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|Trustees'<br>Annual<br>Report (Incorporating||the|Director's Report)|||
|Independent<br>Examiner's<br>Report|to the|Trustees||||
|Statement of Financial Activities|(Including||Income and Expenditure|Account)||
|Statement ofFinancial<br>Position||||||
|Notes to the Financial Statements||||||
|The Following Pages Do Not|Form|Part|ofthe Financial Statements|||
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|Reference||and Administrative|and Administrative|and Administrative|Details||||
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|Registered||charity|name||Highlights<br>Productions||||
|Charity registration|||number||1100920||||
|Company|registration|||number|4646007||||
|Principal office and|||registered||Mostyn<br>Hall||||
|office|||||Friargate||||
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||||||Cumbria||||
||||||CA11 7XR||||
|The Trustees|||||||||
||||||Ms SCoffer||(Resigned|30December 2022)|
||||||Ms C Hardy<br>MrJHolland||(Resigned|1 September 2022)|
||||||Ms M Ingham||||
||||||MrTG Keys||||
||||||Ms E Lugg||||
||||||Mr KRahnama||||
||||||Mr0J Tallis<br>Ms JA Campbell||(Resigned|30December 2022)|
||||||Ms M Parker||(Resigned|30December 2022)|
|Company|Secretary||||Ms K Lynch||||
|Independent||Examiner|||Jane Ascroft FCA|MA (Cantab)|||
||||||Enterprise<br>House||||
||||||Harmire<br>Enterprise|Park|||
||||||Bamard Castle||||
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|||Note|6|8|E|f|
|Income and endowments|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||5|153,033|79,454|232,487|219,241|
|Charitable<br>activities||6|62,479|4,230|66,709|48,853|
|Investment<br>income||7|671||671|109|
|Total income|||216,183|83,684|299,867|268,203|
|Expenditure|||||||
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities|8,9|208,999|53,734|262,733|261,658|
|Total expenditure|||208,999|53,734|262,733|261,658|
|Net income|||7,184|29,950|37,134||
|Transfers<br>between funds|||300|(300)|||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||7,484|29,650|37,134|6,545|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward|||144,172|14,187|158,359|151,814|
|Total funds carried forward|||151,656|43,837|195,493|158,359|





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|Donations||||||
|Donations|||1,323||1,323|
|Gift aid|||126||126|
|Promoters'|membership|fees|3,920||3,920|
|Reimbursed|expenses||1,276|400|1,676|





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|Grants||||||||
|ACE NPO|Funds||||87,694||87,694|
|ACE NPO|Funds|(AOW)||||34,310|34,310|
|ACE HANDS||||||19,749|19,749|
|Cumbria<br>County||Council|||10,000||10,000|
|Durham<br>County||Council|||9,373||9,373|
|Northumberland||CC|||9,721||9,721|
|South Lakeland||DC|||5,100||5,100|
|Eden District Council|||||18,500|6,500|25,000|
|Cumbria<br>Community|||Foundation|||3,000|3,000|
|Sir James|Knott|Foundation||||6,160|6,160|
|The Place|||||6,000|9,335|15,335|
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|Donations|||||1,869||1,869|
|Gift aid|||||217||217|
|Promoters'|membership|||fees|3,250||3,250|
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|||||||Funds<br>f|Funds<br>f|2022<br>f|
||Grants||||||||
||ACE NPO||Funds|||73,198|14,496|87,694|
||ACE NPO||Funds|(AOW)|||34,310|34,310|
||ACE CRF|Grant||||21,837|6,896|28,733|
||ACE HANDS||||||24,687|24,687|
||Blaize Theatre Co||||||600|600|
||Cumbria<br>County|||Council||9,000|1,000|10,000|
||Cheshire|Rural Arts|||||600|600|
||Durham<br>County|||Council||8,374|1,000|9,374|
||NRTF|||||1,000||1,000|
||Northumberland|||CC||8,721|1,000|9,721|
||Rural Arts||||||600|600|
||South Lakeland|||DC||5,100||5,100|
||Spot On||||||600|600|
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||Workshop||income|||85|4,230|4,315|
||Ticket sales|||||62,394||62,394|
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||Workshop||income||||1,700|1,700|
||Ticket sales|||||47,153||47,153|
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|Performance|costs|||95,967|13,410|109,377|
|Staff costs||||83,738|3,523|87,261|
|Administration||||7,133|2,021|9,154|
|Marketing<br>and advertising||||13,502||13,502|
|Grants payable||||600|34,310|34,910|
|Premises costs||||5,617|470|6,087|
|Depreciation||||1,572||1,572|
|Legal and professional||fees||870||870|
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|||||Funds|Funds|2022|
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|Performance|costs|||94,749|20,752|115,501|
|Staff costs||||67,467|20,999|88,466|
|Administration||||5,297|983|6,280|
|Marketing<br>and advertising|||||8,233|8,233|
|Grants payable||||600|34,310|34,910|
|Premises costs||||5,466||5,466|
|Depreciation||||1,932||1,932|
|Legal and professional||fees||870||870|
|||||176,381|85,277|261,658|
|Expenditure|on Charitable||Activities by Activity Type||||
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||||directly|ofactivities|2023|2022|
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|Performance|costs||109,377||109,377|115,501|
|Staff costs|||87,261||87,261|88,466|
|Administration|||9,154||9,154|6,280|
|Marketing<br>and advertising|||13,502||13,502|8,233|
|Grants payable||||34,910|34,910|34,910|
|Premises costs|||6,087||6,087|5,466|
|Depreciation|||1,572||1,572|1,932|
|Legal and professional||fees|870||870|870|
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||Arts Out West|||||34,310|34,310|
||Heron Theatre|||||600|600|
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||Total grants|||||34,910|34,910|
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||Net income is|stated after||charging/(crediting):||||
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||Depreciation<br>oftangible||fixed assets|||1,572|1,932|
|12.|Independent|Examination||Fees||||
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||Fees payable|to the independent|||examiner for:|||
||Independent<br>examination|||ofthe financial statements||870|870|
|13.|Staff Costs|||||||
||The total staff|costs and|employee||benefits for the reporting|period are analysed<br>as|follows:|
|||||||2023<br>8|2022<br>f|
||Wages and salaries|||||72,547|67,591|
||Social security|costs||||326||
||Employer contributions||to|pension|plans|2,196|1,645|
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||||fittings|Equipment|Total|
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||At 1 April 2022||9,288|20,247|29,535|
||Additions|||519|519|
||At 31 March 2023||9,288|20,766|30,054|
||Depreciation|||||
||At 1 April 2022||8,960|14,805|23,765|
||Charge for the year||82|1,490|1,572|
||At 31 March 2023||9,042|16,295|25,337|
||Carrying<br>amount|||||
||At 31 March 2023||246|4,471|4,717|
||At 31 March 2022||328|5,442|5,770|
|16.|Debtors|||||
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||Trade debtors|||4,741|6,280|
|17.|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year||||
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||Trade creditors|||2,098|3,288|
||Accruals and deferred|income||4,884|2,470|
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|General|reserves|||138,402|216,183|(207,427)|(40,119)|107,039||
|Fixed asset||reserves||5,770||(1,572)|519||4,717|
|CRM|||||||3,000||3,000|
|Fundraising||support|||||1,400||1,400|
|Potential|office||move||||2,000||2,000|
|ITdevelopment|||||||1,000||1,000|
|Creative|Eng-|||||||||
|Secondary||school|||||2,500||2,500|
|Commissioning|||pot||||20,000||20,000|
|Staffing|budget||||||10,000||10,000|
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|General|reserves|||100,915|180,714|(174,449)|31,222|138,402||
|Fixed asset||reserves||7,702||(1,932)|||5,770|
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|HANDS|14,187|19,749|(8,373)|(300)|25,263|
|Arts Out West||34,310|(34,310)|||
|Participate||20,290|(7,480)||12,810|
|RTDI||9,335|(3,571)||5,764|
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|HANDS||27,087|(13,350)|450|14,187|
|Arts Out West||34,310|(34,310)|||
|Participate|5,052|14,274|(19,326)|||
|Catalyst Fundraising|31,672|||(31,672)||
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|||Funds<br>f|Funds|2023<br>f|
|Tangible fixed assets||4,717||4,717|
|Current assets||155,986|43,837|199,823|
|Creditors less than|1 year|(9,047)||(9,047)|
|Net assets||151,656|43,837|195,493|
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|||Funds<br>f|Funds|2022<br>f|
|Tangible fixed assets||5,770||5,770|
|Current assets||145,484|14,187|159,671|
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|Donations||||1,323|1,869|
|Gift aid||||126|217|
|Promoters'<br>membership|||fees|3,920|3,250|
|Reimbursed<br>expenses||||1,676|886|
|ACE NPO Funds||||87,694|87,694|
|ACE NPO Funds|(AOW)|||34,310|34,310|
|ACE CRF Grant|||||28,733|
|ACE HANDS||||19,749|24,687|
|Blaize Theatre Co|||||600|
|Cumbria<br>County|Council|||10,000|10,000|
|Cheshire<br>Rural Arts|||||600|
|Durham<br>County|Council|||9,373|9,374|
|NRTF|||||1,000|
|Northumberland|CC|||9,721|9,721|
|Rural Arts|||||600|
|South Lakeland|DC|||5,100|5,100|
|Spot On|||||600|
|Eden District Council||||25,000||
|Cumbria<br>Community||Foundation||3,000||
|Sir James Knott|Foundation|||6,160||
|The Place||||15,335||
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|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Workshop<br>income||||4,315|1,700|
|Ticket sales||||62,394|47,153|
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|Investment<br>income||||||
|Bank interest receivable||||671|109|
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|Accommodation||438|4,200|
|Artists' fees||102,365|94,177|
|Workshop<br>artist fees||6,550|15,688|
|Promotion|||284|
|Promoter training||24|1,152|
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|Staffcosts||||
|Wages||72,547|67,591|
|Employer's<br>NIC||326||
|Pension costs||2,196|1,645|
|Freelance work||7,735|14,705|
|Travel||3,397|3,943|
|Recruitment||626|150|
|Staff training|and other staff costs|434|432|
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|Administration||||
|Pdnting<br>and|stationery|(3)|251|
|Refreshments||143|654|
|Postage||118|326|
|Telephone||725|494|
|Computer<br>&|website expenses|2,959|1,346|
|Photocopying||679|922|
|Subscriptions||1,175|1,058|
|Administration||307|221|
|Research costs||2,374|1,008|
|Office equipment||677||
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|Marketing<br>and advertising||||
|Advertising<br>and marketing||3,749|981|
|Brochures||4,906|6,716|
|Mailing<br>list||1,157|311|
|Photographs||180|225|
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|Grants payable<br>Arts Out West|34,310|34,310|
|Heron Theatre|600|600|
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|Premises costs|||
|Rent|2,400|2,400|
|Light and heat|703|723|
|Repairs snd renewals|118|592|
|Insurance|1,476|1,019|
|Laundry<br>and cleaning|480|362|
|Room hire|910|370|
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|Depreciation|||
|Deprecation|1,572|1,932|
|Legal and professIonal fees|||
|Accountancy fees|870|870|
|Total expenditure|262,733|261,658|
|Net income|37,134|6,545|



