## **Annual Report 2020 - 2021**
Transculturalvisions is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation Charity Registration Number 1154089
Address: c/o Medway Voluntary Action, 5a New Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 6BB
Email: admin@transculturalvisions.com Website: www.transculturalvisions.com
## **CONTENTS**
1. Our Purpose and Activities
2. Projects
3. Public Benefit
4. Finance
5. Governance and Staff
6. Targets for 2022
## **1. Our Purpose and Activities**
Transculturalvisions delivers creative projects inspired by the cultural experiences and heritage of Britain's diverse communities. Our purpose is to:
(i) advance public appreciation of diverse cultures.
(ii) further understanding about the dynamics that promote positive interethnic relations and a shared sense of belonging.
Transculturalvisions is a project based organisation raising funds as individual projects are conceived.
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## **2. Projects**
In this past reporting year ongoing impact of Covid-19 has meant there has been no project activities.
Our planned activities for the Singing Cultures project involving an adult choir and St. Joseph’s School in Deptford, London were postponed for a second time due to Covid-19. At the time of writing we are just at the start of the new project schedule due for completion in March 2022.
In the past year we have developed a new project concept - ‘Stranger Fruit’. This will be a music and discussion series live on Zoom celebrating the legacies of jazz and blues women. Funding for ‘Stranger Fruit’ has been secured from Arts Council and the timetable for delivery will be Spring 2022.
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## **3. Public Benefit**
There have been no project activities this reporting year.
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## **4. Finance**
## **Annual accounts for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021**
## **Statement of financial activities**
|**Incoming resources**
Grants
Gnome House
Donations
**Resources expended**
Singing Cultures
Fees
Events & Rehearsals
Travel expenses
Room hire
Equipment & Resources
Marketing & Publicity
Personnel costs
Infectious Air
Fees
Equipment & Resources
Marketing & Publicity
Transculturalvisions
Travel
Postage & Stationery
Room hire
Refreshments
Communications
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
£
£
£
£
-
12,500
12,500
22,420
-
75
75
180
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||-
12,575
12,575
22,600
-
1,600
1,600
6,391
-
-
-
449
-
-
-
759
-
-
-
1,142
-
-
-
609
-
-
-
400
-
-
-
483
-
10,850
10,850
-
-
367
367
-
-
726
726
-
-
-
-
77
23
-
23
4
-
-
-
225
-
-
-
100
14
-
14
44|
||37
13,542
13,579
10,683|
||**-37**
**-967**
**-1,004**
**11,917**|
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## **Balance Sheet**
|**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
Investments
**Current assets**
Stock and work in progress
Debtors
(Short term) investments
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one**
**year**
**Net current assets/(liabilities)**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Creditors: amounts falling due after one**
**year**
**Net assets**
**Funds of the Charity**
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
Restricted income funds
Endowment funds
**Total funds**|**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
**£**
**£**
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
11,570
12,575|
||11,570
12,575
-
-|
||11,570
12,575
11,570
12,575|
||-
-|
||11,570
12,575|
||171
208
-
-
11,399
12,367
-
-|
||11,570
12,575|
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## **5. Governance and Staff**
## **5.1 Trustees**
Thanks to all our trustees for their time, support and input.
Trustees meet quarterly. They give their time voluntarily and receive no renumeration or benefits. Since March 2020 meetings have been online which has made attendance easier for some trustees. We will continue with online meetings for the foreseeable future.
Our current trustees are: **Trustees Associate Trustees** Deborah Aloba (Chair) Kolarele Sonaike Margaret Ling (Secretary) Annette Figueiredo Richard Liston Sally Davison Rowland Sutherland
## **5.2 Trustee Appointment and Induction**
New trustees are appointed at trustee meetings for a period of 3 years. Trustees are considered for re-appointment at the trustee meeting closest to the end of the 3 year term.
Trustees receive an induction with the Director – this includes an overview of Transculturalvisions, our objects and purpose, and how our projects and activities fulfil the charity's commitment to ensure public benefit.
New trustees are provided with a summary of their roles and responsibilities along with copies of relevant Charity Commission publications – including 'The Essential Trustee – What You Need to Know' (CC3); and Public Benefit Guides (PB1, PB2 & PB3). Trustees are also given a copy of the constitution along with the policies and procedures adopted by the charity. These include Equality & Diversity Policy; Disciplinary & Grievance Policy and Complaints Procedure.
## **5.3 Staff**
Bilkis Malek, is the founding Director of Transculturalvisions. She has overall responsibility for conception, fundraising, marketing and delivery of projects. She also provides administrative support for trustee meetings and ensures the organisation's legal obligations including accounts and reporting to the charity commission are fulfilled. Currently, Bilkis undertakes her role as Director in an unpaid capacity.
We work with various freelance artists and creatives which has not been possible in the past 12 months as there have been no project activities.
## **5.4 Volunteers**
We have a bank of 10 volunteers. Due to project activities being on hold we have been unable to offer volunteer opportunities.
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## **6. Targets for 2022**
## **6.1 Projects**
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic Singing Cultures project targets are carried forward from last year and their completion will be dependent on lockdown restrictions being lifted.
- deliver part 2 of Singing Cultures Phase 3 collaboration with St. Joseph’s School and adult choir.
- evaluate school workshops and identify partners and strategy for developing a school pack.
- identify funding to enable long-term residency at St. Joseph’s School.
- identify new goals and fundraise for Phase 4 of Singing Cultures.
- deliver new online project ‘Stranger Fruit’ in partnership with Griots Arts and Outerglobe
- evaluate ‘Stranger Fruit’ and potential for future series
- identify new partners and fundraise for Grief Music Project
## **6.2. Fundraising**
Our focus will remain on project fundraising to ensure the effective financing and delivery of our project activities. For the immediate future our focus will be to attract funding from grant-making trusts, local authorities and project income.
As we have now established a track record and increased the number of projects, a priority for trustees during 2022 will be to review organisational structure and personnel with a view to increasing our capacity to deliver more projects and widening our reach.
## **6.3. Audience**
Over the next year we want to expand Singing Cultures work in schools. We will do this with a particular focus on expanding our partnership with St. Joseph’s School. We will also develop a strategy and partnerships to package our work at St. Joseph’s for other schools with a view to offering workshops, taster sessions and training for staff.
We will continue to profile and widen the project's reach amongst our target groups of African and Caribbean communities as well as established practitioners, students and audiences of classical music.
We have developed new partnerships for the ‘Stranger Fruit’ project and this initiative will be an opportunity to expand our organisational purpose and reach to creative practitioners.
## **6.4. Governance and Staff**
- Recruit 2-3 new trustees.
- Explore the feasibility of involving a Choral Conductor in a long-term role with
- the Singing Cultures Choir.
- Appoint musicians and hosts for Stranger Fruit Project
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Signed on behalf of all the trustees.
Signature
15/06/2022 Date of approval
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Charity No. 1154089
## **Transculturalvisions Annual accounts for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021**
## **Statement of financial activities**
|||||**Restricted**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|||**income**|**Endowment**||**Total this**|**Total last**|
|||**funds**||**funds**|**funds**||**year**|**year**|
|**Incoming resources**||**£**||**£**|**£**||**£**|**£**|
|Grants||-||12,500|-||12,500|22,420|
|Gnome House||-||75|-||75|180|
|Donations||-||-|-||-|-|
|||-||12,575|-||12,575|22,600|
|**Resources expended**|||||||||
|Singing Cultures|||||||||
|Fees||-||1,600|-||1,600|6,391|
|Events & Rehearsals||-||-|-||-|449|
|Travel expenses||-||-|-||-|759|
|Room hire||-||-|-||-|1,142|
|Equipment & Resources||-||-|-||-|609|
|Marketing & Publicity||-||-|-||-|400|
|Personnel costs||-||-|-||-|483|
|Infectious Air|||||||||
|Fees||-||10,850|-||10,850|-|
|Equipment & Resources||-||367|-||367|-|
|Marketing & Publicity||-||726|-||726|-|
|Transculturalvisions|||||||||
|Travel||-||-|-||-|77|
|Postage & Stationery||23||-|-||23|4|
|Room hire||-||-|-||-|225|
|Refreshments||-||-|-||-|100|
|Communications||14||-|||14|44|
|||37||13,542|-||13,579|10,683|
|**Total funds carried forward**|**-**|**37**
|**-**|**967**
|**-**|**-**|**1,004**
|**11,917**|
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Charity No. 1154089
## **Transculturalvisions**
## **Annual accounts for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021**
|**Balance Sheet**|**Balance Sheet**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||**Total this**|**Total last**|
|||**year**|**year**|
|||**£**|**£**|
|**Fixed assets**||||
||Tangible assets|-|-|
||Investments|-|-|
|||-|-|
|**Current assets**||||
||Stock and work in progress|-|-|
||Debtors|-|-|
||(Short term) investments|-|-|
||Cash at bank and in hand|11,570|12,575|
|||11,570|12,575|
|**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**||-|-|
|**Net current assets/(liabilities)**||11,570|12,575|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**||11,570|12,575|
|**Creditors: amounts falling due after one year**||-|-|
|**Net assets**||11,570|12,575|
|**Funds of the Charity**||||
||Unrestricted funds|171|208|
||Designated funds|-|-|
||Restricted income funds|11,399|12,367|
||Endowment funds|-|-|
|**Total funds**||11,570|12,575|
Signed on behalf of all the trustees.
Signature Date of approval 08-Dec-21
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Charity No. 1154089
## **Transculturalvisions Annual accounts for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021**
## **Notes to the accounts**
## **Basis of preparation**
## **Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared on the basis of historic cost (except that investments are shown at market value) in accordance with:
- Accounting and Reporting by Charities – Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2005);
- and with Accounting Standards;
- and with the Charities Act.
## **Accounting policies**
This standard list of accounting policies has been applied by the charity except for those deleted. Where a different or additional policy has been adopted then this is detailed at the end.
## **Incoming resources**
Recognition of incoming resources
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:
- the charity becomes entitled to the resources;
• the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and • the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. Incoming resources with related expenditure Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA. Grants and donations Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources. Tax reclaims on donations and gifts Incoming resources from tax reclaims are included in the SoFA at the same time as the gift to which they relate. Contractual income and performance related This is only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services grants have been delivered. Gifts in kind Gifts in kind are accounted for at a reasonable estimate of their value to the charity or the amount actually realised. Gifts in kind for sale or distribution are included in the accounts as gifts only when sold or distributed by the charity. Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SoFA as incoming resources when receivable. Donated services and facilities These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources expended) where the benefit to the charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material. The value placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the service or facility received.
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Charity No. 1154089
## **Transculturalvisions**
## **Annual accounts for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021**
|Volunteer help|The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the|
|---|---|
||accounts but is described in the trustees’ annual report.|
|Investment income|This is included in the accounts when receivable.|
|Investment gains and losses|This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments and any gain|
||or loss resulting from revaluing investments to market value at the end|
||of the year.|
|**Expenditure and Liabilities**||
|---|---|
|Liability recognition|Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive|
||obligation committing the charity to pay out resources.|
|Grants with performance conditions|Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payment being a|
||specific level of service or output to be provided, such grants are only|
||recognised in the SoFA once the recipient of the grant has provided the|
||specified service or output.|
|Grants payable without performance|These are only recognised in the accounts when a commitment has|
|conditions|been made and there are no conditions to be met relating to the grant|
||which remain in the control of the charity.|
|**Assets**||
|Tangible fixed assets for use by charity|These are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and|
||cost at least £500. They are valued at cost or a reasonable value on|
||receipt.|
|Investments|Investments quoted on a recognised stock exchange are valued at|
||market value at the year end. Other investment assets are included at|
||trustees' best estimate of market value.|
|Stocks and work in progress|These are valued at the lower of cost or market value.|
## **Trustees expenses**
There have been no payments of trustees expenses in this year.
## **Paid employees**
There have been no payments to employed staff in this year.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
There are no Tangible fixed assets in this year.
## **Investment assets**
There are no Investment assets in this year.
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Charity No. 1154089
## **Transculturalvisions Annual accounts for the period 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021**
## **Debtors and prepayments**
## **Creditors and accruals**
|||Amounts falling|due within|Amounts falling due after|Amounts falling due after|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||one year||more than one year||
|||**This year**|**Last year**|**This year**|**Last year**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Total **||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||||
|||Amounts falling|due within|Amounts falling due after||
|||one year||more than one year||
|||**This year**|**Last year**|**This year**|**Last year**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Total **||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
## **Endowment and restricted income funds**
There are no Endowment funds in this year.
## **Additional Disclosures**
There are no Additional Disclosures.
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