## **Blackout Productions**
**Trustees’ Annual Report**
1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025
## **Charity contact information**
## **Blackout Productions**
Scottish Charity Number: SC052655
2 Hermitage Park South
Edinburgh
EH6 8EZ
www.blackoutproductions.org
Instagram - @productionsblackout
Facebook - @blackoutproductions
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Charity Trustees
## **Objectives and activities**
Blackout Productions was set up to allow people who are interested in theatre arts to come together to help produce a variety of events to perform to audience members.
Our main activities are performing concerts, plays and musicals. This varies from year to year and will involve a different number of people depending on that the production is.
We have open auditions to allow anyone interested in taking part the opportunity to be involved in the audition process. We also have a group of volunteers who help to produce and stage the event.
Our events are performed for the local community to help promote theatre arts within Edinburgh and the Lothians.
## **Structure, governance and management**
Type of governing document
Blackout Productions is governed by a constitution.
Trustee recruitment and appointment
There has been no recruitment for new trustees for this year. All trustees are volunteers and have agreed to continue to support the charity.
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## **Achievements and performance**
This year Blackout Productions performed two fundraising concerts:
In May we performed our Sondheim Cabaret.
In December we performed our Christmas Concert at Stockbridge Parish Church.
Both concerts were are great success and very
much enjoyed by audiences and performers.
We also performed the musical Sweeney Todd in October 2024. Although this made a loss it was a great success for the company and thoroughly enjoyed by audiences.
Any profits made from the concerts go towards the costs of putting on the Musical in 2024 and our next one in 2025.
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Financial review
Blackout Productions Annual Finance
£35,LMXI
£31,067
£25,QKM)
£15,Q
£io,(xK)
,010 £2.510
,5Si
Receipts
This year Blackout Productions perfornied two concerts. We had a
Sondheim Cabaret before our Musical in October and one for
Christmas. Both made a Profit. We also performed Sweeney Todd in
October which came in at a loss although was a very successful show!
This year over all we made a small loss.
Statement of the charity's policy on reserves
At present any reserves that Blackout Productions have will be used to
finance our Musical event in October 2025.
Details of any deficit
We made a deficit this year with our Musical and within the general
expenditure section from general costs which impacted us overall and
the Charity did make a small deficit in 2024/2025.
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Blackout Productions Annual
Finance Summary
-£681
£36,456
£37,138
Receipts
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## **Future plans**
Blackout Productions have three events planned in 2025/26.
In April 2025 Blackout Productions will be performing a Schwartz Cabaret to continue to raise funds.
All funds raised will go towards putting on the musical Come From Away which we will be performing in October 2025.
We will also perform a Christmas concert in December 2025.
## **Declaration**
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:
Print name
Designation
Date
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TREASURER
24/04/24
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## **BLACKOUT PRODUCTIONS**
## **SC052655**
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|||**For the period**
**from**||01
Day||April
Month||||2024
Year|**to**|Day
31||Month
March||||Year
**2025**|||
||**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Total funds**
**current period**||||**Total funds last**
**period**|
|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
||**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||
||Donations|**2,036**||||||||||||||**2**|**2**|**2,036**|||
||Legacies|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||Grants|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**5,846**||||||||||||||**5**|**5**|**5,846**|||
||Gross tradingreceipts|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||Income from investments other than||||||||||||||||||||
||land and buildings|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||Rents from land & buildings|||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||Gross receipts from other charitable||||||||||||||||||||
||activities|**28,575**||||||||||||||**28**|**28**|**28,575**|||
|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||
||**_A1 Sub total_**|**36,457**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**36,457**|**36,457**|**36,457**||**-**|
||**A2 Receipts from asset &**||||||||||||||||||||
||**investment sales**||||||||||||||||||||
|Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 36,457**
**-**
**-**
~~—~~||||||||||||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,457**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,457**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,457**||**-**
**-**|
**A3 Payments** Expenses for fundraising activities **2,489 2,489** Gross trading payments **-** Investment management costs **-** Payments relating directly to charitable activities **34,649 34,649** Grants and donations **-** Governance costs: **-** Audit / independent examination **-** Preparation of annual accounts **-** Legal costs **-** Other **-** _**A3 Sub total**_ **37,138 - - - 37,138 - A4 Payments relating to asset and investment movements** Purchases of fixed assets **-** Purchase of investments **-** _**A4 Sub total**_ **-** ~~S~~ _**Total payments**_ ~~SS~~ **37,138 - -** ~~SS~~ **37,138 -** _**Net receipts / (payments)**_ **(681) - - - ( 681) - A5 Transfers to / (from) funds -** _**Surplus / (deficit) for year**_ ~~——————~~ **( 681) - - - ( 681) -**
APPENDIX 2
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## **Section B Statement of balances**
|**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Investments**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**14,891**
**681)**
**(**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Cash and bank balances at start of year||||||**14,891**||
||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account||||||**681)**
**(**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**14,210**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**14,210**|**-**|
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-|
-
**Fund to which**|
-
**asset belongs**||
-
**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|
-|
|||||||||**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Total**
**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**||**-**|
**-**|
||||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
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||**Details**|||**Total**
**-**
**Fund to which liability relates**|**-**||
**-**|
**-**|
||||||||**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
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||**Details**|||**Total**
**Fund to which liability relates**|||**-**|**-**|
||||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**|
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||**Signature**|||**Total**
**Print Name**|||**-**|
**-**|
|||||||||**Date of**
**approval**|
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/ Statement of balances
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December 2007
APPENDIX 2
**BLACKOUT PRODUCTIONS**
**SC052655**
## **Section C Notes to the Accounts**
**C1 Nature and purpose of funds** _(may be stated on analysis of funds worksheets)_
Blackout Productions performed a fundraising cabaret, musical show and Christmas concert.
## **C2 Grants**
## **C3a Trustee remuneration**
|**Type of activity or project supported**|**Individual /**
**institution**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||**Total**|**-**
|
|||||
|If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to
a trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)|||**x**|
|**Authority under which paid**|||**£**|
## **C3b Trustee remuneration - details**
## **C4a Trustee expenses**
**C4b Trustee expenses - details**
## **C5 Transactions with trustees and connected persons**
|If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross
(otherwise complete section 4b)|If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross
(otherwise complete section 4b)|this box|**x**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**Nature of transaction**|**Number of**
**trustees**
**£**||
|||||
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|**Nature of relationship**||**Transaction**
**amount (£)**
**Balance**
**outstanding at**
**period end (£)**||
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**C6 Other information**
/ Notes
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APPENDIX2
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APPENDIX 2
**SC052655**
## **BLACKOUT PRODUCTIONS**
## **Additional analysis (1)**
## **Analysis of receipts and payments**
## **1 Donations**
|**1 Donations**|**1 Donations**|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**|
|Donation from Springfield Distribution||**2,036**|||||**2,036**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
|**Total**||**2,036**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**2,036**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
## **2 Grants**
|**2 Grants**|**2 Grants**|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|||**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**|
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
|**Total**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**-**
**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**-**
**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**|
|Bank Interest||**172**|||||**172**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
|**Total**||**172**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**172**||**-**|
|||||-|-|-|||-|
## **4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities**
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last**
**period**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Insurance**||**480**|||||**480**|
||
|**Website domain**||**259**|||||**259**|||
|**Monthly Account Fee CAF**||**40**|||||**40**|||
|**Come from Away Venue deposit**||**500**|||||**500**|||
|**Come from Away Venue Balance**||**2152**|||||**2,152**|||
|**NODA membership**||**150**|||||**150**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
|**Total**||**3,581**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**3,581**||**-**|
|||||-|-|-|||-|
Additional notes (1)
December 2007
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## **Additional analysis (2)**
## **5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**
|**5 Breakdown of unrestricted funds**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 1 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**
**Cabaret**||**Unrestricted**
**fund 2 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**
**Sweeney Todd**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 3 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**
**Christmas**
**Concert**|**Unrestricted**
**fund 4 - enter**
**name of fund**
**below**
**General Fund**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds**|**Total**
**unrestricted**
**funds last**
**period**|
|Donations|||||**2,036**|**2,036**||
|Legacies||||||**-**||
|Grants||||||**-**||
|Receipts from fundraisingactivities|**3,010**|||**2,836**||**5,846**||
|Gross tradingreceipts||||||**-**||
|Income from investments other than land and buildings||||||**-**||
|Rents from land & buildings||||||**-**||
|Gross receipts from other charitable activities|||**28,403**||**172**|**28,575**||
|**_Sub total_**
**Receipts from asset & investment sales**|**3,010**||**28,403**|**2,836**|**2,208**|**36,457**|**-**|
|||||||||
|Proceeds from sale of fixed assets||||||**-**||
|Proceeds from sale of investments||||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**3,010**||**28,403**|**2,836**|**2,208**|**36,457**|**-**|
|||||||||
|Expenses for fundraisingactivities|**500**|||**1,990**||**2,490**||
|Gross trading payments||||||**-**||
|Investment management costs||||||**-**||
|Payments relatingdirectlyto charitable activities|||**31,067**||**3,581**|**34,648**||
|Grants and donations||||||**-**||
|Governance costs:||||||**-**||
|Audit / independent examination||||||**-**||
|Preparation of annual accounts||||||**-**||
|Legal costs||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|||||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**
**Payments relating to asset and investment**
**movements**|**500**||**31,067**|**1,990**|**3,581**|**37,138**|**-**|
|||||||||
|Purchases of fixed assets||||||**-**||
|Purchase of investments||||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||||-||
||**500**||**31,067**|**1,990**|**3,581**|**37,138**|**-**|
|||||||||
||**2,510**||**2,664)**
**(**|**846**|**1,373)**
**(**|**681)**
**(**|**-**|
|||||||||
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||**2,510**||**2,664)**
**(**|**846**|**1,373)**
**(**|**681)**
**(**|**-**|
**Nature and purpose of funds**
Additional notes (2)
December 2007
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Blackout Productions**
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities
Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the 2006 Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## Basis of independent examiner’s statement
My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## Independent examiner’s statement
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations