||||Page|| |---|---|---|---|---| |Report ofthe Trustees||1|to|7| |Independent
Examiner's|Report|||| |Statement ofFlnanclai|Acthrities|||| |Balance Sheet||10|to|11| |Cash Flow Statement|||12|| |Notes to the Cash Flow|Statement||13|| |Notes to the Financial Statements||14|to|17| |Detailed ~tement ofFinancial Activities|||18|| |OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES|||| |---|---|---|---| |Significant activities|||| |2020 was a year of exceptional
difiiculfies,
including
the ccronavirus
pandemic
and a major
building.
We were therefore
extremely
proud
of our resilience,
creativity,
and organisational
g
was rewarded
in the winning
ofthe 2021 Stage Award for Fdings Theatre ofthe Year.|fl|od in
cur
,
which|| |After celebrating
our 25th birthday
in 2019, the West End's smallest
producing
theatre was
hitti
We had just opened
an acclaimed
production
of Shakespeare's
The Tempest
stamng
Michael
and we'd begun
the year with the hottest ticket in town -Trevor Nunn's
production
ofthe Beck
We'd announced
a programme
including
the world premieres
of two plays by Peter Gill alongsid
Sarah Ruhl, Timberlake
Weitenbaker,
Edward
Einhorn
and Peepolykus||its
stride.
ennington,
Triple
Bill.
ork
from|| |"""January to March 2020:Making Magic in a Basement"*|||| |On
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fe|||| |A couple peer into an estate agent's window;
two sports fans have a heart-to-heart
in the loc. Ify
eyes and ears open, there are a million
tiny plays
happening
every day. The production
sold
broke even.||keep
ngly|your
and| |"Eavesdropping
has never looked betterl" BROADWAY WORLD
"Awelcome antidote to all the noise and fury."THE GUARDIAN
"Humour and sadness inextricably
intertwined. "THE STAGE|||| |h~khT
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TrevorNunn|||| |In Krapp's
Last Tape, Krapp prepares to celebrate his 69th birthday
by recording
his annual
tape
the Voice provokes
and jokes with the ageing Joe. in The Old Tune, two elderly
men sit on a
reminisce. Butare their memories
playing tricks? Trevor Nunn
directed a remarkable
cast of Niajl
Dwan, James Hayes and David Threlfail. The production
sold out and was later made available t
Digital Theatre.
"Unerringly
directed ...no one in this tiny theatre dared breathe."THE OBSERVER
"The intimate
theatre space and sparse sets add impact to this accessible
triple
bill
performed
reminiscences. "EVERYTHING THEATRE
"Perfectly paired to the small, subterranean
theatre. "THE GUARDIAN
"Gripping intensity. "THE STAGE|I|Eh
ench
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tream
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and
Lisa
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dog walker,
you meet ail sorts of people, and Herbert has met more than his fai
he's never come across anyone quite like Keri, alone
in her flat surrounded
by empty ouzo bottles.
exactly is she keeping
her Pekingese dogg The production
was funded
by a separate
investment
represent a financial
risk for JST; it exceeded
its box office target.
"Alaughter-filled
and thought-provoking
night out." LONDON
LIVING LARGE
"Very funny, achingly
poignant,
ultimately
hopeful. "SARDINES MAGAZINE
"Laugh out loud entertaining. "LONDON AT LARGE||hare.
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not|| |T~hk
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live alone on a remote island. Some people say he's an artist. 0
practices
magic.
But today is dilferent,
Prospero
spots his oldest enemies
passing
in a fragil
conjures
up a storm that will change
sfl oftheir lives forever. The production
was sold out before
only played six performances
before the closure oftheatres.
"Michael Pennington
is acolossal Prospero. " BROADWAY WORLD
"Atheatrical
experience to treasure. "PLAYS TO SEE
"An enchanting
world. "THE SUNDAY TIMES||say
oat,
ning|he
and
but| |"Michael
Psnnington
is finally
tackling
Prospero.
It's worth
the walt. A sonorous
and
perfonnance. "THE STAGE||mpalling|| |Jennys Street Theatre||| |---|---|---| |Report ofthe Trustees||| |forthe Period 13December 2019to3f December 2020||| |OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES||| |March toAugust 2020:The Brave New World Season||| |Entertaining
our isolated audience;
raising the funds to reopen; keeping our fandly ofarti||together| |The Fl od and the Rebuild||| |On 8 Apdil, our Executive Director Penny Horner,
who founded
the theatre 26 years ago, dlscov
flood
five
feet
deep
in
our
basement.
It destroyed
our
dressing
rooms,
archives,
and
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thestage. co.uk/news/burst-pipe-causes-severe-flooding-at-jermyn-street-theatre
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from a burst pipe in a demised
room awned
by a neighbouring
bank. We were insured
for financia
many losses were
sadly
irreplaceable.
Over the next months,
Penny
led the efforts to rebuil
building, a major demolition job, the removal ofdestroyed
materials,
equipment
and archives, the
partition
walls,
reinstallation
of power,
and
finally
redecoration.
In the
rebuilding
we
hav
multipurpose
office.|fl
I
e|d a major
workshop.
d came
sees,
but
rying
the
uildlng
af
rested
a| |A~No
t||| |We used the penad of closure to overhaul
our wsbsite,
relaunching
a greatly
improved
site in t
We now have an online 'shop window' to be proud of, and which we're sure will help us to conve
and grow our earned
income.||summer.
ket sales| |T~hh
tPo'
t||| |A few days after lockdown, we began this epic cycle of 154daily Shakespeare
sonnets
performe
ofthis year's drama school graduates,
alongside
household
names such as Olivia Colman and D
and dozens ofour freelance family.||y over 50
d Suchet,| |Sin
forY urSu
er||| |Stefan
Sednarczyk
and
guests
hosting
free,
thrice-weekly
online
cabarets
for our
isola
throughout
lockdown.||audience| |~rom to||| |A ten-episode
padcast series shining a light on the uncelebrated,
behind
the scenes aspects of
and the people who make it -from stage management
to script ediTing,||r theatre,| |On
Million Tin
Pla sAboutBri
in-A||| |The original cast, together
with their director Laura Keefe and sound designer
Harry Linden Johns
these charming
bite-sized
plays to entertain
locked down audiences atJSTand the Watermill
Th||created| |Th
Wind
in the Wilows||| |Our Artistic
Director recreated
his 2015 outdoor
production
in a new Zoom
adaptation,
copro
Guildford
Shakespeare
Company
and the Yvonne Amaud
Theatre and enjoyed
by a large family a||ced
with
ience.| |A~cot JAT||| |Our freelancers
made weekly
phone calls to audience
members
shielding
at home,
and we g
freelancers
and audiences together for quizzes and cups of'JSTea' online.||ered
our| |A
iencePa
Re
in
Cl b||| |A monthly
online play reading
club giving our audience - many of them elderly and shielding
- th
learn new tech skills, make new filends, and explore new plays.||hance
to| |~MTi
Pt||| |Reaching
out to our network
of copraducing
theatres,
we facilitated,
guided
and promoted
the
creation ofover 50 miniature
plays from audiences
and theatre communities
across the UK.||ting
and| |Wednesda
Pla
R
din s||| |We ran play readings
every Wednesday
night from late spring
until autumn,
olfering technical sup
writers and directors a chance to hear new work, and actors a chance to express Ihemselves
and
who they were in normal times.||rt,
giving
member| |Fr
lance T sk Force &Town Hall Meetin||| |Jermyn Street Theatre||| |---|---|---| |Report ofthe Trustees||| |for the Period 13December 2018to31December 2020||| |OBJECTIVES AND ACTMTIES||| |Conscious ofthe gulf between
buildings
and freelancers
nationally,
we sponsored
I.ouie Whitemo
Freelance
Task Force, and
held a series of Tawn
Hall
Meetings
ta give up-to-date
inform
freelance family and talk with them about the future.||to join the
n to
our
to| |~PI
I W
eche||| |Aware that life is toughest for those just joining the industry,
we held aseries offree careers work
backstage
and creative roles, and also held free pastoral workshops
for theatre freelancers.||ops about| |~II
0||| |This scheme
helped
three diverse groups of early-career
arbsts lo workshop
their new plays
theatre,
with our financial
support,
mentoring
and a showcase.
All three are now in further
devel
offered in-person feedback sessions to all 150groups who applied.|i|ur
empty
ment.
We| |16Ore tive
socia s||| |We mst so many fantastic early-career
artists through
Opening
Doors that we responded
by setti
Creative Associates
scheme.
With ths backing of the Came Trust, we offered these 16 write
performers
and designers
the chance to be part ofour family, get free office and rehearsal spac
help, assisting jobs, support and mentoring.
September
to December:||up a
new
directors,
producing| |"**September to December 2020:The Road to Reopening**"||| |Creating
paid jobs; nurturing
creativity;
growing
dlvemity||| |7~he Od||| |We paid 72 actors to perform
Emily Wilson's
acclaimed
translation
of The Odyssey
in a ma
performance
streamed
for free to over 12,000 people
in a partnership
with the London Review of
event won a rare OfiWestEnd
'OneOff Award - Ha magnificent
initiative".||on
online
ks. The| |In Dreams We Wake||| |Through
an open
competition,
we identified
12 actors to create
and
perform
bedtime
storis
different
heritages
across the world. We commissioned
them to write and record their stories.
Hannah
Kumari and Cat Robsy, with video editing from Ciaran Welsh and sound
by Dinah
Mulle
broadcast for free.||rom
their
rected
by
They are| |A~hh
I I||| |Adapted
by Naylah
Ahmed
from
Charles
Dickens'
classic
story,
and
directed
by aur
Artisti
Natasha
Rickman, A Christmas
Carol features
Brian Blessed and Penelope
Keith as the Ghosts o
Present and Past, Jim Findley as Scrooge, and a full professional
cast - all created for an anlin
watched
in Zoom, and coproduced
with Guildford Shakespeare
Company. The production
sold v
we made a healthy
profit.||Associate
hristmas
roduction
well
and| |~1h He||| |15Heroines was our flagship
autumn
production,
and acclaimed as one ofthe cultural events oft
commissioned
15 leading
female and nonbinaiy
playwrighh
to adapt Ovid's
Heroides.
They w
plays about the hsroines
of classical
mythology.
Directed
by Adjoa Andah,
Tom Littler and Cat
plays were performed
live in our empty theatre
by a stellar cast, and captured
on film by a team
Theatre +.Three sets offive plays were titled The War, The Desert and The Labyrinth,
and were b
November.
Together,
they employed
75 fiiim and theatre freelancers.||year. We
15 new
bey,
the
m
Digital
dcast
in| |For Kate Maltby of the ~ge, 15 Heroines was 'the most moving
online theatre of the year'. Fo
Clapp of The Observer,
it was
third
in her theatre
roundup
of 2020. It won the OIYWestEnd
Award. The production
broke all aur box office records.||usannah
t Series| |5 STARS- BROADWAY WORLD||| |5 STARS- BRITISHTHEATRE. COM||| |5 STARS- LOhIDON PUB THEATRES||| |5STARS- THE SPY IN THE STALLS||| |5STARS-A YOUNGER THEATRE||| |5STARS- THE REVIEWS HUB||| |OBJECTIVES AND ACTMTIES|| |---|---| |5STARS- ITHANKYOUTHEATRE|| |4STARS- THE GUARDIAN|| |4STARS- THE OBSERVER|| |4 SRARS-THE STAGE|| |4 STARS- THE
I PAPER|| |4 STARS- THE REVIEWS HUB|| |4STARS- REVIEWSGATE|| |4STARS- THE ARTSDESK|| |4STARS- LONDONTHEATRE1|| |"Ambitious and artfully enterhtfnlng,
15Herolnes
refuses to allow these women to be rale
footnotes. " LYN GARDNER (STAGEDOOR)
"Bftewlzed,
beautifully
written
short
plays
give a powerful
voice to aggrieved
heroines
and Roman mythology"
THE GUARDIAN
"Atriumphant
revoicing offamous tales."THE OBSERVER
"'FIReen ancient heroines are resurrected
with wit, Imagination
and verve" THE STAGE|dto the
m
Greek| |A Look Back|| |Bui this is not primarily a story about financial resilience or organisaiionai
growth. We are a small
always
will be. We' re a theatre
run
by freeiancers,
for freelancers.
In this toughest
of years,
stopped
believing
in theatre freelancers,
fighting for them and championing
them.|stre,
and
've
never| |2020 was about the relationship
a theatre can create with iis audience
and the family of over 30
whom we' ve engaged,
employed
end supported - and who,
in turn, have inspired,
championed
a
us.|reelancers
educated| |2020 was the year we listened to our Black, Asian and other ethnically
diverse colleagues,
and I
steps to reopening
as a more
inclusive
and
welcoming
theatre.
2020 was the year we pivo
creating ground
breaking
digital productions
end employing
hundreds
oftheatre freelancers
in the|decisive
towards
ocess.| |2020 meant
discovering
that even
with
no public
in the seats, even
with our doors closed, ev
basement
flooded
with water, a little theatre
could,
to thousands
of audience
members
and
artists, bea home.|with
our
dreds
of| |Volunteers|| |The organisation
is enormously
grateful
to a team of volunteers,
who work
in the box office, fro
and the bar.|of house| |for the Period|13December 2|019to31D|ecember 2020|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total| |||||fund|fund|funds| ||||Notes|E|6|6| |INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||FROM||||| |Donations
and|legacies|||505,784|90,000|595,784| |Other trading|achviiies|||177,940||177,940| |Total||||683,724|90,000|773,724| |EXPENDITURE ON||||||| |Raising funds||||2,130||2,130| |Charitable
activities||||||| |Productions||||390,519|38,319|428,838| |Support Activities||||17,63'I||17,631| |Total||||410,280|38,319|448,599| |NET INCOME||||273,444|51,681|325,125| |TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||||273,444|51,681|325,125| ## |Period 13Decemb|er 2019|to31December 2020||| |---|---|---|---|---| |RECONCILIATION|OF NET|INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACT|I|IES| |Net income forthe reporting
Financial Activities)
Adjustments
for:||period (as per the Statement of||325,125| |Increase
in stocks||||| |Increase
in debtors
Increase
in creditors||||(92)
(65,685)| |||||40,438| |Net cash provided|by operations|||99,786| |2.|ANALYSIS OF CHANGES|IN NET FUNDS|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||At 13.12.19|Cash flow|I31.12.20| ||Net cash|||5|| ||Cash at bank and in hand|||299,786|99,786| |||||299,786|99,786| ||Total|||299,786|99,786| ## |Jennyn Street Theatre|Jennyn Street Theatre|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Notes to the Financial Statements -continued
forthe Period 13December 2019to 31December 2020||||||||| |3.|OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES|||||||| ||Other trading activities|||||||f| ||Ticket sales|||||||29,771| |||||||||148,169| |||||||||177,940| |4.|RAISING FUNDS|||||||| ||Raising donations
and legacies|||||||| ||Raising funds|||||||f
2,130| |5.|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS|||||||| ||||||||Support|| |||||||Direct|costs (see|| ||Productions
Support Activities|||||Costs
f
428,838
2,100|note 6)
15,531|Totals
f
28,838
17,631| |||||||430,938|15,531|46,469| |6.|SUPPORT COSTS|||||||| |||||||||Finance| ||Support Activities|||||||15,531| |7.|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|||||||| ||Net income/(expenditure)|is stated||afier chargingf(crediting):||||| ||Other operating
leases|||||||49,117| ||TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION||AND||BENEFITS|||| ||There were no trustees'|remuneration|||or other benefits for the period ended||31 December|0.| ||Trustees' expenses|||||||| ||There were no trustees'|expenses||paid for the period ended||31 December|2020.|| |Jerrnyn Street Theatre|Jerrnyn Street Theatre|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Notes to the Financial Statements||||-|continued|||| |for|the Period 13December 2019|||to|31December 2020|||| |9.|STOCKS|||||||| ||Bar stock|||||||6
92| |10.|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR||||||| ||Other debtors
Prepayments
and accrued||income|||||6
327
65,358| |||||||||65,685| |11.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS||FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||||| ||Other creditors
Deferred income
Accrued expenses|||||||6
1,627
37,011
1,800| |||||||||40,438| |12.|MOVEMENT
IN FUNDS|||||||| |||||||Net||| |||||||movement||At| ||Unrestricted
funds|||||in funds
f||1.12.20
f| ||General fund|||||273,444||73,444| ||Restricted funds|||||||| ||Restricted|||||51,681||51,681| ||TOTAL FUNDS|||||325,125||25,125| ||Net movement
in funds,|included|||in the above are as follows:|||| ||||||Incoming|Resources||vement| ||||||resources|expended|i|funds| ||Unrestricted
funds|||||||F| ||General fund||||683,724|(410,280)||73,444| ||Restricted funds|||||||| ||Restricted||||90,000|(38,319)||1,681| ||TOTAL FUNDS||||773,724|(448,599)||5,125| ## |Jermyn Street Theatre|| |---|---| |Detailed Statement ofFinancial Activities|| |forthe Period 13December 2019to 31December 2020|| |INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|| |Donations
and legacies|| |Donations|| |GranM|208,933| |Exceptional
items|190,829
196,022| ||595,784| |Other trading
activities|| |Other trading
activities
Ticket sales|29,771| ||148,169| ||177,940| |Total incommg
resources|773,724| |EXPENDITURE|| |Raising donations
and legacies|| |Raising funds|2,130| |Charitable
activitfss|| |Rent rates &service charge
Insurance
Telephone
Postage and stationery
Adverbsing
Artists 8 producers
Technical &electrical
Theatre casual staff
independent
examiner
Maintenance
&janitorial
Sundries
Computer expenses|49,117
4,333
3,028
4,740
21,546
297,619
13,411
3,660
1,800
17,480
4,700
9,504| ||430,938| |Support costs|| |Finance|| |Bank charges
Credit card interest
&charges|254
15,277| ||15,531| |Total resources expended|8,599| |Net income|25,125|