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Period start date
lknnlh
10
Period end date
Month
Year
Year
2023
To
2(Y24
Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Reference and administration details
Charity name
other names charity is known
by
Registered charity number
Charity's principal address
TREADING THE BORDERS THEATRE COMPANY SCIO
SC042658
Ruthven Cottage
COLDSTREAM
Berwickshire
Postcode TD12 4JU
Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees. Annual Report
Name of pe￿on
lor body) entitled to
appoint trustee lif any)
Trustee name
Office lif any)
Dateg acted rf
not for whole year
Chair
Treasurer
Secretary
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

Reference and administration details
Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way
Ihrough the financial period)
Nam
Dales acted rf not for whole year
Resigned130-06-241
Resigned130-09-241
structure, governance and management
Type of governing document
SCIO Constitution
Trustee recruitment and appointment
Charity trustees are elected at the AGM from the membership. Members
are co-opted to vacancies on the Board in be￿een AGMS by the trustees.
Objectives and activities
Charitable purposes
The organisation's purposes are the advancement of the arts, in
particular the perfomiing and creative arts, in order to benefit the
communty and nurture, inspire, challenge and educate, and in
furtheran￿ thereof= To provide theatre productions of the highest
quality in the ScollandlEngland Border region and elsewhere. with
thematic material that is both entertaining and informative. To foster
writing for the theatre that focuses on social issues by developing
links with local writers, both amateur and professional. To promote
links with local statutory agencies and voluntary organisations in a
common effort to develop the performing and creative arts. To
support the use of local herrtage buildings as informal performance
venues.
Summary of the main activities
in relation to these objects
To hold workshops for writers., to develop work for the stage,. to
network and create links both locally and nationally,. to work with
professional directors, actors and production personnel to take
quality theatre to local communities. using village halls. heritage
sites etc as venues.
Achievements and performance

Sumrnary of the main achievernents of
the charity during the financial period
Our Artistic Director has been involved with a new initiative called
Made in the Borders which highlights writing, directing and acting by
professionals living in the Region. As part of this Treading the
Borders still has resonance in the community with many talented
individuals. supported and encouraged by the Company over the
years, now creating their own work with the platform of
DunsPlayFest giving an opportunity for wider recognition. While
accessing funding for the Arts continues to be an ongoing
challenge, we have discussed ways where the Company can still be
an asset to the development of theatrical production and agreed to
look at staging a perfomiance for DunsPlayFest in 2025.
We have also changed our website hosting platfom which is
considerably cheaper per annum.
Financial review
Brief statement of the charity's policy We intend to build up a cash fiow reserve of £5000 to support our
on rese￿eS
activities.
Details of any deficit
There was a planned deficit which has been met from general
reserves.
Donated facilities and services lif any) The Artistic Director has continued to donate professional time to
the charity this year.
other optional information

Trustee
has chang￿1 her nam8 t
Declaration
The trustees declafe that they have approved the tntstees, report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees
SignatsJre(sl
Full name(sl
Positk•n (e.g. Chalr) TREASURER
Date 25KO12025

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|||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period sta<br><br>||rt date<br><br>~~Year~~|||Period<br><br>||end date<br><br>|||
||||~~Day~~|~~Mont~~|||**to**|~~Day~~|~~Mo~~|~~nth~~|~~Year~~||
||||1<br>|10||2023||30|0|9|2024||
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|**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**|||||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**|||**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**<br>**current period**||**Total funds last**<br>**period**|
||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||
|Donations|**-**|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|Legacies||||||||||**-**|||
|Grants|**-**||**-**|||||||**-**||**-**|
|Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**-**|||||||||**-**|||
|Gross tradingreceipts<br>||||||||||**-**|||
|~~Income from investments other than~~<br>land and buildings|**20**|||||||||**20**||**15**|
|Rents from land & buildings<br>||||||||||**-**|||
|~~Gross receipts from other charitable~~<br>activities|**-**|||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|**_A1 Sub total_**|**20**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**20**||**15**|
||||||||||||||
|~~**A2 Receipts from asset &**~~<br>**investment sales**|||||||||||||
|Proceeds from sale of fixed assets||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|Proceeds from sale of investments||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|**_A2 Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|**20**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**20**||**15**|
||||||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||
|Expenses for fundraising activities||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|Gross trading payments||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|Investment management costs||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|Payments relating directly to charitable<br>activities|<br>**182**||**-**|||||||**182**||**480**|
|Grants and donations||||||||||**-**|||
|Governance costs:||||||||||**-**|||
|Audit / independent examination||||||||||**-**|||
|Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||**-**|||
|Legal costs||||||||||**-**|||
|Other||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|**_A3 Sub total_ **|**182**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**182**||**480**|
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|~~**A4 Payments relating to asset and**~~<br>**investment movements**|||||||||||||
|Purchases of fixed assets||||||||||**-**|||
|Purchase of investments||||||||||**-**|||
|**_A4 Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|**182**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**182**||**480**|
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|**_Net receipts / (payments)_**|**162)**<br>**(**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**162)**<br>**(**||**465)**<br>**(**|
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|**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**||||||||||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**162)**<br>**(**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**162)**<br>**(**||**465)**<br>**(**|
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Section B Statement of balances
SC042658
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.81 Cash funds
1 813
1 Ib6
DEtsi15
15
Co*
,B3 other o888ts
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|**Section C Notes to the Accounts**|||||||||||
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|**C1 Nature and purpose of**<br>**funds**_(may be stated on_<br>_analysis of funds worksheets)_|All grants received and funds generated through the activities of the organisation (ie workshop fees or box<br>office), are used to further the charitable aims.||||||||||
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||**Type of activity or project supported**||||||**Individual /**<br>**institution**||**Number of grants**<br>**made**|**£**|
|**C2 Grants**|||||||||||
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||||||||||**Total**|**-**<br>|
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|**C3a Trustee remuneration**|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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||**Authority under which paid**|||||||||**£**|
|**C3b Trustee remuneration -**<br>**details**|||||||||||
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|**C4a Trustee expenses**|If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross<br>(otherwise complete section 4b)||||||||this box|**X**|
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||||||||||**Number of**<br>**trustees**|**£**|
|**C4b Trustee expenses -**<br>**details**|||||||||||
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||**Nature of relationship**||||**Nature of transaction**||||**Transaction**<br>**amount (£)**|**Balance**<br>**outstanding at**<br>~~**period end (£)**~~|
|**C5 Transactions with**<br>**trustees and connected**<br>**persons**|||||||||||
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|**Additional analysis (1)**|||||||||||||
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|**Analysis of receipts and payments**|||||||||||||
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|**1 Donations**|||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**||**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total current**<br>**period**||**Total last**<br>**period**|
|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|General||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|**Total**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**2 Grants**|||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||||||**Total current**<br>**period**||**Total last**<br>**period**|
|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|**Total**||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
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|||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
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|**3  Gross receipts from other charitable activities**|||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**||**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total current**<br>**period**||**Total last**<br>**period**|
|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|ticket sales||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|workshop fees||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||**-**|||
|**Total**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**4  Payments relating directly to charitable activities**|||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Expendable**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**||**Permanent**<br>**endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total current**<br>**period**||**Total last**<br>**period**|
|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|Mentoring and workshops||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|Production staffing/production expenses||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|Subscriptions||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|Stationery, printing, telephone, postage||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|Venue hire||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|Programme management fees/administration||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|Publicity/marketing/website||**182**||**-**||||||**182**||**480**|
|Miscellaneous||**-**||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||**-**|||
|**Total**||**182**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**182**||**480**|
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oscr
offi￿ of the Sc4)ttish Charfty Regulator
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Report to the
trustèèslmgmbors of . TREADING THE BORDERS THEATRE COMPANY SCIO
Registered charity
number
SC042658
On the a￿OUnts of
the charfty for the
PgTiod
Peric#Y start date
Period end date
Day
Ml￿th
ear
10
2023
09
2024
Set out on pages
1-8
Immcmberta irKa￿t Ihc twe
urnLYs ol a￿d￿l￿1a[ thei81
Respective
responsibilities of
trustse5 and examiner
The tharity's fwstees are resp)nsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance i
with the tern￿ of the Charities and Trustee Investment {Scotlandl 2CX)S Act and the
Charities Accounts IScolland} Regulations 2(M16. The tharity trustees consider Ihat the
aLKIit requirement of Regulation 10111 {dl of the Accx)unts Regulations does not apply. It
is my resw)nsibilty to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1 } Icl of the
Act arld to slate whether partiallar matters have frfyme to my attention.
My examination is carried out in ac(XKdan￿ wth Regulation 11 ofthe Charities
Accounts (Scotlandl Regulations 2(X)6. An examinalion indudes a review of the
accounting records kept by the chanty and a comparison of the accounts PTesented
smth IFvJ5e re(XNds. It also Ind￿eS wnsKJeratK)n of any unusual items or disdosures in
the ￿coUnt5 and seeks explanations from the tnjstees conceming any such matters.
The prO￿dureS undertaken do nol prDvide all the eviden￿ that would be wuired in 8n
audrt and. consequenljy. I do not expre55 an audit opinion on the ac￿)unt$.
Basis of independent
?xamlner's statement
Independent
examinerfs statement
In the (x)utse of my examinatton, TK) matter has wme to my attention
whith gNes me reasonab￿ ￿use lo bdieve that in 8ny matenal respect the
requirements..
to keep accounting reccffts in accordance Tmth sectton 44111 la} of the 2005 Aci
2nd Regulation 4 01 the 2(K16 Acc*)unts RegulatKsns. and
to prepare acwunls which aixx)rd smth the attounting records and comply with
Ro9ulab"on 9 of tha 2006 Aco)unts Rggulatx)ns
have nol ￿en me( or
2. to whith. in my O￿niOn. attents.on should be drawn in ordw to enable a ptoper
11?@.cr.5-,2rdi nf14e ac="uils lo be reached.
Slgned:
251612025
Name:
Relevant professional
qualification(s> or body
{if any)..
Address: