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|Trustees|||Mr D Morgan (Chairman)|||
||||His Honour<br>GA Ensor|||
||||Mrs PJ McGaffney|||
||||Miss L Marshall|||
||||Mr J JThompson|||
||||Mr SP Marley|||
|Secretary|||Ms C Mason|||
|Charity number|||509458|||
|Company|number||01437514|||
|Principal address|||c/o Morecrofts|LLP||
||||Cotton Exchange|||
||||Old Hall Street|||
||||Liverpool|||
||||L39LQ|||
|Registered||office|c/o Morecrofts|LLP||
||||Cotton Exchange|||
||||Old Hall Street|||
||||Liverpool|||
||||L3 9LQ|||
|Independent||examiner|Tony Stanley ACA|||
||||BWM|||
||||Tempest|||
||||Suite 5.1|||
||||12Tithebarn<br>Street|||
||||Liverpool|||
||||L2 2DT|||
|Bankers|||Virgin Money|||
||||Jubilee House|||
||||Gosforth|||
||||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne|||
||||NE3 4PL|||
||||Redwood Bank|||
||||The Nexus Building|||
||||Broadway|||
||||Letchworth<br>Garden||City|
||||Hertfordshire|||
||||SC6 3TA|||
||||The Co-Operative||Bank|
||||Team 605|||
||||P0 Box250|||
||||Skelmersdale|||
||||Lancashire|||
||||WN86WT|||





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|Trustees'|report|||1-6|
|Statement|oftrustees'|responsibilities|||
|Independent<br>examiner's|||report||
|Statement|offinancial|activities||9-to|
|Balance sheet|||||
|Notes to|the accounts|||12-18|





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|Current financial year|Current financial year|||||||
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|||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||||funds|funds|||
|||||general|designated|||
|||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
||||Notes|6|6|6|E|
|ncome|n owments|from||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||77,262||77,262|71,672|
|Investments||||1,999||1,999|1,115|
|Other income|||||||4,000|
|Total income||||79,261||79,261|76,787|
|~E«dit||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||6|80,315||80,315|52,166|
|Net (expenditure)/income||for the year/||||||
|Net movement|in funds|||(1,054)||(1,054)|24,621|
|Fund balances|at 1 April 2022|||280,959|350,000|630,959|606,338|
|Fund balances at 31 March 2023||||279,905|350,000|629,905|630,959|





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|Prior financial|year||||||
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|||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Total|
|||||funds|funds||
|||||general|designated||
|||||2022|2022|2022|
||||Notes|6|6|6|
|Inc<br>m<br>and endowments||from|||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||71,672||71,672|
|Investments||||1,115||1,115|
|Other income||||4,000||4,000|
|Total income||||76,787||76,787|
|~E*<br>Cht|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||52,166||52,166|
|Net (expenditure)/income||for the year/|||||
|Net movement|in funds|||24,621||24,621|
|Fund balances|at 1 April 2021|||256,338|350,000|606,338|
|Fund balances|at 31 March 2022|||280,959|350,000|630,959|





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|THE EMPIRE <br>COMPANY LI<br>BALANCE SHEE<br>ASAT31 MARC|THEATRE (M<br>MITED BYGU<br>T<br>H 2023|ERSEYSID<br>ARANTEE|E) TRUST L|IMITED|||
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|||Notes|||||
|Fixed assets<br>Tangible assets||10||350,000||350,000|
|Current assets<br>Debtors<br>Cash at bank and in|hand|12|5,741<br>276,010||790<br>281,869||
||||281,751||282,659||
|Creditors: amounts<br>one year|falling due within|13|(1,846)||(1,700)||
|Net current assets||||279,905||280,959|
|Total assets less current liabilities||||629,905||630,959|
|Income funds|||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds<br>Designated<br>funds<br>General<br>unrestricted|funds|14|350,000<br>279,905||350,000<br>280,959||
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||||funds|funds|
||||2023|2022|
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||Charitable|rental income|77,262|71,672|
|4|Investments||||
||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|
||||funds|funds|
||||2023|2022|
||||E|E|
||Interest receivable||1,999|1,115|
|5|Other income||||
||||2023|2022|
||Bank incentive|||4,000|





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|6|Charitable<br>activities|Charitable<br>activities|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Unrestricted<br>Unrestricted|||
||||||||funds|funds|
||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||F.|8|
||Management|contribution|||||38,666|35,836|
||Other professional||fees||||13|5,784|
||Promotion<br>of|the arts|||||38,345|6,998|
||Website costs||||||196|16|
||Donations||||||600|1,192|
||||||||77,820|49,826|
||Share ofgovernance|||costs (see note 7)|||2,495|2,340|
||||||||80,315|52,166|
||Analysis<br>by <br>Unrestricted|fund<br>funds|-|general|||80,315||
||||||||80,315||
||Forthe year <br>Unrestricted|ended <br>funds -||31 March 2022<br> general||||52,166|
|||||||||52,166|
|7|Supportcosts||||||||
||||||Support|Governance|2023|2022|
||||||costs|costs|||
||||||6|f|||
||Accountancy|||||2,495|2,495|2,340|
|||||||2,495|2,495|2,340|
||Analysed<br>between||||||||
||Charitable<br>activities|||||2,495|2,495|2,340|





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||The average|The average|monthly|number of employees|number of employees|number of employees|during the|year was:|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||There were||no employees||whose annual|remuneration||was more than 560,000.|||
|10|Tangible|fixed assets|||||||||
||||||||||Leasehold|property|
|||||||||||9|
||Cost||||||||||
||At 1 April|2022||||||||350,000|
||At 31 March||2023|||||||350,000|
||Carrying|amount|||||||||
||At 31 March||2023|||||||350,000|
||At 31 March||2022|||||||350,000|



|11|Financial|instruments|instruments|||2023|2022|
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|||||||8|8|
||Carrying|amount|offinancial||assets|||
||Debt instruments||measured|at|cost|276,110|281,869|
||Carrying|amount|offinancial||liabilities|||
||Measured|at cost||||1,846|1,700|
|12|Debtors|||||||
|||||||2023|2022|
||Amounts|falling|due within|one year:||F|8|
||Trade debtors|||||100||
||Other debtors|||||5,641|790|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||Accru ale|||||||||||||1,846||1,700|
|14|Designated|funds|||||||||||||||
||The income|funds||of the charity||include|the following|designated|||funds|which|have|been set|aside|out of|
||unrestricted|funds||by the|trustees|for specific purposes:|||||||||||
|||||||||Movement|||||Movement||||
|||||||||in funds|||||in|funds|||
||||||||Balance at||Income|||Balance|at|Income|Balance at||
||||||||1 April 2021<br>f||||1|April 2022<br>6||6|31 March 2023<br>6||
||Designated|fund|||||350,000|||||350,000|||350,000||
||||||||350,000|||||350,000|||350,000||
||The designated||fund relates to the value||||ofthe lease between||the|charity||and Liverpool||City Council (see note|||
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|15|Analysis of net||assets between|||funds|||||||||||
||||||Unrestricted||Designated||Total||Unrestricted||Designated|||Total|
|||||||funds|funds|||||funds||funds|||
|||||||2023|2023||2023|||2022||2022||2022|
|||||||6|6|||6|||6|6||6|
||Fund balances at|||31|||||||||||||
||March 2023 are||||||||||||||||
||represented|by:|||||||||||||||
||Tangible assets||||||350,000|350,000||||||350,000|350,000||
||Current assets/(liabilities)||||279,905|||279,905||||280,959|||280,959||
||||||279,905||350,000|629,905||||280,959||350,000|630,959||



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