## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 22/07/2023 To 21/07/2024** ## **Charity name: St Neots Players** ## **Charity registration number: 1162775** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objective of the Society is to educate the
public in dramatic and comedic arts, as well
as further the development of public
appreciation and taste in said arts.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Performance of two plays (Ladies Day and
The Girl On The Train) and one pantomime
(Jack & the Beanstalk).| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees of St Neots Players have had
regard to the Charity Commission’s
guidance on public benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|St Neots Players relies almost entirely on the
contribution of time and effort by volunteers,
except in cases where professional service
is required.| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The productions staged by St Neots Players
have educated and entertained almost 2,000
residents or visitors to St Neots on the
dramatic arts, as well as provided an
opportunity to roughly 50 residents to learn
theatrecraft on- and off-stage.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|St Neots Players have maintained and
slightly increased their financial reserve over
this year. The reserve remains large enough
to cover a year’s worth of productions.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The staging of a production involves
significant up-front costs and a level of risk
of cancellation. In order to ensure that we
can afford to take a show through to
completion and that we can afford to
continue operating if anything interferes with
ticket sales (like cancellation), we maintain
financial reserves.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£15,000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|St Neots Players relies primarily on ticket
sales at its productions for funding. These
are necessarily subject to economic factors,
as are our production expenditures.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|St Neots Players relies totally upon ticket
sales and Front-of-House sales for our
funds.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|St Neots Players relies primarily on ticket
sales at its productions for funding. These
are necessarily subject to economic factors,
as are our production expenditures.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated Association| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are elected by the membership of
the society at an Annual General Meeting.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|St Neots Players| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1162775| |Charity’s principal address|14 Crocus Close
Eynesbury
St Neots
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Richard Fitt|Chair||| ||Thomas
Monkhouse|Treasurer||| ||Christine Suggars|Secretary||| ||Rita Coleman|||| ||George Kelly|||| ||AmyEmery|||| ||Gillian Haverson|||| ||Kelvin West|||| ||Nigel Moorhouse|||| ||Paul Robbins|||| ||Rianna Thorpe|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
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**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Thomas Allan Monkhouse|| ||
Treasurer|| ||21/05/2025|| ||21/05/2025|| ## **St Neots Players** |**St Neots Players**||| |---|---|---| |**Annual Accounts**|**This Year**|**Last Year**| |Period Beginning:|22 July 2023|22 July 2022| |Period Ending|21 July 2024|21 July 2023| |**Balance at Period Start**|**£13,650.10**| |---|---| |**Balance at Period End**|**£16,249.31**| |**Cash Account**|**£1,893.82**| |**Income**|**Income**|**2023/24**|**2022/23**||**Expenditure**|**2023/24**|**2022/23**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |TicketSource Sales||_£16,971.60_|_£13,664.60_||**Production Costs**
Lighting|£5,866.80|£5,428.40| |Tickets||_£4,006.80_|_£4,522.23_||Hall Hire - Show Week|£4,179.75|£4,662.50| |Priory Centre Sales||_£4,881.75_|_£2,921.40_||Room Hire - Rehearsals|£3,656.50|£3,403.80| |Raffle||_£87.00_|_£1,461.95_||Set|£2,025.90|£2,701.92| |Membership||_£880.00_|_£645.00_||Show Publicity|£1,513.33|£1,771.45| |Sponsorship||_£0.00_|_£500.00_||Licence|£504.73|£2,125.60| |Front of House||_£55.00_|_£365.89_||Catering|£1,060.60|£1,409.82| |Programmes||_£40.00_|_£351.00_||Costumes|£751.00|£449.09| |Sweets||_£0.00_|_£233.10_||Props|£525.50|£535.22| |Set Capital||_£0.00_|_£156.00_||Transport|£660.00|£339.06| |50/50||_£0.00_|_£65.50_||Programmes|£224.85|£206.08| |Costumes||_£0.00_|_£20.00_||Scripts|£140.87|£122.48| |Fundraising||_£6.79_|_£0.00_||Room Hire - Auditions|£0.00|£127.50| |Commission||_-£258.59_|_-£164.85_||Sundries|£114.48|£0.00| ||||||Front of House|£0.00|£111.67| ||||||Tickets|£61.80|£0.00| ||||||Raffle|£30.00|£0.00| ||||||Commission|£0.00|£10.00| ||||||||| ||||||**Running Costs**
Barn Hire|£1,200.00|£437.50| ||||||Insurance|£411.10|£411.10| ||||||Membership|£391.00|£284.72| ||||||NODA Subscription|£230.00|£190.00| ||||||Barn Operating|£276.96|£93.00| ||||||Catering|£144.00|£210.46| ||||||Transport|£0.00|£175.00| ||||||Set Capital|£87.99|£76.77| ||||||Hall Hire - Show Week|£0.00|£30.00| ||||||Webhosting|£13.98|£0.00| ||||||||| |**Total Income**||**£26,670.35**|£24,741.82||**Total Expenditure**|**£24,071.14**|_£25,313.14_| |||||||**£2,599.21**|_-£571.32_| |**By Production**|**Income**
**Expenditure Net**||||||| |The Lost Bee
Ladies Day
Panto: Jack & the Beanstalk
The Girl On The Train
Awards Night 2023|||||||| Declarations The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report above. Signed on behalf of the charity's trustses Signature(sl Full name(s) Position (eg Se¢retsry, Chair, etc) Thomas Allan Monkhouse Treasurer Date 2110512025