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MAYA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED

REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 05 APRIL 2023

COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE Company No. 02966878 Charity No. 1043487

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Table Of Contents

REPORT CONTENTS Report of the Directors 2 Achievements and Performance 2022-23 6 Balance Sheet 28 Statement of Financial Activities 29 Notes to the Financial Statements 30

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REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS

The Directors, who are also trustees of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, have pleasure in submitting their Report together with the financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2023. The Company is “Limited by Guarantee” - having no Share Capital.

The directors have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (2015 FRSSE) applicable in the UK.

DIRECTORS

The Directors throughout the year were: Anna Birch Jo Carter (Chair) Rachael Garvin Steven Hoo Rebecca Martin-Williams Jaime Nabeta ( Appointed on 16th November 2022) Anselm Onyenani (Treasurer) Christopher Preston Janet Steel (Appointed on the 16th November 2022) Shuang Teng Ferry Van Dijk (Appointed on the 27th July 2022)

All Directors are members of the Company and guarantee to contribute a sum not exceeding £1 to the assets of the Company in the event of it being wound up.

AUDITORS

The Directors have taken advantage of the exemptions in S.477 of the Companies Act 2006 removing the need for the financial statements to have an audit. An Independent Examination of the Accounts has taken place.

STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES

Company Law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and of the profit and loss of the Company for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the Directors are required to:-

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The Directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records, which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time, the financial position of the Company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Directors’ report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies, subject to the small companies’ regime in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

REGISTERED OFFICE

45 Landells Road London SE22 9PQ

GOVERNING DOCUMENT

Maya Productions was incorporated in September 1994 company number 2966878 and registered as a charity with charity number 1043487. The company governance instrument is its Memorandum and Articles of Association. It is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member is limited to £1 per member.

APPOINTMENT AND RETIREMENT OF TRUSTEES

The Trustees are appointed (or elected) at an Annual General Election. From time to time any member of the Charity may be appointed as a trustee provided that the maximum number of trustees (12) is not exceeded. This number was increased from 10 to 12 by the Trustees in September 2021. From time to time the Trustees may register an increase of members. Any member so appointed will retain his or her office only until the next Annual General Meeting but he or she will then be eligible for re-election. At the AGM, one third of the trustees will retire from office. A retiring member of the board of trustees will be eligible for re-election.

The trustees to retire shall be those that have been longest in office since their last election to office. As between members of equal seniority, the members to retire shall in absence of agreement be selected from among them by lot.

PUBLIC BENEFIT

The Trustees have considered the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and consider that the activities of the charity meet its charitable objectives and provide a benefit to the public.

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CHARITY

The objects for which the Charity is established are: “To advance education for the public benefit through the promotion of the arts with particular but not exclusive reference to the dramatic arts.”

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All project photography by Gemma Thorpe, Natalie Sloan, Keyhan Modaressi, Roxan Grant and Thomas Unsworth.

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VISION

Our vision is a world where everyone, regardless of age, ability, culture and class have access to good quality theatre experiences.

MISSION

We make diverse theatre to create change: We bring together organisations and individuals who passionately want their work to enable social change and racial justice in the arts.

AIMS

To make work led by Global Majority Background Artists (South Asian, Latin American, African Diaspora) to:

To engage with young people and communities across the UK to:

To promote workforce diversity across the arts to:

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE 2022 – 2023

OVERVIEW

2022 - 2023, witnessed a return to pre-COVID delivery conditions with no restrictions in place. This period was marked by a surge in activity, setting the stage for the creative ambitions of Maya Productions (Maya) to flourish in 23 – 24.

Highlights of the year include:-

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THE YEAR IN NUMBERS:

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THE YEAR IN MORE DEPTH

PLAYS:

Benny and the Greycats. Words by Suzanne Gorman, Music by Mike Gorman and Riz Maslen.

The musical tells the story of an Anglo-Indian family of railway workers from Trichinopoly, South India who swap playing in a swing band in India, for a new life in the steel city of Sheffield.

2022-2023 focused on developing the next draft of the play. We wanted to approach the telling of the story from a slightly different angle and were pleased to explore this through China Plate Theatre’s Musical Theatre Darkroom residency at Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton in July 2022 alongside three other companies developing new musicals. The residency was led by composer Fred Carl and lyricist and librettist Robert Lee – both experienced musical theatre practitioners and specialist tutors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

The residency was fruitful. Mabel, mother of the family, was now the central character , and we left with a strong idea for a shift in form and setting for the musical. This involved a major rewrite, and work towards this continued through the year, supported by Paul Sirett as dramaturg.

We achieved:

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Súper Chefs by Betsy Picart with Music by Ariel Cubria:

Súper Chefs is an interactive, bi-lingual (English/Spanish) family musical written by Puerto-Rican Guatemalan American writer Betsy Picart.

Set in London, we meet 6-year-old Manny, who is preparing a welcome home dinner for his dad, together with his mother, and professional chef Valeria, and grandmother, Alma, who holds some traditional values. Aimed at families with children aged 4-8 years old, the musical invites the audience to explore food, family, gender and female role models through three generations of a Latin American family in London.

Following the research and development process and the work-in-progress performances in December 2021 we were encouraged to take the play to a full production and began assembling the team. In May 2022 we brought Maria Cuervo into the Maya Team as Súper Chefs Producer. Maria, a creative producer and theatre-maker of Colombian heritage based in London, brought a unique perspective and lived experience to the project.

Her multidisciplinary theatre expertise and connection to Latin American culture made her an ideal driving force behind our efforts to premiere the production. Following successful fundraising bids we began the pre-production process in January 2023 working towards our first production planned for June 2023. This included setting up a steering committee composed of members of the London Latin American community and Maya Trustees and establishing a new partnership with Exchange Theatre.

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PARTICIPATION:

Súper Chefs - Production Educational Resources

Alongside the pre-production process we worked in partnership with St Anthony's Catholic Primary School to develop a suite of educational resources to go alongside the show. Led by Education Facilitator Federico Trujillo this included delivering 6 workshops with 60 Year 2 children (ages 6-7) to test the content. The workshops introduced characters and themes from the play and through theatre games and exercises, music and dance approach the Core KS1 PSHE Themes of Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and Living in the Wider World in a fun and imaginative way.

“They are fun, engaging and informative, the children loved Federico's workshop” (Teacher)

Súper Chefs - Holiday Programme Workshops

As we were planning our full production of Súper Chefs we wanted to extend the reach of the play and its themes for children. We developed new Súper Chefs workshops that could be delivered alongside the show or as a standalone activity. The workshop developed creative and communication skills and supported children to think about their passion, powers and individual strengths to become their own Superheroes and how to improve their superpowers through super-healthy eating.

In collaboration with Southwark Culture Health and Wellbeing Partnership (SCHWeP) we delivered a series of these workshops, as part of their Spring and Summer Local Creative Wellbeing Programme for the Southwark Food and Fun Holiday Programme.

In the Easter holidays Victor Rios ran 7 workshops at Bizzie Bodies, Bethwin Adventure Playground, Burgess Sports Holiday Club, Legend Learning Centre and Pro Touch Sports Academy, Spring Holiday Club. In the summer, with additional support from Unicorn Theatre and this time led by two theatre arts practitioners, William Adomako-Opoku and Cristal Cole, we delivered 9 more sessions with 5 previous clubs and 4 new ones. (Time & Talents, Parent Skills2go, Angels Breakfast After school club and Christ Apostolic Church - surrey docks community welfare hub).

Feedback from the staff:

“We would love to have another session” “Enjoyed participating and playing with them creating characters, thank you”

Feedback from the participants:

“ I am braver than I thought” “I can be creative”

“My favourite part was creating characters and acting”

“I feel more confident about expressing my opinions but I am braver with a mask”

We achieved:

A suite of workshops and educational resources that can support engagement with Súper Chefs increased reach within the borough of Southwark, connecting with theatres, community organisations, schools and children and young people. Key venues and partners in Southwark, Croydon and Sheffield to launch the premiere of the show

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Routes to Roots and Talking About My Generation

April-December 2022:

We successfully led four participation projects based in Sheffield, Bradford, Croydon and Coventry using the themes of Benny and the Greycats as a stimulus for exploring, migration and heritage stories. From April to July we worked in three cities, delivering a series of cross-arts workshops, led by local arts practitioners. The key aims of the project were to:-

The three Spring/Summer groups were:

Talking About My Generation Croydon - Adult Group

Partner Organisation: Stanley Arts.

Maya identified a number of older people from the Anglo-Indian community with whom to create a project examining their migration stories to the UK. We were really pleased to be able to involve an Anglo-Indian group in this project, as the Anglo-Indian experience is at the forefront of Benny and the Greycats. The participants were an amalgamation of already formed groups who normally met at Anglo-Indian social clubs. This was the first time they came together for a creative project.

“People who have never been faced with migration, don't necessarily understand the impact of migration and why people have to migrate. The project we are working on is just so relevant to what's going on today” (Participant, Croydon)

‘Their initial perception was that their stories weren’t worthy, but they grew to realise that they were worth it and they were valued and their stories were precious” (Rez, Facilitator)

Talking About My Generation Bradford - Adult Group

Partner organisations: Kala Sangam, WomenZone

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Following discussions with Bradford arts organisation, Kala Sangam, Maya connected with WomenZone, an organisation that serves South Asian women in the community. We worked with the Happy Hour group for women, for some of whom engaging in arts was a unique and entirely new experience.

The women of this group had varying levels of English, with some only able to speak in Urdu and requiring translation by WomenZone support workers, however the facilitators were able to adapt their processes to ensure the workshops remained inclusive and accessible. Across the 6 workshops participants developed a creative response to Benny and the Greycats using the themes of family, heritage, place, culture and migration.

“I ’m really proud of the ladies and all that they have created. Some have never written a poem, or got their hands covered in paint“ (Sharena Lee Satti, Facilitator)

“Even though we are from another country, it felt familiar, their stories made me remember all the hard times I faced when I left my home” (Bradford participant on meeting the other groups)

Routes to Roots Sheffield – Youth Group:

Through supporters, Forced Entertainment and off the back of the successful 2021 Routes to Roots programme, Maya worked once again with delivery partner Handsworth Grange Community Sports College. The school identified a group of students who were struggling to engage with performing arts subjects, with a noticeable low intake of drama and arts subjects for GCSE and beyond.

“We are preparing students to see their own heritage as worthy of study and their creative experiences as a valid form of further personal development.” (Teacher, Handsworth)

The project gave students, some for the first time, the opportunity to explore cultural identity, migration, and family through the arts. Facilitators Nisha Lall and Ethel Maqeda used a variety of arts-based approaches; dance, spoken word and visual arts among other methods. “All the different arts that we exposed them to allowed the girls an opportunity to express themselves” (Ethel Maqeda, Facilitator).

Exhibition for South Asian Heritage Month

We were delighted to be able to work with Aamta Tul-Waheed to curate an exhibition of the visual art, and some of the creative writing that was developed from the three groups. The exhibition was held at Womenzone in August.

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AUTUMN 2022:

In Autumn 2022 we delivered another Routes to Roots project, this time in Coventry.

Routes to Roots Coventry – Youth Group:

The group of participants were a mixture of those who had previously engaged with Belgrade Theatre through its South Asian Youth Theatre , and new participants from the local community. The group worked with facilitator Reena Jaisiah, an experienced theatre practitioner and Daya Bhatti a visual artist who specialises in work focusing on identity. Across the programme, the participants were able to explore and intertwine the two artistic disciplines to examine the project themes. The group created a number of performance pieces using dance, theatre and song (one young person sang a rendition of Benny and the Greycats song (“Railways of India”) and also a mixed media art exhibition/installation.

“I enjoyed how we got to hear others' stories and the different perspectives of our own. It also expressed how many people have similar stories to you. ” (Coventry Participant)

Spices of Life:

After the successful Talking About My Generation project, Stanley Arts invited us to continue to work with members of the Croydon group and develop a series of workshops inspired by their herb garden. The project was once again led by Janet Steel and Rez Kabir and explored Anglo-Indian and South Asian stories of migration through memories of food and flavours over three monthly sessions (October – December).

Our Achievements

The success and impact of this work led to a successful grant from National Heritage Lottery Fund, to support delivery of the programme in three cities, over the next three years.

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Diverse Voices: Pilot Programme

In partnership with Central Foundation Girls’ School, we ran a pilot playwriting programme Diverse Voices. The project aim was to empower, primarily South Asian and global majority, young women to use writing for performance as a means of self-expression, building creative, transferable skills and confidence, in addition to supporting attainment in English Literature/Language. The project enabled young and diverse voices to be amplified, alongside opening up awareness of and a pathway into the arts sector.

The pilot programme was led by Breman Rajkumar and delivered from April - July 2022, working with Year 9 students (13 -14 year olds). “I found it very fun because we learn more about how playwriting is structured and it lets you be creative” (Pilot Participant)

We introduced the basic elements of playwriting to 90 students who attended a taster workshop. 20 students then moved on to the indepth playwriting programme to write their own play, learning the tools to create characters, write dialogue, structure a play etc. The programme culminated in a professionally acted, directed and designed showcase of 20 plays, which were shared with an audience of 130 of peers, families and teachers. “I was most proud of having my family watch my play” . (Pilot participant)

100% of the 20 participants completed a play.

“My two real highlights were seeing girls from my form in a new light: one has quite low participation, gets in trouble here and there, and doesn't see her work of any value: but after the taster she stuck out the whole programme, writing her piece, and on the morning of the performance she was full of nerves: I had to talk her into attending, but afterwards she was so proud to have written it and seen it; the other girl in my form is very quiet and wellbehaved, she can be a little overlooked, and she had written a beautifully structured play full of dark humour, which helped me see her too in a deeper light” (Teacher)

We achieved:

Dynamic Flights: Arts and Mental Health: In partnership with South Yorkshire Housing Association.

We were pleased to begin working in a new area, that of the arts and health sector. It was identified by The Baring Foundation research Creatively Minded that “few diverse-led organisations were specifically devoted to arts and health work and that ethnically diverse people were not well represented, either as service users or within the workforce of the arts and health organisations”.

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Maya will deliver a 3 year programme involving a 12 week theatre arts workshop programme for residents with long term mental health conditions in 2 housing schemes in Sheffield. Year 1 will develop creative skills and story ideas, which will lead to the commissioning of a writer in Year 2, and the production of a new play in Year 3. Each year the residents will engage in creative activities that lead to co-creating the play, and also an annual sharing event of their work. The project will be led by a team of global majority artists based in or around South Yorkshire.

Cara McAleese is working with us at Creative Producer, and Suzanne and Cara engaged in a planning and development phase, visiting the housing schemes, talking to workers and residents and also recruiting 3 artist/facilitators and a trainee artist.

SECTOR DEVELOPMENT & OTHER PROJECTS:

We promoted workforce diversity in the sector by continuing to deliver on the actions recommended by Suzanne Gorman’s research project Where Am I? Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse Role Models and Leaders in the Performing Arts , and its corresponding Pocket Guide . In collaboration with Tonic Theatre we delivered Race and Allyship Training and also began training new facilitators so that we can roll the training programme out ourselves. Suzanne was invited to facilitate an event on culture and race for Creative Network Southwark at Theatre Peckham in January 2023.

Suzanne led a Race and Allyship Training session for Tonic Theatre and then we embarked on delivering Race and Allyship sessions under the Maya banner. We ran two sessions for Theatre Deli (November 2022 and January 2023). These also served as part of a training programme for two new Facilitators, David Furlong from Exchange Theatre and Breman Rajkumar who will facilitate Race and Allyship sessions going forwards.

Suzanne also continued her coaching and mentoring working with 2 individuals.

We continued our partnership with Nottingham Trent University, working on their CoLab Project. This involved Maya creating a project for students Costume Design and Construction, Design for Theatre and Live Performance, Photography and Graphic Design students to collaborate on. Suzanne offered a project brief linked to Súper Chefs.

London College of Communication - MA Collaboration Unit

Led by Ada Onyekwelu, we partnered with the university’s MA Publicity and Marketing students as part of the LCC Collaboration to help develop our marketing strategy and create assets to utilise on our social media platforms. We plan to utilise videos and photographs to support our Súper Chefs tour marketing campaign.

ORGANISATIONAL AND COMPANY DEVELOPMENT:

Suzanne Gorman and Ada Onyekwelu continued to work throughout the year to deliver the work of the company. Suzanne continued to volunteer additional time to support the management and organisational development of the company. Lizzy Vogler continued to support the company with fundraising and some executive director duties for approximately 4 days a month up to December 2022. Sharon Mitcheson, continued to work with us on preparation of our quarterly and annual finance reports. We were also pleased to be working with 31 new artists and practitioners as freelancers, introducing them to the work of Maya.

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We began to take forward our actions from our business case for Southwark, by building new local partnerships and delivering more work locally. We also continued to develop our national networks, expanding our partnerships with organisations in Sheffield,Bradford, Coventry and Nottingham, therefore extending our reach and ability to create social change and enable racial justice in the arts.

We were delighted to welcome Janet Steel, Jaime Nabeta and Ferry Van Dijk onto our board of trustees. They bring with them a range of valuable skills and expertise including ; subsidised and commercial theatre industry expertise and networks, human resources, business management and local Southwark connections. All Trustees have continued to support the organisation through attending regular meetings, supporting fundraising, identifying opportunities and attending performances and workshops.

PEOPLE

We were deeply saddened this year by the loss of Jo Egan of Macha Productions. Jo had been working with Maya since 2015, initially supporting us to write a new business plan, and from then on working creatively with Suzanne. Together Suzanne and Jo were working on Tara, a project exploring Indian and Irish links, via the British Empire. Jo was a brilliant writer, director and producer with a passion for social justice in all its many forms. We are very grateful for her contribution to the development of Maya Productions under Suzanne’s Artistic Direction and she will be missed as a collaborator, artist, friend and mentor.

Benny and the Greycats

Riz Maslen Co- Composer Mike Gorman Co-composer Paul Sirett Dramaturg

Súper Chefs

Maria Cuervo Producer Federico Trujillo Education Facilitator Victor Rios Holiday Club Facilitator William Adomako-Opoku Holiday Club Facilitator Cristal Cole Holiday Club Facilitator Malena Arcucci Set & Costume Designer Harvey Ebbage Lighting Designer Luis ‘Gustavo’ Silva Navarro Sound Designer Anna Álvarez Movement Director /Choreographer Pembe Tokluhan Production Manager Natalia Knowlton Vásquez Marketing Strategist Gian Carlo Ferrini Marketing /Engagement Assistant

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Routes to Roots and Talking About My Generation

Aamta Tul-Waheed Artist/ Facilitator Sharena Lee Satti Artist/ Facilitator Rez Kabir Theatre Practitioner/ Facilitator Janet Steel Theatre Practitioner/ Facilitator Ethel Maqeda Theatre Practitioner/ Facilitator Nisha Lall Artist/ Facilitator Reena Jaisiah Theatre Practitioner/ Facilitator Daya Bhatti Artist/ Facilitator Sam Holland Producer Katrina Woolley Producer Gemma Thorpe Photographer / Videographer Roxanne Grant Photographer Keyhan Modaressi Photographer / Videographer Natalie Slone Filmmaker

Diverse Voices

Breman Rajkumar Thananya Kaewsanthia Natalie Slone

Playwriting Tutor / Director

Designer Filmmaker

Roxanne Grant

Photographer

Sasha Amani Malik Actor Diogo Sousa Pereira Actor Kalvin Lobo Actor Leila Shah Actor

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Spices of life

Rez Kabir Theatre Practitioner/ Facilitator Janet Steel Theatre Practitioner/ Facilitator

Dynamic Flights: Arts and Mental Health

Cara McAleese

Creative Producer

Sector Development

Breman Rajkumar Race and Allyship Trainer David Furlong Race and Allyship Trainer

Maya Office

Suzanne Gorman

Artistic Director

Liz Vogler Executive Director Sharon Mitcheson Bookkeeping and finances Ada Onyekwelu Administrator/Project Producer

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PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS:

Our slate of projects have been delivered across the UK including London, Sheffield, Bradford, Nottingham and Coventry.

This year we have partnered with and been supported by:

Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Central Foundation Girls School, China Plate Theatre, Darnall Wellbeing, English Touring Theatre, Exchange Theatre, Forced Entertainment, Handsworth Grange School, Immediate Theatre, Kala Sangam, Macha Theatre, Migration Matters Festival, Nottingham Trent University, SCHWeP, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Stanley Arts, Tonic Theatre, Unicorn Theatre and WomenZone.

SECTOR DEVELOPMENT CLIENTS:

Historic Royal Palaces, Theatre Deli and Project Phakama.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW

This year the charity’s turnover was £165,672.

The Trustees are pleased that we raised income of £151,011 through various small and mediumsized grants, including the start of multi-year grants from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Baring Foundation. Maya raised £14,661 through earned income.

The Baring Foundation grant will enable us to embark on a new programme in Arts and Mental Health in Sheffield. This was additionally supported by Sheffield Town Trust, and Scurrah Wainwright who have previously funded our Routes to Roots project.

Once again we were very grateful to receive funds from Teale Charitable Trust, a regular funder of our work with children and young people.

We are grateful to Postcode Society Trust and Arts Council England for supporting us to bring our new family musical Súper Chefs to a full production, as well as Newcomen Collett, who once again funded us to develop work in Southwark Schools alongside the Súper Chefs production.

We are particularly grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for a 3-year grant to support Routes to Roots: A South Asian Heritage Project, a project which aims to increase access to heritage for South Asian and global majority groups traditionally underrepresented, as producers and consumers of heritage. This is a project we are incredibly proud of and having a multi year grant enables us to develop this work significantly.

The company remains project funded. Looking forward to 2023/24, Maya will focus time on packaging our Race and Allyship Training, in order to increase earned income, and look to applying for larger grants to increase unrestricted funding and to support the core team.

FUNDERS AND INCOME

For work delivered during the year ending April 5th 2023 we received funds from Arts Council England, Postcode Society Trust, J G Graves, Sheffield Town Trust, Newcomen Collett, Scurrah Wainwright, Enterprise Arts Trust, Westfield Foundation for Future London Small Fund.

We earned income and received fees from partner contributions to projects, delivering Race and Allyship Training, delivering workshops, lectures, consultations, presentations and coaching / mentoring. These fees came from; Migration Matters Festival, Theatre Deli, Belgrade Theatre, Stanley Arts, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Tonic Theatre, Nottingham Trent University, Southwark Culture Health and Wellbeing Partnership (SCHWeP), China Plate, and Project Phakama.

RESERVES POLICY

As the company only operates on a project funded basis the Trustees aim to build up reserves, as and when possible. We are currently carrying £110,869 in reserves of which £83,782 are restricted, £23,904 are designated, and £3,184 are unrestricted.

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FUTURE PLANS 23- 24

PLAYS

Súper Chefs will be taken to a full production this year and has secured venue and partner support from Theatre Peckham, Stanley Arts and Migration Matters Festival.

We will continue to develop Benny and the Greycats. We have been awarded a place in the UK's biggest showcase of new musical theatre - BEAM 2023. We will take a pitch/presentation of work to present to potential partners, producers and audiences at the Oxford Playhouse in May 2023.

PARTICIPATION

Our Routes to Roots /Talking About My Generation projects will combine to become Routes to Roots: A South Asian Heritage Project. Introducing museum and archive partners we will be working with South Asian communities in Bradford, Sheffield and Croydon over three years and introducing the new elements of the creation, exhibition and archiving of Heritage Products (poetry, stories, visual art) including captured oral histories of migration journeys and settlement stories.

Diverse Voices will develop to a full programme, this time reaching over 200 Year 9 pupils through Taster workshops and expanding the activities available for the young playwrights to engage in; this includes: inviting South Asian/ Global Majority playwright to visit the school for a Talk and a theatre trip.

We will begin delivery of Dynamic Flights, our Arts and Mental Health project. Working in two South Yorkshire Housing Association schemes we will deliver a programme of 12 creative arts workshops in each scheme.

SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

We hope to develop more opportunities to run Race and Allyship Training.

We will also begin working on Inclusion Boost, a pilot online careers toolkit that will support 6 theatre professionals from black, asian, latin american and global majority backgrounds to be role models for inclusion. It will amplify Maya’s work to profile global majority theatre professionals and build on Maya’s research project Where Am I? and Pocket Guide that revealed the importance of black, asian and ethnically diverse role models and leaders for workforce diversity in the performing arts.

It will inspire young people and those from underrepresented communities to see performing arts careers as an option. Partnering with Charter Schools, North and East Dulwich, the project will work with students to identify their needs from an online careers toolkit.

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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

JO CARTER

.................................................. 13/12/2023

Director/ Member of Trustees

Respective responsibilities of the Directors and the examiner. The Directors are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Directors consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act)

Accounts prepared by S Mitcheson & S Gorman 45 Landells Road London SE22 9PQ

October, 2023

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS

Independent examiner’s Report to the trustees of Maya Productions Maya Productions Ltd (The Company)

05 April 2023 Charity no: 1043487

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Maya Productions (“the Company”) for the year ended 05/04/2023

As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 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.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: -the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or -the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or

-the accounts did 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.

Signed: Date 13/12/2023

Kevin Dunn Finance Director Soho Theatre 22 Dean Street London, W1D 3N

MAYA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED

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BALANCE SHEET

AS AT 05 APRIL 2023

BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 05 APRIL 2023		 28
Year ending 5 April Year ending 5 April
2023 2022
Fixed Assets 5 - -
Current Assets
A. THE ATTACHED NOTES
FORM AN INTEGRAL PART OF
THESE ACCOUNTS.		 6
110,869 62,479
B. NONE OF THE COMPANY’S
ACTIVITIES WERE ACQUIRED
OR DISCONTINUED DURING
THE
ABOVE TWO FINANCIAL
YEARS.		 110,869 62,479
C.
THE COMPANY HAS NO
RECOGNISED GAINS OR
LOSSES OTHER THAN THE
RESULTS FOR THE
ABOVE
TWO FINANCIAL YEARS.		 7
Net current assets 110,869 62,479
TOTAL NET ASSETS 110,869 62,479
Unrestricted reserves 27,088 25,176
Restricted reserves 83,782 37,303
TOTAL FUNDS 110,869 62,479

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (2015)

For the financial year ended 05 April 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under S.477 of the Companies Act 2006 and no members have deposited a notice under S.476 requiring an audit.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with S.386 of the Act and for preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its result for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to accounts, so far as applicable to the company.

JO CARTER …..........................................). DIRECTORS 13/12/2023

ANSELM ONYENANI ..............................................) APPROVED ON 13/12/2023

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MAYA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

(INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE YEAR ENDING 05 APRIL 2023

Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total Funds 22/23 Total Funds 21/22
Incoming Resources
Trading activities 14,661 14,661 8,564
Investments - - -
Charitable activities 151,011 151,011 112,112
Total Incoming
Resources		 14,661 151,011 165,672 120,676
Resources
Expended
Raising funds - - - -
Charitable activities 12,749 104,532 117,282 79,695
Other - - - -
Total Resources
Expended		 12,749 104,532 117,282 79,695
Net
Income/(Expenditure
) for the year		 1,912 46,479 48,390 40,980
Reconciliation of
funds
Total funds brought
forward		 25,176 37,303 62,479 21,499
Total funds carried
forward		 27,088 83,782 110,869 62,479

A. THE ATTACHED NOTES FORM AN INTEGRAL PART OF THESE ACCOUNTS.

B. NONE OF THE COMPANY’S ACTIVITIES WERE ACQUIRED OR DISCONTINUED DURING THE ABOVE TWO FINANCIAL YEARS.

C. THE COMPANY HAS NO RECOGNISED GAINS OR LOSSES OTHER THAN THE RESULTS FOR THE ABOVE TWO FINANCIAL YEARS.

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MAYA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 05 APRIL 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

1.1 Historical Cost Convention

The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention in accordance with the FRSSE for small entities (effective April 2008). The accounts are prepared in accordance with applicable UK accounting standards (UKGAAP) which have been applied consistently.

1.2 Fees

Fees is the total amount receivable by the Company in the ordinary course of business. This comprised fees from Migration Matters Festival, Stanley Arts and Belgrade Theatre for Routes to Roots, Talking About My Generation and China Plate for Benny and the Greycats, SCHWEP for Super Chefs, South Yorkshire Housing Association, Tonic Theatre, Project Phakama, Nottingham Trent University for Training, Coaching and other Sector Development activities, and miscellaneous income.

1.3 Depreciation

Depreciation is calculated to write down the cost of the following assets over their expected useful lives:

Office Equipment

Rate Method - 25% Reducing Balance

1.4 Cash Flow Statement

The Company has taken advantage of the exemption in FRSSE from producing a Cash Flow statement on the grounds that it is a small company.

2. FUNDS

Unrestricted income funds comprise those funds generated through the Company’s various activities which the Directors are free to use in accordance with the Company’s objects.

Restricted income funds are funds which have been given for particular purposes and projects, which are also designated funds for particular work and projects. Restricted funds were carried forward from the 2021/ 22 financial year from; Arts Council England, Sheffield Town Trust and JG Graves for Routes to Roots, Talking About My Generation and Benny and the Greycats; Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund Small Grant, Merchant Taylor Foundation to support the pilot of our Diverse Voices playwriting programme at Central Foundation Girls’ School.

Teale Charitable Trust continued to support our work with children and young people, and we were delighted to start a relationship with Enterprise Arts, who also supported Diverse Voices and our work in general for young people.

We were delighted to receive funding from National Heritage Lottery Fund to support the work on Routes to Roots in 2023 - 24

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DIRECTORS REMUNERATION

During the year Maya Productions Limited paid Trustee Janet Steel £1,900 for delivering a series of theatre workshops for the Talking About My Generation Project. All transactions were carried out at arms length and there were no balances outstanding at the year end.

3. TAXATION

The Company is a Registered Charity and is not liable to Corporation Tax.

4. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS:

All fixed assets have been fully depreciated.

5. DEBTORS

None

6. CREDITORS

None

  1. POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS & CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

The Directors are not aware of any material items.

8. RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS

9. DEBTORS

None

10. CREDITORS

None

  1. POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS & CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

The Directors are not aware of any material items.

12. RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS

06-Apr-22 Income Expenditure Transfers 05-Apr-23
Unrestricted
funds		 25,176 14,661 12,749 - 27,088
Restricted funds 37,303 151,011 104,532 - 83,782
62,479 165,672 117,282 - 110,869

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FOR DIRECTORS USE ONLY

MAYA PRODUCTIONS LIMITED

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT YEAR ENDED 05 APRIL 2023

Unrestric
ted		 Restricted Total 22/23 Total 21/22
Box Office & Fees 14,661 14,661 8,564
Funds Raised 151,011 151,011 112,112
Bank Interest Received - - -
14,661 151,011 165,672 120,676
LESS:
Artistic Staff & Freelancers - 48,894 48,894 31,168
External Staff / Support - - - 4,100
Volunteers & Other Trainees - - - -
Production Personnel 228 44,689 44,917 32,339
Production Costs 245 5,510 5,756 5,214
Organisational Development 12,276 3,499 15,775 2,220
Training - - - -
Overheads - 1,940 1,940 4,655
12,749 104,532 117,282 79,695
Surplus (deficit) for the year 1,912 46,479 48,390 40,980