Reading Operatic Society 37 Greenham Wood
Bracknell Berkshire RG12 7WJ
## **Annual Report**
## **Charity Number 297402**
## **Year to 31[st] December 2022**
1. Trustees approved the financial reporting on Thursday 27[th] April 2023. Trustees of the charity at that time were the following:
- a. Kim Hollamby
- b. Nicola Jagger-Ryan
- c. Delun Jones
- d. Scarlett O’Shea
- e. Karen Williams
- f. Richard Bott
- g. David Parsonson
- h. Elspeth Ulrich
- i. Beth Rutland
- j. Michelle Hollamby
- k. Terence Hodgkinson
- l. Jennifer Skelton
2. The management of the Society is conducted by a Committee, elected every two years by Members at an Annual General Meeting. In the event that a vacancy for any Officer or member of the Committee fails to be filled by election at the Annual General Meeting or vacant positions during the year, the Committee shall have the power to fill this vacancy by co-opting any member of the Society to serve as that officer or member with full rights as if elected for the remainder of the term.
3. The charity is unincorporated and uses its constitution to govern its operations.
4. The Aim of the Society is to: Educate the public in the Operatic and dramatic arts. Further the development of public appreciation and taste in the said arts. Assist and further such charitable institutions and charitable purposes as the Committee shall from time to time determine.
5. The Society operates in Reading, Berkshire and the surrounding area.
6. Two productions were staged during the year. Each was preceded by months of training and rehearsal. Members also took part in community, charitable and fundraising events.
7. There were no serious incidents requiring disclosure during the year.
8. Income for the year was £25,334 and expenditure was £28,208. The net loss for the year was £2,874.
9. There was no expenditure incurred outside the United Kingdom.
10. No grants, income or contracts were received from central or local government.
11. The society has no employees or paid staff.
12. The Trustees reviewed and continue to review, the Society's financial controls and safeguards.
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees** ~~Charity Name Reading~~ Operatic Society **On accounts for the year Charity no** 31st December 2022 297402 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** 31/12/2022 . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** ~~undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]].~~ ~~_Delete_ [ ]~~ ~~_if not applicable_~~ _._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**||30/10/2023|
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||Callum J. Hood||
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**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
## **(if any):**
**Address:** Flat 2, 601 Oxford Road
Reading, Berkshire RG30 1HL
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**
**Reading Operatic Society**
**297402**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC16a**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1/1/2022 12/31/2022
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||
|Show Income||**20,266**||**-**||**-**||**20,266**||**8,239**||
|Subscriptions||**2,460**||**-**||**-**||**2,460**||**-**||
|Fundraising||**536**||**-**||**-**||**536**||**215**||
|Friends donations||**132**||**-**||**-**||**132**||**80**||
|BenevityDonations||**703**||**-**||**-**||**703**||**120**||
|Other income||**1,132**||**-**||**-**||**1,132**||**-**||
|Amazon Smile||**21**||**-**||**-**||**21**||**-**||
|Easyfundraising||**84**||**-**||**-**||**84**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**25,334**
||**-**||**-**||**25,334**||**8,654**||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Show Income
**20,266**
Subscriptions
**2,460**
Fundraising
**536**
Friends donations
**132**
BenevityDonations
**703**
Other income
**1,132**
Amazon Smile
**21**
Easyfundraising
**84**
**25,334**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**20,266**
**2,460**
**536**
**132**
**703**
**1,132**
**21**
**84**
**25,334**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Show Income|**20,266**|**-**|**-**|**20,266**|**8,239**|
|Subscriptions|**2,460**|**-**|**-**|**2,460**|**-**|
|Fundraising|**536**|**-**|**-**|**536**|**215**|
|Friends donations|**132**|**-**|**-**|**132**|**80**|
|BenevityDonations|**703**|**-**|**-**|**703**|**120**|
|Other income|**1,132**|**-**|**-**|**1,132**|**-**|
|Amazon Smile|**21**|**-**|**-**|**21**|**-**|
|Easyfundraising|**84**|**-**|**-**|**84**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**25,334**
|**-**|**-**|**25,334**|**8,654**|
|**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 25,334**
**A3 Payments**
Show Costs
**26,335**
Future Shows
**600**
Insurance
**704**
Noda Membership
**306**
Fund Raising
**189**
Other expenses
**74**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 28,208**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 28,208**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 2,874**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ - 2,874**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,334**
**26,335**
**600**
**704**
**306**
**189**
**74**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,208**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,208**
**- 2,874**
**-**
**-**
**- 2,874**||
|||||||
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
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||||||**8,654**|
|||||||
||||||**13,384**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**730**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**134**|
|||||||
||||||**-**|
||||||**-**|
||||||**14,248**|
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
||||||**-**|
|||||||
||||||**14,248**|
|||||||
|||**-**|**-**|**- 2,874**|**- 5,594**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**- 2,874**|**- 5,594**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**unds**|**Details**
Lloyds|**to nearest £**
**14,861**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Lloyds|**14,861**|**-**|**-**|
**B1 Cash funds**
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**_Total cash funds_**|||**14,861**||**-**||**-**||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|||Agreement Error||OK||OK||
|||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**||
|||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**||
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||**-**||**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**||
||**Details**|||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|Uncashed Chq 824 - J Dick Costumes|||Unrestricted||**10**||||
||Uncashed Chq 864 - PM Dennis Hair and|||Unrestricted||**120**||||
||Make-up for Pippen|||||||||
|||||||**-**||||
|||||||**-**||||
|||||||**-**||||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print|Name|||Date of
approval||
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