| Stromness Drama Club |
Charity Number: | $C051386 | |||||||||
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| Receipts and Payments for the period of 01 Oct 2024 -30 Sept 2025 | |||||||||||
| 2024-25 | 2023-24 | 2022-23 | 2021-2022 | ||||||||
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| Receipts | |||||||||||
| Total receipts | 12,175.49 | 36,207.94 | 14,315.19 | 10,634.08 | |||||||
| Payments | |||||||||||
| Fund Raising Expenses | |||||||||||
| Total Fund Raising Expenses | 7,697.35 | 12,160.74 | 10,583.15 | 6,492.80 | |||||||
| Donations to Charitable Activities | 1 | 1,624.00 | 721,50 | 665.50 | 422.00 | ||||||
| Governance Costs | |||||||||||
| Total Governance Costs | 6,456.17 | 19,388.60 | 6,716.30 | 2,281.75 | |||||||
| Total Payments | 15,977.52 | 32,270.84 | 17,964.95 | 9,196.55 | |||||||
| Surplus / (deficit) for year |
3,937.10 | 1,337.54 | |||||||||
| Stromness Drama Club |
Charity Number: | SC051386 | |||||||||
| Statement of Balances as | at 30 Sept | 2025 | |||||||||
| 2024-25 | 2023-24 | 2022-23 | 2021-22 | ||||||||
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| Closing Balances | £ | 44,952.34 | £ | 48,754.37 | € | 44,817.27 | € | 48,467.03 | |||
| Reserves | |||||||||||
| Closing Balances | E | 44,952.34 | f£ | 46,754.37 | f&£ | 44,817.27 | € | 48,467.03 | |||
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Treasurer’s Report Stromness Drama Club SCIO SC051386
1[st] October 2024 to 30 September 2025
Over the past year the Club as begun to se�le in to its new home in the former Herring Factory and enjoy the fully func�onal studio and stores there. The stability of having a new home has seen new faces on the commi�ee, as directors, actors and willing set-painters and crew.
Our four major projects of the year were:
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The Stromness Plays project in collabora�on with Rachael McGill and the Sco�sh Playwright’s Associa�on (largely last financial year, but with the final event this year). This was a fantas�c event celebra�ng and nurturing new wri�ng and bringing new actors and directors into the club. The project made a small financial loss of £290.22 but gave us great new plays and was a thoroughly worthwhile.
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on some years, possibly due to the clash of dates for the ma�nee and closing night, but a great result and a great show.
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We entered two plays into the 2025 SCDA one act play fes�val “2 pitchforks west of Stromness” by (a new play from the Stromness Plays project) and “The Scurvy-Ridden Whale Men” by Steven Dick. The second of these plays went forward to the Divisional Final is Birnam. Overall the club broke even, with a net gain of £34.50, which is pre�y good going given the limited opportunity to fundraise. It was great to see two entries from the club this year.
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a great evening of home-grown entertainment, complete with mud under the fingernails.
£15,977.52 including an excellent £1,624 we were able to donate to charitable ac�vi�es (Kirkwall Guides £20, Orkney Charitable Trust £354, Stromness Academy Drama Dept £1,250). This led to a cash deficit of £3,802.03. Important contribu�ons to this deficit are £1,151.18 in script hire and performance fees for the Wizard of Oz, our 2025 winter show, (so these really belong to next year’s accounts) and £2,783.52 invested in capital improvement to the our Studio in the Herring Factory (including 4 new spot lights and 2 moving-head lights, ligh�ng bars, black cloth for drapes, a new carpet, paint cupboards and a lovely step ladder where all of the steps are actually weight-bearing). If we exclude the capitalizable investments and accruals to next year (£3,934.70) then the year-to-date balance looks like a surplus £132.67. We carry forward a very healthy bank balance of £44,952.34.
and the wonderful generosity of the Orkney audiences, was able to cover its costs this year and make significant dona�ons to drama at Stromness Academy and to Orkney Charitable Trusts. We invested further into our building and now have a great working Studio space and have carried forward a healthy fund for future investment and development.
Mike Partridge, 22/10/2025
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