Annual Report 2020-21 All trustees are provided with the recommended documentation from the Charity Commission related to their responsibilities as trustees including _The Essential Trustee_ , _Public Benefit: The Public Benefit Requirement, Public Benefit Rules for Charities_ and _Being a Trustee_ guidance. Mirror Mirror Education is governed by a board of four trustees and managed and run by a freelance employed Director. We are not connected to any wider networks. Potential risks to the charity include 1. Having enough time, financial and operational resources to attract interest in our activities 2. Having the right skills and knowledge to ensure quality of our activities 3. Knowing how to manage the business to a consistent level 4. Maintaining the relevancy of the activities we deliver (both pedagogically and culturally) We are managing the risks via 1. Appropriate planning, investing more of the Director’s time and using a pool of freelance facilitators to deliver work 2. Discussing work with peers, going to see a lot of other similar work 3. Discussion of work with peers and partners, seeing similar work, keeping abreast of the latest changes in state education. Three trustees are parents, one is a teacher and two also work in public engagement in the arts and one is a school governor. Mirror Mirror Education is an arts education charity which explores the history of art, cinema and technology. Our work is interdisciplinary - in delivery and subject – often immersive and ephemeral; much like early magic lantern performances and optical illusions that inspired us to set up the charity. In practice we deliver workshops, performances and festival appearances; and we are now moving towards new funding streams that will allow us to work on longer term projects. Our areas of activity can be catergorised under four main headings: immersive experiences, magic lanterns and optical illusions, cinema days and commissions. In terms of staffing we have a bank of freelancers who are passionate about early cinema, optical technology and storytelling and experienced in working with children and developing / delivering activities. We also have a significant number of specialist resources – lanterns, overhead projectors and other obsolete technology that we are making come alive again through children’s creativity. Mirror Mirror Education’s objects are: - ●Advance the education of public in the subject of pre-cinema ephemera, nonmainstream cinema and artists’ film and video - ●Advance education of the public in the development of technology and the arts mostly (though not exclusively) from 18[th] to 20[th] century - ●Benefit the public by increasing awareness of the history of popular culture and impact on contemporary society In 2020-21 this has been achieved in the following ways. _Advance the education of public in the subject of pre-cinema ephemera, nonmainstream cinema and artists’ film and video_ During this period with the current COVID 19 pandemic our output has been significantly reduced. We deliver in person rather than online activities and this has not been possible for the majority of the year. There has also been a resistance within families to participate in activities, even when restrictions have been lifted. We deliver one, free storytelling and magic lantern workshop at Manor House Library, London SE13 for Halloween. We did not charge a fee for this. _Advance education of the public in the development of technology and the arts mostly (though not exclusively) from 18[th] to 20[th] century._ As above _Benefit the public by increasing awareness of the history of popular culture and impact on contemporary society_ As above MIRROR MIRROR Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the peiiod from 1412020 21412021 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted fund5 Restrictèd I￿n￿5 EndawtnEnl lunds Tol&l funds LdS% year to th• r*west tolhe nE4weJt£ th• n4¥rqSt£ A1 Receipts Daiveryof chaiitsble servKe5 Sub totslfGTOS5 income fvrAR) AZA$set and tnvestynent sales Not applicable Sub tolal Total receipts A2 Paymohts siarring cosis Projc¢l o)s18 Pl￿￿ng and pDStaoe Travel Rg¥earth Sthcriptons WeWW and émail provi$iDn e76 82 £7&B2 Sub total £o.uo £O.OD £76.B2 EO.DD A4 Asset and investment purchase5, Isee table) Nol applicable Sub total Total p8yments 77 Nei of recespts/(paymentsJ AS Transfers between funds Not applic8bl8 A6 Cash funiSs lasi yearend Cash luntls this year end 77 282 2DS Sectlon B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of Ihe period UnreslriGtod lunds Endowmenl funds funds 81 Cash funds AcLKwI bal4nEè 205 Total cash funds 2a5 I•9rEabl&ncE5w￿IÈtI•Kand￿aYmW￿l Unrèslrlcted hjnds Restrf¢ted fund8 Endowment rund$ to nEHrest É tone?rv&tg B2 Oiher monetary assets NDI aPPI￿rie B3 Investmont asse15 FU￿t￿￿￿￿h (opD￿•%1 84 Assets ret3inÈd lor I charrty's own UThrMtrKIEd A￿￿10 Unithtrthd ' Nan*otK*h•455els wch*ie4tib201920 PLYdto*thJch *rnountdu• BS Llabblrfies &gMdtyoro orTh1vtrL￿Eeso￿L*hatr (4 &9rtgttJi ￿m• Dal• of aPSYOval *rCe￿Il Chris gabltye 2mJan 20