**To**
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1[st] July 2023 30th June 2024
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Art with a Heart
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1159034
AWAH
**Charity's principal address**
123 George Street
Altrincham
**Postcode WA14 1RN**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Karen Wroe|Project Director /
Chair|||
||Keith Oulton|Treasurer|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
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CIO
How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected by Trustee Management
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Art with a Heart (AWAH) is a not-for-profit organisation with a base location in the town centre. Our aims are to educate, develop and support the local community across Trafford and the rest of Greater Manchester.
- We educate and inspire the community in Arts and Heritage, through the delivery of a series of events and activities in the Arts and Heritage Centre and outreach programme.
- We develop and enhance the skills of young people through our volunteer programme, Duke of Edinburgh activities and project activities.
- We support adults through our volunteer programme and workshops and community projects.
Our guiding principles are collaboration, complementing and creativity.
As detailed in the AWAH Trustees documentation, the day to day running of the Centre is performed by the Project Director, who in turn updates the Trustees at the trustee meeting.
The Project Director will at times delegate certain activities, including exhibitions, workshops and displays to a volunteer as part of their skills development. The volunteer is mentored by the Project Director during this time to optimise the skills transfer and to ensure that AWAH guiding principles are adhered to.
AWAH Policies and Procedures are available in the Centre, and form part of the induction process for all volunteers. Hardcopies are available in the HR folder, which also contains the Volunteer Handbook, and include:
1. Health and Safety
2. Equal Opportunities
3. Working with Vulnerable Adults and Children
4. Employment policy
A risk assessment is performed by the Project Director for each of the AWAH activities, both in the Centre and Outreach. These Risk Assessments are stored online and in the folder at the Centre.
AWAH continually develops and collaborates with several organisations to enable them to deliver the various activities. These typically are ad hoc We have also established a link between Rotary to deliver arts focus on some of their community projects – therefore increasing the reach of the arts and the engagement by the local community.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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The purpose of Art with a Heart is the advancement of Arts, Heritage and culture through the provision of events, exhibitions and displays in the Centre and at off-site locations. This is making the arts and heritage more accessible to a wider audience.
In addition, we aim to develop the skills of young people through our volunteer programme, therefore enhancing their future opportunities while improving their ‘soft’ skills.
The objects of the CIO are:
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
1. To advance the arts and heritage in Altrincham, by the provision of an arts and heritage centre and the provision of events, exhibitions and displays.
2. To help young people aged 16 to 24, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities, to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society.
The Activities undertaken by AWAH in support of these objects for the public benefit includes:
1. Free creativity area available to the public during the Centre’s opening hours, including materials.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
2. Free permanent Heritage Area displaying local artefacts, photographs, historical books, copies of Maps of the local area dated from the 1750s to 1950s, donated items from the local community and historians and items on permanent loan from STAG and the Transport Museum.
3. Regular workshops organised in the Centre available as a drop-in activity. These are generally free to encourage a wider participation. These are typically created and developed by the volunteers to develop their skills, and therefore enhance their employment opportunities.
4. Free alternative artforms workshops including Crochet and Chat and Mosaic and Mingle supporting mental health, reduced social isolation and improved awareness of alternative art forms.
5. Free regular events, inclusive and accessible to all, irrespective of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation or disability held in the centre.
6. Outreach activities including workshops, public art painting by
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||resident artist as part of autism awareness week, business|
|---|---|
||window displays, organising and participating in public art trails,|
||empty unit displays and involvement in Festivals and celebrations|
||in support of Arts and Heritage, including Easter, Halloween and|
||other religious festivals, e.g. Diwali.|
|7.|Engage with local schools to develop their arts activities and their|
||engagement in the local community and groups.|
|8.|Volunteering opportunities to further skills development and|
||employability of young people, including Duke of Edinburgh,|
||School Student work experience and regular volunteering.|
|9.|Volunteering opportunities for adults.|
|10.|Volunteering opportunities for individuals with learning difficulties|
||and those on the autistic spectrum.|
|11.|Volunteering opportunities and free activities to support the ‘Over|
||Fifties’, therefore improving their health and well-being, including|
||reducing social isolation and improved community cohesion. This|
||also encourages intergenerational activities between all our|
||volunteers.|
|12.|Maintain an online presence to promote and raise the awareness|
||of the Arts across Greater Manchester, including the Altrincham|
||Area
and
the
workshops,
events
and
the
volunteering|
||opportunities available in AWAH.|
|13.|Collaborate with other groups, organisations and businesses to|
||help raise the awareness of the Arts and Heritage in the area,|
||including, local businesses, such as Randall’s Jewellery Dunelm|
||and Optieye Care, Tesco in Altrincham and Stanley Square in|
||Sale, community organisations such as the local Rotary Clubs, in|
||particular Bridgewater Trafford Rotary, Sale Town in Bloom and|
||Breath Champs|
|14.|As detailed in the constitution, no charity trustee or connected|
||person may:|
||a. buy or receive any goods or services from AWAH on terms|
||preferential to those applicable to members of the public.|
||b. sell goods, services, or any interest in land to AWAH.|
||c. be employed by or receive any remuneration from AWAH.|
||d. receive any other financial benefit from the AWAH.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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The number of young volunteers engaging in Arts and AWAH increased because of DofE volunteering and skills development.
The diversity of the organisation has increased because of Hong Kongers attending the Crochet and Chat sessions becoming volunteers and engaging on the crochet outreach activities, such as twiddlemuffs for dementia and post box and bollard toppers in Sale and Altrincham.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Main achievements in 2022/2023 reporting year were:
1. Continue to develop and enhance the facilities of the Arts and Heritage Centre, resulting in
- a. A dedicated Gallery space for regularly updated arts and heritage displays. Exhibitions included an Art display of Resident Artist, Peony Tse, who replaced Daniel Adler.
- b. A permanent Heritage area, displaying all the Heritage artefacts, maps and books to be freely enjoyed by the members of the public.
- c. A permanent Creative Area, freely accessible to the members of the public during the Centre’s normal hours of operation as well as organising and running free arts and heritage workshops outside these times for local schools and organisations.
- d. A Creative space for the volunteers on the autistic spectrum.
- e. Mosaic space for the Mosaic and Mingle workshops. Workshops are run on a Thursday afternoon. These are free activities with the attendees only purchasing the tiles and bases used – glue, grout and tuition is free
- f. Crochet space for the Crochet and Chat activities. The crochet and chat sessions typically run on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons, with drop-in sessions and all abilities welcome. It’s a free activity with people learning new skills, enhancing their skills working on their individual projects or community projects such as the crochet twiddle muffs for dementia or the crochet items for the postbox toppers and bollard covers. During the school holidays these workshops are expanded to include teaching children and their parents to crochet during the school holidays
2. Continued to support young volunteers with their Duke of Edinburgh activities, with the aim of skills development through the Arts.
3. Increased the diversity of the volunteers, including ethnicity and disabilities.
4. Organised, delivered and hosted free regular Art Workshops, Art Exhibitions and Heritage Displays in support of our objects with the support of the volunteers.
5. Continued collaboration with a business to create artistic displays in their premises across Greater Manchester.
6. Continued to deliver and expand on the outreach activities including:
- a. Providing the artistic focus on the charity events – Paint Altrincham Blue, Paint Altrincham Pink, Paint Sale Pink, Paint Stretford and Urmston Pink and Sale Town in Bloom
- b. Organising and running regular ‘Crochet and Chat’, free to attend workshops in the centre to encourage the public to experience and participate in alternative artforms, with the outputs going on display in Urmston, Sale and Altrincham
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Section D Achievements and performance
as part of the Paint the Town Pink activities.
- c. Running a mosaic workshop in Stanley Square Sale to create mosaic art tiles for an art trail for Sale Town in Bloom
- d. Making Crochet postbox toppers, tree wraps and bollard covers that are on permanent display. These are updated regularly in and around Altrincham
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Section D Achievements and performance
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** All monies generated is reinvested in AWAH through the provision of the **charity’s policy on reserves** events, exhibitions and outreach activities and in supporting the skills development of young adults.
**Details of any funds materially** Not applicable **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
Principle source of funding is donations.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
Our success is based upon our core values:
- ü **Trust** – We are reliable, dependable and steadfast; we always deliver
- ü **Respect** – We appreciate and are conscious of any individual’s capacities in the Arts and Heritage ü **Inclusive** – We embrace all sections of the community
- ü **Passion** – We are focussed, positive, active and passionate about Arts and Heritage events and activities that we deliver
- ü **Originality** – We are committed to developing innovative Arts and Heritage programmes for the benefit of the community
- ü **Determined** – We strive for quality, achievement and success in all that we do
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
Karen Wroe
**Full name(s)** Karen Wroe
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
Chair
**Date** 25/08/2025
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|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Art with a Heart**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
01/07/2023
30/06/2024
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|---|---|
|**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 £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||
|Artwork Sales
**248**
**-**
**-**
**248**
**-**
Raffle
**1**
**1**
Donations small
**35**
**35**
Workshoo
**100**
**100**
Donation
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Gift ShopSales
**232**
**-**
**-**
**232**
**-**
Gift Aid
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Bank Interest
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Oher
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**616**
**-**
**-**
**616**
**-**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total receipts_**
**616**
**-**
**-**
**616**
**-**
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~~= ———~~||
|**A3 Payments**
Marketing
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Utilities
**267**
**267**
Bank Charges
**90**
**90**
Repairs
**-**
Materials
**1 409**
**1 409**
Event mealls/ Refreshments
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Insurance and subscriptions
**291**
**-**
**-**
**291**
**-**
Gift shop payments
**-**
Printing
**46**
**-**
**-**
**46**
**-**
Training
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Misc
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Donations and prizes
Rates
**-**
**-**
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|Artist Payments
**297**
**297**||
|**_Sub total_ 2 400**
**-**
**-**
**2 400**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total payments_**
**2 400**
**-**
**-**
**2 400**
**-**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 1 784**
**-**
**- - 1 784**
**-**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**6 735**
**- -**
**6 735**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**4 951**
**-**
**- 4 951**
**-**
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~~_ ==~~
~~=~~|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Bank
Cash
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Antique Dining Table and Chairs
3 Pedestals
10 Office Chairs
1 Desk L Shape
2 Rectangular Desks
2 Filing Cabinets
1 computer desktp and screen
Tea urn
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7 465**
**-**
**6**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7 471**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Print Name
Keith Oulton|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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