Supporting cultural developments in Gloucester Gust is a charitable incorporated organisation charity registration no. 1164727 

## **Trustees Report for GUST Charity No 1164727 April 2020 to March 31[st] 2021** 

The Trustees report for year ended March 31st 2020 indicated that GUST was in the initial stages of collaborating with Take Note. GUST began working with social and arts entrepreneurs Marianna Hay and Emily Webb in 2019 to look at trialling their new The Take Note: Connect programme in Gloucester. The programme, having delivered a pilot in Suffolk earlier in the year, supports organisations to deliver extraordinary artistic work together and in partnership. Having been brought up in Gloucester and recently returned to live in the area, Emily was keen to see Gloucester benefit from this new initiative. With our knowledge of the people and organisations working in the city, GUST was a perfect partner to deliver this element of their programme. We signed a partnership agreement with Take Note in April 2020 and submitted the 2[nd] stage of our joint application to Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for funding to deliver the project. 

The project aims were threefold: to increase confidence and expertise in communities to deliver arts projects, to empower local arts organisations to work collaboratively to deliver bigger and better arts projects and to develop a model of partnership working which could be replicated to achieve social change in regions of low arts provision across the UK. The aims were in line with GUST’s own to strengthen strategic support for organisations and people in Gloucester to develop better ways of working together and delivering ever more ambitious projects and programmes. 

## With funding of £58,000 secured in August 2020, Take Note: Connect Gloucester was launched in September 2020: **New partnership initiative Take Note and Gloucester-based charity GUST will collaborate with and support Gloucester organisations to deliver bold artistic work together and catalyse social change.** 

The programme provided funding of £40,000 to support 2 partnership projects, with Take Note providing wrap-around strategic support and partnership tools to ensure the partners have the greatest possible impact for these 2 projects and to enable more partnership working with even greater collective impact in the future. 

The programme acknowledged the infrastructure and strategic foundations created by Gloucester Culture Trust and we worked closely with the Trust to connect and support organisations and individuals interested in the opportunity, bringing together potential partners across the city and advising applicants on submissions for this pot of funding. The 10-year Gloucester Cultural Strategy 2016-2026 is founded on the principle of partnership and with community at its heart and Take Note Gloucester responds directly to these ambitions. 

We launched the fund in October with an open-invite Zoom attended by over 30 participants, from arts and social organisations and Individual artists. This was followed up with a networking/partnershipbuilding session online to facilitate Introductions to those looking to build partnerships for their application to the fund. 20 Gloucester organisations and artists attended and these sessions are now being embedded by the Culture Trust as a regular networking offer in the city due to the success of this event: 

"We should do this [speed dating] all the time - it's so valuable to be able to connect like this, something we've never done in the city before - we should make the most of it." _Chris Walker, AgeUK Gloucestershire_ 

A total of 44 organisations via 10 partnership projects applied for Take Note funding in November 2020 – January 2021 with a 2-stage application process. These projects showed an incredibly strong pool of arts organisations, artists, freelancers and cross-sector collaborators, demonstrating the dynamism and innovation of Gloucester’s creative commitment to arts for social change. The two successful partnership projects represented an exciting fusion of arts and non-arts organisations working together to make change. In addition to the funding, the successful projects will also be part of the Take Note: 

**Registered Office** 2 Wychwood Court, Cotswold Business Village, Moreton in Marsh, GL56 0JQ **Trustees** Clair Greenaway | James Millar | Donna Renney 



Supporting cultural developments in Gloucester Gust is a charitable incorporated organisation charity registration no. 1164727 

Connect Gloucester programme of strategic collaborative support, designed to promote and enable effective partnership working every step of the way. This will run until autumn 2021 following the successful delivery of the 2 projects during the summer. 

With our networks and insight into Gloucester organisations, we supported the application process, selecting 2 very different but equally inspiring projects to fund in March 2021. Hip-hop, beatboxing, film, drama and photography are set to animate the streets and homes of Gloucester this summer. Young people and families affected by food poverty, NHS patients, carers, refugees and asylum seekers and people from the wider Gloucester community will create powerful artworks, to be celebrated publicly as the country opens up after lockdown. 

**Connect, Collaborate and Create** brings together Your Next Move with The Music Works, Barton Street Neighbourhood Policing Team, Prospects Youth Support Team, The Venture Playground and Friendship Cafe. Together they will create a hip-hop project that shines a light on food poverty, working with young people, their families and the wider community to create collaborative hip hop, beatboxing, MCing, DJing and graffiti and a film that captures the power of this work. 

**Creative Communities, New Perspectives** is a collaboration of Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, GARAS (Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers), Inclusion Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire Carers Hub and Look Again to boost mental health and wellbeing through mindful photography and drama. Working with a wide range of people struggling with their wellbeing, there will be an exhibition of their work at the Cathedral and Gloucester Royal Hospital in the summer. 

“This wouldn't have been possible without the Take Note programme... It's the partnership approach that really makes this more interesting and more special - for us as organisations and for the individuals taking part because they get to meet people they wouldn't necessarily meet otherwise and it helps to open people's minds and eyes to new possibilities." 

_Ruth Davey, Look Again Photography on BBC Radio Gloucestershire_ 

Take Note facts and figures: 

- Secured **£58,388** funding from Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. 

- Awarded **£40,000** funding to 2 partnership projects with a total of 12 partner organisations across arts and non-arts sectors in Gloucester. 

- **16 cross-sector partners** from arts and other social change organisations including NHS, Police, refugee support agency, disability support agency and more, involved in these 2 partnership projects. 

- **10 partnership applications** to Take Note: Connect Gloucester from a total of **44 Gloucester organisations** /community partners. 

- Over **30 arts and non-arts organisations and individual artists** and producers attended the Take Note: Connect Gloucester launch and gave overwhelmingly positive feedback. 

The total income for the charity in the year to March 31[st] 2021 was £62,391 against £33,609 year ended March 31[st] 2020. We closed the year with cash of £8,578 of which £8,485 is identified as restricted funds from the Esmee Fairbairn Trust and which is allocated to conclude spending for Take Note. 

Looking ahead to 2021-22, we intend to continue our work supporting partnership development in the city of Gloucester, particularly in light of the impact of Covid-19 on the cultural and heritage sectors. In particular we are in the early stages of collaboration with the City Voices team, exploring ways in which GUST can support the growth of this key strand of Gloucester History Festival. Our collaboration with Take Note is ongoing, and we look forward to the delivery of the two funded projects in the coming months. We will further contribute to discussion of the next stages for Take Note beyond 2021 and beyond Gloucestershire. 

**Registered Office** 2 Wychwood Court, Cotswold Business Village, Moreton in Marsh, GL56 0JQ **Trustees** Clair Greenaway | James Millar | Donna Renney 




**Charity Name No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts ts and payments accounts ayments accounts ments accounts pts and payments accounts payments accounts yments accounts** 

**Charity Name No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01-Apr-20 30-Mar-21 **To from** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**|||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest**|**£**||**to the nearest**|**£**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest**|**£**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||
|Donations||**450**||**1,450**||||**-**|||**1,900**||**1,350**||
|Never Better Grants received||**-**||**2,103**||||**-**|||**2,103**||**27,259**||
|Sponsorship||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|Sponsorshipin kind||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|Gift Aid||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|Greatplaces claim||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**5,000**||
|Take Note Grants Received||**-**||**58,388**||||**-**|||**58,388**|||**-**|
|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_||**450**||**61,941**||||**-**|||**62,391**||**33,609**||
||||||||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment**|**sales,**||||||||||||||
|**(see table).**|||||||||||||||
|||**-**|||**-**||||**-**||**-**||||
|||**-**|||**-**||||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||**-**|||**-**||||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**||**450**||**61,941**|||||**-**||**62391**||**33,609**||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||



|Donation to Gloucester History Festival||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**1000**||**-**||**1000**||**1,000**|
|Bank Charges|**69**||**69**||**-**||**138**||**120**|
|Never Better Project Management|**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**3,715**|
|Never Better Production / Creative Budget||||||||||
||**-**||**8092**||**-**||**8092**||**56,280**|
|Never Better Marketing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**6,574**|
|Never Better Evaluation|**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**3,000**|
|Never Better CounsellingSupport|**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**2,770**|
|Never Better OpeningNight|**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**303**|
|Never Better Stakeholder Management||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**35**|
|GUST Administration and Marketing|**17**||**-**||**-**||**17**||**-**|
|Donation to MusicWorks|**-**||**250**||**-**||**250**||**-**|
|Membership|**180**||**-**||**-**||**180**||**-**|
|Take Note Project Management|**-**||**3500**||**-**||**3,500**||**-**|
|Take Note Marketing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**-**|
|Take Note Evaluation|**-**||**6375**||**-**||**6375**||**-**|
|Take Note Project Funding|**-**||**40000**||**-**||**40000**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**0**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**266**||**59286**||**0**||**59552**||**73,796**|
|||||||||||



|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**59,286**<br>**2,655**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**59,286**<br>**2,655**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**59,552**<br>**2,839**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**59,552**<br>**2,839**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**73,796**|
|||||||||||
||**184**||**2,655**||**-**||**2,839**||**-              40,187**|
||**-                     272**|<br>|**272**|<br>|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**181**||**5,558**||**-**||**5,739**||**45,926**|
||**94**||**8,485**||**-**||**8,578**||**5,739**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

05/01/2022 

1 



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>CAF Account (GUST - includes restricted<br>~~donations £1250)~~<br>CAF Account (Special Projects - Never<br>~~Better and Take Note)~~<br>**Details**|**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>CAF Account (GUST - includes restricted<br>~~donations £1250)~~<br>CAF Account (Special Projects - Never<br>~~Better and Take Note)~~<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**94**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**94**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**94**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**94**<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**8,485**<br>**-**<br>**8,485**<br>OK<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**8,485**<br>**-**<br>**8,485**<br>OK<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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||||||||**-**|
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||||||||OK|
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||||||||**-**|
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||||||||**-**|
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||||||||**-**|
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||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Signature||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Clair Greenaway||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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||||||||**-**|
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||||Clair Greenaway||||05-Jan-22|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

05/01/2022 

2 



CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the tfusteésl
members of
THE GUST
On a¢¢ounts forth• year
endad
31 MARCH 2021
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1164727
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l ￿port lo the trustees on my examlnatlon of tho accounts ol the above
charity Clhe Trust'l for th8 ygar ended 3110312021
As the charftys trusteès. you are responsible for the preparation of the
8ccounls in a(Kordanc8 wllh the requirements of the Charilles Act 2011
Ilhe ACV'I.
Responslbllltles and
basls of rèport
I report in respect of my gxaminalion of thè Trust's ac¢ounls carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act 2nd In carrying out my tsxaminalion, I
have lolk)wed all th8 applicable Directions given by the Ch8rity Commlsslon
under section 14515llbl of th6 Act.
Independent
examiner's statement I ¢ompl6ted my examination. I tonfirm ihat no material matters have
ome to my attention in connection wth the examination lolher than thal
disclosed b$low'l whlch gives me cause lo bg1Igve that In. any material
respect..
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with s￿lI0n 130
ol the Charilies Act.. or
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the accounts did not ¢omply with Ihfr applicab16 r&quir6m6nts
concernlng Ihe forrn and conlenl of accounts sel out In the Charitles
IAccounls and Reports) R69ulallons 2008 other Ih8n any roquirement
that lh8 accounts give a 'lrue and falrf view which is not a mattel
consid8r8d as p8rt of Bn independent examination.
I have no concems and have come across no other matters In connecbon
with the examinallon lo whlch allenllon Should ba drawn Sn this report in
order lo enablè 8 proper undetslanding of the accounis to bo roached.
Pl&ase delete Ilje words In Ihe brAck8ts if Ihey do not apply.
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291112022
Namo:
Suzanne Ross
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ACA
Address.,
73 Moorend Park Road. Cheltenham, Glos GL53 OLG
IER
Oct 2018

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Address:
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete If the examiner needs lo highlight material matters of concern
{see CC32, Ind8p8ndenl examination of charily accounts: directions and
guldancè lor examiners).
Glvè h8re brlef detai15 of
any Items that the
èxamlnar wlshe5 to
disclose.
IER
Oct 2018

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
C.IIErlly lQamè
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For thtr period
from
01-P-.pr-20
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Endowment
funds
Total funds
Lastyear
t¢ Ihe nearè$l£
lothe n•Jrn$t£
to th• nearest£
tothe nBBre5t£
A1 Receipts
Danatlons
NgvgrBeii¢iGraThls rece
nsors
aor6N In
4SO
1A50
2.103
27,259
Gr¢91 place$*in
Take N(th Grants RE￿Ived
5&388
Sub fotal(Gross inGom8 for
AR)
01.941
63,391
346D9
A2 Asset and Investment sales.
15ee taJ)lel-
Sub fotal
Tot81 recelpls
45Q
61,941
62391
33,809
A3 Payfflents
DonalloD to Gloucester H15iwF￿lv￿l
10QO
69
10QO
138
.1.000
BEnk Cha
N8yoF Btsi￿r Pr0iBcifd8nag￿ne￿t
NeveT Eetier Produ¢tlonl&#aUvg Budget
69
1715
8092
8OY2
51280
574
Nevèr B•ll&rMark6ting
lever Eetler Evpluallon
Never Beii8rCounselling SuppDrt
Never B¢iigrOpollin
Ngvor Béltérstakeholderm￿80ernen1
3,000
2.770
303
35
GUST AdrnSnl$iralkn and Matkelin
￿￿￿[lOn to Muslcwoik
Momber5hlp
Toke Nots PTO
octmana
Tako Note Mad(etino
Take Note Evaudi￿n
Take Noi¢ Pro
17
250
250
leo
6rnBnt
3500
6375
40000
6375
40000
Sub total
266
59286
Sga52
73,196
A4 Asset and Investment
purchases. l$tre table)
Sub totsl
266
59,286
59,552
73.796
Net of recetipts/(paymentsJ
A5 Translers between funds
A6 Cash funds lastyearend
Cdsh funds thls year end
184
2.655
272
5,$58
8,485
2,839
40,187
272
4739
4578
45,926
5,738
CCXX Rl ac￿Unts ISSI
(k51of12￿?

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Llnreslri¢ted
lunds
to n•arost£
R¢strl¢ted
funds
to nttarnst£
Endowmont
funds
ton•ar•st£
CatecJor*eb
B1 Cash funds
CAFA¢couni (GUST- indudtt residcied
Account I5pec&ryl Proieds- Nwor
8.485
Tolal Cash funds
94
8,485
Unrestrlcttd
funds
Restrlcted
funds
to n•ar•st £
Endowment
funds
Details
B2 Other monetsry assets
Fund towN¢h
Currenr value
elalls
Cost loptlonall
Fund to whlch
A$$et belo
Currnnt Valuè
Details
B4 Assèts retained for the
charit￿8 own use
FundtDwhlGh
Arnount du
lthon duè
Details
B5 Llabillties
SkJned byonèort4W Iruslee9
b&h4f ol allthe Iwslees
Signature
Prlnt Name
Date of
roval
ClalrGreenawo
O>JaTr22
CCXX R2 accoutst$ ISSI
0510112022