## **WAVENEY LIGHT OPERA GROUP**
## **Financial Accounts and Trustees’ Annual Report 2024**
**Summary Statement of Income & Expenditure For Financial Year 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024**
|**Main Society**
**Rising Stars**
**TOTAL**|**INCOME**
**EXPENDITURE**
**EXCESS / (DEFICIT)**
£ 27,250.09
£ 29,027.16
(£1,777.07)
£ 13,268.83
£ 12,432.87
£ 835.96|
|---|---|
||£ 40,518.92
£ 41,460.03
(£ 941.11)|
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## **WLOG Main Society - Statement of Income and Expenditure 2024**
|**ME AND MY GIRL - APRIL 2024**
TICKET SALES
CONORD LICENCE & FEES
SHOW FEE
PROGRAMME / RAFFLE
COSTUME
LIGHTING / PROPS / SET
BPH HIRE
BAND FEES
REHEARSAL ROOM HIRE
PUBLICITY / ADVERTISING
AFTER SHOW GIFTS & FOOD
POSTAGE COSTS
**RENT - OCTOBER 2024**
TICKET SALES
SHOW FEE
MTI LICENCE & FEES
PROGRAMME
COSTUME
PROPS
SET HIRE
BPH HIRE
BAND FEES
REHEARSAL ROOM HIRE
PUBLICITY / ADVERTISING
RAFFLE
AFTER SHOW GIFTS / FOOD
POSTAGE COSTS
PHOTOGRAPHY
DONATIONS
**HOT ON YOUR HEELS - 2025**
PRINTING COSTS
REHEARSAL ROOM HIRE
**CALENDAR GIRLS - 2025**
LICENCE & RENTAL FEES
COSTUME
REHEARSAL ROOM HIRE|**INCOME**
**EXPENDITURE PROFIT/(LOSS)**
**_paid 2023_**
**_Actual_**
**_Figure_**
11170.00
3275.76
975.00
860.00
131.53
3603.41
2894.84
1683.94
2400.00
1874.00
143.86
101.42
|
|---|---|
||**13005.00**
**16108.76**
**(3103.76)**|
||11010.00
360.00
3064.47
395.30
282.62
324.76
161.49
561.00
1735.00
1200.00
1925.00
300.00
200.98
317.50
121.29
65.71
60.00
0.00|
||**12382.80**
**9702.32**
**2680.48**|
||0
0|
||**0**|
||0
0
0|
||**0**|
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## **WLOG Main Society - Statement of Income and Expenditure 2024 (Continued)**
|**GENERAL**
MEMBERSHIP / VPs
COSTUME & SET SALES
AUDIO EQUIPMENT
MISC
SOCIAL / FUNDRAISING EVENTS
NODA MEMBERSHIP
NODA INSURANCE
RS SHARE - Insurance / NODA
STORAGE RENTS
BANK INTEREST / CHARGES
GRANT
TOTAL
**INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE**|**INCOME**
**EXPENDITURE** **PROFIT/(LOSS)**
**_paid_**
**_2023_**
**_Actual_**
**_Figure_**
1235.00
130.70
91.19
24.99
20.00
230.00
351.63
395.10
2494.34
101.49
3.93
0
**1862.29**
**3216.08**
**(1353.79)**
**27250.09**
**29027.16**
**(1777.07)**|
|---|---|
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## **WLOG Main Society - Independent Examiner’s Report 2024**
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## **WLOG Rising Stars - Statement of Income and Expenditure 2024**
|**PETER PAN - Spring 2024**
Show Fees
Ticket sales
Show Merchandise
Programmes
Raffle
Misc
Venue Hire
Script & Score
Licence Fees
Publicity
Set
Props
Costumes
Band Expenses
Lighting
Sound
**HERE WE GO AGAIN! - Summer**
**2024**
Show Fees
Ticket sales
Show Merchandise
Programmes
Raffle
Misc
Venue Hire
Script & Score
Licence Fees
Publicity
Set / Props
Costumes
Lighting
Sound
**ARABIAN NIGHTS - Spring 2025**
Show Fees
Licence Fees
Script & Score
Venue Hire
Publicity
Props
Set
Band expenses
Misc|**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Profit/Loss**
**_Income_**
**_2023_**
**_Expenditure_**
**_2023_**
**_Actual_**
**_Figure_**
80.00
80.00
_1,600.00_
_1,680.00_
6,153.60
6,153.60
_6,153.60_
300.00
250.88
49.12
_49.12_
567.00
184.00
383.00
_383.00_
292.00
292.00
_292.00_
66.42
-66.42
_107.99_
_-174.41_
1,965.60
-1,965.60
_550.00_
_-2,515.60_
653.00
-653.00
_-653.00_
681.38
-681.38
_500.00_
_-1,181.38_
70.39
-70.39
_42.00_
_-112.39_
561.79
-561.79
_-561.79_
87.57
-87.57
_-87.57_
148.43
-148.43
_-148.43_
1,825.00
-1,825.00
_-1,825.00_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_|
|---|---|
||**7,392.60**
**6,494.46**
**898.14**
**_1,600.00_**
**_1,199.99_**
**_1,298.15_**|
||750.00
750.00
_750.00_
2,432.50
2,432.50
_2,432.50_
200.00
240.88
-40.88
_-40.88_
0.00
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
154.00
0.00
154.00
_154.00_
0.00
54.88
-54.88
_-54.88_
1,629.75
-1,629.75
_-1,629.75_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
225.00
-225.00
_-225.00_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
13.40
-13.40
_-13.40_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
3.20
-3.20
_-3.20_|
||**3,536.50**
**2,167.11**
**1,369.39**
**_0.00_**
**_0.00_**
**_1,369.39_**|
||1,480.00
1,480.00
_1,480.00_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
0.00
140.15
-140.15
_-140.15_
990.00
-990.00
_-990.00_
19.98
-19.98
_-19.98_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
3.00
-3.00
_-3.00_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_
0.00
0.00
_0.00_|
||**1,480.00**
**1,153.13**
**326.87**
**_0.00_**
**_0.00_**
**_326.87_**|
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## **WLOG Rising Stars - Statement of Income and Expenditure 2024 (Continued)**
||**Income**|**Expenditure**|**Profit/Loss**|**_Income_**
**_2023_**|**_Expenditure_**
**_2023_**|**_Actual_**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**SUMMER SHOW 2025**|||||||
|Licence Fees||0.00|0.00||||
|Script & Score||0.00|0.00||||
||**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**||||
|**SPRING SHOW 2026**|||||||
|Licence Fees||0.00|0.00||||
|Script & Score||0.00|0.00||||
||**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**||||
|**GENERAL**|||||||
|RS Membership fees|17.50||17.50||||
|RS branded clothing|253.00|216.00|37.00||||
|Donations / Gift aid / Grants|526.46||526.46||||
|Administration expenses||127.29|-127.29||||
|Membership & Insurance (NODA)||395.10|-395.10||||
|Storage unit hire||1,019.00|-1,019.00||||
|Rehearsal refreshments|21.75|0.00|21.75||||
|Misc||746.94|-746.94||||
||**818.71**|**2,504.33**|**-1,685.62**||||
|**OTHER**|||||||
|Previous Shows expenses||53.84|-53.84||||
|Bank Charges||60.00|-60.00||||
|Bank Interest|41.02||41.02||||
||**41.02**|**113.84**|**-72.82**||||
|Total for Year|**13,268.83**|**12,432.87**|||||
|**Excess of Income Over Expenditure**|||**835.96**||||
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**WLOG Rising Stars - Independent Examiner’s Report 2024**
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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date ~~a|~~ **From** Day 1st Month January Year 2024 **To** Day 31st Month December Year 2024 Section A Reference and administration details ~~a~~
**Charity name** WAVENEY LIGHT OPERA GROUP ~~PC~~ **Other names charity is known by** WLOG ~~Ps~~ **Registered charity number (if any)** 1134328 ~~OT~~ **Charity's principal address** c/o 4 Kempton Cross Worlingham, Beccles Suffolk **Postcode NR34 7EQ**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) whole year to appoint trustee (if any)** ~~ee~~ Society Chairman Until 12th February 1[James Michael ] Stephens 2024 ~~ee ee ee~~ Society Chairman From 12th February 2[Alexander Rimell ] 2024 ~~ee ee ee~~ Joint Society Secretary Until 12th February 3[Sophie Cannell ] 2024 ~~ee ee ee~~ Joint Society Secretary Until 12th February 4[Ruth Lewis-Smith ] 2024 ~~ee es~~ Society Secretary From 12th February 5[Helen Cook ] 2024 ~~ee ee~~ 6 Christopher Steed Rising Stars Chairman ~~ee ee ee~~ 7 John Mondon Rising Stars Treasurer ~~es rs es~~ 8 ~~ee Ge~~ 9 ~~a rs es~~ 10 ~~eees~~ 11 ~~es rs es~~ 12 ~~ee Ge~~ 13 ~~es rs es~~ 14 ~~ee ee~~ 15 ~~es rsGs~~ 16 ~~ee ee (~~ 17 ~~es rsGs~~ 18 ~~a ee (~~ 19 ~~es eses Ge~~ _Waveney Light Opera Group - Trustee Report for 2024 Page 8 of 12_
**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Unincorporated body (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods Defined by Constitution (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The Objects of the Group shall be to educate the public in the operatic, dramatic and light choral arts; to further the development of public **Summary of the objects of the** appreciation and taste in said arts, and to encourage local talent in the **charity set out in its governing document** performance of said arts. Presentation of fully-staged shows and concerts, to introduce members of the public to a wide range of musical entertainment and musical styles. **Summary of the main** Promotion of the activities of the Group via involvement in local events **activities undertaken for the** e.g. the Beccles Carnival; the Beccles Duck Race; Remembrance Day **public benefit in relation to** etc. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** Promotion of musical education via a series of Skills Development events **declaration that trustees have** e.g. music theory workshop; singing instruction; dance workshops; acting **had regard to the guidance** skills workshops; audition workshops etc. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** Encouragement of younger people via open audition into youth-style **benefit)** shows and concerts.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**MAIN SOCIETY** Fully staged productions of ‘Me and My Girl’ and ‘Rent’
‘Me and My Girl’ was nominated in the Best Musical category in National Operatic & Dramatic Association (NODA) Eastern Region District 6.
**YOUTH SECTION (WLOG Rising Stars)** Fully staged productions of ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘Here We Go Again!’. ‘Peter Pan’ was nominated in the Best Youth Production and Best Technical categories in National Operatic & Dramatic Association (NODA) Eastern Region District 6.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** Based on historical income and expenditure trends, both sections of the **charity’s policy on reserves** Group maintain sufficient reserves to enable us to present our shows for a full year with a small contingency. **Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); • how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; • investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ~~_~~ **Section F Other optional information Section G Declaration** ~~___~~ **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Christopher Steed **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Rising Stars Chairman ] **Date** 12th October 2025
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