- Charity Number 1170434 .
Trustees' Financial & Annual Report Year ending 5 September 2024
Team Imagineers Contents
Charity Information page 2 Report of Activities page 3 Review of Trustees page 9 Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities page 10 Results page 11 Contacts page 11 Accounts page 14
Team Imagineers Charity Information
Charity Registered Number 1170434 Charity Registered Office 41 Benhill Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 3RR Registered Office Bankers Triodos Bank UK Larisa Yakimova – Treasurer Helene Gay McDonagh– Chair Board of Directors/Trustees 2023 -2024 Uzma Shaikh - Secretary
Team Imagineers Report of Activities
The Trustees present their report and financial statement for the year ended 5 September 2023.
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 2023-2024 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 2023 to 5 September 2024 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.
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This was our most ambitious project to date, and we couldn’t be happier with the result, (although technically this was finished in the year ending 2024-25)! In 2023-24 we ran 8 community workshops engaging around 550 participants from all walks of life in this co-design project. The theme was environment and sustainability and we asked participants to draw their designs that felt relevant to the theme. They found relevant
quotes about the environment (from Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics, to Sir David Attenborough, to Lao Tzu). We worked with Brownies, Scouts, African Caribbean Community, Carshalton College, North Cheam Junior School, Ukrainian Refugees, young people in care, the Sutton Young Commissioners. We kicked these off with a workshop for the general public held in Sutton Library.
To complete the project we sourced 100 percent eco friendly, plastic and toxin free, mineral paints and gathered a community of 50 volunteers. Painting started after our year end of September 5th 2024, so you’ll have to wait for next year’s annual report, unless you want to have look on our IG account @teamimagineers
Chalk Painting in Manor Park
Hana and Olga led a chalk painting workshop in the park. Around 60 attendees.
Chalk and colouring workshop in Poulter Park
Olga led an owl inspired drawing and chalk painting workshop in the park. Around 100 children and families participated.
Where is My Name
Hana and Olga led a workshop in St Nicholas Church where children used brass rubbing techniques to write their names and prayers on a display board. About 60 attendees.
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Starting in September and finishing in December 2023, one of our artists, Hana, created a community mosaic in Germany. She ran three public workshops in which community
members made clay tiles for a mosaic of the village coat of arms. She fired and glazed over 2,000 handmade tiles (many of which were made by her and a team of dedicated helpers). We are endeavouring to find community groups who would be interested in this kind of project in the UK.
Workshops From September 2023 to September 2024 dance and visual arts workshops were funded by various funders.
Our Social Media This furthered our arts learning delivery and Team Imagineers’ online visibility and promoted our projects, in particular we were successful in attracting volunteers for the mural project.
Volunteers We now have 50 volunteers registered with us.
Outreach and networking We had further meetings and conversations with: Jeff Richards of SUTTONfx, Samia Tossio of SamiArt, Community Action Sutton, Squirrels Community Scrap Scheme. We worked on a design for a mural in Hackbridge, the location fell through, we hope to find an alternative.
We engaged with around 1000 beneficiaries during the year:
All gained arts learning, 22% gained dance and movement learning, and 78% reported their mental health had been improved through the activity. 85% were from a specific group in the community, 1% said they had a disability, 60% were from a disadvantaged background, 10% were elderly, and 55% were children or young people.
The beneficiaries of our project work were:
55 children and their families at the Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton.
85 children and families in Manor Park.
60 children and families St Nicholas Church ‘Where is my Name’.
100 people at Poulter park.
Over 550 people participated in the PROW15 workshops and mural painting, including 250 teenagers and children 8-9 year olds.
80 people participated in Biodanza activities with Team Imagineers.
70 people participated in workshops in the Sukkot celebration with dance and art activities.
Online Content
We continued developing our online learning content.
We pitched at Sutton Soup for our work at the Royal Marsden. We didn’t win, but we did make some valuable contacts.
The Royal Marsden: We continued our work with children in the School Unit at the Royal Marsden, Sutton into the Autumn, Winter of 2023, through Spring, ending in the Summer term 2023. Children benefited from being absorbed in creative activities, learning new skills; they had fun and learnt how to create and design and use materials techniques that they cannot access in the unit, like the hand operated sewing machine. Many had never seen one, let alone used one.
The activity will continue in the Autumn of 2024, from the existing funding and a grant from the Yapp foundation.
SUKKOT: Team Imagineers for the third year in a row were invited to work in Hamburg, Germany, in October 2023. 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. Olga ran workshops for about 60 children to create decorative elements for the Sukkah.
Team Imagineers Review of the Trustees
Thank You:
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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
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to Samia Tossio for delivering sessions for child cancer patients at the Royal Marsden Sutton
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to Jeff Richards, who liaised with Sutton Council and St Nicholas Church for the mural project
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 volunteers from the George Rice Community Garden, and Jeff Richards about further community projects. We are researching an opportunity for a new mural for a wall facing Sutton Green, this is frequently vandalised and a community mural is the best way of stopping repeat graffiti attacks (our mural on PROW15 has remained graffiti free since it’s creation). We also aim to empower beneficiaries of Sutton Women’s Centre to co-create a mural and continue our work with children at the Royal Marsden in Sutton.
Team Imagineers Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities
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.
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Results
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The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the period of 6 September 2023 to 5 September 2024. They are happy to announce no deficit from operations for the year under review. Accounts still to be signed by Trustees.
Team Imagineers Contacts
Team Imagineers Management Committee 2023 to 2024:
Helene Gay McDonagh, Chair
Larisa Yakimova, Treasurer
Uzmah Shaikh, Secretary
email: teamimagineers@gmail.com
website: www.teamimagineers.co.uk
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