LOUGHTON AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY
Annual Report 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025 Presented to the LADS AGM on 7 July 2025
Charity Registration Number: 270635 registered in England & Wales
Website: www.lads.org.uk e-mail: contact@lads.org.uk
Aims : To educate the public in the dramatic and operatic arts, to further the development of public appreciation and taste in the said arts.
Officers of the Society:
Chair: Cathy Naylor Artistic Director: Andrew Rogers Secretary: Valerie Jones Treasurer: Martin Howarth Ticket Secretary: Michael Lewkowicz Publicity Officer: Howard Platt Wardrobe Officer: Liz Adams
Elected members to the General Committee (for 2024-25): Melanie Taylor, Meg Larmour and Jenny Skinner
Honorary Independent Examiner of the Accounts: Mr Garry Cooper
Bankers: CAF Bank, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling ME19 4JQ Current Account: £5 charge per month Deposit Account: Gold Account 2.00% interest
United Trust Bank: Charity 1 Year Bond 4.37% interest [£10,937 invested]
Paid up members: 53
Season ticket holders: 0
Plays Performed
| Seats sold | Profit / (Loss) | |
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| Suspicions of Mr Whicher | 414 | £837.89 |
| Last of the Pelican Daughters | 329 | (£459.45) |
| The Ladykillers | 427 | £652.73 |
| Ladies Day | 331 | (£1,598.89) |
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30 June 2025
Notes to Accounts for the year 2024-25
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The accounts are prepared on a cash basis as required by the Charity Commission.
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The accounts for the year 2023-24 were signed by the Independent Examiner. These were as presented to the AGM in July 2024.
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The accounts presented overleaf are draft accounts and will be passed to the Independent Examiner for scrutiny by the end of August 2025.
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Pre-payments. Pre-payments of £1,256.40 were made during the year for rights for the season 2025-26 for 4 plays and £337.26 for scripts for 2 plays.
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Reserves. £4,265.79 was removed from reserves for the year 2024-25. At the year-end, 30 June 2025, the reserves were £18,157.33. This is considered sufficient to fund cash-flow for the year and to provide adequate support for the Society’s activities.
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Remuneration. No trustees were paid for their work.
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Creditors / Debtors. There are no creditors or debtors at the year-end.
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Charity Donation. £105.37 was raised from program sales at the production of The Ladykillers on behalf of the charity Spark.
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Costume storage. Christine Eckley has decided to sell her garages where we are storing the LADS costumes. We have rented the use of 2 storage containers. This is an additional cost of £3,600 pa less £160 for rental of 1 garage.
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Gift Aid. 33 members have signed Gift Aid forms. This gives a recovery of £257.20 from HMRC for the year 2023-24.
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30 June 2025
Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society
Accounts for 1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025
| Income Members subscriptions Bar Profit Set-up lunches Donations Start of season event End of season BarBQ Polo Shirts sales Charity money raised from Ladykillers - sale of programs Hire of props Costume hire income Centenary event - Receipts Workshop - receipts Gift Aid refund 2023-24 (2022-23) Bank account interest Bunch of Amateurs - cash receipt Banch of Amateurs program advertising Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Time of my Life)* Last of the Pelican Daughters (A Murder is Announced) The Ladykillers (Death of a Salesman) Ladies Day (The Roundabout)* Expenses Donation to Lopping Hall for Demux / (Curtain track) Donation to Lopping Hall for Lighting Spark - Program sales for The Ladykillers Hall hire - AGM etc Centenary event - Expenses Christmas Social BarBQ Garage rent Container storage Insurance NODA membership General - sound annual subscription General expenditure Workshop costs Costume purchases Polo shirts purchase Website Charitable payments - re: Loughton Day Bank / card reader charges Stationery, postage etc. Rights for 2025/26 (2024/25) season Scripts for 2025/26 (2024/25) season Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Time of my Life) Last of the Pelican Daughters (A Murder is Announced) The Ladykillers (Death of a Salesman)* Ladies Day (The Roundabout) Total added to reserves /(taken from reserves)* |
2024/25 1,855.00 2,165.53 2.00 143.21 142.00 20.00 419.60 257.20 713.07 27.50 5,278.35 4,227.30 5,800.37 4,237.00 25,288.13 (1,000.00) (105.37) (69.12) (45.36) (187.84) (160.00) (2,818.35) (1) (322.71) (205.00) (190.02) (1,166.49) (742.04) (132.94) (1,249.99) (50.00) (212.79) (1,256.40) (337.26) (4,028.98) (4,380.75) (4,809.24) (5,529.89) (29,000.54) (3,712.41) |
2023/24 1,890.00 1,417.05 11.00 24.00 3.05 35.14 458.00 154.35 6.00 2,480.00 661.61 50.00 5,243.50 6,340.18 5,078.80 4,927.00 |
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| 28,779.68 (1,500.00) (17.10) (3,570.08) 48.14 (160.00) (1,800.00) (320.95) (199.00) (761.02) (124.85) (387.98) (484.79) (365.54) (203.86) (355.04) (1,256.40) (105.48) (3,424.76) (3,906.69) (4,260.45) (4,232.88) (27,388.73) |
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| 1,390.95 | ||
| Balances at: CAF Bank - Current - (£5 per month fee) CAF Bank - Deposit - (2.00% pa credit interest) United Trust Bank (1 year bond 4.37% pa interest) [matures 3 May 2026] Cash - bar / tickets / program float Cash Total Reserves |
30 Jun 25 186.83 6,779.37 10,937.00 240.00 14.13 18,157.33 |
30 Jun 24 905.79 10,062.70 10,411.12 240.00 250.13 |
| 21,869.74 |
(1) Container - deposit £150 Sep 2023
- deposit £150 Jan 2025
27/11/2025
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Loughton Amateur Dramatic Society
Accounts for 1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025
| Ticket numbers(exc Comps) Comps Seats available / night Seat Utilisation Ticket sales Program sales Program advertising Scripts receipts from cast Sale of staging Income 713.07 s 27.5 Hall hire Printing Glossy posters A5 flyers Programs Staging Costumes / wigs Sound Projector hire Steeldeck hire Lighting hire Sound hire Expenses Total current a/cyear Pre-paid 2023/24 Rights Scripts Profit/(loss) |
414 5 144 95.8% 4,943.00 118.35 100.00 117.00 5,278.35 (26.37) (1,935.42) (160.00) (210.00) (100.39) (135.80) (360.00) (823.20) (277.80) (4,028.98) 1,249.37 (306.00) (105.48) 837.89 Suspicions of Mr Whicher |
329 6 144 76.2% 3,955.00 105.30 50.00 117.00 4,227.30 (131.85) (2,004.84) (210.00) (358.82) (78.64) (120.00) (312.00) (849.60) (315.00) (4,380.75) (153.45) (306.00) (459.45) Last of the Pelican Daughters |
427 5 98.8% 5,150.00 105.37 (1) 100.00 165.00 280.00 (2) 5,800.37 (188.82) (2,397.77) (160.00) (240.00) (474.35) (99.99) (8.11) (408.00) (832.20) (4,809.24) 991.13 (338.40) 652.73 144 The Ladykillers |
331 6 144 3,966.00 122.00 50.00 30.00 (3) 99.00 4,237.00 (110.28) (2,635.52) (160.00) (160.00) (240.00) (979.27) (157.02) (264.00) (509.40) (314.40) (5,529.89) (1,292.89) (306.00) (1,598.89) 76.6% Ladies Day |
Total 1501 22 576 88.1% 18,014.00 451.02 330.00 498.00 280.00 19,543.02 (457.32) (8,973.55) (160.00) (480.00) (900.00) (1,912.83) (471.45) (8.11) (120.00) (1,344.00) (3,014.40) (907.20) (18,748.86) 794.16 (1,256.40) (105.48) (567.72) |
Total prev yr | |
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| Ticket numbers(exc Comps) | 1638 | ||||||
| Comps | 24 | ||||||
| Seats available / night | 603 | ||||||
| Seat Utilisation | 91.9% | ||||||
| I N C O M E |
Ticket sales Program sales Program advertising Scripts receipts from cast Sale of staging Income |
20,300.18 387.30 340.00 562.00 21,589.48 |
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| E ateur X P E N D I T U R E |
713.07 s 27.5 Hall hire Printing Glossy posters A5 flyers Programs Staging Costumes / wigs Sound Projector hire Steeldeck hire Lighting hire Sound hire Expenses |
(152.84) (7,848.28) (700.00) (170.00) (630.00) (1,923.13) (271.93) (1,176.00) (1,890.60) (1,062.00) (15,824.78) |
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| 5,764.70 | |||||||
| (1,256.40) (565.49) |
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| Profit/(loss) | 837.89 | (459.45) | 652.73 | (1,598.89) | (567.72) | 4,047.81 |
- (1) program sales transferred to charity Spark £105.37
(2) sale of staging
(3) Program advert £30 to be received
27/11/2025
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In connection with my examinatio no matter h&s come to my attenlion: l. Which gives me reasonable cause lo believe that in any malerial respeci the requirements To keep accounting Tecords in accordance with section 41 of the Charilies Act 1993. and To prepare accounts which accord with the accouniingi record5 and io comply with the accounting rcquirctncnt5 ofthc Act hav¢ not ¢n mct: or 2. To w'hich. in my opinion. allention should hav¢ b¢en drawn in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts io k reached. Signature: Name.. Garry D Cooper Address: 28 Woodland Way. W0r0rd Green. Essex. IG8 OQG Date: