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**er**|**2023**| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Folkestone Art Society **Other names charity is known by** FAS **Registered charity number (if any)** 1161336 **Charity's principal address** 2 Douglas Avenue Hythe Kent **Postcode** CT21 5JT ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ## **Trustee name** **Office (if any)** **Name of person (or body) Dates acted if not for entitled to appoint trustee whole year (if any)** - 1 Rob Lansman Treasurer - 2 Dave Jackson Chair - 3 Nikki Griffith Membership Secretary - 4 David Upton Publicity - 5 Diane Wilson Secretary - 6 Matthew Horrox Web and Social Media March **2012** **TAR** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution dated 20[th] April 2015 How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporate Organisation (CIO) Trustee selection methods (1) Election by Members of the CIO at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and (2) co-option by existing trustees subject to ratification at the following AGM. ## **Additional governance issues** The Folkestone Art Society (FAS) became a registered charity on 20[th] April 2015. You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: The FAS is managed by its elected officers who also serve as the Society’s trustees. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - The trustees meet regularly to manage the business of the Society, to - • the charity’s organisational make decisions, approve expenditure and to manage risks. The structure and any wider trustees report to the members of the CIO through its annual general network with which the meeting. Members are also provided with regular updates and charity works; information through the Society’s website and through regular - • relationship with any related electronic communication. parties; - • trustees’ consideration of The trustees have access to Charity Commission guidance on their role and responsibilities and all trustees are provided with the Charity - major risks and the system Commission publication “The Essential Trustee – What You Need to - and procedures to manage them. Know” and given an induction session. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**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)**|The objects of the Society are:
(1)the fostering, promotion and increase amongst the general public
of the knowledge and appreciation of art by, in particular, the
provision of:
(a) education (of all types and at all levels) in the fields of the visual,
creative and applied arts;
(b) public exhibitions of art including but not limited to painting,
sculpture and ceramic arts;
(c) studios, galleries and other places where art may be practised,
created or exhibited; and
(2) for the public benefit to promote and encourage high standards in
the visual, creative and applied arts including, but not limited to:
(a) among young people under the age of 21 in full time education
within, but not limited to, Folkestone and the surrounding district, in
such ways as the charity trustees think fit, including but not limited to
the award of grants, prizes, scholarships, bursaries and maintenance
allowances.
(b) among individuals, institutions and other organisations within, but
not limited to, Folkestone and the surrounding district through the
sharing of knowledge and expertise, technical and consultancy
advice and support and such other forms of assistance as the charity
trustees think fit including opportunities to create, exhibit and sell art.| |---|---| ||The trustees have had regard to the guidance of the Charity
Commission on public benefit. The main activities undertaken in 2022
for the public benefit and in furtherance of the Society’s charitable
objects**include:**
•
Mounting two art exhibitions of work by local artist that were
free to enter for the general public.
•
Running free demonstrations/workshops and subsidised
‘master-classes’ related to the visual arts, which were open to
the public.
•
Organising the annual “Folkestone Art Society Gloria Gordon
Award for Young People’s Sketch Books” for young artists
studying for a recognised qualification in art at schools and
colleges within Folkestone and the surrounding district.
Working with other arts based organisations and individual artists
within Folkestone and the surrounding district, promoting and
encouraging involvement in the visual arts.| **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. The Society runs as a cooperative voluntary venture with volunteers serving on the committee as trustees, organising and stewarding art exhibitions, editing and producing the annual ‘Art Review’ and other publications, organising art demonstrations and workshops and liaising with schools and colleges to organise the annual FAS Gloria Gordon Award. The Society has no paid staff. ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** During 2022 the Society: - A new committee was instated and organised two art exhibitions which were open to the public with free entry. - • The Gloria Gordon award, masterclasses and workshops were reinstated. ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** The Society’s policy is to maintain sufficient reserves to underwrite its **charity’s policy on reserves** exhibitions and to fund new initiatives for the public benefit that further the charitable objectives of the Society. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** None ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 4 |You**may choose**to include
additional information, where
relevant about:
•
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.|The Society’s principal sources of funding are member subscriptions,
donations, artists submission fees for exhibitions and commission on
art sales.
These sources of funding support the delivery of art exhibitions which
are free to enter for the public, free demonstrations and workshops for
the public benefit, the publication of the annual Art Review with local
artists work and the cash awards made to the winners of the
“Folkestone Art Society Gloria Gordon Award for Young Artists Sketch
Books” in the GCSE and ‘A’ Level categories.
The primary expenditure of the Society is on the hire of accommodation
for art exhibitions, storage facilities, room-hire and expenses for
workshops and demonstrations and on art related publications.
Expenditure for the Folkestone Art Society Gloria Gordon Award,
including the cash awards made to winners, is fully covered by
donations given for the specific purpose of encouraging young artists
through the award scheme.| |---|---| ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** DW **Full name(s)** Diane Lynn Wilson **Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary **Chair, etc)** **Date** 2nd February 2024 March **2012** **TAR** 5 Folkestone Art Society Final Accounts 2023 Income Results R?gults Momber8hlp Sub8crlpllonB Mostercl8$8eJ and I W¢rk8hop$ 8prfng oxhlbltlon AU￿rnn •xhlbtUon 17eO 1780 2170 1R70, 1,105,, 186 11) 1385, 2,183 7￿70 Glorla Qordon Award 16 811 197 -197 . In8urnnGe Now •qulpm•nt , St¢rag• AQM+4udll 4002 12) -759 -1017 -142 -100 Sm•¥ don•tloN +Qlft •kl 'Adopt • Pan•1° payp￿ c￿ry• 1.600 (3) ' £15.7ao.g0, ,tXJO.82 at Uoyd• £11.285AI In cuh on P8yPal ! ' OpenSng b8lanc•8 0110112023 £7Z52 £12227.16 Closlng balonce8 3111W20Z3 £12.71U2 £107.77 £40&19,. t13227.78 Net rO￿lt 0¥or 2ffZJ t1,0￿.62 {1) Hall Hire over 2023 is e495, paid in January 2024. The total loss on Masterclasges over 2023 ig-£329.76 (21 Including new panel8 for £2,844. 13) 19 sponsors so far The Treasurer. I certify that I have checked the above figures and the method used to produce them and find correct. Rob Lansman Jane Muir 7 Whitehall yay, Sellinge Kent TN25 6ET date: / date: 2g/,/d2 k