HASTLEON AMATEUR OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 273254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Training and performance of musical theatre productions. Donations from profits and sale of programmes given to local charities.

Objects

THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE DRAMATIC AND OPERATIC ARTS BY THE PERFORMANCE OF OPERATIC WORKS, DRAMATIC WORKS, MUSICAL COMEDIES, PLAYS AND THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS. TO MAKE ALLOCATIONS FROM NET PROCEEDS FROM THIS SOURCE TO A CHARITY OR CHARITIES TO BE SELECTED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £1,952 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £36,177 and total expenditure of £34,225. Per the trustees' report, all reserves are retained to fund future productions and the running of the hall, resulting in total funds carried forward of £84,538.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• WENDY ANN HAMEDchair
• ANDREW PILCHER
• ELIZABETH LOUISE MILLER
• Katie Bennett

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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