## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From 01** July 2021 **To** 30 June 2022
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** BRIGHTON THEATRE GROUP **Other names charity is known by** BTG, BTG YOUTH **Registered charity number (if any)** 258846 **Charity's principal address** 1 TANNERS FIELD
GREEN ROAD, WIVELSFIELD GREEN HAYWARDS HEATH **Postcode RH17 7QE**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
KEITH SIDNEY CHAIR
1
SHEPHERD
CAROLINE TREASURER
2 MIRANDA JANE
SHEPHERD
3
4
5
6
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
RULES ADOPTED 3 OCTOBER 1968 Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
- TRUST
- How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company) REAPPOINTED ANNUALLY AT AGM
- Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To promote the advancement of general education in relation to all aspects of the arts of music, dancing, drama and the development of public appreciation of such arts.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
In shaping our objectives and planning our activities for the year, the Trustees have given consideration to the duties set out in Section 17(5) of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to public benefit and to the Charity Commission Guidance on public benefit. In particular, the Trustees have considered how the planned activities will contribute to the overall aims and objectives that they have set.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
The Trustees believe that the paragraphs, specifically on the "Objectives and Aims" and "Achievements and Performance" for the year, relate in detail to the benefit that the Charity provides to the public.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Returning to performing following the Coronavirus pandemic the company was thrilled to return to performing with the musical Shrek which played at Theatre Royal Brighton in February half term 2022.
This production, the only staged production of the year, was a combination of the youth and adult companies and achieved, in fact surpassed, its goals in terms of production values, revenue generation and its reputational status.
Shrek received acclaim from all aspects of its production and was delighted to receive the Lord Lieutenant on behalf of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at performance.
Shrek set the bar for the company modus operandi of delivering professional production values with cast that are unpaid professionals.
Following Shrek the company launched its first post pandemic youth production of Grease The Musical and through audition and into rehearsal during this accounting year. This production will report financially in financial year 22/23.
The company remains upbeat about its future following the 12-month pandemic hiatus and will continue to provide top class theatre to the people of East Sussex.
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **Section E Financial review**
The charity aims to make each production self-sufficient. There **Brief statement of the** are no plans to develop significant reserves, which are **charity’s policy on** unnecessary as there are no significant running costs outside of **reserves** productions.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** _Keith S Shepherd_ **Full name(s)** KEITH SIDNEY SHEPHERD **Position (eg Secretary,** CHAIR **Chair, etc) Date** 14th March 2023
March **2012**
**TAR**
5
**No (if any) 258846**
## **Charity Name Brighton Theatre Group**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date Period end date **To** 1-Jul-21 30-Jun-22
**For the period from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations 1,525 - - 1,525
Gift Aid on Donations 556 - - 556
Fundraising 3,454 - - 3,454
Show related income (including Gift Aid) 122,089 - - 122,089
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
127,624 - - 127,624
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 127,624 - - 127,624
A3 Payments
Show related costs 124,173 - - 124,173
Administration 2,121 - - 2,121
Fundraising costs 20 - - 20
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 126,314 ] - - 126,314
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 126,314 - - 126,314
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,310 - - 1,310
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 2,027 - - 2,027
Cash funds this year end 3,337 - - 3,337
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|**Section B Statement**|**of assets and liabilities**|**at the end of the period**|**at the end of the period**|**at the end of the period**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**3,337**
**-**
**-**
**3,337**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK
|OK||
|||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
|||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**
Costumes, Props etc (Insurance value)|**to nearest £**
**9,720**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**||
|**charity’s own use**|||
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**|**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print|Name||
||_Keith. S Shepherd_|Keith Shepherd|||
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CC16a
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**2,185 165 2,404 2,970 - - - - 7,724**
**7,724**
**4,508 1,200 66 - - - - - - 5,774**
**5,774 1,950 - 77 2,027**
## **Endowment funds to nearest £**
**-**
OK
## **Endowment funds to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**-**
**Current value (optional)**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval
14th March 2023
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Exarniner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Brighton Theatre Group
30 June 2022
Charity no
(if any)
258846
On accounts for the year
ended
Set out on pages
(emefflbex to IL¥_:' .-
I report to Ihe trustees on my examination of the accounts of Ihe above
Chartty (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended
Responsibilities and As the chanty trUStS of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance wrth the requirements of the Chartties Act
2011 (Ihe Acr).
I reporl in respect of my examination of the Trusl's accounts carried out
under se(lion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by Ihe Charity Commission
under sedion 14515){b) of the Act.
I have Mpleted my examinatK)n. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in nneCtIOn wrth 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 Ad or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examinerfs statement
S have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
wilh the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
Name:
Graham Neil Shorter
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
Ilf any):
FMAAT
Address:
109 Ladies Mile Road. Patcham, Brighton. East Sussex, BN1 8TB
October 2018
IER
Section
Disclosure
Onty Cnplete rflhe examiner needs lo highlight ntter$ of concern (see CC32,
Independent eminatIon of chatTty accounts". directions and guidance for
examiners)-
NONE
Giv& here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018