## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1 January 2024 Period start date To 31 December 2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Littleborough Arts Festival**
## **Charity registration number: 1156946**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance the appreciation, education and
involvement in the arts in Littleborough for the
public benefit, in particular but not exclusively,
by the provision of an arts festival, workshops
and public concert.|
|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.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|A 3-day Arts Festival encompassing a variety of
artistic workshops, children’s workshops,
theatre performances, and a family music day
in the park.
Partnering with other local arts organisations
on a major outdoor digital arts commission,
‘Elevation’.
Our annual lantern parade involving four local
schools and artists, singers, a choir and several
giant lantern puppets.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees have had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission on public
benefit.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference|
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||Para 1.38|
|Policy on grant making||
||Para 1.38|
|Policy on social investment||
|including program related||
|investment||
Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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.|Para 1.20|The aim of our organisation is to provide a
wide range arts-based activity for our local
community. These activities are beneficial for
the community’s health and wellbeing, they
provide employments for artists and creatives,
they support education and learning, and they
help to being the community together.
This year we were unsuccessful in some of our
fundraising efforts, so we had a reduce the
scale of our events. However, we were still able
to deliver a range of events over three days
that continued our work to support and
champion local artists. This included a poetry
and spoken-word open mic night, a theatre
performance by ExEl Theatre Company and a
family day in the park with DJ’s, skate
competitions and yarn art. We also ran a
linocut printing workshop and created a
communal finger-painted mural that was
displayed in a local venue for two-months.
We feel that with these events we were able to
give a platform to underrepresented groups
and provide free and affordable, easy to
access, arts-focussed activity for our
community. Our lantern parade is particularly
special and beneficial, breaking down many of
the barriers to arts participation by working for
free in schools and presenting the final
performance in a free community space. It
allowed the children taking part to have fun
and make mess, with each child having created
their own lantern by the end of the day.
Working in schools is of particular benefit, as
teaching time and budgets for art is being
squeezed. As a small semi-rural town, we feel
that it is important to give residents the
opportunity to experience high quality artistic
work in their local community, something that
they would normally need to travel to larger
cities to experience. Partneringon ‘Elevation’,|
a major immersive binaural sound walk in the stunning Pennine hills, was a fantastic opportunity to offer this high quality art experience in a local setting. We work hard to find and champion local artistic talent and provide a platform for local artists to gain work and build their careers. Attendees and community members have told us that having events such as ours happening in the town was one of the best things about living in the area and that it significantly improved the local environment and the wellbeing of local residents.
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives Para 1.41
set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21||
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|No reserves are held|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Our small charity has very little in the way of
assets or future liabilities.|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Our charity will continue as a going concern,
but this is very much subject to the availability
of grant funding. In 2023, our main application
for grant funding to the Arts Council was
rejected, which affected our activities in 2024.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Success of grant fundraising and Trustees being
willing to continue in their roles.|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|All trustees are elected to post with 33%
required to retire each year.|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Littleborough Arts Festival|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|LAF|
|Registered charity number|1156946|
|Charity’s principal address|14 Cecil Street
Littleborough
OL15 8LE|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Stephanie West
Besford|Chair|||
||Ann Harrison|Secretary|||
||Rose Bibby|Vice Chair|||
||Caroline Pheasey|Treasurer|||
||Helen Chicot||||
||Victoria Hughes||||
||Richard Jackson||||
||Nicol Kennedy||||
||Maryanne Royle||||
||Christopher
Rainham||||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** ~~a~~ **Full name(s)** Stephanie West ~~oo~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** ~~po~~ **Date** 27/10/2025 ~~|~~
||**Charity Name**|||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||
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||**Litteborough Arts Festival**|||||**1156946**||||
|01-Jan-24
31-Dec-24
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
~~es ee~~
~~ee ee~~|||||||||**CC16a**|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Grants|**13,757**||**-**||**-**||**13,757**||**26,674**|
|Other income(ticket and drink sales)|**25**||**-**||**-**||**25**||**285**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_(Gross income for_
_AR)_**13,782**||**-**||**-**||**13,782**||**26,959**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 13,782**
**-**
**-**
**13,782**
**26,959**
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Insurance, web hosting, bank charges and||||||||||
|accountancy|**517**||**-**||**-**||**517**||**338**|
|Governance costs and non project based||||||||||
|materials|**25**||**-**||**-**||**25**||**30**|
|Festival Events 2021|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**800**|
|Festival Events 2022|**3,166**||**-**||**-**||**3,166**||**4,148**|
|Festival Events 2023|**2,174**||**-**||**-**||**2,174**||**11,739**|
|Festival Events 2024|**2,793**||**-**||**-**||**2,793**||**-**|
|Lantern Parade 2022|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**144**|
|Lantern Parade 2023|**1,944**||**-**||**-**||**1,944**||**4,850**|
|Lantern Parade 2024|**3,241**||**-**||**-**||**3,241**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**13,860**||**-**||**-**||**13,860**||**22,049**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 13,860**
**-**
**-**
**13,860**
**22,049**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**- 78**
**-**
**- - 78**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**17,673**
**- -**
**17,673**
**17,595**
**-**
**- 17,595**
~~===~~||||||||**4,910**
**-**
**12,763**
**17,673**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
27/10/2025
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**|
||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**17,595**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,595**
**-**
**-**
Cash in the bank
**_Total cash funds_**
~~—====~~||||||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||
||account(s))||OK|OK||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~—_—=~~||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~a~~||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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||||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**||**When due**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
27/10/2025
Print Name
Stephanie West
Signature
**Details**
Recoverable Signature
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|CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|Stephanie West
Chair
2|||||27/10/2025|
||Signed by: f427d74b-4e33-4c37-9247-542fe6a1a8ec||||||