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2024-09-30-accounts

|[REPORT] a A Registered Charity (Number 1173577)[ANNUAL] October 20 23 to Sept ember 202 4

CHARITABLE OBJECTS

(A) TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 16 TO 24 WHO ARE NOT IN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, OR TRAINING BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF ARTISTIC, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:

I) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; AND II) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT AND ADVANCING EDUCATION.

(B) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY REASON OF POVERTY, ISOLATION, AGE, DISABILITY, ILLNESS, BULLYING, A RECORD OF OFFENDING OR OTHERWISE, THROUGH CREATIVE ART MAKING, SPRAY-PAINTING WORKSHOPS AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS WHICH ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SKILLS AND TO TAKE PART IN CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES WHICH ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST THE INDIVIDUAL TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY AND FIND POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO THEIR PROBLEMS.

(C) TO PROMOTE THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR VISUAL ARTS, BY COMMISSIONING AND EXECUTING PUBLIC ART MURALS, INSTALLATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS.

U CAN Spray – making social change through street art

CONTENTS

04 WELCOME 06 ABOUT 07 PUBLIC BENEFIT 09 CASE STUDIES WHAT'S NEXT? 16 17 FINANCES ~~18~~ TRUSTEES

17 ~~18~~

WELCOME LETTER

FROM OUR FOUNDER AND CEO SARAH GILLINGS MA

Welcome and thank you for your interest in our charity.

This period marked the seventh year of U CAN Spray CIO delivering inclusive street art activities to people across Sussex.

In partnership, we delivered a large flagship mural project in East Grinstead, commissioned by Mid Sussex District Council. We facilitated 12 engagement workshops with local residents of all ages, feeding their ideas and priorities into the stunning community-shaped transformation of the railway bridge.

We were commissioned to keep using our expert creative engagement methods to encourage people to talk to services, hosting public drop-in sessions in town centres and skate parks.

And we continued advising the local Lewes working group and partners about public and participatory approaches, sharing our years of expertise from the team and charity to help them kickstart their own commissioning and credibility.

Grant-funding has enabled us to organise work that helps communities but hasn’t been commissioned.

We built on previous activities with young Lewes residents, completing a collaborative mural on neglected garages next to a park and heritage area. The design blended young people’s ideas with local historical motifs and input from the trust who looks after the site.

We increased our outreach events, hosting public drop-in sessions to encourage families and young people to engage with art in a different way. And facilitated closed sessions for people facing disadvantage and discrimination, to support wellbeing and demonstrate accessible creative activities should be for everyone.

We remain infinitely grateful to our growing team, funders, donors, partners, commissioners, community members, and everyone who has participated in art-making with us this year.

Best wishes,

Sarah Gillings MA Inclusive Arts Practitioner Founder & CEO of U CAN Spray CIO

U CAN Spray – making social change through street art

ABOUT

U CAN Spray creates fully inclusive arts experiences to positively impact individuals and communities. We do this by working with community groups and educational establishments, and in partnership with local authorities and public bodies.

We deliver spray-painting workshops, murals and interventions that use street art to help people access arts and create where this has not been accessible or welcoming before. Our innovative projects are carefully designed to meet the needs of all involved. Work has taken place in prisons, schools, mental health institutions, domestic violence services, skate parks, community centres, charity settings and high streets.

We also offer a standalone pop up workshop format, that engages a wider public audience at community events and festivals. Our event and corporate work helps us subsidise projects with more marginalised people in the community.

We love to use practical and creative tools to re-engage and benefit young people, especially those classed as ‘NEET’ or at risk of offending and/or exploitation, to give them positive experiences of engagement with services and build self-esteem. We also offer longer-term options and support to achieve Arts Award qualifications.

We want to harness the power of street art to create lasting social change in the UK.

Please read on to find out more about how we are working to help change environments and lives for the better!

U CAN Spray – making social change through street art

PUBLIC BENEFIT PUBLIC IMPACT IN 2023 to 202 4: WHAT WE DID

Service, Culture Shift, East Grinstead Museum, East Sussex County Council, Forward Facing, Human Nature, Imberhorne School, Landport Youth Club, Lewes Priory Trust, The Joff Youth Hub, Lewes District Council, Mid Sussex District Council, Prison Advice and Care Trust, Sackville School and Street Art Initiative Lewes.

express themselves and be creative should not depend on income, identity or postcode.

+ oy PUBLIC BENEFIT = PUBLIC IMPACT IN 2023 to 2024: HOW WE DID IT

CASE STUDIES

CONVENT FIELD GARAGES

As part of developing work across Lewes, we used our Postcode Society Trust funding to run community workshops and bring street art to neglected garages near Lewes Priory. We ran workshops with young people at Landport Youth Club in Lewes and The Joff Youth Hub in Newhaven.

Young people shared their design ideas for the garages, including nature, musical, pattern and colour elements. Lewes Priory Trust shared historical information, motifs and artwork, including the Lewes crest, hare and griffin. These elements were brought together in the final design, painted with young people.

Photos of painting and the completed mural by Alexis Maryon.

r4AQC QTI InlCQ CASE STUDIES CONVENT FIELD GARAGES

r4AQC QTI InlCQ CASE STUDIES CONVENT FIELD GARAGES

CASE STUDIES

CARDBOARD CITY

As part of Brighton Fringe, we held 6 pop-up spraypainting sessions as part of Cardboard City in the centre of Brighton.

Out Of The Box Play helped children and young people create cardboard structures and buildings, which we helped people colour and decorate to build a cardboard city on site.

CASE STUDIES CARDBOARD CITY 'Ii

CASE STUDIES

HMP FORD FAMILY DAY

We went back to HMP Ford to run our pop-up workshop for a Family Day, organised by the Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact).

We supported prisoners, partners, children and other family members to take part in art and memory making together.

CASE STUDIES

HMP FORD FAMILY DAY

"Come back next time, we love it"

"A fun time with the family (48 year old male)

(49 year old male)

"I have always wanted to do this" (13 year old boy)

"Over the moon, amazing, overjoyed, ecstatic" (10 year old girl)

WHAT'S NEXT?

Our plans for 2024 to 2025 are to continue supporting individuals, groups and wider communities through street art. We will continue working with partners to help them reach and benefit participants through our bespoke approach.

Incredibly, we have just been offered a studio space as a ‘meanwhile use’, at a development in Lewes. We are so excited to see what this will enable for the coming months and years.

This will mean that we will have a base to work from for the first time. This should enable us to reduce our costs and increase our impact.

We can host community meetings, activities and events. We will be able to start offering sessions at our own premises to build skills, confidence and trust over time. Expanding our team training and development activities, working to increase our volunteer base. And opening the studios to welcome people to engagement opportunities, celebrations and exhibitions.

We will also use this space to give more opportunities to local residents and artists, utilising this new time and space for even deeper collaborative public art approaches. And to make the most of the many other opportunities we haven’t even discovered yet!

This should unlock a new chapter for the charity. Our next annual report will reflect this work.

Thank you for reading. Please do get in touch if you would like to support our work or find out more.

We would like to thank everyone who has kindly volunteered their time, network and skills this year. We would also like to thank those valued donors who have set up monthly donations to support the charity.

FINANCES

F or the period 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024

£
Charitable donations
Income
383
~~a~~
£
Charitable donations
Income
383
~~a~~
£
Charitable donations
Income
383
~~a~~
Charitablegrants 23,416
Fees for charitable services 5,000
Total 28,799
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Expenditure
Advertising, marketing& website
Audit, accountancy & bank fees
£
551
196
Direct expenses and materials
5,845
General expenses
657
Insurance,rent and maintenance
1,651
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IT,software & telephones
Printing,office equipment,stationery&postage
~~ce~~
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712
371
~~a~~
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Travel
1,781
Wages,subcontractors & staff training
22,884
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Total 35,249 ~~__~~
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Balance sheet at 30 September 2024 £
Balance lastyear end 31,373
Balance at bank 24,923
Retained reserves 20,297

U CAN Spray CIO A registered charity (number 1173577) Suite RA01, 195-197 Wood Street London E17 3NU

Governing document: Constitution

Current Trustees:

Sarah Ellen Gillings MA Caroline Helen Richards BA Harriet Elizabeth Cavanagh BSc

U Can Spray CIO U Can Spray CIO U Can Spray CIO U Can Spray CIO U Can Spray CIO 1173577 1173577 CC16a
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period
from
01/10/2023 To 30/09/2024
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted funds
Endowment
funds
Total funds
Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
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Charitable donations and legacies
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383
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sales from charitable activities
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23,416
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23,799
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A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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5,000
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~~S55~~ ~~S55~~ 39,355
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A3 Payments
Materials 4,838 750 - 5,588 536
Sub contractors 7,030 15,855 - 22,885 11,676
Advertising and Marketing 600 - 600 103
Bad Debt - -
Bank fees 17 - 17 8
Charitable donation - -
Postage 3 - 3
Refreshments 243 14 - 257 154
General expenses 15 642 - 657 319
Audit and Accountancy 108 71 - 179 623
Insurance 623 - 623 601
IT & Software 82 589 - 671 640
Website 193 358 - 551 112
Rent 88 866 - 954 1,032
Travel 689 1,092 - 1,781 1,469
Printing and Stationary 14 - 14
Salaries - - - -
Repairs and Maintenance - 74 - 74
Telephone 40 - - 40
office equipment 45 309 - 354
rounding 1 1
**Sub total **
13,371
21,877 - 35,249 17,273
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A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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13,371
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~~SS~~ 21,877
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~~S55~~ 35,249
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Net of receipts/(payments)
~~===>~~

10,428
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16,877
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6,450
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22,082
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12,063
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~~===>~~ 19,310
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~~===>~~ -
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~~===>~~ 31,373
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9,291
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Cash funds this year end
~~===>~~

20,297
~~===>~~
~~===>~~ 4,627
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000000CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

00000010/07/2023

0000001

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories Details Unrestricted
funds
Restricted funds Endowment
funds
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B1 Cash funds - - -
cash in bank £24,923 (-£1 rounding) 20,297 4,627 -
- - -
Total cash funds 20,297 4,627 -
(agree balances with receipts and payments account
(s))
OK OK OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted funds Endowment
funds
Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets -
- -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Details Fund to which asset
belongs
Cost (optional) Current value
(optional)
B3 Investment assets - -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Details Fund to which asset
belongs
Cost (optional) Current value
(optional)
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Details Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
When due
(optional)
B5 Liabilities -
-
-
-
-
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
all the trustees

Signature
Print Name Date of approval
HE Cavanagh HARRIET CAVANAGH 28/07/2025

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0000002

Independent examiner's report on the FOR ENGLAND AND WALES accounts ERA ADWs ~~ee~~ Section A Independent Examiner’s Report Report to the trustees/ U CAN SPRAY CIO members of On accounts for the year 30 September -2024 Charity no 1173577 ended (if any) Set out on pages

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/09/2024 .

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

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 all 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 this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: ~~(Z~~ Name: Mr. Zeeshan Munawar Relevant professional qualification(s) or body ACCA (if any): Address: 232-236 Green Street London, E7 8LE

Date: 29/07/2025 ~~Po~~

Oct 2018

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Section B Disclosure

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

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

Not Applicable

Oct 2018

IER

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