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|CONTENTS|||PAGES|
|Members ofthe Board|and Professional|Advisors||
|Trustees'<br>Report|||2to9|
|independent<br>Examiners'|Report||10|
|Statement<br>of Financial|Activities|||
|Balance Sheet|||12|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|||13to 22|





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|The Board|ofTrustees'|ofTrustees'|0 N Bull - Chairman|(Appointed|(Appointed|01/12/2022)|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||H Blair (Appointed|01/10/2023)|||
||||TA Davis (Resigned|22/05/2023)|||
||||R J D Dodgson<br>MBE (Resigned 22/01/2024)||||
||||R Hall (Resigned 22/05/023)||||
||||H TG Hands (Resigned||20/01/2023)||
||||M G Heyes (Appointed||12/12/2023)||
||||G M Hoadley (Appointed<br>12/12/2023)||||
||||R Kellaway (Resigned||22/05/2023)||
||||W Lloyd (Resigned|06/04/2023)|||
||||Ms A R G McCooey|(Appointed||01/12/2022)|
||||L Mileto (Appointed|25/01/2024)|||
||||M W M Rayner||||
||||J Rink||||
||||W H Sang (Resigned|16/10/2023)|||
||||JScott (Resigned 07/11/2023)||||
||||FStuart (Appointed|01/10/2023)|||
||||CWardle||||
||||J RWood (Appointed||01/12/2022)||
|Trust Operations||Director (Senior Management)|N Hardisty||||
|Registered|Office||Stricklandgate<br>House||||
||||92Stricklandgate||||
||||Kendal||||
||||LA9 4P(J||||
|Accountant|||Dixon Gibbs||||
||||Suite 2,The Mintworks||||
||||124Highgate,<br>Kendal||||
||||LA9 4HE||||
|Independent|Examiner||Saint<br>gr Co||||
||||Sterling House||||
||||Wavell House||||
||||Carlisle||||
||||CA1 2SA||||
|Bankers|||HSBC||||
||||64 Highgate||||
||||Kendal||||
||||LA9 4TF||||





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|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|||||||2023|2022|
||||Note||||6|
|INCOME||||||||
|Donations||||35,310|121,150|156,460|175,292|
|Income from charitable<br>activities||||74,165||74,165|69,693|
|Other income||||2,164||2,164|178|
|TOTAL INCONIE||||111,639|121,150|232,789|245,163|
|EXPENDITURE||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds||||13,534|2,000|15,534||
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities|||115,101|119,150|234,251|225,152|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE||||128,635|121,150|249,785|225,152|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)||FOR THE YEAR||||||
|BEFORE TRANSFERS||||(16,996)||(16,996)|20,011|
|Transfers<br>between<br>funds||||||||
|NET MOVEMENT<br>IN FUNDS||||(16,996)||(16,996)|20,011|
|Total funds brought<br>forward||||144,409||144,409|124,398|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||12|127,413||127,413|144,409|





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|||Note|F||6|
|FIXEDASSETS||||||
|Tangible assets||||695|889|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors||10|40,332||59,409|
|Cash at bank|||111,790||106,232|
||||152,122||165,641|
|CREDITORS: Amounts|falling due within one year|11|(25,404)||(22,121)|
|TOTAL ASSETS LESS|CURRENT LIASILITIES|||126,718|143,520|
|NET ASSETS||||127,413|144,409|
|THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY||||||
|Restricted<br>Funds||12||||
|Unrestricted<br>Funds||12||127,413|144,409|
|TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS||||127,413|144,409|





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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||||f|2023<br>Z|2022f|
|Individual|Donations|35,310|7,000|42,310|32,406|
|Gifts in Kind|||8,200|8,200|4,800|
|Grants|||105,950|105,950|138,086|
|||35,310|121,150|156,460|175,292|



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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|||||2023|2022|
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|Charitable|Activities|74,165||74,165|69,693|



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|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|||||||2023f|2022f|
|Interest|on|cash|deposits|2,164||2,164|178|





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||||Raising|Other|Total|Total|
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||||Funds<br>f|Expenditure<br>f|2023<br>f|2022<br>f|
|Direct Costs|||||||
|Artists||||74,347|74,347|63,144|
|Festival Support Team||||9,116|9,116|7,713|
|Event Costs||||24,712|24,712|31,526|
|Ticketing||||9,888|9,888|3,252|
|Fundraising|||7,859||7,859|5,266|
|Marketing||||27,600|27,600|20,583|
|Filming||||11,249|11,249|11227|
||||7,859|156,912|164,771|142,711|
|Support|Costs||||||
|Salaries|& Expenses||6,850|61,646|68,496|67,487|
|Legal & Professional||Fees|410|7,788|8,198|4,435|
|Facilities|||416|7,904|8,320|10,519|
||||7,675|77,338|85,014|82,441|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE|||15,534|234,250|249,785|225,152|



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|Support Costs||Funds|Other|
|Salaries &Expenses||10'|90Yo|
|Legal &Professional|Fees|5Yo|95'Yo|
|Facilities||59o|95'Yo|





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|GOVERNANCE|COSTS||||
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||||Total|Total|
||||Funds|Funds|
||||2023|2022|
||||6|6|
|Accountancy|fees|||1,800|
|Bookkeeping|costs||4,258|1,915|
|Independent|examiner's|fee|1,000|720|
|Legal & professional|||2,940||
|Trustee Meeting Costs|||743|2,730|
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|||||2023<br>F|2022f|
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||Depreciation|||194|194|
||Independent|Examiner's Fee||1,000|720|
|8.|STAFF COSTS|||||
||Staff costs were|as follows:||||
|||||2023|2022|
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||Wages and salaries|||35,556|33,000|
||Employers<br>national||insurance|||
||Employer Pension||Contribution|1,420|1,210|
|||||36,976|34,210|





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||The average monthly|number ofemployees|during the year was as follows:|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2023|2022|
|||||No|No|
||Charitable<br>activities|||1|1|
|9.|TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS|||||
|||||Piano, Staging||
|||||&Office||
|||||Equipment||
|||||E||
||COST|||||
||At 1 October 2022|||76,446||
||Additions|||||
||Disposals|||||
||At 30September 2023|||76,446||
||DEPRECIATION|||||
||At 1 October 2022|||75,557||
||Charge for year|||194||
||On disposals|||||
||At30September 2023|||75,751||
||NET BOOK VALUE|||||
||At 30September 2023|||695||
||At 30September 2022|||889||
|10.|DEBTORS|||||
||Trade Debtors||||27,159|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued income|||40,332|32,250|
|||||40,332|59,409|





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|REDITORS: Am|ounts<br>fa|lling due within one year|||
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||||2023|2022|
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|Trade creditors|||4,156|15,421|
|Other taxation|and social security||2,189|658|
|Accruals and deferred||income|19,059|6,042|
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||||Bal b/f|Income|Expenses|Bal c/f|
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|Unrestricted<br>Funds|||144,409|232,789|249,785|127,413|
|Restricted<br>Funds|||||||
|Anonymous<br>Funders||||20,900|20,900||
|Art Council England||||40,000|40,000||
|Stephen<br>Bell Trust||||3,000|3,000||
|The Coin Trust||||3,000|3,000||
|The Cosman<br>Keller Art and||Music Trust||5,000|5,000||
|The D'Oyly Carte Charitable||Trust||3,000|3,000||
|Fidelio Charitable<br>Trust||||2,000|2,000||
|SirJohn Fisher Foundation||||5,000|5,000||
|Granada<br>Foundation||||5,000|5,000||
|Hadfield Trust||||3,750|3,750||
|Haworth<br>Trust||||10,000|10,000||
|Helen Hamlyn<br>Trust||||3,000|3,000||
|Kirckman<br>Concerts||||2,000|2,000||
|The John Thaw Foundation||||1,000|1,000||
|The Thistle Trust||||2,000|2,000||
|Westmorland<br>Arts Trust||||5,000|5,000||
|Westmorland<br>&Furness|Council|||7,500|7,500||
|Total Restricted Funds||||121,150|121,150||
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||||Bal b/f|Income|Expenses|Bal c/f|
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|Unrestricted<br>Funds|||124,398|225,027|205,016|144,409|
|Restricted Funds|||||||
|Backstage Trust||||5,000|5,000||
|The D'Oyly Carte|Charitable|Trust||3,936|3,936||
|Fidelio Charitable|Trust|||1,500|1,500||
|SirJohn Fisher Foundation||||6,000|6,000||
|Idlewild Trust||||3,700|3,700||
|Total Restricted|Funds|||20,136|20,136||
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|Total Funds|
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|||funds|funds|2023|2022|
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|Tangible|fixed assets|695||695|889|
|Current|assets|152,122||152,122|165,641|
|Current|liabilities|25,404||25,404|22,121|
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|Operating<br>Leases:|Operating<br>Leases:|||||||||
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|At 30September 2023 the||charity had the following|||annual|commitments|under non-cancellable|||
|operating|leases. Amounts|relate to the franking||machine||and online booking||system.||
|||||||||2023|2022|
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|Operating<br>leases payments|||due:|||||||
|Within|one year|||||||2,820|2,820|
|Within|two &five years|||||||6,240|9,060|
|Over five years||||||||||
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