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Annual Report 2024-25
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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 2024- April 2025 this has been achieved in the following ways.
Advance the education of public in the subject of pre-cinema ephemera, non-mainstream cinema and artists’ film and video
In this period we delivered 3 magic lantern shows and workshops for City of London Libraries. These workshop -performances were for family audiences and had a total of 120 attendees. It was an opportunity to explore how pre-cinema, creative projection techniques and framing worked as well as enabling young children to make their own ‘live art’ works via drawings, fabric and using mirrors, prism and diffusers,
Looking forward to 25-26, Director Claire Cooke has begun a PhD in Education at Glasgow University looking at magic and play - lessons from which will be applied to Mirror Mirror’s activities and build up its networks. We shall we performing an educational activity for the British Music Hall Society this November.
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
1157366 Mirror Mirror Education Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date To Period end date ~~i~~ from 6th April 2024 5th April 2025 Section A Receipts and payments 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 1,015 1,015 208 Sub total(Gross income for 1,015 - - 1,015 208 AR) ~~ee | ||~~ A2 Asset and investment sales Not applicable - - - - - - - - - Sub total [ - ] - - - - ~~=~~ Total receipts 1,015 - - 1,015 208 A3 Payments Fees £884.37 884 - Project costs - Printing and postage - Travel - Research - Subscriptions - Website and email provision 124.4 124 - Materials £92.49 92 Sub total £1,101.26 £0.00 £0.00## £0.00## £1,101.26## £0.00 ~~=—===~~ A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) Not applicable - Sub total - ~~—~~ Total payments ~~S~~ 1,101 ~~SSS—~~ - Net of receipts/(payments) - 86 - - - - A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - Not applicable A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - Cash funds this year end ~~——=——=~~ - 86 - - - - Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment Categories Details funds funds B1 Cash funds Account balance 208 - - Total cash funds 208 - - (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment funds funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary assets Not applicable - ~~——==—=~~ Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)
B3 Investment assets Not applicable - ~~—__—~~ Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional) B4 Assets retained for the Magic lanterns and specialist equipment Unrestricted charity’s own use Audio visual equipment Unrestricted - Other props Unrestricted - ** None of these assets where purchased in 2019-20 - ~~=—=>=~~ Fund to which Amount due (optional) When due liability relates (optional) Details B5 Liabilities Not applicable - ~~=—====~~ - Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name Date of approval Catherine Whitehouse 04/02/26 ~~=—p~~