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AS TOLD BY JUNE PETERS
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One of the many original backdrops created for storytelling sessions

Enquiries: johnsonannef@gmail.com

www.everydaymagic.org.uk

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Report & Financial Statements for Academic Year 2021/22 Registered Charity No: 1148659

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Everyday Magic
Director: Anne Johnson
E-mail: johnsonannef@gmail.com
Mobile: 07889 505 608
www.everydaymagic.org.uk
www.facebook.com/everydaymagicstorytelling
twiter.com/EverydayMagic3
www.instagram.com/everydaymagicstorytelling/
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Everyday Magic - Our Offer

We are a collective of storytellers, musicians, writers & artists

We specialise in working with state primary schools in London to enrich the curriculum & stimulate children’s language & learning

We respond to schools’ priorities to develop fortnightly sessions for all ages, for teachers to build on, which:

In This Report

Our Offer 1
Our Track Record, Our Artists & How we work with Schools 2
‘Nature’s Here in Town ‘ - The Year’s Programme 4
What the Schools say 6
Resources for Schools
 8
Participating Schools 21/22, Funders & Looking Ahead 10
Our Governance & our Financial & Funding Model 11
Independent Examiner’s Statement 12
End of Year Accounts for Academic Year Ended 31/8/22 13

We also create banks of original songs, & illustrated stories for teachers—made available on YouTube & their school’s intranet

We’re attentive to schools’ concerns & children’s needs in the wake of Covid & deliver our programmes sensitively & safely

Our Track Record

Our Artists

Storytellers Storytellers Anne Johnson Kate Corkery Nell Phoenix Sef Townsend Tuup

Sound Recording Instrumentalist & Social Media:

Singer & Harmonies on Recorded Songs & Stories: Nella Novy-Johnson

We choose our artists

for their excellence

Michele Chowrimootoo

& total commitment to tuning with children & teachers See more on our website: www.everydaymagic.org.uk

How we Work with Schools

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2 Storytellers run ½ day sessions fortnightly

working to the school’s priorities with a choice of:

We Devise Bespoke Programmes for Each School - pp 4 & 5

We Create Online Resources for Teachers & Parents - pp 8 & 9

Maximising Impact & Affordability

Nature’s Here in Town The Year’s Programme

In the Autumn we prepared our 6 schools ( see p10 ) for our new 3-year project ‘Nature’s Here in Town’ which started in January, generously supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

Throughout the school year:

The Interactive Sessions Enabled Children to:

Nature’s Here in Town What the Stories Covered

The traditional stories woven in with class topics

What the Schools Say

Growing Confidence & Participation

“The programme has been a tremendous boost for our children, they have found that their self-confidence has developed, they are more prepared to join in with new and unfamiliar experiences, contribute to whole class activities and share their thoughts. Everyday Magic take time to find out specific topics we may be covering in school and then match sessions, songs and stories accordingly. I would thoroughly recommend ‘Everyday Magic’ to any Primary or Infant School .” - Peter Simpson, Assistant Head, Dormers Wells Junior and infants

Engaging with Diversity & Special Needs

[ “The sessions are really beneficial for our children with SEN as ] they are so theatrical, they really do enjoy them. Even the children who often struggle to sit for short periods are gripped by the little sprinkling of magic.” - Paula Mc Clean, Reception class teacher, Perivale Junior & Infant School.

“The Everyday Magic approach of selecting stories, songs, poetry and rhymes from around the world and presenting them with a multisensory approach captures the imagination of all children including those who find it hard to focus in lessons.” - Helen Rai, Head teacher, Lady Margaret Primary School

Connecting with Nature

“We like taking part in the ‘Nature’s Here in Town’ project, as it gives our children the skills needed to enrich their vocabulary and helps their language development and their oracy skills, ensuring that their creativity and imagination are developed at an early age.” – Loredana Beurthe, Assistant Headteacher, St Mary’s RC Primary School

“The ‘Nature’s Here in Town’ project links very well to one of our school’s key curriculum themes of Sustainability and complements developing a love of the natural world in our pupils. We want our pupils to leave with a connection to nature and to be ‘good stewards’ for the planet.” - Helen Rai, Head teacher, Lady Margaret Primary School

Encouraging Participation & Extending Language

“Everyday Magic has been a wonderful addition to our day. The children wait for the storyteller with focused attention as they know something magical is about to happen. The way in which the stories are told helps develop their imagination and the addition of music creates another layer. The sessions help develop speaking skills and the children have developed their confidence as they ask questions about the origins of the music and story. The rhyming element has helped the children as they recall the rhyming words from the story. It has been wonderful to hear them singing the songs and creating their own stories on the stage in the outdoor classroom”. - Selina Atwal, Gifford Primary School

Providing Schools with Ongoing Resources

“The video stories are very beneficial to our children and are an excellent way of continuing to develop our children in the weeks when there are no storytellers in school. The songs are very helpful as extra time and space in the curriculum is limited so any songs that link and develop with the work that already happens in school is great. This enables us to maximize opportunities for learning.” - Dormers Wells infants & Junior School staff

Resources for Schools

30 STORY VIDEOS

with Visuals, Sound Effects & Choruses narrated by: Everyday Magic Storytellers for Early Years & Key Stages 1 & 2

BUONITA The Ugly Duckling Ticky Ticky Boom Persephone Sun, Moon & Water Teeny, Tiny Man Wise Doll Ten Little Chickens Princess & the Frog Singing Sack Forest Spirit Farmer’s Birthday Stone Cutter Buonita King Crab Musicians of Bremen Rainbow Snake Wee Doll Lion, Vulture & Hyena Charlie Chicken Tiger’s Whiskers Bouki AS TOLD BY JUNE PETERS Granny O’Brien Stone Soup Little Bird & the Raja Magpie Story Baby Crocodile Animals & the Waterhole AS TOLD BY SEF Papa Gee Tiddylink Anansi’s Common Sense Drum

For Downloading Go to: https://everydaymagic.bandcamp.com/ For Streaming Go to: http://www.everydaymagic.org.uk/

2 BOOKS OF ORIGINAL TALES

by storytellers Anne Johnson & Sef Townsend published by the History Press @ £9.99 available from all bookshops & amazon

Resources for Schools

100 ORIGINAL SONGS

Fun to Sing Easy to Remember Great Way to Absorb Info.

Song Compilations with on-screen words & images Forest Songs - Songs Celebrating Nature

Nature Up Close - Caterpillar/ Garden Snails/ Signs of Winter We Are Londoners - 12 Songs on London themes & times past

Song Compilations

Shukalaka Shake - 35 Original Songs to Celebrate a Child’s Day - Book & CD also published by A&C Black

Heard on the Wind - 6 original songs on themes of woods and trees, earth, sea & sky

Rhymes, Poetry & Movement - 6 original lyrics based on poems & traditional rhymes

Bank of Songs for Class Topics

The Tiger has Stripes Song for Francis Drake Over in the Meadow Daughter Dear Horses like to eat Hay Oats, Beans & Barley grow Full Moon Song of Night & Morning I like the Snowdrops How do you do? Then we can go Dancing Hungry caterpillar Blackberry Song Hungry, Hungry The Swallow Roads go ever on I love the Mountains Hide & Seek Who saw the PetSeven Swans Swimming Mother Earth, Father Sky als? Song of the Corbids River flow Under a Web Song of the Tadpoles Look after the Trees Song of the Seasons Spiders from Tiny Eggs

Participating Schools in 2021/22

In Ealing: Berrymede Infants School, W3 Dormers Wells Infant School, UB1 Gifford Primary School, UB5 Lady Margaret Primary School, UB1

Perivale Primary School, UB6

In Kensington & Chelsea: St Mary’s R.C. Primary School, W10

Our Funders

We are extremely grateful and beholden to the charitable trusts who support us and enable us to make our programmes affordable to schools. During the year:

Looking Ahead to 2022/23

Our Governance

We have 3 trustees all of whom are experienced educationists - two headteachers and a recently retired head - who act in a voluntary capacity and hold a meeting with the Director once a term. At those meetings the activities, finances, policies, strategies, feedback and impact of the charity are reported and reviewed and fresh programmes and projects agreed for the coming term.

The trustees are satisfied that the activities undertaken by Everyday Magic during the year have been in furtherance of its charitable objectives and complied with the duty in Section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission.

Our Financial & Funding Model

Thanks to the generosity of charitable trusts, whenever we can, we make our programmes affordable to schools and provide a 50% subsidy. With minimal overheads Everyday Magic has in-built flexibility to grow or contract, according to available funding from fees from schools and grants from trusts. All artists are engaged on a freelance basis, there are no office or premises costs or employer liabilities & the charity’s admin, financial management & fundraising are carried out on an unpaid voluntary basis.

As its reserves policy, Everyday Magic aims to hold a minimum of one term’s funds and fee commitments to ensure continuity in its ability to plan and deliver its programmes and activities. As its risk management policy, Everyday Magic budgeting is done on a termly basis and programme commitments are only made for the following term where school fees have been confirmed and all necessary additional funds have been secured to ensure a positive working balance is achieved.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY - HOW WE PERFORMED THIS YEAR

This year, in the wake of Covid we were able to run programmes through all 3 terms (Autumn ‘21, Spring & Summer’22) and fees from schools amounted to £20,500. Generous grant funding from John Lyon’s Charity amounted to £30,000 - £10,000 for the final term of ‘Let the Children Speak’ and £20,000 towards the first two terms of our new porgramme ‘Nature’s Here in Town’, starting January ’22. Expenditure for the year was £53,648 which funded artists working in schools, the ongoing creative development of programmes and the creation of a resource bank of recorded stories and songs for teachers and parents. Funds carrying forwards at the end of the year were £45,571, of which £35,571 were unrestricted, helping us to achieve our Reserves Policy.

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

In accordance with their responsibilities, trustees have:

This report was approved by trustees on 24/10/2022 and signed on their behalf by:

RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES & EXAMINER

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Everyday Magic for the period ended 31 August 2022. The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act).

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS’S STATEMENT

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns & have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Jill Keehan, FCA

Britt & Keehan, Chartered Accountants Date: 33 Grimwade Anvenue, Croydon CRO 5DJ

End of Year Accounts for Academic Year Ending 31/8/2022

INCOME
Charitable Trusts
Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust
Fees, Commissions & Sales
TOTAL INCOME
EXPENDITURE
Creative Development/ School & Artist Liaison/
Evaluation/Feedback/ Reports
Independent Examiner
Excess of Income Over Expenditure for Period
Funds Carrying Forwards at 31st August: -Restricted
- Unrestricted
of which:
- Restricted Funds: John Lyons Charity
REPRESENTED BY:
Approved by the Trustees on 24/10/2022 and signed on their
John Lyon’s Charity
Fees from Schools – Autumn, Spring & Summer Terms
Sales of Everyday Magic Songs
Late payments
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
Thomas’s Schools Foundation
Project promotion, recording, website, materials
Artists’ Payments for Schools Programme
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARDS
- Unrestricted Funds
Cash at Bank at 31st August 2022		 2022
2021
£
£
30,000.00
30,000.00
5,000.00
940.00
30,000.00
35,940.00
20,500.00
10,380.00
200.00
20,500.00
10,580.00
50,500.00
46,520.00
2022
2021
£
£
37,050.00
20,155.00
8,700.00
6,000.00
7,549.87
10,674.05
348.00
336.00
53,647.87
37,165.05
-3,147.87
9,354.95
10,000.00
11,768.00
38,718.46
27,595.51
45,570.59
48,718.46
10,000.00
10,000.00
35,570.59
38,718.46
47,020.59
49,968.46
-1,450.00
-1,250.00
45,570.59
48,718.46
behalf by:

Jessica Finer, Chair