## Chairman’s Report 

TADS AGM 2024 Michelle Stanton 20[th] May 2024 



## Membership 

- We currently have 77 members + 2 Honorary Life Members – increased from 53 in 2023 

- Teens Membership has increased from 15-22 (with a Waiting List) – thank you to those that support our young people – PH, CW, CW, JW 



## Events 

- We have had a variety of Events this year 

- Summer Dinner/Awards Evening 

- Open Mic Nights 

- Play Readings 

- Book Club 

- Quiz Nights 

- Village Fete 

- Village Act of Remembrance 

- Toddington Christmas Tree Festival 

- This year we look forward to continuing to socialise together and providing more events for you our members and your families and friends 



## Hire of Premises 

- Thank you to Paul Horsler our Premises manager for all his help and support with this 

- Theatre Groups 

- Garret Sessions 

- Hiring our premises is a source of income for the group and where this doesn’t clash we will always try to accommodate bookings as it also increases our profile externally; if anyone feels that they could support with manning the bar during our hall bookings please could you let Paul know so that we can increase people that we can call on 



## Past Productions 

- Broadway Through The Ages 

- The Phantom of The Talent Factor 

- Aladdin 

- Get A Lad-In 

- Trouble in PantoLand 



## Current Productions 

- Charley’s Aunt– Rehearsals are well under way – 7/8/14/15 June 

- If you haven’t already make sure that you book your tickets for what promises to be a fun evening! 



## Future Productions 

- Musical Mayhem – Auditions 22[nd] May and Performances 13/14/20/21 September - 

- The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe – Auditions and casting have taken place – Performances 6/7/8/14/15 December 

- Sinderella –Jan/Feb 2025 – Readthrough on 13[th] July with Auditions on the 19[th] and 20[th] July 

- TADS Teens Musical Review– March 2025 

- Vicar of Dibley  – June 2025 

- Not Decided – Autumn 2025 

- Cinderella – December 2025 



## Awards 

- NODA Nominations 

- Best Panto  – Aladdin 

- Best Young Performer for NODA Region3 – Angel Bayliss (for performances in TADS and Stage 1) 

- Best Production Noda District 3 – Aladdin 

- An amazing year for TADS at the NODA awards where we not only won Best Panto but also best Production against some very strong competition e.g. Sunset Boulevard, The Addams Family etc etc. A huge thank you to Darren, Harry and Angel for all your hard work and commitment and for choosing to be a part of the TADS family. 



## Premises 

New Lighting Desk New Curtain Track ( backcloths) 

We have just agreed some new remedial work to the changing room external wall which will then lead to us replacing the decking, decorating the foyer and changing room and replacing ceiling boards in the auditorium – 



## Committee Thanks 

- On behalf of all members I would like to thank your hard working committee 

- Anni Bacon– Vice Chair                   Darren Adams 

- • Paul Horsler– Secretary Connie Wiltshire 

- Paul Horsler– Secretary 

- Gemma Bayliss– Treasurer          Claire Wilden 

- Emma Lidford 

Elise Crosby 

- Sarah Benjamin 

- Sophie Venn 

- Emily Venn 

- Janine Wall 

- Emily Rust 



## What has gone well this year 

- Membership has grown in the past 12 months and continues to be healthy and TADS Teens is now at full capacity with a Waiting List 

- We provided a variety of different productions this year to positive feedback from our audiences and NODA 

- Social Media has increased and posts have between1.5k and 3k and we share all our productions across local sites, other theatre groups and the wider area – this is for auditions, productions and social events 

- We have increased our visibility by being involved in as many local events as we can as recommended at the last AGM 

- We have introduced an additional Holding Trustee following last years AGM and delighted to share with Members that Steven Pryer has accepted this role 

- • We have introduced BACS as a payment method for Membership due to issues with Website payments not processing which is a much smoother process 



## Where can we improve 

- As we need to raise funds over the next 12 months to improve areas of the theatre we need to look at ways that we can do this in addition to grant funding whether this is hall bookings, increased social events etc 

- Numbers at Set Build have improved and we are looking after the AGM to set up a new Premises Team to support with the up-keep and day to day jobs within the theatre to share the load across more people. We have also been lucky to involve some high school art students to paint some of our sets to a high standard 

- Bids and Grants have been difficult and we haven’t secured any this year but we are always looking for expertise within the membership who could maybe provide some advice on this moving into 24/25. 



## The Future 

- Thank you for accepting me as your Chairman – Honoured to serve you as members and hope to continue to do so 

- To continue to grow as a group and enjoy our love of theatre 

- To ensure that everyone who enters TADS is welcomed and wants to stay – retention of members is vital to enable us to continue to move forward and provide an array of talent. 

- TADS has always felt different often described as a  family and that’s how I hope that we will remain where everyone feels that their talent (whatever that is) is acknowledged and valued. TADS feels to many like a safe space where regardless of who you are and whatever your background you will always be a part of us. 



Profit and loss statement 1 Apr 2023 to 31 March 2024 

||**2024**|||**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Income**|||**Income**||
|Productions|||Productions||
|Panto/Tango in Little Grimley|1,083|99%|Comedy of Terrible Errors|580|
||||Murder/Lockdown in Little||
|The Phantom of the Talent Factor|1,213|87%|Grimley|1,170|
|Broadway Through The Ages|2,172|82%|The Railway Children|2822|
|Aladdin|4,458|63%|Thumbelina|2,499|
|Trouble In Pantoland|||Panto/Tango in Little Grimley||
||||The Phantom of the Talent||
|The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe|||Factor||
|Time To Get A-Lad-In|3,231|79%|Panto/Tango in Little Grimley||
|Total production income|12,157|67%|Total production income|7,071|
|**Other**|||**Other**||
|Summer School|1,150||Summer School|0|
|Theatre hire|1,725||Theatre hire|1,072|
|Programme adverts|330||Programme adverts|0|
|External Box Office|295||External Box Office|1,116|
|Fund raising|1,373||Fund raising|660|
|Bar|6,817||Bar|3,507|
|Membership fees|920||Membership fees|672|
|Donation/Grants|14||Donation/Grants|104|
|Social|65||Social|0|
|Miscellaneous / General|931||Miscellaneous / General|38|
|Total other income|13,619||Total other income|7,168|
|Total income|25,777||Total income|14,239|
|**Expenditure**|||**Expenditure**||
|Productions|||Productions||
|Panto/Tango in Little Grimley|13||Comedy of Terrible Errors|158|
||||Murder/Lockdown in Little||
|The Phantom of the Talent Factor|159||Grimley|165|
|Broadway Through The Ages|391||The Railway Children|1,600|
|Aladdin|1,640||Thumbelina|1,248|
|Trouble In Pantoland|547||Panto/Tango in Little Grimley|439|
|The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe|600||||
||||The Phantom of the Talent||
|Time To Get A-Lad-In|668||Factor|241|
|Total production expenditure|4,018||Total production expenditure|3,851|
|Other|||Other||
|Donation|449||Donation|0|
|Licences|325||Licences|360|
|General expenses|7,614||General expenses|4,221|
|Insurances|1,219||Insurances|1,012|
|Summer School|1,050||Summer School|0|
|Ticketsource/Stripe/Sumup|763||Ticketsource/Stripe/Sumup|622|
|Maintenance|670||Maintenance|9,991|
|External Box Office|266||External Box Office|1,039|
|Utilities|3,227||Utilities|2,621|
|Miscellaneous|||Miscellaneaous|75|
|Bar|3,976||Bar|2,145|
|Social|569||Social|0|
|Total other expenditure|20,127||Total other expenditure|22,086|
|Total expenditure|24,145||Total expenditure|25,938|
|**Net income**|**1,632**||**Net income**|**-11,698**|






## Balance sheet as at 31 March 2024 

|||Balance sheet as|at 31 March 2024||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**2024**||**2023**|
||**Assets**||||
||Cash and Bank Accounts||||
|73%|Bank|18,920|Bank|17,288|
|86%|Cash|552|Cash|432|
|43%|Accrued expenses|0|Accrued expenses|0|
|0%|Total cash and bank|19,472|Total cash and bank|17,720|
||Other Assets||||
|46%|Freehold premises|150,000|Freehold premises|150,000|
||Total other assets|150,000|Total other assets|150,000|
||Total assets|169,472|Total assets|167,720|
||**Liabilities and Equity**||||
||Liabilities||||
||Loans|0|Loans|0|
||Equity||||
||Property and bank|169,472|Property and bank|167,720|
||Total liabilities and equity|169,472|Total liabilities and equity|167,720|



## Declaration 

These accounts have been drawn up from the books, vouchers and bank statements provided and are to the best of my knowledge a true record. 

14 April 2024 

………………………………………………… 

**Gemma Bayliss Treasurer** 



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