Annual Report 2021-22
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
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Having enough time, financial and operational resources to attract interest in our activities
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Having the right skills and knowledge to ensure quality of our activities
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Knowing how to manage the business to a consistent level
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Maintaining the relevancy of the activities we deliver (both pedagogically and culturally)
We are managing the risks via
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Appropriate planning, investing more of the Director’s time and using a pool of freelance facilitators to deliver work
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Discussing work with peers, going to see a lot of other similar work
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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:
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●Advance the education of public in the subject of pre-cinema ephemera, nonmainstream cinema and artists’ film and video
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●Advance education of the public in the development of technology and the arts mostly (though not exclusively) from 18[th] to 20[th] century
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●Benefit the public by increasing awareness of the history of popular culture and impact on contemporary society
From April 2021- to April 2022 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
There has been continued uncertainty about public activities during this period due to the on-going COVID 19 pandemic, the full clearing from all restrictions - mask wearing in public etc - only being from spring of 2022.
However we did get interest from an international film festival based in the Czech Republic to performance magic lantern shows and children’s workshops for them the the summer of 2022 at Uherské Hradiště. We were also asked to contribute to a talk on artist led cinema education practices in the UK.
It was also decided within this financial year to redevelop the website in 2022-23, and refocus the efforts of Mirror Mirror towards magic lantern shows and workshops only.
Neither of these two activities incurred any costs for the year of 2021-22.
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
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Mirror Mirror Education
Receipts and payments accounts
Period start date
Period end date To
For the period from
3/4/2021 2/4/2022
Section A Receipts and payments
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Unrestricted Endowment
Restricted funds Total funds Last year
funds funds
to the nearest to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£ £
A1 Receipts
Delivery of charitable services - - - -
Sub total(Gross income for AR) - - - - -
A2 Asset and investment sales
Not applicable - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total receipts - - - - -
A3 Payments
Staffing costs - - - -
Project costs - - - -
Printing and postage - - - -
Travel - - - -
Research - - - -
Subscriptions - - - -
Website and email provision £153.57 - - 154 -
Sub total £153.57## £0.00## £0.00# £153.57## £0.00
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Not applicable - - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 154 - - - -
Net of receipts/(payments) - 154 - - - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
Not applicable
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - -
Cash funds this year end - 154 - - - -
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets |
Details Account balance Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Not applicable Details Not applicable |
Unrestricted funds |
- - OK to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Restricted funds Restricted funds |
Endowment funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | - | - | ||
| 48 | - | - | ||
| OK | ||||
| to nearest £ Unrestricted funds |
to nearest £ Endowment funds |
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| - | - - - - - - |
- | ||
| - | - | |||
| - | - | |||
| - | - | |||
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| - | - | |||
| Fund to which asset belongs |
Current value (optional) |
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| Not applicable | - - - - - |
- | ||
| - | ||||
| - | ||||
| - | ||||
| - |
| B4 Assets retained for the | Details Magic lanterns and specialist equipment |
Unrestricted Fund to which asset belongs |
Cost (optional) - |
Cost (optional) - |
Current value (optional) |
Current value (optional) |
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| charity’s own use | Audio visual equipment Other props ** None of these assets where purchased in 2019-20 |
Unrestricted Unrestricted |
- - - - - - - - |
- - - - - - |
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| Fund to which | Amount due | When due | ||||
| Details | liability relates | (optional) | (optional) | |||
| B5 Liabilities | Not applicable | - - - - - |
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature |
Name | Date of approval |
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| Catherine | Whitehouse | 20.01.2023 |