## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1.4.24 Period start date To 31.3.25 Period end date**
## **Charity name: The Folkestone Performing Arts Company**
## **Charity registration number:** 1204114
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Our Objectives:
To advance and promote the education
and enjoyment of arts, culture &
heritage through the performing arts for
the beneft of the public locally,
nationally and internationally. This is
achieved by providing opportunities to
enrich the cultural & artistic life in
southeast England by providing
opportunities to socially under-served
communities in Kent through the
engagement with the arts,
encouragement of community
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||||This second year for Folkestone Performing
Arts Company as a registered charity has
seen progress with the aspirations of the
team to see multiple approaches to creative
development work within our community.
This year saw all five strands of our creative
activity ‘up and running’
**The Folkestone Performing Arts**
**Company Ensemble**:
During the year, we have seen our
Ensemble group of professionally trained
actors meeting for training and development
of new work, including our first Christmas
show for children,**The Winter Wish**. The
charity has also recently received our first
Arts Council England grant to support
development work for our original
community-based source material and
professional production of**The Leech of**
**Folkestone**, enabling work to progress
towards reaching a wider audience which
was delivered in March 2025.
**The Community Theatre Sessions**:
improvisation and theatre skills
development group.
These open invitation workshops completed
a second full year of building confidence
and developing theatre craft, culminating in
an end of year performance at Sunflower
House of 5 scenes for the public. The group
has met regularly twice a month for ongoing
scene develop and skill training and
benefited from local government ward grant
funding to help with the costs of these
sessions.
**Write for Performance**: a creative
collaboration with kollectiv gallery which
produced work for other FPAC groups and
will lead to a public performance in July
2025. These sessions started meeting on a
regular basis from March. The result has
been the emergence of over 15 pieces of
original new writing.
Performances of two new pieces also
contributed to the FPAC end of year
performance in December. Again, we are
grateful for the support of local Councillors
for contributing grants to support these
sessions.
**Theatre for Development**:
This programme involves working with
specific communities and minority groups.
We were grateful to receive funding from
the Enterprise Arts fund for a second series
of drama sessions with asylum seekers and
refugees housed at Napier Barracks.
~~**Art Informed Polic**~~
~~**De elopment**~~|
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||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.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|This second year for Folkestone Performing
Arts Company as a registered charity has
seen progress with the aspirations of the
team to see multiple approaches to creative
development work within our community.
This year saw all five strands of our creative
activity ‘up and running’
**The Folkestone Performing Arts**
**Company Ensemble**:
During the year, we have seen our
Ensemble group of professionally trained
actors meeting for training and development
of new work, including our first Christmas
show for children,**The Winter Wish**. The
charity has also recently received our first
Arts Council England grant to support
development work for our original
community-based source material and
professional production of**The Leech of**
**Folkestone**, enabling work to progress
towards reaching a wider audience which
was delivered in March 2025.
**The Community Theatre Sessions**:
improvisation and theatre skills
development group.
These open invitation workshops completed
a second full year of building confidence
and developing theatre craft, culminating in
an end of year performance at Sunflower
House of 5 scenes for the public. The group
has met regularly twice a month for ongoing
scene develop and skill training and
benefited from local government ward grant
funding to help with the costs of these
sessions.
**Write for Performance**: a creative
collaboration with kollectiv gallery which
produced work for other FPAC groups and
will lead to a public performance in July
2025. These sessions started meeting on a
regular basis from March. The result has
been the emergence of over 15 pieces of
original new writing.
Performances of two new pieces also
contributed to the FPAC end of year
performance in December. Again, we are
grateful for the support of local Councillors
for contributing grants to support these
sessions.
**Theatre for Development**:
This programme involves working with
specific communities and minority groups.
We were grateful to receive funding from
the Enterprise Arts fund for a second series
of drama sessions with asylum seekers and
refugees housed at Napier Barracks.
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|We can confirm that the trustees have had
regard to the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public benefit|
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## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference
||||**Reach and impact:**In terms of reach,
we are delighted with the early success
of all fve strands. Around 60 people
engaged with our Community Theatre
sessions [up from 45 last year] and the
Write for Performance workshops
involved 14 writers [up from 8 last year]
in developing their work with us.
Feedback from community audiences
and community participants in our
workshops has been both positive and
very informative, helping with our
development, training and strategic
planning for the future. The collaboration
with the Sunfower House, as theatre in
residency, saw the completion of
blackout curtains and a portable lighting
rig being fully funded and installed in
time for the December Holiday
performance. This space has enabled
us to serve our local community better
with workshop and performance activity.
This collaboration continues to go from
strength to strength.|
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||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.|Para 1.20|**Reach and impact:**In terms of reach,
we are delighted with the early success
of all fve strands. Around 60 people
engaged with our Community Theatre
sessions [up from 45 last year] and the
Write for Performance workshops
involved 14 writers [up from 8 last year]
in developing their work with us.
Feedback from community audiences
and community participants in our
workshops has been both positive and
very informative, helping with our
development, training and strategic
planning for the future. The collaboration
with the Sunfower House, as theatre in
residency, saw the completion of
blackout curtains and a portable lighting
rig being fully funded and installed in
time for the December Holiday
performance. This space has enabled
us to serve our local community better
with workshop and performance activity.
This collaboration continues to go from
strength to strength.|
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**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||Achievements against
objectives set
Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set
Para 1.41
Investment performance
against objectives
Para 1.41
Other|
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**Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|For a small charity with little turnover, we
are in a strong financial position as we are
able to continue our core projects and we
continue to apply for project funding.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|At this time, we have no reserve funds that
are unrestricted.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|The charity works project to project so all
funds received go into these projects.|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|NA|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
**Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
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Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed by other trustees in
the charity.|
|~~trustees~~|||
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Folkestone Performing Arts Company|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1204114|
|Charity’s principal address|10 Alder Road, Folkestone CT195BZ|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
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5
6
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10
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12
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17
18
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20|Mathew Hahn|||~~**(if any)**~~|
||Mathew Jones||||
||Gerogina
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||~~reoar~~
Will Train||||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Dates acted if not for whole year**
**Trustee name**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional** ~~**information)**~~
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
**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)** JOHN MATTHEW HAHN
**Position (eg** CHAIR **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 14.01.2026
||**The Folkestone Performing Arts Company**|**The Folkestone Performing Arts Company**|**The Folkestone Performing Arts Company**|**The Folkestone Performing Arts Company**|**The Folkestone Performing Arts Company**|**1204114**|**1204114**||
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||01.04.24||**To**||31.03.25||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||
|ACE - LOTTERY , GMSP20250122526179|**- 0**||**20,932**||**-**||**20,932**||
|WOMAD Foundation|**- 0**||**625**||**-**||**625**||
|Looping the Loop Performance Fee|**- 0**||**50**||**-**||**50**||
|WOMAD Foundation|**- 0**||**1,875**||**-**||**1,875**||
|Enterprise Arts Foundation|**- 0**||**1,000**||**-**||**1,000**||
|Kent County Council Grant|**- 0**||**1,066**||**-**||**1,066**||
|Folkestone & Hythe District Council Grant|**- 0**||**1,260**||**-**||**1,260**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**- 0**||**26,808**||**-**||**26,808**||
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|
**- 0**||**26,808**||**- 0**||**26,808**||
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Printing&publicity|**- 0**||**138**||**-**||**138**||
|Performance costs|**- 0**||**16,617**||**-**||**16,617**||
|Refreshments|**- 0**||**161**||**-**||**161**||
|Venue hire|**- 0**||**1,505**||**-**||**1,505**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**18,421**||**-**||**18,421**||
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|
**- 0**||**18,421**||**- 0**||**18,421**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**- 0**||**8,387**||**-**||**8,387**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**281**||**-**||**-**||**281**||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**281**||**8,387**||**-**||**8,668**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
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|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**-**||**-**||
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||**_Total cash funds_**||||**281**||**8,387**||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||
||||||JOHN MATTHEW HAHN||||
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**CC16a Last year to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - 0 - 0 - 0 - - - - - - - - - - - 0 - 0 - - - - Endowment funds to nearest £**
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**-** OK **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)** Date of approval 2 January 2026
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** The Folkestone Performing Arts Company **On accounts for the year** 31 March 2025 **Charity no** 1204114 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (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 / 03 / 2025** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** 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:** 13/01/2026 **Name:** STEVEN LENNON
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
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**October 2018**
**IER**
**Address:** 13 MARTELLO ROAD
FOLKESTONE
KENT, CT20 1PF
## **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** .
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**October 2018**
**IER**
IER
October 2018