## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date
Period end date
Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 01 2024 **To** 31 12 2024
## Section A
## Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1187051
LA Danse Fantastique
N/A
**Charity's principal address** 30 Bowlers Croft
Basildon Essex **Postcode SS14 3EE**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Daniel Lawrence 2 Christine Garland 3 Moira Brock 4 Dawn Avery 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of**|**advisers (Optional information)**|**advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**||
|**Accountants**|Maynard Heady LLP|Matrix House, 12-16 Lionel Road, Canvey Island, Essex,
SS8 9DE|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO - Foundation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
Safeguarding training for all staff, children and adults. First Aid training
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
Safeguarding policy in place.
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
ISTD, LAMDA, London College of Music,
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity Fire risk assessment. works;
Risk assessment for all activities.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To advance the education of children and young adults in the arts of theatre and performance, to enhance life experience to able bodied and special needs students.
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To enhance skills in the arts, promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds.
**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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
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Achievements and performance
## Section D
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
We are proud to convey, that our special needs class passed their Grade 8 Musical Theatre exam, with Distinction. We also had a number of students take Solo Drama Exams, with all students passing with Distinction or Merit Grades. Recently one of our Special Needs Students passed a Modern Intermediate exam, achieving a grade of Pass, also a Solo Grade 7 Drama exam, achieving a grade of Distinction. Our Junior and Intermediate students took various grades in Tap, Ballet and Modern, all passing with high grades. We were also extremely privileged to have performed in collaboration with the London Ballet Company, in our Show called For Our Tomorrow, which was performed at the Thameside Theatre in Grays, and had many dignitaries in attendance, this show was in support of the Royal British Legion. Three of our students were chosen to participate in workshops with the London Ballet Company, at their London studios, and then to perform in a London Theatre. We continue to promote and raise awareness and acceptance in diversity.
**TAR**
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## **Section E**
## **Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
We do try and keep some funds in reserve, but this year has seen some additional costs for repairs on the building.
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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)**
Christine Garland **Full name(s)**[Dawn Avery ] **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee Trustee **etc)**
**Date** 15/4/2025
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March **2012**
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|**La Danse Fantastique**|**La Danse Fantastique**||**1187051**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2024|**To**|31/12/2024||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**24,479**
**3,721**
**15,359**
**546**
**8,640**
**996**
**1,118**
**4,090**
**5,200**
**59**
**-**
**64,208**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**64,208**
**42,420**
**3,568**
**-**
**900**
**-**
**352**
**484**
**5,541**
**3,199**
**644**
**10,499**
**1,031**
**135**
**516**
**300**
**46**
**390**
**70,025**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**70,025**
**-**
**5,817**
**-**
**12,951**
**7,134**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,680**
**-**
**-**
**3,680**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,680**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**78**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**78**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**78**
**3,602**
**-**
**-**
**3,602**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**24,479**
**3,721**
**15,359**
**546**
**8,640**
**996**
**1,118**
**7,770**
**5,200**
**59**
**-**
**67,888**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**67,888**
**42,420**
**3,568**
**-**
**900**
**-**
**352**
**484**
**5,541**
**3,199**
**722**
**10,499**
**1,031**
**135**
**516**
**300**
**46**
**390**
**70,103**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**70,103**
**-**
**2,215**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Dance classes|**24,479**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**|
|shows|**3,721**||||**-**|
|Drama classes|**15,359**||||**-**|
|Exams|**546**||||**-**|
|Singingclasses|**8,640**||||**-**|
|Uniform|**996**||||**-**|
|fundraisingevents|**1,118**||||**-**|
|Donations andgrants|**4,090**||||**-**|
|Studio Hire|**5,200**|||||
|Interest|**59**||||**-**|
|Nursery Class
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**-**||||**-**|
||
**64,208**||||**-**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||
|Cost of sales|**42,420**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**|
|Cleaning|**3,568**||||**-**|
|Bank fees|**-**||||**-**|
|Accountancy|**900**||||**-**|
|Entertaining|**-**||||**-**|
|Insurance|**352**||||**-**|
|IT Software & consumables|**484**||||**-**|
|repairs & maintenance|**5,541**||||**-**|
|Light,Power,Heat|**3,199**||||**-**|
|PPS|**644**||||**-**|
|Rent|**10,499**||||**-**|
|Rates|**1,031**||||**-**|
|Subscriptions|**135**||||**-**|
|Telephone|**516**||||**-**|
|Travel|**300**|||||
|Advertising|**46**|||||
|Service charge|**390**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**70,025**||||**-**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||
||**-**
**5,817**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||
**-**
**-**|**-**
**12,951**|**-**|
||**12,951**||||**-**|
||**7,134**||**-**|
**10,736**|**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
02/04/2025
1
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
**Details**
Petty Cash
Savings
La Danse Fantastique
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**497**
**-**
**6,260**
**-**
**377**
**3,602**
**7,134**
**3,602**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
D AVERY
C GARLAND|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||D AVERY|5/4/25|
|||C GARLAND|5/4/25|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
02/04/2025
2
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** La Danse Fantastique
**On accounts for the year** 31[st] December 2024 **ended Set out on pages** 1
**Charity no** 1187051 **(if any)** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/12/2024** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 (other than that disclosed below *) 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:**
**Date:** 24/05/2025
**Name:** Robert Wybrow
**Relevant professional** FCA **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** Matrix House 12-16 Lionel Road Canvey Island
SS8 9DE
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
**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**