## 

## 



## 

|||||||Page|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Trustees Reference and||Administrative<br>Details|||||
|Report ofthe|Trustees<br>(including<br>Directors'<br>Report)|||||2-12|
|Independent|Auditor's<br>Report|||||13-15|
|Consolidated|Statement|of Financial Activities|(including|income and Expenditure|Account)||
|Consolidated|and Charity|Balance Sheet||||17|
|Consolidated|Cash Flow|Statement|||||
|Notes to the|Consolidated|Rnancial<br>Statements||||19-31|





## 

## 

|Registered||Charity Name|Charity Name|Charity Name|||UK Storyhouse<br>Limited|UK Storyhouse<br>Limited|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Charity Registration|||Number;||||1121007||||||
|Company|Registration|||Number:|||05541255||||||
|Trustees|||||||P M Mearns (Chair) (resigned||||18/11/2022)||
|(in the period||and at the date ofapproval):|||||D Watson (Chair) (appointed<br>18/11/2022)<br>S M Leech (Vice Chair) (resigned<br>18/11/2022)||||||
||||||||CJ Hyndman<br>(Vice Chair)||||||
||||||||N M Adamu||||||
||||||||EBoekesteijn||||||
||||||||L A Burnett||||||
||||||||G A Clifton (resigned|18/11/2022)|||||
||||||||M L Dalton (appoinled||18/11/2022)||||
||||||||W A Fergus (appointed||18/11/2022)||||
||||||||JW Grout (appointed|18/11/2022)|||||
||||||||J C I-loward||||||
||||||||A LJones||||||
||||||||S M Jones (appointed||18/11/2022)||||
||||||||K Kerr (resigned<br>10/03/2023)||||||
||||||||HSLin||||||
||||||||R A Matchett||||||
||||||||A A Owens (resigned|18/11/2022)|||||
||||||||M Perny (appointed|18/1||1/2022)|||
||||||||L C Towers (resigned||18/11/2022)||||
||||||||VVenugopai<br>(appointed|||18/1|1/2022)||
|Principal|and Registered||||Office:||Storyhouse<br>Hunter Street||||||
||||||||Chester||||||
||||||||Cheshire||||||
||||||||CH1 2AR||||||
|The Charity's||professional||advisors||are as follows:|||||||
|Auditors:|||||||Champion<br>Accountants|||LLP|||
||||||||2nd Floor Refuge House||||||
||||||||33-37Watergate<br>Row||||||
||||||||Chester||||||
||||||||CH1 2LE||||||
|Bankers:|||||||Lloyds Bank pic||||||
||||||||8 Foregate Street||||||
||||||||Chester||||||
||||||||CH1 1XP||||||
||||||||NatWest Bank pic||||||
||||||||33Eastgate Street||||||
||||||||Chester||||||
||||||||CH1 1LG||||||





## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 

## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 

## 

## 

## 



## 


## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 

## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 

## 

## 

## 

## 



## 

## 



## 

## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 



## 

## 

## 



## 

|||||||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
||||Notes|||||
|Income and endowments||from:||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||3|1,751,122|144,571|1,895,693|2,750,249|
|Charitable<br>activities|||4|320,391||320,391|529,372|
|Other trading<br>activities|||5|4,318,484||4,318,484|3,070,469|
|Other|||7|328,433||328,433|88,464|
|Total income and endowments||||6,718,430|144,571|6,863,001|6,438,554|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||||
|Raising funds|||8|4,142,219||4,142,219|2,878,283|
|Charitable<br>activities|||9|3,215,192|156,774|3,371,966|2,792,641|
|Total expenditure||||7,357,411|156,774|7,514,185|5,670,924|
|Met Incomel(expenditure)||||(638,981)|(12,203)|(651,184)|767,630|
|Reconciliation<br>of funds||||||||
|-Total funds brought|forward|||2,078,948|80,325|2,159,273|1,391,643|
|-Total funds carried|forward||23|1,439,967|68,122|1,508,089|2,159,273|





## 

## 

||||Group||Charity|Charity|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
|||Notes|||||
|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets||14|186,858|208,161|186,858|208,161|
|Investments||15|||2|2|
||||186,858|208,161|186,860|208,163|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks||16|16310|12770|||
|Debtors||17|1,001,020|402, 382|419,395|194,123|
|Cash at bank|and in hand||2,241,292|3,327,018|2,227,545|3,301,483|
||||3,258,622|3,742,170|2,646,940|3,495,606|
|Liabilities|||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year||18|(1,937,390)|(1,791,058)|(1,325,712)|(1,544,497)|
|Net current|assets||1,321,232|1,951,112|1,321,228|1,951,109|
|Net assets|||1,508,090|2,159,273|1,508,088|2,159,272|
|The funds|ofthe charity:||||||
|Restricted<br>income funds||20|68,122|80,325|68,122|80,325|
|Unrestricted|funds:||||||
|- General<br>fund||21|1,255,025|1,545,703|1,255,023|1,545,702|
|- Designated|fund|22|184,943|533,245|184,943|533,245|
|Total funds||23|1,508,090|2,159,273|1,508,088|2,159,272|





## 

## 

||||||Note|2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||f.|F|
|Net Cashfiow<br>from oper||ating activities|||25|(1,362,315)|1,232,318|
|Tax received||||||328,434|222,005|
|Cashfiow|from investing|activities||||||
|Payments|to acquire<br>tangible||fixed assets|||(51,845)|(33,214)|
|Net Cashfiow<br>from investing|||activities|||(51,845)|(33,214)|
|Net increase<br>in cash and cash equivalents||||||(1,085,726)|1,421,109|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at|beginning|ofyear||3,327,018|1,905,909|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at|the end of|the year||2,241,292|3,327,018|
|Cash and|cash equivalents||consist of:|||||
|Cash at bank and<br>in hand||||||2,241,292|3,327,018|
|Shoit term|deposits|||||||
|Cash and|cash equivalent|at the end ofthe year||||2,241,292|3,327,018|





## 



## 

## 

## 



## 



## 

## 

## 

|Financial<br>performance|Financial<br>performance|Financial<br>performance|Financial<br>performance|ofthe ch|ofthe ch|ofthe ch|ofthe ch|arity|arity|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|The consolidated<br>statemeni||||of financial||||activities||includes|the resuits|of the charity's||wholly<br>owned|subsidiaries,|
|Storyhouse<br>Catering||Company|||Limited|||and|Storyhouse||Production|Company|Limited. The summary<br>financial|||
|performance|ofthe charity|||alone|is:-|||||||||||
|||||||||||||||31 March|31 Nlarch|
|||||||||||||||2023|2022|
|income||||||||||||||1,887,651|3,191,157|
|Theatre Tax|Relief|||||||||||||328,433|88,464|
|GiA aid from|Storyhouse||Catering|||Company|||Limited|||||504,698|244,097|
|Gift aid from|Storyhouse||Production||||Company|||Limited||||||
|||||||||||||||2,720,782|3,523,718|
|Expenditure|on charitable|||activities||||||||||3,371,966|2,792,640|
|Surplus/(Deficit)<br>for the||||year||||||||||~{651,154|731,678|
|Total funds|brought|forward||||||||||||2,159,272|1,428,194|
|Total funds|carried|forward||||||||||||1,508,088|2,159,272|
|Represented|by:|||||||||||||||
|Unrestricted|funds|||||||||||||1,439,966|2,078,947|
|Restricted<br>funds||||||||||||||68,122|80,325|
|||||||||||||||1,508,088|2,159,272|





## 

## 

## 

|ncome fro|m don|ations<br>and legacies|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Total|Total|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Funds|Funds|
||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|Funding|||||||
|Members<br>&|Private|Giving|262,267||262,267|236,905|
|Sponsorship|Income||97,500||97,500|77,500|
|Trusts<br>and Foundations|||26,750|133,900|160,650|190,900|
|Project Funding|||33,980|10,671|44,651|73,402|
|Grants receivable|||||||
|Arts Council|England||228,015||228,015|228,015|
|Cheshire West and||Chester Council|1,102,610||1,102,610|1,167,610|
|Government|Grants|||||775,917|
||||1,751,122|144,571|1,895,693|2,750,249|



## 

|incom|ing<br>|reso|urc|es|from|cha|r|itable<br>activities||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|
||||||||||Funds||Funds|
||||||||||2023|2023|2022|
||||||||||E|E|E|
|Library|operation||||Project||||23,852|23,852|17,707|
|Engagement|||||Project||||81,376|81,376|118,253|
|Ticketing|||||Project||||100,780|100,780|392,832|
|Other|income||||Funding|||and administration|114,384|114,384|580|
||||||||||320,391|320,391|529,372|
|Other|trading||activities|||||||||
||||||||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|
||||||||||Funds||Funds|
||||||||||2023|2023|2022|
||||||||||E|E|E|
|Storyhouse||Production|||Company||Limiled||1,252, 096|1,252,096|916,710|
|Stoiyhouse||Catering||Company||Limited|||3,066,388|3,066,388|2,153,759|
||||||||||4,318,484|4,318,484|3,070,469|



## 



## 

## 

## 

||||||||||31 March|31 March|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||||'E|K|
|Turnover|||||||||3,066,388|2,153,759|
|Cost ofsales|||||||||2,512,672|1,815,330|
|Administration|expenses||||||||49,0T8|57,779|
|(Loss)!Profit|before|||taxation||and|for|the|||
|financial year|||||||||504,698|280,650|
|Amount<br>gilt aided||to the||charity|||||504,698|244,097|
|Retained<br>earnings|||brought||forward||and carried forward||||
|Current assets|||||||||847,422|734,289|
|Current<br>liabilities|||||||||847,421|734,288|
|Net current assets|||||||||||
|Called up share|capital||||||||||
|Retained<br>earnings|||||||||||





## 

## 

||31 March|31 March|
|---|---|---|
||2023|2022|
|||F|
|Tumor|1,252,096|916,710|
|Cost ofsales|1,560,990|993,534|
|Administration<br>expenses|19,539|11,640|
|Loss before taxation|(328,433)|~88,464)|
|Corporation<br>tax credit (Theatre tax relict)|328,433|88 464|
|Profit for the financial year|||
|Current assets|562,470|196,408|
|Current<br>liabilities|562,469|196,407|
|Net current assets|||
|Called up share capital|||
|Retained<br>earnings|||



|Other|inco|me|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unre|stricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|
|||||Funds||Funds|
|||||2023|2023|2022|
|||||||F|
|Theatre|tax|relief||328,433|328,433|88,464|
|||||328,433|328,433|88,464|





## 

## 

|8|Costs of|Costs of|raising funds|raising funds|raising funds|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||Unrestricted|Total Funds<br>Total Funds|||
|||||||||Funds||2023|2022|
||||||||||'E|||
||Storyhouse||Production||Company||Limited|1,580,529||1,580,529|1,005,174|
||Storyhouse||Catering|Company||Umited||2,561,690||2,561,690|1,873,109|
|||||||||4,142,219||4,142,219|2,878,283|
|9|Costs|of|Charitable||Activities||by Activity Type|||||
||||||||Direct|Support<br>Governance||Total Funds|Total Funds|
||||||||Costs|Costs|Costs|2023|2022|
||Charitable||activites||||2,329,180|||2,329,180|2,020,973|
||Management|||||||814,521||814,521|544,293|
||Finance|||||||95,352|14,000|109,352|91,627|
||8uilding|overheads||||||118,914||118,914|135,748|
||||||||2,329,180|1,028,787|14,000|3,371,966|2,792,641|



## 

|Net income/(expendit|ure)<br>for the year|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||2023|2022|
|||E|F|
|This is stated after charging:||||
|Depreciation||73,148|161,256|
|Auditors<br>remuneration||||
|-Audit ofthe ftnancial|statements|14,300|13,000|
|- Accountancy<br>services||||
|Operating<br>lease costs:||||
|- Land and buildings||36,900|36,600|
|—Motor mhicle||3,660|3,660|
|-Copier||2,692|2,692|



## 



## 

## 

||Group|Charity|Group|Charity|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||2023|2023|2022|2022|
||E|E||E|
|Wages and salaries|2,271,932|1,405,841|1,885,684|1,253,907|
|Social security costs|195,730|165,663|157,773|138,435|
|Pension costs|74,099|61,265|62,202|52,787|
||2,541,761|1,632,769|2,105,659|1,445,129|



## 

|The average<br>number ofstaff|employed<br>duri|ng<br>the year|was 142,analysed<br>by function as follows:||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2023|2022|
||||Number|Number|
|Project|||8|10|
|Head otfice|||17|14|
|Kitchen|||6|8|
|Marketing|||7|5|
|Production|||9|6|
|Cinema|||4|4|
|Touring|||2||
|Trading|||||
|Casual<br>staff|||88|73|
||||142|121|
|During the year the number|ofemployees|who earned|more than E60,000was as follows.||
||||2023|2022|
||||Number|Number|
|E60,000 - E70,000|||||
|E70,000 —E80,000|||||
|E80,000 —E90,000|||||
|E90,000 —E100,000|||||





## 

## 

|14|Tangible Fixed Assets|Tangible Fixed Assets|Tangible Fixed Assets|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Group and Ciarity|||||||
|||||Fixtures and|Motor|Computer||
|||||fittings|vehicles|Equipment|Tota I|
|||||f|E|E|E|
||Cost|||||||
||At 1 April 2022|||898,518|14,328|193,740|1,106,586|
||Additions|||41,891||9,954|51,845|
||At 31 March|2023||940,409|14,328|203,694|1,158,431|
||Depreciation|||||||
||At 1 April 2022|||694,868|14,328|189,229|898,425|
||Charge for year|||69,549||3,599|73,148|
||At 31 March|2023||764,417|14,328|192,828|971,573|
||Net Book Value|||||||
||At 31 March|2023||175,992||10,866|186,858|
||At 31 March|2022||203,650||4,511|208,161|
|15|Investments|||||||
|||||Group||Charity||
|||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
|||||E|E|E|E|
||lwestments|in subsidiaries||||||
|16|Stocks|||||||
|||||Group||Charity||
|||||2023f|2022|2023<br>E|2022<br>E|
||Stock|||16,310|12,770|||
|17|Debtors: Amounts||falling due within one year|||||
|||||Group||Cha rity||
|||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
|||||E|||E|
||Amounts<br>owed by group undertakings|||||||
||Income tax recoverable|||494,219|116,484|||
||Trade debtors|||257,791|119,496|250,446|111,780|
||Other debtors|||32,958|40,300|32,958|40,300|
||Prepayments|and accrued income||216,052|126,102|135,991|42,043|
|||||1,001,020|402,382|419,395|194,123|





## 

## 

## 

|||Group||Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||2023|2022|2023|2022|
|Trade creditors||198,779|273,080|171,272|247,062|
|Amounts|owed to group undertakings|||274,679|503,274|
|PAYE and Social Security||40,390|42,305|40,390|42,305|
|PAT||111,518|51,684|111,518|51,684|
|Other creditors||81,147|45,779|80,910|45,779|
|Accruals|and deferred income|1,505,556|1,378,210|646,943|654,393|
|||1,937,390|1,791,058|1,325,712|1,544,497|
|Deferred income||F||||
|Deferred|income at 1 April 2022|308,068||||
|Utilised|in year|(308,068)||||
|Received|in year|355,571||||
|Deferred|income at 31 March 2023|355,571||||



## 

||2023f|2022<br>E|
|---|---|---|
|Within one year|30,980|30,752|
|8etween one and firn years|32,403|19,550|
||63,383|50,302|



|20|Restricted|Funds||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Group and|Charity||t3atance at|||Salance at|
|||||1 April|incoming|Outgoing|31 March|
|||||2022|Resources|Resources|2023|
|||||E||E||
||Youth Projects|||80,325|133,900|146,103|68,122|
||Community|Festival|Funding||10,671|10,671||
|||||80,325|144,571|156,774|68,122|





## 

## 

||Group and Charity|Group and Charity||Balance at||Balance at|Balance at|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||1 April|Incoming|Outgoing<br>3'I|March|
|||||2021|Resource s|Resources|2022|
||Youth projects|||42,421|143,950|106,046|80,325|
||Festivai funding||||22,000|22,000||
|||||42,421|165,950|128,046|80,325|
|21|Unrestricted<br>Funds||- General|||||
||||||Group|Charity||
||||||General|General||
||||||Funds|Funds||
||As at 1 April 2022||||1,545,703|1,545,702||
||Incoming|resources|||6,718,430|2,576,211||
||Outgoing|resources|||(7,009,108)|(2,866,890)||
||Transfer to designated||funds|||||
||As at 31|March 2023|||1,255,025|1,255,023||
||||||Group|Charity||
||||||General|General||
||||||Funds|Funds||
||||||K|f||
||As at 1 April 2021||||1,055,250|1,091,801||
||Incoming|resources|||6,272,604|3,357,768||
||Outgoing|resources|||(5,542, 878)|(2,664,594)||
||Transfer|to designated|funds||(239,273)|(239,273)||
||As at 31|March 2022|||1,545,703|1,545,702||
|22|Unrestricted<br>Funds||- Designated|||||
||||||Group|Charity||
||||||Designate<br>d|Designated||
||||||Funds|Funds||
||As at 1 April 2022||||533,245|533,245||
||Incoming|resources||||||
||Outgoing|resources|||(348,302)|(348,302)||
||As at 31 March 2023||||184,943|184,943||





## 

## 

|||Group|Charity|
|---|---|---|---|
|||Designated|Designated|
|||Funds|Funds|
|||f.||
|As at 1 April 2021||293,972|293,972|
|Incoming|resources|319,288|319,288|
|Outgoing|resources|(80,015)|(80,015)|
|As at 31|March 2022|533,245|533,245|



## 

|Analysis<br>o|fGroup Net Assets B|etween Funds|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Total|
|||Tangible|Net Curre nt|31 March|
|||Fixed Assets|Assets|2023|
|||f|f|f|
|Restricted|Funds||68,122|68,122|
|Unrestricted|Funds||||
|General<br>Funds||186,858|1,068,167|1,255,025|
|Designated|Funds||184,943|184,943|
|Total Funds||186,858|1,321,232|1,508,090|
|||||Total|
|||Tangible|Net Current|31 March|
|||Fixed Assets|Assets|2022|
|Restricted|Funds||80,325|80,325|
|Unrestricted|Funds||||
|General<br>Funds||208,161|1,337,542|1,545,703|
|Designated|Funds||533,245|533,245|
|Total Funds||208,161|1,951,112|2,159,273|





## 

## 

## 

|25|Reconciliation<br>of group net|income resources|to net cash inflow|from group oper|ations|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2023|2022|
||Net Incoming resources|||(651,184)|767,630|
||Theatre tax relief|||(328,433)|(88,464)|
||Depreciation<br>offixed assets|||73,148|161,256|
||Decrease/(increase)<br>in stock|||(3,540)|(3,340)|
||(increase)/decrease<br>in debtors|||(598,638)|(125,191)|
||Increase/(decrease)<br>in creditors|||146,332|520,427|
||Net cash inflow from operating|activities||(1,362,315)|1,232,318|
|26|Analysis<br>ofchanges<br>in net|funds||||
||||1 April||31 March|
||||2022|Cash Flows|2023|
||||F|F.|'E|
||Cash at bank and in hand||3,327,018|(1,085,726)|2,241,292|



##