The Arts Foundation
Report and Annual Accounts
31 December 2022
Charity Registration No. 1000001
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Trustees
Mr Saadi Soudavar - Chair of the Board of Trustees (appointed 31 October 2022)
Mr Howell James CBE – Prev. Chair of the Board of Trustees (resigned 17 November 2022) Mr John Booth
Mr Dennis Chang Mr Andrew Comben Ms Jan Dalley Ms Virginia Hodge Ms Frith Kerr Ms Monika Parrinder Mr Jonathan Reekie CBE Mr Matthew Slotover Ms Kully Thiarai
Director
Mary Jane Edwards
Charity Number
1000001
Principal Address
The Arts Foundation c/o Adding Value Accountants Studio 6, The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
Bank
CAF Bank Ltd 5 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill, West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ
Solicitors
Clintons 55 Drury Lane London WC3B 5SQ
Investment Advisors
Investec Wealth and Investment ltd 30 Gresham Street London EC2V 7QP
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Independent Examiner
Matthew Brown Adding Value Consultancy Ltd Studio 6, The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
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Trustee’s Report
The Trustees present their report and accounts for The Arts Foundation for the year ended 31st December 2022.
Constitution
The Arts Foundation is a charity No. 1000001, registered in accordance with the Charities Act 1960 and was established by a declaration of Trust dated 16th July 1990. A Deed of Variation was agreed by the Charity Commissioners and was signed by the Trustees on 4th May 1995 and 13th October 2004.
Objectives
The Arts Foundation was established with the purpose of supporting the artistic development and livelihoods of individual artists in the UK. The purpose of the foundation’s fellowship programme, delivered through the Arts Foundation Futures Awards, is to provide unrestricted financial support for artists and creative practitioners at a pivotal moment in their careers to enable future development and to encourage dialogue and exchange between artists.
Public Benefit Statement
In considering the objectives and activities, the Trustees have considered Charity Commission guidance on public benefit to ensure that the organisation is meeting its public benefit requirements.
The Arts Foundation is a registered charity that supports individual artists and creatives in the UK with unconditional financial fellowships through the Arts Foundation Futures Awards.
Since 1993 the Arts Foundation has awarded grant funding to most promising artists in the UK at a pivotal moment in their careers to enable them to concentrate on their creative development, experiment, and realise their artistic potential.
The annual Arts Foundation Futures Awards provides five transformative £10,000 fellowships, with all shortlisted artists receiving £1,000 towards the development of their artistic practice. Each year the awards focus on broad and innovative art forms across Craft, Design, Film, Literature, Music, New Media, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts.
The vital contribution of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards to the arts in the UK is demonstrated by its past fellows, many of whom are regarded as contemporary pioneers and have gone on to become leaders in their respective art forms, including: Wayne McGregor (1994), Alice Oswald (1996), Sarah Kane (1998), Asif Kapadia (2001), Ali Smith (2001), Rufus Norris (2002), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2006), and more recently, Simon Fujiwara (2009), Alice Birch (2014), Hollie McNish (2015), Evan Ifekoya (2017), Holly Hendry (2019), Onyeka Igwe (2020), Klein (2020), and Bethany Williams (2020).
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Review of Activities undertaken during the year
The Arts Foundation Futures Awards
The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2022 were held online with a special welcome address by Guest of Honour, Artist, Jeremy Deller. The awards were announced by jury members: Oreet Ashery, Birgitta Hosea, Sam Lee, Mark Miodownik and Saad Eddine Said.
The five winning fellows were announced as: Savinder Bual (Animation), Elissa Brunato (Materials Innovation), Love Ssega (Music for Change) Lee Hart (Theatre-Makers), and Libita Sibungu (Visual Arts), whom each received £10,000 fellowships with all fifteen shortlisted artists receiving £1,000 towards the development of their artistic practice.
The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2023 categories were announced as: Bio Design, Dance Theatre, Digital Art, Electronic Music and Place Writing, with jury meetings taking place in October.
The Bio Design Award is supported in partnership with The David Collins Foundation, and the independent jury members were announced as: Natsai Audrey Chieza, founder and CEO, Faber Futures; Leonie Bell, Director, V&A Dundee; and Sarah Wigglesworth, Founder, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects.
The Dance Theatre award is supported in partnership with The Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund, and the independent jury members were announced as: Cassa Pancho MBE, Founder and Artistic Director, Ballet Black; Florence Peake, Artist, Dancer, Choreographer; and Toni Racklin, Head of Theatre and Dance, Barbican.
The Digital Art Award is supported by the Yoma Sasburg Estate and the independent jury members were announced as: Stephanie Hankey, Executive Director and Co-founder, Tactical Tech, Mark Leckey, Artist; and Antonio Roberts, Artist and Curator.
The Electronic Music Award independent jury members were announced as: Gaika, Artist; Fink (Fin Greenall), Music Artist and Producer, Founder, R’COUP'D Records; and Nemone Metaxas, DJ & Broadcaster.
The Place Writing Award independent Jury members were announced as: Claire Armitstead, Author and Associate editor, culture, Guardian; Eric Ngalle Charles, Author and Ph.D. Researcher, King's College London and Board member of Literature Wales; and Anita Sethi, Writer, Broadcaster and Journalist.
Partnerships
Later in the year, the Arts Foundation announced a partnership with Leeds 2023: Year of Culture to present the 30[th] edition of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards Ceremony at the Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North in 2023.
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Artist Support, Profile-raising and Communications
The Arts Foundation continues to support the development and profile-raising of current and past fellows and shortlisted artists through ongoing dialogue, marketing, communications, PR activities and online branded content. To date, over 1000 people have watched the 2022 online ceremony, and fellows have been featured in various publications and online media such as: Aesethica Magazine, The Stage, Crafts Magazine, Broadway World, Where the Leaves Fall Magazine, and The Guardian. The foundation continued to grow its audience and supporters across social media platforms, reaching over 10,000 engaged followers, alongside mailing list subscribers and usage of the artist directory on our website.
Future Plans
Over the course of the next year, the Arts Foundation intends to deliver the Arts Foundation Futures Awards in early 2023 and begin planning for the next awards in 2024. The Arts Foundation aims to continue to broaden its reach and nominations and jury networks to ensure it is responsive to, and represents the interests of artists across the UK, and will also conduct strategic planning with a focus on development and fundraising activities.
Organisation Development
The Board of Trustees appointed Mary Jane Edwards as the permanent Director. Howell James CBE came to the end of his term as Chair after a successful five years. Under Howell’s chairmanship, the foundation navigated the difficulties of the pandemic by broadcasting the awards ceremony online for the first time and led the Board’s appointment of a new Director. After an open public recruitment process the Board of Trustees appointed Saadi Soudavar as the new Chair of the Board on 31 October 2022.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Outside of the awards themselves, the Arts Foundation continues its commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and exceeded internal targets set to ensure the fellowship programme is accessible and representative of contemporary UK society, with a particular focus on geography, ethnicity and disability.
Financial Review
Income for the year totalled £47,963 (2021: £41,035). Total expenditure in the year was £133,123 (2021: £138,278).
With regards to the Foundation’s investment portfolio, on the 31st of December 2022, the total value of the Fundsmith portfolio and Investec Wealth and Investment (IW&I) portfolio was £880,668. The total return of the whole portfolio for the year was a reduction in value of £105,014.
As a result, there were net outgoing resources for the year of £190,175 (2021: net incoming resources of £65,801), which has decreased total funds to £891,975 (2021: £1,082,149)
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Going Concern
The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The trustees have considered the level of funds held and the expected level of income and expenditure for the twelve months from authorising these financial statements. The trustees assess the charity to be a going concern based on review of financial performance of the current year to date, the management accounts forecast for the remainder of the current financial year, and longerterm plans and forecasts for 2023 and beyond. As a result, the trustees are satisfied that these accounts can be prepared on a going concern basis.
Statement of Trustee’s Responsibilities
Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the balance sheet date and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including income and expenditure, for the financial year. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees should follow best practice and:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
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observe the methods and principle in the Charities SORP
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue as a going concern
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state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departure disclosed and explained in the financial statements.
The Trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approval
This report has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
This report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 19 May 2023 and signed on their behalf:
Mr Saadi Soudavar Chair of the Board of Trustees
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES
I report to the trustees on our examination of the accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2022
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Act and that an independent examination is needed.
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner’s statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Matthew Brown, CPFA Adding Value Consultancy Ltd Accountants and Financial Management Consultants
Date: 6 June 2023
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Statement of Financial Activities
for the year ended 31 December 2022
| 2022 | 2021 | ||
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| £ | £ | ||
| Income | |||
| Grants and Donations | 41,839 | 32,178 | |
| Investment Income and Other Earned Income | 6,124 | 8,857 | |
| 47,963 | 41,035 | ||
| Expenditure on Charitable Activities | 133,123 | 138,278 | |
| Revaluation of Investments | (105,014) | 163,044 | |
| Net Incoming (Outgoing) Resources | (190,175) | 65,801 | |
| Funds Brought Forward | 1,082,149 | 1,016,348 | |
| Funds Carried Forward | 891,975 | 1,082,149 |
All income and expenditure relate to continuing operations.
The Statement of Financial Activities includes all gains and losses recognised during the year.
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Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2022
| Notes | 2022 | 2021 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |||
| FIXED ASSETS | ||||
| Tangible Fixed Assets | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Investments | 3 | 880,668 | 1,030,682 | |
| 880,668 | 1,030,682 | |||
| CURRENT ASSETS | ||||
| Cash at Bank and in hand | 12,926 | 52,967 | ||
| CREDITORS | ||||
| Amounts fallingdue within oneyear | 1,620 | 1,500 | ||
| NET CURRENT ASSETS | 11,306 | 51,467 | ||
| TOTAL NET ASSETS | 891,974 | 1,082,149 | ||
| FUNDS | ||||
| Unrestricted Funds | 891,975 | 1,082,149 | ||
| TOTAL FUNDS | 891,975 | 1,082,149 |
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011. The accounts were approved by the Trustees on 19 May 2023 and signed on their behalf:
Mr Saadi Soudavar Chair of the Board of Trustees
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Notes to the Accounts
For the year ended 31 December 2022
1 - Accounting policies
Basis of preparation
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the inclusion of investments at market value. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 and the Statement of Recommended Practice for Charities.
Incoming Resources
Voluntary income and donations are accounted for as received. Investment income is accounted for as it becomes receivable.
Resources expended
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis with the exception of Artistic Grants and Fellowships.
Depreciation
Depreciation has been provided at the following rates in order to write off the assets over their estimated useful lives.
Office Equipment 20% straight line
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Notes to the Accounts cont.
For the year ended 31 December 2022
2 - Tangible Fixed Assets
| 2 - Tangible Fixed Assets | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office Equipment | ||
| £ | ||
| Cost | ||
| At 1 January2022 | 4,191 | |
| Additions/disposals | 0 | |
| At 31 December 2022 | 4,191 | |
| Depreciation | ||
| At 1 January2022 | 4,191 | |
| Charges duringtheyear | 0 | |
| At 31 December 2022 | 4,191 | |
| Net Book Value | ||
| At 31 December 2022 | 0 | |
| At 31 December 2021 | 0 |
3 - Investments
| 3 - Investments | ||||
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| 2022 | 2021 | |||
| £ | £ | |||
| Listed Valuation at start ofyear 1 January | 1,030,682 | 967,638 | ||
| Additions/ (disposals) | (45,000) | (100,000) | ||
| Revaluation | (105,014) | 163,044 | ||
| Listed Valuation at end ofyear 31 December | 880,668 | 1,030,682 |
Investments are included at closing market bid value at the balance sheet date. Any gain or loss on valuation is taken to the Statement of Financial Activities.
4 - Employees
The average number of employees during the year was 1 (2021: 1) There were no employees who received employee benefits of more than £60,000 in the year
5 – Related Party Transactions
No remuneration was paid to trustees during the year, nor were there any expenses paid (2021: £62)
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DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
This page does not form part of the statutory financial statements
| 2022 | 2021 | ||
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| £ | £ | ||
| INCOME | |||
| Grants and Donations | 41,839 | 32,178 | |
| Investment Income | 6,026 | 8,585 | |
| Other Income | 98 | 272 | |
| 47,963 | 41,035 | ||
| Other Sources of Funds | |||
| Revaluation of Investments | (105,014) | 163,044 | |
| (105,014) | 163,044 | ||
| EXPENDITURE | |||
| Artist Grants & Fellowships | 70,500 | 60,100 | |
| Artist Promotion and Events | 9,744 | 8,012 | |
| Awards Activities and Expenses | 6,922 | 6,430 | |
| Artistic Advisors | 3,343 | 2,350 | |
| Staffing Costs | 34,273 | 51,551 | |
| Travel, Subsistence and Hospitality | 716 | 628 | |
| Office Rent and Room Hire Costs | 0 | 5,168 | |
| General Expenses, Insurance, Recruitment | 2,450 | 1,389 | |
| IT costs including software and support | 1,008 | 699 | |
| Accountancy and Professional Fees | 4,086 | 1,850 | |
| Depreciation | 0 | 3 | |
| Bank Charges | 82 | 96 | |
| 133,123 | 138,278 | ||
| Net Resources Gained (Expended) | (190,175) | 65,801 |
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