TwoCan Inclusive Theatre Trustee Annual Report January 2023
Summary
TwoCan has continued to have another successful twelve months and maintain business despite the various political changes and cost of living crisis. It is still made up of freelance workers and volunteers and as yet has no premises of its own but managed to fulfil its charitable purpose and provide inclusive services and activities that have advanced the education for the public benefit.
Stafng Update
Louise Partridge has continued to work as an executive producer, both as a volunteer and freelance artist. Louise keeps the charity running on a day to day basis and delivers projects where appropriate, she is currently working with the Youth Theatre, National Star College and Butterfly Garden. She is currently working approximately three days a week.
Nickie Miles-Wildin is still living in Manchester, working as a freelance director. She continues to support the charity from a distance but is able to use her wealth of knowledge about the industry to help guide and influence the company’s work.
Chyla Young is a freelance drama therapist and theatre practitioner and has become a strong member of the team, now leading both within projects, youth theatre sessions and assisting with the development of the charity.
Jenny Wicks continues to lead youth theatre projects as does Maureen Bennett and Karen Townsend who have joined the youth theatre team as lead practitioners.
Kingsley Salmon is now employed as the Head technician at the Cheltenham Town Hall but is still continuing to support the team as a support practitioner within the youth theatre projects.
Zoe Partridge has joined the team of freelance practitioners, initially as a specific support for new autistic youth theatre members which was funded by the county council, but now has joined the team on a permanent basis and is supporting two of the three groups each week. As a paramedic and first aid trainer in her other life, she has become responsible for the team’s first aid training, giving them their first session before Christmas and the second to take place in April.
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Rachel Fitzpatrick is the newest member of the team who is not only a bachelor of arts but also a specialist in Autistic spectrum disorders. She joined us as a volunteer at our summer school programmes but now is a support practitioner with our youngest youth theatre members.
TwoCan has also been joined by two University students as support volunteers as part of their work modules.
OBJECTIVE
- To dispel notions of defenselessness and celebrate practices that focus on ability, by providing creative experiences that will positively challenge assumptions through producing high quality work.
Partners / associates
The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
TwoCan is still working alongside the Everyman, it was initially supported by the
Ian Mckellen three-year bursary which finished at the end of 2021. However the Everyman have offered to continue this support as ongoing. They have also donated 80 tickets for the Christmas Relaxed performance of Dick Whittington for the youth theatre members and their families and gave the youth theatre groups backstage tours.
National Star College
TwoCan has continued to be commissioned to deliver a series of adult drama workshops focused on inclusion, individuality and performance skills. They have contracted Louise to deliver 10 workshops up until Christmas 2022. The group chose to focus on non-verbal performances and the workshops culminated in a short film that was submitted to the Christmas festivities that was streamed across the college in December.
Butterfly Garden
Louise and Maureen have returned to the Butterfly Garden and restarted an adult drama group. They have spent the summer/ autumn term making short films with the members ‘Butterflyenders’ and ‘The Christmas Blackout’ and since January they have been running breakfast drama groups which start the session with a themed breakfast and then creative activities follow. The group are currently preparing a piece to be taken to the Cheltenham Festival of Performing Arts in May.
Active Impact
TwoCan has continued to deliver holiday programmes in partnership with Active Impact, supported by the Gloucestershire County Council funding
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stream. After a review Active Impact have been given a further tender and TwoCan will continue to support their activities.
OBJECTIVE
- To offer opportunities for young people that will engage, inspire and nurture emerging talents.
Youth Theatre
The group has continued to grow from strength to strength and now has over 40 regular members. In September TwoCan Youth Theatre became 2CA – TwoCan Academy
and expanded to run three groups, adding a third one last September for younger members aged between 6-14 years old. The groups take place at the University of Gloucestershire on a Monday evening 5.30pm – 6.45pm and 7pm-8.15pm and at Redding’s community hall from 4.45pm – 6pm.
All its members took part in ‘The Walk’, in June 2022. They joined Little Amal, the 12 foot puppet of a 10 year old Syrian refugee child to perform their signed interpretation of ‘Every Child’ a poem written by author Jamillia Gavin in the centre of Cheltenham.
The NHS Gloucestershire CCG commissioned TwoCan Youth Theatre to create a short film explaining their academy for prospective members. TwoCan worked with SOSFILMPHOTOGRAPHY and now is able to send the link below to anyone who enquires about joining one of the groups. https://vimeo.com/770477095/df0b1de4bf
TwoCan delivered its holiday programmes in 2022. ‘Creativity is contagious, pass it’ took place in April and ‘I’mpossible’ in August. The programmes worked with the young people throughout the week and then performed a live sharing for their family and friends at a local village hall. Both events were full, with one group working in the mornings and onw in the afternoons, with 20 young people in each group. Nicola Miles Wilden was the guest director for the week which not only challenged their performance skills, but she also inspired some members to write their own material exploring the idea of overcoming barriers. If you would like to see the work the links below will allow you to see what they created in August.
https://vimeo.com/747281236/6a16b47223
https://vimeo.com/747292609/b8edf1cc2d
TwoCan worked with active impact to run a new imitative that offered young people a variety of daily activities in the summer. The company called it ‘TwoCan YouCan’ and put on sport, dance, film, circus, art, and wellbeing sessions over five days at the start of the summer holidays allowing young people to dip in and try a selection of activities. This
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proved very successful and will be repeated in 2023. You can see what they got up to via the link below.
https://vimeo.com/740542016/a2c7fe0623
The Monday 2CA groups are all preparing work that they will be showing at The Festival of Performing Arts in May, Windrush celebrations at Gloucester Docks in June and Aim Up Inclusive Festival organised by Art Shape in July.
OBJECTIVE
- To use a dramatic language that will aim to demolish barriers to the arts and support and guide others on accessible environments and practice.
Funding
During the past twelve months TwoCan has managed to secure a variety of funding which has enabled the youth theatre to subsidise all its members and still staff all the weekly sessions and holiday programmes. Funding from The Everyman’s Ian McKellen fund, Active Impact, NHS England, True Colours Trust, has enabled everyone that would like to, to attend. General subscriptions have increased at £45 a term, but bursaries are available, and no one has been turned away for financial reasons. The search for further funding is on-going and additional applications have been submitted to Bailey Thomas and Yapp Charitable Trust.
OBJECTIVE
- To create and tour theatre that will provide as a platform for professional disabled artists.
Professional Productions
Due to the pandemic, the possibility of the company devising and touring a production for Festivals and other community venues has temporarily been paused with its efforts focusing on Education and Community. This will be reviewed if the company is successful in an Arts Council Bid that focuses entirely on company development, this is just being completed and hopefully will be submitted by April.
OBJECTIVE
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- To promote equality, inclusion and engagement by producing creative work that incorporates access solutions for artists, participants and audiences.
Development
Chyla Young and Louise Partridge have continued to explore securing a company venue and is currently focusing in on a potential property in Eastington. The Old Methodist Church has become available and although not as ideal in location as they would have liked, they are investigating if this could be accessible with the help of a minibus. The company are talking to other organisations about sharing a minibus or hiring it for certain evenings. The property does need updating but has much potential with a creative mind. More details will follow if this line of research proved successful.
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
(A company limited by guarantee)
Company Registration Number: 08951565 (England and Wales)
Report and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 June 2022 (Unaudited)
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited Company Information For the Year Ended 30[th] June 2022
Directors:
Rebecca Andrews Garry Wildin Debra Page Noor Al-Koky Robert Surrey
Registered office: Woodside Painswick Road Brockworth Gloucester GL3 4RU
Registered number: 08951565 (England and Wales)
The notes form part of these accounts
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
Statement of Financial Activities
The notes form part of these accounts
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
Balance Sheet As at 30[th] June 2022
For the year ended 30[th] June 2022 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective 2008).
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 20[th] February 2023.
Signed on behalf of the Board by:
The notes form part of these accounts
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Name: Rebecca Andrews Status: Director TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2022
1. Accounting policies
Basis of measurement and preparation of accounts
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).
Turnover policy
Turnover represents net invoiced sales of services, excluding value added tax.
2. Donations and Grants
The notes form part of these accounts
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3. Total Resources Expended
The notes form part of these accounts
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4. Income & Expenditure Account
The notes form part of these accounts
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
(A company limited by guarantee)
Company Registration Number: 08951565 (England and Wales)
Report and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 30 June 2022 (Unaudited)
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited Company Information For the Year Ended 30[th] June 2022
Directors:
Rebecca Andrews Garry Wildin Debra Page Noor Al-Koky Robert Surrey
Registered office: Woodside Painswick Road Brockworth Gloucester GL3 4RU
Registered number: 08951565 (England and Wales)
The notes form part of these accounts
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
Statement of Financial Activities
The notes form part of these accounts
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TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
Balance Sheet As at 30[th] June 2022
For the year ended 30[th] June 2022 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective 2008).
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 20[th] February 2023.
Signed on behalf of the Board by:
The notes form part of these accounts
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Name: Rebecca Andrews Status: Director TWOCAN Inclusive Theatre Company Limited
Notes forming part of the Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2022
1. Accounting policies
Basis of measurement and preparation of accounts
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).
Turnover policy
Turnover represents net invoiced sales of services, excluding value added tax.
2. Donations and Grants
The notes form part of these accounts
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3. Total Resources Expended
The notes form part of these accounts
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4. Income & Expenditure Account
The notes form part of these accounts