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2023-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

From Period start date To Period end date 01 April 2022 31 March 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Artbox London Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1172529

Charity's principal address 67 Gladstone House 31 Dowells Street London Postcode SE10 9FF

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Wendy Reid Chairperson From December 2021 2 Sean Galvin From January 2014 3 Paul McLintic From March 2021 4 Rebeca Tristan From April 2021 5 Nick Cummins Treasurer From April 2021 6 Georgina Herety From February 2022 7 Lauren Nicoll From February 2022 8 Safia Akthar From February 2022 9 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Type of adviser
Name
Address		 Type of adviser
Name
Address		 Type of adviser
Name
Address
Bank HSBC 94 Kensington High Street, London W8 4SH

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Madeline Alterman, Georgina George

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Artbox London is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Type of governing document It is governed by a constitution which establishes the objects and powers (eg. trust deed, constitution) of the charitable organisation. Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) As stated in the constitution, there should be a minimum of three trustees Trustee selection methods and there is no limit on the maximum number of trustees. The constitution (eg. appointed by, elected by) provides a mechanism for elected trustees to retire from office and be reelected by the members. Trustee selection is designed to provide the board with a range of skills suitable for the management of the charity. New trustees are either elected by members at general meetings or appointed between general meetings by the existing trustees.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

Youmay chooseto include
additional information, where
relevant, about:
●policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees;
●the charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the charity
works;
●relationship with any related
parties;
●trustees’ consideration of
major risks and the system
and procedures to manage
them.		 There are currently seven trustees who give on average three hours a
week to support the charity in this role.
New trustees are provided with induction information on the charity’s
mission and they meet key staff, volunteers and other trustees.
An information pack is provided which includes the constitutional
documents, recent management accounts, the latest business plan.
The Charity Commission’s information on Responsibilities of Trustees is
also available to peruse.
Trustees are encouraged to attend appropriate external training events
where these will help their role.
The trustee board meets at least six times a year and the quorum for a
trustee meeting is two trustees.
The organisational structure includes two co-directors who attend board
meetings and an administrator who supports the board in addition to other
duties. There is also a team of tutors and a studio assistant to run the
charity’s workshops and trips, to curate art and to support selling of art at
exhibitions, events and online.

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The board’s approach to managing risks is to:

Section C Objectives and activities Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the
charity set out in its governing
document
Summary of the main activities
undertaken for the public
benefit in relation to these
objects (include within this
section the statutory
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit)
a) The relief of people with disabilities, in particular through the provision of
facilities to enable and encourage people with disabilities to engage in
creative and artistic pursuits; and
b) The advancement of education amongst people with disabilities,
especially in the appreciation and practice of the arts.
To achieve these objectives we seek to:
- Improve the confidence and self-esteem of people with learning disabilities
and autism and reduce their isolation by developing their artistic, creative
and life skills
- Provide opportunities for them to make and meet friends
- Raise the ambitions of and to develop the positive identities of adults with
learning disabilities and autism by providing opportunities to show and sell
their work professionally, and by giving them the chance to earn money from
sales of their work
- Increase the visibility and appreciation in the community of people with
learning disabilities and autism and to raise the profile of their artwork in the
wider art world by providing the above means for them to demonstrate their
skills and become more self-confident and helping them become their own
advocates though their work and its promotion.
Activities
We support 93 Adults with Learning Disabilities and Autism from the several
London boroughs, notably Islington (41%), Haringey (23%), Camden (6%)
and Westminster (5%) and Hackney (5%). They come from a wide range of
ethnicities (53% white, 26% black, and 21% other) and age groups (17%
19-25, 61% 26-40 and 22% 41-60+ years) and they present as male (53%),
female (44%) and non-binary (3%).
Our work consists of the following activities:
We run regular workshops morning and afternoon on six days a week in our
dedicated studio in Islington. A total of 1728 hours of workshops were
provided in the year and 90 artists participated.

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We provide 1:1 services in our studio and outreach at home for those artists who have struggled to return to the studio after the final Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and who are too vulnerable to attend the studio. Three artists continue to receive remote services.

We show and sell art at exhibitions in our studio and elsewhere to promote the work produced by our PwLDA artists. Selling their art provides the artists with income as we share proceeds 50-50.

We also sell art via our website and sell, lease and license art through collaborations with corporate partners. We sold 598 pieces of art raising £19,000 in sales during the year.

We run visits (trips out) to art galleries, museums and libraries in central London. These trips inspire art projects, enhance confidence in the use of public transport and make PwLDA artists more visible in the art world and with the public .

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Section D Achievements and performance

We addressed the priority, following the pandemic, of mitigating its effects Summary of the main on our artists’ mental health. Our artists were in a high-risk group of achievements of the charity developing severe complications from Covid-19 and faced lengthy periods during the year of shielding and anxiety around their health. Consequently we built mental health support programmes into our work and are refining the offer by hiring a trained SEN and Mindfulness Facilitator.

Our Covid-period initiatives - more 1:1 work and socially distanced house visits – were incorporated into our operating model. This was because barriers persist for people with learning disabilities and autism in accessing creativity. Home visits remove a physical barrier for people less able to visit the studio. 1:1 support allows artists to better integrate into the studio and is a key area led by staff members and volunteers with lived experience.

In April 2022 we moved to our new studio. This enabled a progressive reintroduction of more and enlarged studio sessions so that more artists could attend in person. Step by step our normal services returned but with the key difference that the pandemic had reduced our volunteer numbers. We recruited a small team of regular Art Tutors to lead workshops to compensate for there being fewer volunteer. Though they too are returning, we retained our Art Tutors - trained artists and designers - because we found they give additional continuity for our artists, allowing them to build strong relationships and develop their skills and practice over a sustained period of time. Meanwhile our 40 volunteers still play a key supporting role in the studio. Our daytime workshops are becoming full over six days a week and the quality of care for our artists is clearly visible in the ever-increasing quality of work they produce. This was evident in how our artists’ work “stood up” favourably when compared with that of professionals when we exhibited alongside theirs at this season’s Affordable Art Fair in London.

Section E Financial review Section E Financial review
Brief statement of the
charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially
in deficit
Further financial review details
Artbox London holds 25-50% of annual budgeted expenditure in reserve,
representing between 3 and 6 months of ongoing running costs.
Additional specific reserves are also provided from time to time in
anticipation of one-off expenditure or as provisions for identified risks.
None
(Optional information)

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You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Our accounts are on an income and expenditure basis; hence there are no adjustments for prepayments and accruals.

In the year 2022-23:

Total income was £159,706 made up of £116,695 in sales and £43,011 in fund-raising. The main sources of sales are session contributions paid by our artists, sales of artwork (originals and prints and products) and other services we provide such as evening classes for the public. Fund-raising is mainly from applications for grants to foundations that support our work plus our membership scheme and other donations received.

Total expenditure was £185,148. The main costs categories being staff costs, £150,794; studio costs, £16,141; and cost of sales, £11,644. Other items amounted to £6,569.

As noted above, our new, post Covid, operating model includes a team of
paid Art Tutors who have taken the place of some of our former volunteers
in leading workshops and trips and in curating art and exhibitions. This
has added to our establishment costs and we regard this as an excellent
investment in the wellbeing of our artists and their creative progress. We
sought to make sure that our pay rates reasonably kept pace with inflation
in a challenging economic environment.
The net result of the above was a deficit for the year of £25,442 which was
covered out of specific reserves.
Our total reserves at the year-end were: £94,680
.
During the spring of 2023, in anticipation of the above result, we refreshed
our approach to fund-raising, making it more strategic and predictable and
we expect the results to flow through in financial 2023-24. Also in that
period we initiated a process and system review with the aim of improving
our efficiency and control. This project is being supported by an external
volunteer consultant provided to us by The Cranfield Trust.
In summary, we have a new studio, new operating model and are near to
capacity with a vibrant artist-community producing an exceptional quality
of output. We regard this as an ideal position from which to reverse this
year’s deficit within the coming year.

Section F Other optional information

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Section G Declaration r4$) I b T*Jl

Charity Name
 Charity Name
 Charity Name
For the period
from		 Period start date To

CC16a

Section A Receipts and payments Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
116,696
19,136
-
-
-
-
-
-

135,832
-
-
-
135,832
8,484
-
11,106
155
-
870
-
135,714
5,548
161,877
932
-
932
162,809
- 26,977
-
120,122
93,145		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
-
23,875
-
-
-
-
-
-
23,875
-
-
-
23,875
3,160
5,035
600
15,080
23,875
-
-
-
23,875
-
-
-
-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £
116,696
43,011
-
-
-
-
-
-
159,707
-
-
-
159,707
11,644
-
16,141
155
-
1,470
-
150,794
5,548
185,752
932
-
932
186,684

- 26,977		 Last year
to the nearest £
Sales 116,696 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 72,849
78,657
-
-
-
-
-
Fundraising 19,136
Government Grants -
-
-
-
-
-
Sub total(Gross income for
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135,832		 151,506
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- -
-
-		 -
-
Sub total - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
- 151,506
Cost of sales 8,484 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 5,971
567
12,946
441
-
1,958
542
111,556
4,110
Exhibitions -
Studio 11,106
Marketing 155
Artists -
Volunteers & trustees 870
Cost of fundraising -
Staff 135,714
Office costs 5,548
**Sub total ** 161,877 138,091
-
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
932 -
-
-
-
**Sub total ** 932 -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
- 138,091
- 26,977 - - 13,415
- - -
-		 -
120,122		 -
106,707
120,122 -
93,145 - - 93,145 120,122

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
B1 Cash funds		 Details
Total cash funds		 Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £		 Restricted
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
-		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
-
-
93,145
-
-
93,145 -

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

06/11/2023

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A
Independent Examiner’s Report		 Section A
Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/
members of
On accounts for the year
ended
Set out on pages		 Artbox London
31stMarch 2023
Charity no
(if any)
1172529
Above
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended31/03/23.

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed:
Name:
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
Address:		 21/11/2023
Tomas Wilcox
FCIE
Counterculture Partnership LLP
Unit 115 Ducie House, Ducie Street
Manchester, M1 2JW
Section B
Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

October 2018

IER

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

IER