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[th] March 2022
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 2[nd] 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 Thursday 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 Thursday 2[nd] July 2015. There have been no other trustees or custodians during the period to 16[th] March 2022.
The Trustees have not received any benefits or payments from the charity during the period ending 16[th] March 2022.
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 17[th] March 2021 and 16[th] March 2022, 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 also proofread 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 until theatres and performance venues opened securely and stably at full capacity.
Plans for future periods
Several more productions were in varied stages of planning, which was a protracted process due to nature of some of the performances, responding to frequently changing government guidelines regarding gatherings and closed locations.
However, we were given the go ahead to perform outdoors so we were able to finally start production between January and March 2022 for The Mabinogion, or “Y Mabinogi”, the Welsh-English language children’s outdoor theatre touring production with CADW.
As part of this process of organizing this bi-lingual theatrical tour for school children around CADW sites in Wales, there were further site visits to all the potential heritage and performance sites in central Wales (Powys) to complete the site visits of 2019 and 2021. We purchased membership to CADW and established a fruitful contact with CADW’s education staff. We also engaged in the initial discussions with each site’s custodian to establish the viability of performing in a particular site and to help us build a project plan. In January and February respectively, a Producer and a Marketing Assistant were recruited to assist in realizing this project in 2022.
We also assisted the Tricolore Theatre Company with their Italian language children’s play A Boy Called Porro, having worked with the director previously in London and sharing a common project in native language children’s theatre. We proofread, joined workshops,
made casting suggestions and some creative contributions. This collaboration proved effective as they will also be assisting us in our future performance of The Decameron, a collection of Italian short stories, in 2023 or 2024.
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 2022 Struts and Frets balanced out their payments and receipts.
Total expenditure for the charity for the year ending 16[th] March 2022 was £0. There has been no expenditure this year by the theatre company, as the collaboration with Tricolore Theatre Company was a mutual partnership in terms of help, guidance and support.
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[th] March 2022
Income £0 Expenditure £0 Net Deficit £0
Signed Trustee:
Date: XX/10/2022
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