## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 09 2023 **To** 31 08 2024 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Morphē Arts **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1143458 **Charity's principal address** Westbank House Longforgan **Postcode DD2 5EZ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David McCulloch|Secretary||| ||Alastair Gordon|||| ||Adrienne
Dengerink Chaplin|Chair||| ||Ben Quash|||| ||Natali McCleary|||| ||Sara Schumacher|||| ||Kaori Homma|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**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** Constituted on July 8th 2011 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Declaration of trust made by trustees How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees Appointed or reappointed annually at the AGM Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** Two trustees, David McCulloch and Alastair Gordon are also employees You **may choose** to include of the Trust. The other trustees give their time voluntary and received no additional information, where remuneration or other benefits. 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** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To advance the Christian Faith particularly but not exclusively through the provision of support work for artists and performers primarily with creative arts throughout the UK or the world. We are committed to equipping the next generation of artists with a Christian vision for creative excellence through individual mentoring, arts conferences, professional seminars and exhibition opportunities. March **2012** **TAR** 2 At trustees meetings our plans for the year took into consideration the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** Our focus continues to be on the development of community between artists of various disciplines and their role producing a thoughtful and dynamic creative culture. This has happened through the organizing of monthly gatherings in Scotland and London, an annual conference, monthly lecture series and regular exhibitions. The gatherings, lectures and conference provide a place for dialogue on the issues facing artists. We provided a number of speakers who have taught and advised in the areas of art and faith and how artists can contribute to society. Nomas* Projects and Sharing Not Hoarding – two gallery/project spaces in Scotland provide opportunities for artists to exhibit and develop their professional practice. The galleries have also provided opportunities for us to connect better with the arts communities and to partner with other art groups, galleries, city council and art institutions. The galleries enable inclusion of a relationship between an often un-heard Christian voice in the arts and cultural developments happening in the UK. Exhibitions have included local, national and international artists. All artists are welcome regardless of different faith positions or none. We offer weekly individual mentoring sessions for our artists where discipleship issues of faith and character are discussed as well as the practical concerns of the graduates in establishing a career in the arts. In May 2024, we added an artist residency program to our output resources for artists. The residency provides space, tuition and community for 4-6 artists for a period of six months. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Some of our network contribute voluntarily in administration tasks and the preparation of monthly events and exhibitions and conferences. We value their efforts, time and help and are encouraged that they want to partner with us. In an effort to raise funds we make applications to regular supporting trust funds. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; We make individual supporters aware of our financial position and make appeals in our newsletters. We also write letters of thanks and appreciation at least twice a year. We search to find other trusts funds where we can also apply for funding. We hope to secure funding to employ a fundraiser who can help our sustainability and meet the shortfall in our charity income. - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|During the months of September 2023 and August 2024, the London
branch of Morphe Arts hosted nine monthly events, regular crit groups
and Bible studies, and a weekly rhythm of individual mentoring and
consultations with early-career artists.
We also launched our new artist residency programme in East London.
This is a six-month residency for early-career artists, granting each artist
a studio space to develop their practice and research an area of art and
theology. Guest tutors for the programme included Ben Quash, Professor
of Art and Christianity at King's College, London, and Adrienne Chaplin,
Research Associate at the Margaret Beaufort Institute.
In addition, our new monthly symposium for mid-career artists with
Christian faith developed and has grown in numbers. The Common
Room met monthly at Nahmad Gallery on Cork Street and the studio of
artist Lakwena to discuss the challenges and opportunities for people of
faith working professionally in the creative arts.
International Prayer Room
Since the lockdown period of Covid-19 in 2020 we have hosted an online
prayer meeting every morning. The group continues to meet for half an
hour on zoom every week day and includes Uk wide and international
participants . This group has been a great support for individuals and has
continued throughout 2023-24.
Individual Mentoring
Throughout the year, our staff members Alastair Gordon and Sarah
White have continued their programme of individual mentoring to artists.
These take the form of one hour session every two weeks. The
programme begins with three sessions in consolation and should the
mentors / mentees wish to continue the programme is extended to six
sessions.
We provided 3, Arts and Faith based training sessions for UCCF: The
Christian Unions arts interns.
Additional conferences and events that we were involved in within this
year included contributing hosting the creative arts programme at the
Keswick Convention in July.
**Interface Conference**
We hosted our annual Interface arts conference at the venue - Leith
School of Art in Edinburgh. We brought together over 70 artists from
across the UK and Internationally. The theme ‘Gifted’ was responded to
by our speakers – Art Historian and Curator Dan Siedell, Jonny and Jem
Mellor, Beth Kwant. Workshops were led by Sophie Killingly, Sarah
White, Heather Gregg and there was a concert in the evening including
pianist Graeme MacDonald.
In Dundee, the gallery space Nomas* Projects in Dundee enables
exhibiting opportunities and contributes in a meaningful way to the arts
community. Partnerships developed include the city council, Wasps artist
studios, Creative Dundee and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and
Design (Universiry of Dundee). Nomas* Projects hosted 9 exhibitions
from respected artists in the UK and abroad. We have continued our
artist’s talks online where we still experience good attendance with a
wider geographical reach. Sharing Not Hoarding – the open-air gallery
poster space set up in Dundee’s waterfront development area near to the| |---|---| March **2012** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance V&A building programmed 6 exhibitions for the year. The vision for this space is to encourage and give voice to the public regarding the waterfront developments in the city and the use of public space. Both our gallery projects offer a unique contribution in the arts thanks to the ‘open air/public nature’ of the spaces. The monthly Morphē Glasgow Gatherings take place in Wasps artist studio. The gatherings provide opportunity for artists to ‘show and tell’ their work and a place to discuss issues of art and faith. The gatherings enable networking and support between artists of varying disciplines in the city. Ongoing weekly individual mentoring sessions for our artists is one of our main achievements of the year. It is also one of the harder things to quantify as lives are constantly changing but below are comments and feedback from some of those who have been mentored and supported by what we do and in particular from those who have benefitted from our gallery projects. Quotes: Thank you so much again for the exhibition opportunity, and for such a great experience exhibiting with you and Owen at Nomas - I’ve really appreciated the support every step of the way. With warm wishes, _Susie Rose Dalton - PhD candidate in Belfast_ Thank you very much for your guidance through the zoom session with Jillian on Sunday. You are a fine moderator - fair, generous, enlightening. Jillian's talk was fascinating and her performance highly impressive. There was enough material for several talks! With kind regards and thanks, _Marlene (Artist and attendee at Nomas* talk online)_ I just wanted to send an email to thank you all so much for being part of the Arts Elective team and for working so hard this year to enable us to deliver the elective programme for the Relay interns. I have so enjoyed working together and learning from you all as we served together and am so thankful for your partnership in this work. Thanks _Becca Nunes, Arts Network Coordinator, UCCF: The Christian Unions_ Thanks for always reaching out while I was living in Glasgow. I got a lot from the Morphē things I attended. I passed my MA too. Thanks for all your kindness and support. _Kirsty Kerr, Curator for Museums_ March **2012** **TAR** 5 Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 6 ## **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)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy 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) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** March **2012** **TAR** 7 **Charity Name No (if any) Morphe Arts 1143458 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/09/2023 31/08/2024 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**42,792**
**8,811**
**11,331**
**14,900**
**4,916**
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**82,750**
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**87,677**
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**33,386**
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Donations via Stewardship|**25,681**||**17,111**||**-**||**42,792**| |Donations|**4,811**||**4,000**||**-**||**8,811**| |International Donations|**11,331**||**-**||**-**||**11,331**| |Donations - Artist ResidencyCentre|**-**||**14,900**||**-**||**14,900**| |Events|**4,916**||**-**||**-**||**4,916**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**46,739**||**36,011**||**-**||**82,750**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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Staff Costs|**42,587**||**19,403**||**-**||**61,990**| |Staff Expenses|**8,014**||**-**||**-**||**8,014**| |Office/Administration|**2,574**||**-**||**-**||**2,574**| |Artist ResidencyCentre|**799**||**5,300**||**-**||**6,099**| |Events|**5,579**||**3,421**||**-**||**9,000**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**59,553**||**28,124**||**-**||**87,677**| ||||||||| |**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_**|||||||| ||**- 12,814**||||||**- 4,927**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**24,105**||||||**33,386**| ||**11,291**||||||**28,459**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 19/06/2025 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Bank and Cash Balance
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## **Last year** ## **to the nearest £** **34,484 14,615 11,526 6,412 - - - 67,037** **67,037** **59,256 6,970 - 1,660 5,763 - - - - 73,649** **73,649 - 6,612 - 39,998 33,386** CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 19/06/2025 3 **----- Start of picture text -----**
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OK **Endowment funds to nearest £** **-** **Current value (optional) - - - - -** **Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - -** **When due (optional)** Date of approval CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 19/06/2025 4 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustsosl membeis of MoTphe Arts On accounts for the year ended 31 August 2024 Charity no Ilf any) 1143458 Set out on pages 1and2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I'lhe Trust") for the year ended 3110812020. R¢$pon$lbilities and As tho charity trustees of the Trust. you are respon$ible for the preparalion ba$1$ of report of the ac¢ounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities A¢t 2011 ('the Act'l. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Chanty Commission under section 145(5){b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material mattels have come to my attention (other than that disclosed tr*low Y in connection with the examinatKin which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respe¢t'. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the a￿o￿ntIng records Indépendent examlner's $tatemont I have no COn￿mS and have ¢ome across no olher matters in connection with the examination to which attentlon should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the account5 to be Teach8d. ' Please delete Ihe words in the brackets rf they do not appfy. Slgned: Dats". Name: J. &. iyli*J Relevant professlonal quallflcatlonlsl or body (if any): Addross: IER Octob8r 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brlef d•tails of any Items that the examiner wishos to dlsclose. IER October 2018