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2025-03-31-accounts

Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham

Registered Charity No. 1099536

Registered Address:

79 Witherford Way, Selly Oak, B29 4AN

Celebrating Sanctuary 2024-25 Annual Report

April 2024 – March 2025 - Programme Details

We ran a varied and diverse series of events and projects, including:

Evolving Traditions ACE funded Programme – ended August 2024

Partnership events 2024-25

We have been very successful with our partnership programme, increasing activity with existing and new partners, reaching new audiences. Including: Lunchtime Concerts with B:Music, Free Jazz Friday and a partnership School's Project, Refugee Week, and new partnerships such as Aston University Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement, and Birmingham University.

B:Music - Lunchtime Concerts at Symphony Hall (April 2024 – March 2025):

Refugee Week Festival 2024 - 15[th] - 22[nd] June Refugee Week Takeover at Mac

Late Night Exchange: World Refugee Day at Birmingham Exchange - Didier Kisala (DR Congo) B:Music Schools event and workshops - Millicent Chapanda, Zirak Hamad, Nifeco Costa (Zimbabwe, Kurdistan, Guinea Bissau)

Erdington Evening of Creativity at Oikos Cafe (partnership event) - Performances including: Karolina Wegrzyn & Baback Aria (Poland / Iran), Stories of Hope and Home

Refugee Week Takeover at Symphony Hall

Evolving Traditions - Main Event Programme

Audience Feedback

Through audience surveys at events we've learnt what works at different venues & what type of events our audiences appreciate. Through surveys completed we recorded around 50% of audiences being new to our events, less so at Symphony Hall where we have been building a regular audience, but still around 30% at most events.

Sample of Feedback from audiences:

Refugee Week Events

Lunchtime Concerts

Mac events

(Niwel Tsumbu & Ling Peng)

(Mama Afrika)

Moseley Hive (Madalitso)

Community Engagement

We have created opportunities to engage with refugees, asylum seekers and migrant communities through arts and music.

Birmingham Refugee Week Network

We held meetings with the network, which involves people from Arts & Culture, Faith & Community and Refugee Support sectors to plan Refugee Week activities and increase access for refugees and asylum seekers at the festival and throughout the year.

Refugee Week Festival – A platform for refugees to share their music, arts and stories. Opportunities for refugee groups and emerging artists to perform alongside professional artists. Workshops, stalls and activities to raise awareness.

Performances by Stories of Hope and Home at a number of events through Refugee Week. A group with lived experience of seeking asylum in the UK. Raising awareness of the stories and experiences of people experiencing migration and seeking asylum.

Performances by In Her Shoes – a women's collective working with refugee women and girls to write and perform songs.

Community Cohesion Project – Belonging

We were successful in securing a grant from BCC for a Community Cohesion project, due to run between March and August 2025. The project aims are to bring together different communities, migrant and non-migrant, to take part in activities together, share a community lunch and explore what community means. The initial set up and outreach stage of the project happened in March.

Education & Youth

Artist Development

We have supported a number of artists at varying stages of their development, in different ways:

Emerging Artists Development & Opportunities

Mentoring, shadowing, work on new projects, opportunities to perform:

Artist Commissions

We commissioned screenings of short films and spoken word by refugee and migrant artists as part of our Refugee Week programme.

New Collaborations and creative partnerships

We encouraged and supported artists to develop new artistic collaborations and experience new creative partnerships, including:

Networks and Public engagement

Through our ongoing partnership with B:Music and new partnership with Aston University Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement, we are raising awarness about CSB and the work that we do. Also elevating ourselves with important ongoing partnerships.

Midlands World Music Consortium (MWMC) & WOMEX

We are active members of the consortium and through 2024, with funding from ACE, we were involved in the planning and delivery of a regional networking event and trade fair in Nottingham called “Plug Into World Music” in September 24. This was a great opportunity to bring together music professionals across the region and with the added benefit of being in Nottingham we were able to attract groups we don't usually connect with.

We also attended WOMEX conference and expo in Manchester as part of their delegation in October 24. We had a stall in the main exhibition area which was a great opportunity to connect and network with different companies, promoters and artists from across the UK and around the world. Also to raise awareness of the work that we do in Birmingham.

Both of these events have been an opportunity to represent CSB on regional, national & international platforms. Also to promote the artists we work with. Our continued involvement enables us to access and develop regional & national networks.

Marketing & Comms

We increased our marketing and comms, and tried some different approaches, such as:

Through online content: marketing, sharing event highlights and artists work, brand building and raising profile, we have maintained regular engagement and reached:

A reduction in activity and online presence as a result of funding during 2025 has slowed down this engagement.

Outputs & Achievements

Through this year we have started to focus on new areas of work with Aston University, B:Music Schools partnership, and Community Cohesion work, all of which we will take forward into 2025-26 and beyond. This work opened up new income streams which gave us some project based security.

Challenges and Opportunities

We set out to deliver an adventurous programme, some of which had to change as a result of less funding. We were still able to run a successful programme regardless of the funding issues we faced.

Challenges for us for have been:

2024-25 has been a very challenging time with regards to securing funds. Our Arts Council (ACE) funding ended in August 2024. Following this we applied for a number of grants, including ACE, Birmingham City Council (BCC) and some new areas funding, which were unsuccessful. We were able to secure a grant from Postcode Lottery for £25000 towards core costs in August 2024, which enabled us to keep our delivery going even without Arts Council funding. This did restrict the level of activity we could provide beyond August 2024 outside of our core costs, partnerships events and projects, until we were able to secure funding from BCC for a Community Cohesion Project starting in March 2025.

We have seen consistently good audiences at our events at Symphony Hall and through Refugee Week, and reached a lot of new people through our promotion and partnerships. We saw some new audience members and many new sign ups to our mailing list. Our 2024 events at Mac for Mama Afrika & Madalitso at Moseley Hive were full capacity, we were able to keep tickets prices low at Moseley Hive & targetted a local audience. Due to a reduced budget and marketing our event with Niwel Tsumbu & Ling Peng was not as well attended, but those who did attend really enjoyed it and several were new to our work. We also made links with the Chinese Community Centre and some members attended the event.

We had hoped to run other events through the year but with limited funds we had to rethink this and rely on partnership events beyond August 2024.

These combined factors throughout the programme left us with a lot of uncertainty regarding our budget and as a result we had to postpone and reduce some aspects of the programme and core costs. The grant from Postcode Lottery alleviated some of this uncertainty for a short time but unsuccessful applications to ACE have meant that the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 were still precarious. The B:Music School Project, Aston University partnership “My Birmingham Sound” project and the Community Cohesion project have secured project work from April – August 2025. Also partnerships with B:Music and Mac have secured a scaled down Refugee Week festival in June.

Donations and Memberships

We've seen an increase in donations over the last year, with a few regular donors. Creating a general flyer that we could have at all events has helped to promote this.

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CELEBRATING SANCTUARYRITY Name No (if any)
1099536
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date To Period end date
——e from 01/04/2024
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds Total funds Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Post Code Lottery 25,000 - 25,000 -
Arts Council 9,870 - 9,870
Partnerships 10,247 - 10,247
Donations/Membershi Ticket Sales ps 2 1,,5744 48 - - - - 2 1,,5744 48
Donationas & Legacies - - - - 143,652
Other Trading Activities - - - - 22,290
- - - -
=== Sub total (Gross income for AR) 39,539 9,870 - 49,409 165,942
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table). ee
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
—————— Total receipts 39,539 9,870 - 49,409 165,942
A3 Payments
Pettycash 820 - - 820 -
Arts Programme Delivery Costs 51,630 - 51,630
Partnership 6,129 - - 6,129 -
Refuge week 1,250 - 1,250 -
Post Code 19,925 - 19,925 -
Expenditure on Charitable Activities - - 148,270
- - - - -
- - - - -
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=—===== Sub total [ 28,124 ] 51,630 - 79,754 148,270
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purchases, (see table)
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— Total payments ————— 28,124 51,630 - 79,754 148,270
Net of receipts/(payments) 11,415 - 41,760 - 17,672
A5 Transfers between funds 3,805 - 3,805 - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - 3,805 34,558 - 30,753 13,081
Cash funds this year end 11,415 - 11,007 - 408 30,753
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Total cash funds 408 - -
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approvalDate of
Rabiyah K Latif 21/01/26
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

21/01/2026

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner s Report Report to the trust•e• CELEBRATING SANCTUARY On accounts for th• yoar ended 31ST MARCH 2025 Charlty no (If any) 1099536 S•t out on page8 I rewrt to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe TTh￿) for year ermled 31103r2025. R•$ponslbllltle8 and bas1$ of re A8 the charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance wilh the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I rep￿1 in resp8c of my examination of the Trusys accounts carried out under se(ion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Chanty Commission under sedion 145(5)(b) of the ACL Independent I have comwed my examination. I confimi that no mat•rial matters have examlnaes 8tatsm•nt come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me (￿USe to believe that in, any material r8sF(: accounting records ￿tre rK>t kept in accordance with 8ection 130 of the Charities Ad,. or the accounts did rM>t acLth with the accounting records: or the accounts did not comply with the appticable requirements concemin9 the form and ￿ntent of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Rep￿ts) Regulations 2CNJ8 other than any requiremenl that the accounts give a Irue and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an in(kFendent examination. I have no con￿M8 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 woper urKlerstanding of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the br8ckets rfthey do not appty. Slgnod: 2010112026 Nam•'. ANITA NICHOLLS Relevant profes8lonal quallfieatlonls) or body (If any): Addr0￿. 29 Sthooi Road Evesham IER Oct 2018

VJR112PT Section B Disclosuro Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (See CC32. IndeFerKlent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidan￿ for examiner5). Give here brlef detall$ of any Items that the •xaminer wishes to dls¢lose. IER O¢t 2018