2025-06-30-accounts - Arts In Redditch

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

Arts in Redditch

Other names charity is known by AIR

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
2 PhilipRoberts	Secretary		Membership
3 Alison Edwards			Membership
4 Huw Moseley			Membership
5 Jacqueline Kirby	Treasurer		Membership
6 Lyn Davies			Membership
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
n/a

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

n/a

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Charity Commission ‘Association Model’ Constitution (August 2014) Type of governing document

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Election by the membership or co-opted by the existing Trustees Trustee selection methods

(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 Our principal partners are Redditch Borough Council, Rubicon Leisure & structure and any wider The Kingfisher Centre. We are also members of the Reimagine Redditch network with which the charity Consortium, and the North East Worcestershire Cultural Compact (see works; Section C)
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system We undertake a rigorous risk assessments & management for all our and procedures to manage activities. them.

Section C Objectives and activities

1) To advance the arts for the public benefit in particular by acting as an umbrella body for arts organisations in Redditch and the surrounding area in order to facilitate greater public access to, and increased public participation in, the arts.

Summary of the objects of the participation in, the arts. charity set out in its 2) To advance the education of the public in the arts in particular by the governing document award of grants.

3) To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Redditch and the surrounding area the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason

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of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said inhabitants.

See Section D and elsewhere for details, but the main activities are as follows:

1) Twice-yearly ‘Pop-Up’ galleries, to showcase local artists, and encourage interest and active participation in visual arts.
2) Management of the ‘Bertie Crewe Gallery’ in the Palace Theatre, Redditch, on behalf of Rubicon Leisure Ltd., the trading arm of Redditch Borough Council.

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)

3) Initiating - and in some cases running - activities to increase peoples’ awareness of and engagement in creative activities, for example, our U3A monthly Art Appreciation Group.
4) Providing grants to promote participation in creative activity (see ‘Grant-making’)
5) Promoting performances and other arts events staged by local arts organisations, through our website and social media platforms.
6) Working in partnership with other organisations to provide more opportunities for creative development in the town. In 2024/25 this included continuing participation in the Reimagine Redditch Consortium, which manages the Arts Council England Creative People and Places (CPP) programme for the Borough.
7) We are also members of ReNEW, the North East Worcestershire Cultural Compact, an informal network established to promote arts, culture & heritage in this part of the County.

It is confirmed that in all these activities, the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Grant-making – our grant policies and procedures have been reviewed and we have managed to secure new funds that we can make available for our small grant scheme. The purpose of the scheme is to support new arts initiatives which would not otherwise get off the ground.

One grant of £500 was awarded from AIR funds in 2024/25, and we also facilitated 2 grants provided by a sister organisation, Redditch School of Art Trust.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;

As members of the Reimagine Redditch Consortium (see Section C) we have undertaken to make funds available to support projects coming forward as part of that programme, so – in view of those commitments – we have not been actively promoting our grant scheme.

Once again, we sponsored a trophy and prize of £100 in the ‘Redditch has Talent’ awards final at The Palace Theatre, an annual event to showcase performing arts, especially young people.

contribution made by volunteers.

Volunteers – all our activities to date have been undertaken by volunteers, including the Trustees, and this will continue for the foreseeable future. For each of the six-monthly Pop-Up Galleries, for example, every exhibiting artist undertakes approximately 4 hours of duty, supervising the event, talking to visitors, and dealing with sales. This amounts to some 300 hours of volunteer time for each Pop-Up Gallery. Some of those also volunteer as Duty Managers for each day.

In addition to the 5 Trustees, 4 other volunteers serve on our Steering Committee, which meets monthly to manage the activities of the charity.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main Our programme of twice-yearly Pop-Up Galleries is now firmly re- achievements of the charity established, with over 130 local artists registered with us as potential during the year participants; there are always more artists wanting to exhibit than we have space for, but we work hard to ensure a fully inclusive event; we do not make judgements about the quality of work which is included, but visitor feedback shows that the standard is maintained at a consistently high level.

Arts in Redditch is one of 5 consortium members of the Reimagine Redditch Consortium, which oversees the delivery of the £1.3 million ‘Creative People & Places’ (CPP) programme for Redditch. We are now in year 4 of that programme, having successfully bid for a further £284,171 of funding, to extend the programme to 31[st] March 2026. Reimagine Redditch is awaiting the outcome of its bid for £900,000 of Arts Council England Funding, for a further 3-year extension to its programme.

Arts in Redditch is now established as a member of ReNEW, the North East Worcestershire Cultural Compact, an extensive network of arts, culture, heritage and business organisations committed to the promotion of this part of North Worcestershire to its residents, and to visitors. This Compact has already been successful in attracting additional funding from Arts Council England and other sources, to support arts, culture & heritage in the area. One of our Trustees, Philip Roberts, is a member of the steering group for this initiative. Our U3A art appreciation sessions have continued monthly, on a face to face basis. This group regularly attracts 15-20 participants. In September 2024, we once again participated in the Heritage Open Day event at Forge Mill Needle Museum in Redditch. This is part of a national initiative and our event included a display of work by local artists.

Our informal art group, ‘Windmill Wednesday’, continues to meet once a month at a local community centre. This gives our Members and other local artists, the opportunity to meet up, do some drawing, painting & other creative work in a relaxed informal environment.

We continue our displays of local artists’ work in the ‘Bertie Crewe Gallery’ at the Palace Theatre, Redditch. These are changed twice a year, in spring & autumn, with sales commissions contributing to our income.

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Section E Financial review We do not have a formal policy on reserves, but this remains under Brief statement of the review in the context of our remit as a grant-awarding body. charity’s policy on reserves Consideration has been given to investing part of our funds in a fixedterm, interest bearing account, to take advantage of higher interest rates; this option remains under review, but most banks require long-term deposits of £10,000 to offer meaningful rates of return. Details of any funds materially n/a in deficit ~~_———~~ Further financial review details (Optional information) You may choose to include Our 2 main sources of funds are membership subscriptions (£6 a head for additional information, where individuals and organisations) and commissions generated by sales from relevant about: our Pop-Up Galleries and the Berties Crewe Gallery (see Section D).

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

The steps taken in previous years to mitigate the loss of income caused by pandemic restrictions (increasing membership, securing Gift Aid status and joining the Redditch Community Lottery as a beneficiary, continue to generate some additional funds.

how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

Expenditure is entirely devoted to expenses relating to the promotion of our objectives, including the making of grants to support other organisations with shared objectives.

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)

Philip Christian Roberts

Full name(s) Jacqueline Kirby Position etc) Trustee & Treasurer Trustee & Secretary

Date 15th October 2025

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			Arts in Redditch	Arts in Redditch			1168813
			Receipts andpayments accounts					CC16a
	For the period from ~~ee~~				01/07/2024 ~~ee ~~	To ~~ee ~~	30/06/2025 ~~ee~~
Section A Receipts and payments	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
MembershipFees			438	438	-	-	438	552	552
Picture Sales - BC Gallery			677	677	-	-	677	225	225
Bank Interest			60	60	-	-	60	70	70
Picture Sales - PUG			5 284	5 284	-	-	5 284	8 570	8 570
Artists - PUG			270	270	-	-	270	485	485
Redditch Lottery			238	238	-	-	238	231	231
Grant Donations			-	-	200	-	200	250	250
Miscellaneous			60	60			60	60	60
Amazon Donations			-	-			-	-	-
HMRC Gift Aid			63	63			63	50	50
Facebook & Other Donations			190	190			190	-	-
Other Event Sales HOD)			301	301			301	92	92
Event Contribution			250	250			250	350	350
EntryFees - U3A			474	474			474	522	522
Windmill WednesdayEntryFees			2	2			2	8	8
							-	-	-
			-	-	-	-	-	-	-
*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)		(Gross income for AR)	8 306	8 306	200	-	8 506	11 465
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - *Total receipts* 8 306 200 - 8 506 11 465 ~~——————~~
A3 Payments
Internet/IT Systems/Equipment			468	468	-	-	468	913	913
MembershipAdmin			85	85			85	85	85
Picture Purchases - PUG			4 529	4 529			4 529	7 283	7 283
PUG Display& Artists							-	20	20
Picture Puchases - Bertie Crewe			537	537			537	172	172
Insurance			164	164			164	164	164
Stand & Equioment Storage			564	564			564	360	360
PUG EnergyCosts			103	103			103	264	264
PUG Open Night Consumables			31	31			31	171	171
Advertising			-	-			-	-	-
CPP - Reimagine Redditch			-	-			-	-	-
MembershipBARN			30	30			30	30	30
Grants			500	500			500	100	100
SumUpFinance Costs			87	87			87	138	138
PayPal Finance Costs			14	14			14	-	-
Other Event Purchases(HOD)			301	301	-	-	301	237	237
Room Hire - U3A & AGM			491	491	-	-	491	513	513
Printing			41	41	-	-	41	164	164
Sponsorships(RHT Prize)			100	100	-	-	100	-	-
Winndmill Room Hire			198	198	-	-	198	88	88
Windmill Consumables			-	-	-	-	-	14	14
			-	-	-	-	-	-	-
			-	-	-	-	-	-	-
**Sub total **			8 242	8 242	-	-	8 242	10 716
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - *Total payments* 8 242 - - 8 242 10 716 ~~——————~~
*Net of receipts/(payments)* 63 200 - 263 749 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 7 628 5 914 - 13 543 12 795 *Cash funds this year end* 7 692 6 114 - 13 806 CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 ~~===>=>~~

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
		Unrestricted Restricted	Endowment funds
Categories	Details	funds funds
		to nearest £ to nearest £	to nearest £
B1 Cash funds	7 729 - - - 5 974 - SumUp Account - 103 - - 7 832 5 974 - *Total cash funds* Lloyds Treasurers Account Lloyds Business Bank Instant Account Cash Float ~~————~~
	(agree balances with receipts and payments	(agree balances with receipts and payments
	account(s))
		Unrestricted Restricted	Endowment funds
		funds funds
	Details	to nearest £ to nearest £	to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~==~~
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets	- - - - - - - - - - ~~===>~~
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~===>~~
		Fund to which Amount due	When due (optional)
	Details	liability relates (optional)
B5 Liabilities	- - - - - ~~===~~
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature	Print Name	Date of approval
		PhilipRoberts	15th October 2025
		Jackie Kirby
			15th October 2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)