## **Childrens Theatre Bo'ness** 

**Receipts and Payments Account and Statement of Balances** 

**Year ended 31 March 2025** 

**Scottish Charity Number: SC029745** 



**Reference and administration details** 

**Charity name Childrens Theatre Bo’ness Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC029745 Charity’s principal address 33 Borrowstoun Place Bo’ness** 

## **EH51 0JG** 

**Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report** 

||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**<br>**not for whole year**|**Name of person**<br>**(or body) entitled to**<br>**appoint trustee (if any)**|
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|**1**<br>**2**<br>**3**<br>**4**<br>**5**<br>**6**<br>**7**<br>**8**<br>**9**<br>**10**<br>**11**<br>**12**<br>**13**<br>**14**<br>**15**<br>**16**<br>**17**<br>**18**<br>**19**<br>**20**|Fiona Johnston|Treasurer/Secretary|||
||Brian Laird||||
||Julie Arthur||||
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**Reference and administration details** 

## **Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)** 

|**Name**|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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|**Structure, governance and management**|||
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|**Type of governing document**<br>**Trustee recruitment and appointment**|||
||The Trust was set up by William McDonald and Agnes McDonald and<br>was recognised as a Scottish Charity with effect from 20 January 2000.<br>The Trust is administered in accordance with the terms of the Trust<br>constitution.||
||Trustees are appointed on a year to year rolling basis. Appointment and<br>removal is in accordance with the society constitution and bye laws<br>which requires that appointment is approved by unanimous agreement<br>of the existing trustees and removal of any trustee by the unanimous<br>agreement of the others.||
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|**Objectives and activities**|||
|**Charitable purposes**<br>**Summary of the main activities**<br>**in relation to these objects**|||
||The object of the charity, as recorded in the constitution, is to educate<br>the public in the Musical and Dramatic Arts and to further the<br>development of public appreciation and taste in the said Arts.||
||During the year, the charity produced and promoted the show “Frozen<br>Jnr”.<br>Preparations, including payment of royalties and other expenses, were<br>made in anticipation of producing and promoting the play “Anastasia”, in<br>the forthcoming year.||



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## **Achievements and performance** 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the financial period** 

During the year, the charity produced and promoted the play “Frozen Jnr”. The production proved a success in terms of the society’s objectives which resulted in a significant deficit, with total expense exceeding total income by £2,933.  This included associated and future costs of £1,268 incurred during the year.  The deficit was mitigated by members donations of £8,440 and other donations of £200 from Scotmid Co-op and Provost Reid personally donated £60. 

Fund-raising activities raised £2,468.  There were no associated costs attributable to fund raising activities. 


## **Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the charity’s policy** The unrestricted funds represent income earned but not yet utilised in **on reserves** supporting charitable activities.  At 31 March 2025 the charity held £22,759 at the bank and cash and the Trustees consider this to be appropriate to meet initial costs of the proposed production. **Details of any deficit** 

**Donated facilities and services (if any)** 


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**Other optional information** 


## **Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) Position Date** 


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**Childrens Theatre Bo'ness** 

**SC029745** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

**For the period from 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025** 

## **Section A Statement of receipts and payments** 

||||**ayments**||||||
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||||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**current**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total funds last**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||||||**8,763**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**2,468**<br>**21,445**<br>**132**<br>**-**<br>**282**<br>**-**|**11,840**|
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|||||||||**1,325**|
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|||||||||**14,978**|
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||||**-**|**-**||**-**|**33,090**|**28,143**|
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|Proceeds from sale of fixed assets|||||||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||
|Proceeds from sale of investments|||||||||
|**_A2 Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **<br>**A3 Payments**|||**-**|||**-**|||
|||||**-**|||**33,090**|**28,143**|
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|Expenses for fundraising activities|**-**||||||**-**<br>**24,378**<br>**-**<br>**2,879**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**|
|Gross trading payments|**24,378**|||||||24,945|
|Investment management costs|||||||||
|Payments relating directly to charitable<br>activities|**2,879**|||||||**2,901**|
|Grants and donations|**-**|||||||**-**|
|Governance costs:|||||||||
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|Preparation of annual accounts|||||||||
|Legal costs|||||||||
|Other|||||||||
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|**_A3 Sub total_ **|**27,257**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**27,257**|**27,846**|
|**A4 Payments relating to asset and**<br>**investment movements**|||||||||
|Purchases of fixed assets|**-**||||||**-**<br>**-**|**356**|
|Purchase of investments|||||||||
|**_A4 Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**356**|
|**_Total payments_ **<br>**_Net receipts / (payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**<br>**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|||||||||
||||**-**|**-**||**-**|**27,257**|**28,202**|
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||||**-**|**-**||**-**|**5,833**|**59)**<br>**(**|
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**Childrens Theatre Bo'ness** 

**SC029745** 

## **Section B Statement of balances** 

|**Categories**<br>**B3 Other assets**<br>**Signed by one or two trustees**<br>**on behalf of all the trustees**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Investments**<br>**B4 Liabilities**<br>**B5 Contingent liabilities**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**16,926**<br>**5,833**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total current**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total last**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||Cash and bank balances at start of<br>year|||||**16,926**|**16,985**|
||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts<br>andpayments account|||||**5,833**|**59)**<br>**(**|
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||(Agree balances with receipts and<br>payments account(s))<br>**Cash and bank balances at end of**<br>**year**<br>**Details**|**22,759**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**22,759**|**16,926**|
|||-|<br>-|<br>-<br>**Fund to which**|<br>-<br>**asset belongs**|<br>-|<br>-|
|||||||**Market valuation**<br>**to nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Total**<br>**Cost (if**<br>**available)**<br>**to nearest £**|**-**|<br>**-**|
|||||||**Current value (if**<br>**available)**<br>**to nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to nearest £**|
||Equipment-at cost||Unres|tricted||||
||Laptop and bag||Unres|tricted|**449**||449|
||Speakers||Unres|tricted|**111**||111|
||Apple 10 (iPad)||Unres|tricted|**299**||299|
||Tea Urn||Unres|tricted|**57**||57|
||||Unres|tricted|**-**||-|
||||Unres|tricted|**-**||-|
||||Unres|tricted|**-**||-|
||||Unres|tricted|**-**||-|
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||**Details**|||**Total**<br>**Fund to which**|**916**|**-**|**916**|
||||||**liability relates**|**Amount due**<br>**to nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to nearest £**|
||Falkirk Council (rent)|||unrest|ricted|**1,559**|**533**|
||Utopia Costums Ltd|||||**1,188**||
||Sundry creditors|||||**157**||
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which**|**Total**<br>**liability relates**|**2,904**|**533**|
|||||||**Amount due**<br>**(estimate)**<br>**to nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||**Signature**|||**Print Name**|**Total**|**-**|<br>**-**|
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**Childrens Theatre Bo'ness** 

**SC029745** 

## **Additional analysis (1)** 

## **Analysis of receipts and payments** 

## **1 Donations** 

|**1 Donations**|**1 Donations**|||||||||
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|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total current**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**||**Total last**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|
|Membershipfees||**8,440**|||||**8,440**||8,180|
|Provost Reid||**60**|||||**60**||60|
|The Robertson Trust||**-**|||||**-**||2,500|
|Miller Homes Limited(CommunityFunds)||**-**|||||**-**||500|
|Bo'ness Belles||**-**|||||**-**||600|
|Scotmid Co-op||**200**|||||**200**|||
|Other donations||**63**|||||**63**|||
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|**Total**||**8,763**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**8,763**||11,840|



## **2 Grants** 

|**2 Grants**|**2 Grants**||||||||
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|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Total current**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**||**Total last**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|
|Falkirk Community Schools Charity||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,325**|
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|**Total**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,325**|



## **3  Gross receipts from other charitable activities** 

|**3  Gross receipts from other charitable activities**|**3  Gross receipts from other charitable activities**|||||||||
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|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total current**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**||**Total last**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|
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|**Total**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|



## **4  Payments relating directly to charitable activities** 

|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total current**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total current**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|**Total last**<br>**period**<br>**to nearest £**|
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|Unit costs - Links Court, Bo'ness||**867**|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>||||**867**|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>|600|
|Insurance||**808**|||||**808**||1,086|
|Postage, stationery& telephone||**131**|||||**131**||134|
|Advertising||**350**|||||**350**||92|
|Travel and subsistence||**-**|||||**-**||-|
|NODA subscriptions and fees||**508**|||||**508**||-|
|Annual members disco and events||**-**|||||**-**||150|
|Bank charges(credit card machine)||**-**|||||**-**||-|
|Other subscriptions and fees||**-**|||||**-**||541|
|Sundries||**215**|||||**215**||298|
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|**Total**||**2,879**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**2,879**||**2,901**|



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**Childrens Theatre Bo'ness** 

**SC029745** 

## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** 

|**C3a Trustee remuneration**<br>**C4a Trustee expenses**<br>**C1 Nature and purpose of**<br>**funds**_(may be stated on_<br>_analysis of funds worksheets)_<br>**C2 Grants**<br>**C3b Trustee remuneration -**<br>**details**<br>**C4b Trustee expenses -**<br>**details**<br>**C5 Transactions with trustees**<br>**and connected persons**<br>**C6 Other information**|All funds are unrestricted.|All funds are unrestricted.||||
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||**Type of activity or project supported**||**Individual /**<br>**institution**|**Number of grants**<br>**made**<br>**£**||
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||If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to a<br>trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)||||**X**|
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||If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross this box<br>(otherwise complete section 4b)|||||
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