2021-03-16-accounts

Struts and Frets

Struts and Frets is a registered Charity (reg no. 1162917). The Principal office is 154 Metro Central Heights, 119, Newington Causeway, London, SE1 6BT

Report of the trustees for the year ending 16 March 2021

The following report and financial review have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Act 2011, and the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standards for Smaller Entities.

Struts and Frets is a Charitable Incorporated Organization, governed by a Foundation Model Constitution since Thursday 2nd July 2015.

Structure, governance and management

Struts and Frets has three trustees who have been in place since foundation. There have been no other trustees or custodians, and there are no plans to recruit or appointment any more trustees. No other person or body external to the charity is entitled to appoint one or more of the trustees.

The charity trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the commission in exercising their powers or duties.

The daily operational running of the charity has been delegated to the Director.

All activities undertaken by Struts and Frets have been entirely for the public benefit, whether recruiting for productions as widely, openly and transparently as possible from the general public, to performing for free, collaborating with as many artists, designers, directors as possible at no expense to them and to no private benefit to ourselves. We have covered the cost of all productions and reimbursed all participants, have benefitted the public in free live or recorded performances, or discounted live performances, and have made no financial or other gain ourselves.

Directors and Trustees

The directors of the charitable company (the charity) are its trustees for the purpose of charity law.

The trustees and officers serving from 2[nd] July 2015 and since the year end were:

Anna Woodworth, Rosie Wesemann, Zumrut Somel Gray.

The Director is Francesca De Sica

All three trustees and the director have been in post since Struts and Frets was established on 2[nd] July 2015. There have been no other trustees or custodians during the period to 16[th] March 2021.

The Trustees have not received any benefits or payments from the charity during the period ending 16[th] March 2021.

Purpose and Activities

The Objectives of Struts and Frets is to advance, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art of drama by any means the trustees see fit, including through the presentation of public performances.

Performance and Achievements

Between 16 March 2020 and 16 March 2021, the director and actors were engaged in editing videos of the performances, updating the theatre company website and other marketing and administrative activities to refresh our communications and look ahead to future opportunities.

The director completed her online BA in Theatre Studies at Rose Bruford College (2:1) and attended two online clowning courses and one Commedia dell’Arte course for continuous education and skills improvement

The director also proof read and peer reviewed scripts, setting up online “scratch nights” and “open mic” sessions for other artists to socialize their work in progress, to keep creative momentum going and to widen and deepen this community of theatre makers and performance artists.

Plans for future periods

Several more productions are in varied stages of planning, which is a protracted process due to nature of some of the performances and responding to frequently changing guidelines regarding gatherings and closed locations. As part of the process of organizing a bi-lingual theatrical tour for school children around CADW (national heritage protected) sites in Wales, there were further site visits to all the potential heritage and performance sites in the western and southern Welsh counties Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Cardiff. We purchased membership to CADW and made many contacts with the staff while there, to help us build a project plan. A Producer and a Marketing Assistant have been recruited to assist in realizing this project in 2022.

Two more performances are planned in London in 2022, based solely on a rarely represented demographic (women in their 50s and 60s) and another collection of Italian short stories. The company is also writing another Victoriana play on the Fox Sisters for 2022. As with Sherlock Holmes, girls’ schools will be invited and we’ll offer free Q&A and on site workshops at their schools to encourage girls to use their voice on stage and in the world.

Again, our recruitment process – of performers, designers, directors, producers, writers, stage managers and all and any other participants will be drawn from as wide and broad a spectrum of the public as possible, and will be open to as many members of the public, either live or recorded, fulfilling our wish and our duty to perform for the public benefit.

Financial review

For the year ending 16[th] March 2021 Struts and Frets balanced out their payments and receipts.

Total expenditure for the charity for the year ending 16[th] March 2020 was £0. There has been no expenditure this year by the theatre company, as the educational activities of the director were self-funded.

Struts and Frets has no investments, no reserves and no assets.

The Director has been responsible for the financial management of Struts and Frets. The detailed transactions and the summarised statements have been reviewed by the Trustees.

The following financial summary has been prepared on a receipts and payments basis. The charity has no assets, no liabilities and no investments.

Struts and Frets Annual accounts for the year ending 16 March 2021

Income £0 Expenditure £0 Net Deficit £0

Signed Trustee:

Anna Woodworth

Date: 17/01/2022

	Struts and Frets	Struts and Frets	Struts and Frets	1162917	1162917	1162917	CC16a
	For the period from	17-Mar-20	To		16-Mar-21
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - - 0.00 - - 0.00	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - - 0.00 - - 0.00	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - - 0.00 - - 0.00		Total funds to the nearest £ - - - - -		Last year to the nearest £
Ticket sales	-						-
Directorpersonal fund	-						-
	-						-
Other Sub total(Gross income for AR)	-
	-						-
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	-				-
Sub total	-				-		-
Total receipts A3 Payments
							-
							-
Staff costs	-						-
Marketing	-						-
Costumes, set props, rehersal and performance space	-						-
Travel and Visa	-						-
Sundries	-						-
**Sub total **	-						-
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
nil	0				-
**Sub total **	-				-		-
Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
							-
	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00		0.00
	-	-	-		-		-
	-	-	-		-		-
	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00		0.00

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets	Signature nil Details Details nil nil Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) nil Details nil	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ nil nil 0.00 0.00 OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ nil nil Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) nil nil Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) nil nil Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) nil nil Print Name Anna Woodworth	Endowment funds to nearest £
			nil
			0.00
			OK
			Endowment funds to nearest £
			nil
			Current value (optional)
			nil
			Current value (optional)
			nil
			When due (optional)
			nil
			Date of approval
		Anna Woodworth	17/01/2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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