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|Reference and administrative<br>information||
|Report ofthe Management<br>Committee||
|Report ofthe Independent<br>Examiner||
|Statement offinancial<br>activities|12|
|Balance sheet|13|
|Notes to the financial statements|14|





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|Management|Committee|Committee|/ Trustees:|Mr Phil Porter, Chairman/House|Mr Phil Porter, Chairman/House|Mr Phil Porter, Chairman/House||Manager|(Elected 2018)|(Elected 2018)|(Elected 2018)|
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|||||Mrs Valerie Galbraith,|Vice Chairperson/Wsbsite|||||(Elected 2018)||
|||||Mrs Caroline Candler,|Hon Secretary (Elected 2021)|||||||
|||||Mrs Sandra Barfield, Chairman||||of Drama|Committee||(Elected 2019)|
|||||Mrs Maggie Hoiles, Public Relations (Elected 2019)||||||||
|||||Mr Nick Blessley, Hon|Treasurer|||(Elected 2018)||||
|||||Mr John Perry (Resigned||27/11/2022)||||||
|||||Mr Paul Simons, Membership|||Secretary (Elected|||2020)||
|||||Mrs Sara Lacey (Elected||2021)||||||
|||||Mr lan Tucker-Bell (Elected 2021)||||||||
|||||Mrs Kate Robbins (Elected 2021)||||||||
|||||Ex CWicror||||||||
|||||Mr Jason Lower, Youth|Theatre|||Director (Appointed 2018)||||
|||||Mrs Jo Pierce, Wardrobe||Representative|||(Appointed||2018)|
|||||Co-Op/ed:||||||||
|||||Geoff Daniels, Technical||Director (2019)||||||
|||||Mr John Hall, Chairman|ofthe||Art Group (2021)|||||
|Charity registered||number:||227035||||||||
|Principal office:||||The Gast Theatre||||||||
|||||London Road||||||||
|||||Tonbridge||||||||
|||||Kent||||||||
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|Bankers:||||HSBC Bank pic||||||||
|||||100High Street||||||||
|||||Tonbridge||||||||
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|Independent|Examiner:|||A SHealey FCA CTA DChA||||||||
|||||Lindeyer Francis Ferguson||Limited||||||
|||||North House||||||||
|||||198High Street||||||||
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||2023|2022|
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||E|6|
|Income from:|||
|Donations and legacies|8,756|5,508|
|Other trading<br>activities|65,781|53,493|
|Charitable<br>activities|61,600|58,527|
|Total income|136,137|117,528|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||
|Raising funds|18,754|11,010|
|Charitable<br>activities|82,296|94,883|
|Total expenditure|101,050|105,893|
|Net income|35,087|11,635|
|Net movement<br>in funds|35,087|11,635|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||
|Total funds brought<br>forward|1,132,908|1,121,273|
|Total funds carried forward|1,167,995|1,132,908|





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|||Note|2023|2023|2022|2022|
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|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets||||1,032,979||1,038,174|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks|||31,010||31,062||
|Debtors||12|25,442||20,248||
|Cash at bank and in hand|||96,030||66,349||
||||152,482||117,659||
|Current<br>liabilities|||||||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year|13|( 17,466)||( 22,925)||
|Net currant assets||||135,016||94,734|
|Total net assets||||1,167,995||1,132,906|
|The funds ofthe charity|||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||1,167,995||1,132,908|
|Total charity funds||||1,167,995||1,132,908|





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|4|Income from other|tradin|g<br>activities|||
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|||||6|8|
||Art section|||19|65|
||Barsales|||16,355|14,723|
||Coffee bar sales|||1,952|1,175|
||Icecream sales|||2,823|3,039|
||Hire income|||8,441|5,788|
||Subscriptions|||12,914|14,074|
||Wardrobe income|||16,461|11,876|
||Props and furniture|income||1,134|501|
||Advertising|||618|1,129|
||100Club (see note 14)|||1,060|1,123|
||Fundraising<br>and members'||events|3,954||
||Other income|||50||
|||||65,781|53,493|
|5|Income from charitable||activities|||
|||||2023|2022|
|||||8|8|
||Operation oftheatre:|||||
||Boxof5ce and season ticket income|||61,600|58,527|
|6|Expenditure<br>on raising funds|||||
||||||2022|
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||Barexpsnses|||8,307||
||Fundraising<br>and members'||events costs|7,500||
||Colfss bar expenses|||1,165|1,057|
||Icecream expenses|||1,701|1,489|
||Wardrobe expenses|||81|525|
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|7|Expenditure|on charitable|on charitable|activities|||||
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||||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
||||||E|E|8|6|
||Operation oftheatre||||53,286|29,010|82,296|94,883|
|8|Direct costs||||||||
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||Production<br>expenses||||||14,305|16,766|
||Premises costs including||insurance||||16,069|10,063|
||Rates|||||||318|
||Little Theatre|Guild|||||105|105|
||Equipment<br>repairs and maintenance||||||593|1,516|
||Priniing||||||5,906|6,984|
||Utilities||||||15,939|11,061|
||||||||53,286|46,813|
|9|Supportcosts||||||||
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||||||||8|8|
||Postage||||||745|906|
||Telephone<br>and internet||||||810|898|
||Computer costs||||||2,563|1,633|
||Depreciation||||||10,877|11,246|
||Transaction|charges|||||596|996|
||Legal and professional fess||||||960|1,825|
||Loss on disposal offixed||assets|||||12,000|
||Irrecoverable|VAT|||||7,449|12,449|
||Fees for non-examination||services paid to examiner|||||3,340|
||Independent|examination|||||3,325|1,575|
||Other||||||1,685|1,202|
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|Tangible fixed assets||||
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|||Fixtures,||
||Freehold|fittings 8||
||propertyf|equipment<br>6|Total|
|Cost||||
|At 1 August 2022|1,032,755|122,285|1,155,040|
|AddiTions||5,682|5,682|
|At 31July 2023|1,032,755|127,967|1,160,722|
|Depreciation||||
|At 1 August 2022|7,672|109,194|116,866|
|Charge for the year|4,064|6,813|10,877|
|At 31 July 2023|11,736|116,007|127,743|
|Net book value||||
|At 31 July 2023|1,021,019|11,960|1,032,979|
|At 31 July 2022|1,025,083|13,091|1,038,174|
|Debtors||||
|||2023|2022|
|||6|6|
|Prepayments<br>and accrued income||22,685|17,801|
|100Club debtor (see note 14)||1,060|1,123|
|Other debtors||1,697|1,324|
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|Creditors: amounts<br>falling due within|one year|||
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|||2023<br>8|2022f|
|Trade creditors||1,977|1,083|
|Accruals and deferred income||8,979|10,842|
|VAT payable||1,306|5,192|
|Other creditors||5,204|5,808|
|||17,466|22,925|
|Deferred income comprises:||||
|income deferred from the previous year||8,005|7,418|
|Released to the statement offinancial|activities|( 8,005)|( 7,418)|
|Arising during the current year||6,105|8,005|
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|Balance sheet at 31July|2023|8|K|
|Assets||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||2,282|2,153|
|Liabilities||||
|Subscrlptions<br>prepaid||( 1,222)|( 1,030)|
|Dus to Tonbridge Theatre|and Arts Club (see note 12)|1,060|1,123|
|||2023||
|Income snd expenditure|for the year ended 31July 2023|8||
|Income||||
|Subscriptions||2,135|2,188|
|Expenditure||||
|Prizes||( 1,030)|( 1,030)|
|Other expenses||( 45)|( 35)|
|Surplus for the year (see note 4)||1,060|1,123|





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