## **Annual Report**
_s_ A Record of the Year’s Significant Event
Freedom Road Creative Arts 2024 - 2025
## **Introduction**
Freedom Road Creative Arts (FRCA) was launched in July 2008 to offer young people in the Hull area Drama, Dance, Song-writing and Singing workshops. We aim to make a positive difference in the lives of children and young people to empower, raise confidence and give them a voice primarily through the creative and performing arts. We are here to support, nurture and raise young people’s aspirations to help them be well-rounded, contributing and successful adults.
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## What did this Year look like for Freedom Roaders?
Our calendar consisted of **regular sessions every week** , **holiday sessions during school breaks** and **special events throughout the year** . In addition to this, we also offered our **1-1 general support** for our young people with our pastoral team. However, we have had to significantly cut down our 1-1 music sessions due to the health of Ian Bolton, our previous Co-Director.
Bit by bit, we are building the charity back to normal, and eventually, we anticipate a thriving full return of the sessions we had to cut. Already, the FRCA 2025-2026 calendar is filling up with new and existing projects and events.
The next few pages detail everything our Freedom Roaders have participated in throughout this year.
## **Regular Sessions every week:**
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- **‘Dance Class’** with teacher Eva and supported by youth assistants Shekinah and Lexie.
In this group class, we explore dance in different styles at multiple levels. We look at dance technique and collectively choreograph routines for internal/external shows, as well as make dances in class just for the fun of it!
## ● **‘Drama Class’** with teacher Owen.
In this group session, we play drama games, focus on acting skills, read/write short scripts and create stories to perform to everyone in the class.
## ● **‘Drumming Class’** with teacher Simon.
These sessions are 1-1 and focus on drumming skills by learning various songs - we are looking to start exams with the Albemarle Music Centre to help students achieve certification to take those skills to the next level.
- **‘Music Collective Session’** with alternating teachers Ben, Molly, Victoria and Iain.
In this group class, musicians can learn skills in singing, piano, percussion and strings. We prepare a repertoire of songs and perform them at external events.
- **‘Singing Class’** with teachers Molly and Victoria.
These sessions have since been cut from our programme, but we are in the process of starting them up again.
- **‘Guitar Class’** with teachers Emily, Shekinah and Lucas.
These sessions have since been cut from our programme, but we are in the process of starting them up again.
## ● **‘Band Practice’** supervised by Ben.
In these sessions, we link bands up with the space they need to practice. The bands then come to the external events and perform with us.
## **Holiday Sessions During School Breaks:**
## **● ‘Easter Dance Sessions’.**
Between 3-6 sessions exploring different dance styles and themes through student-led practice. This always results in an in-house performance or showing of some kind.
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## **● ‘Summer Dance Sessions’.**
Between 3-6 sessions exploring different dance styles and themes through student-led practice. This always results in an in-house performance or showing of some kind.
This was the result from this year's Summer School = https://m.youtube.com/watch? feature=shared&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKUJrNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnJfJEK- i0LluH61uej__SXQHcCUbx4m21p8UuEvOPilaa24Q8s4VaKBv qJ_aem__36MP5QLKuYS1liz7jFLrw&v=MH7HS6URZQs
## **● ‘Christmas Party’.**
A day of fun holiday-themed workshops across all classes. During this, the young people take part in arts activities, play games, eat food and receive presents.
## **Special Events Throughout the Year:**
- Let’s Rock at Bridlington Spa– January = Music Performance.
- Creative Voice Dance Show at Hull New Theatre - February Dance Show.
- Cottingham Springboard Festival - May = Music Performance.
- Kingston Awards Charity Ball - May = Music Performance.
- Arafest - July = As a charity, we volunteered to help with part of the weekend’s events.
- Humber Street Sesh - August = Music Performance.
- Butterflies Memory Loss Support Group - October = Drama workshop day run by our students.
- Creative Voice Arts Festival at Princes Quay – November = Dance and Music Show.
- East Riding Youth Dance Platform at Bridlington Spa - November = Dance Show.
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## Staff List:
Iain Thompson – Director and Finance Manager
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Éva Loure – Project Co-ordinator and Dance Tutor
Ben Farr - Music Tutor
Molly Brown – Music Tutor
Victoria Fergusson – Vocal Coach
Simon Higley – Drumming Tutor
Jack Brown – Education Drumming tutor
Owen Killey – Drama Tutor Lexie Akester – Dance Support
## Chairs Report
Last year, I wrote about the tenacity of the FRCA staff team. This year started as the previous year had, with lots of new young people and full classes.
As the year went on, Ian Bolton, our Project Coordinator and the driving force behind FRCA, became quite ill and had to step back. The other staff members have shown great resilience in taking on his roles and keeping the charity going.
We are looking at scaling back some of the classes due to losing the CiN funding later on in the year, so we have already started planning for that. But we’re conscious that the key to FRCA success is the consistency we offer the young people, and that begins in keeping our offering going, no matter what.
Our music and dance classes are packed, and helping the young people, along with the drama classes, which are growing all the time. It’s wonderful to see all the new young people enjoying their first performances and looking forward to future ones.
Despite the challenges, FRCA still has a great future!
Craig Clark,
Chair, Freedom Road Creative Arts.
Funders List:
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|**Funds**|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**|**Movement**
**in funds**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Unrestricted Funds**
- General Fund|20,253|(14,694)|5,559|
|**Restricted Funds -**
Listen Up|36,001|(37,067)|(1,066)|
|**Restricted Funds -**
Children In Need|36,121|(46,887)|(10,766)|
|**Restricted Funds -**
Hull ER Trust|-|(1,764)|(1,764)|
|**Restricted Funds -**
Ragdoll Foundation|-|(3,334)|(3,334)|
|**Restricted Funds -**
Hey Smile|3,155|(900)|2,255|
|**Restricted Funds -**
UK Youth|7,200|-|7,200|
|**Restricted Funds -**
The Tweed Family
Foundation|10,000|-|10,000|
|**Total Funds:**|112,730|104,646|8,084|
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## What does the next year hold for FRCA?
We are brainstorming fresh ideas to lead FRCA to the next level. For example: reintroducing some of the fantastic classes that we unfortunately cut from our programme, starting exams so the students can achieve certifications, undertaking more outreach work going into schools so we can expand our network, refreshing our social media marketing to engage new audiences, attending more external events to increase opportunities and starting new classes to offer more diverse experiences to our young people. FRCA looks forward to building more partnerships with other likeminded organisations, and we are excited for what the next year brings.
## Final Notes…
We are incredibly fortunate at FRCA to work amongst such inspiring young people, talented staff and other fantastic organisations. We can't wait to see what 2025-2026 has in store to help us support all of our FRCA family in their artistic and personal journeys. In the meantime, please remember to check out our student-led newsletter, which is located on our Facebook page. This document details all of our progress each term so you can get to know us a little better and hear about the current great work that our young people get up to.
## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
**The Albemarle Music Centre**
## **60 Ferensway**
## **Hull**
**HU2 8AL**
## **www.freedomroadcreativearts.com**
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## **REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER:06614442 REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1124982**
# **Freedom Road Creative Arts (A Company Limited by Guarantee)**
## **Unaudited Financial Statements**
**30 June 2025**
SD-0222576-1-6
## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Contents of the Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2025**
|||**Page**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Reference and Administrative Details**||1||
|**Report of the Trustees**|2|to|3|
|**Independent Examiner's Report**||4||
|**Statement of Financial Activities**||5||
|**Balance Sheet**||6||
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|7|to|12|
## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Reference and Administrative Details for the year ended 30th June 2025**
**TRUSTEES** C Clark (Chair) Mrs J Cocker A Ali **COMPANY SECRETARY** I Priddle **REGISTERED OFFICE** The Albermarle Music Centre 60 Ferensway Hull HU2 8LN **REGISTERED COMPANY** 06614442 (England and Wales) **NUMBER REGISTERED CHARITY** 1124982 **NUMBER INDEPENDENT EXAMINER** Smailes Goldie Chartered Accountants Regent's Court Princess Street Hull East Yorkshire HU2 8BA
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 30th June 2025**
The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30th June 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and activities**
To act as a resource for young people up to the age of twenty one, in particular but not limited to those living in Kingston upon Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of creative arts, educational and other activities as a means of:
- a) advancing in life and helping young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;
- b) advancing education;
- c) relieving unemployment;
- d) providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons;
- e) promoting activities to foster understanding between young people from different racial groups to promote good relations between young people of different racial groups and from different countries.
## **Public benefit**
The trustees have had due regard to their duty to comply with section 4 of the 2011 Charities Act regarding the public benefit of the objectives of the charity and the Charity Commission's guidance on the same.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Financial performance and position**
The charity reported a surplus on the unrestricted fund of £18,423 and a deficit of £18,597 across it's restricted funds. The deficit on restricted funds arose due to planned expenditure in delivering funded projects.
At the year end, the charity held unrestricted funds of £18,812 and restricted funds of £8,210.
## **Reserves policy**
It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted reserves of the charity at a level sufficient to cover unrestricted running costs for a period of at least six months. This target is currently being met.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, it's memorandum and articles of association, and constitutes a company limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
Appointment of trustees is governed by the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Board of Trustees is authorised to appoint new trustees to fill vacancies arising through resignation or death of an existing trustee.
## **Induction and training of new trustees**
New trustees are inducted by being invited to attend committee meetings in order that they may judge the level of commitment and responsibilities that are involved with being a trustee.
## **Risk management**
The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 27th March 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Report of the Trustees**
**for the year ended 30th June 2025**
C Clark - Trustee
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Freedom Road Creative Arts ('the Company')**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 30th June 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by Section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
S. T. Bramall, BSc., F.C.A.,
Smailes Goldie Chartered Accountants Regent's Court Princess Street Hull East Yorkshire HU2 8BA
27th March 2026
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 30th June 2025**
|Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
2
**1,673**
**Charitable activities**
4
Creative arts and education
**87,839**
Investment income
3
**-**
**Total**
**89,512**
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
5
Creative arts and education
**71,089**
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
**18,423**
**Transfers between funds**
11
**1,694**
**Net movement in funds**
**20,117**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
**(1,305)**
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**18,812**|Restricted
funds
£
**-**
**14,400**
**-**
**14,400**
**32,997**
**(18,597)**
**(1,694)**
**(20,291)**
**28,501**
**8,210**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**1,673**
**102,239**
**-**
**103,912**
**104,086**
**(174)**
**-**
**(174)**
**27,196**
**27,022**|2024
Total
funds
£
5,910
109,935
18|
|---|---|---|---|
||||115,863|
||||113,695|
||||2,168
-|
||||2,168
25,028|
||||27,196|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **30th June 2025**
|Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
funds
Notes
£
£
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank
**20,018**
**8,210**
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
10
**(1,206)**
**-**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**NET ASSETS**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**FUNDS**
11
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**28,228**
**(1,206)**
**27,022**
**27,022**
**27,022**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**27,022**|2024
Total
funds
£
28,228
(1,032)
27,196
27,196
27,196
(1,305)
28,501
27,196|
|---|---|---|
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 30th June 2025.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 30th June 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for
- (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
- (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
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 27th March 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
C Clark - Trustee
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES**
|**2025**
**£**
Donations
**1,673**
**3.**
**INVESTMENT INCOME**
**2025**
**£**
Deposit account interest
**-**|2024
£
5,910|
|---|---|
||2024
£
18|
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
|Activity
Listen Up
Creative arts and education
Hull music service
Creative arts and education
Grants
Creative arts and education
Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
Children in Need
Hull City Council
Ragdoll Foundation
UK Youth
The Tweed Family Charitable Foundation
National Lottery
The Foyle Foundation
Hays Travel Foundation
The Sackler Trust
**5.**
**CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**
Creative arts and education
**6.**
**DIRECT COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
Volunteer expenses
Music equipment
Transport & travel costs
Venue hire
Management charges
Session workers
Project costs
Computer software costs
Listen up
Dance competitions|Direct
Costs (see
note 6)
£
**100,158**|**2025**
**£**
**38,889**
**18,450**
**44,900**
**102,239**
**2025**
**£**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**14,400**
**10,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,000**
**44,900**
Support
costs (see
note 7)
£
**3,928**
**2025**
**£**
**1,179**
**157**
**968**
**825**
**5,370**
**19,833**
**12,391**
**6,000**
**39,470**
**13,965**
**100,158**|2024
£
26,496
-
83,439|2024
£
26,496
-
83,439|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||109,935||
||||2024
£
46,871
2,090
2,018
-
-
19,960
7,500
5,000
-
83,439
Totals
£
**104,086**|2024
£
46,871
2,090
2,018
-
-
19,960
7,500
5,000
-|
|||||83,439|
||||2024
£
7,551
1,026
2,148
5,386
12,538
24,601
5,661
11,292
27,378
10,971||
||||108,552||
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **7. SUPPORT COSTS**
|**SUPPORT COSTS**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Governance||
||Finance|costs|Totals|
||£|£|£|
|Creative arts and education|**2,434**|**1,494**|**3,928**|
|Support costs, included in the above, are as follows:||||
|||**2025**|2024|
|||Creative||
|||arts and|Total|
|||education|activities|
|||**£**|£|
|Overhead costs||**-**|**760**|
|Insurance||**462**|**451**|
|Telephone||**648**|**1,032**|
|Sundries||**487**|**674**|
|Bank charges||**202**|**265**|
|Lottery||**635**|**665**|
|Independent Examiners Fee||**1,494**|**1,296**|
|||**3,928**|**5,143**|
## **8. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 30th June 2025 nor for the year ended 30th June 2024.
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 30th June 2025 nor for the year ended 30th June 2024.
## **9.**
|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
Unrestricted
fund
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
5,910
**Charitable activities**
Creative arts and education
2,090
Investment income
18
**Total**
8,018
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
Creative arts and education
4,339
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
3,679|Restricted
funds
£
-
107,845
-
107,845
109,356
(1,511)|Total
funds
£
5,910
109,935
18|
|---|---|---|
|||115,863|
|||113,695|
|||2,168|
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
|**9.**
**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES - continued**
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
fund
funds
funds
£
£
£
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
(4,983)
30,011
25,028
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
(1,304)
28,500
27,196
**10.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
**2025**
2024
**£**
£
Other creditors
**1,206**
1,032
**11.**
**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
Net
Transfers
movement
between
At
At 1.7.24
in funds
funds
30.6.25
£
£
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**(1,305)**
**18,423**
**1,694**
**18,812**
**Restricted funds**
Listen Up - session workers
**1,694**
**-**
**(1,694)**
**-**
Children In Need
**5,317**
**(5,317)**
**-**
**-**
The Foyle Foundation
**1,529**
**(1,529)**
**-**
**-**
Awards For All
**19,961**
**(11,751)**
**-**
**8,210**
**28,501**
**(18,597)**
**(1,694)**
**8,210**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**27,196**
**(174)**
**-**
**27,022**
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming
Resources
Movement
resources
expended
in funds
£
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**89,512**
**(71,089)**
**18,423**
**Restricted funds**
Children In Need
**-**
**(5,317)**
**(5,317)**
UK Youth
**14,400**
**(14,400)**
**-**
The Foyle Foundation
**-**
**(1,529)**
**(1,529)**
Awards For All
**-**
**(11,751)**
**(11,751)**
**14,400**
**(32,997)**
**(18,597)**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**103,912**
**(104,086)**
**(174)**||Total
funds
£
25,028|
|---|---|---|
|||27,196|
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **11. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued**
## **Comparatives for movement in funds**
|Net
movement
At 1.7.23
in funds
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
(4,983)
3,678
**Restricted funds**
Listen Up - session workers
2,577
(882)
Children In Need
3,613
1,704
Ragdoll Foundation
4,366
(4,366)
Hey Smile
2,255
(2,255)
UK Youth
7,200
(7,200)
The Tweed Family Foundation
10,000
(10,000)
The Foyle Foundation
-
1,529
Awards For All
-
19,960
30,011
(1,510)
**TOTAL FUNDS**
25,028
2,168
Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:|At
30.6.24
£
(1,305)
1,695
5,317
-
-
-
-
1,529
19,960
28,501
27,196|
|---|---|
|**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**Restricted funds**
Listen Up - session workers
Children In Need
Ragdoll Foundation
Hey Smile
UK Youth
The Tweed Family Foundation
The Foyle Foundation
Hays Travel Foundation
Awards For All
**TOTAL FUNDS**|Incoming
resources
£
8,018
26,496
46,872
2,017
-
-
-
7,500
5,000
19,960
107,845
115,863|Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(4,340)
3,678
(27,378)
(882)
(45,168)
1,704
(6,383)
(4,366)
(2,255)
(2,255)
(7,200)
(7,200)
(10,000)
(10,000)
(5,971)
1,529
(5,000)
-
-
19,960
(109,355)
(1,510)
(113,695)
2,168|
|---|---|---|
## **Transfers between funds**
On review of the funds, it was identified that the Listen Up fund is earned income for a provided service, not voluntary income, and therefore should be recognised as unrestricted.
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **12. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 30th June 2025.
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## **REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER:06614442 REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1124982**
# **Freedom Road Creative Arts (A Company Limited by Guarantee)**
## **Unaudited Financial Statements**
**30 June 2025**
SD-0222576-1-6
## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Contents of the Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2025**
|||**Page**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Reference and Administrative Details**||1||
|**Report of the Trustees**|2|to|3|
|**Independent Examiner's Report**||4||
|**Statement of Financial Activities**||5||
|**Balance Sheet**||6||
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|7|to|12|
## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Reference and Administrative Details for the year ended 30th June 2025**
**TRUSTEES** C Clark (Chair) Mrs J Cocker A Ali **COMPANY SECRETARY** I Priddle **REGISTERED OFFICE** The Albermarle Music Centre 60 Ferensway Hull HU2 8LN **REGISTERED COMPANY** 06614442 (England and Wales) **NUMBER REGISTERED CHARITY** 1124982 **NUMBER INDEPENDENT EXAMINER** Smailes Goldie Chartered Accountants Regent's Court Princess Street Hull East Yorkshire HU2 8BA
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 30th June 2025**
The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30th June 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and activities**
To act as a resource for young people up to the age of twenty one, in particular but not limited to those living in Kingston upon Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire by providing advice and assistance and organising programmes of creative arts, educational and other activities as a means of:
- a) advancing in life and helping young people by developing their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible individuals;
- b) advancing education;
- c) relieving unemployment;
- d) providing recreational and leisure time activity in the interests of social welfare for people living in the area of benefit who have need by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons;
- e) promoting activities to foster understanding between young people from different racial groups to promote good relations between young people of different racial groups and from different countries.
## **Public benefit**
The trustees have had due regard to their duty to comply with section 4 of the 2011 Charities Act regarding the public benefit of the objectives of the charity and the Charity Commission's guidance on the same.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Financial performance and position**
The charity reported a surplus on the unrestricted fund of £18,423 and a deficit of £18,597 across it's restricted funds. The deficit on restricted funds arose due to planned expenditure in delivering funded projects.
At the year end, the charity held unrestricted funds of £18,812 and restricted funds of £8,210.
## **Reserves policy**
It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted reserves of the charity at a level sufficient to cover unrestricted running costs for a period of at least six months. This target is currently being met.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, it's memorandum and articles of association, and constitutes a company limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
Appointment of trustees is governed by the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Board of Trustees is authorised to appoint new trustees to fill vacancies arising through resignation or death of an existing trustee.
## **Induction and training of new trustees**
New trustees are inducted by being invited to attend committee meetings in order that they may judge the level of commitment and responsibilities that are involved with being a trustee.
## **Risk management**
The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 27th March 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Report of the Trustees**
**for the year ended 30th June 2025**
C Clark - Trustee
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Freedom Road Creative Arts ('the Company')**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 30th June 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by Section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of Section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
S. T. Bramall, BSc., F.C.A.,
Smailes Goldie Chartered Accountants Regent's Court Princess Street Hull East Yorkshire HU2 8BA
27th March 2026
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 30th June 2025**
|Unrestricted
fund
Notes
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
2
**1,673**
**Charitable activities**
4
Creative arts and education
**87,839**
Investment income
3
**-**
**Total**
**89,512**
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
5
Creative arts and education
**71,089**
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
**18,423**
**Transfers between funds**
11
**1,694**
**Net movement in funds**
**20,117**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
**(1,305)**
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**18,812**|Restricted
funds
£
**-**
**14,400**
**-**
**14,400**
**32,997**
**(18,597)**
**(1,694)**
**(20,291)**
**28,501**
**8,210**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**1,673**
**102,239**
**-**
**103,912**
**104,086**
**(174)**
**-**
**(174)**
**27,196**
**27,022**|2024
Total
funds
£
5,910
109,935
18|
|---|---|---|---|
||||115,863|
||||113,695|
||||2,168
-|
||||2,168
25,028|
||||27,196|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **30th June 2025**
|Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
funds
Notes
£
£
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank
**20,018**
**8,210**
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
10
**(1,206)**
**-**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**NET ASSETS**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**FUNDS**
11
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**28,228**
**(1,206)**
**27,022**
**27,022**
**27,022**
**18,812**
**8,210**
**27,022**|2024
Total
funds
£
28,228
(1,032)
27,196
27,196
27,196
(1,305)
28,501
27,196|
|---|---|---|
The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 30th June 2025.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 30th June 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for
- (a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
- (b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
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 27th March 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
C Clark - Trustee
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES**
|**2025**
**£**
Donations
**1,673**
**3.**
**INVESTMENT INCOME**
**2025**
**£**
Deposit account interest
**-**|2024
£
5,910|
|---|---|
||2024
£
18|
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
|Activity
Listen Up
Creative arts and education
Hull music service
Creative arts and education
Grants
Creative arts and education
Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
Children in Need
Hull City Council
Ragdoll Foundation
UK Youth
The Tweed Family Charitable Foundation
National Lottery
The Foyle Foundation
Hays Travel Foundation
The Sackler Trust
**5.**
**CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**
Creative arts and education
**6.**
**DIRECT COSTS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
Volunteer expenses
Music equipment
Transport & travel costs
Venue hire
Management charges
Session workers
Project costs
Computer software costs
Listen up
Dance competitions|Direct
Costs (see
note 6)
£
**100,158**|**2025**
**£**
**38,889**
**18,450**
**44,900**
**102,239**
**2025**
**£**
**-**
**500**
**-**
**14,400**
**10,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,000**
**44,900**
Support
costs (see
note 7)
£
**3,928**
**2025**
**£**
**1,179**
**157**
**968**
**825**
**5,370**
**19,833**
**12,391**
**6,000**
**39,470**
**13,965**
**100,158**|2024
£
26,496
-
83,439|2024
£
26,496
-
83,439|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||109,935||
||||2024
£
46,871
2,090
2,018
-
-
19,960
7,500
5,000
-
83,439
Totals
£
**104,086**|2024
£
46,871
2,090
2,018
-
-
19,960
7,500
5,000
-|
|||||83,439|
||||2024
£
7,551
1,026
2,148
5,386
12,538
24,601
5,661
11,292
27,378
10,971||
||||108,552||
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **7. SUPPORT COSTS**
|**SUPPORT COSTS**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Governance||
||Finance|costs|Totals|
||£|£|£|
|Creative arts and education|**2,434**|**1,494**|**3,928**|
|Support costs, included in the above, are as follows:||||
|||**2025**|2024|
|||Creative||
|||arts and|Total|
|||education|activities|
|||**£**|£|
|Overhead costs||**-**|**760**|
|Insurance||**462**|**451**|
|Telephone||**648**|**1,032**|
|Sundries||**487**|**674**|
|Bank charges||**202**|**265**|
|Lottery||**635**|**665**|
|Independent Examiners Fee||**1,494**|**1,296**|
|||**3,928**|**5,143**|
## **8. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 30th June 2025 nor for the year ended 30th June 2024.
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 30th June 2025 nor for the year ended 30th June 2024.
## **9.**
|**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
Unrestricted
fund
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
5,910
**Charitable activities**
Creative arts and education
2,090
Investment income
18
**Total**
8,018
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
Creative arts and education
4,339
**NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)**
3,679|Restricted
funds
£
-
107,845
-
107,845
109,356
(1,511)|Total
funds
£
5,910
109,935
18|
|---|---|---|
|||115,863|
|||113,695|
|||2,168|
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
|**9.**
**COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES - continued**
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
fund
funds
funds
£
£
£
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
(4,983)
30,011
25,028
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
(1,304)
28,500
27,196
**10.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
**2025**
2024
**£**
£
Other creditors
**1,206**
1,032
**11.**
**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
Net
Transfers
movement
between
At
At 1.7.24
in funds
funds
30.6.25
£
£
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**(1,305)**
**18,423**
**1,694**
**18,812**
**Restricted funds**
Listen Up - session workers
**1,694**
**-**
**(1,694)**
**-**
Children In Need
**5,317**
**(5,317)**
**-**
**-**
The Foyle Foundation
**1,529**
**(1,529)**
**-**
**-**
Awards For All
**19,961**
**(11,751)**
**-**
**8,210**
**28,501**
**(18,597)**
**(1,694)**
**8,210**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**27,196**
**(174)**
**-**
**27,022**
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming
Resources
Movement
resources
expended
in funds
£
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**89,512**
**(71,089)**
**18,423**
**Restricted funds**
Children In Need
**-**
**(5,317)**
**(5,317)**
UK Youth
**14,400**
**(14,400)**
**-**
The Foyle Foundation
**-**
**(1,529)**
**(1,529)**
Awards For All
**-**
**(11,751)**
**(11,751)**
**14,400**
**(32,997)**
**(18,597)**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**103,912**
**(104,086)**
**(174)**||Total
funds
£
25,028|
|---|---|---|
|||27,196|
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **11. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued**
## **Comparatives for movement in funds**
|Net
movement
At 1.7.23
in funds
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
(4,983)
3,678
**Restricted funds**
Listen Up - session workers
2,577
(882)
Children In Need
3,613
1,704
Ragdoll Foundation
4,366
(4,366)
Hey Smile
2,255
(2,255)
UK Youth
7,200
(7,200)
The Tweed Family Foundation
10,000
(10,000)
The Foyle Foundation
-
1,529
Awards For All
-
19,960
30,011
(1,510)
**TOTAL FUNDS**
25,028
2,168
Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:|At
30.6.24
£
(1,305)
1,695
5,317
-
-
-
-
1,529
19,960
28,501
27,196|
|---|---|
|**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**Restricted funds**
Listen Up - session workers
Children In Need
Ragdoll Foundation
Hey Smile
UK Youth
The Tweed Family Foundation
The Foyle Foundation
Hays Travel Foundation
Awards For All
**TOTAL FUNDS**|Incoming
resources
£
8,018
26,496
46,872
2,017
-
-
-
7,500
5,000
19,960
107,845
115,863|Resources
Movement
expended
in funds
£
£
(4,340)
3,678
(27,378)
(882)
(45,168)
1,704
(6,383)
(4,366)
(2,255)
(2,255)
(7,200)
(7,200)
(10,000)
(10,000)
(5,971)
1,529
(5,000)
-
-
19,960
(109,355)
(1,510)
(113,695)
2,168|
|---|---|---|
## **Transfers between funds**
On review of the funds, it was identified that the Listen Up fund is earned income for a provided service, not voluntary income, and therefore should be recognised as unrestricted.
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## **Freedom Road Creative Arts**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued**
## **for the year ended 30th June 2025**
## **12. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 30th June 2025.
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