**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1196882**
## **Report of the Trustees and**
**Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2025**
**for**
## **Symposia Theatres Trust**
Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP Chartered Accountants Second Floor, Kirkland House 11-15 Peterborough Road Harrow Middlesex HA1 2AX
**Symposia Theatres Trust**
**Contents of the Financial Statements for the year ended 5 April 2025**
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|**Statement of Financial Activities**||2||
|**Balance Sheet**||3||
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|4|to|5|
**Symposia Theatres Trust**
## **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 5 April 2025**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 5 April 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public by the encouragement of the arts, particularly the arts of theatre, opera and dance, by the production of theatre, opera and dance at the garden theatre in London and touring nationally and internationally, particularly with the intention of attracting new audiences to those art forms and providing training and development opportunities for emerging artists.
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE Charitable activities**
Charity has not been trading this year.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
The charity was established on 2 December 2021.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
**Registered Charity number** 1196882
## **Principal address**
Grant Harrod Lerman Davis Llp Healthaid House Marlborough Hill HARROW Middlesex HA1 1UD
## **Trustees**
M Brinkler S C Shanks
Approved by order of the board of trustees on ............................................. and signed on its behalf by: 16/12/2025
........................................................................ M Brinkler - Trustee
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**Symposia Theatres Trust**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 5 April 2025**
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|**NET INCOME**||-|-|
|**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**||||
|Total funds brought forward||-|-|
|**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**||-|-|
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The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **Symposia Theatres Trust**
## **Balance Sheet 5 April 2025**
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|**NET CURRENT ASSETS**|||-
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|**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**||||
|**LIABILITIES**|||-
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|**NET ASSETS**|||-
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|**FUNDS**|4|||
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|||-
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The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on ............................................. and were signed on its behalf by: 16/12/2025
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The notes form part of these financial statements
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**Symposia Theatres Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **2. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 5 April 2025 nor for the year ended 5 April 2024.
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 5 April 2025 nor for the year ended 5 April 2024.
## **3. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
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|MOVEMENT IN FUNDS|
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|TOTAL FUNDS|-|-|-|
|Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:|
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## **4. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
continued...
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**Symposia Theatres Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the year ended 5 April 2025**
## **4. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued**
## **5. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 5 April 2025.
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