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2023-03-31-accounts

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain

(A Company Limited by Guarantee)

Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 31 March 2023

Charity Commission Number - 306075 Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator Number - SC043665 Company Number - 699114

The National Youth Theatre is registered as a Disability Confident employer

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Who We Are - Vision, Mission, Values and Culture

Overview by Paul Roseby, Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Our National Programme

The National Creative Production House for Young People

NYT in Numbers

Uncertain Times

Looking Ahead Our Supporters

Financial Review

Structure, governance and management

Independent auditor’s report

Statement of financial activities

Balance sheet

Cash Flow

Notes to the financial statements

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Reference and Administration Details

Registered Office and National Creative Production House for Young People 443-445 Holloway Road, London N7 6LW

Solicitors

Edwards Duthie Shamash

Bank House, 269-275 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG1 4TG

Auditors

MOORE Kingston Smith 6[th] Floor, 9 Appold Street, London, EC2A 2AP

Report of the Trustees for the Year ended 31 March 2023 Company number 699114

The Trustees are pleased to present their annual report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2023. The report meets the requirements of the Charities Act 2011, The Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006, the Companies Act 2006 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (January 2019).

Award-winning, newly redeveloped National Youth Theatre, Holloway Road. Photo by Helen Murray

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Who we are

The NYT REP Company’s critically acclaimed production of G ONE TOO FAR! at Theatre Royal Stratford East, March 2023. Photo by Isha Shah

Introducing NYT

National Youth Theatre is a pioneering youth arts charity that nurtures creative expression, personal well-being, performance and technical skills development and theatre craft, engaging thousands of young people aged 11- 25 around the UK every year. Established in 1956 as the world’s first youth theatre, NYT seeks out, supports and champions performers, theatre technicians, designers and young creative leaders. We help build future audiences in sustaining the UK’s cultural footprint and securing the future talent pipeline for the cultural sector at large. NYT achieves this by producing ambitious theatrical productions in local communities, on leading global stages and in unusual spaces across the UK and beyond commissioning bold and relevant new writing and reinterpreting classic stories for our time. Recent work has seen the company break new ground at London Fashion Week and COP26 in Glasgow, immersive work in libraries and community centres across Liverpool and a promenade performance at an earth Amphitheatre in Shropshire, as well as performing in theatres and event spaces in the heart of London’s West End. NYT’s free creative leadership, safeguarding, wellbeing, intersectionality and inclusive practice training underpin our work with hundreds of creative freelance professionals each year continually growing and diversifying the creative industries talent pipeline. NYT empowers young diverse voices and foregrounds the issues that matter most to young people.

In the coming year this will include a major climate focused creative partnership with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, the 10th anniversary NYT REP season, new co productions with Talawa

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Theatre Company and Bernie Grant Arts Centre, new online partnerships with Digital Theatre +, a major partnership highlighting technical theatre and backstage roles with Netflix, our Accredited Training Programmes Playing Up and Stepping UP and a national tour of the feature film of The Ancestors shot on location at Portchester Castle alongside productions at leading theatres around the UK and in the West End.

NYT’s alumni include some of Britain’s most successful performers, technical theatre experts worki ng on the world’s biggest events and stages and creative leaders at venues around the UK and beyond.

See our Impact Data, explore our Members Voices and watch footage of live events at our new website- www.nyt.org.uk

Climate Cabaret, NYT Workshop Theatre, October 2022

Vision

NYT works for a world in which young people lead, create and continually aspire to be their best version of themselves: individually, collectively and creatively. In pursuit of unique storytelling NYT supports the empowerment of young people to take centre stage in their lives and in communities of practice, whether defined by location, representation or identity.

Mission

NYT is a pioneering youth arts organisation and charity. We support, platform, inspire and cocreate with exceptional young people from across the UK aged 11 to 25 and, through our Inclusive Practice ethos, those aged up to 30 who identify as learning disabled or neurodiverse.

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We believe that the best way for young people to learn is by doing and by engaging with leading artists and industry professionals, whilst testing their work with live audiences. We create skills development programmes that nurture and support talent, providing alternatives to formal training which respond to and meet young people’s needs and the needs of the sector. Our programmes give young people a competitive edge and support practical career development.

Our commitment to excellence sees us work with the most exceptional young people each year through our free flagship programmes, The NYT REP Company and Playing Up.

Values

NYT’s ethos and approach are informed by our core values:

We consistently innovate and pioneer

We nurture talent inspired by young people

We promote respect, representation and equality

We are international in our outlook, understanding what it means to be a young person today, addressing issues of social responsibility, art and activism, cultural diplomacy and global citizenship.

We look to partner and align with people and organisations that can progress our vision for a world in which young people lead, create and continually inspire the next generation to achieve and to be their best version of themselves, individually, collectively and creatively.

Culture

At the National Youth Theatre, we work towards a culture that is inclusive, creative and collaborative. We celebrate all the ways we are different and aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and do their best work. We want our culture to create spaces where young people from around the UK can be together, be brave and create bold work. We ask everyone involved in making each project to approach it with generosity, curiosity, kindness and respect. We believe that we do better work together than we would apart and that our work is richer and stronger thanks to the different backgrounds and experiences that everyone in our company brings. Through our work we want to be connected and responsive to each other, our communities, our industry and the wider world. Whatever your background or wherever you’re from, we invite you to support our mission to be a creative force for good at a critical time for our industry, country and world.

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The Big Weekender at Royal Court Theatre, May 2022. Photo by Ellie Kurttz

Overview - Paul Roseby, CEO & Artistic Director

National Youth Theatre has been innovating an inclusive world of creative possibilities across communities of young people since 1956. As a leading youth arts organisation and charity, we programme and co create with young people opportunities that are accessible, life-changing and aspirational to our ever-growing cohort.

We are now l iving in dynamic times with continuing ‘national unknowns’, from the long -term economic and cultural recovery post pandemic, to the role of the creative arts in our national education infrastructure, from the social and mental health challenges being experienced by young people who have lost so much, to the evolving impact our cost of living and economic changes create. All present continually evolving challenges for an institution formed in the mid-1950s as a progressive outlet for young people, amidst growing post-war optimism and at the time of the birth of the ‘teenager’. A s we grow ourselves, we are continually addressing creatively the concept of aging and living longer, what it means to be accountable to the next generation and how future technological and creative opportunities will embrace creative potential, changing the world around us. The continuing impact of covid both on young people and on our sector has been profound, affecting mental health, social and emotional resilience and opportunity. The new fragile, fractured and digital era will require organisations such as NYT to flex their dynamism, to reclaim some lost ground for young people at risk of being forgotten by progress and politics and for those who report growing ‘social isolation’ and mental health struggles. NYT will continue to help bridge divides created by the educational attainment gap, unemployment and the growing national mental health crisis for young people across many UK communities. We work to counteract the impact of a stretched public purse with restricted budgets for cultural and educational offerings, a renewed focus on levelling up and national provision, by helping inspire a job-ready generation of new

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creatives skilled for new employability opportunities. Reducing and removing socio economic barriers is central to our work with all our courses, training and programmes being accessible via fee waivers and bursary funding and focused resourcing to reach, engage and support those most marginalised.

Equality, diverse representation, social equity and inclusion are core pillars to our practice. Our 2020 commissioned race review led by Kwame Kwei Armah, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, also championed by Trustee Rt Hon David Lammy MP, addressed all aspects of our practice and the experience of all of our young participants, staff, audiences and creative associates. Our resulting direction and commitment is to ensure we are actively anti-racist and inclusive in all that we do. Our company voices are diverse, our creatives and associates represent a spectrum of practice, gender, ethnicity, disability, race, faith, age and sexuality - all reflected in the stories we commission, share and platform. We are proud that our substantial combined investment over more than 10 years of our REP Training, Playing Up Accredited programmes and outreach partnerships have championed diverse new talent and significantly contributed to the diversification of the sector. We continue to partner proactively to reach and attract powerful new talent, this year with Trybe House with its creative focus on the voices of young black men.

NYT demonstrates a dynamic approach to change and remains resilient with the next few years likely to push that resilience in new ways given rising production and sector costs, changing demands and challenges in the West End and Commercial theatre sectors and amidst a changing macro-economic climate.

With a clear mission, strong financial reserves and robust governance we can continue to be bold both in vision and ambition. Working to connect, unite and creatively challenge the generation of young people most affected by covid – those in and without formal education structures; those separated from friends and social infrastructure; those supporting family and in caring roles; those marginalised and at risk of ever greater under representation; those living with and alongside poverty and deprivation – NYT creates and facilitates new means to connect, to creatively challenge and new methods to platform the voice of diverse young people enabling creative activism and engagement. Our partnerships continue to amplify our voice and further diversify our programme with Blink Dance, Touretteshero, Trybe House, Backstage Niche, TikTok, SKY VIP and English Heritage. Innovative creative strategies have empowered and enabled the voice of Members to co-curate and co-produce programmes and events with, for and by young people. New partnerships with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture and The Space have enabled our members to present to an ever-curious and often nontheatrical audience base.

Completing the RIBA Award winning refurbishment of our home is hugely significant in enhancing our long-term resilience, dynamism and profile. Our Associate Companies, BLINK Dance Theatre, Compass Collective, Dorsetborn & OffPiste, Doorstep Arts, Itch + Scratch, THE LAB, Megaverse, OPIA Collective, Piece of Cake Theatre Company and The Pappy Show, are enabling new partnerships to benefit more young people. Building in access for all was core to the design of our new spaces, with 7 flexible use studios, creative workspaces and a new workshop studio theatre space seating up to 130, Changing Places facilities and full disabled access. NYT is enabling young people to gain further professional and creative skills and closer access to industry.

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Mixing professional hires with social value contracts alongside our accredited and unaccredited training programmes, NYT enables new talent to tell new stories, celebrating diversity and equality ensuring access to the industry for young people. Our enhanced local prominence on the Holloway Road, community partnerships, work with the London Borough of Islington teams and creative programming in partnership with a breadth of organisations can now be fully serviced in an aspirational space.

Nationally diverse, rural and remote UK communities offer some important step changes for NYT and we realise potential far outstrips our current capacity to reach everyone, though partnerships with Associate Companies including Doorstep Arts in Torbay expand our reach. The development of the NYT Hub, an online community of practice and opportunity, is just one key step towards national affordable access and inclusion, effectively moving away from an auditions fee to a continual subscription platform for engagement. We are continually building our Bursary Fund for participation in all our opportunities, boosted substantially by a new three-year funding award from the Leverhulme Trust in 2021. New partnerships ensure our free opportunities and our employability programmes have an even greater national reach to meet more of those young people whose access to arts may otherwise be restricted. During 2022, our national DWP Kickstart-funded Inclusive Practice Collective created 40 new jobs for 16-24 year olds in receipt of Universal Credit, working with disabled communities across Leeds & West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and London and in partnership with inclusive practice partners and 15 non-mainstream schools to support disabled young people.

Structurally we are embracing the transition to becoming a Theatre Venue, a centre for creative practice, with new roots embedded and extending within our local community. In partnership with the London Borough of Islington we are progressing programmes for the most vulnerable young people in Islington, through employment routes, employment skills and programmes for disabled young people, Children in Need and Children in Need of Protection. A proactive partner for the Council’s W orld of Work and 11 x 11 education enrichment programme, we are working to pilot practices and programmes to reach communities of young people within Islington who do not currently access the arts. Becoming a venue has changed our structures, our programmes and our opportunities as we grow and evolve our Artistic and Programming Policy for the venue space, foregrounding opportunities for young members and young audiences. Our free and affordable courses in developing skills and gaining access to industry professionals and progression routes continue to be game changers for those put off by or excluded from more traditional and expensive forms of learning. Our free creative employment programmes Playing Up and Stepping Up are a vital intervention in our home borough of Islington, which has the fourth highest rate of child poverty in the UK and where over 43% of children and young people live in poverty.

The continuing challenges in education, decline in arts provision in schools and school theatre audiences present a challenge to NYT. Our growing schools and community programme offers topical curriculum-based learning in new and relevant formats, including both live and digital performances. Designed to make a difference to young people’s wellbeing and literacy skills and to appeal to students of all academic inclinations, NYT’s offer includes Creative Careers Workshops. Following broad awareness of the abuse of power by public and private figures, not least in the entertainment industry, we will continue to strengthen our robust safeguarding policy, to model good practice and ensure safe working environments and

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creative practice. We will continue to do this in consultation with experts including disabled practitioners, women’s groups, diverse support groups and organisations for the global majority, the NSPCC, the Centre for Mental Health and the young people with whom we work.

The Ancestors Film Sharing November 2022. Photo by Tolu Elufowoju

Our National Programme

Throughout the year NYT have delivered and enabled a wide-range of national projects to support and inspire our young members, provide our freelance Associate Artists with employment, reach new and existing audiences and play a strong civic role in the communities of people and place in which and for whom we play an important part.

NYT REP Company Productions

The NYT REP Company’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, February 2023. Photo by Helen Murray

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Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Josie Daxter and remixed by Debris Stevenson, exclusive use of the Duke of York’s Theatre, Ambassadors Theatre Group, London . Performing to audiences of over 3,300 taking £30,000 at the box office with hundreds of £10 tickets available. Much Ado About Nothing sold at 72% capacity including a sold out Friday night in the 650 seat venue - the largest audience the REP have ever played to. It received 5 and 4 star reviews with lots of praise across the board.

★★★★★ - The Reviews Hub 'delightfully exuberant. Cleverly adapted by Debris Stevenson, it retains the full plot and all the best lines of the original'

★★★★ - The Stage ‘There is a palpable sense of collaboration between the cast and creative team, individual elements joining to create something greater than the sum of its parts. It is a joy to witness.’

★★★★ - Theatre Weekly "A funny and clever retelling of Much Ado About Nothing that speaks to the younger generation. A triumph...The Rep company do a marvellous job"

GONE TOO FAR! Written by Bola Agbaje and directed by Monique Touko, Theatre Royal Stratford East. Madeline Boyd (Set & Costume Designer), Khalil Madovi (Composer & Sound Designer), Adam King (Lighting Designer), Wabriya King (Dramatherapist) and Yarit Dor (Fight Director). Designers Hazel McIntosh and Olivia Jamison (Christina Smith Young Designers). Performing to 3,000 taking over £45,000 at the box office.

★★★★★ North West End “memorable work, this play is a must see”

★★★★ Theatre Weekly ”a powerful and compelling piece of theatre”

★★★ TimeOut “laugh -out-loud funny, big-hearted and full of memorably drawn characters ”

★★★ Guardian “we can look forward to what the stars of this young company do next”

★★★ Broadway World “a stunning showcase of the up -and- coming talent”

Scenes through a Lens

Extracts of 22 scenes from NYT Rep commissions and NYT productions from the last 10 years. Directed by Matt Harrison and Meghan Doyle.

The Bakkhai by Anne Carson. Directed and adapted by Maisie Newman. Maisie Newman was offered NYT’s Bryan Forbes Bursary for Early Career Directors role and Sarah Frankcom was their mentor for this role.

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Handel and Hendrix at This Bright Land, Somerset House, London, August 2022. Photo Helen Murray

National Youth Theatre Company Productions

The Big Weekender, Royal Court Theatre, May 2022

The Big Weekender took place on 14 and 15 May as a two-day professional practice and members celebration, loosely themed Together Again . Over 250 NYT members attended workshops with The Pappy Show and spoken word artists including Debris Stevenson, Dfiza Benson and Adeola Yemitan. Black Apron Entertainment produced a film of the live weekend events, screened at West End Live in Trafalgar Square in June 2022.

This Bright Land, Somerset House, August 2022

Handel & Hendrix , Directed by Paul Roseby with Tamsin Howsett- Associate Director, Naomi Hammerton- Musical Director, Ainsley Ricketts- Choreography and Carson McColl- Screen Design. BSL Interpreters Rabira Dachi and Aoife Scott.

Speak and Splash , Curated by co- director Dfiza Benson (spoken word), co-director Laurie Ogden (spoken word and NYT Alumni) and co-director Kirsten Ho (movement) involved 20 members in live performance.

Portchester- Freedom and Revolution – The Ancestors Film Release

We engaged a group of young Black female NYT members with director & NYT Associate Artist Mumba Dodwell, writer Lakesha Arie-Angelo and academics from the University of Warwick to produce a film of the planned promenade performance, Portchester – Freedom and Revolution, in partnership with English Heritage and Portchester Castle.

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Animal Farm, Digital Release

We held screenings of Animal Farm at NYT Holloway Road for on 16 and 17 March alongside the digital and schools release via Digital Theatre plus.

Our filmed productions of Animal Farm and Much Ado About Nothing now remain live on Digital Theatre plus, generating royalty income for the charity and continuing to reach schools and educational groups of audiences worldwide .

Up All Night , Duke of York’s Theatre

Up All Night comprised of performances scheduled for 10 hours to celebrate 10 years of NYT REP. It was one of NYT’s largest and most ambitious take overs to date featuring writing from Lolita Chakrabarti, Sophie Ellerby, James Graham, Athena Stevens, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stevens and NYT member Omar Khan. Directors included Lynette Linton, Imogen Knight and Laura Meaton and Associate Companies Itch and Scratch and Piece of Cake Theatre providing opportunities to 92 NYT members for their West End Debuts with an audience of 300 throughout the night.

★★★★ The Telegraph "How often does the work of young playwriting & acting talent get billed alongside that of new work by powerhouse veteran playwrights? Never is the short answer. But that’s exactly the offering the National Youth Theatre presented with Up All Night"

Climate Cabaret

The filmed version of Climate Cabaret with a live audience was directed by Tatty Hennessey and assistant directed by Will Armstrong (NYT REP Alumni). The filmed version was commissioned with funding from The Space. Content included original work from Jasmin Thien, Writer and Spoken Word Performer performing her own work taking the theme of climate colonialism as its starting point. Yemi Yohannes performed her work previously written and performed with NYT to a live audience at COP26.

NEST , at RSPB St Aidan’s Nature Park. Directed by Paul Roseby and written by Emma Nuttall with Compass Collective. R&D’s took place for this climate crisis site specific piece for 2 weeks in Leeds and with the London intake courses working towards the NYT co- production with Leeds 2023 Year of Culture planned for September 2023.

NYT National Outreach and Inclusion Programmes

Ignite your Creativity, supported by Netflix, South Wales

Offering opportunities to over 350 young people in South Wales in partnership with Urban Myth Films, The Sherman Theatre and local community organisations and schools, the free programme is providing first day's opportunities to young people aged 15-25 in backstage, technical and theatre craft roles for stage and screen with courses led by industry professionals. Working with an Advisory Panel of Industry Leaders including BAFTA nominated producer Luti Fagbenle, lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun, TV Exec Chantal Rickards and Oscar winning designer Eve Stewart.

Inclusive Practice Collective

Our national Department of Work and Pensions Kickstart-funded Inclusive Practice Collective created 40 new jobs for 16-24 year olds in receipt of Universal Credit, working collaboratively within communities across Leeds & West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and London and in

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partnership with inclusive practice partners and 15 non-mainstream schools to support disabled young people.

Ignite Your Creativity in partnership with Netflix, Wakefield, 2023. Photo by Tom Arber

NYT Commissions

In FY23 we continued to develop work foregrounding a breadth and diverse variety of creative talent and new national voices. This included R&D for Trolls written by Athena Stevens and on-going commissions under the working titles Love by Nessah Muthy and Now and Then created by Ann Akin. James Graham premiered new work Town Planning in the Apocalypse with NYT Members.

Continuing NYT’s prolific and nurturing commissioning programme, highlighting new young voices alongside established industry talent. Each R&D and Commission brings direct opportunity for new talent in the company whether in acting roles, assistant directing, stage management, writing or design. Commissions in development included:

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Made by Members Event- Access Acquired, NYT Workshop Theatre, June 2022

The National Creative Production House for Young People

The capital redevelopment of our site on Holloway Road led by DSDHA Architects has transformed NYT’s ability to service our communities and membership, locally and nationally. Increasing from 2 to 7 flexible studios, NYT now has full disability access, registered Changing Places facilities and a new welcoming reception. Our newly visible presence on the Holloway Road signals opportunity locally and the transformative opportunity of our own Workshop Theatre offers works for, with and by young people, created alongside some of the best industry talent across the sector. Beyond the opportunity and resource of delivering our accredited and non-accredited programmes alongside each other in this dynamic shared space, the Production House crucially enables connections for Associate Companies, Made by Members programming, commercial hires with social value contracts to embed learning and opportunity throughout all we do. Young people encounter professional practice, present their work in our Theatre, build projects and R&Ds and test works in ensemble and present programmes for public audiences. To have the capacity to test drive all our programmes with a public facing and live audience is a huge asset for NYT in developing our profile, participation, opportunities and partnership programming. A local theatre for North Islington, a new asset for London communities and a new asset for children and young people nationally, the capital redevelopment has unlocked our visibility and accessibility.

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Award Winning Redevelopment

NYT were awarded the Best Heritage / Culture Project Award and The Mayor’s Award for Good Growth at the 2022 London Planning Awards, shortlisted for the UK Theatre Most Welcoming Venue Award in 2023 and shortlisted for the international Dezeen Awards for the most Sustainable Renovation. NYT won the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards in the Cultural and Religious Buildings category, celebrating the design expertise behind the vital renewal and repurposing of existing buildings, setting a precedent for ways to significantly reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.

Our Venue has been recognised on the shortlists for:

“Members of the National Youth Theatre drove the redevelopment's accessible agenda”

Dezeen

National Youth Theatre, Holloway Road. Photo by Helen Murray

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NYT in Numbers FY23

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The Big Weekender, May 2022. Photo by Ellie Kurttz

Uncertain Times

The work of the Social Mobility Commission, Youth Futures Foundation, Resolution Foundation and many other sector bodies motivated by equality, equity and opportunity for the next generation are increasingly pointing to disparity of opportunity and enhanced divides created by covid, not least through the vulnerability of a freelance portfolio career. Additionally, the vulnerability of young people’s mental health has been exacerbated through insecurity, educational disruption, lack of social structure and numerous other factors. The current cost of living crisis at the time of writing presents real and further barriers to creative opportunity and participation in the arts.

For National Youth Theatre, our charitable beneficiaries have never needed us more. As the impacts of covid continue to unravel and the social and economic transitional impacts become both wider and deeper, NYT’s responses, opportunities and programme need to be ever more visible to young people and ever more available. The financial disruption to our earned income profile has been manageable and our financial reserves combined with Culture Recovery Fund monies have made an essential contribution to our ongoing resilience. Covid has deepened the urgency for organisations who work with young people to be present, available and ever more careful. Our pastoral care and wellbeing programmes that run alongside our creative projects and opportunities support the young people who participate across a complexity of issues. However, as the mental health crisis deepens, we must grow and evolve our pastoral support and mental health first aid training to better meet the needs of those we serve.

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The creative sector is returning to production and live performance, though not yet at pre pandemic levels in terms of attendance and the perceived security of performances or levels of advance and secure bookings. Whilst show cancellations remain frequent announcements and audience confidence remains low; we welcome the continued extension of Theatre Tax Relief supporting the development of future productions. There are many acknowledged challenges within the leadership across the sector and closer collaboration and collective thinking will empower positive responses towards greater resilience.

Senior Summer Course in Northampton 2022. Photo by Ollie Bryant

Looking Ahead

Our Aims

Our plans for FY24 and beyond continue to be framed under five overarching strategic aims, with our funding confirmed as continuing under the National Portfolio of Organisations of Arts Council England delivering the Let’s Create Strategy. In doing so, NYT will respond closely to the 4 Investment Principles of Ambition and Quality, Inclusivity and Relevance, Dynamism and Environmental Responsibility.

Aim one

Grow, challenge and enable the leadership of the next generation of ambitious talent through skills development opportunities, productions and live ensemble theatre

We will:

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Aim two

Be local, national and international in ambition, reach, scope and impact

We will:

Aim three

Take and support creative risks to innovate and champion contemporary Britain by commissioning, developing, co-creating, delivering and sharing truly unique work of quality

We will:

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Aim four

Platform a breadth of diverse talent and voices growing the resilience, talent and dynamism of young people in their mental health, skills and creative confidence We will:

Aim five

Ensure we are financially resilient, sustainable, effective, responsible and ambitious in all that we do

We will:

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Future Plans

Empowered by the young voices we work with, NYT will proactively seek to extend a breadth of partnerships to showcase diverse young people, to support those with the least opportunity to progress and forge new entry routes and talent development pipelines. Our proactive partnerships with Trybe House and our Associate Companies, including Compass Collective and Blink Dance, will foreground community, youth and creative sector partnerships, youth voice and aim to centre the role of youth theatre in the national cultural ecosystem. Building agency for young people at the start of their careers and platforming progression pathways to next level opportunities is at the heart of our work. Through cocreation, co-production and collaboration young people are leading the changes they want to see, setting agendas for NYT and modelling creative futures. We amplify, enable and support.

We will continue as a leading national provider of CYP training, facilitation & youth voice, engaging not less than 5000 young people in person and online through extensive talent development and creative pipeline programmes. Our new writing partnerships and national Monologue Networks will break barriers to access on major stages partnering venues across the country. Prioritising reach for broader audiences we will create new screen-first productions with Digital Theatre+ and NYT companies will create first audio productions with Great Plays, whilst partnerships with TikTok and Netflix will build new diverse talent pipelines for stage, screen and TV.

NYT commissions uniquely champion the voice of young people through our commissioning programmes, R&D and youth led developments. We will host Young Writers in Residence & commission new work for a National New Writing network for our venue, with Theatre Royal, Stratford East & Curve Leicester. We will commission and present ambitious, high quality work with leading Directors, Writers & Designers for national live and online audiences, engaging diverse new voices & challenging perceptions of youth-led performance working with Members in our script reading group, Scribers, directly influencing those scripts we take forwards in development whilst building literary skills.

We will ensure a diverse talent pipeline to meet the future needs of the sector, ensuring our industry relevance and addressing skills shortages in the broader creative sectors. We have bid to the Department for Education Skills Bootcamps funds for partnership programmes in Stage Management, Wardrobe Technicians and Venue Technicians in partnership with Sheffield Theatres, Northern Stage and Torbay Arts. Our plans also include the development of technical/backstage design & creative training and new writing with partners including TV & film production studios, networks & commissioners, new studio (inter)national partnerships with Fulwell 73/Sunderland, Urban Myth Films/Newport, Wales, EON Productions/Pinewood, Netflix/Shepperton and Canal+.

We will undertake feasibility and partnership research for new accredited courses beyond London enabling more NEET and underrepresented young people to build career pathways to the creative industries nationally. 10 years on from launch of the NYT REP, our free alternative to drama school training, over 150 Actors & 7 Bryan Forbes Bursary-supported Young Directors now work in the sector and our footprint continues through our Alumni stories and progression journeys. Neurodiverse, d/Deaf and Disabled voices will be commissioned & disabled-led work presented, with partners including Touretteshero, Frozen

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Light and Blink Dance Theatre. Our National Lottery Community Funded programme, Assemble, will see new national inclusive practice and strategic community building programmes across Wales, Greater Manchester and London in a new partnership with National Youth Arts Wales with community led steering groups influencing social policy and cultural provision working with London Metropolitan University as our Evaluation Partners. This builds on our DWP Kickstart-funded programme that trained young people to work as inclusive practice facilitators in Greater Manchester, Leeds, West Yorkshire and London. Working in partnership with non-mainstream schools, the programme will enable a continuing pipeline of neurodiverse talent into NYT whilst seeing the first castings & productions featuring new neurodiverse/learning disabled members following our continuing and sustained four year focused investment in young disabled talent

We will celebrate our 70th birthday in 2026 Our Wikipedia Alumni entries show the breadth of talent we have nurtured with hundreds meriting their own pages. We will mark our legacy of commissioning: top industry names including James Graham, Tanika Gupta, Gbolahan Obisesan & Sarah Solemani and revisit NYT commissioned works to bring contemporary context for young people today to begin life in our new Workshop Theatre. Thematically aimed at future trans-human technology from AI to anti-aging with youth obsessed business and the future face of 70. We will explore more interactive performances exciting and reimagining live theatre through interactive digital platforms such as gaming.

Our commitment to digital channels and screen first opportunities will grow with growing partnerships with Digital Theatre+ and through NYT Hub, our online community with creative workshops/Q&As with industry talent that will have enabled 20,000 young people to access NYT programmes & industry networks. NYT Hub grew online in the pandemic into a yearround national programme bringing young people together, forming new communities of specialist interest by ethnicity, locality, disability, sexuality, neurodivergence and gender to empower young creatives. Our new website and CMS system commissioned from Made Media and Good CRM will manage progression of members and improve tracking of the successes of our programming. We will use data to enhance access, inclusion and engagement whilst ensuring digital access standards are championed and ensuring the experience of NYT online is centred for those who cannot join us in the room. Digital will be a key tool in our growing work to dismantle barriers to participation in the arts in schools, rural communities and for those facing social anxiety or who are clinically extremely vulnerable.

For the first time in our history our own Venue, the Workshop Theatre, will be filled by youthled and co-created work, responding to local need collaboratively and coherently alongside our national provision, extending our accessible roots in the local community. Commissioning and co-producing new work for younger audiences and family audiences, we are developing new work with Bernie Grant Arts Centre and Talawa, alongside new writing for primary age school audiences. Locally our work will provide a vibrant home for talent and young voices and an exceptional opportunity for accessible programming. A companywide focus on pastoral care and wellbeing will be enhanced with the progression of our work in this area in line with our Centre for Mental Health partnership and with our submission to be a Trauma Informed Organisation, with One Small Thing, whilst we proactively engage in big thinking partnerships including the GLA Creative Health City work, 2.8 million minds and academic research partners with NHS and UKRI funded Thrive networks.

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Our Supporters

Promo image for NYT at COP26. Photo by Myah Jeffers

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain is proud to acknowledge our major supporters for the year 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023: Arts Council England; The Clothworkers’ Foundation; EON Productions (through the Sixty Years of James Bond auction at Chris tie’s); John Ellerman Foundation; The JGA Group; The Leverhulme Trust; John Lyon’s Charity; Clive Mantle and Beat The Chasers (ITV / Potato TV); Netflix; National Lottery Community Fund: Bringing People Together; The David Pearlman Charitable Foundation; The David Toguri Bursary Fund; and Garfield Weston Foundation.

We would like to thank these charitable trusts and foundations, statutory bodies and companies for their support: Blue Spark Foundation; Noël Coward Foundation; English Heritage; European Social Fund distributed by the Education and Skills Funding Agency through the Community Grants Scheme, and managed by Groundwork London; HughBonGo Fund; Idlewild Trust; International Music and Art Foundation; Islington Giving Disability Fund; London Borough of Islington; London Community Foundation (Samuel Family Fund); The Mayor's Young Londoners Fund via Greater London Authority; Jack Petchey Foundation; Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust; The Portal Trust; St Olave’s Foundation Fund; Samsung; Christina Smith Fou ndation; The Space; Spotlight; Sophie’s Silver Lining Fund; and University of Warwick.

All those who supported our Make a Splash Gala at The Londoner Hotel on 7 March 2023 and in particular our headline sponsors EON Productions and Little Lion Entertainment and our supporting sponsor Think Media.

All those who donated to the Bryan Forbes Bursary for Young Directors and in particular Emma Forbes and Graham Clempson, and everyone who has given to bursary funds in the memories of Lucia Oram, Peter Clayton and Edwin Shirley.

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The generous people and companies who offer pro-bono support. Special thanks to retired Trustee and Patron, Michael Bonehill OBE LLB FRSA, for his service and dedication to the organisation for over 50 years.

All our other wonderful donors and those who prefer to remain anonymous. National Youth Theatre's fundraising is carried out by its small core staff team, supported on a voluntary basis by the NYT Development Board chaired by Joyce Hytner OBE and NYT's Council chaired by Dawn Airey.

National Youth Theatre is registered with the Fundraising Regulator and we carry out all fundraising in accordance with their Code of Fundraising Practice. This includes monitoring fundraising carried out on the charity's behalf. In the year to 31 March 2023, National Youth Theatre did not work with any commercial partners or professional fundraisers who raised funds directly on our behalf. National Youth Theatre does not make unreasonably intrusive or persistent fundraising approaches or place the public, including vulnerable people under undue pressure to donate. National Youth Theatre has a clear process for managing any complaints about the charity's fundraising and this is available on our website. In the first instance, a person should contact the Head of Development in writing or by phone. On receipt of a complaint National Youth Theatre commits to investigate the complaint and advise the complainant in writing of the outcome of the complaint within 28 days. National Youth Theatre will keep a full record of the complaint and use it to further staff learning. If the complaint involves a supplier of National Youth Theatre, the charity will require them to respond with an outcome. If the complainant is dissatisfied with the outcome of the investigation, they may refer the complaint within two months to the Fundraising Regulator.

During the year there were no complaints received (year to 31 March 2022: nil).

Public Benefit

We have referred to the guidance in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on Public Benefit including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity (PB2),’ when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning future activities. In particular, the Trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.

Financial Review

Financial Performance

National Youth Theatre operates a vibrant, mixed economy trading model. From earned income for our courses, box office and space rentals through to statutory funding, trusts and foundation grants, corporate support and individual donations our model is proactive, dynamic and opportunistic. The evident upside of this model is that NYT is not overly reliant on any single source of income. The challenge is that each year our annual model relies on significant effort and resource to deliver the required revenue generation. The strategic financial aims of the NYT continue to centre on stability, sustainability and continuing risk management alongside excellence in financial controls.

During the year ended March 2023, NYT experienced a further year of transition, following the completion of our capital project, the opening of our first public venue and a return to post covid activity levels and in person programming. The Arts Council’s Culture Recovery

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Fund, which provided essential income support for arts organisations during the pandemic, also came to an end in March 22, at a time when new economic challenges were emerging. Although we observed an increase in earned income during FY23 compared to FY21 and FY22, as we returned to a full activity programme and developed the opportunities provided by our new building, overall we remain below pre-covid earned income levels. We recognise that the shift in our operating model towards widening access to our courses and creating more opportunities for young people will result in a longer-term requirement to grow and further diversify income generated through fundraising activity alongside the development of new forms of earned income.

Total incoming resources of £3,503,127 (2022: £4,912,213) were generated this year. The financial year in review saw a reduction in the overall income of the charity of £1,409,086. As discussed above, the main shifts were in grants and donation income:

FY23 FY22
National Portfolio 311,395 311,395
Capital redevelopment - 846,732
Covid Specific funding - 639,626
Other Restricted funding £498,785 455,108
Other Unrestricted funding £1,033,832 775,693

Total expenditure for the year was £3,777,456 (2022: £3,642,543) of which charitable activities accounted for 92% of the total expenditure (2022: 93%). This increase in

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expenditure was a result of a move back to a full programme of productions, courses, auditions, and social inclusion projects.

The overall deficit for the year ended 31 March 2023 was £274,329 after depreciation of the capital project (31 March 2022: £1,269,670 overall surplus).

The unrestricted surplus on core activity was £79,170 (31 March 2022: £747,592) after transfers from designated and restricted funds, with a deficit against restricted funds of £293,498 (deficit in 2022: £209,299). The deficit on restricted funds was split between charitable activity, with a small deficit of £3,180 for the year, after a transfer of £100,000 to unrestricted funds. The balance of the restricted fund deficit resulted from movements on the capital fund, with £290,319 in depreciation and in year capital spend charged to this fund. £60,000 of designated funds were transferred to unrestricted funds to support delivery of our charitable activities and to provide bursaries to widen access to our programmes.

Principal Risks and Uncertainties

Rising Cost of Living and Economic Climate

The current macro-economic climate with rising inflation and cost rises are recognised as a significant risk to both NYT’s earned income and its cost base. To mitigate this risk while keeping courses and membership as affordable and accessible as possible, we aim to build contingencies into both our income generation and expenditure budgets to allow for unbudgeted shifts in either cost or income. NYT has reduced the risk of exposure to higher energy costs by entering into a long-term fixed rate contract from May 2021. Our mortgage on the long term lease is on a floating rate basis, to mitigate the impact of rate rises NYT deploys available cash balances to generate earned interest in fixed short term money market deposits.

Social economic inclusion and financial accessibility

NYT is committed to being accessible to all regardless of social economic backgrounds. To that end NYT will follow a strategy of making its courses and activity as accessible as possible by reducing financial barriers to entry and by making our offer available on a greater scale nationally across Great Britain. Our commitment to removing financial barriers and driving forwards financial accessibility will inevitably reduce our earned income potential, particularly in relation to prior years. To mitigate the impact to NYT, we are looking to increase funding through the public sector, trusts and foundations and individuals, to support access and specific outreach projects.

Fundraising income not reaching budgeted targets

Income raised through fundraising accounts for 53% of NYT’s annual income generation (2022 70%). To mitigate against the risk of not meeting income targets, NYT pursues a policy of targeting multi-year funding agreements to give more certainty to our longer term financial sustainability and continually reviews the development pipeline both at leadership team and Trustee level broadening potential through statutory and new funding routes.

Ongoing impact of the rising mental health crisis

Given the nature of NYT’s work with young people, it is recognised we may incur additional costs to ensure brave spaces alongside inclusive and trauma informed working practices on our courses. In mitigation NYT has looked for new routes of funding to support positive mental

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health and wellbeing programmes, exploring best practice with peers and research groups and ensuring our own delivery meets the varying needs of our cohorts.

Revenue

Our levels of earned income in FY23 rose overall to £1,353,126 (FY22: £1,222,218). In FY23 we were able to deliver all courses face to face, and during summer 2022 we delivered our courses to a record number of participants across multiple locations, furthering our aim to be truly national in our delivery. In recognition of the economic and social challenges currently facing young people, we prioritised delivering a real terms reduction in our participation fees and further increased the number of bursary places we offer, whilst also enabling further part time participants to help reduce economic barriers.

The return of the NYT Rep season, combined with the increase in the rates announced in the Autumn 22 budget, allowed us to increase our claim for Theatre Tax Relief in FY23. During FY23 we have continued to develop the income generation opportunities offered by our new building and we are delighted to see a growth in income from use of our workshop and rehearsal spaces, which supports our wider charitable objectives.

Capital

In FY23 NYT has capital commitments of £43,146 which represents expenditure associated with the redevelopment of our website, which went live in September 2023.

Reserves

Total reserves of the charity at 31 March 2023 amounted to £8,229,758 (2022: £8,504,087). This includes £4,293,015 (2021: £4,586,514) of restricted funds and £2,391,316 (2022: £2,451,316) of designated funds. The remaining unrestricted funds at the balance sheet date were £1,545,427 (2022: £1,466,257) The reserves of the charity are mainly held as cash and cash equivalents or invested in our tangible and intangible fixed assets, with our restricted capital represented by the value of the Holloway Road redevelopment.

The Charity's reserves fall into the following categories: restricted funds, which may be used only for the purposes specified by the donor, designated funds which the Council have set aside from unrestricted funds for a specific purpose, and unrestricted funds, which are free for use for any of the purposes of the Charity as set out in the governing document.

The appropriateness of the reserves policy is reviewed each year in conjunction with the budget setting process. The Council has set a formal reserves policy and has concluded that the overall level of the Charity's unrestricted general reserves should be maintained at a level of between 9 months to one year of annual unrestricted expenditure, after guaranteed income. Our unrestricted reserves allow us to confidently plan our core activities for the coming years and to allow NYT to invest in opportunities that may arise for our young people and mitigate against financial risk in a period of ongoing economic uncertainty . At the end of March 2023 our reserve cover was in line with company policy for unrestricted annual expenditure .

The creation of designated funds for national activity, artistic commissioning, and the development and long term maintenance provision for Holloway Road enables the charity to support its future strategic ambition, despite the current uncertainties caused by the macro-

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economic outlook. In FY23 £60,000 of designated funds were transferred to unrestricted funds to support delivery of key charitable objectives in line with NYT’s reserves policy (Note 22).

The Charity budgets to deliver its charitable objectives whilst ensuring financial stability. This is achieved by aiming to keep levels of unrestricted free reserves which are sufficient to ensure that contractual commitments to staff, general overheads and elements of its programmed work can be made with reasonable confidence.

Cash and borrowings

At year end FY23 NYT held £2,636,496 (FY22: £2,853,689) in cash and cash equivalents. Our long- term debt was £2,648,096 (FY22: £2,675,825) which is the balance of NYT’s 25 -year mortgage (total value £2,770,000) held against the purchase of the 999-year lease and the redevelopment of Holloway Road. Capital repayments commenced in April 2022 .

Bank covenants

KPI’s and covenants have been agreed with HSBC which support the ongoing funding structure of the charity. These metrics are reviewed on a quarterly basis and covenants are tested at the end of each accounting period.

Legacy Donations

With the National Youth Theatre achieving 67 years of age itself there is an increasing probability that NYT may benefit through charitable donations via Legacy Giving. Trustees have adopted a Legacy funding policy to allow the Charity to benefit positively in future from all such donations. Our policy requires us to firstly meet all stated terms of legacy funding where specified by donors. Funds will then be designated for expenditure over an agreed multi year period according to the scale and level of the legacy.

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Structure, Governance and Management

Royal Patron

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG GCVO

President

Barbara Broccoli CBE

Patrons

Zawe Ashton Michael Bonehill OBE LLB FRSA Hugh Bonneville Daniel Craig CMG Timothy Dalton Chiwetel Ejiofor OBE Sophie Ellis-Bextor Sir Derek Jacobi CBE Sir Elton John CBE Matt Lucas Sir Ian McKellen CH CBE Dame Helen Mirren DBE Rosamund Pike John Reid Sarah Solemani Matt Smith Liza Tarbuck

Development Board

Joyce Hytner OBE (Chair) Tilly McAuliffe (Vice Chair) Philip Bartle QC Judith Chan Jacqueline de Croÿ Krishnan Guru-Murthy Diana Hiddleston Tim Lloyd-Hughes Daisy Lewis Freddie Lewis Annette Lynton Mason Helen Northrop

Statutory directors and Trustees / Members of Council

Dawn Airey (Chair)

Tania Black Dawn Butler MP Johnny Capps

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Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng Simon Davies Janet Ellis MBE Graham Elton MBE Mary FitzPatrick (Equality Lead) David Hockley Jessica Hung Han Yun Nicola Howson Tobi (Oluwatobi) Kyeremateng Tim Lloyd-Hughes Johnny Moore (Finance Chair) Prasanna Puwanarajah Simon Stockill (Safeguarding Lead) Rachna Sundaram- Sennett Daniel York Loh

Youth Members of Council

Aneeza Selina Ahmed Elan Ayana Davies Elliot Mills Hester Cox Issy Fordham Patrick Ashe Patrick Gregan Rana Bader Sorcha McElroy Will Atiomo

Non-statutory director Paul Roseby OBE, Artistic Director and Chief Executive

Governing Document

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain is a company limited by guarantee governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 24 July 1961. It is a registered charity with the Charity Commission and the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. There are currently 236 members of the Association, each of whom agrees to contribute an amount not exceeding £10 in the event of the charity being wound up.

Appointment of Council Members

The appointment of new Council Members is the responsibility of the Chair of the Council. New Council members are proposed and elected as appropriate at the Annual General Meeting. Council members retiring by rotation and eligible for re-election may be re-elected to the Council by the Association at the Annual General Meeting.

Council Member Induction and Training

New Council members attend a meeting with the Chair and are invited to meet with management and to undergo an orientation programme to familiarise them with the operation of the organisation and their legal obligations under charity and company law.

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Training programmes on Safeguarding, Intersectionality and additional areas of inclusive and charitable practice are offered to Council Members throughout the year.

Organisation

The Council may have no fewer than 5 and no more than 20 formal members. The Council manages the business of the Association. The Council meets six times during the year. The Council has sub-committees with agreed terms of reference who have responsibility for the oversight of certain aspects of the NYT’s strategy.

To facilitate effective operations, the CEO & Artistic Director has delegated authority for operational matters including finance, employment and artistic performance related activity.

Association Membership

NYT’s Association is made up of former NYT members, former and current Council members, and invited former staff members. New members are elected once a year at the Annual General Meeting.

The Association elects a Council to represent them. The Council manages the business of the Association, ensures the smooth running of the company and charity in accordance with the terms of the governing document, provides overall strategic leadership, and approves the annual budget and programme.

The Association holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM) each year, which all Association members are entitled to attend. The meeting is used by the Association to review the audited accounts for the previous financial year, appoint or re-appoint the independent auditors, elect Council members as appropriate and propose new members of the Association. The last AGM was held on Thursday, 24th November 2022. Extraordinary General Meetings (EGMs) can be called by the Council as required.

Council Membership

The appointment of new Council members is the responsibility of the Chair of the Council. The Council is responsible for appointing and setting the level of remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer/Artistic Director, who is responsible for appointing all other staff along with setting pay and remuneration of key management personnel.

Current Council Membership

Council membership as at the date of approval of this Annual Report includes:

Dawn Airey, Chair re-elected at the AGM in 2022

Dawn Airey is Chair of the National Youth Theatre, Digital Theatre, Barclays FA Women’s Super League and FA Women’s Championship; Non - Executive Director of Channel 4, is on the Boards of Grosvenor Estates and Blackbird and is Chancellor of Edge Hill University. Dawn is a veteran of the media industry having worked in television for 30 years, holding senior positions at ITV as its first Network Controller of Kids and Daytime and latterly Managing Director of Global Content. She was also the first Director of Programmes and subsequently CEO and Chair of Channel 5. Dawn also worked at BSKYB as Managing Director of Channels and Services. She was CEO of Getty Images between 2015 and 2018 and remained as a nonexecutive director until July 2022. Prior to that, s he spent three years as Yahoo’s Senior Vice President in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 2017 Dawn was News International’s

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Visiting Professor of Media Studies at Brasenose College, Oxford University. She is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Television Society, and has been given an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by Edge Hill University for her outstanding contributions to the media industry.

Munroe Bergdorf elected at the AGM in 2020 (resigned November 2022) Model, activist and Doctor of Letters

Tania Black re-elected at the AGM in 2022 Former NYT member

Dawn Butler MP elected at the AGM in 2022 Member of Parliament for Brent Central

Johnny Capps re-elected at the AGM in 2020 Producer, former co-Creative Director, Shine Ltd, and a former NYT member

Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng elected at the AGM in 2020 Stage Manager and Founder of Backstage Niche

Simon Davies re-elected at the AGM in 2022 Former Chief People, Legal & Strategy Officer, Lloyds banking Group

Janet Ellis MBE re-elected at the AGM in 2020 Actress, broadcaster, and parent of two former NYT members

Graham Elton MBE elected at the AGM in 2022 Partner at Bain & Co. London

Mary FitzPatrick re-elected at the AGM in 2020

Equality Lead

Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion for Rolls-Royce; has previously held senior roles in diversity and inclusion at NatWest Markets, GE, UK Film Council, BBC and C4

David Hockley, re-elected at the AGM 2020

Qualified Chartered Accountant specialising in M&A, restructuring, refinancing and Interim CFO roles

Nicola Howson re-elected at the AGM in 2022

Former Chief Executive Officer of Freuds and former Director of Communications for ITV Currently Managing Director of Studio 99

Jessica Hung Han Yun elected at the AGM in 2020 Lighting Designer

Tobi (Oluwatobi) Kyeremateng elected at the AGM in 2020 Producer and Founder of Black Ticket Project

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Tim Lloyd-Hughes re-elected at the AGM in 2020

Vice Chairman Real Estate Gaming and Lodging at Jefferies International and parent of three former members

Johnny Moore elected at the AGM in 2021 Chair of the Finance Sub Committee Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Fulwell 73

Prasanna Puwanarajah re-elected at the AGM in 2022 Writer, performer, producer and former NYT member

Dr Simon Stockill re-elected at the AGM in 2022

Safeguarding Lead

GP and Medical Director for the Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group governing body; former NYT member

Lord Vaizey elected at the AGM in 2019 (resigned November 2022) Former Conservative MP and former Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries; Chair of the National Youth Theatre Council Property Sub-Committee

Rachna Sundaram-Sennett elected at the AGM in 2022 Managing Director for Accenture, Digital Transformation expertise

Daniel York Loh elected at the AGM in 2020 Actor, writer and Founder of BEATS

Sub-Committee structure

During the year there was one active Sub-Committee of the Council: the Finance SubCommittee. The Finance Sub-committee has clearly established terms of reference which require them to carry out specific work and report back to the Council at its full meetings. The Finance Sub-Committee is chaired by Johnny Moore. Members include Dawn Airey and David Hockley from Council, Paul Roseby the Chief Executive Officer & Artistic Director, Karen Turner, Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer and Ben Dart, Director of Finance and Operations.

The core purpose of the Finance Sub- Committee is to support the Council’s f inancial governance responsibilities by ensuring that funds are spent appropriately and effectively, that appropriate controls and systems are in place and by assessing the risks to which the organisation is exposed and the mitigation of those risks. This includes: advising on financial strategy and planning; reviewing all financial reports before circulation to full Council including three year projections, detailed annual budgets, and management accounts; reviewing and monitoring the risk register; advising on long term targets for levels of cash reserves; liaison with the auditors; and giving guidance on other financial management or reporting issues.

Development Board

The Development Board is not a formal part of the NYT constitution, though it does include active Trustees and enables proactive support for the Charity. Chaired by Joyce Hytner OBE,

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the Development Board supports all aspects of fundraising for NYT and are particularly active in advocating for new Centre Stage supporters, Investors in Talent and in inviting guests to key events.

Key management

The key management are the CEO and Artistic Director, the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer (part-time), the Director of Finance and Operations, the Senior Producer, the Head of Development, the Associate Director, the Head of Communications and Digital, the Venue Operations Manager, the Executive Administrator, People and Culture and the Head of Accredited Programmes. The pay of the CEO and Artistic Director is set by the Board and that of the other key management by the CEO and Artistic Director.

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Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

The Trustees (who are also directors of National Youth Theatre of Great Britain for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Trustees’ statement as to disclosure of information to the auditor

So far as they are aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the charitable company's auditors are unaware and the Trustees have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charitable company's auditor is aware of that information.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice – Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP FRS102) and in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies’ exemption.

The Annual Report was approved by the council on 23 November 2023 and authorised for issue and signed on its behalf by:

Dawn Airey Johnny Moore Chair of the National Youth Theatre Council Chair of Finance Sub-Committee

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (‘the company’) for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise th e Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard Applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’ (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 36, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

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In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s Responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK) we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:

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We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.

Explanation as to what extent the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below.

The objectives of our audit in respect of fraud, are; to identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements due to fraud; to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence regarding the assessed risks of material misstatement due to fraud, through designing and implementing appropriate responses to those assessed risks; and to respond appropriately to instances of fraud or suspected fraud identified during the audit. However, the primary responsibility for the prevention and detection of fraud rests with both management and those charged with governance of the charitable company.

Our approach was as follows:

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There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above. We are less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations that are not closely related to events and transactions reflected in the financial statements. Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to any party other than the charitable company and charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

James Cross (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Moore Kingston Smith LLP, Statutory Auditor

11 December 2023

9 Appold Street London EC2A 2AP

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THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN COMPANY NUMBER: 699114

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING AN INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 March 2023

General
INCOME
Notes
£
Donations and legacies
(3)
365,165
Income from charitable activities
Fundraising events
(4)
329,590
Grants receivable for charitable activities
(5)
668,667
Income from charitable activities
(6)
140,169
Charitable trading
(7)
1,353,126
Other income
(8)
145,645
Investment income
(9)
1,981
TOTAL INCOME
3,004,342
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
(10)
304,318
Charitable activities
Productions and training (10.a)
1,019,363
Courses and training (10.b)
1,359,401
Social inclusion (10.c)
328,961
Bursaries (10.d)
73,129
Capital Redevelopment (10.e)
-
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
3,085,172
NET INCOME BEFORE TRANSFERS
(22)
(80,830)
TRANSFERS
160,000
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
(22)
79,170
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD 1 April 2022
1,466,257
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD AT 31 March 2023
(23)
1,545,427
Unrestr
Fun		 General

£
365,165
329,590
668,667
140,169
1,353,126
145,645
1,981
Unrestr
Fun		 Designated
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
icted
ds		 Revenue
£
4,562
-
494,223
-
-
-
-
Rest
Fu		 Capital
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
290,319
290,319
(290,319)
-
(290,319)
4,260,094
3,969,775
ricted
nds		 Total
2023
£
369,727
329,590
1,162,890
140,169
1,353,126
145,645
1,981
3,503,127
304,318
1,044,844
1,369,401
576,350
192,224
290,319
3,777,456
(274,329)
-
(274,329)
8,504,087
8,229,758		 Total
2022
£
1,339,911
394,118
1,688,543
229,879
1,222,218
37,469
75
3,004,342 - 498,785 4,912,213
-
-
-
-		 -
25,481
10,000
247,389
119,095
-		 257,434
783,803
1,627,101
812,855
45,995
115,355
3,085,172 - 401,965 3,642,543
(80,830)
160,000		 0
(60,000)		 96,820
(100,000)		 1,269,670
-
79,170
1,466,257		 (60,000)
2,451,316		 (3,180)
326,420		 1,269,670
7,234,417
1,545,427 2,391,316 323,240 8,504,087

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THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN COMPANY NUMBER: 699114

BALANCE SHEET

AS AT 31 March 2023

Notes
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
(15a)
Intangible assets
(15b)
Current assets
Stock
Debtors
(16)
Cash at bank and in hand
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
(17)
Net current assets
Total assets less Current Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
(21)
Total Net assets
The funds of the charity
Restricted income funds
Restricted capital funds
Unrestricted income funds
Designated income funds
Total charity funds
(24)		 2023
£
3,642
360,324
2,636,496
3,000,462
(447,403)		 2023
£
8,202,038
122,757
2,553,060
10,877,854
(2,648,096)
8,229,758
323,240
3,969,775
1,545,427
2,391,316
8,229,758		 2022
£
4,315
458,248
2,853,689
3,316,252
(366,813)		 2022
£
8,211,387
19,084
2,949,439
11,179,911
(2,675,824)
8,504,087
326,420
4,260,094
1,466,257
2,451,316
8,504,087

The financial statements were approved by the council and authorised for issue on 23 November 2023 and signed on its behalf by:

Johnny Moore Chair of Finance Committee

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CASH FLOW STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 March 2023
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Cash inflow / (outflow) from operations
Interest paid
Net cash inflow / (outflow) from operating activities
Investing activities
Purchase of intangible assets
Purchase of tangible assets
Interest received
Net cash used in investing activities
Financing activities
Inflow / (Outflow) form financing actvities
NET CASH OUTFLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Net cash used in financing activities
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
Cash and cash equivalent at end of year
A. RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOMING RESOURCES
TO NET CASH INFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Surplus for the period
Adjustments for:
Finance costs
Investment income
Amortisation and impairment of intangible asset
Depreciation and impairment of tangible asset
Movements in working capital:
(Increase)/decrease in stock
(Increase)/ decrease in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
NET CASH OUTFLOW/ INFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
B. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET DEBT
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash
Borrowings
Debt due within one year
Debt due after one year
Total		 Notes
A.
As at 1st April
2022
2,853,689
2,853,689
(94,175)
(2,675,825)
(2,770,000)
83,689		 2023
£
219,917
(133,210)
86,707
(114,061)
(191,820)
1,981
(303,900)
-
-
(217,193)
2,853,689
2,636,496
(274,329)
133,210
(1,981)
10,388
201,167
673
97,923
52,866
219,917
Cash Flows

(217,194)
(217,194)
28,883
27,729
56,612
(160,581)		 2022
£
1,322,019
(64,141)
1,257,879
0
(1,328,186)
75
(1,328,111)
-
-
(70,232)
2,923,920
2,853,689
1,269,670
64,141
(75)
10,388
167,757
3,429
219,939
(413,228)
1,322,019
As at 31st March
2023
2,636,496
2,636,496
(65,292)
(2,648,096)
(2,713,388)
(76,892)

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COMPANY NUMBER: 699114

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

For the year end 31 March 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

(a) Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) and the The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).

The Trustees have assessed the charity’s ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting. They have considered all available information about the future at the date they approve the accounts including the forecast for the financial year end (31st March 2023). In addition the Trustees have reviewed the cash flow forecast for the twelve months from the date of approval of the financial statements to December 2024. On these projections the Trustees consider that the charity has sufficient cash to continue trading for twelve months from the balance sheet date and meet its liabilities as they fall due, including interest payments on the mortgage (note 21). Accordingly the going concern basis has been used in preparing the Financial Statements, and the trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties in making that assessment. The banking covenants relating to the mortgage with HSBC are met at the year end March 2023 and our forecast to be met at 31 March 2024, being the only test in the twelve months from the approval of these financial statements.

Grants and donations

Grants and donations are recognised when there is entitlement, probability of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Income from charitable activities

Income from these activities are recognised when earned.

Deferred Income

The charity defers income where amounts have been invoiced or payments received in advance of a performance or when the charity has future contractual obligations upon receipt of incoming resources.

(d) Donated services and facilities Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item, and conditions associated with the donated item have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. On receipt, donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity world have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of

(e) Interest receivable Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.

Investment income

Investment income is included when receivable by the charity.

(f) Fund accounting Unrestricted general funds these can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds - these are funds that can only be used for a particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted

(g) Expenditure Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

(h) Allocation of support costs Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include back office costs, finance, personnel, payroll and governance costs which support the charities artistic programmes, courses and activities. These costs have been allocated between raising funds and the expenditure on charitable activities. The bases on which support costs have been allocated is driven by a ratio of activity income over total income. Staff costs, overheads and marketing expenditure is then split by this ratio and apportioned to all activites accordingly.

(i) Operating leases

The charity classifies the lease of printing as operating leases; the title to the equipment remains with the lessor and the equipment is replaced every 5 years. Rental charges are charged on a straight line basis over the term of the lease.

(j) Tangible/ Intangible fixed assets Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off each asset less its residual value over its useful economic life. Impairment reviews are carried out as and when evidence comes to light that the recoverable amount of a functional fixed asset is below its net book value. The rates used are as follows:

Long leasehold property - Over the 997 year life of the lease Computer Hardware and Software - 25% Fixtures and Fittings - 20% - 25% Leasehold improvements - 4%

The capitalisation thresholds are as follows: Computer Hardware and Software - £200 Fixtures and Fittings - £500

Intangible assets are recognised at cost and are subsequently measured at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses. They are recognised at the acquisition date where it is probable that the expected future economic benefits that are attributable to the asset will flow to the entity and the fair value of the asset can be measured reliably. Amortisation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of the assets less their residual values over the useful lives on the following bases: Website - 25%

(k) Stocks Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items. (l) Debtors Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due. Deferred income represents income received in advance of the charity being entitled to recognise the income and where it has been stipulated that the incoming resource must be used in a future accounting period.

(m) Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provision are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

(n) Financial instruments The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments, these being cash at bank, debtors and creditors. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value.

(o) Gifts in Kind Where the value of a gifted services can be measured reliably, the value of these services is included within charitable activities and with the appropriate category of incoming resource. Where the value in immaterial, or cannot be measured reliably, the substance of the transaction is described in the notes to the financial statements.

(p) Pension Scheme Arrangements The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain operates a group personal defined contribution pension scheme into which both the company as the employer and the employees make payments. All such contributions are held with Royal London and NEST who are independent of the charity's finances.

2. Company Status

The Charity is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member in the event of winding up is £10.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

3. INCOME
Donations and legacies
Restricted
Christina Smith Foundation
City Bridge Trust
Cripplegate
Derek Hill Foundation
Green Hall
Hugh Bonneville Auditions Access Fund
Kirby Laing Foundation
Sir Ian McKellen
St Olaves
Sophie's Silver Lining Fund
Jack Petchey Foundation
Total Restricted
Unrestricted
Barclays Charitable Trust
Clive Mantle - Beat the Chasers
David Pearlman Charitable Foundation
David Toguri Bursary Fund
General Donations (inc individuals FY23)
International Music and Arts Foundation
Investors in Talent
James Bond Auction - Christies
John Ellerman Foundation
Netflix
Other corporate
Ros & Alan Haigh
Sophie's Silver Lining Fund
Harold Hyam Wingate
The Lloyd Square Foundation
Young Leaders Project
English Heritage Trust
McGrath
Steel Charitable Trust
Tech Belt Community Fund autumn 2021
Mr and Mrs Jones
F F Jarvis
Teale Charitable Trust
E Grimes
Jacqueline Worswick
Individual giving
Dawn Airey
Spotlight
Mark Phillips
Taymour Ezzat
Gift aid
Total Unrestricted		 Total
2023
£
-
-
2,762
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,800
4,562
-
-
34,000
-
59,464
10,000
-
102,131
50,000
75,000
1,275
2,500
1,648
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
29,146
365,165		 Total
2022
£
62,500
100,000
20,000
5,000
4,000
5,000
400,000
10,000
3,000
1,300
1,700
612,500
100,000
100,000
33,500
295,316
-
10,000
13,500
-
50,000
-
-
2,500
-
5,000
5,000
2,000
4,250
1,000
5,000
4,780
3,000
2,500
1,500
5,000
3,000
28,650
10,000
7,500
10,000
2,500
21,915
727,411

The income from donations and legacies was £369,727 (2022: £1,339,911) of which £4,562 (2022: £612,500 ) was restricted and £365,165 was unrestricted (2022: £727,411).

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

4. Fundraising events
Fundraising dinner: Auction prizes
Fundraising dinner: Ticket sales
5. Grants receivable for charitable activities
Unrestricted
Arts Council England Revenue
Arts Council England Cultural Recovery Fund
The Austin and Hope Foundation
Barcapel Foundation
Bluespark Foundation
Clothworkers' Foundation
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
The Idlewild Trust
Islington Council - COVID recovery
London Community Fund
National Lottery
The Noel Coward Foundation
University of Hull - COP26
Total Unrestricted
Restricted
Arts Council NYT on Tour Grant
Clothworkers' Foundation
Children in Need
English Heritage
Garfield Weston Foundation
Greater London Authority Good Growth Fund
Greater London Authority Young Londoners
Groundwork
Isledon Arts
Islington Council
John Lyon's Charity
John Lyon's Charity
Leverhulme Trust
Paddington Development Trust
Portal Trust
Stuart Low Trust
The Talent Fund
Unversity of Warwick
Youth Endowment Fund
Total Restricted		 Total
2023
£
170,421
159,169
329,590
Total
2023
£
311,395
37,528
5,000
1,000
1,300
300,000
-
5,000
1,488
956
-
5,000
-
668,667
-
24,000
-
59,000
100,000
-
4,484
8,000
2,302
9,700
25,000
28,300
164,000
10,000
40,000
6,337
10,000
3,100
-
494,223		 Total
2022
£
145,232
248,886
394,118
Total
2022
£
311,395
639,526
-
-
-
-
23,291
-
31,500
-
40,000
-
24,991
1,070,703
73,800
750
69,209
-
311,232
27,799
8,000
-
6,000
12,500
-
85,290
-
-
-
-
-
23,260
617,840

Grants received for charitable activities represents funding from trust and foundations and local Government bodies and have been used for a particular restricted purpose within the objects of the charity. Unrestricted grants received totalled £668,667 (2022: £999,203) with restricted grants received of £494,223 (2022: £689,340)

6. Income from charitable activities
Pageant
Kickstart/IPC
The Space CIC
The Duke of Edinburgh Awards
Other
All income from charitable activities was unrestricted.
7. Charitable trading
Course fees
Audition & Membership fees
Members accommodation
Box office
Merchandise sales
Rental of rehearsal facilities
8. Other income
Theatre Tax Relief
Sundry
All other income was unrestricted.		 Total
2023
£
27,910
96,730
10,050
3,100
2,378
140,169
Total
2023
£
665,326
139,706
284,875
45,585
23,757
193,878
1,353,126
Total
2023
£
110,493
35,152
145,645		 Total
2022
£
25,000
204,879
-
-
-
229,879
Total
2022
£
618,252
120,111
340,747
10,684
24,690
107,734
1,222,218
Total
2022
£
32,127
5,342
37,469

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THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

9. Investment income
Bank interest receivable
All investment income was unrestricted.		 Total
2023
£
1,981		 Total
2022
£
75

10. ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE

Direct costs
Operations
Promotion and marketing
Depreciation
Governance
Support costs
HWR redevelopment
Total resources expended
Represented by:
Restricted income funds
Unrestricted income funds		 Raising funds
£
74,747
17,681
3,181
2,630
855
205,224
-		 a) Productions
and training
£
487,384
115,288
20,743
17,146
5,574
398,708
-		 b) Courses
£
688,962
162,968
29,321
24,237
7,880
456,033
-		 c) Social
inclusion
£
243,225
57,533
10,351
8,556
2,783
253,900
-		 d) Bursaries
101,677
24,051
4,327
3,577
1,163
57,429
-		 e) other
-
-
-
-
-
-
290,319		 Total
£
1,595,995
377,521
67,923
56,146
18,255
1,371,294
290,319
304,318 1,044,844 1,369,401 576,348 192,224 290,319 3,777,456
-
304,318		 25,481
1,019,363
1,044,844		 10,000
1,359,401		 247,389
328,961		 119,095
73,129		 290,319
-		 692,284
3,085,172
304,318 1,369,401 576,350 192,224 290,319 3,777,456

Expenditure on charitable activities and raising funds was £3,777,456 (2022: £3,642,543) of which £692,284 was restricted (2022: £779,762 ) and £3,085,172 was unrestricted (2022: £2,870,243).

The apportionment of the support and governance costs is on a basis of income earned and time spent on each project. Governance comprises the charity's audit costs, legal costs and goverment compliance

11. SUMMARY ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE AND RELATED INCOME FOR CHARITABLE ACTIVITES

This table show the cost of the three main charitable activities and the sources of income that directly support those activities

Costs
Salaries
Administration
Governance
Promotion and marketing
Income
Net income / (costs) funded from other income		 Productions
and training
£
487,384
298,602
232,539
5,574
20,743
1,044,843
25,481
(1,019,362)		 Courses
£
688,962
314,525
328,713
7,880
29,322
1,369,402
10,000
(1,359,402)		 Social Inclusion
£
243,225
203,943
116,047
2,783
10,351
576,349
247,389
(328,959)

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

12. ANALYSIS OF STAFF COSTS, TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES

Cost of raising
funds
Productions and
training
programmes
Courses
Social inclusion
& bursaries
Total
£
£
£
£
£
Wages and salaries
141,988
108,864
59,537
102,446
412,836
Social security
15,833
10,811
5,738
10,700
43,081
Pension costs
5,186
3,751
1,621
3,376
13,934
163,007
123,426
66,896
116,523
469,851
2023
2022
Total Staff costs
£
£
Wages and salaries
1,109,160
927,955
Social security
121,763
98,056
Pension costs
50,296
23,879
1,281,219
1,049,890
Cost of Key management personnel
Staff costs
491,620
396,554
Social security
63,584
51,849
Pension costs
33,132
32,078
588,336
480,482		 Cost of raising
funds
Productions and
training
programmes
Courses
Social inclusion
& bursaries
Total
£
£
£
£
£
141,988
108,864
59,537
102,446
412,836
15,833
10,811
5,738
10,700
43,081
5,186
3,751
1,621
3,376
13,934		 Cost of raising
funds
Productions and
training
programmes
Courses
Social inclusion
& bursaries
Total
£
£
£
£
£
141,988
108,864
59,537
102,446
412,836
15,833
10,811
5,738
10,700
43,081
5,186
3,751
1,621
3,376
13,934		 Cost of raising
funds
Productions and
training
programmes
Courses
Social inclusion
& bursaries
Total
£
£
£
£
£
141,988
108,864
59,537
102,446
412,836
15,833
10,811
5,738
10,700
43,081
5,186
3,751
1,621
3,376
13,934
163,007
123,426
66,896
116,523
469,851
2023
£
1,109,160
121,763
50,296
1,281,219
491,620
63,584
33,132
588,336		 2022
£
927,955
98,056
23,879
1,049,890
396,554
51,849
32,078
480,482

The key management are the CEO & Artistic Director,the Executive Director (part-time), the Director of Finance and Operations, the Producers,the Head of Development, the Associate Director and the Head of Communications.

At 31 March 2023 £0 (2022 £22,000) of pension contributions in relation to Directors were unpaid.

The following number of employees received employee benefits (excluding employer national insurance and pension costs) during the year between:

2023 2022
No. No.
£60,000 - £69,999 2 -
£70,000 - £79,999 - 1
£80,000 - £89,999 - -
£90,000 - £99,999 1 -
£100,000- £109,000 1 1

No expenses were paid to trustees during the year (2022: Nil).

No trustee received remuneration for their services during the year (2022: Nil).

13. STAFF NUMBERS
Activities to generate funds
Productions
Courses and training
Social inclusion & bursaries
Kickstart/IPC
Operational		 2023
Number
4
4
2
3
8
11
32		 2022
Number
4
3
2
3
15
10
37

Staff numbers reflect the average number of staff in post during the year ended 31st March 2023. Kickstart/IPC staff were employed on short term contracts funded by the Department of Work and Pensions Kickstart scheme.

14. CORPORATION TAX

The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within section 466-493 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

15.a TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Cost
At 1 April 2022
Additions
At 31 March 2023
Depreciation
At 1 April 2022
Charge in the year
At 31 March 2023
Net book value
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2022
15.b INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Cost
At 1 April 2022
Additions
At 31 March 2023
Amortistaion
At 1 April 2022
Charge for the year
At 31 March 2023
Net book value
At 31 March 2023
At 31 March 2022
16.
DEBTORS
Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
VAT
Other debtors
Theatre Tax Relief - CT receivable
17.
CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN O
Trade creditors
Mortgage payments
Other taxes and social security costs
Accruals
Deferred income ( see note 18)
18.
DEFERRED INCOME
Deferred income brought forward
Incoming resources deferred in the year
Released from previous year
Deferred income carried forward		 Computers, IT
Fixtures and and Technical
Leasehold
Long leasehold
fittings
equipment
improvements
property
Total
£
£
£
£
101,780
82,401
3,845,160
5,437,090
9,466,431
-
899
190,921
-
191,820		 Computers, IT
Fixtures and and Technical
Leasehold
Long leasehold
fittings
equipment
improvements
property
Total
£
£
£
£
101,780
82,401
3,845,160
5,437,090
9,466,431
-
899
190,921
-
191,820
101,780
83,300
4,036,081
5,437,090
9,658,252
94,708
44,471
115,355
1,000,513
1,255,047
6,147
12,360
155,319
27,341
201,167
100,855
56,831
270,674
1,027,854
1,456,214
925
26,469
3,765,408
4,409,236
8,202,038
7,072
37,930
3,729,805
4,436,577
8,211,384
New Website
Total
Website Development
£
£
£
94,710
-
94,710
-
114,061
114,061
94,710
114,061
208,771
75,626
-
75,626
10,388
-
10,388
86,014
-
86,014
8,697
114,061
122,758
19,084
-
19,084
2023
2022
£
£
62,006
212,838
182,812
88,114
4,507
107,485
-
27,896
111,000
21,915
360,324
458,248
2023
2022
NE YEAR
£
£
239,316
62,728
65,292
94,175
6,250
4,112
57,900
156,232
78,645
49,566
447,403
366,813
2023
2022
£
£
49,566
104,906
78,645
49,566
(49,566)
(104,906)
78,645
49,566
19,084
-
19,084
NE YEAR 2023
£
62,006
182,812
4,507
-
111,000
360,324
2023
£
239,316
65,292
6,250
57,900
78,645
447,403
2023
£
49,566
78,645
(49,566)
78,645

The charity defers income where amounts have been invoiced or payments received in advance of a performance or when the charity has future contractual obligations upon receipt of incoming resources.

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THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN COMPANY NUMBER: 699114

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

19. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

At total of three trustees made donations of £17,776 during the year ended 31 March 2023 (2022: Four trustees £13,200).

20. NET INCOME/ EXPENDITURE
Net income / expenditure is stated after charging:
Auditors' remuneration
Fees other
Depreciation/ amortisation
Bank loans and overdraft interest payable
Operating lease - Other
21. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE
Mortgage falling due within 1 year
Mortgage falling due between 2 - 5 years
Mortgage falling due after 5 years		 Total
2023
£
21,325
-
211,555
133,210
3,968
YEAR
2023
£
65,292
308,647
2,339,449
2,713,388		 Total
2022
£
19,389
500
178,145
64,141
3,968
2022
£
94,175
415,665
2,260,160
2,770,000

Mortgage is repayable in fixed monthly instalments agreed by the bank. The interest rate charged on the loan is a margin of 1.52% over HSBC base rate. HSBC holds a fixed and floating charge over the assets of the company and first legal mortgage over the leasehold property of the National Youth Theatre at 443-445 Holloway Rd, London N7 6LW.

22. ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS 2023

Restricted Funds
The Ancestors
Bryan Forbes - Bursary for Young Directors
Christina Smith Foundation
Clothworkers' Foundation
Clothworkers' Foundation
Cripplegate
Garfield Weston Foundation
Greater London Authority Young Londoners
Groundwork
Jack Petchey Foundation
John Lyons
John Lyons inclusion work
Judy Browne - Bursary Funding
Isledon Arts
Islington
Islington - Tourettes Heros
Leverhulme Trust
Paddington Development Trust
Portal Trust
Sir Ian Mckellen
Sophie's Silver Lining Fund
Stuart Low Trust
Talent Fund
University of Warwick
Capital Redevelopment Fund
Total Funds		 01 April 2022
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
31 March 2023
£
£
£
£
-
59,000
(59,000)
-
-
55,661
-
-
-
55,661
62,500
-
(3,481)
-
59,019
-
12,000
(12,000)
-
-
-
12,000
(12,000)
-
-
57,464
2,762
(27,177)
-
33,049
-
100,000
-
(100,000)
-
-
4,484
(4,484)
-
-
8,000
8,000
(16,000)
-
-
-
1,800
(1,800)
-
-
-
25,000
(22,490)
-
2,510
-
28,300
(27,000)
1,300
7,798
-
-
-
7,798
-
2,302
(2,302)
-
-
-
9,700
(9,700)
-
-
6,000
-
(6,000)
-
-
117,695
164,000
(119,095)
-
162,600
-
10,000
(10,000)
-
-
-
40,000
(40,000)
-
-
10,000
-
(10,000)
-
-
1,300
-
-
-
1,300
-
6,337
(6,337)
-
-
-
10,000
(10,000)
-
-
-
3,100
(3,100)
-
-
4,260,094
-
(290,319)
-
3,969,776
Movement in Funds
4,586,514
498,785
(692,284)
(100,000)
4,293,015

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THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN COMPANY NUMBER: 699114

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

22
(
continued
)
Unrestricted Funds
General Fund
Designated Programme National Fund
Designated New Commissioning Fund
Designated Property Fund
David Toguri Bursary Fund
S106 fund
Digital fund
Clive Mantle Bursary Fund
Total Funds
Total Funds		 1,466,257
3,004,342
(3,085,172)
160,000
1,545,427
500,000
-
-
-
500,000
200,000
-
-
-
200,000
500,000
-
-
-
500,000
651,316
-
-
-
651,316
300,000
-
-
(10,000)
290,000
200,000
-
-
-
200,000
100,000
-
-
(50,000)
50,000
3,917,573
3,004,342
(3,085,172)
100,000
3,936,743
8,504,087
3,503,127
(3,777,456)
0
8,229,758

In line with NYT's policy on designated funds, £60,000 (2022-£395,316) has been transferred against unrestricted expenditure to enable delivery of future projects.

£100,000 received from the Garfield Weston Foundation towards the new Website development was recognised in restricted funds, then transferred at year end to the Digital Fund to provide against future depreciation. £100,000 was then

transferred from the Digital fund to unrestricted funds given the agreed level of the Digital fund was to be £200,000.

Bursary funds

Bursaries are established by way of donations from individuals. The conditions stipulate that the income is to be used to offer financial assistance to NYT members who would otherwise be unable to take part in NYT activities.

In addition to the above, the Bryan Forbes Bursary was set up to support emerging young directors and the Clothworkers’ Bursary was set up to support emerging young performers (in the NYT REP Company) and writers (for Playing Up).

Social Inclusion Funds

These funds are made up of amounts received from funders, who stipulated that the donations be restricted to support specific NYT social inclusion activities.

Leverhulme Fund

This fund was granted to NYT to support bursary funds towards Acting & Technical Course fees and Accommodation.

Judy Browne Fund

This fund was set up to support the development of the vocal skills of NYT members.

National Programme Fund

This fund was set up to explore local stories for a national platform offering greater local membership engagement.

New Commissioning Fund

This fund is to commission relevant new work seeking new audiences and talent on and off stage.

Property Fund

This fund was created as a contribution from The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain to support the redevelopment of the of the National Head Quarters at Holloway Road.

Capital Redevelopment Fund

This fund represents grants and donations towards the redevelopment of the Holloway Road site. The Fund will be charged depreciation once the redevelopment is completed and the asset is brought into use.

Toguri legacy Fund

This fund has been created to support young artists in movement related work.

S106 Fund

To support work within the local area in keeping with our planning obligations for the capital redevelopment project

Digital Fund

To enable NYT to continue to expand national growth and reach through online programming, whilst also meeting the future needs of digital infrastructure in line with significantly enhanced demand experienced through covid.

Clive Mantle Bursary Fund

The fund is to be used to offer financial assistance to NYT members who would otherwise be unable to take part in NYT activities.

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THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN COMPANY NUMBER: 699114

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

23. ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS IN PRIOR YEAR

ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS 2022

ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE FUNDS 2022
Restricted Funds
Leverhulme Trust
Judy Browne - Bursary Funding
Cripplegate
Bryan Forbes - Bursary for Young Directors
Hugh Bonneville Auditions Access Fund
Clothworkers' Foundation
Arts Council NLPG for NYT Tour
Clothworkers' Foundation
The Ancestors
Portal Trust
Clothworkers' Foundation
Jack Petchey Foundation
John Lyons
Youth Endownment Fund
Christina Smith Foundation
St Olaves
Derek Hill Foundation
Groundwork
Islington Children in Need
Islington - Tourettes Heros
GLA Young Londoners
Sir Ian Mckellen
Sophie's Silver Lining Fund
Capital Redevelopment Fund		 1 April 2021
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
31 March 2022
£
£
£
£
149,405
85,290
(117,000)
-
117,695
7,798
-
-
-
7,798
37,464
20,000
-
-
57,464
55,661
-
-
-
55,661
10,000
5,000
(15,000)
-
-
9,000
-
(9,000)
-
-
178,300
73,800
(252,100)
-
-
30,000
-
(30,000)
-
-
34,590
109,209
(143,799)
-
-
20,000
-
(20,000)
-
-
2,000
-
(2,000)
-
-
1,500
1,700
(3,200)
-
-
-
12,500
(12,500)
-
-
-
23,260
(23,260)
-
-
-
62,500
-
-
62,500
-
3,000
(3,000)
-
-
-
5,000
(5,000)
-
-
-
8,000
-
-
8,000
-
750
(750)
-
-
-
6,000
-
-
6,000
-
27,799
(27,799)
-
-
-
10,000
-
-
10,000
-
1,300
-
-
1,300
3,528,717
846,732
(115,355)
-
4,260,094
Movement in Funds
4,064,435
1,301,840
(779,762)
-
4,586,512

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

23. (continued)

(continued)
Unrestricted Funds
General Fund
Designated Programme National Fund
Designated New Commissioning Fund
Designated Property Fund
David Toguri Bursary Fund
S106 fund
Digital fund
Clive Mantle Bursary Fund
Total Unrestricted Fund
Total Funds		 1 April 2021
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
31 March 2022
1,113,981
3,610,373
(2,862,781)
(395,316)
1,466,257
500,000
-
-
-
500,000
200,000
-
-
-
200,000
500,000
-
-
-
500,000
356,000
-
-
295,316
651,316
300,000
-
-
-
300,000
200,000
-
-
-
200,000
-
-
-
100,000
100,000
Movement in Funds
3,169,981
3,610,373
2,862,781
-
-
3,917,573
7,234,417
4,912,214
-3,642,542
-
8,504,087

24. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Fund balances at 31 March 2023 are represented by:

Tangible fixed assets
Intangible assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Long Term Liabilities
Total net assets
Fund balances at 31 March 2022
Tangible fixed assets
Intangible assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Long Term Liabilities
Total net assets		 Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
£
£
£
4,232,263
3,969,775
8,202,038
122,757
-
122,757
2,677,222
323,240
3,000,462
(447,403)
-
(447,403)
(2,648,096)
-
(2,648,096)
3,936,743
4,293,015
8,229,758
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Funds
Funds
Funds
£
£
£
3,951,293
4,260,094
8,211,387
19,084
-
19,084
2,989,832
326,420
3,316,252
(366,813)
-
(366,813)
(2,675,824)
-
(2,675,824)
3,917,572
4,586,514
8,504,086

25. COMMITMENTS UNDER OPERATING LEASES

At 31 March 2023 the charity had aggregate annual commitments under non-cancellable operating leases on Printer equipment as set out below.

Within one year
Between one and five years		 2023
2022
£
£
3,968
3,968
8,928
12,896

26. CAPTIAL COMMITMENTS

At 31st March 2023 the charity had aggregate capital commitments totalling £43,146 (2022: £261,950)

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