**CHARITY NUMBER:500483** ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society** ## **Financial Statements** **30th June 2025** SD-0219631-1-6 ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society** |**Contents**|**Page**| |---|---| |Report of the Trustees|1-2| |Independent Examiners Report|3| |Receipts and payments account|4-5| |Statement of assets and liabilities|6| ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society** ## **Report of the Trustees** ## _**for the year ended 30th June 2025**_ The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 June 2025. ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** ## **Objectives and aims** The objectives of the charity are to educate the public in the dramatic and operatic arts and to further the development of public appreciation and taste in the said arts. Hessle Theatre Company is a community organisation, a registered charity, and has been creating high quality theatre since it was founded in 1922 as Hessle Operatic and Dramatic Society. Committed to appealing to modern day audiences and performers, the charity underwent a name change in 2005 and is now trading as the Hessle Theatre Company. ## **Achievements and Performance** The charity has enjoyed another successful season with two productions and the main contribution to income was £29.2k surplus in the financial year from our New Theatre production of ‘Legally Blonde’. Other main sources of income came from our panto ‘Dick Whittington’ which generated £3.6k and it was good to be back with sold out audiences at the refurbished Hessle Town Hall. In addition, income from membership subscriptions was £4.3k and our Lip Sync fundraising event raised £3.5k. ## **Financial Review** We are pleased to report a continued operating surplus with an overall surplus of £33k and overall the trustees are pleased to report that funds in hand have increased again this year, giving a total of £91,183. The Trustees’ policy on retained funds is to maintain adequate reserves to fund the ongoing costs of the charity, the reserves we currently have enable us to perform at some of the region’s most prestigious venues, putting on quality, large scale productions with financial confidence. The reserves policy will be reviewed at least annually after our year end. ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** ## **Governing document** The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust and constitutes an unincorporated charity. The charity operates by the guidelines of its constitution dated 1st December 1969. ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number** 500483 1 ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society** ## **Report of the Trustees** ## _**for the year ended 30 June 2025**_ ## **Trustees** N Wilson D Gillyon-Powell M Gillyon-Powell C Thompson R Foot R Carmichael (Hon. Treasurer) J Drury (Chair) J Pryboda M Beaumont (Hon. General Secretary) K Todman **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Independent Examiner** S.T. Bramall, BSc., FCA. Smailes Goldie Chartered Accountants Regent’s Court Princess Street Hull East Yorkshire HU2 8BA Approved by order of the board of trustees on 19th September 2025 and signed on its behalf by: ………………………………. R Carmichael – Trustee and Hon. Treasurer 2 ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society** ## **Unaudited Financial Statements** _**for the year ended 30th June 2025**_ ## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society** I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (“the Charity”) for the year ended 30th June 2025. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the trustees of the Charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under Section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by Section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or 3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. S.T. Bramall, BSc., FCA. Smailes Goldie Chartered Accountants Regent's Court Princess Street Hull East Yorkshire HU2 8BA 19[th] September 2025 3 ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society Receipts and Payments Account** _for the year ended 30th June 2025_ |**Receipts and Payments Account**
_for the year ended 30th June 2025_||| |---|---|---| ||**2025**|**2024**| ||**£**|**£**| |**Income**||| |Subscriptions|4,393|3,190| |Donations|800|770| |Fundraising|3,519|2,837| |Bank interest:||| |NatWest|1,187|638| |Inland Revenue - tax recoverable|1,095|1,036| |Sundries (net)|260|-| |Sale proceeds|-|3,208| |Hire|425|825| |Production income||| |“Legally Blonde”|82,938|-| |“Crazy for You”|-|1,716| |“Grease”|-|5,763| |“Dick Whittington”|10,446|6| ||�����|�����| ||105,063|20,048| ||�����|�����| |||| |**Expenditure**||| |Marketing/website|2,278|244| |Subscriptions – NODA|150|245| |Insurance|1,776|1,659| |Venue Hire – Meetings|263|208| |Accountancy|444|420| |Umber/St Marks – storage etc|2,935|2,855| |Sundries (net)|406|689| |Trophies|154|50| |Production costs:||| |“Everybody’s Talking about Jamie”|2,703|-| |“Our House”|-|200| |“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat”|720|-| |“Legally Blonde”|53,738|1,400| |“Dick Whittington”|6,838|-| ||�����|�����| ||72,405|7,970| ||�����|�����| 4 ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society** ## **Receipts and Payments Account** _for the year ended 30th June 2025_ |Surplus for the year
Cash funds brought forward
Cash funds carried forward
32,658
58,525
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All amounts relate to unrestricted funds|| |---|---| ||12,078| ||| ||46,447| ||�����| ||58,525| ||�����| ||| ||| ||| ||| 5 ## **Hessle Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society Statement of Assets and Liabilities** _at 30th June 2025_ ||**2025**|**2024**| |---|---|---| ||**£**|**£**| |**Cash funds**||| |Bank balances|9,320|5,669| |Business reserve|50,791|22,670| |Liquidity manager|31,072|30,186| ||�����|�����| |**Net Assets**|91,183|58,525| ||�����|�����| The above financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 19 September 2025 and were signed on its behalf by: **………………………………………………………… J. Drury** (Chairman) **………………………………………………………… R. Carmichael** (Hon. Treasurer) **………………………………………………………… M. Beaumont** (Hon. General Secretary) 6