ANNUAL REPORT FOR KALA THE ARTS - 2020
This report covers the period from Jan 1st 2020 to Dec 31st 2020.
Registered Charity Number 1076790 Registered Company Number 3686034
Address: The Orchard, White Hart Lane, Basingstoke
Hants RG21 4AF
admin@kalathearts.co.uk www.kalathearts.co.uk
Governing Document Memorandum & Articles of Association
Objects of the Charity The Advancement of Education of the General Public In Arts
Trustees who operated through this financial year were:
Raka Nandra
Mike Long
Dave Mann resigned in September 2020
Priya Brown
Jini Cherian joined in September 2020
Account Summary :
Turnover was £35651. Expenditure was £35167 of which 96% was spent on charitable activities and 4% on administrating the charity including insurance, stationary etc.
Our Vision :
Our vison at Kala The arts is to educate, develop and promote South Asian dance to the wider public through community workshops, educational workshops, dance classes, exhibition and public performances. We work with artists, create new work and help the development of artists. We achieve this via applications for essential funding, and by working in partnership with educational and community focused organisations as well as business sponsors and museum services.
At Kala the Arts, we continue to strengthen the relationship of classical Indian dance forms in the UK by bringing focus and attention to the oldest form, which is Odissi, alongside the other related arts. Kala The Arts is the development agency for Odissi dance in the UK.
We want to create a space for Odissi and all related classical Indian arts to develop and grow, by taking inspiration from these dance forms and creating innovative projects that reach a wide, new and contemporary audience.
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Covid-19
2020 was seriously affected by Covid-19 which prevented in person classes for most of the year. We were fortunate to have a grant from the Arts Council to assist us with core expenditure over this period and help us develop as an organisation.
Summary of Achievements:
The charitable work carried out by the company is in respect of education and arts and wellbeing through Indian dance, and music. The main elements are:
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Educational Projects
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Regular Classes/Community Work live and online
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Creative Professional Performances/Productions
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Marketing and Development
Educational Projects
Schools
We arranged 6 inset sessions Online for teachers and classroom assistants they were run by national and international artists.
For our educational project we worked with 2 museums based at Reading, 28 teachers attended inset and we reached 12 schools.
Seminars
The artistic Director of Kala The Arts carried out an online interview with the Odissi legend Padmashree Kumkum Mohanty. Sushmita asked about her journey into Odissi, her work at Odissi research Centre and current developments. It was a Facebook live attended by 80+ audiences on zoom and 4020 people viewed it worldwide. This was the first time the legend gave an interview. It was very popular amongst professional Odissi artists, students and Odissi community.
It later prompted us to do another event with senior Odissi artist Dr Rohini Dandavate from USA, Dr IIEANA , Dr Sarojni Pati and Padmashree Kumkum Mohanty. Andy liaised with various staff at and worked on the programme with the Nehru Centre in London, as well as producing publicity. The show was very popular opening speech by the Director Amish Tripathy and attracted 6000+ viewers. Below are the two events.
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Regular Classes/Community Work
KAHINI Deepam light
The community projects and programmes we worked on included KAHINI – DEEPAM LIGHT. We ran these workshops over 6 sessions drawing on community members to tell stories using visual arts, dance, music and sharing their own experiences. This included areas from Eastleigh, Southampton, Bracknell, Woking, Reading Slough and Basingstoke.
This was attended by museum staff of Reading, Cllrs from Basingstoke, local community members and our board members. Some part of this project was used to create material for schools we later visited online in Reading and Slough.
The volunteers who worked on the Kahani project did their own research. The time period for this project was May 2020– August 2020. Below is a flyer with more details
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Regular Classes and Workshops
We ran regular classes at Vyne school Basingstoke every Saturday, and Fridays at Maiden Erlegh school Reading for the whole of January and February 2020.
In February Kala The Arts held an awards ceremony honouring students who had completed 5 years learning with the organisation to mark their level of achievement and dedication for the Indian dance and music. Awards were presented by an external exponent of the Indian cultural Heritage Padmashree Shyama Charan Pati.
From March classes went on-line. The classes included Kathak and Odissi. It was attended by 30+ students and also covered students from Malaysia, Singapore and India. We produced regular leaflets advertising classes and updated the website and social media. We also created two professional digital footage/dance film of our young dancers and that was shown at various events. During the period of March and December we also had 3 performances online.
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Creative Professional Performances/Productions
Due to Covid restrictions this year we created a few rehearsals on line and just a couple face to face when situation was eased in Autumn October end 2020. The music was also created online in consultation with musicians.
Professional production “Sounds of the earth” was created and produced involving dancers Kali
Chandrasegaram, Senjuti Das, Shyam Dattani and Sushmita Pati with musicians Hiren Chate and Avtar Singh, singer Kaviaj Dhadyalla with choreography by Sushmita Pati. It was filmed in November at Reading Abbey Ruins.
Kudos on a brilliant job very well done! Cllr Rowland. Lead Member for Culture, Heritage and Recreation. Reading Borough Council
This project was commissioned by Reading museums and funded by Arts Council.
The resulting film was shown at the Being Human Festival in partnership with Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), and University of Reading. As well as the film Kala The Arts also contributed via a Diya making workshop by Priya Brown, Odissi dancing by Reading students, a brilliant display of Rangoli by Bhajan Hunjan.
Marketing and Development
Andy Buchanan worked one day a week undertaking Marketing and Development for the latter part of 2020, once a week over 6 months in total. During this time, he worked on various projects and programmes in different capacities, from liaising with external bodies such as Denmark Oden Theatre with Sushmita, to marketing.
There were discussions with Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council to discuss funding applications and The Arts Council.
On the Audience Development side, Andy started a Kala Newsletter and developed several banners to advertise our presence.
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Funders :
Kala The Arts were funded by Arts Council, Reading Borough Council and Reading and Merl museum, Cllr Reid funded from HCC cllr small individual grant.
Michael Long (Director)
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3686034
Kala The Arts Accounts Jan 1[st] 2020- Dec 31[st] 2020
Kala The Arts is a Company Limited by Guarantee (England). Registration No. 3686034. Registered Charity No. 1076790. Registered Office: Orchard House, White Hart Lane, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 4AF.
Income and Expenditure
| Income: | 2020 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Charity/Trusts | £18,000 | £4,227 |
| Private Individuals | £11,101 | £12,744 |
| Educational Groups | £4,490 | £3,960 |
| Local Authorities | £2,050 | £430 |
| Interest | £10 | £25 |
| Arts Venue | £3,064 | |
| Business Providers | £300 | |
| TOTAL | £35,651 | £24,750 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Charitable | ||
| Artist Fees | £20,262 | £18,222 |
| Booking Admin12 | £6,770 | £6,069 |
| Accommodation | £2,653 | £6,895 |
| Photography and Video | £2,750 | £1,530 |
| Leaflets | £1,246 | £220 |
| Purchases | £270 | |
| Adverts | £60 | |
| Telephone | £45 | |
| Misc Services | £10 | |
| Volunteer expenses3 | ||
| Sub-Total | £34,011 | £32,991 |
| Non-Charitable | ||
| Insurance | £744 | £785 |
| Accountant | £250 | £230 |
| Web-domain | £86 | |
| Staff Admin | £51 | £331 |
| Annual Return | £13 | £13 |
| Stationary | £12 | £44 |
| Board Meeting Accom | £106 | |
| Sub-Total | £1,156 | £1,509 |
| Total | £35,167 | £34,500 |
| Surplus/(Deficit) | £484 | |
| Balance Brought Forward | £21,979 | |
| Balance Carried Forward | £22,463 |
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| Balance Sheet 31st December 2020 | ||
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| Assets | ||
| Current Bank | £9,993 | £9,505 |
| Deposit Bank | £12,414 | £12,405 |
| Petty Cash | £56 | £69 |
| Total Assets/Liabilities | £22,463 | £21,979 |
For the year ending 31/12/2020 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Directors’ responsibilities:
• the members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476,
• the directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts
• these accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime.
The accounts have been delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime.
1 No Employer National Insurance. Employee Sushmita Pati, wife of Trustee Michael Long received a salary of £18535
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2 A part time marketing officer received a salary of £3600
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3 No director expenses this year
Michael Long (Director)
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