## - Charity Number 1170434 _._ **Trustees' Financial & Annual Report Year ending 5 September 2022** ## **Team Imagineers Contents** |**Charity Information**
**Report of Activities**
**Review of Trustees**
**Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities**
**Results**
**Contacts**
**Accounts**|**page 2**
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**page 18**| |---|---| ## **Team Imagineers Charity Information** |Charity Registered Number
Charity Registered Office
Registered Office Bankers
Board of Directors/Trustees 2021 -2022|
1170434
41 Benhill Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 3RR
Triodos Bank UK
Zainab Shamis – Secretary
Larisa Yakimova – Treasurer
Helene Gay McDonagh – Chair
Uzma Shaikh| |---|---| ## **Team Imagineers Report of Activities** The Trustees present their report and financial statement for the year ended 5 September 2022. ## **Legal Status** Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation - Charity Number 1170434. ## **Report of Activities** Team Imagineers (TI) is a small registered charity based in London and formed in August 2016. We are a voluntary organisation with four trustees. For our project delivery, we use 3 main sessional workers who are self employed artists. We bring others in when we need different skills. Team Imagineers benefitted from the skills, expertise and help from 10 volunteers in our 2021-2022 accounting year. The organisation’s purpose is to provide arts for well-being for vulnerable communities and clients in Greater London and across the UK. Our main objectives are to advance education in the arts, and in particular but not exclusively visual arts. We work with all ages and abilities, from 5 to 90. In our accounting year 6 September 2021 to 5 September 2022 Team Imagineers continued to provide classes and workshops in arts and crafts skills. Every £1 invested in Team Imagineers as a charity generates over £5 value in terms of contribution to the local community, generating wellbeing, happiness in participants, brightening and improving the built environment – a huge social impact. However, COVID-19 still plagued all our lives and arts activities during the period. **Learning** This was delivered from September 2021 to September 2022 whenever restrictions allowed through a series of Covid-secure dance and visual arts workshops funded by the National Lottery. Our volunteer training at St Helier Hospital on infection control and health and safety in 2020 helped us create Covid-secure working conditions. The Foyle Foundation required us to work online so we continued with regular Zoom gatherings; where people learnt new creative skills, exercised and socialised. **Our Social Media** This furthered our arts learning delivery and Team Imagineers’ online visibility. **Outreach and networking** We had further meetings and conversations with: Irene Esposito of Sutton Uplift, Inspire (mental health), Jeff Richards of SUTTONfx, Samia Tossio of SamiArt, Community Action Sutton, Nicola Upton of Age Concern, Sutton Mental Health Foundation, Squirrels Community Scrap Scheme, Christine Lindsey of Wallington Community Wellbeing network, Sutton South Hello, who run activities for elderly residents, Dawn Fielding from Sutton Council re Beddington Park and Nicole Luckett, Participation and Engagement Officer for Sutton Council. Some of these led to workshops and activities delivered this year and are detailed below. Further opportunities from this outreach will come to fruition in our next reporting year. ## **We engaged with a total of 605 beneficiaries during the year.** All gained arts learning, 31% gained dance and movement learning, and 90% reported their mental health had been improved through the activity. 89% were from the general community, 10% had a disability, 90% were from a disadvantaged background, 15% were elderly, 30% of our clients were vulnerable, shielding or self-isolating for health reasons and 5% were young people. The 733 beneficiaries of our project work were: 15 children and their families (7 adults) at the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton 25 members of Sutton South Hello at their wellbeing arts social group. 6 people who attended the Wellbeing drawing in Beddington Park. 128 people at Sutton Uplift and Inspire mental health organisations 153 people participated in Biodanza activities with Team Imagineers. 60 participated in a Sukkah Festival 296 people benefitted from learning arts techniques in Covid secure and online workshops. 50 people engaged with our free art pack _**Comments and feedback**_ “I love my puppet!” I liked using the hand [powered] sewing machine.” “Samia generously shared her skills and resources with the teachers so they can con=nue to spread the finger-kni@ng magic!” “The froCage (rubbing) really sparked everyone’s imagina=on, learning about Max Ernst and discussion around his images and their ones was really good!” “The workshop was so engaging, it had a calming effect on them, really enjoying experimen=ng with colour, mono-prin=ng and then folding paper to create new paCerns and colour mixes. They got so much from it”. “That was fun! I have never done drawing to music before, or heard jazz.” “ Samia's enthusiasm certainly rubbed off, our pupils are inspired to con=nue with projects outside the classroom”. ## **Online Content** We continued developing our online learning content and our Art is Essential campaign. Hana also rebranded our Instagram account to give a clearer, more coherent message about our work and ethos. **We aim to highlight the importance of community and how art can help build that:** **Videos:** We created videos showcasing the work that we have done. We also made videos on how to make mosaics, how to mix epoxy resin and some videos about sketching and drawing. **Socially distanced drawing classes in Beddington Park** : We ran a workshop on “Drawing tips and tricks and how to relax into the flow" for our wellbeing and "Drawing Can Relax You" autumn sessions. These were also a chance to socialise and meet new people and get fresh air by drawing outside. **New Year celebrations** : We ran a New Year Biodanza party and ran an online paper starfolding workshop. **Analogue Art Pack** : This was designed to engage people on low income who may have no or little access to the internet or WiFi so could not join us for online workshops. The pack had a range of materials and projects and had contacts for our workshops at venues and for other free or low cost art clubs. It was assembled with the assistance of volunteers at the Salvation Army in Sutton and distributed via Sutton Women’s Centre, Salvation Army and Hill House, Sutton. We’ve also started uploading videos to accompany the workbook. **Sutton South Hello art sessions** : Sutton South Hello were so taken with our analogue art pack they paid Team Imagineers to deliver 3 workshops on frottage, mandalas and beginners level drawing portraits in July and August 2022. **Just Giving Campaign** : We raised a further £500 for workshops for vulnerable women at Sutton Women’s Centre. **The Royal Marsden:** From April 2022 we were able to return to our work with children in the School Unit at the Royal Marsden, Sutton. The project had been put on hold due to COVID. We delivered a range of activities: children learnt about how rainbows are formed by lightwaves being bent by raindrops, how to colour mix, monoprint, sew and make a puppet including using a hand cranked 60-year-old sewing machine. They learnt about surrealism and made their own surreal drawings using techniques like frottage (rubbing a textured surface), the drawing game “Consequences”, and collage. They did free drawing and painting listening to jazz music and learnt about artists like Jackson Pollock whose art was inspired by jazz improvisation. They designed and made collage-decorated crowns for the Queen’s Jubilee. and learned finger-knitting techniques. **Sutton Uplift :** is a mental health hub in Wallington **.** We ran therapeutic dance workshops for Sutton Uplift staff. **Inspire:** Biodanza sessions were also provided for attendees of Inspire, an organisation which supports drug and alcohol abusers. **Sutton Women’s Centre** With support from London Catalyst Funding we ran workshops for vulnerable women at the Centre to improve and enhance their building as well as enabling them to benefit from arts activities. The ladies created designs with their resident artist, and we led ceramics workshops in which we showed the ladies how to translate their designs into clay and paint their pieces. These were fired by a local ceramicist and then the ladies decided the layout and placement of the completed mural, which was installed at the Centre in May 2022. We also ran a self-portrait drawing workshop for the Women’s Centre at Honeywood Museum, as part of International Women’s Day in May, 2022. **George Rice Memorial:** Work on the Everyday Heroes Memorial Wall continued and it will be unveiled on the 23rd March, 2023. Artists will build a Commemorative Mural, which will consist of 3 panels. The ceramic hearts will be glued to aluminium hearts (120 x 130cm) which will be screwed to the wall to allow for potential renovation works to the wall. **SUKKOT:** This was a very special event for Team Imagineers as we were invited to work in Hamburg, Germany, in October 2021. Sukkot is a Jewish festival and the Sukkah (a special tent) is integral to the celebrations that commemorate the Jews wandering with Moses in the desert in historical times. A particular Jewish community had no sukkah and there was only a week until the celebrations! They contacted us and asked if we could help and we went into action. Sukkah emphasises nature and simplicity: the artists extracted plant based dyes from goldenrod and pomegranate and ecoprinted several metres of muslin. We had the idea of linking the sukkah to the symbolism of Malevich’s black squares (they reflect the prayer boxes that some Jews wear on their heads). We also ran workshops for about 60 children to create decorative elements for the Sukkah.The tent we created was hailed by all as their best ever Sukkah. **“Never Commit, Excuse or Remain Silent, Remembering Women Who Died From Male Violence”** **Memorial Bench** In February, 2022, our artist, Hana Horack-Elyafi teamed up with community artist, Samia Tossio, to design and make a mosaic memorial bench to raise awareness of the ongoing problems relating to male violence against women and girls. The work was commissioned and paid for by Sutton Council and was a last minute decision with only a few weeks from concept to manufacture. The Council’s brief? “Make something beautiful.”! The artists also ran three workshops in one day, with 20-25 people in each session, who were able to make their own mosaic heart to take away. The mosaic was made in reverse using hundreds of hand cut glass tiles. The symbolic message of the mosaic offers hope: the tiles are broken but something resoundingly beautiful results. There was an event to celebrate the project on International Women's Day in the High Street with Sutton Council and Reclaim Sutton’s Streets; ITV sent a cameraman along and the whole event was broadcast on the London News, Hana Horack-Elyafi was even interviewed in the clip! ## **Team Imagineers Review of the Trustees** ## **Thank You:** - to the artists (in alphabetical order): Olga Bastable, Simon Honey and Hana Horack-Elyafi - we appreciate their skill and sensitivity in working with people who are vulnerable - to volunteers from the Salvation Army - to Samia Tossio for donating wool for the art packs and delivering sessions for child cancer patients at the Royal Marsden Sutton - to Squirrels Community Scrap Scheme for providing materials for our art pack. ## **What next for Team Imagineers?** We are proud to be able to continue working with ignored communities, giving them hope and a voice to celebrate their creativity. We have been in conversation with Sutton Uplift, SUTTONfx, Sutton Mencap, The George Rice Community Garden, and other groups. We aim to develop wellbeing arts projects that involve our community in creating public art to brighten their spaces, develop confidence and skills and continue creating our learning videos and making them available on our website and YouTube. Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements each financial year, which gives them the authority to: - Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; - Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; - State whether the policies adopted are in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) and with applicable accounting standards, subject to any material departures disclosed and exploited in the financial statement; - Prepare the statement on the ongoing concern basis, unless it is inappropriate to assume that the charity will continue in operation. Trustees are accountable for the charity’s solvency, continuing effectiveness and the preservation of its endowments. They must exercise overall control over its financial affairs. They should ensure that the way the charity is administered is not open to abuse by unscrupulous associates or employees; and that their systems of control are rigorous and constantly maintained. **Team Imagineers Results** The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the period of 6 September 2021 to 5 September 2022. They are happy to announce no deficit from operations for the year under review. Approved by Team Imagineers Trustees on 7 June 2023 ## **Team Imagineers Contacts** ## **Team Imagineers Management Committee 2021 to 2022:** Larisa Yakimova, Treasurer Helene Gay McDonagh, Chair Zainab Shamis, Secretary Uzmah Shaikh email: teamimagineers@gmail.com website: www.teamimagineers.co.uk ACCOUNTS: Team Imagineers Receipts and Payrn¢ntA¢count Fu￿ts Funds A¥¥ard5for￿I Sutton CornmuntyFuMI Epsom &SI b*I￿rNH5 Royal Mar5den The FOY￿ Found4Mn Fundra￿1￿8 lust Giving D￿arK OtherOonation5.ArthurOJrk 8aTrk lTrieresi 9.99T 2.iXW). om 120 210 519.C 519.rii 353 gj &OZZAI 15.818 Exwndthr• Projett delNerylArtiSts Hlre Costs Insurènce Rewurces Equlpry*nt VolunteerExpen5e5 Adrninistra Printing & Publ*itv Other 180.C 7J59.18 ofy) 130.87 391.07 7539.111 4747 240 133 185 st7 3*4 7t3 y.It5 2A3 29J5 t￿30 23&n 837 517.03 Total 303A5 38J2 9.967 8vrplu#l lfhfiewf￿th•y* 4f1&79 4m5.71 Fund BroushtF%>nnrd 11.I•U4 1&146A8 7.296 Tran¥f•rtD Unr*￿thI Fund Carli￿1 Fobward 20ZZ 1.1x10 &936J5 7.131.16 13.147 Baknces Funds Batsnce0¢o￿ht Fww4rd Fund5 in Bank Pettycash Totsl Brovghtlow*wd A*￿rd5f0rAh. 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