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|Report ofthe Trustees|1|to|9|
|Report ofthe Independent<br>Auditors|10|to|12|
|Statement ofFinancial Activities||13||
|Balance Sheet|14|to|15|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|16|to|27|
|Detailed Statement ofFinancial Activities|28|to|30|





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||funds|funds|funds|funds|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||278,400|22,290|300,690|364,616|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Theatre activities||46,940||46,940|27,617|
|Other trading activities||31,135||31,135||
|Investment<br>income||847||847|347|
|Other income||14,039||14,039|17,907|
|Total||371,361|22,290|393,651|410,487|
|EXPENDITURE ON||||||
|Raising funds||12,233||12,233|3,901|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Theatre activities||351,121|31,512|382,633|400,898|
|Total||363,354|31,512|394,866|404,799|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)||8,007|(9,222)|(1/15)|5,688|
|RECONCILIATION OFFUNDS||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||217,814|23,500|241,314|235,626|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||225,821|14,278|240,099|241,314|






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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||funds|funds|Rnds|funds|
||Notes|||||
|FIXEDASSETS||||||
|Intangible<br>assets|12||||2,873|
|Tangible assets|13|2,335||2,335|326|
|||2,335||2,335|3,199|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors|14|37,062||37,062|32,122|
|Cash at bank and in hand||222,085|18,917|241,002|219,117|
|||259,147|18,917|278,064|251,239|
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year|15|(35,661)|(4,639)|(40,300)|(13,124)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||223,486|14,278|237,764|238,115|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESSCURRENT||||||
|LIABILITIES||225,821|14,278|240,099|241,314|
|NET ASSETS||225,821|14,278|240,099|241,314|
|FUNDS|17|||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||225,821|217,814|
|Restricted funds||||14,278|23,500|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||240,099|241,314|





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|DONATIONS<br>AND LEGACIES|||
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|Gift aid|441||
|Grant income|43,290|107,956|
|Donations|2,035|1,736|
|Core funding|254,924|254,924|
||300,690|364,616|



||2023|2022|
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|Darlington<br>Borough Council - Covid assistance, recovery Bccreative support|20,000|26,370|
|Central Govennnent<br>-Coronavirus<br>Job Retention Scheme||1,457|
|Newcastle<br>City Council|||
|Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council - Support for covid initiatives|||
|Tees Valley Combined<br>Authority - Creative support|11,790|31,400|
|Tees, Esk&Wear Valley - Creative partnering||9,299|
|Total|31,790|68,526|



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||Deposit account interest||||821|347|
||Other interest received||||26||
||||||847|347|
|5.|RAISING FUNDS||||||
||Raising donations|and legacies|||||
||||||2023|2022|
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||Staffcosts||||11,992|3,343|
||Support costs||||241|558|
||||||12,233|3,901|
|6.|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS||||||
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||||Direct|funding of|costs (see||
||||Costs|activities|note 7)|Totals|
||Theatre activities||262,899|200|119,534|382,633|
|7.|SUPPORT COSTS||||||
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||||Management|Finance|costs|Totals|
||Raising donations|and legacies|241|||241|
||Theatre activities||93,734|19,035|6,765|119,534|
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|Auditors'<br>remuneration||3,421|2,325|
|Other non-audit<br>services||3,344|3,345|
|Depreciation - owned|assets|826|528|
|Website development|amortisation|2,873|5,500|





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|||f.||
|Wages|and salaries|173,159|154,698|
|Social|security costs|7,378|8,040|
|Other|pension costs|1,983|2,124|
|||182,520|164,862|



|The averag|e monthly<br>number ofemployees<br>during the|year was as follows:||
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|||2023|2022|
|Management||2|2|
|Charitable|activities|12|8|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||funds|funds|funds|
|INCOME|AND ENDOWMENTS FROM||||
|Donations|and legacies|325,116|39,500|364,616|
|Charitable|activities||||
|Theatre activities||27,617||27,617|
|Investment|income|347||347|
|Other income||17,907||17,907|
|Total||370,987|39,500|410,487|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||
|Raising funds||3,901||3,901|
|Charitable|activities||||
|Theatre activities||371,635|29,263|400,898|
|Total||375,536|29,263|404,799|





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|||NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued<br>for the Year Ended 31March 2023|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued<br>for the Year Ended 31March 2023|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued<br>for the Year Ended 31March 2023|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued<br>for the Year Ended 31March 2023||
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|11.|COMPARATIVES|FORTHE STATEMENT OFFINANCIAL ACTIVITIES - continued|||||
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||f'unds|funds|funds|
||NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|||(4,549)|10,237|5,688|
||RECONCILIATION||OFFUNDS||||
||Total funds brought|forward||222,363|13,263|235,626|
||TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||217,814|23,500|241,314|
|12.|INTANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS||||||
|||||||Website|
|||||||development|
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||COST||||||
||At 1April 2022 and|31|March 2023|||27,500|
||AMORTISATION||||||
||At 1April 2022|||||24,627|
||Charge for year|||||2,873|
||At 31March 2023|||||27,500|
||NET BOOKVALUE||||||
||At 31March 2023||||||
||At 31March 2022|||||2,873|
|13.|TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS||||||
|||||Fixtures|||
|||||and|Computer||
|||||fittings|equipment|Totals|
||COST||||||
||At 1 April 2022|||7,552|21,964|29,516|
||Additions|||2,835||2,835|
||At 31March 2023|||10,387|21,964|32,351|
||DEPRECIATION||||||
||At 1 April 2022|||7,226|21,964|29,190|
||Charge for year|||826||826|
||At 31March 2023|||8,052|21,964|30,016|
||NET BOOKVALUE||||||
||At 31March 2023|||2,335||2,335|
||At 31March 2022|||326||326|





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|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||
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|Trade debtors|9,999|2,423|
|Other debtors|3,938||
|Tax|21,679|29,032|
|VAT||203|
|Prepayments<br>and accrued income|1,446|464|
||37,062|32,122|
|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||
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|Trade creditors|6,074|4,038|
|Social security and other taxes|3,379|3,816|
|Other creditors|861|695|
|Wages creditor|250||
|Deferred income|19,998||
|Accrued expenses|9,738|4,575|
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||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|
|Within one year|41,652|29,000|
|Between one and five years|143,810|116,000|
|In more than five years|446,224|438,000|
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|MOVEMENT IN|FUNDS||||
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||||Net||
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|||At 1.4.22|in funds|31.3.23|
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|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||
|General fund||217,814|(37,583)|180,231|
|Capital Repayment|fund - designated||30,000|30,000|
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park - designated|||15,000|15,000|
|Creative Play Sessions - designated|||590|590|
|||217,814|8,007|225,821|
|Restricted funds|||||
|Capital project||10,000|(3,139)|6,861|
|EFFLittle Wonders|||||
|||13,500|(13,500)||
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park|||7,018|7,018|
|Play on Prescription|||399|399|
|||23,500|(9,222)|14,278|
|TOTAL FUNDS||241,314|(1,215)|240,099|
|Net movement<br>in funds, included in the above are as follows:|||||
|||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
|||resources|expended|in funds|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||
|General fund||325,361|(362,944)|(37,583)|
|Capital Repayment|fund - designated|30,000||30,000|
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park - designated||15,000||15,000|
|Creative Play Sessions - designated||1,000|(410)|590|
|||371,361|(363,354)|8,007|
|Restricted funds|||||
|Capital project|||(3,139)|(3,139)|
|EFFLittle Wonders|||||
||||(13,500)|(13,500)|
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park||17„290|(10,272)|7,018|
|Play on Prescription||5,000|(4,601)|399|
|||22,290|(31,512)|(9,222)|
|TOTAL FUNDS||393,651|(394,866)|(1,215)|





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|---|---|---|---|---|
||||movement|At|
|||At 1.4.21|in funds|31.3.22|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||
|General fund||222,363|(4,549)|217,814|
|Restricted|funds||||
|Capital project||10,000||10,000|
|Hullabaloo|Programme|3,263|(3,263)||
|EFFLittle|Wonders||||
||||13,500|13,500|
|||13,263|10,237|23,500|
|TOTAL FUNDS||235,626|5,688|241,314|



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|Unrestricted||funds||||
|General fund|||370,987|(375,536)|(4,549)|
|Restricted|funds|||||
|Hullabaloo|Programme|||(3,263)|(3,263)|
|EFFLittle|Wonders|||||
||||39,500|(26,000)|13,500|
||||39,500|(29,263)|10,237|
|TOTAL FUNDS|||410,487|(404,799)|5,688|





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|---|---|---|---|---|
||||movement|At|
|||At 1.4.21|in funds|31.3.23|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||
|General fund||222,363|(42,132)|180,231|
|Capital Repayment|fund - designated||30,000|30,000|
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park - designated|||15,000|15,000|
|Creative Play Sessions - designated|||590|590|
|||222,363|3,458|225,821|
|Restricted funds|||||
|Capital project||10,000|(3,139)|6,861|
|Hullabaloo<br>Programme||3,263|(3,263)||
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park|||7,018|7,018|
|Play on Prescription|||399|399|
|||13,263|1,015|14,278|
|TOTAL FUNDS||235,626|4,473|240,099|



|||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||resources|expended|in funds|
|||||f.|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||
|General fund||696,348|(738,480)|(42,132)|
|Capital Repayment|fund - designated|30,000||30,000|
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park - designated||15,000||15,000|
|Creative Play Sessions - designated||1,000|(410)|590|
|||742,348|(738,890)|3,458|
|Restricted funds|||||
|Capital project|||(3,139)|(3,139)|
|Hullabaloo<br>Programme|||(3,263)|(3,263)|
|EFFLittle Wonders|||||
|||39,500|(39,500)||
|Hullabaloo<br>in the Park||17,290|(10,272)|7,018|
|Play on Prescription||5,000|(4,601)|399|
|||61,790|(60,775)|1,015|
|TOTAL FUNDS||804,138|(799,665)|4,473|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||||
|Donations and legacies||||
|Gift aid||441||
|Grant income||43,290|107,956|
|Donations||2,035|1,736|
|Core funding||254,924|254,924|
|||300,690|364,616|
|Other trading activities||||
|Sales||83||
|Sponsorships||30,000||
|Party hosting||1,052||
|||31,135||
|Investment<br>income||||
|Deposit account interest||821|347|
|Other interest received||26||
|||847|347|
|Charitable<br>activities||||
|Production<br>income||45,840|27,617|
|Earned income||1,100||
|||46,940|27,617|
|Other income||||
|Other income||2,709|177|
|Theatre Tax Relief||11,330|17,730|
|||14,039|17,907|
|Total incoming resources||393,651|410,487|
|EXPENDITURE||||
|Raising donations|and legacies|||
|Wages||11,203|3,113|
|Social security||726|206|
|Pensions||63|24|
|||11,992|3,343|
|Charitable<br>activities||||
|Wages||126,103|120,140|
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|Charitable<br>activities||||
|Brought forward||126,103|120,140|
|Social security||4,696|6,075|
|Pensions||1,484|1,573|
|Production<br>costs||11,973|25,364|
|Directors and designers||6,369|33,031|
|Sets and props||8,470|12,694|
|Actors and artists fees||7,850|23,427|
|Musicians fees||1,628|6|
|Royalties||1,756|2,744|
|Marketing||32,313|35,992|
|Touring company fees||46,429|14,340|
|Touring travel and subsistence||10,851|7,626|
|Management<br>fees||2,977|4,108|
|Grants to institutions||200||
|||263,099|287,120|
|Support costs||||
|Management||||
|Wages||23,810|17,735|
|Social security||1,302|988|
|Pensions||274|277|
|Insurance||2,211|1,949|
|Print, post and stationery||359|1,162|
|Sundries||666|512|
|Rent, rates and utilities||30,919|19,109|
|Subscriptions||2,693|1,957|
|ITsupport and maintenance||8,511|8,311|
|Bank charges||827|489|
|Repairs and maintenance||323|1,731|
|Professional<br>fees||2,315|2,302|
|Consultancy<br>fees||6,024|13,440|
|Training and welfare||886|2,369|
|Travel and subsistence||580|1,183|
|Recruitment<br>expenses||5,122|409|
|Refreshments||378|235|
|Irrecoverable<br>input VAT||3,071|13,745|
|Amortisation<br>ofintangible|fixed assets|2,873|5,500|
|Depreciation oftangible and heritage assets||826|528|
|Interest on late paid tax||5|4|
|||93,975|93,935|
|Finance||||
|Wages||12,043|13,710|
|Social security||654|771|
|Pensions||162|250|
|Freelance staff||6,176||
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|||2023|2022|
|Finance||||
|Governance<br>costs||||
|Auditors'<br>remuneration||3,421|2,325|
|Auditors'<br>remuneration|for non audit work|3,344|3,345|
|||6,765|5,670|
|Total resources expended||394,866|404,799|
|Net (expenditure)/income||(1,215)|5,688|



