Scaplen’s Community Players Trustees Report Year ending 31st December, 2024 Charity Registration Number: 1207729 Address: C/O 27, Blake Hill crescent, Poole, Dorset, BH14 8QW
Trustees: Mrs. Carole Allen, Mr. Robert Rankin, Mr. Glanville Noye, Miss Marie Bushell
Structure and management.
The Scaplen’s Community Players are a local group who’s aim is promote historical theatre in the local community, through storytelling, drama and music. Our main goal is bring together local people from diverse communities to better understand our history and shared culture. The group is made up entirely of volunteers and are organised by a committee and other coopted individuals.
Activities and objectives in the year
Our objectives in 2024 were;
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to present a minimum of one production each year, such production to be factually
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based,
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include songs, monologues and a play based upon real and actual local events & people
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provide educational workshops, demonstrations, lectures and social activities for
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members
Achievements
Our main production; ‘Unbroken Bonds’, was a World War 2 based production, consisting of a series of monologues, songs of the time and a play set in around Poole in the days up to and approaching The D-Day Landings. Our performances were a great success as evidenced by two excellent reviews from Scene One Plus and Dorset Theatre Reviews. Also, our audience feedback surveys, many people commented that they would like to see more of what we do.
As well as this production, we also performed ‘The Hiring Fayre’ a Street Theatre performance and four historical stories at two large outdoor events in Poole, The Beating of the Sea Bounds last July 2024 and The Seafood and Sounds Festival in September 2024, a two-day event that we have been invited to participate in again.
We held a run of successful workshops including a Dance workshop, a stage fight and drill workshop, a talk on 'The Art of Directing' and a guest speaker talking about 'Characterisation and Performance Skills'.
Financial Review
It has been a successful year financially. Total income for the year amounted to £2791 whilst our expenditure was £1296 leaving us with a positive balance of £1495. Of this surplus, some £400 is ‘earmarked’ for our 2025 production.
Donations and membership fees, including the aforementioned £400, amounted to £1720 with which we were extremely delighted. The committee has endeavoured to keep ALL costs, both production and non production, to a minimum and our positive financial balance is evidence that this has been achieved. We are in a good position for our 2025’s production, ‘Echoes of Love’, which will be a sequel to this year’s production focussing on events & people in around Poole in the days up to and approaching V. E. Day
Summary
We believe that we have successful in our aim to bring together local people from diverse communities and provide an opportunity for them to participate in our performances and activities and this is demonstrated by our successful productions and our membership in our very first year.
Charity Reg. 1207729
Scaplens Community Players (S.C.P.) Charity Reg. 1207729 Receipts and payments accounts Period start date Period end da For the period from 01/01/24 To
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| nearest £ | nearest £ | nearest £ | |
| A1 Receipts | |||
| Donations | £600.00 | £400.00 | - |
| Membership | £720.00 | ||
| Ticket sales | £909.00 | - | - |
| Programmes | £47.00 | - | - |
| Raffles | £115.00 | ||
| Membership | - | - | |
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| income for | |||
| AR) | £2,391.00 | £400.00 | - |
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| £0.00 | £0.00 | - | |
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| Sub total | £0.00 | £0.00 | - |
| Total | |||
| receipts | £2,391.00 | £400.00 | - |
| A3 | |||
| Payments | |||
| Production Co- | - | - | |
| Room Hire | £135.00 | - | - |
| Costumes | £525.00 | £0.00 | - |
| Props | £12.00 | - | - |
| Printing & Pub | Printing & Pub | £157.00 | - | - | |
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| Admin & Misc | £28.00 | - | - | ||
| Other costs | - | - | |||
| Launch Event | £160.00 | ||||
| Insurance | £224.00 | ||||
| Membership r | £55.00 | ||||
| Miscellaneous | £0.00 | ||||
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| Sub total | £1,296.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | ||
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| £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | |||
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| Sub total | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | ||
| Total | |||||
| payments | £1,296.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | ||
| Net of | |||||
| receipts/(pa | |||||
| yments) | £1,095.00 | £400.00 | - | ||
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| B1 Cash | Membership, donations and | £1,095.00 |
| funds | Production surpluses | - |
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| Total cash funds | - | |
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| payments account(s)) | OK | |
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| Details | £ | |
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| assets | NONE | - |
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| B4 Assets | Uniforms | |
| retained for | Costumes |
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| the charity’s | Storage Boxes for costumes |
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Signed by one or two trustees on R H Rankin Trustee behalf of all the trustees
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ate 12/31/24 CC16a
Total funds Last year to the to the nearest £ nearest £ £1,000.00 - £720.00 £909.00 - £47.00 - £115.00 - - - - - - - - - £2,791.00 - £0.00 £0.00 - £0.00 - £2,791.00 - - - £135.00 - £525.00 - £12.00
£157.00 - £28.00 - - £160.00 £224.00 £55.00 £0.00 - - - - - - £1,296.00 - £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £1,296.00 - £1,495.00 - - - - - - -
Restricted Endowment funds funds to nearest to nearest £ £ £400.00 £0.00
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12/31/24