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## 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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2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||KEITH SIDNEY
SHEPHERD|CHAIR|||
||CAROLINE
MIRANDA JANE
SHEPHERD|TREASURER|||
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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**
Type of governing document
RULES ADOPTED 3 OCTOBER 1968
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
TRUST
(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**
3
Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Continuing our unbroken, excluding the pandemic hiatus of 20202021, performance schedule to the city of Brighton & Hove during this reporting year the company remains strong and positive about its future and has been rewarded in 2025 with a production to celebrate the 40[th] anniversary of Les Miserables.
This financial year has seen the production of two major musicals at differing ends of the theatrical spectrum with Oliver in February 2024 and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in May 2024, Oliver at Theatre Royal Brighton and Jamie at The Old market in Hove.
Extraordinary reviews were received for both productions, both winning NODA awards for excellence in performance and both raising the bar for amateur productions within Brighton & Hove, playing to near capacity audiences at every performance. This continues to strengthen the mandate of the company in providing significant artistic opportunity to people of all ages.
The announcement that the company would stage Charlie & The Chocolate Factory in February 2025 was a further opportunity to achieve excellence in theatre and give opportunity for large casts to be assembled – Charlie will be reported on in next year’s annual return.
The company remains upbeat about its future, especially with the invitation from Sir Cameron Mackintosh to stage a once in a generation adult production of Les Miserables, offered to the eleven leading amateur companies in the UK , being performed in August 2025.
Following Les Misérables the company will in 2026 re-stage its 2019 successful production of Chitty , Chitty Bang Bang at Theatre Royal Brighton.
A successful year for the company in revenue, reputation and growth that will be further built upon in the years to come.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity aims to make each production self sufficient. There are no plans to develop significant reserves, which are unnecessary as there are no significant running costs outside of 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** 15.04.25
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**Charity Name No (if any) Brighton Theatre Group 258846 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Jul-23 30-Jun-24
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**290**
Gift Aid on Donations
**1,614**
Fundraising
**3,348**
Show related income(includingGift Aid)
**155,834**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,086**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 161,086**
**A3 Payments**
Show related costs
**138,744**
Administration
**1,504**
Fundraisingcosts
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total 140,248**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 140,248**
**Net of receipts/(payments) 20,838**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**508**
**Cash funds this year end 21,346**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**290**
**1,614**
**3,348**
**155,834**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,086**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,086**
**138,744**
**1,504**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**140,248**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**140,248**
**20,838**
**-**
**508**
**21,346**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**290**|**-**|
||||**1,614**|**-**|
||||**3,348**|**2,904**|
||||**155,834**|**76,829**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**161,086**|**79,733**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**161,086**|**79,733**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**138,744**|**79,286**|
||||**1,504**|**3,256**|
||||**-**|**20**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**140,248**|**82,562**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**140,248**|**82,562**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**20,838**|**- 2,829**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**508**|**3,337**|
||**-**||**21,346**|**508**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
Costumes, Props etc (Insurance value)
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Keith s Shepherd
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**21,346**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,346**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9,720**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Keith Shepherd
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of approval|
||Keith s Shepherd|Keith Shepherd|15.04.25|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/ members of**
Charity Name Brighton Theatre Group
30 June 2024
258846
**On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **30 / 06 / 2023** .
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of 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 examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention 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
- the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
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.
**Signed:**
G N Shorter
**Date:**
15.4.25
**Name:**
Graham Neil Shorter **IER**
1
**October 2018**
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
## FMAAT
## **Address:**
109 Ladies Mile Road, Patcham, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 8TB
## **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** . NONE
2
**October 2018**
**IER**