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darts, Doncaster Community Arts Annual Report & Financial Statements Year Ending 31st March 2025

Registered Charity (1056799) & Company ltd by Guarantee (England 3166208)

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Contents

Trustees & Professional Advisors ........................................................................................................... 3 Objectives & Activities .............................................................................................................................. 4 Our Programmes .................................................................................................................................. 4 Achievements, Performance & Future Plans ..................................................................................... 7 Goal 1: Create a centre of excellence, delivering at scale in Doncaster and developing practice nationally ........................................................................................................ 8 Goal 2: Improve participant and partner voice in our decision-making .......................... 17 Goal 3: Ensure our team and our participants reflect Doncaster’s diversity. ............... 17 Goal 4: Achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2030 ................................................................................ 18 Structure, Governance & Management ........................................................................................... 19 Financial Review ...................................................................................................................................... 21 Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities ............................................................................................ 22 Independent Auditors Report .............................................................................................................. 23 Statement of Financial Activities ........................................................................................................ 28 Balance Sheet .......................................................................................................................................... 29 Statement of Cashflows ....................................................................................................................... 30 Notes to the Financial Statements .................................................................................................... 31

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Trustees Report

The Trustees are pleased to present their Trustees Report (incorporating those matters required under Company Law in the Directors’ Report) together with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2025

Trustees & Professional Advisors

Registered charity name darts, Doncaster Community Arts Charity number 1056799 Company registration 3166208 Registered office The Point, 16 South Parade, Doncaster, DN1 2DR Directors & Trustees Imogen Bond James Carley Beverly Carr (Treasurer) Gina Fletcher Michael Hart Clare Henry Lynn Mathers Victoria Ryves Ruth Taylor (to 27[th] January 2025) Secretary Duncan Robertshaw Auditors Crozier Jones LLP 9/13 Thorne Road Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN1 2HJ Bankers National Westminster Bank PLC 250 Bishopsgate, London Management Team Duncan Robertshaw, Chief Executive Sophy Sylvester, Deputy CEO, Director (Fundraising & Development) Sarah Eastaff, Director (Creative Learning) Lucy Robertshaw, Director (Creative Health)

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Objectives & Activities

darts is Doncaster’s Centre of Excellence for Creative Health and Learning. We are an award-winning participatory arts charity. We create art with people in Doncaster to improve life, learning and health. We make high-quality, inclusive, creative experiences across the borough of Doncaster. Our programmes are open to everyone, particularly those who have the least access to the arts. Our purpose is for anyone in Doncaster to learn and connect by taking part in the arts. Our mission is for everyone to feel an accepted and valued part of the community, creating a healthier and more connected society.

The objects of the charitable company as stated in our governing document are to advance education and training in the arts, particularly amongst those who are, or who are at risk of becoming, excluded from society.

Our values

Delivering our Strategic Plan 2023 - 2026

Our Strategic Plan 2023 – 2026 is dynamic, with clear ambitions and metrics. We are building skills, capacity, and diversity, and sharing learning with the cultural sector to support growth in economic impact.

Our Programmes

Programme/Project Focus
**Creative Learning **
Tuneful Chatter Responds to the ongoing impacts of lockdown and the cost-of-living
crisis on very young children and their families. A third of Doncaster’s
children are living in poverty.
Tuneful Chatteruses approaches drawn from our 30+ years of
experience in creative engagement for 0–5-year-olds. Current
programme in 14 settings over 3 years. Consortium-led project with
Cast and Doncaster Council’s Early Years Intervention and Prevention
Service (EYIPS) improves communication and language, personal,
social & emotional development.
Creative Classrooms Responds to the fact that one in six children aged 5-16 are likely to
have a mental health problem (this figure has gone up by 50% in the
last three years), and an identified need from Doncaster teachers
around their pupils’ inability to focus, communicate and regulate
emotions.
Creative Classroomsis a classroom-based programme focused on
mental health: improving emotional literacy to reflect on behaviour and
language, improve wellbeing and progress positively long term.
Inspiring Leaders, Doncaster is 3rdmost deprived out of 151 Upper-tier local authorities
Creative Learners for Education, Skills and Training. In the 2020-21 academic year,
Doncaster had the highest fixed period exclusion rate in the country.

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Programme/Project Focus
Inspiring Leaders, Creative Learnersis a classroom-based approach
supporting teacher development and pupils’ learning through
developing teachers’ creative practice. Teachers work closely with a
team of artists to build their arts-based practice, using drama and
storytelling to improve core student skills such as focus, empathy and
vocabulary.
All Aboard 13% of secondary pupils and 12% of primary pupils in Doncaster have a
long-standing illness and 13% have a disability. Of these young people,
35% report being bullied. Doncaster’s Disabled children and young
people have fewer opportunities to access opportunities than their
mainstream peers.
All Aboardprovides creative opportunities for children and young
people who are Disabled or have additional needs to access high
quality creative delivery. This year the focus is All Aboard: Music – a
music and Makaton project in all six Doncaster SEND schools.
Art Club 38% of Doncaster SEND pupils are worried about their mental health
and 25% report that they don’t currently feel happy with their life.
Art Clubis a weekly open access visual arts club for 5–11-year-olds,
providing essential life skills so young people can reach their full
potential. Sessions are targeted at those with additional needs or
barriers e.g. low-income households, young carers, children with SEND
or long-term health condition, those who face discrimination or have
experienced racism.
Doncaster Music Hub Lead partners with Doncaster Music Service. Access to high quality
music-making opportunities for all Doncaster children and Young
People. darts’ programme includes Swag Choir / Swaglets, First Verse
Introduction to Songwriting, Teacher CPD and massed singing projects:
Sing + Sign and Sing Out.
Creative Health
Singing for Memory It’s estimated that over 4,500 people of all ages are living with
Dementia in Doncaster. Of these people in Doncaster, 65% have a
diagnosis of Dementia with 35% being undiagnosed. The number of
Doncaster residents living with Dementia is estimated to increase 30%
by 2030. Dementia rates in Doncaster are higher than the national
average
Singing for Memoryprovides joyful weekly music sessions at The Point
for adults with dementia and their carers. A focus on group and solo
singing, singing with and without words and singing with movement
improves mental health and wellbeing and decreases feelings of
loneliness.
Creative Directions Doncaster has 20.4% of people living with a disability or long term
health condition compared to 17.8% nationally. Levels or satisfaction
(7%), happiness (9%) and feelings of worthwhile (5%) in Doncaster
adults are worse than the national average.
Creative Directionsprovides weekly creative sessions at The Point and
in Edlington for adults who have experienced mental ill health
to develop and maintain good mental health, make connections and
build confidence. Participants co-design theprogramme and develop

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Programme/Project Focus
skills in a broad range of artforms e.g. songwriting, movement,
stonecarving, textiles etc.
Dance On Only 59% of Doncaster residents are physically active – 7% below
national average. 71% adults in Doncaster are overweight or obese -
8% higher than the national average. Doncaster now reports some of
the worst Healthy Life expectancy data in the country: Healthy life
expectancy has worsened for females (from 61 to 56.1 yrs) and men
(59.7 to 57.4 yrs) - worse than national averages.
Dance Onprovides regular fun, social dance sessions for inactive
Doncaster residents aged 50+ at The Point and in communities across
the borough. Academic research evidences that engagement in these
sessions increases physical activity levels long term, improves strength
and mobility and decreases feelings of loneliness and isolation. We
deliver focused groups for Parkinson’s and Strength & Balance (falls
prevention)and train ActivityLeads in care homes.
Breathe & Connect Under 75 year olds in Doncaster are more likely to die from a
cardiovascular disease than national average. 19% of Doncaster
adults are smokers (significantly worse than national average.). Cancer
mortality rates in Doncaster are significantly worse than the national
average
Breathe and Connectis our gentle music and movement programme
supporting and sustaining lung health and wellbeing in those with
breathing pattern disorder.
Quirky Choir Quirky Choiris our longstanding social choir for anyone to join. No
audition process and based on a passion for singing to improve health
and wellbeing
Creative Health Boards Three year collaborative programme funded byUKRI (AHRC)
– Mobilising Collaborative Community Research to Tackle Health Inequalitiesas
Community Assets one of 12 projects selected to address the UKRI programme objectives:
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To develop testable and replicable collaborative models for
integrating community assets within the changing structures of
health and social care in the UK, by understanding the
complexities, barriers and enablers of integration.
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To explain the links between these community assets and
place-based health inequalities with a view to creating
healthier, and more resilient, communities and environments,
particularly for people living in the most deprived areas.
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To converge data and learning from a range of local and
regional models to inform the spread and adoption of
collaborative models across the UK.

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Achievements, Performance & Future Plans

From 1[st] April 2024 to 31[st] March 2025, our team of experienced creative practitioners delivered 2,966 drama, dance, music, word, and visual artists sessions. Doncaster residents aged 0-100 from all 21 Wards have participated in our creative activities 48,278 times!

It has been a busy year for our building, The Point, as we secured £600k from Arts Council England, the VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme (Central Government) and City of Doncaster Council for capital works to begin decarbonising our building.

Our reputation as a Centre of Excellence for Creative Health and Learning continues to grow, as we strengthen our regional and national partnerships and share best practice around creative approaches that respond to place-based inequalities.

Using local data and collaborating with sector specific partners, we have impacted positively on the health and personal potential of families, pupils in schools and early years settings, teachers and educators, those living with dementia and their family carers, those with breathing pattern disorder, people with experience of mental health issues, over 50s with poor health & mobility and social isolation, adults with health inequalities, and key health and culture professionals and stakeholders.

The challenges around fundraising have increased and the high demand for services from residents means that competition for funds is intense. Whilst we are exploring other income streams such as corporate partnerships and legacy giving, it will take years for this to bear fruit, and we know that funding the continuation of our programmes will be tough. This year we exceeded an already ambitious target for fundraising toward our programme, securing almost £1.1m in grants and donations.

Looking forward, we have ambitious plans to relaunch The Point in November 2025, with a multi-faceted campaign to raise the profile of our refreshed spaces to hire, café menu, catering offer and conferencing opportunities. We anticipate that increased revenue from hires and catering will reduce the pressure on core funds and ensure we continue to develop our programmes, our learning, and our ability to share good practice with others.

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Goal 1: Create a centre of excellence, delivering at scale in Doncaster and developing practice nationally Creative Learning

Our ambition is that every child in Doncaster takes part in great art and cultural experiences, supporting them to learn, build confidence and develop communication. Educators are supported to embed creativity across the curriculum through Continuous Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) and supported development. Our Creative Learning programme embeds a quality creative offer for Doncaster young people in and out of school. We work closely with our local authority and are founding members of our Cultural Education Partnership. As joint lead partner for South Yorkshire Music Hub, we collaborate to provide music-making opportunities for all Doncaster children, while offering robust CPD for teachers.

darts’ Creative Learning team has been invited to be part of a number of regionally and nationally significant initiatives this year including co-leading the Rewilding the Curriculum Conference with Chol Theatre, Leeds Beckett University and Storymakers, coleading a new Doncaster Leadership Network focused on creative practice in education, leading the new Family Arts Network for Doncaster, and presenting as one of only two stand-out projects selected to present at the South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase (NHS) in relation to the Bold Ambition to ‘Focus on development in early years so that every child in South Yorkshire is school ready’.

2024/5 has seen us further embedding programmes of work to create sustainable models for delivery at scale:

Tuneful Chatter , led by darts and consortium partners, City of Doncaster Council’s Early Years Intervention and Prevention Service (EYIPS) and Cast theatre, responds to identified developmental delay in 0–5-year olds’ communication, language, personal, social and emotional development. The programme builds on proven approaches from all three partners and uses dance, drama, music and storytelling to support very young children to grow and thrive, enabling them to catch up and become school ready. 776 weekly sessions took place in 14 settings across the borough this year, and we are seeing a particular impact in Family Hubs, where parents and guardians are supported to play an active role in their child’s development, gaining the confidence, skills and resources to replicate activity at home.

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Building an evidence base

A sample of 80 children was identified to explore the impact of Tuneful Chatter. We mapped these children’s progress against key learning outcomes for PSED and Communication, Language and Literacy (CLL) as outlined in the Birth to 5 Matters Framework, reviewing this every term. At the start, only 35% of sampled children were meeting age related expectations (ARE) for CLL and 40% for PSED. As of December 2024, these figures had improved to 68% achieving ARE for CLL and 64% for PSED. Anecdotal feedback tells us that this is significantly higher than the results for children in settings not engaging in Tuneful Chatter.

Part of the legacy of Tuneful Chatter is the Continuing Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) that is woven throughout. Our evaluation with Early Years practitioners shows:

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Inspiring Leaders, Creative Learners is a classroom-based approach supporting teacher development and pupils’ learning through developing teachers’ creative practice. Teachers work closely with a team of artists to build their arts-based practice, using drama and storytelling to improve core student skills such as focus, empathy and vocabulary. Led by Town Field School and delivered in partnership with the Rose Learning Trust, a team of five artists has been working collaboratively with Year one and Year three teachers from nine primary schools across Doncaster. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded programme has had significant impact, both on the ability of pupils to learn, and on the teachers’ practice – using creativity across curriculum subjects to embed learning, improve emotional resilience and support personal, social and emotional development. 609 sessions have been delivered this year.

Building an evidence base

Thematic evidence from two years of tracking 106 pupils shows:

Teacher evaluation shows:

Additional funding has been secured from the Charles Hayward Foundation this year to build on our previous Creative Classrooms programme, with learning from Inspiring Leaders, Creative Learners. Drama, music and storytelling with a small group of pupils with a wide range of complex needs at Levett School is having a significant impact on children’s confidence, resilience and emotional literacy.

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All Aboard Music is a joyful music programme based in all six Doncaster special schools, aiming to make music accessible to those with the biggest barriers to engagement in the arts and celebrate what our disabled pupils can do. 253 weekly workshops with professional musicians skilled in inclusive practice were delivered this year, alongside opportunities for the children to share and perform their work. Sing and Sign is our annual massed singing event where pupils from across the programme come together to perform to a VIP audience in a professional setting.

Our skilled artists led six All Aboard Music Network events to increase awareness and understanding of disability, while upskilling musicians and educators in inclusive music practice. This year, we raised the profile of All Aboard, creating a film and an in-depth resource called Removing Barriers that supports Music Service instructors to understand the barriers faced by our pupils.

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We also partnered with the Royal Ballet and Opera, Sounds of Intent, Trinity College and Live Music Now to create bespoke resources for and with teachers to deconstruct opera for pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) and make Mozart’s The Magic Flute accessible for all learners.

Building an evidence base

All Aboard celebrates what young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) can do rather than what they can’t do. Our musicians use Makaton as a vehicle to aid communication and understanding – this enables children to have choice, voice and independence, leading content of the sessions. They share ideas for songwriting and make decisions about musical structure or performance directions e.g. where to get louder or which musical ideas to use next. Pupils know that their ideas are seen and valued, and that it is safe to share them, resulting in increased confidence, improved musicianship and better social skills. This year, we have run 253 All Aboard Music workshops in the 6 special schools, that led to a total of 1856 pupil attendances. We also delivered 6 All Aboard Music Network events for musicians and educators as well as in-school family sharing events and an end of school year celebration event. We created a film (and an in-depth resource called Removing Barriers that supports Music Service instructors to understand the barriers faced by our pupils.

Art Club and our Swag/Swaglets groups provide weekly opportunities for young people to access creative opportunities that they would not ordinarily have access to. Open to all, the groups attract a diverse mix of children and young people with a broad range of lived experience. The groups meet within the Gallery space and this year have been inspired by exhibitions including local photographer, Les Monaghan’s Aspirations 10, Sculptor, Dan Jones’ The River Don is Amazing, Bethan Maddox - The Pollinators, and Sarah Jane Palmer’s Periphery.

South Yorkshire Music Hub - Sing Out, our massed sing for primary school children, engaged 862 Doncaster school children from 31 schools. The two nights at The Dome enabled approximately 2007 parents and carers to see their children performing original compositions and familiar songs. Doncaster Music Hub is now part of the South Yorkshire Music Hub, overseen by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, working with partners in Rotherham, Barnsley and Sheffield. darts is the Inclusion Lead for this region and delivered inclusive practice sessions at the regional conference in September to over 200 attendees.

Creative Health

Our ambition is that everyone in Doncaster can access participatory creative activities, resulting in them feeling happier, healthier and more resilient. We want our creative health programmes to be widely used and valued by both residents and health and social care professionals. Our Creative Health programme generates new ways of thinking, and we collaborate with commissioners to invest in creative models that improve health and wellbeing.

Creative Health Boards – Mobilising Community Assets is in its first year – a collaborative programme delivered in partnership with Cast, Heritage Doncaster, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and City of Doncaster Council’s Health Determinants Research Collaborative and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. The programme supports our ambition to establish funding and referral models for Creative Health interventions in South Yorkshire and is both strengthening our existing relationships with health partners in South Yorkshire and raising the profile of our long history of pioneering creative health work to

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a national audience. Our Director (Creative Health) is non-academic lead for the programme and co-chairs Doncaster’s Arts and Health Board. We were fundamental in setting up the South Yorkshire Creative Health Board, represent South Yorkshire in the Creative Health Metro Mayors national network and share our learning with national agencies: National Academy for Social Prescribing, Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance, Arts Council England’s Creative Health Lead, and the National Centre for Creative Health.

Building an evidence base

Our Creative Health Connector and Embedded researchers are building evidence focusing on addressing health inequalities and demonstrating value of creative participation on physical and mental health and wellbeing. This is being shared regularly as we develop the South Yorkshire Creative Health Board, sharing learning with regional and national partners. The Doncaster Creative Health Board continues to go from strength to strength and now has a medium-term strategic plan that also supports the ambition to explore, share and embed sustainable models of investment for proven creative health opportunities within health and social care pathways.

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Creative Directions has scaled up significantly this year, expanding into new opportunities that include Creative Directions Sounds and Creative Directions Moves in Edlington, collaboration with partner voluntary organisations on the Stronger Links initiative and Creative Directions Mensdays funded by the Baring Foundation in response to the low numbers of male-identifying participants engaging in creative activity for their mental health.

Singing for Memory has grown in size as increasing numbers of adults with a dementia diagnosis and their carers are referred through the Keep in Mind dementia service commission led by AgeUK Doncaster and funded by Public Health. Skilled musicians lead a range of activity to access parts of the brain not used every day (warm ups, singing by ear, singing with movement, solos, singing in harmony etc.). Participants and their carers report that they feel more present, active, connected to their community, happy, and able to remember positive experiences.

Breathe & Connect is in its second year of being funded directly by the NHS through the Doncaster Royal Infirmary Breathing Pattern Disorder team. Staff refer patients into activity using gentle breathing, movement and singing exercises to improve and sustain lung health. Impacts to date include a reduction in waiting times from 12 months to 4-6 weeks. Results demonstrate that 94% of participants rated their care as very good, and 100% reported that they would recommend the group to friends or family. 81% of participants reported a better understanding of their condition, 69% reported better symptom control and 75% reported improved confidence to manage their symptoms. Three Breathe & Connect participants have gone on to attend our open access weekly Quirky Choir or joined the Dance On programme.

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Dance On has also scaled up significantly this year and new groups have built on learning and widened access in response to specific health needs. Alongside our six regular place-based community groups, the team of skilled and experienced dance artists have developed two new groups – Dance On Strength and Balance to reduce falls, and Dance On Parkinson’s for those living with the condition. We also support Activity Leads in four Care Homes to deliver Dance On sessions in their own settings – in some they are delivering Dance On twice a week. Our collaborative working relationship with City of Doncaster Council’s Get Doncaster Moving team continues to develop, as well as the partnership with University of Leeds whose research team has undertaken additional studies to evidence the positive impacts in participants’ strength, balance, fitness levels, confidence, and social connection. In the preliminary report undertaken by the University of Leeds on our Parkinson’s group, one of the participants’ Time Up and Go time went from slower than average 70-79 year old to quicker than average 60-69 year old. In the preliminary report undertaken by the University of Leeds on our Strength and Balance group, there was a high attendance rate and ‘the balance of all participants improved.’

Strengthening our workforce

darts is committed to investing in our core staff team’s development, as well as in strengthening the region’s participatory artist workforce to respond to inequalities in the population’s health and learning. This year we have built a CPDL programme, investing in a range of staff training to improve our understanding around specific areas of diversity and inclusion, as well as to develop our presentation skills to better communicate our key messages and raise our profile.

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We have improved internal systems to boost efficiency and improve the experience for all participants, freelance artists and visitors including a simplified risk assessment process, an Artist Quality Framework, improved terms and conditions for freelance artists and a new Freelance Artist Handbook. Our regular Creative Labs and Company Labs have been instrumental in bringing the company together to share learning and best practice, review data and evidence, and plan and find solutions together.

We secured funding from The Foyle Foundation for a second phase of Expanding Horizons, our Artist Trainee Programme aimed at early career and emerging participatory artists. Two cohorts of trainees have been paid to engage in training, mentoring, co-delivery and lead delivery within a range of creative health and learning programmes. Expanding Horizons has met its ambition to diversify the freelance artist team, bringing in a broader range of lived experience to better represent Doncaster residents. Recruitment for this phase has been much more challenging than the previous one, and we will reflect on the learning once the second cohort has completed their traineeships at the end of June 2025.

Artist and practitioner training continues to be woven into each programme. Six Trainee Artists have been supported to develop their practice in early years settings this year through Tuneful Chatter. This Traineeship programme is for ma specific area. 100% of this year’s trainees have gone on to deliver as a Lead Artist in darts sessions.

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Goal 2: Improve participant and partner voice in our decision-making

Our ambition for 2024/5 was to review best practice across the company, doing a deep dive into the different ways that we consult, engage, co-design and co-create. Staff came together to review a wide range of approaches, sharing those that work best and setting targets to test and learn one specific action in the year ahead. Review of these actions will take place in 2025 and will inform a more structured approach going forward, with proven mechanisms that add to our existing person-focused approaches that ensure every programme is co-designed with participants.

The Creative Health Boards programme has provided the opportunity to test new models of improving participant voice with the Story Circles initiative. This builds on the ambition of ‘Embedding Lived Experiences in Creative Health Boards’ and invites those who have participated in creative health programmes to take part in four Story Circles sessions over 12 months. The aim of this study is to explore and collate peoples lived experience in the creative health field as well as allowing opportunity for anxieties, attitudes and values around the idea of lived experience informing governance to be explored more fully as they may arise in the first year of people with Lived Experience joining board meetings.

Goal 3: Ensure our team and our participants reflect Doncaster’s diversity.

Our Voice and Diversity group highlighted the areas that staff identified as needing more awareness or training in. Skills Bank funding from South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) funded 57% of our training and focused on Trans Awareness, Unconscious Bias and Handling Difficult Conversations, as well as two more members of our team training in Makaton up to Level 4.

We surveyed staff following the training. Between 50% and 63.6% of participants reported that they feel more confident in taking the learning forward in their day to day practice as a result. Staff highlighted further areas of training and awareness raising to be included in the 2025/6 programme e.g. Working with intersectionality, Working with Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Supporting those with neurodivergence, more on Disability and Access, Cultural awareness and appropriation, Other LGBTQIA+ training and Conscious Inclusion and allyship.

No recruitment processes for Trustees have been undertaken this year, but a skills audit will be completed in Q2 of 2025/6 and this will inform recruitment for new Trustees.

Whilst we often ask for participants’ age, ethnicity etc in specific groups, we wanted to expand that to understand the demographics of people taking part in our whole programme. This year we ran a ‘Demographic Sampling Week’ in March across every adult group across the city. We’re still processing the findings which will inform our programming in the future, but some headlines are already emerging:

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We will use this data to inform programming and communications and will embed Demographic Sampling as an annual event to track changes in participation.

Goal 4: Achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2030

Our ambition is to be Net Zero by 2030 and to begin retrofitting rooms in The Point in 2024/5, monitoring performance and impact to improve future phases.

Our first step this year has been to install air source heat pumps and solar panels, replace and renew windows, add insulation and underfloor heating. Work continues in 2025 to install new heating and ventilation to control the temperature efficiently in our largest spaces. We continue to work with industry experts Leeds Environmental Development Agency (LEDA) and will share our learning, modelling environmentally positive activity and facilitating inclusive and accessible conversations about the environment to empower participants to adopt sustainable initiatives where they can.

Our capital programme has been an excellent opportunity to futureproof our beautiful building: renewing furniture, decoration and fittings to ensure our spaces are fit for purpose to meet the needs of Doncaster residents for years to come. We are making our 18[th] Century building suitable for the 21[st] Century and beyond – preserving and enhancing the original features while creating a public facility that is resilient for the long term.

This future-proofing includes a transition plan for our Gallery space, responding to the needs of our participants by transforming the exhibition space into a new, fit for purpose participatory space for participants and partners. The relaunched Gallery space will be a brilliant, multi artform workshop space buzzing with creative activity, learning, sharing, and joy. Work will take place in summer 2025 and is expected to open in October 2025.

We included travel data in our sampling surveys for the first time, finding that 67% of participants travel to sessions by car, motorbike or taxi. Bus travel and walking were the next most popular answer, each representing 14% of responses. This is a useful baseline and we will design awareness raising and communications that promote active travel to our sessions.

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Structure, Governance & Management

Governing Document

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on the 29 February 1996 and registered as a charity on 15 July 1996. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association (as amended 3 August 2011). In the event of the company being wound up the members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1. Reference and administrative details are shown in the schedule of members of the board and professional advisers above.

Public Benefit

The charity is a public benefit entity. The Trustees have considered the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit when approving the charity’s aims, objectives and future plans. The Trustees also confirm that they have complied with the duty in Section 4 of the Charities Act 2011. The activities and future plans described in detail above deliver positive change for a large number of individuals and communities across the local area. Furthermore, our role as an advocate for the role of the arts in challenging social circumstances conveys a wider benefit to arts and public service professionals and organisations across the country.

Trustee Recruitment

The Trustees, who are also directors of the company, as the Board of Trustees manage the company. The Trustees regularly review membership in the light of skills and experience required and available. This review forms the basis of on-going recruitment through local networks and regional agencies.

Risk Management

The Trustees have examined the major strategies, business and operational risks, which the charity faces and confirm that systems have been established to mitigate the significant risks. The principal risks arise from reliance on grants and other external funds. The charity's general insurance policy includes indemnity provision for the Trustees.

Trustee Induction & Training

New Trustees undertake an induction process briefing them on their legal obligations under charity and company law, the content of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the board and decision making processes, the business plan, current activity and recent financial performance of the charity. Where appropriate, Trustees attend training to assist them with the role. Trustees are also encouraged to visit projects to gain a better understanding of the work.

Management & Remuneration

The day to day management of the organisation is delegated to the Chief Executive, Duncan Robertshaw. The remuneration of the Chief Executive and key management personnel is determined by the Board of Trustees. An annual salary review is conducted for the company taking into account inflation and individual reviews are conducted periodically as a result of changes in responsibility.

Fundraising

darts is a registered charity and adheres to The Code of Fundraising Practice.

This year 88% (2024 82%) of the funds for our programmes came from fundraising. Our main fundraising income comes from institutional funders such as the National Lottery

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Community Fund and Arts Council England. We also receive donations from Trusts and Foundations whose priorities match our own. A smaller income stream is through generous donations from individuals or businesses, many of them local.

We have a small fundraising team and have not engaged any professional fundraisers to deliver fundraising initiatives. If we do decide to engage external fundraisers in the future, we will require them to confirm that they comply with the Code of Fundraising Practice and that the correct safeguards are in place to ensure that donors and members of the public are protected, as well as our own organisational reputation.

The Trustees recognise the risk in having a small team whose expertise needs to cover a broad portfolio of fundraising sources. Trustees have an experienced Finance & Fundraising Sub Committee that meets quarterly prior to full board meetings. This group supports the fundraisers by forward planning, identifying and addressing potential risks and challenges and collaboratively finding potential solutions or appropriate sources of funding.

We do not currently fundraise via direct mail or by telephone but make it clear to those consenting to receive our regular e-newsletter that fundraising opportunities will be included alongside information about our creative activity, events and projects, and that we occasionally send fundraising asks via direct email. We make it consistently clear that individuals can unsubscribe or opt out of receiving e-newsletters or emails at any time. Our fundraisers are familiar with the fundraising code of conduct to ensure that it is applied properly and protects the public, including vulnerable people, from unreasonably intrusive or persistent fundraising approaches, and undue pressure to donate.

Our websites outline our privacy policy and complaints policy for the public and clearly explains how an individual can complain – including fundraising complaints. We did not receive any complaints in this financial year. Should a complaint be made in the future, this would be responded to within 10 working days and dealt with by our Director (Fundraising and Development). Any serious complaint would be escalated to our Senior Team and Trustees so they can consider lessons learnt.

All donors are thanked for their donation, whatever the size.

Good Governance

darts has adopted the principles of the Charity Governance Code, a practical tool developed to help Trustees achieve exemplary leadership and governance through continuing self-assessment and improvement.

Indemnity Insurance

The charity's general insurance policy includes indemnity provision for the trustees.

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Financial Review

During the year income increased to £1,755,351 (2024: £997,829), the rise principally due to £600,000 of capital funding secured for our Decarbonisation Programme at The Point. Costs in the year rose to £1,085,576 (2024: £978,861), giving a surplus of £669,775 (2024: £18,968).

As described above, the charity relies on our ability to fundraise to sustain our programmes and build the models and evidence base that underpin our long term aims. Fundraising from trusts, foundations, institutions and (more limitedly) individual donations, are key to our ability to support our beneficiaries. Each of these income sources are under pressure with funders reporting increasing demand and diminishing funds. In response we continue to diversify our income streams, improving trading at The Point, improving our approach to corporate giving and legacies, and building the case for public sector investment in Creative Health and Learning.

Reserves Policy

At 31 March 2025 total funds amounted to £1,450,394 (2024: £780,618) of which £632,158 were restricted (2024: £9,275) and £818,236 were unrestricted (2024: £771,343). Unrestricted funds include £361,902 of designated funds (2024: £340,148). The major part of the designated funds relates to a fixed asset which will reduce in line with depreciation over 40 years. The funds include £526,292 (2024: £301,861) which can only be realised by disposing of fixed assets.

The Trustees have reviewed the charity's needs for reserves and have identified three key risk factors:

At forecast levels of activity, the policy places the reserves requirement at £457,176 for the year ahead (2024: £436,554). Current levels of unrestricted general funds held as net current assets are £447,092 (2024: £418,961), 98% of the target. Trustees continue to monitor reserves levels and set budgets so as to build the reserves to meet the requirements of the policy.

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Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

The Trustees (who are also directors of darts, Doncaster Community Arts for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the Trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate 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 Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

This report was approved by the board on 21[st] August 2025 and signed on its behalf.

Gina Fletcher, Chair of Trustees

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Independent Auditors Report

to the Trustees of darts, Doncaster Community Arts

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of darts, Doncaster Community Arts (the ‘charitable company’) for the year ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Cashflows and Notes to the Financial Statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Other Matter

The financial statements of the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2024 were not audited as the charity qualified for audit exemption in respect of that year. Corresponding information in these financial statements is derived from the charitable company’s prior period unaudited financial statements. Our audit opinion does not include an opinion on the corresponding figures.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the Trustees' Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 22, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditor under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the

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aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK), we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below.

The extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities including fraud

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:-

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We assessed the susceptibility of the charitable company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:

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Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

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Crozier Jones LLP, Statutory Auditor

9/13 Thorne Road Doncaster South Yorkshire DN1 2HJ

Date:

Crozier Jones LLP is eligible for appointment as auditor of the charity by virtue of its eligibility for appointment as auditor of a company under section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.

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Statement of Financial Activities

Incorporating the income and expenditure account for the year ending 31[st] March 2025

Notes Unrestricted
Funds		 Restricted
Funds		 Total
Funds
2025		 Total
Funds 2024
Donations & Legacies 3 5,517 600,563 606,080 8,972
Income from Trading activities 4 89,658 -
89,658		 89,350
Income from Investments 5 25,810 -
25,810		 29,657
Income from Charitable activities 6 275,238 758,565 1,033,803 869,850
TOTAL INCOME 396,223 1,359,128 1,755,351 997,829
Expenditure on Charitable
activities		 8 (263,722) (736,245) (999,967) (896,513)
Expenditure on Raising Funds 9 (85,608) -
(85,608)		 (82,348)
TOTAL EXPENDITURE (349,330) (736,245) (1,085,575) (978,861)
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) 11 46,893 622,883 669,776 18,968
Transfers between Funds 12 - - - -
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS 46,893 622,883 669,776 18,968
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward 771,343 9,275 780,618 761,650
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 818,236 632,158 1,450,394 780,618

The Statement of Financial Activities includes all gains and losses in the year and therefore a statement of total recognised gains and losses has not been prepared. All of the above amounts relate to continuing activities. The notes below form part of these financial statements.

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Balance Sheet

As at 31[st] March 2025

Note 2025 2024
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 15 892,031 707,038
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 16 375,213 93,320
Cash at bank and in hand 946,188 681,616
1,321,401 774,936
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year 17 (437,906) (335,615)
NET CURRENT ASSETS 883,495 439,321
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 1,775,526 1,146,359
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due after more than one year 19 (325,132) (365,741)
NET ASSETS 1,450,394 780,618
FUNDS
Restricted income funds 20 632,158 9,275
Unrestricted income funds 21 818,236 771,343
TOTAL FUNDS 1,450,394 780,618

For the year ending 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies but as this company is a charity, it is subject to audit under the Charities Act 2011.

Directors' responsibilities:

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable companies subject to the small companies regime. The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 21[st] August 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

Gina Fletcher, Trustee

Company Registration Number: 3166208

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Statement of Cashflows

As at 31[st] March 2025

2025 2024
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided (used in) operating activities 454,368 (169,939)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Dividends, interest and rents from investments 30,810 29,286
Purchase of property, plant and equipment (169,606) -
Net cash provided by (used in) investingactivities (138,796) 29,286
Bank loan repayments (51,000) (51,000)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (51,000) (51,000)
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period 264,572 (191,653)
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting period 681,616 873,269
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reportingperiod 946,188 681,616
Reconciliation of net income/(expenditure) to net cash flow from operating activities
Net income/(expenditure) for the reporting period (as statement of financial activities) 669,776 18,968
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charge 26,181 26,492
Interest from investments received (25,810) (29,657)
Interest Paid 11,564 12,684
(Increase)/decrease in debtors (286,893) (57,375)
Increase/(decrease) in creditors 59,550 (141,051)
Net cash provided (used in) operating activities 454,368 (169,939)
Analysis of changes in net debt At 1 April
2024		 Cash flows Other non-
cash
changes		 At 31
March
2025
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash
 681,616 264,572 946,188
Borrowings
Debt due within one year
 39,436 (51,000) 52,172 40,608
Debt due after oneyear
 365,741 (40,609) 325,132
405,177 (51,000) 11,563 365,740

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Notes to the Financial Statements

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard 102, the financial reporting standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and the Statement of Recommended Practice – “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: revised 2019” (SORP 2019) and the Companies Act 2006. The following principal accounting policies have been applied. Presentation is in pounds sterling.

The Trustees confirm that the charity is a public benefit entity.

Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis

The Trustees are of the opinion that no material uncertainties exist and the reserves will support the charity for the foreseeable future and hence the charity is a going concern.

Incoming resources

Incoming resources all arise from grants, fees and fund-raising within the United Kingdom. Income from donations and grants, including capital grants, is included in incoming resources when these are receivable, except as follows:

Fund accounting

Funds held by the charity are:

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.

Resources expended

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes VAT where applicable and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates. The charity is unable to recover input VAT on goods and services.

Costs of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and the costs of trading for fundraising purposes.

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Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.

Governance costs include those associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the charity and include the independent examination fees and costs linked to the strategic management of the charity.

All costs are allocated between the expenditure categories of the SOFA on a basis to reflect the use of the resource. Costs relating to a particular activity are allocated directly; central functions are apportioned pro rata on the basis of turnover; premises costs are apportioned on the basis of floor area.

In 2024/5 the apportionment policy for premises costs was adjusted to reflect the relative impact of staffing costs to different activities. Staffing represent a significant proportion of costs overall but is heavily weighted toward the needs of workshop delivery and hires, as opposed to the café and our own office spaces. Reflecting this change on prior years was deemed impracticable on the basis of the high number of individual transactions involved.

Redundancy

Redundancy payments are accounted for as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation.

Fixed assets

The cost of fixed assets is their purchase price, together with any incidental costs of acquisition. The minimum value for capitalisation is £1500. Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost over the estimated life of the asset on a straight line basis and the principal rates are as follows:

Tangible fixed assets are reviewed for impairment by the Trustees at the end of each reporting period.

Debtors

Short term debtors are measured at transaction price, less any impairment. Loans receivable are measured initially at fair value, net of transaction costs, and are measured subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment.

Cash & cash equivalents

Cash is represented by cash in hand and deposits with financial institutions repayable without penalty on notice of up to 365 days. Cash equivalents are liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash with insignificant risk of change in value.

Creditors

Short term creditors are measured at the transaction price. Other financial liabilities, including bank loans, are measured initially at fair value, net of transaction costs, and are measured subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Pension Contributions

The charity operates a money purchase defined contribution pension scheme. The contributions made for the accounting period are treated as an expense.

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Financial instruments

The charity only holds basic financial instruments as defined in FRS102. The financial assets and liabilities of the charity and their measurement basis are as follows:

Critical accounting estimates and areas of judgement

The charity makes estimates and assumptions concerning the future and makes judgements based on information available at the time. The resulting accounting estimates and assumptions will, by definition, seldom equal the related results, and judgements which are subjective, may result different conclusions or estimates if more information becomes available.

The estimates and judgements which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying value of assets and liabilities within the next financial period are discussed below.

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2. INCOME BY ACTIVITY

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Funds
Funds Funds Funds 2025 2024
Creative Learning 10,554 443,304 453,858 386,722
Creative Health 75,765 272,857 348,622 290,777
Training 4,631 20,000 24,631 -
Development 220,967 11,849 232,816 243,653
The Point 58,313 11,118 69,431 66,183
Capital - 600,000 600,000 -
Café 25,993 - 25,993 10,494
396,223 1,359,128 1,755,351 997,829

3. DONATIONS & LEGACIES

Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2025 2024
Donations 5,517 563 6,080 8,972
Capitalgrants - 600,000 600,000 -
5,517 600,563 606,080 8,972

The charity is grateful to and benefits from the support of its volunteers. The economic contribution of volunteers is not recognised in the accounts.

4. INCOME FROM OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds 2025 2024
Café Income 25,993 25,993 10,494
Rents (Room Hire Etc) 58,313 58,313 66,183
Miscellaneous 5,352 5,352 12,673
89,658 89,658 89,350

5. INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS

. INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS
Unrestricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds 2025 2024
Bank interest receivable 25,810 25,810 29,657

6. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2025 2024
Grants 184,289 758,565 942,854 803,721
Project Fees & ticket sales 90,949 - 90,949 66,129
275,238 758,565 1,033,803 869,850

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7. GRANTS RECEIVED

7. GRANTS RECEIVED
Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2025 2024
Government Grants
Arts Council England (NPO) 133,289 - 133,289 133,289
Arts Council England (Place Partnerships) - 182,614 182,614 98,220
Arts Council England (Culture Strategy) - 11,850 11,850 1,650
Arts Council England (Capital) - 400,000 400,000 -
City of Doncaster Council 43,500 182,543 226,043 218,284
City of Doncaster Council (Capital) - 50,000 50,000 -
NHS Doncaster - - - 44,578
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority - 29,179 29,179 -
Social Isolation Alliance - 1,134 1,134 -
The National Lottery Community Fund - 86,398 86,398 108,950
VCSE EnergyEfficiencyScheme (Capital) - 150,000 150,000 -
176,789 1,093,718 1,270,507 604,971
Non Government Grants
29th May 1961 Charitable Trust - - - 2,000
Baily Thomas Charitable Fund - 11,991 11,991 -
Barnardo's - 6,662 6,662 -
Boshier Hinton - 2,000 2,000 -
Blakemore Foundation - - - 100
D'oyly Carte - 4,000 4,000 -
Donmentia - - - 3,000
Frenchgate Shopping - - - 600
Garfield Weston Foundation 7,500 - 7,500 15,000
Global Make Some Noise - 33,000 33,000 -
Home Instead Charities - - - 1,500
One Dance UK - - - 9,922
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - - - 50,464
Postcode Neighbourhood Lottery - - - 13,279
Savoy Doncaster - - - 6,395
Sheffield Hallam University - 48,900 48,900 -
The Arts Society - - - 3,000
The Asda Foundation - - - 400
The Charles Hayward foundation - 19,500 19,500 -
The Evan Cornish Foundation - - - 9,140
The Radcliffe Trust - 5,000 5,000 -
The Foyle Foundation - 20,000 20,000 -
The Freshgate Trust Foundation - 1,000 1,000 2,000
The Hugh Neil charity - 1,000 1,000 -
The Baring Foundation - 3,462 3,462 -
The National Foundation for Youth Music - 37,396 37,396 34,102
The Sylvia and Colin Shephard Charitable Trust - - - 500

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The Utley Foundation - 250 250 1,050
Town Field - 70,686 70,686 41,918
Westfield Health Trust - - - 2,000
York Museum Trust - - - 2,380
7,500 264,847 272,347 198,750
184,289 1,358,565 1,542,854 803,721

In the year the charitable company received rates relief to the value of £33,300 (2023: £28,928)

8. COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted Restricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds Funds 2025 2024
Creative Learning - 393,232 393,232 338,476
Creative Health 54,830 233,484 288,314 235,643
Training 8,361 8,010 16,371 -
Gallery 3,616 - 3,616 8,299
Development 71,858 4,650 76,508 118,664
The Point 118,465 11,118 129,583 93,059
Support Costs 6,592 75,866 82,458 95,943
Governance - 9,885 9,885 6,429
263,722 736,245 999,967 896,513
Activities
undertaken
directly		 Support
Costs		 Total Funds
2025		 Total Funds
2024
Creative Learning 393,232 41,288 434,520 382,302
Creative Health 288,314 35,243 323,557 278,244
Training 16,371 5,790 22,161 -
Gallery 3,616 - 3,616 8,299
Development 76,508 136 76,644 122,870
The Point 129,583 - 129,583 98,369
Governance 9,885 - 9,885 6,429
917,509 82,458 999,967 896,513

Analysis of material items / categories of expenditure included in Support Costs:

Total Funds Total Funds
2025 2024
Premises Salaries 13,434 17,327
Central Functions Salaries 37,307 34,260
Premises Costs 13,003 31,224
Central Functions 18,714 13,132
82,458 95,943

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9. COSTS OF RAISING FUNDS

9. COSTS OF RAISING FUNDS
Unrestricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds 2025 2024
Cafe Costs 45,371 45,371 27,175
Café Support Costs 4,417 4,417 17,884
Fundraisingstaff 35,820 35,820 37,289
85,608 85,608 82,348
10. AUDIT/EXAMINATION FEE
Unrestricted Total Funds Total Funds
Funds 2025 2024
Independent Examiner fees - - 2,280
Audit Fees
6,600		 6,600 -
6,600 6,600 2,280
Other fees paid to auditor/examiner 288 288 60
11. NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES FOR THE YEAR
2025 2024
This is stated after charging:
Depreciation 26,181 26,492
Loan Interest paid 11,564 12,684
Auditor/Independent examiners’ fee 6,600 2,280

12. FUND TRANSFERS

There have been no transfers during the year (2024: £nil).

13. STAFF COSTS AND EMOLUMENTS

13. STAFF COSTS AND EMOLUMENTS
2025 2024
Total staff costs were as follows:
Wages and salaries 572,992 517,298
Social security costs 52,087 42,975
Pension Costs 12,383 10,558
637,461 570,831

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Particulars of employees:

Particulars of employees: Particulars of employees:
The average number of employees during the year, calculated on the basis of full-time equivalents, was:
Arts delivery 11 13
Support staff 6 6
17 19

The average number of employees during the year, calculated on the basis of head-count, was:

Arts delivery 14 15
Support staff 7 5
21 20
Total paid to key management personnel 197,302 182,325

One employee received remuneration of more than £60,000 during the year (2024 – Nil). No Trustees were remunerated during the year.

14. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE BY FUND FOR THE PRIOR YEAR

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Funds
Funds Funds Funds 2024 2023
Donations & Legacies 7,886 1,086 8,972 1,210
Income from Trading activities 89,350 -
89,350		 56,937
Income from Investments 29,657 -
29,657		 13,864
Income from Charitable activities 257,918 611,932 869,850 731,900
TOTAL INCOME 384,811 613,018 997,829 803,911
Expenditure on Charitable activities (291,813) (604,700) (896,513) (800,043)
Expenditure on Raising Funds (82,348) -
(82,348)		 (55,244)
TOTAL EXPENDITURE (374,161) (604,700) (978,861) (855,287)
NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME 10,650 8,318 18,968 (51,376)
Transfers between Funds - - -
-
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS 10,650 8,318 18,968 (51,376)
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward 760,693 957 761,650 813,026
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 771,343 9,275 780,618 761,650

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15. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

15. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Building Furniture &
Equipment		 Total
Cost
At 1 April 2024 927,567 239,938 1,167,505
Additions 211,174 - 211,174
Disposals - (5,672) (5,672)
At 31 March 2025 1,138,741 234,266 1,373,007
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024 232,763 227,704 460,467
Charge for year 23,189 2,992 26,181
Eliminated on disposal - (5,672) (5,672)
At 31 March 2025 255,952 225,024 480,976
Net Book Value
At 31 March 2025 882,789 9,242 892,031
At 31 March 2024 694,804 12,234 707,038

The building has been pledged as security for the loan. The value of building was impaired in the financial statements for the year ending 31 March 2011 and the cumulative impairment loss of £1,632,051 was brought forward at 1 April 2024 and carried forward at 31 March 2025. Had the building not been impaired, it would be included at a historical net book value of £1,300,300 (2024: £1,153,116), made up of historical cost of £2,770,792 (2024: £2,559,618) less accumulated depreciation of £1,470,492 (2024: £1,406,502).

16. DEBTORS

16. DEBTORS
2025 2024
Trade debtors 27,968 80,886
Prepayments & accrued Income 347,245 12,434
375,213 93,320
17. CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year
2025 2024
Secured Loans 40,608 39,436
Trade creditors 96,665 33,643
Taxation & Social Security 13,158 11,059
Deferred Income 278,503 242,884
Accruals 8,972 8,593
437,906 335,615

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18. DEFERRED INCOME

8. DEFERRED INCOME
Balance at
31 March
2024		 Income
Released		 Income
Received		 Balance at
31 March
2025
Deferred Income 242,884 587,996 623,615 278,503

Deferred income represents grants received which in the Trustees opinion are not yet due.

19. CREDITORS: Amounts falling due after more than one year

2025 2024
Other Loans 325,132 365,741

Other loans comprise the commercial mortgage secured by the way of a legal charge dated 22 January 2007 on the freehold property known as 17 South Parade, Doncaster, DN1 2DR. The term of the loan is 317 months from 22 December 2007 at a rate of 3% per annum.

The secured long term loan is repayable by instalments:
Due between 1 & 2 years 41,844 40,609
Due between 2 & 5 years 133,321 129,387
Due after 5years 149,967 195,745
325,132 365,741

20. RESTRICTED INCOME FUNDS

Balance at
31 March		 Incoming Outgoing Balance at
31 March
2024 resources resources 2025
Creative Learning 5,235 443,304 (436,959) 11,580
Creative Health 4,040 272,857 (269,717) 7,180
Training - 20,000 (13,800) 6,200
Development - 11,849 (4,651) 7,198
The Point - 11,118 (11,118) -
Capital - 600,000 - 600,000
9,275 1,359,128 (736,245) 632,158

Our Creative Learning Fund supports our programme of in school and out of school activity for children and young people

Our Creative Health Fund supports our programmes working with adults living with long term mental health problems and adults living with dementia.

The Training Fund supports our programme of artist traineeships and professional development for our staff and freelance team.

The Point Fund represents funds for new furniture and equipment for workshop spaces.

The Capital Fund is supporting our decarbonisation programme for The Point.

The Development fund supports a programme of capacity building for Doncaster's Arts & Culture sector developing the Culture Strategy.

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Prior Year Balance at
31 March
2023		 Incoming
resources		 Outgoing
resources		 Transfers
(to) from
General
Funds		 Balance at
31 March
2024
Creative Learning 957 365,870 (361,592) - 5,235
Creative Health - 245,498 (241,458) - 4,040
Culture StrategyFund - 1,650 (1,650) - -
957 613,018 (604,700) - 9,275

21. UNRESTRICTED INCOME FUNDS

Balance at
31 March		 Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance at
31 March
2024 resources resources 2025
Creative Learning 142 10,554 (2,504)
 (8,192) -
Creative Health 1,572 75,765 (58,782) (11,336) 7,219
Training - 4,631 (8,361) 3,730 -
Development 48,807 - - - 48,807
The Point 289,627 - - 16,249 305,876
General Funds 431,195 305,273 (279,683)
 (451) 456,334
771,343 396,223 (349,330) - 818,236

Funds represent funding for specific programmes of work resulting either from proposals put forward by darts or direct approaches from partner organisations. In each case the funds are held over in respect of incomplete work for which darts has the resources to complete.

The Programme Development fund was designated by the Trustees in previous years for research and development to support new programmes of activity.

The Point fund is the undepreciated fixed asset value of the unrestricted element of the building, less the outstanding mortgage balance.

Prior Year Balance at
31 March		 Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance at
31 March
2023 resources resources 2024
Arts & Education - 142 - - 142
Arts & Health - 14,527 (12,955) - 1,572
Programme Development 51,149 - (2,342) - 48,807
The Point 274,500 - - 15,127 289,627
General Funds 435,044 370,142 (358,864) (15,127) 431,195
760,693 384,811 (374,161) - 771,343

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22. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Tangible
fixed assets		 Net current
assets		 Long term
liabilities		 Total
Restricted Income Funds:
Creative Learning - 11,580 - 11,580
Creative Health - 7,180 - 7,180
Training - 6,200 - 6,200
Capital 211,174 388,826 - 600,000
Culture StrategyFund - 7,198 - 7,198
211,174 420,984 - 632,158
Unrestricted Income Funds:
Designated Funds
The Point 671,615 (40,607) (325,132) 305,876
Other Designated Funds - 56,026 - 56,026
General Funds 9,242 447,092 - 456,334
680,857 462,511 (325,132) 818,236
Total Funds: 892,031 883,495 (325,132) 1,450,394
Prior Year Tangible
fixed assets		 Net current
assets		 Long term
liabilities		 Total
Restricted Income Funds:
Creative Learning - 5,235 - 5,235
Creative Health - 4,040 - 4,040
Culture StrategyFund - - - -
- 9,275 - 9,275
Unrestricted Income Funds:
Designated Funds
The Point 694,804 (39,436) (365,741) 289,627
Other Designated Funds - 50,521 - 50,521
General Funds 12,234 418,961 - 431,195
707,038 430,046 (365,741) 771,343
Total Funds: 707,038 439,321 (365,741) 780,618

23. COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE

The company is limited by guarantee and as such does not have share capital. In the event of winding up, each of the members and those ceasing to be members within twelve months, have undertaken to contribute towards the assets of the company for payment of debts and liabilities, such amounts as required, not exceeding £1. The number of members in the year amounted to 44 (2024: 45).

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24. TRUSTEE REMUNERATION & RELATED PARTIES

There were no Related Party transactions or Trustee Remuneration payments in the year (2024: £nil). In the year donations were received from five trustees totalling £160 (2024: £252 from five trustees).

25. TAXATION

The company is a charity within the meaning of Para 1 Schedule 6 Finance Act 2010. Accordingly, the company is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains within categories covered by Chapter 3 of Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes. No tax charge arose in the period.

26. CAPITAL COMMITMENTS

The capital programme begun in 2024 continues with an expected completion date of October 2025. The total cost of the programme is £600,000 with £211,174 having been spent in the year to 31[st] March 2025. In order to complete the project a further £388,826 is expected of which £116,005 was contracted at the year end.

27. GENERAL INFORMATION

darts, Doncaster Community Arts, is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity which complies with the Charities Act 2011. The company is incorporated in England & Wales under the Companies Act. The address of the registered company is The Point, 16 South Parade, Doncaster, DN1 2DR.

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