## **New Visuality**
**(Charity Number: 1148823)**
**Trustees Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ended**
## **31st July 2025**
Charity accounts preparation & independent examination service
## **New Visuality**
**(Charity Number: 1148823)**
|**Contents**||
|---|---|
|**Index**|**Page**|
|**Receipts & payments accounts**|**1**|
|**Statement of assets and liabilities**|**2**|
|**Notes to the accounts**|**3**|
## **Trustees' Annual Report**
**From: 1st August 2024 To: 31st July 2025 Charity's full name** New Visuality **Registered Charity number** 1148823
## **Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the purposes of the charity set out in its governing document**
- **i)** Advancement of arts, culture and heritage to benefit public through accessible exhibitions, installations and outreach work within disadvantaged communities
- **ii)** Promote, maintain, improve, advance the education of the public in the arts in particular contemporary design and mixed media culture
## **Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts**
Due to the closure of our gallery venie our exhibition opportunities have diversified. We have outreach projects in community centres around York, namely Sanderson House, Gateway Centre,Foxwoods Community Centre,Senior Friends at Christ Church and Blueberry Academy. These venues are sometimes offered as free space so we are able to extend our teaching activities.
## **Outreach projects:**
- a) We received funding and close consultation from City of York Council and their HAF projects (Holiday Activities and Food projects) working every school holiday with young people who receive FSM (Free School Meals) and have experienced poverty, fully subsidising the costs of their participation with funds put aside from donations and funding from City of York
- b) We were funded by Wharefdale Foundation to work with refugees and ESOL students on visual arts actrivities.As part of this project, have collaborated with RAY (Refugee Action York), designing with their customers a series of posters that were exhibited around York during Refugee Awareness Week.
- c) We were funded by ACE (Arts Council England) to run workshops with wheelchair users, meeting with residents, chronicling their stories, memories professionally scanning their photos and retrieving their videos, and dovetailing them with the hopes for 'Share & Care' on pathways and tracks from their young neighbours: we then coalesced both aspects into large community canvases and digital illuminations.
- d) We received funding from City of York Council Ward's Acomb, Westfield, and Heworth Without in creating a citywide strategy on providing innovative cultural experiences for all, especially for families who have experienced poverty. The exhibitions and interactive activities at Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre played a large part in this.
- e) We received funding from Bettys via Two Ridings to work with NEETS and young people who have experienced anti-social behaviour, finding for them pathways via creativity and art.
- f) We received funding from Bar Convent to run creative outreach activities and exhibit artwork in heritage sites.
The trustees consider that they have complied with their duties to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission.
## **Achievements and performance**
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.**
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Held debut exhibitions for over 20 artists in 6 different spaces in York and its surrounding areas.
- Provided work experience and internships for 30 young people, including refugees and young people from Ethiopia, Syria,
- ∙ and Kurdistan.
- Received funding from local Wards from City of York Council to work with young people who have experienced poverty for
- ∙ 60 hours in 5 separate wards. Work involved independent research, trips to local schools, volunteering as assistants at local youth groups.
We collaborated with community centres around York, making weekly visits and forging relationships with over 30 patrons,
- all of whom have reported feelings of isolation and solitude. These collaborations have led to exhibitions in the short term
- and we are in discussions with stakeholders and City of York Council for long term plans with the centres to introduce self sustaining exhibition opportunities.
- Visited 10 primary schools in York, providing teenagers with ambassadorial roles as assistants, and elevating creative skills
- ∙ in every class we worked with.
## **Financial review**
## **Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period**
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## **Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held The trustees have set a reserves policy to come into force in September 2026 which requires:**
- Reserves to be maintained at a level which ensures that New Visuality's core activity could continue during a period of
- **∙** unforeseen difficulty.
A proportion of reserves to be maintained in a readily realisable form.
-
The calculation of the required level of reserves is an integral part of the organisation's planning, budget and forecast cycle.
It takes into account:
- Risks associated with each stream of income and expenditure being different from that budgeted
- Planned activity level
- Organisation's commitments
During the last financial year, a reserve of £1,500.00 has been built up which at current levels could support 8 weeks of operation costs were no additional funds realised. The Trustees aim to maintain at least a six months reserve as the organisation develops and grows.
## **Amount of reserves held**
£320
## **Reasons for holding zero reserves**
n/a
## **Funds materially in deficit**
none
**Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern** None
## **Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity's trusts**
**Type of governing document (e.g. trust deed, royal charter)**
Constitution, adopted on 15th May 2012
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**How the charity is constituted (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)**[Registered charity]
**Trustee selection methods including** Elected at Annual General Meeting of members as per **details of any constitutional** constitution **provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees**
## **Reference and administration details**
**Charity's full name** New Visuality **Charity’s principal address** 5 Mossbank Court, Rosemary Road, York, YO24 3FR
## **Names of the trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Secretary
Alaa Jasim
Chair
Jason King
Carlotta Allum||||
## **Names and addresses of advisers**
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|York
YO10 3NR
**Bankers**
**Independent**
**Examiner**
Karen Wood ACMA
Outsource Accounting Services & IE's
2 Galligap Lane, Osbaldwick|||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members**
**Declaration Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees Annual Report and Accounts**
**Signature Full Name Position Date**
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**Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of New Visuality**
I report on the accounts of: **New Visuality** for the year ended: **31st July 2025**
which are set out on pages 5 to 7.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you 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 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention, other than those stated below ,in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- 1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
- 2 the accounts do not accord with those records
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.
**Karen Wood (ACMA)** Outsource independent examination service 2 Galligap Lane Osbaldwick York YO10 3NR
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**Date:**
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## **New Visuality**
(Charity Number: 1148823)
|**Receipts & Payments Accounts for theyear ended:**
**31st July 2025**|**Receipts & Payments Accounts for theyear ended:**
**31st July 2025**|**Receipts & Payments Accounts for theyear ended:**
**31st July 2025**|**Receipts & Payments Accounts for theyear ended:**
**31st July 2025**|**Receipts & Payments Accounts for theyear ended:**
**31st July 2025**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Balance carried forward**
**Transfers between funds**
**Balance brought forward**
Workshops & sessions
Consultancy & production
**Payments**
Loan
Insurance
Exhibitions & promotions
Travel & subsistance
**Net of**
Cost of raising funds
**Total payments**
Bank charges
Loan
Administration costs
Workshops & Exhibitions
Pathways for internships &
volunteers
**Total receipts**
**Receipts**
Grants
Donations & fundraising
Gift Aid
Independent examiner's fee|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
1,000
3,109
549
1,120
**5,778**
-
**5,778**
754
-
350
-
372
716
815
846
-
62
**3,915**
-
**3,915**
**1,863**
**10**
**320**
**2,193**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
56,504
-
-
-
**56,504**
-
**56,504**
48,162
1,135
-
2,908
-
-
1,339
500
-
**54,044**
-
**54,044**
**2,460**
**10**
**-**
**-**
**2,450**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
57,504
3,109
549
1,120
**62,282**
-
**62,282**
48,916
1,135
350
-
3,280
716
815
2,185
500
62
**57,959**
-
**57,959**
**4,323**
**-**
**320**
**4,643**|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
39,070
7,291
3,015
3,900|
|||||**53,276**|
|||||-|
|||||**53,276**|
|||||35,506
4,426
500
4,400
729
5,545
3,805
1,148
70|
|||||**56,129**|
|||||-|
|||||**56,129**|
|||||**(2,853)**
**-**
**3,173**|
|||||**320**|
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## **New Visuality**
(Charity Number: 1148823)
|**Statement of Assets and Liabilities at:**|**Statement of Assets and Liabilities at:**|**31st July 2025**|**31st July 2025**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Liabilities**
Independent Examination fee
**Cash at bank and in hand**
**Assets**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
**2,193**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
350
**350**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
**2,450**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
**-**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**4,643**
**2025**
**Total**
**Funds**
**£**
350
**350**|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**|
|||||**320**|
|||||**2024**
**Total**
**Funds**
**£**
350|
|||||**350**|
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## **New Visuality**
(Charity Number: 1148823)
## **Notes to the Accounts for the year ended: 31st July 2025**
## **1. Basis of Accounts**
The Trustees have taken advantage of section 144 (2) of the Charities Act 2011 and prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
## **2. Restricted income funds**
**Fund name Purpose** City of York Council & Ward funding Provision of Art Camps City of York Council HAF Holiday Activities and Food projects working every school holiday with young people who receive FSM (Free School Meals) and have experienced poverty. Wharfedale Foundation To work with refugees and ESOL students on visual arts actrivities. Arts Council England To run workshops with wheelchair users. Bettys via Two Ridings To work with NEETS and young people who have experienced anti-social behaviour, finding for them pathways via creativity and art.
|Arts Council England
Bettys via Two Ridings
**Total Restricted Funds**
**Total Funds**
Wharfedale Foundation
**Restricted Funds**
City of York Council & Ward funding
City of York Council HAF
**General Unrestricted Funds**|**£**
320
-
-
-
-
-
-
320
Balance
b/fwd|**£**
5,778
5,755
24,179
9,610
8,010
8,950
56,504
62,282
Incoming
resources|**£**
3,915
5,755
24,179
9,610
8,000
6,500
54,044
57,959
Resources
expended|Trf btw
funds
**£**
Balance
c/fwd|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||10 2,193|
|||||-
-
-
(10) -
2,450|
|||||(10) 2,450|
||||||
|||||- 4,643|
The slight underspend on ACE has been transferred to unrestricted funds
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**Approval of Accounts for the year ended: 31st July 2025** The report and accounts were approved at a meeting 17/03/26 of the Trustees held on: **Date** 17/03/26 **Signed for and on behalf of the Trustees Date** Alaa Jasim Chair **Print Name Position (e.g. Chair etc)**
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