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Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date
01 01 2022 31 12 2022
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Empire Electric Palace Theatre (Crook) CIO
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1164008
**Charity's principal address** 34 Uplands Close
Crook
## **Postcode**
DL15 9NW
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Helen Wood
2 Daniel Simpson
3 Malcolm Read
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
CIO How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected by AGM
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- 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**
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## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The charity operates in the Wear Valley and Weardale and is seeking to operate the Empire building in Crook as a cinema and theatre with additional arts facilities to further education in the arts. Until the Empire building has been purchased the charity is operating from various venues providing adhoc entertainment and encouraging participation in the arts.
Planning entertainment and educational opportunities for the general public and by exploring fund-raising opportunities and measures. The trustees have read and are aware of their responsibilities with regard to Charity Commission advice on public benefit and this is reviewed periodically.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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**TAR**
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
2022 was an exciting year for the charity.
We were able to set to work spending the largest grant the charity had ever received and developing our relationship with other local charities & production companies.
The grant of, almost, £20,000 from Peoples Postcode Lottery enabled us to move forward with plans for a week long theatre workshop - Pants to Panto which ran in the summer holiday thanks to facilities provided by Willington Primary School. 23 young people were engaged in a 5 day experience that took them from zero knowledge of performance arts through to a full pantomime performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in front of an invited audience. Talegate Theatre Productions and their highly professional staff supported the young people while a local catering company, The Bait Room, provided a hearty lunch each day. The hot weather meant the consumption of gallons of soft drinks and we managed to drain the shelves of the local Co-op store!
Easter saw the return of Talegate Productions and their production of Rapunzel at Spectrum Leisure Centre and Talegate returned for a presentation, again at Spectrum, of The Panto Zone in November.
To conclude the year Shooting Stars Entertainments returned with Search for Santa and their christmas production of Aladdin and we were delighted to return to the venue that started the Empire journey, Crook Cricket Club.
Peoples Postcode Lottery agreed that the underspend on the summer workshop could be 'carried forward' into 2023 events and planning for these was begun.
An exciting year in the Empire story, a year in which we were able to secure our relationships, build audiences and mount more events than ever. The Trustees worked well together and continue to work hard for the charity and the local community.
## **Section E Financial review**
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The charity maintains reserves to enable booking and planning **Brief statement of the** of events to continue **charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
n/a
## **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);
- 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)** Malcolm Read **Full name(s)** Helen Wood **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 23 May 2023
March **2012**
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Empire Electric Palace Theatre (Crook) CIO 1164008
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period 1/1/2022 12/31/2022
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations - - - -
Pantomime income 1,151 - - 1,151
Grants - - - -
Bank compensation 200 - - 200
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
1,351 - - 1,351
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 1,351 - - 1,351
A3 Payments
Entertainer fees 10,060 - - 10,060
Accountancy 120 - - 120
Venue fees 960 - - 960
Food 674 - - 674
Insurance 122 - - 122
Photography 270 - - 270
General expenses 279 - - 279
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 12,485 ] - - 12,485
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 12,485 - - 12,485
Net of receipts/(payments) - 11,134 - - - 11,134
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 27,300 - - 27,300
Cash funds this year end 16,166 - - 16,166
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Barclays Bank a/c
Co-op bank a/c
Cash|**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**13,851**
**2,189**
**126**
**16,166**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances|with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK
|OK||
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print
Helen Wood
Malcolm Read|Name||
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**Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**116 1,360 20,800 - - - - - 22,276**
**22,276**
**1,402 120 150 - - - 12 - 1,684**
**1,684 20,592 - 6,708 27,300**
## **Endowment funds**
**to nearest £ - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional) - - - - -**
**Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval 23 May 2023 23 May 2023