparation of financial statements in compliance with FRS 102 requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise judgement in applying the charity’s accounting policies. The key judgements that have been applied by management relate to depreciation rates.
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## **SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **1 INCOME**
|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Donations and legacies**
£
Trusts
Anonymous
-
Backstage Trust
-
BBC Children In Need
-
Carlile Family Foundation
15,000
Christina Smith Foundation
-
Crescendo
1,000
Garfield Weston
20,000
John Lyon's Charity
30,000
Joseph Mindel Trust
-
Russell Kin Trust
-
Shadworth Hodgson Bequest
5,000
South Camden Community Trust
-
The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation
-
The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
-
The Gosling Foundation
-
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
-
The John Thaw Foundation
-
The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust
1,250
Thompson Family Charitable Trust
50,000
Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust
-
Wellington Management UK Foundation
35,000
**Trusts Subtotal**
157,250
Statutory Grants
-
One-off donations
(incl Benefactors & In Memoriam)
24,066
Eyes & Ears
28,176
Audience donations
8,422
Corporate sponsorship
37,130
Gift Aid recovered
8,988
In Kind donations
13,160
**Total Donations and legacies**
**277,192**
**Other Trading (Fundraising)**
Merchandise sales
2,705
Marathon Runners etc
-
Studio hire
4,670
Other fundraising (one-off events)
1,503
**Total Other trading activities**
**8,878**
**Investments**
**12,423**
**Total Income**
**298,493**|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Donations and legacies**
£
Trusts
Anonymous
-
Backstage Trust
-
BBC Children In Need
-
Carlile Family Foundation
15,000
Christina Smith Foundation
-
Crescendo
1,000
Garfield Weston
20,000
John Lyon's Charity
30,000
Joseph Mindel Trust
-
Russell Kin Trust
-
Shadworth Hodgson Bequest
5,000
South Camden Community Trust
-
The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation
-
The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
-
The Gosling Foundation
-
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
-
The John Thaw Foundation
-
The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust
1,250
Thompson Family Charitable Trust
50,000
Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust
-
Wellington Management UK Foundation
35,000
**Trusts Subtotal**
157,250
Statutory Grants
-
One-off donations
(incl Benefactors & In Memoriam)
24,066
Eyes & Ears
28,176
Audience donations
8,422
Corporate sponsorship
37,130
Gift Aid recovered
8,988
In Kind donations
13,160
**Total Donations and legacies**
**277,192**
**Other Trading (Fundraising)**
Merchandise sales
2,705
Marathon Runners etc
-
Studio hire
4,670
Other fundraising (one-off events)
1,503
**Total Other trading activities**
**8,878**
**Investments**
**12,423**
**Total Income**
**298,493**|**2024**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
£
5,000
10,000
9,966
-
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
-
-
2,000
4,000
-
8,000
-
-
-
10,000
-|**2024**
**Total Funds**
**2023**
**Total Funds**
£
£
5,000
10,000
10,000
13,000
9,966
9,868
15,000
15,000
-
8,000
1,000
1,000
20,000
20,000
30,000
58,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
5,000
-
157
2,000
1,500
4,000
3,000
-
6,000
8,000
8,000
-
1,000
1,250
1,000
50,000
50,000
10,000
5,000
35,000
50,000
216,216
270,525
23,000
42,000
24,066
16,912
28,176
25,645
8,422
7,944
67,130
57,021
8,988
10,139
13,160
28,090
**389,158**
458,276
2,705
3,143
-
4,850
4,670
4,405
1,503
5,950
**8,878**
18,348
**12,423**
2,605
**410,459**
479,229|
|---|---|---|---|
||157,250
-
24,066
28,176
8,422
37,130
8,988
13,160|58,966
23,000
-
-
-
30,000
-
-||
||**277,192**|**111,966**||
||2,705
-
4,670
1,503|-
-
-
-||
||**8,878**|**-**||
||**12,423**|**-**||
||**298,493**|**111,966**||
A major resource benefitting the charity during this financial period is the contribution of over 100 volunteer arts professionals. Actors, writers and directors, give up their time and dedicate their talents to mentoring the children of Somers Town, enabling them to write their own plays and performing them with the highest production values.
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## **SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **2 OPERATING AND SUPPORT COSTS**
|**Direct costs**
Staff costs (Note 3)
Performance venue hire
Hire of rehearsal space
Set, costumes and props
Production support
Member Playwrights' expenses
Volunteer Artists' expenses
Travel & expenses
Admin support & special projects
DBS
Insurance
25th Birthday projects
Publicity materials
Development
Subscriptions
**Total direct costs**
**Support costs**
**Governance costs**
Strategic planning and Longitudinal Study
Independent Examiner's fees
Governance sundries
**Subtotal Governance costs**
Other support costs
Office rental and overheads
Building utilities and services
Relocation costs
Bank charges
Telephone & Internet
Printing
Postage
Stationery
Training & recruitment
IT
Website
Merchandise
Bookkeeping
Office sundries
Depreciation
Studio hire expenses
Fundraising events
**Subtotal other support costs**
**Total support costs**
**TOTAL COSTS**|**2024**
**Raising funds**
£
39,387
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,186
-
4,149
1,698|**2024**
**Charitable**
**activities**
£
157,546
11,434
973
3,169
18,877
9,692
6,366
3,765
360
699
1,453
16,699
1,180
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**2023**
**Total**
£
£
196,933
191,016
11,434
14,844
973
759
3,169
4,318
18,877
38,857
9,692
4,115
6,366
4,594
3,765
5,307
360
-
699
468
1,453
1,590
17,885
1,030
1,180
720
4,149
2,215
1,698
674
**278,633**
**270,507**
7,950
3,825
2,076
1,836
13,203
14,849
23,229
20,510
30,000
27,500
9,382
8,808
2,661
10,600
287
481
2,629
2,236
3,572
1,498
3,260
2,994
762
646
1,202
2,719
7,893
3,288
1,764
4,396
3,357
813
6,096
3,645
716
705
19,528
11,344
457
281
942
1,547
94,508
83,501
**117,737**
**104,011**
**396,370**
**374,518**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**46,420**|**232,213**||
||1,590
415
2,641|6,360
1,661
10,562||
||4,646
6,000
1,876
532
57
526
3,049
652
152
240
1,579
353
3,357
1,219
143
3,906
457
942|18,583
24,000
7,506
2,129
230
2,103
523
2,608
610
962
6,314
1,411
-
4,877
573
15,622
-
-||
||25,040|69,468||
||**29,686**|**88,051**||
||**76,106**|**320,264**||
Support costs are allocated on the basis of staff time where appropriate. None of the trustees (or any persons connected with them) received any remuneration or benefits from the charity or related entity during the year or prior year. Directly incurred expenses are reimbursed, if claimed. 2023-24 £Nil expenses claimed. (2022-23: £Nil).
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**SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **2 OPERATING AND SUPPORT COSTS (continued)**
## **3**
|**STAFF COSTS**
Operating lease payments
Wages and salaries (gross)
Social security costs
Pension costs
**TOTAL**
Benefits of Key Personnel|2024
2023
£
£
30,000
27,500
2024
2023
£
£
177,079
169,667
12,777
15,725
7,077
5,624
**196,933**
**191,016**
196,933
191,016|
|---|---|
The average head count during the year was 4 (2023: 4).
No employee received remuneration of more than £60,000 in the year or in the previous year (exclusive of employer’s National Insurance or pension contributions).
The key management personnel of the Charity comprise all staff members. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel are £196,933.
## **4 DEFERRED INCOME**
The charity received a total of £20,000 from the Argent (Kings Cross Central Limited Partnership) for the financial year 2024-25.
## **5**
## **FIXED ASSETS**
|**Cost**
At 1 May 2023
Additions in year
Disposals
At 30 April 2024
**Depreciation**
At 1 May 2023
Charge for the year
Disposals
At 30 April 2024
**Net Book Value**
At 30 April 2024
At 30 April 2023|**Leasehold**
**Improvements**
**£**
20,448
40,918
-|**Plant &**
**Machinery**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
36,269
56,717
-
40,918
-
-
36,269
97,635
7,254
11,344
7,254
19,528
-
-
14,508
30,872
21,761
66,763
29,015
45,373|
|---|---|---|
||61,366||
||4,090
12,274
-||
||16,364||
||45,002||
||16,358||
## **6 ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS**
|**Unrestricted Funds**
**£**
Net current assets
**688,042**|**Unrestricted Funds**
**£**
Net current assets
**688,042**|**Restricted Funds**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
**51,251**
**739,293**|
|---|---|---|
||**688,042**||
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## **SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **7 STATEMENT OF FUNDS IN THE YEAR**
|**Unrestricted Funds**
General unrestricted
Designated Investment Fund
Designated 25th Silver Jubilee Fund
Designated Fixed Assets Fund
Designated Kathryn Findlay Future
Fund
**Total Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
Courses fund
Kathryn Finlay Future Fund
**Total Restricted**
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**As at**
**1 May 2023**
200,808
300,000
25,000
45,373
95,000|**Income**
286,070
12,423
-
-
-
|**Expenditure**
234,030
-
17,885
19,528
5,189|**Transfers**
(40,918)
-
-
40,918
-|**As at**
**30 Apr 2024**
211,930
312,423
7,115
66,763
89,811
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**666,181**|**298,493**
111,966
-|**276,632**|**-**|**688,042**
|
||42,023
17,000||102,738
17,000|-
-|51,251
-|
||**59,023**
|**111,966**|**119,738**|**-**|**51,251**|
|||||||
||**725,204**|**410,459**|**396,370**|**-**
|**739,293**|
**Courses fund:** Funding to part or fully fund one or more of the relevant courses run in the year: Playmaking One Summer 2023; Stage One 2023; Creative Arts Week 2023; Drama Drop In 2023; Playmaking One Autumn 2023; Replay Spring 2024.
**Kathryn Findlay Future Fund – to secure the long-term home of Scene & Heard:** In 2023/24 the spending on this fund was towards making improvements to our new building, including new entrance gates. The Trustees have designated a further £89,811 to the fund for the ongoing costs of running the building.
## **8 STATEMENT OF FUNDS IN THE PRIOR YEAR**
|**Unrestricted Funds**
General unrestricted
Designated Investment Fund
Designated 25th Silver Jubilee Fund
Designated Fixed Assets Fund
Designated Kathryn Findlay Future
Fund
**Total Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
Courses fund
Kathryn Finlay Future Fund
**Total Restricted**
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**As at**
**1 May 2022**
150,004
-
-
-
435,797|**Income Expenditure**
329,528
244,259
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,889
**329,528**
**249,148**
132,701
108,312
17,000
17,058
**149,701**
**125,370**
**479,229**
**374,518**|**Income Expenditure**
329,528
244,259
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,889
**329,528**
**249,148**
132,701
108,312
17,000
17,058
**149,701**
**125,370**
**479,229**
**374,518**|**Transfers**
(34,465)
300,000
25,000
45,373
(335,908)|**As at**
**30 Apr 2023**
200,808
300,000
25,000
45,373
95,000|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**585,801**|**329,528**|**249,148**|**-**|**666,181**|
||17,634
17,058|132,701
17,000|108,312
17,058|-
-|42,023
17,000|
||**34,692**|**149,701**|**125,370**|**-**|**59,023**|
|||||||
||**620,492**|**479,229**|**374,518**|**-**|**725,204**|
All restricted income in the prior year related to donations and legacies, and all restricted expenditure related to charitable activities.
As the company is limited by guarantee, it has no share capital and no shareholders.
**9 SHARE CAPITAL**
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**SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **10 OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENTS**
At the reporting end date, the charity had the following future minimum lease payments under its noncancellable operating property lease which falls due as follows:
|Less than 1 year
Between 1 and 5 years
Over 5 years|**2024**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
30,000
30,000
120,000
120,000
120,000
120,000
**270,000**
**270,000**|
|---|---|
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**SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **11 INCOME – PRIOR YEAR**
|**2023**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Donations and legacies**
£
Trusts
Anonymous
2,000
Backstage Trust
3,000
BBC Children In Need
-
Carlile Family Foundation
15,000
Christina Smith Foundation
-
Crescendo
1,000
Garfield Weston
20,000
John Lyon's Charity
36,000
Joseph Mindel Trust
-
Shadworth Hodgson Bequest
5,000
South Camden Community Trust
-
The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation
-
The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
-
The Gosling Foundation
-
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
-
The John Thaw Foundation
-
The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust
1,000
Thompson Family Charitable Trust
50,000
Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust
-
Wellington Management UK Foundation
50,000
**Trusts Subtotal**
183,000
Statutory Grants
-
One-off donations (incl In Memoriam)
16,912
Eyes & Ears
25,645
Audience donations
7,944
Corporate sponsorship
36,845
Gift Aid recovered
10,139
In Kind donations
28,090
**Total Donations and legacies**
**308,575**
**Other Trading (Fundraising)**
Merchandise sales
3,143
Marathon Runners etc
4,850
Studio hire
4,405
Other fundraising (one-off events)
5,950
**Total Other trading activities**
**18,348**
**Investments**
**2,605**
**Total Income**
**329,528**|**2023**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Donations and legacies**
£
Trusts
Anonymous
2,000
Backstage Trust
3,000
BBC Children In Need
-
Carlile Family Foundation
15,000
Christina Smith Foundation
-
Crescendo
1,000
Garfield Weston
20,000
John Lyon's Charity
36,000
Joseph Mindel Trust
-
Shadworth Hodgson Bequest
5,000
South Camden Community Trust
-
The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation
-
The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust
-
The Gosling Foundation
-
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
-
The John Thaw Foundation
-
The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust
1,000
Thompson Family Charitable Trust
50,000
Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust
-
Wellington Management UK Foundation
50,000
**Trusts Subtotal**
183,000
Statutory Grants
-
One-off donations (incl In Memoriam)
16,912
Eyes & Ears
25,645
Audience donations
7,944
Corporate sponsorship
36,845
Gift Aid recovered
10,139
In Kind donations
28,090
**Total Donations and legacies**
**308,575**
**Other Trading (Fundraising)**
Merchandise sales
3,143
Marathon Runners etc
4,850
Studio hire
4,405
Other fundraising (one-off events)
5,950
**Total Other trading activities**
**18,348**
**Investments**
**2,605**
**Total Income**
**329,528**|**2023**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**2023**
**Total Funds**
£
£
8,000
10,000
10,000
13,000
9,868
9,868
-
15,000
8,000
8,000
-
1,000
-
20,000
22,000
58,000
5,000
5,000
-
5,000
157
157
1,500
1,500
3,000
3,000
6,000
6,000
8,000
8,000
1,000
1,000
-
1,000
-
50,000
5,000
5,000
-
50,000|
|---|---|---|
||183,000
-
16,912
25,645
7,944
36,845
10,139
28,090|87,525
270,525
42,000
42,000
-
16,912
-
25,645
-
7,944
20,176
57,021
-
10,139
-
28,090
**149,701**
458,276
-
3,143
-
4,850
-
4,405
-
5,950
**-**
**18,348**
**-**
**2,605**
**149,701**
**479,229**|
||**308,575**||
||3,143
4,850
4,405
5,950||
||**18,348**||
||**2,605**||
||**329,528**||
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**SCENE AND HEARD NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 30 April 2024**
## **12 OPERATING AND SUPPORT COSTS – PRIOR YEAR**
|**Direct costs**
Staff costs
Performance venue hire
Hire of rehearsal space
Set, costumes and props
Production support expenses
Member Playwrights' expenses
Volunteer Artists' expenses
Travel & expenses
DBS
Insurance
25th Birthday projects
Publicity materials
Development
Subscriptions
**Total direct costs**
**Support costs**
**Governance costs**
Strategic planning
Reporting accountants' fees
Governance sundries
**Subtotal Governance costs**
Other support costs
Office rental and overheads
Building utilities and services
Relocation costs
Bank charges
Telephone & Internet
Printing
Postage
Stationery
Training & recruitment
IT
Website
Merchandise
Bookkeeping
Office sundries
Depreciation
Studio hire expenses
Fundraising events
**Subtotal other support costs**
**Total support costs**
**TOTAL COSTS**|**2023**
**Raising funds**
**2023**
**Charitable**
**activities**
**2023**
**Total**
£
£
£
38,203
152,813
191,016
-
14,844
14,844
-
759
759
-
4,318
4,318
-
38,857
38,857
-
4,115
4,115
-
4,594
4,594
-
5,307
5,307
-
468
468
-
1,590
1,590
1,030
-
1,030
-
720
720
2,215
-
2,215
674
-
674
**42,122**
**228,385**
**270,507**
765
3,060
3,825
367
1,469
1,836
2,970
11,879
14,849
4,102
16,408
20,510
5,500
22,000
27,500
1,762
7,046
8,808
2,120
8,480
10,600
96
385
481
447
1,789
2,236
185
1,313
1,498
599
2,395
2,994
129
517
646
544
2,175
2,719
658
2,630
3,288
879
3,517
4,396
813
-
813
729
2,916
3,645
141
564
705
2,269
9,075
11,344
281
-
281
1,547
-
1,547
18,699
64,802
83,501
**22,801**
**81,210**
**104,011**
**64,923**
**309,595**
**374,518**|
|---|---|
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