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|Trustees|||Ms. D Lennan|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Mr. R H Burbidge OBE|||
||||Ms.J Hughes|||
||||Ms.SMcCormick|||
||||Ms. R Robins (Chair)|||
||||Ms. M FBedford|||
||||Dr M I Branson|||
||||Mr. M Hartley|||
||||Ms. EDennis-Edwards|||
||||Ms. F H Spickernell|(Appointed|1 March 2023)|
|Secretary|||Ms. CJJohn|(Resigned|8 November|
|||||2022)||
||||Mrs. Verity Overs-Morell|(Appointed|8 November|
|||||2022)||
|Charity number|||287909|||
|Company|number||01747169|||
|Registered||office|Pentabus Theatre|||
||||The Old School|||
||||Bromfield|||
||||Ludlow|||
||||Shropshire|||
||||United<br>Kingdom|||
||||SY82JU|||
|Independent||examiner|Azets|||
||||Column<br>House|||
||||London Road|||
||||6hrewsbury|||
||||Shropshire|||
||||United Kingdom|||
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|Trustees'<br>report|||3-18|
|Independent<br>examiner's||report||
|Statement offinancial|activities||20|
|Balance sheet|||21|
|Notes to the financial|statements||22 - 34|





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|Voluntary<br>income|||228,779||69,429|298,208|348,443|
|Charitable<br>activities|||22,726|||22,726|33,978|
|Investments|||1,466|||1,466|152|
|Other income|||1,503|57,409||58,912|15,399|
|Total income|||254,474|57,409|69,429|381,312|397,972|
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|Fundraising<br>and|publicity||634|||634|250|
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|Production<br>and marketing|||170,924||78,407|249,331|330,644|
|Personnel,<br>travel|and|||||||
|accommodation|||53,728|||53,728|57,049|
|Administration,<br>property||and legal|19,552|||19,552|14,926|
|Depreciation<br>and|other expenses||(144)|3,018|102|2,976|3,244|
|Other expenditure|||10,625|||10,625|9,434|
|Total charitable|expenditure||254,685|3,018|78,509|336,212|415,297|
|Total resources|expended||255,319|3,018|78,509|336,846|415,547|
|Net incoming/(outgoing)||||||||
|resources before transfers|||(845)|54,391|(9,080)|44,466|(17,575)|
|Gross transfers<br>between||funds|(753)||753|||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||(1,598)|54,391|(8,327)|||
|Fund balances at|1 April|2022|103,091|97,470|17,414||217,975|
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|Tangible assets||14||8,983||12,707|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors||13|79,241||23,083||
|Cash at bank and in|hand||240,128||304,844||
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|Creditors: amounts|falling due within||||||
|one year||16|(65,911)||(122,659)||
|Net current assets||||253,458||205,268|
|Total assets less current liabilities||||262,441||217,975|
|Income funds|||||||
|Restricted funds||||9,087||17,414|
|Unrestricted<br>funds -|designated|||151,861||97,470|
|Unrestricted<br>funds -|general|||101,493||103,091|
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|Voluntary<br>income||228,779|69,429|298,208|348,443|
|Forthe year ended 31 INarch|2022|246,839|101,604||348,443|
|Voluntary<br>income||||||
|Arts Council England<br>grant||190,779||190,779|190,779|
|Shropshire<br>Council grant|||||5,200|
|Millichope<br>Foundation<br>grant||2,000||2,000|500|
|Esmee Fairbairn||35,000||35,000||
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||||23,500|
|O'Oyly Carte Charitable<br>Trust|||||3,000|
|The Clive Richards Foundation|||3,500|3,500|11,250|
|OSLTS Co-Producer|||||2,471|
|The Adlard<br>Family Charitable|Foundation|500||500|500|
|Garrick Charitable<br>Trust|||||3,000|
|Ashley Family Foundation|||||5,000|
|Wynn Foundation|||||1,500|
|National<br>Trust Legacy Project|||||22,566|
|Hereford<br>Community<br>Foundation|||1,500|1,500||
|The Haystack Trust|||15,000|15,000|11,125|
|Studio|||329|329||
|Weston Charity||500||500||
|Jacaranda<br>Co-Producer|||||25,689|
|Unlimited<br>Co-Producer|||41,600|41,600|900|
|ACE Project Grant|||||39,963|
|Elmley|||4,000|4,000||
|Hall Garth Charitable<br>Trust Grant|||3,500|3,500|1,500|
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|Net gain on disposal oftangible|fixed assets|92||92||
|Other income||1,411||1,411|2,262|
|Theatre Tax Relief|||57,409|57,409|13,137|
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|Forthe year ended 31March|2022|2,262|13,137||15,399|



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||Hospitality||251||251|254|Support|
||Trustees'|expenses|||641|100|Governance|
||Legal and|professional|||||Governance|
||fees|||5,033|5,033|4,255||
||Accountancy fees|||3,500|3,500|3,975|Governance|
||Independent<br>Examiner's||||||Governance|
||fees|||1,200|1,200|850||
||||251|10,374|10,625|9,434||
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|||April 2022|resources|expended||31 INarch|
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|General<br>fund||38,091|254,474|(255,319)|(753)|36,493|
|Contingency<br>reserve||65,000||||65,000|
|||103,091|254,474|(255,319)|(753)|101,493|
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|Catalyst Evolve||16,735||(8,225)||8,510|
|Clive Richards Foundation|||3,500||(3,500)||
|Hereford<br>Community<br>The Haystack Trust|Foundation||1,500<br>15,000||(1,500)<br>(15,000)||
|Wdter in Residence||||(3,500)|3,500||
|Elmley|||4,000||(4,000)||
|Hall Garth Charitable|||||||
|Tmst Grant|||3,500||(3,500)||
|Unlimited|||41,600|(41,600)|||
|Spnng<br>Digital 22/23||||(1,500)|1,500||
|Studio 22/23|||329||(329)||
|Idyll Asset Addition||679||(102)||577|
|Young Writers||||(23,582)|23,582||
|||17,414|69,429|(78,509)|753|9,087|
|Designated<br>funds|||||||
|Strategic Development|fund|57,470|17,409|(3,018)||71,861|
|Future Artistic|||||||
|Programme<br>Fund||40,000|40,000|||80,000|
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||Disposals|||||||(2,070)|(2,070)|
||At 31 March 2023||||||41,979|73,352|115,332|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment|||||||||
||At 1April|2022|||||41,979|62,715|104,694|
||Depreciation<br>charged||in the|year||||2,976|2,976|
||Eliminated|in respect|ofdisposals|||||(1,322)|('i,322)|
||At 31 March 2023||||||41,979|64,369|106,348|
||Carrying|amount||||||||
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||At 31 March 2022|||||||12,708|12,708|
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||Debt instruments<br>measured|||at|amortised|cost||319,369|327,928|
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|Other taxation and social security||2,022|1,567|
|Trade creditors||15,737|8,096|
|Other creditors||2,967|2,967|
|Accruals and deferred|income|45,185|110,029|
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|Deferred|income|is included|within:|||||
|Creditors|due within one year|||||38,080|73,539|
|Total deferred income at 1April 2022||||||73,539|107,051|
|Amounts|received|in year||||262,749|314,931|
|Amounts|credited|to statement<br>offinancial||activities||(298,208)|(348,443)|
|Total deferred<br>income at 31March 2023||||||38,080|73,539|
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|Current|assets/(liabilities)|||95,924|149,025|8,510|253,458|
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