
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From 01/04/2023  Period start date   To   31/03/2024    Period end date** 

## **Charity name:  Gallery Players CIO** 

## **Charity registration number: 1186641** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|The promoton of the arts, principally<br>but not exclusively, by the producton<br>and presentaton of plays, musicals and<br>other events that encourage the Arts<br>for the public beneft.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|The presentation of plays and musical<br>productions as ‘live’ theatre. Encouraging<br>participation via performance or as<br>audience members.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|All Trustees of Gallery Players CIO have<br>had regard to the guidance issued by the<br>Charity Commission on public benefit.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 



Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|During this period the Charity has<br>continued to recover from the uncertainty<br>following the Covid pandemic. We feel we<br>are now at a ‘sustainable’ level of output to<br>deliver our charitable aims both artistically<br>and financially.<br>We continue to refurbish our theatre space,<br>as funds allow and have tentative plans to<br>remodel our auditorium seating to greatly<br>improve the theatrical experience for our<br>audiences. We continue to have regular<br>community and professional theatre<br>makers hire the Studio from us and<br>complement our own output.<br>In delivering our work we present<br>opportunities for our beneficiaries to<br>practice and hone their theatre skills. To<br>the wider society we are one of the most<br>prolific community theatre producers in our<br>area, thus promoting and presenting the<br>Arts.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|<br>Achievements against<br>objectives set|<br>Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|Total cash funds at end of the period<br>£78017.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Reserves held for running costs of our own<br>Theatre space, planned refurbishment, and<br>rent owed but not currently requested from<br>our landlord.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£78017|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|n/a|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|n/a|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|No current uncertainties.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|<br>The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|<br>Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution document|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Apart from the frst charity trustees, every<br>trustee must be appointed for a term of 3<br>years by a resoluton passed at a properly<br>convened meetng of the charity trustees.<br>In selectng individuals for appointment as<br>charity trustees, the charity trustees must have<br>regard to the skills, knowledge and experience<br>needed for the efectve administraton of the<br>CIO.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|<br>Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|<br>Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Gallery Players CIO|
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|Other name the charity uses|none|
|Registered charity number|1186641|
|Charity’s principal address|Croyde Cottage<br>Allotment Lane|





Ashbocking
Suffolk
IP6 9PG

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Stephen Taplin||||
||Helen Clarke||||
||David Borthwick||||
||Stephen<br>Wooldridge||||
||Wade Ablitt||||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

**Director name** none 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets none held in this capacity 

Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a 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) Full name(s)** Stephen Taplin 

**Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary **Chair, etc)** 

**Date** 

17/12/2024 




**Charity Name No (if any) Gallery Players 1186641** 

## **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accounts** 

**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 4/1/2023 3/31/2024 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**<br>Ticket Sales<br>**55,068**<br>Studio Hire<br>**1,926**<br>Bar Sales<br>**13,775**<br>ActingFees<br>**535**<br>Programme Sales<br>**932**<br>Adverts Income<br>**-**<br>Donations/Gift Aid<br>**1,669**<br>Sponsorship<br>**30**<br>Other Income<br>**25**<br>Refunds<br>**-**<br>Hire/Sale of set/props<br>**-**<br>**73,960**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**to the nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**55,068**<br>**1,926**<br>**13,775**<br>**535**<br>**932**<br>**-**<br>**1,669**<br>**30**<br>**25**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**73,960**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Ticket Sales|**55,068**|**-**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**55,068**|**48,952**|
|Studio Hire|**1,926**|**-**||**1,926**|**2,413**|
|Bar Sales|**13,775**|**-**||**13,775**|**12,835**|
|ActingFees|**535**|**-**||**535**|**1,477**|
|Programme Sales|**932**|**-**||**932**|**1,480**|
|Adverts Income|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|Donations/Gift Aid|**1,669**|**-**||**1,669**|**1,736**|
|Sponsorship|**30**|**-**||**30**||
|Other Income|**25**|**-**||**25**|**-**|
|Refunds|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|Hire/Sale of set/props|**-**|**-**||**-**|**225**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**73,960**|**-**||**73,960**|**69,118**|



|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**73,960**||**-**||**-**||**73,960**||**69,118**||
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|Production Costs, sets, props, costumes & Misc<br>costs|**2,857**||**-**|||**2,857**||**1,597**|
|Bar Stock|**5,359**||**-**|||**5,359**||**4,829**|
|Utilities|**7,157**||**-**|||**7,157**||**5,228**|
|Rights Holders|**5,465**||**-**|||**5,465**||**5,383**|
|PrintingCosts|**1,112**||**-**|||**1,112**||**888**|
|Subs, Licences, Servicing|**1,687**||**-**|||**1,687**||**1,225**|
|Insurance|**501**||**-**|||**501**||**501**|
|Rehearsal Space|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**265**|
|Ticket Refunds|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Repairs & Maintenance|**840**||**-**|||**840**||**273**|
|MD's & Musicians|**2,220**||**-**|||**2,220**||**3,350**|
|Other Professionals|**3,325**||**-**|||**3,325**||**3,720**|
|Legal Fees|**3,781**||**-**|||**3,781**||**-**|
|Equipment Purchases/assets|**653**||**-**|||**653**||**958**|
|Box Office Settlements to Hirers|**19,078**||**-**|||**19,078**||**13,178**|
|Office & Misc|**418**||**-**|||**418**||**591**|
|Adverts|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Balance Adjustment_**|**11**||**-**|||**11**||**29**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**54,464**||**-**|||**54,464**||**42,015**|



|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**||||||||||||||
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|**(see table)**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
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|**Sub total **||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_Total payments_ **||**54,464**|||**-**|||**-**||**54,464**||**42,015**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**19,496**||**-**|||**-**|||**19,496**||**27,103**||
|**_A5 Transfers between funds_ **||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**58,521**||**-**|||**-**|||**58,521**||**-**||





_**Cash funds this year end**_ **78,017** 

**78,017 27,103** 

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

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of<br>all the trustees|**Details**<br>Cash<br>Bank<br>Savings Account<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Costumes<br>Sets & Props<br>Lighting Equipment<br>Sound Equipment<br>DeFibrillator<br>Bar Equipment/POS tills and printers<br>Steel Decking<br>Office Equipment & Computers<br>**Details**<br>Rent owing carried over from last year<br>Rent due this year but not invoiced<br>Signature<br>#VALUE!<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**1,784**<br>**-**<br>**71,232**<br>**-**<br>**5,000**<br>**-**<br>**78,017**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted funds<br>**15,433**<br>Unrestricted funds<br>**14,000**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Stephen Taplin<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**to nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
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||#VALUE!|Stephen Taplin|12/5/2024|






## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

**Report to the trustees/ members of** 

Charity Name Gallery Players CIO 31 March 2024 1186641 

**On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any)** 

## **Set out on pages** 

(remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets) 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024 

As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out  under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

## **Independent examiner's statement** 

I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 


17/12/2024 

Elaine Dowe 

**Signed: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** 

HM Inspector of Taxes (Retired) 

> 1 **October 2018** 

**IER** 



**Address:** 

14 Corder Road 

Ipswich 

IP4 2XD 

**Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

2 

**October 2018** 

**IER** 

