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COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 08204873 CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1150383

Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Financial Statements

31 March 2025

Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Financial Statements

Year ended 31 March 2025

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Trustees' annual report (incorporating the director's report) 1
Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees 12
Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities (including income and
expenditure account) 16
Consolidated Statement of Financial Position 17
Charity Statement of Financial Position 18
Consolidated Statement of Cashflows 19
Notes to the Financial Statements 20

Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report)

Year ended 31 March 2025

The trustees, who are also the directors for the purposes of company law, present their report and the financial statements of the charity for the period ended 31 March 2025.

Reference and administrative details

Registered charity name Hastings Contemporary
Charity registration number 1150383
Company registration number 08204873
Principal office Hastings Contemporary
Rock-a-Nore Road
Hastings
TN34 3DW
Registered office 8 The Old Yard
Lodge Farm Business Centre
Castlethorpe
Milton Keynes
MK19 7ES
The Trustees Prof. A C R Corbett-Nolan (Chair)
Ms E M L Fox (resigned 10 December 2024)
Ms J O’Sullivan
Ms A Philips-Pakenham
Mrs P M N Millett
Mr P D J Chowney
Mr D M Rogers
Mrs K E Sandford-Beal (appointed 8 July 2024)
Mr B W Urban (appointed 8 July 2024,
resigned 10 December 2024,
reappointed 14 April 2025)
Prof. M J G Farthing (appointed 8 July 2024)
Ms C Courtauld (appointed 8 July 2024)
Prof. B Brown (appointed 1 October 2024)
Director Ms Kathleen Soriano (from February 2025)
Ms E M Gilmore (until February 2025)
Director of Programmes Ms Leah Cross
Accountants GP Financial Management Ltd
8 The Old Yard, Lodge Farm Business Centre
Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes, MK19 7ES
Auditor Victoria Anderson BA (Hons) FCA DChA,
Sumer Audit
2 St Andrews Place, Lewes, BN7 1UP
Bankers HSBC, 4 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HW
Solicitors ProArtsPlus Ltd, 6 Ranmoor Gardens, Sheffield, S10 3FR

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report)

Year ended 31 March 2025

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Hastings Contemporary is a bold and ambitious home for inspiring ART .

Situated on the beach, our coastal gallery is rooted in Hastings and its heritage, a place where climate, culture and COMMUNITY intersect.

Together we are reimagining what a gallery with relevance and purpose can be, as we explore our connectedness to the SEA and the future of our oceans.

Our charitable objectives are the advancement of the visual arts by supporting the exclusively charitable activities of Hastings Contemporary and such other charitable activities and causes as are associated with or complimentary to the activities of Hastings Contemporary.

Hastings Contemporary is a gallery with a unique relationship with the sea. At a time when humanity’s duty of care to our seas and oceans is paramount, we are a coastal gallery with a bold mission. Our relationship with the sea informs all that we do; we sit on the beach itself, home to what was once the largest, beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe.

Our exhibitions, learning and engagement programmes, our work with artists and our communities, as well as our work with partners, is committed to developing conversations around the responsibilities and practices that will drive results that are as exciting, and hopeful, as they are urgent.

With an artistic programme anchored in ocean futures and sustainability, Hastings Contemporary brings together artists, scientists, fishing communities, our audiences and broader communities to explore new creative frontiers – all within an award-winning building in one of the most deprived towns in the UK.

We work with partners including universities, marine institutions, international galleries with ocean focus and governmental departments with an ocean remit, from Mission Nice Ocean 2027 to research bodies – like the Paul Mellon Centre – looking at climate and colonial history: partners whose interests align with ours around ocean futures.

Hastings is an independently minded, vibrant and creative town, home to many artists and deserving of an ambitious and bold cultural space showing inspiring and thought-provoking work of international standing. Artists have always been concerned with the issues confronting the world, and today, climate change and our oceans is a growing artistic preoccupation. By bringing together communities to explore shared questions and possibilities, we play our part in the creative energy and urgent concerns of our time.

“After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea” Sir David Attenborough, 2025

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report)

Year ended 31 March 2025

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

In 2024-2025 Hastings Contemporary delivered a truly world-class programme, celebrating the creative and social power of visual arts. You can watch films and find out more on https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/past-exhibitions/2024/

The Spring/Summer season ran from 16 March 2024 to 8 September 2024. We launched with the first major solo exhibition in Europe of work by Ethiopian artist Elias Sime. Elias deftly weaves, layers and assembles carefully selected everyday materials, transforming commonplace items into lyrical abstract compositions. He often creates intricate works from electronic components – including circuit boards, computer keys, wires and megaphones.

Elias Sime: Eregata እርጋታ originated at Arnolfini, UK, and is a collaboration with Hastings Contemporary and Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany. Coordinated by Artist Management: Southern & Partners. Supported by Batia and Idan Ofer. With thanks to James Cohan Gallery.

This exhibition was made possible as a result of the Government Indemnity Scheme. Hastings Contemporary would like to thank HM Government for providing Government Indemnity and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England for arranging the indemnity.

Our Foreshore Gallery hosted A Hundred Portraits by Sir Quentin Blake, generously offered for sale by our Artist Patron to support Hastings Contemporary and the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, accompanied by a drawing hub open to visitors of all ages and abilities to delight in drawing.

For the autumn/winter season, 21 September 2025 to 16 March 2025, we launched Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs , a meeting of two of the UK’s most significant collections – The Ingram Collection and the David and Indrė Roberts Collection including work from artists such as Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Sir Anthony Caro, Patrick Caulfield, Michael Craig-Martin, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Sarah Lucas, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson.

The exhibition juxtaposed world-class contemporary sculpture, video and installation alongside traditional still life painted works. It aimed to challenge assumptions about this familiar genre, inviting new perspectives and asking viewers: what really is still life?

From 27 March 2024 to 2 June 2024, our award-winning schools programme, Pearls of the Sea, showcased the work of the eight participating schools, with five of the schools in postcodes in the most deprived deciles in the country. 400 children created a series of collaborative art pieces exploring their relationship with the sea, including cyanotype banners, mosaics, clay tablets, algae-dyed fabric, puppets, stick-and-ink illustrations and two on-site installations.

We welcomed 2190 Family Day visitors (average attendance 243), with 31% of local visitors surveyed living in postcodes in the most deprived decile in the country. Through our partnership clubs we engaged 477 visitors, including Pearls of the Sea families with our free ticket scheme.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

We introduced two new projects to create opportunities for children and young people living in Hastings and St Leonards:

Squid Holiday Club, a summer lunch and creative club for children aged 7-14, helped us to test assumptions about engaging families from underserved communities. Average attendance per session was 19 against our target of 10, showing demand. 52% of participants were in receipt of free school meals, 22% live in postcodes in the most deprived decile in the country, and 65% had never visited the gallery before.

The Cove was a project for Key Stage 3 (11 to 14) students of the specialist facility for students with SEND needs at The St Leonards Academy. Workshops at the gallery culminated in a pop-up exhibition. We achieved up to 95% attendance per session of the 22 participants and 100% of those surveyed agreed that they had had the opportunity to access activities they would not otherwise have access to. The Cove aims to explore how students can use the gallery setting to counteract formal education structures and build confidence and aspirations through creative learning. School exclusions dropped from 6.4 to 5.4 per month during the project. One participant progressed to our work experience scheme. We were delighted by this evidence of The Cove’s impact on engagement, confidence and skills.

Fundraising

Over the year the gallery has continued to develop and enrich its case for support, cultivating further substantial donations from patrons, sponsors and trusts and foundations.

The UK Government has awarded £150,000 towards a mobile creative studio to be shared with arts organisations across Hastings. This has now been built by Studio Hardie in Lewes in collaboration with the artist Professor Kieren Reed. A series of public consultation events have been held to inform the design and future programme.

Our application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for £249,972 was also successful. We launched a year-long project, in partnership with the Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society, to document and celebrate the intangible cultural heritage of the fishing fleet. An installation incorporating oral history recordings, archival film and collaborative craftsmanship was on display until 14 September 2025. As well as working with this historically underrepresented local community, we’ve offered free partnership gallery membership, with a 30% uptake so far—a significant achievement, helping us address access barriers.

In developing the charity’s approach to fundraising, the Trustees have taken account of the Code of Fundraising Practice issued by the Fundraising Regulator. The charity does not engage commercial participators to carry out fundraising activity and does not engage in telephone fundraising. The charity has received no complaints about its fundraising activities either during the financial year or subsequently.

Transition planning & risk management

Risk was carefully managed during this transformative year, with frequent Board communication. Careful planning took place to identify opportunities for increasing income and ensuring expenditure is well managed and contained.

Commercial activity

Following a national tender, WSR Trading Ltd were appointed to run our café and restaurant. They launched with our new season in March 2025. Sales of Quentin Blake drawings continue to support the gallery, alongside shop sales and bespoke merchandise.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

FINANCIAL REVIEW

The principal sources of income for the charity during the period were from grant funding, donations, members, admissions and trading. The group’s total incoming resources for the year amounted to £1,255,031 (2024: £976,636), and its outgoing resources amounted to £1,122,128 (2024: £1,231,097).

Overall, the group generated a net surplus of £132,903 (2024: deficit £254,461), of which £58,427 (2024: deficit £234,816) related to unrestricted funds after in year transfers.

Total charitable reserves at the year-end were £357,394 (2024: £224,491), of which £206,054 (2024: £26,028) were restricted and not available for general purposes of the charity. The group has designated reserves of £Nil (2024: £105,550).

The Trustees have concluded that the charitable group is a going concern for at least 12 months following the signature of these financial statements.

PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS

This year marked a significant internal transition, with Founding Director Liz Gilmore stepping down in February 2025. Kathleen Soriano, our new Director, brings over 30 years of cultural sector experience, including senior roles at the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, and Compton Verney. Our Programme Assistant moved on and was replaced with a new Public Programme Coordinator, and our Learning Coordinator’s hours increased from three to four days per week.

With this leadership change we have re-examined our mission and vision to support meaningful value for our audiences and local communities, as well as world-class visual art. We remain focussed on a groundbreaking visual arts programme - but one embedded in ocean futures and sustainable cultures, while exploring new creative frontiers. Embedded in and informed by our unique location on our historic fishing beach, we intend to weave concern about our oceans and immediate marine environment through our work. We continue to build a reputation as a community-engaged organisation, committed to excellence in the town.

Our new mission

Hastings Contemporary is a bold, independent arts charity in the heart of Hastings Old Town.

We bring inspiring art to our coastal community with an ambitious programme of exhibitions and events. We welcome everybody and aim to enrich lives by offering new experiences, supporting creativity and skills development, preserving heritage and helping our town to thrive.

With a programme anchored in ocean futures and sustainability, our exhibitions, projects and partnerships bring together artists, scientists, and communities to explore new creative frontiers – all within an award-winning building on the town’s historic fishing beach.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Our new vision

Hastings Contemporary is a bold and ambitious home for inspiring ART .

Situated on the beach, our coastal gallery is rooted in Hastings and its heritage, a place where climate, culture and COMMUNITY intersect.

Together we are reimagining what a gallery with relevance and purpose can be, as we explore our connectedness to the SEA and the future of our oceans.

Our new values

B old: a brave organisation that is reimagining what a gallery can be

O pen: we are welcoming and stronger through collaboration, learning from feedback and different ways of seeing and doing

B elonging: our coastal gallery is distinctively rooted in Hastings and its heritage, a place where climate, culture and community intersect

Our new objectives

1. Exhibitions

Deliver a strong and ambitious exhibitions programme, with compelling links to ocean futures and sustainability, in recognition of place and our unique location.

  1. Learning

By working with and listening to local communities, we will create and produce a learning programme that is relevant to our time and coastal location.

3. Engagement

Develop a rich and varied programme of activity at the intersection of culture, climate and community to engage a range of different audiences

  1. Partnerships

Apply a creative, open-minded and collaborative approach in developing partnerships.

5. Business

Embed a dynamic and entrepreneurial approach to income generation to ensure future sustainability

6. People

Be a resilient, future-facing organisation, with a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, that has the expertise and capacity to adapt to the times, in a building fit for purpose

7. Place

Collaborate with local partners and neighbours to develop and deliver a creative vision which will enrich our local area and support our town to thrive

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Programme Highlights 2025-2026:

Spring / Summer

29 March – 14 September 2025

The Sun Feeds The Wind

This ground-breaking new partnership and exhibition will collect and display the living histories of the Hastings fishing community for the first time.The exhibition is part of a year-long project with the Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society, celebrating the unique knowledge, skills and practices of the Hastings fishing fleet and preserving them for future generations.

At the centre of the project is an oral history archive, collected and curated by Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society and artist Mary Hooper. Hooper has created a soundscape, filling our largest gallery space and giving voice to the fishing community which surrounds the gallery. This contemporary installation, designed by Jane Bruce, also includes films by Sam Sharples and Nichola Bruce, a mural by Annie Millar, and craftsmanship from members of the fishing community.

Paul Joy, Chairman of Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society, said “Inshore fishing faces immediate and existential threats, but as fishermen we are eternally optimistic for a brighter future. As custodians of the sea, we connect our town to its history, with traditions which pre-date 1066, and to its future – offering answers to the challenges facing our oceans and coastal communities. We are excited to share our stories and preserve them for future generations.”

The Sun Feeds the Wind is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Using money raised by National Lottery players, The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports projects that connect people and communities with the UK’s heritage.

Undersea

Undersea explores life beneath the waves, bringing together paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture by artists from a range of cultures and periods, from depictions of the marine environment and creatures that inhabit it, alongside mythological sea monsters and mermaids. It follows Seaside Modern (2020) and Seafaring (2021) in a trilogy of exhibitions curated by art historian James Russell.

Art For Your Oceans – Free entry

10 July – 14 September 2025

Art For Your Oceans is a landmark contemporary art exhibition at the intersection of art, science and marine ecology. The exhibition includes specially commissioned works by leading international artists, shining a light on the potential of seaweed as an invaluable tool in the fight against climate change, and as a new artistic medium. All exhibited works have been created using OCEAN INK®, the world’s first sustainable and fully biodegradable water-based ink, made from regeneratively farmed seaweed by OCEANIUM in Scotland.

The exhibition includes work by Andrew Cranston, Laura Footes, Laura Ford, Anya Gallaccio, Antony Gormley, Nick Goss, Mona Hatoum, Beatriz Morales, Daisy Parris, Emma Stibbon, Emma Talbot, and Caragh Thuring.

Art For Your Oceans is part of the flagship initiative of Art For Your World , devised and curated by Artwise Curators for WWF-UK.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Autumn/Winter

27 September 2025 – 15 March 2026

Sophie Barber: Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry A solo exhibition by British artist Sophie Barber (b.1996) in the town where she lives and works.

With intimate three-dimensional ‘cushion’ canvas paintings and large-scale works, Barber’s approach mixes humour and popular culture with folklore and the surreal, playing with the possibilities of scale, reference and materiality. Rooted in the landscape around her, Barber’s works are less depictions of her native Sussex coast than distillations of the impression it leaves. Her visual world is filled with echoes of her environment: bird shelters, tents, beaches, and the region’s ever-shifting skies.

Michael Landy: Look

Michael Landy, for whom drawing has always been a crucial part of his work, is widely acknowledged as one of the most talented draughtsmen of his generation. Known more for his large installations and participatory works, in this exhibition he reveals a quieter and more intimate consideration of the world around him.

In LOOK , Landy presents a group of intensely personal drawings from 2004-2005 relating to his own experience of testicular cancer and his father’s tunnelling accident. Through his intense observation and focus, Landy has created a body of work that represents the bond between father and son, reflecting on memory, vulnerability and the past.

Isabel Rock: Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold

Through large-scale, colourful drawings, printmaking, sculpture, and short stories, artist and climate activist Isabel Rock imagines a new world order populated by mutant hybrid species – giant slugs, feral rats, colossal pigs, and multi-limbed crocodiles – who have inherited the ruins of human civilisation.

Visitors will be invited to step into Isabel’s world. Pushing the boundaries of what constitutes ‘drawing’, the gallery will be transformed into a series of theatrical spaces that will explore the fantastical lives of these tough, dystopian creatures.

The exhibition is the outcome of the £10,000 Evelyn Williams Drawing Award 2023, which is delivered in collaboration between Drawing Projects UK, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, and Hastings Contemporary.

Public Programme

Our artistic programme is enriched by vibrant public, learning, and engagement strands that weave together creative activities, debate, open-air classrooms, skills development, and artistic production. At its heart, we will form a new Marine Arts Lab that will unite artists, marine biologists, scientists, conservationists, and local communities to expand thinking, encourage experimentation, and communicate ideas in fresh ways. A lively programme of talks, presentations and lates will engage wider audiences, while our popular family days during school holidays will invite children and parents to explore ocean science and creativity together. By connecting people of all ages to the challenges and possibilities of our changing seas, we foster dialogue, research and knowledge and inspire bold, imaginative visions for the future of our oceans.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Beyond the gallery building, we have created a distinctive Mobile Studio – designed to emulate the vernacular architecture of the historic local net huts – which will travel the county, expanding our community engagement, bringing the gallery experience to our communities, especially those who face barriers to coming to us. Our programme will weave together Hastings’ fishing heritage, unique shingle beach environment, and artistic practice through creative activities, debate, open-air classrooms, skills development, and artistic production. For example, popular skill sharing workshops will take place in the Mobile Studio, supporting our partners in the fishing community to share important skills at risk of dying out with new generations.

In order to build organisational resilience we will bring additional expertise into the organisation through the appointment of a Marine Producer thereby ensuring that we are at the forefront of conversations around ocean futures, developing meaningful partnerships, creating programme and opportunities.

Hastings Contemporary has a unique location and a singular focus, working with culture to consider and explore ocean futures. That sets us apart from other arts organisations.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

Hastings Contemporary is a registered charity (number 1150383) and a company limited by guarantee (registration number 08204873) with no share capital; it is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Recruitment and appointment of trustees

Trustees are recruited with the assent of the majority of the Trustees at a Board meeting. The Board has procedures for the induction and training of Trustees appropriate to the size and nature of the Charity.

Organisational structure

The governance of the Charity is carried out by the Trustees who meet regularly. Day-to-day management is delegated to the Director of Hastings Contemporary, who is also responsible for implementing the Charity’s strategic plan. Strategic planning is carried out in partnership between the Director and the Trustees.

Use of volunteers

We have a valuable resource and pool of 60 volunteers to invigilate the galleries. Their invigilation is required to ensure security of the artworks when the galleries are open to the public and in addition they train as tour guides and assist with our learning programme and activities.

Risk management

At their regular Board meetings, the Trustees review the Risk Register to which the Charity is exposed and continually update the Charity’s procedures to manage and mitigate risk.

Related parties

In 2019 the charity established a subsidiary company, Hastings Contemporary Trading Ltd, for the purpose of carrying out its retail and trading activities. There are no other directly related entities to the charitable company.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

Reserves policy

The Trustees have agreed that it is prudent to maintain a level of reserves that will ensure the Charity has sufficient funds to meet short-term operational costs should unexpected events prevent the Charity from generating income. The Trustees review the required level of reserves annually and consider a reserve level equivalent to 3 months operational support and staff costs to be prudent. The Trustees therefore aim to achieve target free reserves of between £200,000 and £250,000 by continuing with its programme of development activities. At the period end, the charity had free reserves (excluding fixed assets) of £131,902 (2024: £161,534). The trustees acknowledge that the level of free reserves needs to increase over the forthcoming years from fundraising activities to ensure the charity’s long-term sustainability.

Public Benefit

The Trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance, published by the Charity Commission (specifically PB2), on public benefit in exercising their powers or duties. The Trustees regularly review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity, with a new mission statement implemented in the current year to ensure the charity remains focused on its stated purposes. The Trustees believe that through our exhibitions and activities we can enrich lives by offering new experiences, supporting creativity and helping our town to thrive.

Through our mission and our growing network of partnerships, including our local fishing community, marine science and the arts, and guided by the intangible cultural heritage and industrial heritage that define our area, we create opportunities that build skills and aspiration, connecting creativity with realworld relevance. This is especially vital here in a town with high numbers of people not in education, employment or training. More broadly, we aim to help revitalise our local area through cultural activity, collaboration, and by exploring and creating new pathways of opportunity.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees, who are also the directors for the purposes of company law, are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial period that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

SMALL COMPANY PROVISIONS

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.

AUDITOR

Victoria Anderson, of Sumer Audit, was appointed auditor to the charity during the year and has expressed their willingness to continue in that capacity.

The trustees’ annual report was approved on …………………….. and signed on behalf of the board of trustees by:

Prof. A.C.R Corbett-Nolan Chair of Trustees

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's report to the Members and Trustees of Hastings Contemporary ('the Company')

Year ended 31 March 2025

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Hastings contemporary (the 'parent company') and its subsidiary (the ‘group’) for the year ended 31st March 2025 which comprise the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities, Consolidated and Charity Balance Sheets Consolidated Cash Flow Statement and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's report to the Members and Trustees of Hastings Contemporary ('the Company')

Year ended 31 March 2025

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the Report of the Trustees, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The Trustees are responsible for the other information.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors' report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's report to the Members and Trustees of Hastings Contemporary ('the Company')

Year ended 31 March 2025

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the group's and the parent company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the group or the parent company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We identified and assessed the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements from irregularities, whether due to fraud or error, and discussed these between our audit team members. We then designed and performed audit procedures responsive to those risks, including obtaining audit evidence sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework within which the charity operates, focusing on those laws and regulations that have a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were the Companies Act 2006, the Charities Act 2011 and the Charities SORP (FRS 102). We assessed the required compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our audit procedures on the related financial statement items.

In addition we considered provisions of other laws and regulations that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which might be fundamental to the charity’s ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty. We also considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the charity for fraud. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were General Data Protection Regulation and Health and Safety legislation.

Auditing standards limit the required audit procedures to identify non-compliance with these laws and regulations to enquiry of the trustees and other management and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence if any.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's report to the Members and Trustees of Hastings Contemporary ('the Company')

Year ended 31 March 2025

We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be within the timing of recognition of ticket and grant income and the override of controls by management. Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included enquiries of management and the board about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, sample testing on the posting of journals, reviewing accounting estimates for biases, reviewing regulatory correspondence and reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations (irregularities) is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of nondetection of irregularities. as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. We are not responsible for preventing noncompliance and cannot be expected to detect noncompliance with all laws and regulations.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the company's member, as a body, in accordance with chapter 3 of part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's member those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's member as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Victoria Anderson BA(Hons) FCA DChA (Senior Statutory Auditor)

For and on behalf of Sumer Audit Chartered accountants & statutory auditor 2 St Andrews Place Lewes East Sussex BN7 1UP

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities (including income and expenditure account)

Year Ended 31 March 2025

Year to Year to
31 Mar 2025 31 Mar 2024
Unrestricted funds All
General Designated Restricted Total Total
Fund Fund funds funds funds
Note £ £ £ £ £
Income and endowments:
Donations and legacies 5 539,304 539,304 385,485
Charitable activities 6 128,654 358,027 486,681 342,239
Other trading activities 7 229,046 229,046 248,912
---------------------------------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------
Total income 897,004 358,027 1,255,031 976,636
============================================= ===================== ================================== ============================================= ======================================
Expenditure on:
Raising funds 8 512,846 512,846 477,434
Charitable activities 8&9 431,281 178,001 609,282 753,663
---------------------------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Total expenditure 944,127 178,001 1,122,128 1,231,097
======================================== ===================== ================================ ====================================== =======================================
Net income and net movement in funds (47,123) 180,026 132,903 (254,461)
Transfers between funds 105,550 (105,550)
------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------
Net movement in funds 58,427 (105,550)
180,026
132,903 (254,461)
==================================== ==================================== ================================ ====================================== =================================
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward 92,913 105,550 26,028 224,491 478,952
--------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Total funds carried forward 151,340 206,054 357,394 224,491
====================================== ==================================== ================================ ====================================== =====================================

The consolidated statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

The notes on pages 20 to 33 form part of these financial statements.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

31 March 2025

31 Mar 2025 31 Mar 2024
£ £ £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 15 118,232
36,929
Current assets
Stock 61,290 89,619
Debtors 17 256,707 97,958
Cash at bank and in hand 71,642 142,618
-------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
389,639 330,195
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 18 150,477 142,633
-------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Net current assets 239,162
187,562
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
Total assets less current liabilities 357,394
224,491
--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Net assets 357,394
224,491
==================================== ====================================
Funds of the charity
Restricted funds 20 206,054
26,028
Designated Funds 20 105,550
General Funds 20 151,340
92,913
--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Total charity funds 21 357,394
====================================

224,491
====================================

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime.

These financial statements were approved by the board of trustees and authorised for issue on …………………………, and are signed on behalf of the board by:

Prof. A.C.R Corbett-Nolan Chair of Trustees

Company Number: 08204873

The notes on pages 20 to 33 form part of these financial statements .

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Charity Statement of Financial Position

31 March 2025

31 Mar 2025 31 Mar 2024
£ £ £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 15 118,149
35,851
Investments 16 100
100
--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
118,249
35,951
Current assets
Stock 30,900 54,650
Debtors 17 287,775 124,675
Cash at bank and in hand 54,684 137,408
-------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
373,359 316,733
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 18 139,397 132,543
-------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Net current assets 233,962
184,190
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
Total assets less current liabilities 352,211
220,141
--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Net assets 352,211
220,141
==================================== ====================================
Funds of the charity
Restricted funds 20 206,054
26,028
Designated Funds 20 105,550
General Funds 20 146,157
88,563
--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
Total charity funds 21 352,211
====================================

220,141
====================================

The Charity’s movement in total funds totalled £132,070 surplus (2024: £255,131 deficit).

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime.

These financial statements were approved by the board of trustees and authorised for issue on …………………………, and are signed on behalf of the board by:

Prof. A.C.R Corbett-Nolan Chair of Trustees

Company Number: 08204873

The notes on pages 20 to 33 form part of these financial statements .

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

31 March 2025

31 March 31 March
2025 2024
£ £
Cash flows from operating activities
Net surplus / (deficit) for the reporting period
(per Statement of Financial Activities) 132,903 (254,461)
Adjustments for:
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets 17,491 19,299
Changes in:
Stock 28,329 (60,467)
Trade and other debtors (158,749) (11,863)
Trade and other creditors 7,844 14,934
──────────── ────────────
Cash generated by / (used in) operations 27,818 (292,558)
Interest received
──────────── ────────────
Net cash generated by / (used in) operating activities 27,818 (292,558)
════════════ ═══════════
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of tangible assets (98,794) (19,055)
──────────── ────────────
Net cash from investing activities (98,794) (19,055)
════════════ ═══════════
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents (70,976) (311,613)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year 142,618 454,231
──────────── ────────────
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year 71,642 142,618
════════════ ════════════
Cash and cash equivalents are represented as follows:
Cash at bank and in hand(per Statement of Financial Position) 71,642 142,618
════════════ ════════════

The notes on pages 20 to 33 form part of these financial statements .

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements

Year ended 31 March 2025

1. General information

The charity is a private company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales (registered number 08204873) and a registered charity in England and Wales (registered number 1150383). The address of the registered office is 8 The Old Yard, Lodge Farm Business Centre, Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes, MK19 7ES and the charity’s principal office address is Rock-a-Nore Road, Hastings, TN34 3DW.

2. Statement of compliance

The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: 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 (FRS 102), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), the Charities Act 2011 and Companies Act 2006.

3. Accounting policies

Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis, as modified by the revaluation of certain financial assets and liabilities and investment properties measured at fair value through income or expenditure.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the entity.

Going concern

The Trustees have considered the impact and risk on the company as it continues to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trustees have concluded that with the right management actions the company is a going concern for at least 12 months following the signature of the financial statements. Accordingly, the Trustees have prepared the financial statements on this basis.

Consolidation

The Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA), Consolidated Statement of Financial Position and Consolidated Statement of Cashflows consolidate the financial statements of the Charity and its subsidiary undertaking. The results of the subsidiary are consolidated on a lineby-line basis.

The charity has taken advantage of the exemption allowed under section 408 of Companies Act 2006 and has not presented its own Statement Of Financial Activities in these financial statements.

Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported. These estimates and judgements are continually reviewed and are based on experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances.

In the view of the trustees in applying the accounting policies adopted, no judgements were required that have a significant effect on the amounts recognised in the financial statements nor do any estimates or assumptions made carry a significant risk of material adjustment in the next financial year.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

3. Accounting policies (continued)

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees to further any of the charity’s purposes.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the Trustees for particular purposes. The aim and use of each designated fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure declared by the donor or through the terms of an appeal, and fall into one of two sub-classes: restricted income funds or endowment funds.

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when entitlement has passed to the charity; it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow to the charity and the amount can be reliably measured. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:

Resources expended

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is classified under headings of the statement of financial activities to which it relates:

All costs are allocated to expenditure categories reflecting the use of the resource. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs are apportioned between the activities they contribute to on a reasonable, justifiable and consistent basis.

Staff costs are allocated to activities based on each individuals estimated time spent thereon.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

3. Accounting policies (continued)

Other support costs are allocated on the following basis:

  1. Income (1) Costs are allocated in direct proportion to the related unrestricted income streams

  2. Income (2) Costs are allocated 10% to raising funds (other than trading activities) and the remainder in direct proportion to unrestricted charitable and trading activity income streams

  3. Staff Costs Costs are allocated in direct proportion to the allocation of unrestricted staff costs between activities

  4. Floor Space Costs are allocated according to the approximate floor space occupied by the relevant activity

  5. Proportion (1) Costs are allocated in the following proportions, which the trustees deem to be reflective of the relative costs incurred for each activity, based on informed input and estimates from management:

Gallery Operations 80%, Raising Funds 15%, Education: 5%

  1. Proportion (2) Costs are allocated in the following proportions, which the trustees deem to be reflective of the relative costs incurred for each activity, based on informed input and estimates from management:

Gallery Operations 10%, Raising Funds 90%

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. Costs include costs directly attributable to making the asset capable of operating as intended.

Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets, at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset on a systematic basis over it expected useful life as follows:

Fixtures and fittings - 25% straight line Mobile Studio - 10% straight line

Investments

Investments in subsidiaries are recorded at cost, less provision for impairment where applicable.

Debtors and creditors receivable / payable within one year

Debtors and creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable or payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in expenditure.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

3. Accounting policies (continued)

Financial instruments

The group only enters into basic financial instrument transactions that result in the recognition of financial assets and liabilities like trade and other debtors and creditors and loans from or to group entities.

Financial assets that are measured at cost and amortised cost are assessed at the end of each reporting period for objective evidence of impairment. If objective evidence of impairment is found, an impairment loss is recognised in the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings.

Defined contribution plans

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as an expense in the period in which the related service is provided. Prepaid contributions are recognised as an asset to the extent that the prepayment will lead to a reduction in future payments or a cash refund.

When contributions are not expected to be settled wholly within 12 months of the end of the reporting date in which the employees render the related service, the liability is measured on a discounted present value basis. The unwinding of the discount is recognised as an expense in the period in which it arises.

Operating leases

Lease payments are recognised as an expense over the lease term on a straight-line basis. The aggregate benefit of lease incentives is recognised as a reduction to expense over the lease term, on a straight-line basis.

4. Legal Status of the charity

The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital. Every member agrees, in the event the charity is dissolved while (s)he remains a member, or within one year after (s)he ceases to be a member, to contribute up to £1 towards the charity’s liabilities and its costs of winding up. In accordance with the Articles of Association, all Trustees of the charity are members for this purpose. At the financial year end there were 10 relevant members (2024: 7).

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

5. Donations and legacies (all Unrestricted Funds)

5. Donations and legacies (all Unrestricted Funds)
Total Funds Total Funds
Year ended Year ended
31 Mar 2025 31 Mar 2024
Core grant funding £ £
Arts Council England
-
Annual NPO Funding
101,840 101,840
Dunard Fund 100,000 40,000
Garfield Weston 40,000
Hastings Borough Council 20,000 25,000
Donations
Patrons & Directors Circle 35,220 21,700
General donations 4,190 4,075
Donated artworks 2,250 54,650
Other donations and legacies
Membership income 52,880 53,636
Gift aid and other tax reliefs 182,924 84,584
----------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
539,304 385,485
======================================== ======================================
6. Charitable activities
Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds
2025 Funds Funds 31 Mar 2025
£ £ £
Grant income 321,251 321,251
Sponsorship 20,000 20,000
Donations 36,776 36,776
Admissions 91,744 91,744
Participation & learning 940 940
Public programme 15,970 15,970
-------------------------------------- --------------------------- ---------------------------------------
128,654 358,027 486,681
===================================== =========================== ======================================
Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds
2024 Funds Funds 31 Mar 2024
£ £ £
Grant income 48,875 48,875
Sponsorship 23,550 23,550
Donations 122,743 122,743
Admissions 130,354 130,354
Participation & learning 1,945 1,945
Public programme 14,772 14,772
-------------------------------------- --------------------------- ---------------------------------------
170,621 171,618 342,239
===================================== =========================== ======================================

7. Other trading activities (all Unrestricted Funds)

Other trading activities (all Unrestricted Funds)
Total Funds Total Funds
Year ended Year ended
31 Mar 2025 31 Mar 2024
£ £
Sale of artworks 59,830
Retail income of trading subsidiary 167,557 244,833
Miscellaneous income 1,659 4,079
--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------
229,046 248,912
===================================== =================================

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

8. Total Expenditure by Activity
Support
2025 Staff Costs Direct Costs Costs Total
£ £ £ £
Charitable Activities:
Gallery Operations 150,681 69,161 189,868 409,710
Education & Public Programme 47,267 27,630 5,751 80,648
Special Projects 54,003 64,921 118,924
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
251,951 161,712 195,619 609,282
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
Cost of Raising Funds:
Fundraising 164,644 62,212 228,856
Trading activities 138,374 120,909 26,707 285,990
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
303,018 120,909 88,919 512,846
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
Total Expenditure 554,969 282,621 284,538 1,122,128
================================= ================================= ================================= =================================
Support
2024 Staff Costs Direct Costs Costs Total
£ £ £ £
Charitable Activities:
Gallery Operations 207,252 235,960 247,814 691,026
Education & Public Programme 28,107 25,277 9,253 62,637
Special Projects
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
235,359 261,237 257,067 753,663
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
Cost of Raising Funds:
Fundraising 159,013 71,654 230,667
Trading activities 146,288 76,847 23,632 246,767
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
305,301 76,847 95,286 477,434
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
Total Expenditure 540,660 338,084 352,353 1,231,097
================================= ================================= ================================= =================================
9. Expenditure on charitable activities by fund type
Restricted Total Funds
2025 Unrestricted Funds Funds 31 Mar 2025
General Designated
£ £ £ £
Gallery Operations 384,119 25,591 409,710
Education & Public Programme 47,162 33,486 80,648
Special Projects 118,924 118,924
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
431,281 178,001 609,282
================================= ================================= ================================= =================================

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

9. Expenditure on charitable activities by fund type (continued)

Restricted Total Funds
2024 Unrestricted Funds Funds 31 Mar 2024
General Designated
£ £ £ £
Gallery Operations 544,596 146,430 691,026
Education & Public Programme 36,254 26,383 62,637
Special Projects
-------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------
580,850 172,813 753,663
================================= ================================= ================================= =================================
Support costs (all Unrestricted Funds)
Total Funds Total Funds
Year ended
Year ended
31 Mar 2025 31 Mar 2024
£ £
Governance 64,953 49,339
Other staff costs (travel, training and other expenses) 14,424 17,051
Property 114,846 132,239
Marketing 23,747 45,168
Information Technology and website costs 1,038 1,288
Office costs 17,884 320,644
Accountancy and book-keeping 17,442 17,200
Irrecoverable VAT 12,232 50,048
Bank charges 17,969 19,376
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
284,538 352,353
====================================== ======================================

10. Support costs (all Unrestricted Funds)

Analysis of support costs by activity

Basis of
allocation
Raising
Funds
Gallery
Operations
Education &
Public
Programme
Special Projects Total
Year
ended 31
Mar 2025
£ £ £ £ £
Governance Income (1) 37,495 26,504 954 64,953
Other staff costs (travel,
training and expenses) Staff Costs 7,899 5,405 1,120 14,424
Property Floor Space 6,509 108,340 114,846
Marketing Prop’ (1) 6,500 16,232 1,015 23,747
Information Technology Prop’ (1) 244 747 47 1,038
Office costs Prop’ (1) 3,209 13,812 863 17,884
Accountancy and book-
keeping Income (2) 8,771 7,531 1,140 17,442
Irrecoverable VAT Prop’ (1) 1,835 9,785 612 12,232
Bank charges Prop’ (2) 16,457 1,512 17,969
---------------------------- --------------------------------- ---------------------------- ---------------------------- -----------------------------------
88,919 189,868 5,751 284,538
============================ ============================== ============================ ============================ ================================

The relevant support cost allocation basis is disclosed under the accounting policies on page 21.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

11. Governance costs (all Unrestricted Funds)

Governance costs (all Unrestricted Funds)
Total Funds Total Funds
Year ended
Year ended
31 Mar 2025 31 Mar 2024
£ £
Staff costs 49,861 41,217
Audit fees or Independent Examiners fee 9,585 1,965
Accountancy fees 3,000 2,500
Legal and professional fees 2,507 3,657
---------------------------- ----------------------------
64,953
============================
49,339
============================

12. Net income for the period

Net income for the period is stated after charging:

Year ended Year ended
31 Mar 31 Mar
2025 2024
£ £
Depreciation 17,491 19,299
Audit fees 9,585
Independent Examiners fees 1,965
Operating lease rentals
============================
2,399
============================

13. Staff costs

The total staff costs and employee benefits for the reporting period are analysed as follows:

Year ended Year ended
31 Mar 31 Mar
2025 2024
£ £
Wages and salaries 523,037 506,660
Social security costs 40,767 39,347
Pension contributions 16,394 14,675
Employee benefits 1,944 2,070
Consultancy and Agency support 22,688 19,125
-------------------------------------- --------------------------------------
604,830 581,877
==================================== =====================================

The average head count of employees for the group during the period was 23 (2024: 25) and fulltime equivalent was 15 (2024: 15).

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

13. Staff costs (continued)

The number of employees that received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) equivalent to more than £60,000 per annum during the period were as follows:

Year ended Year ended
31 Mar 31 Mar
2025 2024
£ £
£90,001 - £100,000 1 1
============================ ============================

The key management personnel of the charity comprise the Director, Director of Programmes, Head of Development, and Head of Finance and Operations. The total employee benefits, including employers NIC of the key management personnel were £288,359 (2024: £303,323).

14. Trustee remuneration and expenses

No Trustee received any emolument, expenses or payments for professional services or other services from the charity during the period (2024: Nil)

15. Tangible fixed assets

Fixtures &
Group Mobile Studio fittings Total
£ £ £
Cost
At 1 April 2024 108,612 108,612
Additions 98,794 98,794
---------------------------- ---------------------------- ----------------------------
At 31 March 2025 98,794 108,612 207,406
============================ ============================ ============================
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024 71,683 71,683
Charge 17,491 17,491
---------------------------- ---------------------------- ----------------------------
At 31 March 2025 89,174 89,174
============================ ============================ ============================
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2025 98,794 19,438 118,232
============================ ============================ ============================
At 31 March 2024 36,929 36,929
============================ ============================ ============================

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

15. Tangible fixed assets (continued)

Fixtures &
Charity Mobile Studio
fittings
Total
£ £ £
Cost
At 1 April 2024
104,631
104,631
Additions 98,794
98,794
---------------------------- ---------------------------- ----------------------------
At 31 March 2025 98,794
104,631
203,425
============================ ============================ ============================
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024
68,780
68,780
Charge
16,496
16,496
---------------------------- ---------------------------- ----------------------------
At 31 March 2025
85,276
85,276
============================ ============================ ============================
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2025 98,794
19,355
118,149
============================ ============================ ============================
At 31 March 2024
35,851
35,851
============================ ============================ ============================
Investments
Investment in
Subsidiary
Charity Undertakings Total
£
Cost
At 1 April 2024 100 100
Additions
---------------------------- ----------------------------
At 31 March 2025 100 100
============================ ============================
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2025 100 100
============================ ============================
At 31 March 2024 100 100
============================ ============================

16. Investments

The charity owns 100% of the share capital of Hastings Contemporary Trading Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with registered number 12262368, and established for the purpose of carrying out the charity’s non-charitable trading activities.

The subsidiary had the following results for the year:

Year ended Year ended
31 Mar 31 Mar
2025 2024
£ £
Total assets 47,431 41,977
Total liabilities 42,148 37,527
Total equity 5,283 4,450
=================================== =====================================
Turnover 167,557 244,832
Expenditure 166,724 244,162
Profit 833 670
=================================== =====================================

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

17. Debtors

Group Charity
2025 2024 2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Trade debtors 18,252 6,481 18,252 6,012
Amounts owed by group undertakings 27,599 24,105
Prepayments and accrued income 233,181 87,342 233,181 87,342
Other debtors 5,274 4,135 8,743 7,216
──────────── ──────────── ───────── ────────
256,707 97,958 287,775 124,675
════════════ ════════════ ═════════ ════════

18. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Group Charity
2025 2024 2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Trade creditors 83,988 72,964 77,507 64,374
Other tax and social security 19,810 11,277 19,810 11,277
Accruals and deferred income 44,406 55,712 39,807 54,212
Other creditors 2,273 2,680 2,273 2,680
──────────── ──────────── ───────── ────────
150,477 142,633 139,397 132,543
════════════ ════════════ ═════════ ════════

19. Deferred income

The charity receives annual membership subscriptions which are recognised, pro-rata, over the period to which the membership relates. Consequently, membership income received relating to the period after the balance sheet date is deferred.

Movement on the deferred income account is as follows:
Charity 2025 2024
£ £
Deferred income brought forward 21,622 23,165
Movement in membership income received in respect of future
accounting periods 1,708 (1,543)
---------------------------- ----------------------------
Deferred income carried forward 23,330
============================
21,622
============================

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

20. Analysis of charitable funds

Unrestricted funds

Balance at Balance at
2025 1 Apr 2024 Income Expenditure Transfers 31 Mar 2025
£ £ £ £ £
General Funds 92,913 897,004 (944,127) 105,550 151,340
================================ ================================================ ======================================== =================================== ========================================
Designated Funds:
Maintenance
Contingency Fund 105,550 (105,550)
=============================== ================================= ==================================== ===================================== ===============================
Total 198,463 897,004 (944,127) 151,340
================================ ================================================ ======================================== =================================== ========================================
Balance at Balance at
2024 1 Apr 2023 Income Expenditure Transfers 31 Mar 2024
£ £ £ £ £
General Funds 18,450 92,913
================================ ================================================ ======================================== =================================== ========================================
Designated Funds:
Maintenance
Contingency Fund 124,000 (18,450)
105,550
=============================== ================================= ==================================== ===================================== ===============================
Total 198,463
================================ ================================================ ======================================== =================================== ========================================

Designated Funds

The Maintenance Contingency Fund was established to support future exceptional maintenance expenditure for the gallery. The Trustees have taken the decision to release the fund during the year in order to support the general charitable activities.

Restricted funds

Restricted funds
Balance at Balance at
2025 1 Apr 2024 Income Expenditure Transfers 31 Mar 2025
£ £ £ £ £
Education projects 26,028 10,000 (33,486) 2,542
Exhibitions 36,776 (25,591) 11,185
Special Projects:
NLHF 124,986 (81,805) 43,181
UK Government 136,265 (35,477) 100,788
Dunard (Capital) 50,000 (1,642) 48,358
------------------------------- --------------------------------- --------------------------------- ---------------------------- -------------------------------
26,028 358,027 (178,001) 206,054
=============================== ================================= ==================================== ========================== ===============================
Balance at Balance at
2024 1 Apr 2023 Income Expenditure Transfers 31 Mar 2024
£ £ £ £ £
Education projects 26,223 26,188 (26,383) 26,028
Exhibitions 1,000 145,430 (146,430)
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27,223 171,618 (172,813) 26,028
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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

20. Analysis of charitable funds (continued)

Restricted funds

The restricted fund represents grants and donations receivable for donor or grant funder specified purposes.

The charity continues its education programmes, supported by local area grants.

The charity has further received several large, restricted fund grants in the period for specific projects, outlined as follows:

National Lotter Heritage Fund: Funding to support a new partnership and project with the Hastings Fishermen Protection Society, as outlined in more detail on pages 4 and 7 of the Trustees’ report.

Uk Government: Funding was received to support the building of a new mobile creative studio. Costs associated with the construction of the studio have been capitalised and those costs will be depreciated in future against the restricted fund balance.

Dunard: Capital funding to support the visioning and planning for a capital masterplan.

21. Analysis of net assets between funds

Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds
Funds Funds 31 Mar 2025
2025 £ £ £
Fixed assets 19,438 98,794 118,232
Current assets 282,379 107,260 389,639
Creditors less than 1 year (150,477) (150,477)
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Net assets 151,340 206,054 357,394
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Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds
Funds Funds 31 Mar 2024
2024 £ £ £
Fixed assets 36,929 36,929
Current assets 294,462 35,733 330,195
Creditors less than 1 year (132,928) (9,705)
(142,633)
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Net assets 198,463 26,028 224,491
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22. Related party transactions

The charity has taken advantage of exemptions under FRS102 from the requirement to disclose inter group transactions.

There were no other related party transactions such that require disclosure under FRS102.

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Hastings Contemporary

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 March 2025

23. Comparatives for consolidated statement of financial activities

Year to Year to
31 Mar 2024 31 Mar 2023
Unrestricted funds All
General Designated Restricted Total Total
Fund Fund funds funds funds
Note £ £ £ £ £
Income and endowments:
Donations and legacies 5 385,485 385,485 270,522
Charitable activities 6 170,621 171,618 342,239 296,116
Other trading activities 7 248,912 248,912 196,431
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Total income 805,018 171,618 976,636 763,069
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Expenditure on:
Raising funds 8 477,434 477,434 270,731
Charitable activities 8&9 580,850 172,813 753,663 712,941
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Total expenditure 1,058,284 172,813 1,231,097 983,672
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Net income and net movement in funds (253,266) (1,195) (254,461) (220,603)
Transfers between funds 18,450 (18,450)
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Net movement in funds (234,816) (18,450)
(1,195)
(254,461) (220,603)
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Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward 327,729 124,000 27,223 478,952 699,555
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Total funds carried forward 92,913 105,550 26,028 224,491 478,952
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