Treasurer’s Report for the AGM held on Monday, 20th February 2023
A copy of the Receipts and Payments statement for year ended 31/12/2022 is available for everybody to see at this meeting. If anybody has any particular questions about the accounts, please let me know.
My file is also available to view if necessary.
The accounts have been examined by Marian Yates, who was elected as our honorary auditor at last year’s AGM. She has certified that they are a true representation of the company’s financial records for 2022, and these figures will be reported to the Charity Commission later in the year.
I am delighted to report that this has been a very successful financial year for the company. The last few years have seen losses due to our ongoing commitments and the very depleted income during the Covid pandemic. However, we now appear to be well back on track.
We made good profits on both our shows this year. Matilda Jnr realised a profit of £3213, and the pantomime made a profit of £10,498. Huge thanks are due to Nicci for her fantastic command of the ticket sales, and to the production team who did a wonderful job of keeping expenses low for the panto and reusing so many items of scenery and costumes. The figures show the total costs for the shows and include the hiring of Merchant Taylors and the various rehearsal premises.
Thanks again to all of you for paying your weekly rehearsal fees, which amounted to £1470 this year. This goes a long way towards paying for refreshments and our rehearsal halls, so we are very grateful for your support in this.
The result of having such successful shows last year, is that we can now go confidently into producing ‘School of Rock’ in July. We rely particularly on our ticket sales to generate income for future shows, so please do your very best to promote the shows this year and make them sell-out events.
We raised £2,241 from fundraising events, including the Easter and Christmas bingo nights, the tea dance and the bag packing event at ASDA. Thank you to everyone who came along to these. Please do your best to support the events we have planned for this year. ‘School of Rock’ is going to be a very expensive show to produce, so every penny will count.
In addition to our own fundraising we received a grant of £300 from Sefton CVS, and I was also able to claim back £1,222 in Gift Aid, which appears in this year’s accounts. Thanks to all the people who were able to fill in a Gift Aid form. We realise that not everybody is able to do this, but if you can, it will make a big difference to the company in the future, particularly when shops allow us to do bag packing and bucket collections.
In case you are not aware, we have been selected as one of the Bootle ASDA’s green token charities for February and March. Please go online if you can and vote for the company. You can vote once per week. If you have more than one email address you can vote multiple times. The more votes we get, the more money we will be given.
In addition, we have once more been selected as one of three local charities by the Co-op Local Causes scheme. If you have a Co-op card you can go online and select the company as the charity you want to support. The Co-op will then donate a small amount to the company for every purchase you make of Co-op products. We were lucky enough to be chosen for this a few years ago, and received over £6000. This time around we are raising money to hopefully upgrade our rehearsal facilities at Eshe Road, including buying new stage curtains and other things to make it a suitable performing space for small productions.
The only thing which didn’t make a profit this year was our anniversary event. However, we thought that it was money well spent to celebrate the many years the company has been in existence.
So, all in all, a very successful year for the company from a financial point of view. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible. Here’s to 2023!
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS FOR FINANCIAL YEAR – 01/01/2022 31/12/2022
RECEIPTS 2022
| £2,868.0 | |
|---|---|
| Sundries | 0 |
| Charitable | |
| grants | £300.00 |
| £1,620.0 | |
| Members subscriptions | 0 |
| NODA awards | £720.00 |
| Rehearsal and audition | £1,470.0 |
| fees | 0 |
| MATILDA Jnr | £10,778. |
| tickets | 00 |
| MATILDA Jnr other | £3,492.0 |
| income | 0 |
| PANTO 2022 | £17,203. |
| tickets | 00 |
| PANTO 2022 other | £3,669.0 |
| income | 0 |
| Fundraising | £2,599.0 |
| events | 0 |
| £1,222.0 | |
| Gift Aid | 0 |
| Anniversary | |
| event | £880.00 |
| £46,821. | |
| TOTAL RECEIPTS | 00 |
| PAYMENTS 2022 | |
| £2,836.0 | |
| Sundries | 0 |
| £2,520.0 | |
| Storage | 0 |
| General scenery, props, | £2,717.0 |
| costumes | 0 |
| NODA | |
| membership | £163.00 |
| NODA insurance | £840.00 |
| NODA awards | £720.00 |
| £11,057. | |
| MATILDA jnr | 00 |
| £10,374. | |
|---|---|
| PANTO 2022 | 00 |
| Fundraising | |
| events | £358.00 |
| SCHOOL OF ROCK 2023 Deposit | £810.00 |
| Anniversary | £1,786.0 |
| event | 0 |
| TOTAL | £34,181. |
| PAYMENTS | 00 |
This represents a profit for the year of £12,640
At the year end, the company had a bank balance of £37,795.84 and £3.16 in cash.
There were no outstanding cheques or payments.
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