Wishbone - Annual Report 2021
Registered Charity number - 1170527
Contact details – karen@wishbonetheatre.co.uk or paul@wishbonetheatre.co.uk
Public address – 2[nd] Floor Flat, 30 Duncan Terrace, London N1 8BS
Aims and activities
Wishbone is a theatre company that creates original new theatre and also educates the public in artistic process and in the themes of the artwork.
What the charity does
Artistic work/education
Who the charity helps
The general public, and also specifically audiences who are socially excluded or marginalised.
How the charity helps
Provides audiences with original theatre productions of new work, and provides workshops and talks to emerging artists, students and the broader community on the artistic process and social themes explored in the artwork.
Charitable objects
To advance public appreciation of the arts and education in the arts in particular by staging performances of original new theatre and artworks using film, still photography and audio recording, and by providing workshops that explore themes and creative practice.
Governing document
Foundation Model Constitution, (whose only voting members are its charity’s Trustees)
Organisation type
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
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Income and spending – please see forthcoming Financial Report
Activity summary
Belongings – film project
Following on from Wishbone’s decision to redirect the work on Belongings from a theatre project into a medium-length no-budget film, Paul and Karen continued work on the screenplay through Spring 2021 and experimented with lo-fi filming.
Fully-insured, Covid-safe filming of Belongings was in Summer 2021. Most of the filming took place in Ramsgate and its environs. The creative team was very small – Paul, Karen and two students from Canterbury Christchurch, a local university in Kent. There was also help on set from Sarah Lane, a Margate local. Karen and Paul wished to thank Gemma Dempsey who provided both cast accommodation and her house as a location, and Andrew Allen who provided his flat in London where Paul and Karen worked as a duo. In particular, Karen and Paul wished to draw attention to Ciara Varian and Caine Bailey, who interned as Sound Recordist and Camera Operator respectively, with the support of their University.
From Autumn 2021, Karen and Paul have been working on creating a rough cut of the film with a view to showing it to a select audience by March 2021. They have also shot some b roll and pick-ups on location.
Mountain High Valley Low
Wishbone fulfilled a 2020 commitment to perform the mini show at Canary Wharf. Because of Covid restrictions, the run was postponed from July 2020 to October 2021 timed to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week. The run was successful and the remainder of the fee of £1750 was paid to Wishbone.
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Wishbone - Financial Report 2021
The amount of £1938 was carried over from 2020.
In the first quarter sole expenditure was on webhosting.
In the second quarter expenditure was mainly on the Belongings film project
In the third quarter, a final payment of £1750 was received from Canary Wharf Ltd, (making a total of £3500) for performances of Mountain High Valley Low at Canary Wharf, as part of Canary Wharf Management’s arts programme.
In the final quarter Wishbone expenditure was on smaller items for reshoots and new scenes of ‘Belongings’ set in Ramsgate, with shooting completion scheduled for early 2022.
The amount of £1892 was carried over to 2022.
Signed
Paul Murray
Artistic Director, Wishbone
Confirmed by Trustees:
Gemma Dempsey………… Juliet Prague………………… Mark Rodbert…………………….
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WISHBONE ACCOUNTS 2021
1st January- 31st December 2021
carried over 1938.45 INCOME 08/10/21 1750 Canary Wharf Management 13/12/21 19.15 Ebay faulty goods refund TOTAL 1769.15
EXPENDITURE
14/01/21 18 1and1 webhosting 16/02/21 18 1and1 webhosting 17/03/21 18 1and1 webhosting 29/03/21 6 Filmic pro 01/04/21 118.99 Gymbal and lenses 07/04/21 9.93 camera adaptor bracket 14/04/21 18 1and1 webhosting 20/04/21 360.27 Zoom recorder and boom 22/04/22 7.19 Boom clips 26/04/21 6.81 lens hood 26/04/21 288 event insurance Ringwood 27/04/21 10.74 battery charger 05/05/21 149.74 tripod and phone frame 10/05/21 16.99 clapper board 12/05/21 6 h and s course online 17/05/21 152.14 lighting 18/05/21 18 1and1 webhosting 20/05/21 2.99 lens wipes 26/05/21 8.99 lens filter 27/05/21 17.09 props film 04/06/21 22.3 petrol 07/06/21 9.2 batteries 07/06/21 17.1 screen 15/06/21 18.98 petrol 16/06/21 18 1and1 webhosting 21/06/21 20 crew food 21/06/21 28.6 crew travel 28/06/21 28 crew food 28/06/21 57.99 crew expenses (C Varian) 29/06/21 87.19 crew wxpwnses ( S Lane) 15/07/21 18 1and1 webhosting 16/08/21 18 1and1 webhosting 15/09/21 18 1and1 webhosting 15/10/21 18 1and1 webhosting 16/11/21 18 1and1 webhosting 24/11/21 22.5 petrol 25/11/21 22.5 petrol 30/11/21 10.6 clips 02/12/21 12.69 camera cradle
WISHBONE ACCOUNTS 2021
06/12/21 25.18 petrol 09/12/21 7.92 cloth 13/12/21 8.99 audio cable 14/01/04 5.99 din plugs 15/12/21 18 1and1 webhosting 16/12/21 7.69 memory card 20/12/21 14.71 memory card 21/12/21 3.49 batteries 30/12/21 6 lens wipes
TOTAL 1815.49
carried f/wd 1892
reviewed and signed by
Mark Rodbert Juliet Prague Gemma Dempsey