2024-11-30-accounts

Wombourne Players

Annual Report

and

Financial Statement

for

The Year Ending 30[th] November 2024

Introduction

This annual report and financial statement have been prepared in good faith by the Trustees of Wombourne Players.

Chairs Report

An excellent year for the Wombourne Players with two very successful productions which were very well received and supported by the Wombourne Community, ensuring they were both profitable.

Our Committee and Membership can be rightly proud of all the work undertaken during the year to support the continued success of Wombourne Players.

Structure, Governance and Management

The Wombourne Players Committee has met regularly, as scheduled, and has operated effectively to manage any issues within the year through cooperation and agreement on actions. Work has continued on our Governance and Policies, following approval of our Safeguarding policy and the Code of Conduct and Behaviour guidelines for Members at last year's AGM. We now have a Risk Management assessment for performances and set-build at the Community Centre, in line with the County Council’s requirements.

There was a successful election to the Players Committee, with a new Member joining our committee structure, which is now made up of three Trustees and five Members.

Objectives and Activities

Our objective remains: -

“To promote the advancement of dramatic arts and culture through the production and performance of live theatre in the Wombourne Community and surrounding areas.”

In addition, we also need to ensure that we are raising enough funds to ensure that Wombourne Players thrives and is in a position to deliver against its Objectives via its Activities.

During 2024 our main activities remained focussed on delivering the production of two plays of artistic merit and undertaking social media and other marketing to encourage the Wombourne community and surrounding areas to come and see these productions and enjoy a cultural event at affordable prices. In 2024 our productions have been “Entertaining Angels,” and “Lord Arthur Saville's Crime.“

Both productions were highly successful, receiving excellent notices and feedback from NODA indicating they were considered to be of a high standard. Both productions played to full

houses and audience feedback was extremely positive. Financially, both productions were, profitable.

I believe we also further enhanced our contribution to general village life as we, once again, held a very successful fund-raising Barn Dance in the Village in September, an event now established as a standard part of the social calendar at the Civic Centre in Wombourne.

We have welcomed two new members during 2024, however we will need to continue to focus on recruiting new members in the year ahead in order that the Players can consider a wider variety of plays.

Financial Review

The Players have had a good year financially and our position has strengthened. Both productions made a profit, to differing levels, and we also had a very successful fund-raising event with the Barn Dance in September.

The County Council have cancelled all bookings for the Community Centre for 2025 as there is a plan to undertake a significant refurbishment of the centre, although timescales are not yet known. The Committee will focus on finding alternative venues within Wombourne village to ensure we still deliver two productions in 2025. The Committee anticipates any alternative venue is likely to have a smaller audience capacity than the Community Centre. This could have a negative impact on our financial performance in 2025 and may require the Committee, with Members approval to utilise some of the financial reserves to put on two productions in 2025. With the Membership’s support, your current Committee is determined to work hard to maintain our objective of delivering two shows over the year.

Graeme Lockey

Chair of Wombourne Players (2024)

Wombourne Players Accounts to 30 November 2024

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32	A1 Receipts Patrons MembershipFees MayProduction October Production Fund Raiser SponsorshipIncome Script Sales Donation Sub Total A2 Asset & Investment Sales etc. Total Receipts A3 Payments Room Hire Insurance Software Licences NODA Subscriptions Production Licences Scripts Promotion & Programmes Scenery Costumes Administration Bar Refreshments Fund Raiser(s) Gifts and Donation Sub Total A4 Asset & Investment Purchases Theatre Spotlight Total Payments Net of Receipts Profit Adjustment Last Year Accruals Profit Adjustment Next Year Accruals Cash Funds Last Year End Cash Funds This Year End	Total Funds Unrestricted (£'s) £632 £290 £4,267 £4,908 £1,286 £325 132 165	Total Funds Unrestricted (£'s) £632 £290 £4,267 £4,908 £1,286 £325 132 165	Previous Year 2023 (£'s)
		£632		£612
		£290		£270
		£4,267		£4,053
		£4,908		£4,867
		£1,286		£1,160
		£325		£170
		132		£-
		165		£20
		£12,005		£11,151
		0
				0
		£12,005		£11,151
		£3,862 £523 £377 £175 £336 £221 £869 £205 £238 £276 £962 £551 £-
		£3,862		£4,960
		£523		£417
		£377		£317
		£175		£84
		£336		£631
		£221		£125
		£869		£964
		£205		£335
		£238		£255
		£276		£250
		£962		£1,120
		£551		£501
		£-		£100
		£8,596		£10,060
		£-
				£-
		£8,596		£10,060
		£3,409 (£1,508) £755 £11,421 £14,078
				£1,092
				(£786)
				£9,607
		£14,078		£11,421

Section B: Statement of Assets and Liabilities at the end	Section B: Statement of Assets and Liabilities at the end	of the Period	of the Period	of the Period
33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40	A1 Receipts B1 Cash B2 Other Monetary Assets B3 Investment Assets B4 Assets retained for charity's use including Accruals (next year)		Cash at Bank PettyCash		Unrestricted Funds (£'s)
			Cash at Bank		£14,344 £59
			PettyCash
			Total Cash Funds		£14,403
			£0 £0 Cost (optional) N/A £988 £93 £268		Current Value (optional)
					N/A
	Theatre Spotlight(5yr amortized)		£988		£395
	Bar Stock		£93		£93
	Event Deposit(Accrual)		£268		£268
	Total		£1,348		£755

Brigitte Brown (Treasurer)