## **THE GROUP THE MUSICAL** **CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION (C.I.O.)** REGISTERED CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES NUMBER: 1206698 **ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025** ## **General and Administrative Information** **Charity name:** **Charity Registration Number:** The Group the Musical C.I.O. 1206698[(England and Wales) ] ## **Trustees** Mrs H.J. Stokes Ms P.J. Francis Mr I.J. Nurser ## **Registered address** The Group the Musical Sundorne Youth and Games Centre 218 Sundorne Road Shrewsbury SY1 4RG ## **Contact details** Tel: 01743 595524 Email address: contact@thegroupthemusical.org.uk Website: www.thegroupthemusical.org.uk ## **Bank Account** National Westminster Bank Western Avenue Waterside Court Chatham Maritime Chatham, Kent ME4 4RT July 2025 Annual Return ## **The Aims and Objectives of the charity** The organisation is a registered charity (in England and Wales) and charitable incorporated organisation (C.I.O.) which exists for the public benefit to advance the education of Autism and disability through expressive arts. This involved and took the form of the provision of an inclusive, accessible theatre twice weekly to people with disabilities with the aim of working towards a production on the subject of Autism and disability. A sung-through version of the production with reduced dialogue successfully took place in May 2024 and this provided an invaluable opportunity for our service users to perform and members of the public to view the musical. ## **Services and Activities** The organisation operates from a local youth and games centre in the Sundorne area of Shrewsbury. We are extremely grateful to benefit from the use of this well-equipped community facility. The dance studio in the centre is the main room used for full group rehearsals and one-to-one and smaller sessions as well as the sports hall in this building. The main dance studio and other rooms were also available and used for smaller group or one-to-one sessions. During the period 01/08/2024 to 31/07/2025 we continued to teach performing skills to our service users and worked towards the production of a musical on the subject of Autism and disability. Our service users formed the cast and ensemble of a sung and narrated musical production which took place on 06/04/2024. Service users were also given the opportunity to learn and develop new performance skills in music, drama, dance and choreography Service users are mostly adults with diagnoses of Autism within the community of Shrewsbury and the wider Shropshire area. Although we also sought to expand to involve people with other disabilities for whose needs our team and organisation could cater. As in previous years we aim to keep the organisation relatively small so some service users, particularly with Autism, do not find the class sizes too overwhelming, and our sizes range between eight up to a maximum of twenty-four service users on roll at any one time. ## **Finance** ## **Income** Income received during this period was mostly obtained from small donations and the surplus of funds and donations from the last financial year. Applications for larger grants and commercial sponsorship were also considered and submitted to enable the organisation to sustain and even expand upon its provision and scope. . ## **Expenditure** Most or all expenditure in this period went towards the running and administrative costs of the organisation. Although some small props for scenes or sequences in the production were also purchased. As we benefit from the Dance Studio Facility, we are very fortunate not to be required to pay any overheads. We also still benefit from free charity hosting website package which means no website costs bar the annual renewal of the domain name. We have continued to have insurance suitable to our organisation and services which is taken monthly in instalments and counts towards the other expenditure. July 2025 Annual Return structurè and Leader8hip The organisation Is gener81y run by a Core Pr&Juctlon Team (CPT) memters all have specialism in one or more aspecl of perfomiing arts. We have aimed to try and expand our team and also have teaching assistants pre￿t who ar8 Suttable for and aware of the needs and charaL*err8tics of our services users. Governance The organisation has a C.l.O. governing document *hich also serves as ts conslitution. Thig last received modification in January 2024 to erksure dear aims and obj'ectives as charitable organisation. The board of trustees govem and ensure our complance as a Charity under charitable legislation in England and Wale$ effectivety. Their focus is dniwJed into the ¢ategories.' wellbeing. communty and leadership with e8ch trustee having their own category of focus over the govemance, development and leadership of the org8nisation. The board is kept regularly Wel￿1ntOM1ed of the organisation's adnillles and developments. and are consutted over income and expendtture. Board meetings are held by the Tn￿tee5 several ts'mes per year to discuss and review progress. and reports of progress. adivrtie5 and other issues are produced. Flnanclal Report The finanaal reF4yI for thi8 period was Compleled ty the S￿101 Administrator vtho also serves as the Bursar and Finance offi￿r. and has qualifications and training in accountancy. The necessary data of expendtture was extraded and tolalled from bank ststements and receipts for the period. Due to our current size it was d￿ded that an independent audit of the accounts was not necessary. Declarations The Board of Trustees declare th8t they have approved the trustees. report above. Signed on behalf of the t)oard of the tharit￿6 Trustees: Slgnaturn8 05 24 P.J. Francis I l.J. Nu Trustee Juty 2025 Annual Rèlum R&P Accounts **The Group the Musical 1206698** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **For the period** 01/08/2024 31/07/2025 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Endowment Restricted funds Total funds Last year funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations|||**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**148-**|| |Ticket receipts|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**214-**|| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**362-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||||||||||| |**(see table).**|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| ||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||**_Sub total_**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||||||||| |**(see table).**||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**_Sub total_**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **||**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**362-**|| |**_Total receipts_ **|**_Total receipts_ **|**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**290-**|||**-**|**362-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||| |Promotional Material||**-**|**54-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**54-**|||**-**|**27-**|| |Refreshments||**-**|**107-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**107-**|||**-**|**95-**|| |Administrative expenses||**-**|**106-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**106-**|||**-**|**127-**|| |Website set up and operation||**-**|**11-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**11-**|||**-**|**134-**|| The Group the Musical R&P Accounts |||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**278-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**278-**|||**-**|**383-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**-**|**278-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**278-**|||**-**|**383-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**-**|**12-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**12-**|||**-**|**21-**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|**21-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**21-**|||**-**|**--**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**-**|**33-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**33-**|||**-**|**21-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| ## 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