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|CONTENTS|||||
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|Administrative|information||||
|Trustees'<br>report including||statement|ofTrustees'||
|responsibilities|||||
|Independent|Examiner's|report||18|
|Statement of|financial activities|||20|
|Balance sheet||||21|
|Statement of|cash flows|||22|
|Notes to the financial statements||||23|





|||BIRMINGHAM<br>OPERA COMPANY|||||
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|||(A company<br>limited<br>by guarantee)|||||
|||ADMINISTRATIVE<br>INFORMATION|||||
||FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30JUNE 2021||||||
|Trustees and Directors;||Nicholas Payne (Chair)|||||
|||Tony Colville|||||
|||Katie Fulcher|||||
|||William<br>Husselby OBE|||||
|||Catherine<br>Allen|||||
|||Amahra<br>Spence (appointed|8|December||2020)|
|||Lauren<br>Williams|||||
|||Sir Graham<br>Vick CBE(deceased|||17July 2021)||
|||Justine Themen|||||
|Personnel:||Artistic Director —Sir Graham||Vick CBE||+|
|||Music Director —Alpesh Chauhan|||||
|||Artistic Associate —Reisz Amos|||||
|||Executive Director —Richard||Willacy (subsequently|||
|||appointed<br>General<br>Director|2022)||||
|||General<br>Manager —Hannah|Griffiths||||
|||Development<br>Coordinator —Charlotte Titcombe|||||
|Associate Artists;||Choreographer<br>—Ron Howell|||||
|||Vocal Coach —Jane Robinson|||||
|||Casting Consultant —Sarah|Playfair||||
|||Projects Consultant —Sheelagh|||Barnard||
|||Chartered<br>Management|Accountant|||—Shohaib|
|||Shafiq ACMA, CGMA|||||
|Secretary:||Richard Willacy|||||
|Registered|Office:|205 The Argent Centre|||||
|||60 Frederick Street|||||
|||Birmingham|||||
|||B1 3HS|||||
|Bankers:||Lloyds Bank pic|||||
|||36/38 New Street|||||
|||Birmingham|||||
|||B24LP|||||
|Independent|Examiner:|David Hoose|||||
|||Mazars LLP|||||
|||First Floor|||||
|||Two Chamberlain<br>Square|||||
|||Birmingham|||||
|||B33AX|||||
|Registered|Charity Number:|291130|||||





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|||||||2021|2020|
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|Cash flows from||operating|activities|||||
|Net cash|used<br>in|operating|activities||19|336,940|314,197|
|Cash flows from||investing|activities:|||||
|Purchase|oftangible<br>fixed assets|||||||
|Net cash|provided|by investing<br>activities||||||
|Change|in cash|and cash|equivalents|in the||336,940|314,197|
|year||||||||
|Cash and|cash equivalents||brought<br>forward|||298,232|(15,965)|
|Cash and cash equivalents|||carried forward|||635,172|298,232|





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|3. GRANTS AND|DONATIONS|DONATIONS|DONATIONS|DONATIONS|||||
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|The Company<br>gratefully|acknowledges||||the support|given|2021|2020|
|by the following<br>during<br>the||course||ofthe year:|||||
|Grants received from:|||||||||
|Arts Council England|||||||486,433|486,432|
|Birmingham<br>City Council|||||||32,870|30,993|
|FEDORA|||||||1,792||
|FEDORA Education<br>Prize|||||||44,812||
|George Cadbury<br>Fund|||||||25,000||
|George Fentham<br>Birmingham||Charity||||||2,000|
|Individuals<br>sponsors<br>and donors|||||||25,659|13,268|
|The Kiri Te Kanawa<br>Foundation|||(UK)||||22,251||
|The Leche Trust||||||||2,000|
|Baron Davenport's<br>Charity|||||||800||
|The Cole Charitable<br>Trust|||||||1,000|1,000|
|The D'Oyly Carte Charitable||Trust|||||3,500||
|The Edward and Dorothy|Cadbury|||Trust|||2,000||
|The Edward Cadbury<br>Charitable|||Trust||||3,000||
|The Eveson Trust||||||||3,000|
|The Fidelio Charitable<br>Trust||||||||2,500|
|GJW Turner Trust|||||||2,000||
|The Grantham<br>Yorke Trust||||||||3,000|
|The Grimmitt<br>Trust|||||||1,500||
|The Harold<br>Hyam Wingate|Foundation||||||2,000||
|The Joseph Hopkins<br>and|Henry||James Sayer Charity||||500||
|The National<br>Foundation<br>for||Youth||Music||||1,646|
|The Oakley Charitable<br>Trust||||||||1,000|
|R A and VBReekie Trust|||||||1,000|1,000|
|The Roger 8 Douglas Turner||Charitable|||Trust|||2,000|
|The Roughley<br>Trust||||||||1,000|
|The Saintbury<br>Trust|||||||6,000|5,000|
|The Sheldon Trust|||||||2,000||
|The Steel Charitable<br>Trust||||||||10,000|
|Thriplow<br>Charitable<br>Trust|||||||2,000|3,500|
|W. E. Dunn Charitable<br>Trust|||||||750||
||||||||666,867|569,339|
|4. OTHER INCOME|||||||||
||||||||2021f|2020<br>E|
|Boxoffice|||||||8,576|12,944|
|Theatre tax credits|||||||30,017|44,680|
|Other|||||||4,114|167|
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|Fundraising|costs||18,035|18,715|
|Other salary|costs||152,008|135,329|
|Other production||costs|581,801|163,659|
|Governance|||11 874|14,423|
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|t resou|rces expended<br>for th|e year are stated afte|r charging:||
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|Amount|paid to Independent|Examiner|||
||IE and Accounts Preparation||2,715|2,635|
||Tax||1,350|3,750|
|Lease|payments||14,376|14,176|
|Depreciation|||315|315|





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|Staff costs||||2021<br>f|2020|
|Wages and salaries||||146,506|134,471|
|Social security||||14,916|11,144|
|Pension|cost|||7,164|6,667|
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||10.<br>STOCKS||||
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||||2021<br>E|2020f|
||Wardrobe stock||5,200|5,200|
||||5,200|5,200|
||11.<br>DEBTORS||||
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||Amounts<br>falling due within|one year:|||
||Grants receivable||8,789|11,000|
||Trade debtors||2,808|3,133|
||VAT debtor||10,272|3,519|
||Accrued income||50,000|144,154|
||Other debtors||2,653||
||||74,522|161,806|
|12.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||
||||2021<br>E|2020f|
||Amounts<br>falling due within|one year:|||
||Trade creditors||40,062|4,595|
||Other taxes and social security||4,050|4,415|
||Accruals and other creditors||294,573|26,190|
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||||||Reserves|Reserves||2021|2020|
||Brought forward||||120,770||314,083|434,853|153,349|
||Surplus I(Deficit) for the||year||368,873|(413,797)||(44,924)|281,504|
||Transfer between<br>funds||||(349,714)||349,714|||
||Carried forward||||139,929||250,000|389,929|434,853|
|14.|RESTRICTED|FUNDS||||||||
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||FEDORA||||||1,792|1,792||
||FEDORA Education|Prize|||||44,812|44,812||
||The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation|||(UK)|||22,251|22,251||
||Baron Davenport's<br>Charity||||||800||800|
||The Cole Charitable<br>Trust||||||1,000||1,000|
||The D'Oyly Carte Charitable||Trust||||3,500|3,500||
||The Edward and Dorothy Cadbury||||Trust||2,000||2,000|
||The Edward<br>Cadbury|Charitable||Trust|||3,000||3,000|
||The Eveson Trust|||||3,000||3,000||
||The Fidelio Charitable|Trust||||2,500||2,500||
||The Foyle Foundation|||||15,000||3,020|11,980|
||GJW Turner Trust||||||2,000|2,000||
||The Grantham<br>Yorke|Trust||||3,000||3,000||
||The Grimmitt Trust||||||1,500||1,500|
||The Harold<br>Hyam Wingate||Foundation||||2,000|2,000||
||The Joseph Hopkins|and Henry||James|||500|500||
||Sayer Charity|||||||||
||The Leche Trust|||||2000||2,000||
||RA and V BReekie|Trust|||||1,000|1,000||
||The Saintbury<br>Trust||||||6,000||6,000|
||The Sheldon Trust||||||2,000|2,000||
||The Steel Charitable|Trust||||10,000||10,000||
||Thriplow Charitable<br>Trust||||||2,000|2,000||
||W.E.Dunn Charitable|Trust|||||750|750||
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|Net income||for the year||||(54,144)|295,003|
|(as<br>per||Statement||of|Financial|||
|Activities)||||||||
|Adjustment||for:||||||
|Depreciation||||||315|315|
|(Increase)|/|decrease|in|debtors||87,284|67,965|
|Increase<br>/ (decrease)|||in|creditors||303,485|(49,086)|
|Net<br>cash||used|in||operating|336,940|314,197|
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