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|Group Trustees'<br>and Dtrectors' report||||4-13|
|Consolidated|mdependent|audttor's|report|14- 17|
|Consolidated|statement of|financtal|acttvtttes|18|
|Consolidated|balance sheet|||19|
|Consolidated|statement of|cash flows||2st|
|Notes to the|account|||21 -35|





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|Incorac from:|||||||||||
|Donations<br>and|sponsorship||||||910,924||910,924|1,301,513|
|Incoming<br>resources<br>from|||charitable||activities||1,080,470|103351|1.183.821|703,903|
|Invesnnents|||||||1,663||1.663|77|
|Total income|||||||1.993.057|103351|2,096,408|2,005,493|
|Raising funds|||||||||||
|Charitable<br>actuates||||||6|2,302,501|74,002|2,376,503|1,721,155|
|Other|||||||76.274||76,274|46,240|
|Total resources||expended|||||2,378,775|74.002|2.452.777|1,767,395|
|Theatre tax rehef||mcome||||12|3U2,756||302,756|83,764|
|Net (outgoing)/incoming||||resources before|||||||
|transfers|||||||(82,962)|29349|(53,613)|321,862|
|Gross transfer.|between||funds||||47.896|(47.896)|||
|Net movement||in funds|||||(35,066)|(18.547)|(53,613)|321,862|
|Fund balances|at|I April|2022||||665,805|38.S47|704.3 S2|382,490|
|Fund balances||at 31March 2023|||||630,739|20,000|650,739|704,352|





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||||||Group|Group|Company|Company|
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|Fixed assets|||||||||
|Tangible|assets|||14|26,352|29,503|26,352|29.503|
|lnvcstmcnts||||15|||1,000|1,000|
||||||26,352|29.503|27,352|30,503|
|Current|assets||||||||
|Stocks||||||5,808||5,808|
|Debtors||||16|377,838|215,033|376,838|214.033|
|Cash ar bank and||in hand|||378,503|837,533|378,503|837,533|
||||||756,341|1,058,374|755,341|1,057,374|
|Creditors:<br>amounts|||falling due»tthin|17|||||
|onc year|||||(131,954)|(383,525)|(131,954)|(383,525)|
|Net current assets|||||624,387|674,849|623,387|673,849|
|Total assets less||current liabilities|||650,739|704.352|650,739|704,352|
|Income|funds|||22|||||
|t(cstrictcd|funds||||20,000|38,547|20,000|38.547|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||—general|||630,739|665,805|630,739|665,805|
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|Cash flows from operating||activities||||||
|Cash (absorbed<br>by), 'generated||from|27|||||
|operations|||||(455,654)||324,370|
|Investing<br>activities||||||||
|Purchase oftangible<br>fixed|assets|||15,039)||(7.(2U)||
|Interest received||||1,663||77||
|Net cash used in investing||activities|||(3,376)||(7,043)|
|Net cash used in financing||activities||||||
|Net (decrease)/increase|in|cash and cash||||||
|equivalents|||||(459,03U)||3l7,327|
|Cash and cash cquivalcnts|at bcgmnmg ofyear||||037.533||520,206|
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|Donations<br>and ipths||||55,04U|107,377|
|Grants receivable||||355,BB4|1,194,136|
|||||91U,924|1,301,513|
|Groats receivable for core activities||||||
|Association ofGrcatcr Manchester|||Authoritics|102,430|102,430|
|Oldham<br>Council||||13B,272|294,272|
|Arts Council England||||615,1B2|615,103|
|Culture Recovery|Fund||||B0,934|
|Coronavirus<br>Job|Retention|Scheme|||26,317|
|Garfield<br>Weston|Foundation||||75,000|
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||||||Support|costs|Governance|2023|2022|
||||||||costs|||
|Health<br>and safety||||||2,710||2,710|16,042|
|Rent, rates and<br>v ster||||||29,192||29,192|26,388|
|Insurance||||||15,558||15,558|11,252|
|Lightand<br>heat||||||77,776||77,776|44,527|
|Repairs and maintenance||||||50,103||50.103|50,333|
|Clcamng||||||7,395||7,395|9,567|
|Printing,<br>postage and stationery||||||3,962||3,962|4,921|
|Telephone||||||3,678||3,678|6,458|
|Equipment<br>leasmg||||||7,586||7,586|9,065|
|Travelling<br>expenses||||||17,403||17.403|7,257|
|Recruitment<br>costs||||||2,197||2, 197|575|
|StatT training||||||3,260||3,260|1,115|
|Audit fees|||||||F300|8,300|7,950|
|Legal and professional|||||||7,331|7,331|12,787|
|Sundries|||||||8,330|8,330|3,464|
|Subscriptions|||||||11,010|11,010|11,473|
|Statutory<br>costs|||||||21,145|21,145|16,179|
|Dcprcciation|||||||h,190|8,190|8,032|
||||||220,820||64,306|285,126|247,385|
|Analysed<br>beuvcen||||||||||
|(:heritable activities|||||220,820||64,306|285,126|247,385|
|Auditor's<br>remuneration||||||||||
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|Fees payable<br>to the company's||||auditor and associates:||||2023|2022|
|Audit ofthe group's|annual||accounts|||||8,300|7,950|



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|The average<br>m|onthly<br>number ofemployees<br>during<br>the|year was:||
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|Management||5|5|
|Admmistration||11|9|
|Production||12|10|
|Casuals||10|ll|
||||35|
|Employment|costs|2023|2022|
|Wages and salanes||1,109,883|874,455|
|Social secunty|costs|62,660|55,635|
|Other pension|costs|20,428|19,103|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||GROUP AND CHARITY|||Alterations<br>to|Plant and|Fixtures,|Total|
|||||long|machinerv|fittings &||
|||||leasehold||equipment||
|||||premisesf||||
||Cost|||||||
||At<br>1 Apnl 2022|||358,765|338,918|67,417|765,100|
||Additions||||1,209|3,830|5,039|
||At 31 March|2023||358,765|340,127|71,247|770,139|
||Depreciation|and|impairment|||||
||At<br>1 Apnl 2022|||358.765|320,937|55,895|735,597|
||Depreciation|charged|in the year||4,797|3,393|8,190|
||At 31 March|2023||358,765|325,734|59,288|743,787|
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||At 31 March|2022|||17,981|11,522|29,5()3|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||||2023|2022|
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||investments||in|subsuhanes|||||||25|1,000|1,000|
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|||||||||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
|||||||||||Group|Group|Company|Company|
||Amounts|falling|||due «dthin|||one year:||f||f|f|
||Trade debtors|||||||||11,990|17,439|11,990|17,439|
||Corporation|tax rccovcrablc||||||||304,117|95,171|||
||Amounts<br>due||thorn||subsidiary||undertakings|||||303,117|94,171|
||Other debtors|||||||||7,825|36,859|7,825|36,859|
||Prepaynlents||and accrued ulcome|||||||53,906|65,564|53,906|65,564|
|||||||||||377,838|215,033|376,838|214,033|
|17|Creditors:||amounts|||falling|due within||one year|||||
|||||||||||2023|2022|2023|2022|
|||||||||||Group|Ciroup|Company|Company|
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||Other taxation|||and|social secunty|||||9,788|14,863|9,788|14,863|
||Trade creditors|||||||||30,398|73,536|30 398|73,536|
||Other crcxhtors|||||||||13,615|52,163|13,615|52,163|
||Accruals and||deferred|||income||||78,153|242,963|78,153|242,963|
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|European|Social Fund|||Connnunity|Grant|||||||
|||||||172|11,966||(4,202)|(7,936)||
|Teaching|Theatre<br>Pathways|||||4,793||||(4,793)||
|Ideas Fund||||||8,851|56,385|(38,289)||(26,947)||
|GM Action||Together||||2,456||||(2.456)||
|Granada|Foundation|||||2,275|2.000||(1,137)|(3.138)||
|Manchcstcr||Guardian||Society Charitable||||||||
|Trust|||||||2,000||(28)|(1,972)||
|Thc Univcisuy|||ofManchc. tcr||||31.000|(30,346)||(654)||
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||Tangible assets||||26,352||26,'52|29,503|
||Current assets/(liabilities)||||604,3gg|20,000|624,38g|674,049|
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|Benveen nvo and five years|12,66g||
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||The company<br>has taken advantage|ofSection 408 of|ofSection 408 of|the Companies|Act 2006 and not mcluded<br>its own|income|
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||and cxpcnditurc<br>account in thcsc|tinancial|statcmcnts.|Thc nct (out)|ingoing rcsourccs ofthc Company|for thc|
||year was (f53.613)(2022<br>f321,862).||||||
|2'7|Cash generated<br>from operations||||2023|2022|
||(Dcticit)/surpus<br>for thc year||||(53,613)|321,862|
||Adiustments<br>for.||||||
||Investment<br>mcome recogmsed<br>m|profit or loss|||(1,663)|(77)|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment<br>oftangible||fixed assets||8,190|8,032|
||Corporation<br>tax rccovcrablc||||(302,756)|(74,208)|
||Corporation<br>tax received||||93,810|91,688|
||Movements<br>in working<br>capital:||||||
||Decrease/(tncrotse)<br>in stocks||||5,808|(3,736)|
||Dccrcasc/(mcrcasc)<br>in debtors||||46,141|(77,323)|
||(Decrease) increase<br>in creditors||||(251,571)|58,132|
||Cash (absorbed<br>by)/generated|from|operations||(455,654)|324,370|



