**T H E P I N K F E S T I V A L G R O U P T R U S T E E ’ S A N N U A L R E T U R N 2 0 2 1**
Registered Charity No. 1163298.
**A B O U T U S**
## What we do
**Create a safe environment that brings communities together**
**Offer a fun and diverse experience**
**Provide a variety of entertainment, art and culture**
**Offer access to information and support**
## What we achieve
**Raise awareness and promote acceptance by challenging stereotypes**
**Be visible throughout each year (beyond one-off events) and leave a legacy**
How we do it
**Offer meaningful opportunities to be involved**
**Be successful, sustainable and supported**
## **O U R C H A R I T A B L E P U R P O S E**
## We exist to…
## ~~**…promote equality and diversity** for the beneft of the public, including by:~~
- the elimination of discrimination in particular on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identification;
- advancing education and raising awareness in equality and diversity;
- promoting activities to foster understanding between people from diverse backgrounds (in particular in respect of their sexual orientation or gender identification); and
- cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality and diversity.
## ~~**…promote social inclusion** for the beneft of the public by:~~
preventing people from becoming excluded (particularly as a result of their sexual orientation or gender identification), relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded (particularly as a result of their sexual orientation or gender identification) and assisting them to integrate into society.
## **O U R O B J E C T I V E S A N D A C T I V I T I E S**
## We are…
## ~~**Improving health and wellbeing**~~
## ~~**Supporting better employment**~~
Clearly, by helping people access support for a range of needs there is personal benefit to them and their families. These benefits include reduced isolation, improved health and increased income from employment. This benefit is incidental to the wider public benefit and, indeed, a necessary prerequisite to the realisation of the benefits to LGBT+ people and the public our organisation aims to achieve.
Through volunteering, participation and performance, our events can help increase the skills of vulnerable LGBT+ people.
## ~~**Building a stronger voluntary sector in the Cambridge**~~
## ~~**Providing opportunities for communities to come together and to bring about change**~~
The charity’s events aim to bring large groups of people together to help build tolerance and understanding of the things that make us all different.
This is ‘gay pride’ for a modern era aiming to build social cohesion. Our unique family-oriented events make a real difference – especially for people living in the rural East of England – by providing a safe, accessible environment that embraces all aspects of diversity including sexuality, race, age and gender.
We particularly seek to include partners who provide services that meet the needs identified by LGBT+ people in the recent needs assessment, for example health (including mental health), education, safety/crime, employment and tackling bullying and harassment.
We seek feedback from people who attend our events, and the LGBT+ community more widely, to asses which elements they found most helpful, which less so and whether other elements should have been included. Together with the needs assessment and other research evidence, we use that feedback to target specific partners and projects to include within the overall programming for events.
## **O U R 2 0 2 1 R E P O R T**
## ~~**Cambridge Pride 2021**~~
We made the decision not to hold Cambridge Pride 2021. We had initially been open minded about the possibility of hosting the event in 2021, as we intended to hold a Cambridge Pride event annually. However, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to make it difficult to plan with confidence and make any guarantees. Our priority is to ensure the safety of our team and the public. We decided that it would not be appropriate for us to use resources to plan an event that would be increasingly unlikely to go ahead.
The pandemic also brought changes to everyday life for our board and volunteers. We took this into account in our decisions to pause any projects we were planning.
## ~~**Pride Experience event**~~
Later in 2021, with more certainty around events going ahead, we decided to deliver a smaller-scale event. Our rationale and strategy for the event was fourfold:
- Help to raise funds for future events such as Cambridge Pride 2022.
- Maintain our brand presence.
- Provide an opportunity for LGBTQ+ artists to perform and gain income.
• And, most importantly, deliver a number of our charitable aims by bringing together the local LGBTQ+ community, which had been without events and valuable opportunities to socialise since before the pandemic.
While the event did not raise significant funds for future events,
we did deliver a ticketed event that benefited more than 330 people directly and supported nine LGBTQ+ acts. The cost of the delivering the event was essentially neutral. We also thank the Cambridge Junction for their support.
## ~~**Recruitment**~~
We are currently recruiting for a Treasurer.
## ~~**Looking ahead**~~
At the end of 2021 we tentatively began exploring the possibility of holding Cambridge Pride in 2022.
## **P I N K F E S T I V A L G R O U P – S T A T E M E N T O F F I N A N C I A L A C T I V I T I E S**
## **Annual accounts for the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021**
|Note
**Incoming resources (Note 3)**
Grants For Services
Donations & Gifts
Fundraising
Facilitation & Training
Interest
**Resources expended (Notes 4-8)**
Fundraising Costs
Activity Costs
Salaries and Associated Costs
IT & Communication Cost
Property & Office Costs
Governance Costs
Gains and losses on revaluation of fixed assets for the
charity’s own use
**Other recognised** **gains/(losses)**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before other_**
**_recognised gains/(losses)_**
**Gross transfers between funds**
**_Total resources expended_**
**_Total incoming resources_**
**_Total funds carried forward_**
**Total funds brought forward**
**_Net movement in funds_**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before transfers_**
Gains and losses on investment assets|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total this year**
**Total last year**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
F01
F02
F03
F04
F05
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,350
-
1,350
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||1,350
-
-
1,350
-|
||154
154
1,881
1,881
107
-
-
318
318
201
-
-
30
137
137
100|
||2,490
-
-
2,490
438
1,140
-
-
-
1,140
-
438
-|
||-
-
-|
||1,140
-
-
-
1,140
-
438
-|
||-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
||1,140
-
-
-
1,140
-
438
-|
||9,419
-
9,419
9,857|
||8,279
-
-
8,279
9,419|
## **P I N K F E S T I V A L G R O U P – B A L A N C E S H E E T**
|Note
**Fixed assets**
**Tangible assets (Note 9)**
**Investments (Note 10)**
**_Total fixed assets_**
**Current assets**
**Stock and work in progress**
**Debtors (Note 11)**
**(Short term) investments**
**Cash at bank and in hand**
**_Total current assets_**
**Creditors: amounts falling due within**
**one year (Note 12)**
**_Net current assets/(liabilities)_**
**_Total assets less current liabilities_**
**Creditors: amounts falling due after**
**one year (Note 12)**
**Provisions for liabilities and charges**
**_Net assets_**
**Funds of the Charity**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted income funds (Note 13)**
**Endowment funds(Note 13)**
**_Total funds_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
F01|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
F01|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
F01|
**Restricted**
**income**
**funds**
**£**
F02|**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
F03|**Endowment**
**funds**
**£**
F03|
**Total this**
**year**
**Total last**
**year**
**£**
**£**
F04
F05|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||-
-
-|||-
-
-|-
-
-||-
-
-
-
-
-|
||-|||-|-||-
-|
||8,279||||-
-
-
-||
-
-
-
100
-
-
8,279
9,419|
||8,2|7|9|-|-||8,279
9,519|
||||||||-
-
|
|||||||||
||-||||-|||
||8,279|||-|-||8,279
9,519|
|||||||||
||8,279|||-|-||8,279
9,519|
||||||||-
-
-
-|
|||||-|-
-|||
|||||||||
||8,279|||-|-||8,279
9,519|
||8,279
-||||-||8,279
9,419
-
-
-
-
-|
||8,279|||-|-||8,279
9,419|
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the trustees
Paul Hyde-Clarke, Chair, Pink Festival Group 29 October 2022
## **A B O U T T H I S R E P O R T**
## **Our charity**
**Charity name:** The Pink Festival Group
Registered in England as a Charitable incorporated organisation No. CE004417 and a Registered Charity No. 1163298.
**Address:** Office A, Dales Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LJ
## **Structure, governance and management**
**Type of governing document:** Constitution
**How the charity is constituted:** Charitable Incorporated Organisation
**Trustee selection methods:** Appointed by board
## **Our trustees**
The following board of trustees managed the charity during this period.
## Chair
Paul Hyde Clarke Chair Adam Olivant Secretary Alistair Wilson Board member Gordon Bateman Board member Robert Ferguson Board member Tam Blaxter Board member Paul Owens Board member Deborah Luxon Board member
## **About this financial return**
This financial return is for the charity named ‘The Pink Festival Group’ (a charitable organisation responsible for running the event known as Cambridge Pride), for the financial year 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.
There are no custodian trustees, advisers to the board, chief executives or senior staff members.
## **w w w . c a m b r i d g e p r i d e . c o . u k**
The Pink Festival Group is registered in England as a Charitable incorporated organisation No. CE004417 and a Registered Charity No. 1163298. Registered Office: Office A, Dales Brewery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LJ