Charity Number 1170434
Trustees' Financial & Annual Report Year ending 5 September 2025
Team Imagineers Contents
Charity Information page 2 Report of Activities page 3 Review of Trustees page 8 Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities page 9 Accounts page 10-11 Results page 12 Contacts page 12
Team Imagineers Charity Information
| Charity Registered Number Charity Registered Office Registered Office Bankers Board of Directors/Trustees 2023 -2025 |
1170434 41 Benhill Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 3RR Triodos Bank UK Larisa Yakimova – Treasurer Helene Gay McDonagh– Chair Uzma Shaikh - Secretary |
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Team Imagineers Report of Activities
The Trustees present their report and financial statement for the year ended 5 September 2025.
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 three 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 2024-2025 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 2024 to 5 September 2025 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.
Chalk Painting in Manor Park
Hana and Olga led a chalk painting workshop in the park with around 60 attendees. Participants of all ages engaged creatively, transforming the space into a vibrant, temporary gallery filled with colour and imagination. The activity encouraged spontaneous expression, social interaction, and a strong sense of community connection. As a result, the event brought people together in a joyful, inclusive atmosphere, leaving both the artwork and shared experience as a positive memory for local residents.
Mayor’s Community Weekend, Manor Park
Mayor’s Community Weekend, Manor Park
This event was moved indoors due to rain. It was still a great success with children making stick puppet animals using templates to copy and then cut out animals from paper, these
were then decorated and assembled.
There were around 100 participants on this day, many were helped by their parents.
The activity supported fine motor skills, creativity, and imaginative play among the children. Families engaged together in a relaxed and welcoming environment, strengthening bonds through shared making. Despite the weather, the event maintained a lively and inclusive atmosphere, demonstrating strong community participation and enjoyment.
Mayor’s Weekend in Poulter Park
This event had happier weather and we were able to put up our stand outside with other stands of the Poulter Park Community project. We had about 50 children attending over
the afternoon. It was a great success with children making stick puppet animals using templates to copy and then cut out animals from paper. These were then decorated and assembled, creating nature inspired puppets.
Workshops
Olga Bastable ran dance and Neurographica art workshops in Sutton, Brighton and Glastonbury. As well as running creative workshops for Sukkot.
Hana Horack-Elyafi ran a community puppet making workshop attended by 60 participants including refugees and migrants.
International Women’s Day online with Heather of Sutton Women’s Centre, Dance and Mental Health
Volunteers
We now have 50 volunteers registered with us.
Outreach and networking
We had further meetings and conversations with: SUTTONfx, Refugee and Migrant Network Sutton, Community Action Sutton, Sutton Archives, SACCO, African Cultural Heritage Association, Oru Space. We worked on a banners project for St Nicholas Church and that project is still in progress. We have been liaising and researching for an oral history project. This is an ongoing process and we hope to receive funding from Heritage Lottery Fund for it. We are researching projects with an environmental focus, as one of our Trustees specialises in environmental science and permaculture.
Upcoming:
We have a project due to start in September with Suttonfx, creating handsewn community banners, designed to encourage positivity.
We have several funding applications in the pipeline and at the time of writing are still waiting for a reply concerning the most recent ones.
We have free access to a funding search portal till November this year, so
We engaged with:
The Royal Marsden, D’Oyly Carte Fund: Three artists, Simon Honey, Olga Balstable and Samia Tossio continued their work with children in the School Unit at the Royal Marsden, Sutton in the autumn 2024, winter 2024, through Spring 2025 and into September 2025. Children benefited from being absorbed in creative activities, learning new skills; they had fun and learnt how to create and design and use materials and techniques that they cannot access in the unit, like silk painting, finger puppets etc.
The activity will continue into 2026, from the existing funding and a grant from the Yapp foundation and Shanley Foundation.
Sukkott: Team Imagineers for the third year in a row were invited to work in Hamburg, Germany, in October 2024. 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, Suttonfx, Sutton Cancer Hub, 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 was created). Our other aims are: to empower beneficiaries of Sutton Women’s Centre to co-create a mural; to 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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Team Imagineers Results
The Trustees present above their report and financial statements for the period of 6 September 2023 to 5 September 2025. They are happy to announce no deficit from operations for the year under review. Accounts signed by Trustees.
Team Imagineers Contacts
Team Imagineers Management Committee 2024 to 2025:
Helene Gay McDonagh, Chair
Larisa Yakimova, Treasurer
Uzmah Shaikh, Secretary
email: teamimagineers@gmail.com
website: www.teamimagineers.co.uk