## **Trustee’s Annual Report for the period** **From 16 November 2022 To 31 March 2023** **And** **From 1 April 2023 To 31 March 2024** **Charity name: The Friends of Centre Stage (FoCS) Charity registration number: 1201041** ## **Objectives and Activities:** |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|**Charitable purpose:**
**To advance the education of the students of centre**
**stage theatre academy, and those in the geographical**
**areas the academy works within, by the provision of**
**facilities for the academy and the supply of grants to**
**children and young adults up to the age of 21 (25 if with**
**a diagnosed disability), to access training and**
**education in musical theatre, drama and the arts at, and**
**through, the academy.**| |---|---| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|**As a newly established organisation with charitable**
**status, The Friends of Centre Stage (FoCS) used the**
**period from 16 November 2022 to 31 March 2023 to**
**focus on how we would build our funds and planning**
**future expenditure to ensure we maximised our impact**
**as we moved into this new phase of our existence.**
**Prior to this period FoCS committed £4,000 worth of**
**grants allowing 20 children from low-income families to**
**take part in Centre Stage Theatre Academies (CSTA)**
**Summer Youth Project 2022 which were debited in**
**March ’23.**
**As the charity moved into its first full financial reporting**
**period, our ability to raise funds, and therefore support**
**a greater number of students, increased. We were also**
**able to provide grants enabling students to attend after**
**school clubs, holiday workshops and main CSTA**
**academies. In total from 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024**
**we provided grants that supported 41 students.**| ||Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|**This statement confirms that the trustees have had**
**regard to the guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| |---|---|---| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|**Our biggest, and proudest, achievement of the period**
**up to 16 November 2022 was gaining registration with**
**The Charity Commission, taking The Friends of Centre**
**Stage from an organisation with no legal status to an**
**independent organisation with charitable status.**
**Through the hard work and dedication of the newly**
**appointed board of trustees, this piece of work was**
**achieved in a much shorter timescale than expected.**
**This meant we could focus on setting our future goals**
**for both fundraising and supporting the work of CSTA**
**through funding placements for children and young**
**adults from disadvantaged backgrounds and providing**
**resources to help enhance the education for all**
**students.**
**The work undertaken in 2022/23 put the charity on a**
**strong path to continuing to support children and**
**young adults to experience the wonderful world of**
**musical theatre, drama and the arts at CSTA long into**
**the future.**
**Throughout the 2023/2024 period, we put plans in place**
**for additional fundraising activities. We ran our first**
**ever sponsored event, an extremely successful Dance-**
**a-thon. This event saw students from all academies**
**come together at The Woodville Theatre and dance**
**nonstop for 24 hours.**
**We also received our first successful grant applications**
**from The Albury Foundation and The Backstage Trust.**
**With the continued income from our other fundraising**
**activities, this gave us the ability to support the 41**
**students through our grant funding. Children and**
**young adults that participate in training at CSTA are**
**supported in a nurturing environment to gain**
**knowledge and skills in singing, drama and dance.**
**These skills help build confidence, focus and teamwork**
**that will live with them forever.**
**By continuing our work through our fundraising and**
**grant funding programmes, we believe we are providing**
**a valuable resource to the communities we work within.**
**Students who would otherwise be unable to attend**
**benefit from the same training and opportunities as**
**others giving fairer access and helping support a more**
**confident and rounded group as they move into**
**adulthood.**| |---|---|---| ## **Financial Review** Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |**Cash book accounts**
**16 November 2022 to 31 March 2023:**|**Cash book accounts**
**16 November 2022 to 31 March 2023:**| |---|---| |**Opening Balance**|**£9,197.83**| |**Income**|**£320.70**| |**Expenditure**|**£4,000**| |**Total Cash at bank and in**
**hand**|**£5,518.53**| ## **1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024** |**Opening Balance**|**£5,518.53**| |---|---| |**Income**|**£21,209.88**| |**Expenditure**|**£6,962.86**| |**Total Cash at bank and in**
**hand**|**£19,765.55**| |**Creditors (CSTA funding**
**for Jan – April 2024**
**placements to be paid in**
**May 2024)**|**£5,240**| |**Net assets**|**£ 14,525.55**| Statement explaining the **The charity currently has no requirement to hold** policy for holding reserves **reserves and therefore no requirement for a reserves** stating why they are held **policy.** Amount of reserves held **£0** Reasons for holding zero **As a charity currently fully run and managed by its board** reserves **As a charity currently fully run and managed by its board of trustees with no ongoing financial commitments, The Friends of Centre Stage do not need to hold reserves. This policy will be reviewed annually.** |Details of fund materially in
deficit|**There are no funds in material deficit**| |---|---| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|**There are no concerns about the future ability of the**
**charity to remain an ongoing concern.**| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|**The charities principal source of income, prior to**
**becoming registered came from our fundraising**
**activities. These activities primarily break down into 3**
**areas as follows:**
•
**Bucket collections at Centre Stage Theatre**
**Academy shows**
•
**Fundraising sales at academies**
•
**Single, one-off donations**
**In the financial year from 1 April 2022 to 15 November**
**2022 before achieving registered status, FoCS raised**
**£5,798.45 through these methods. Since achieving**
**registered status in from 16 November 2022 to 31 March**
**2023 our fundraising was limited to fundraising sales at**
**academies which totalled the £320.70 shown in the cash**
**book accounts.**
**In our first full financial year, 1 April 2023 to 31 March**
**2024, we expanded our fundraising activities to make full**
**use of our registered status. In addition to our tried and**
**tested methods of fundraising we added two further**
**fundraising activities:**
•
**Grant funding**
•
**Sponsored events**
**With the addition of these activities, income from all**
**charitable activities in this period was £21,209.88, as**
**shown in the cashbook accounts. Of this income, £7,800**
**were restricted donations from The Backstage Trust and**
**The Albury Foundation for specific projects and**
**£13,409.88 was unrestricted income.**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:|| |---|---| |Type of governing document|**Constitution** **whose only voting members are its charity**
**trustees**| |How is the charity
constituted?|**CIO**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Friends of Centre Stage| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|FoCS| |Registered charity number|1201041| |Charity’s principal address|98 Gates Green Road
West Wickham
Kent
BR4 9DG| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Name of person (or
Dates acted if not for whole body) entitled to
Trustee name Office (if any)
year appoint trustee (if
any)
Chair Acting since 16 N/A
1 [Daniel Joseph ]
Johnson November 2022
Treasurer Acting since 16 N/A
2 [Alison Maria ]
Dawkins November 2022
Trustee Acting since 16 N/A
3 [Melanie Johnson ]
November 2022
Trustee Acting since 16 N/A
4 [Frankie Patrick ]
Fitzgerald November 2022
Trustee Acting since 16 N/A
5 [Lydia Jane ]
Anderson Fitzgerald November 2022
Trustee Acting since 16 N/A
6 [Jane Louise ]
Ramsey December 2022
Trustee Acting since 6 December N/A
7 [Marvin Mark James ]
Smith 2023
8 Vacant Trustee N/A N/A
9 Vacant Trustee N/A N/A
10 Vacant Trustee N/A N/A
11 Vacant Trustee N/A N/A
12 Vacant Trustee N/A N/A
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## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||
Daniel Joseph Johnson|Frankie Patrick Fitzgerald| ||
Chair|Trustee| |||| ||13 January 2025||