## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From** 06 April 2024 **To** 05 April 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** ## **Brighton Theatre** **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1156577 **Charity's principal address 28 George Street Brighton Postcode BN2 1RH** ~~ee~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Daniel Finlay Chairperson 2 Stephen Pavey Treasurer 3 Teohna Williams 4 Rosie McColl 5 Ruth Goodall 6 Andrew Kay 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~oe~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser **
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**Address**||| |**Accountant**||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Richard Crane (Associate Director), Faynia Williams (Artistic Director) ## **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 Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by Board (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: The charity follows the Charity Commission’s guidelines on selection and recruitment of trustees, and ensures that trustees are familiar with the Commission’s guidance notes “The Essential Trustee…”. - 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. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To advance public education in the Arts and to promote knowledge, understanding and appreciation in the Arts (in particular drama, scenography, music, dance, visual and performing Arts) by the production, in collaboration with other artists and venues, of innovative plays and performance work that are both intellectually stimulating and entertaining, and of a national and international standard of excellence. **TAR** March **2012** 2 2024/25 was largely a fallow year in the activities of the charity. This was largely due to some ongoing health issues of the senior staff and the lengthy time needed to make a full recovery. Nevertheless, there were significant achievements in **Summary of the main** both performance and public engagement and in the **activities undertaken for the** research, script editing and pre-production of two new **public benefit in relation to these objects (include within** plays. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public** More details on these activities are given in Section D. **benefit)** The Trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. ## **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. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** 1. Work continued on MARTHA GUNN, a new play to **during the year** celebrate the 300th birthday in 2026 of the iconic Queen of the Dippers and Great-Grandmother of Brighton. To raise funds and public interest, a reading of the play took place at the Lantern Theatre, Brighton in December 2024, to a packed and appreciative house. 2. Faynia Williams was appointed Adjudicator of the Brighton & Hove Arts Council’s Annual Drama Awards. Six short-listed local productions were seen and reported on through autumn 2024, leading to an awards ceremony in November. This was a valuable opportunity to engage with the wider theatre community and extend consequent public benefit. 3. Development progressed through the early months of 2025, on the two parallel projects, MARTHA GUNN and PLAYING TCHAIKOVSKY, towards a possible double production in 2026/27. 4. Brighton Theatre maintained an active presence through the year with local, national and international organisations. These included the Martha Gunn Trust, the Ironworks Creative, Faynia Williams’ School Governorship of Brighton Girls and Richard Crane’s membership of the International Playwrights’ Forum. . **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section D Achievements and erformance p **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** We intend to build up reserves as appropriate to a small grant aided arts charity. Ideally we would like to have sufficient reserves to enable us to invest in innovative productions without over reliance on external grants. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **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); Income was minimal for the reasons described in Sections C &D. A small amount of donation income of £242 was received. During the year our work has advanced public education and knowledge of the Arts fully in accordance with our objects. - 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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|D Finlay|S. Pavey| |---|---|---| ||Daniel Joseph Laurence Finlay|Stephen Peter Charles Pavey| ||

Chair|Treasurer| ||20 January 2026|| ||20 January 2026|| **TAR** March **2012** 6 ## **Brighton Theatre Receipts and payments accounts For the period from** ~~_~~ **Section A Receipts and payments** **Brighton Theatre 1156577 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 06-Apr-24 05-Apr-25 **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £ A1 Receipts** Donations **242 - - 242 695** Brighton Fringe **-** Arts Council **-** Box Office other **96 - - 96 1,154** Other **1 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total** (Gross income for_ **339 - - 339 1,850** _AR)_ **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **-** ~~===~~ _**Total receipts**_ **339 - - 339 1,850** ~~=~~ **A3 Payments** Production costs - ANNA & MARINA **47** Production costs - Martha Gunn **49 - - 49 49** Fees **772** Travel/Accommodation **41** Office/admin/overheads **347 - - 347 278** Promo/publicity **85** Venue Hire **286** _**Sub total**_ **[ 396 ] - - 396 1,558** ~~=—===_=~~ **A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **[ - ] - - - -** ~~—~~ _**Total payments**_ ~~__———~~ **396 - - 396 1,558** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **- 57 - - - 57 292 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 872 - - 872 580** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **815 - - 815 872** ~~SSS 555~~ CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 13/01/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
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