## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1 July 2023 30 June 2024 **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1162128 **Charity's principal address** 31 Hillschool Rd St Helens **Postcode WA10 3BH** Small Things Dance Collective ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||MaryPrestidge|Treasurer||| ||VickyCharnock|Chair||| ||Russell Ashworth||12th December 2023-
current|| ||Rachel Rogers||12th December 2023-
current|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **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** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted CIO Foundation Model - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by Trustees (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; All trustees are provided with: - (a) a copy of the current version of this constitution and - (b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ annual Report and statement of accounts Trustees also have access to policies concerning safeguarding and codes of practice for employees. - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To advance public education in and appreciation of the art of dance. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** **TAR** March **2012** 2 1. Participatory dance projects at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool. This includes working creatively with infants, children and young people on hospital wards with acute conditions. 2. Creation of music and dance performance and film for a children’s hospital. 3. Undertake research projects to contribute to the wider field of arts and health. **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)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** At the beginning of this financial year, we were successful with two grants. The first a two-year bid (Arts Council England) and the second a three-year bid (Children in Need). This financial year was therefore led predominantly by these grants. - 1) We continued with ward-based practice on the cardiac and neuromedical units, accompanying infants, children and young people in exploring movement, through touch, sensory play and improvised dance. - 2) VR project-We had a weeklong residency in SW France collaborating with Paul McCann creating two 360° films (forest and beach). Following editing and testing we launched this project in May 2024 at Alder Hey and initiated contact with Healthy Mind to explore having the content uploaded onto their headsets which are used by several departments at Alder Hey. - 3) We were successful in gaining funding from the D’Oyly Carte Foundation for musician Henry Horrell to be able to join us on the wards for a period of 4 months. - 4) We received news of a grant from Alder Hey for a new project on the oncology ward, collaborating with musicians Hedi Pinkerfeld and Georgina Aasgaard. Project to begin in September 2024. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** We aim to hold 3 months reserves. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Arts Council England You **may choose** to include Children in Need additional information, where D’Oyly Carte Foundation relevant about: - the charity’s principal All grants are restricted funds for delivering creative projects. 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** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Mary Prestidge **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 12th December, 2024 **TAR** March **2012** 5 **No (if any) Small Things Dance Collective 1162128 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Regular Donation
**1,200**
Arts Council England
**-**
Alder Hey
**660**
Awards for All
**-**
Children in Need
Donation
**-**
D'OylyCarte
Trainingincome
**430**
**2,290**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 2,290**
**A3 Payments**
Artist Fees
**810**
Website/Vimeo/Dropbox
**374**
Expenses VR
Expenses Trustees
**-**
Other expenses
**870**
Accountancy
**528**
Trainingcosts
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 2,582**
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**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 2,582**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 292**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**4,078**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 3,786**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||**-**
**19,900**
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**14,950**
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**4,000**
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**19,900**
**660**
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**4,000**
**430**
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**38,193**|**39,430**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**39,430**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
ACE and CIN
Earned income/donations/reserves
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
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account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**34,407**
**3,786**
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**34,407**
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**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
MaryPrestidge
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approval| |||MaryPrestidge|12th December, 2| ||||| John err Chaiiefe(IAcrountan15 Independent Examiner's Report to the Tru8tee8 of Small Things Dance Collective I report to lh8 trustees on my examination of the accounts of Small Things Dance Collective {a Charitable Incorporated Organisalion the CIO) for the year ended 30 June 2024, which are set out on pages 110 2. This report is made lo the Charity's Ifustees. as a body. in accordance with the teims of engagement. To Ihe fullest extent pemiitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility lo anyone other than the trustees, as a body, for my work or for this reFX)rt. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the a￿)￿nIS in accordance with Ihe requirements of the Charili8s Act 2011 {'Ihe Acl'l. I report In respe¢l of my examlnation of the CIO'S a¢counls carrled out under section 145 of Ihe Act and. in carrying out my examination. I have followed the appli¢able Directions given by Ihe Charity Commission under seclion 145{51{bl of the Act. Independent examlner's statement I have ￿Mpleted my examination. l Confim Ihal no materlal mallers have come to my attention in ¢onnection with the examination giving me ¢ause to believe that in any material respect.. {1) accountlng records were not kept in respect of the CIO as required by secllon 130 of the Act., or {2) the accounts do nol accord with those records I have no cOn￿rn$ and have come across no other matters in connection wilh the examination lo which attention should be drawn in Ihis report in order to enable a proper underslanding of the accounts lo be reached. iller FCA ohn Kerr- Chartered A¢¢ountants 375 Ealon Road Wost Derby Liveipool Mergayside L12 2AH 18 March 2025 ICAFW CHARTERED ACCOVNfANTS T- 015122Bfj9F7