## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name[Kestrel Theatre Company]**
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1073298
> **Charity's principal address** c/o Adler Shine LLP Aston House Cornwall Avenue LONDON
> **Postcode N3 1LF**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Memorandum and Articles of Association 22 September 1998 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Private Limited Company How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Election by majority of board of Trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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To promote maintain improve and advance education particularly by the provision of training and vocational instruction and by the production of educational plays and the encouragement of the arts **Summary of the objects of the** including the arts of drama ballet music singing literature sculpture **charity set out in its** and painting and to formulate prepare and establish schemes **governing document** therefore provided that all the objects of the company shall be of a charitable nature.
We believe the arts can play a positive role within the criminal justice system, in education, health, rehabilitation and reintegration. We work creatively with offenders, using theatre professionals, usually young artists, to facilitate original pieces of theatre, film and spoken word performance. The impacts are:
- in rehabilitation, helping to develop new skills and employment opportunities.
- **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** • in rediscovering self-worth and sense of identity and **public benefit in relation to** improving the ability to co-operate. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** • in reconnecting with the outside world, in particular **declaration that trustees have** improving relationships with families and children. **had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public** • in enhancing health and wellbeing, including improved self- **benefit)** confidence, interpersonal skills and mental health.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|Covid restrictions continued in the prison system long after they
had wound down elsewhere. And while prisoners’ families were
finally able to return to the premises to visit their loved ones,
throughout 2021 representatives of outside agencies were still
largely unable to continue with educational and therapeutic visits.
Kestrel’s very good relationship with prisons at Spring Hill and
Grendon meant that the officers in charge were extremely keen for
us to re-engage with the inmates as soon as possible. Plans were
made for a drama club programme leading into a seasonal
pantomime at Spring Hill. However this was cancelled as
restrictions were reimposed following a rise in the infection rate in
the autumn.
Regrettably it meant we were unable to deliver anything to serving
prisoners all year. However, we continued work with Kestrel
alumni, including making a series of short documentaries made by
the filmmaker Dorothy Allen-Pickard. Based on our very successful
_After Time_monologues, these were scripted by the men concerned
and explored their real-life experiences of time after serving a
prison sentence. Those involved have reflected on their own lives
and relationships and on the shifts and changes they have
experienced since release. The plan is to screen the films followed
by a Q&A with the men featured in the films.
In April, our long-standing artistic director Arabella Warner stood
down. Arabella had been organising our output for nearly a
decade, extending the reach of the charity way beyond its existing
moorings. Her legacy is of a vibrant operation, with wider
connections in both the criminal justice system and creative world.
Plus she has encouraged a number of committed and talented arts
practitioners to dedicate their time to bringing theatrical skills into
the system.
We are delighted that Eleanor Henderson, who had been running
the drama club at Spring Hill and directed the panto there in 2019,
has stepped in to replace her. Eleanor is a much in demand
actress and director (she starred in the hugely well reviewed play
Little Scratch at the Hampstead Theatre in the autumn. The plan is
for her to mix working with Kestrel with her professional acting
duties.
In the brief interlude in Covid measures, Penk Mehti, a Kestrel
alumnus, took the opportunity to deliver a series of workshops to
current inmates on the issues raised with being HIV in prison.
Using resources funded by Kestrel supporters, he spoke, to much
acclaim, at HMPs Grendon, Spring Hill and Norwich. Again, once
restrictions ease, he has plans to extend his programme of talks.
Under Eleanor’s guidance,_Drama Club_- a once weekly exploration
of theatrical skills - was scheduled to return to Spring Hill in
January 2022. As was a new initiative called_Ignite_, in which a
group of professionals were to work intensively with prisoners
across a week to produce an original drama which is then
performed to the entire prison population. However, the spread of|
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## Section D Achievements and performance
the omicron variant and the imposition of the government’s Plan B put a stop to any outside activities within the system. So both schemes have been put on hold. Eleanor has used the time when we have been unable to work inside prisons to make contacts with a number of governors, spreading the word about what Kestrel can offer. Such as providing digital resources for a new digital platform at HMP Five Wells, including virtual playwriting course and a range of exercises for developing creative expression and drama skills. Eleanor has been received with much enthusiasm and the hope is once restrictions are eased, the Kestrel methodology - of sending current industry professionals into prisons to deliver drama workshops, programmes and produce original works of theatre - will expand into many more prisons
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**Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)**
As before our policy remains simply to maintain always a sufficient reserve to fulfill projects we have agreed to deliver with the prisons in which we work. The reserves indicated below will comfortably cover the commitments of the coming year.
You **may choose** to include Despite the continuation of Covid for, in effect, a second complete additional information, where year as far as working inside prisons is concerned, our activity relevant about: outside has allowed us to continue our important work, to keep in • the charity’s principal contact with existing supporters, and also to attract some significant new donations. This means our income has increased sources of funds (including any fundraising); by about 2½ times over last year’s, from £14.4k to a much • how expenditure has healthier £36.4k, with unrestricted reserves standing at £52k. supported the key objectives of the charity; We look forward to lockdowns ending in 2022 so that we can begin • investment policy and our activities once again within the prisons in which we operate, objectives including any and in some new ones. Indications are that our work will be needed ethical investment policy more than ever after the lifting of restrictions. adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** James White **Full name(s)** Peter Watson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc) Date** 03/02/2022
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**Charity Name No (if any) Kestrel Theatre Company 1073298 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/21 31/12/21
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
ComedyNight Fund Raising
**-**
Performance Fund Raising
**2,730**
Major Donations
**31,200**
Bulb Sale
**2,462**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_**36,392**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 36,392**
**A3 Payments**
Drama Club
**-**
Playwriting
**-**
FamilyPuppets / DVDs
**-**
Christmas Show Performances
**-**
Other Performance Activity
**5,457**
CharityManagement & Admin
**3,080**
Bulb Sales Costs
**392**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 8,929**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 8,929**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 27,463**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**24,599**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 52,062**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
ComedyNight Fund Raising
**-**
Performance Fund Raising
**2,730**
Major Donations
**31,200**
Bulb Sale
**2,462**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_**36,392**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 36,392**
**A3 Payments**
Drama Club
**-**
Playwriting
**-**
FamilyPuppets / DVDs
**-**
Christmas Show Performances
**-**
Other Performance Activity
**5,457**
CharityManagement & Admin
**3,080**
Bulb Sales Costs
**392**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 8,929**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 8,929**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 27,463**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**24,599**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 52,062**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,730**
**31,200**
**2,462**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,392**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**36,392**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,457**
**3,080**
**392**
**-**
**-**
**8,929**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,929**
**27,463**
**-**
**24,599**
**52,062**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||||**4,823**|
||||||**5,000**|
||||||**4,598**|
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||||||**14,421**|
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||||||**2,346**|
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||||||**5,340**|
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||||||**776**|
||||||**480**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
||**-**|||||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **||||||
||||||**16,275**|
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||**27,463**|**-**|**-**|**27,463**|**- 1,854**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**24,599**|**-**|**-**|**24,599**|**26,453**|
||**52,062**|**-**|**-**|**52,062**|**24,599**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|**end of the period**|||||||||
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|**Categories**||**Details**|||||**funds**||||||||||||**funds**|||
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|**B1 Cash funds**|CAF Bank Account||||||**52,062**||||||**-**||||||**-**|||
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|||**_Total cash funds_**|||||**52,062**||||||**-**||||||**-**|||
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||**Details**||||||**to nearest**|**£**|||||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**|||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||||||**-**|||||**-**||||||**-**|||
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||**Details**|||||**Fund to which**
**belongs**||**asset**|||||**Cost (optional)**||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||||||||**-**||||||**-**|||
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**belongs**||**asset**|||||**Cost (optional)**||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||||||||||**-**||||||**-**|||
|**charity’s own use**|||||||||||||**-**||||||**-**|||
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||**Details**||||||**liability relates**||||||**(optional)**||||||**(optional)**|||
|**B5 Liabilities**|Retained Earnings|||||Unrestricted|||||||**52,062**|||||||||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees||Signature||||||Print||Name||||||||Date of approval||||
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustsesl
members of
c.hai
Name
ESTIÉ L THEA I
CoMPhNY
On accounts for the year
ended
3 1 JEc£M8CA 2oLI
Charity no
(if any)
107321*
Set out on pages
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charrty (Ihe Trust.) for the year ended 31 12 Zo 21.
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(Ihe 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 Charty Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent tfhe c
incom
rtak
examiner's statement u
exami
ion by bei
appli
le listed
yll. Delete
] if not
am qu3Wto
member of [Insert name of
plicable.
I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that
disdosed below ") 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 compty with the applicable wuirements
conceming the fonn and content of accounts set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a 'tnR and fairf view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concems 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.
. Please delete the wortls in the brackets ff they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
2azz
Name:
P£TCL
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
Fell.. g >
IER
Oct 2018
(if any):
Address:
SCHOOL
AONJSE
cHrte M LA-NI E
Oyl? LÈS
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and
guidan for examiners).
any Items that the
examlner wishes to
disclose.
IER
Oct 2018