2024-12-31-accounts

CommunARTy

Annual Report

For the year ended 31[st] December 2024

CONTENTS

1. Reference and Administrative Details

2. Summary of Governing Document

3. Annual Report

4. Financial Statement

5. Independent Examiner Statement

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1. REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Charity Number: 10547364 Registered 4[th] January 2017

REGISTERED ADDRESS The Plex 15 Margaret Street Wakefield WF1 2DQ TRUSTEES Dr Simon Ruding Professor Abigail Harrison-Moore Carolyn Lund Linda Haigh Carl Naylor Amie Naylor INDEPENDENT EXAMINER C W Dix Limited Accountants & Business Advisors 4 Silkwood Court Wakefield WF5 9TP

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2. SUMMARY OF GOVERNING DOCUMENT

CHARITABLE PURPOSES

• The advancement of education for prisoners, prison staff, their families and the community of Wakefield through the participatory arts.

• To assist in the provision of arts activities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation, for the community in and around HMP Wakefield including: prisoners, staff and their families.

• To promote the creative enterprise of prisoners at HMP Wakefield.

• To promote and facilitate research into the impacts for the arts for those within the criminal justice system and to publish any useful results for the public benefit with a view to aiding rehabilitation.

CHARITY ACTIVITIES

Activities in the prison

Access to these will be available to prisoners through the application process in place for allocation to activities or by referral from a member of staff.

Some activities may be offered specifically to certain prisoner groups when identified by the prison as being particularly at risk of social exclusion eg. over 60's or those usually unable to work as a result of mental health issues as a way of improving their sense of wellbeing and reduce levels of isolation they may feel.

Activities for staff

All activities and events for staff and their families will be advertised throughout the prison via posters and the internal email systems.

Where limited spaces are available, they will always be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Community events

Will be available to everyone. All events will be advertised on social media and via posters at arts venues around Wakefield.

PUBLIC BENEFIT

As an organisation CommunARTy aims to benefit society by:-

• Contributing to the rehabilitation of prisoners at HMP Wakefield and reducing the chances of future reoffending.

• working to embed the prison into the community of Wakefield. This will help to:-

• raise awareness of and support for the arts as a form of rehabilitation.

• help to make prison staff feel as though they are recognised as providing a valued service.

• help to encourage different groups within the local community to engage with each other through a shared interest in the arts.

• Facilitating and sharing research carried out through project and events to contribute to the wider study of the impact of the arts in criminal justice.

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3. ANNUAL REPORT

This year we have continued working as a partner with TiPP at the CFO Activity Hubs across Yorkshire. This was a year of transition and change with the end of the original contract and start of the new CFO Evolution contract coming starting in August 2024. During the last few months of the original contract, we continued exploring creative and original group projects, however this unfortunately slowed at the start of the new contract with all the upheaval caused as Hubs spent time changing locations and adapting to new staff roles.

That being said we have continued to strengthen the collaborative relationships established last year with outside organisations.

Learning from some of the challenges last year we changed our approach to the Print Exchange this year. We provided more sessions for participants to develop their designs but overall submitted less entries. This seemed to add value to the experience so would be an approach to continue going forward. 12 participants created a set of prints and 3 facilitators.

Print exchange entries from Leeds Hub

The Yarndale Worldwide project this year was all about flowers.

This was a much more accessible project for participants at Sheffield Hub. They created 100 Flowers which were all exhibited in the ‘flower meadow’ at the Yarndale Show Weekend in September.

Example of Flowers from Sheffield Hub and a section of the Flower Meadow at Yarndale

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We had an amazing year at Koestler! We submitted 13 group entries across a range of categories from lego animation, to punch knitting and even a painting that’s playable as a musical instrument. Of these entries we were awarded 4 Commended Awards, 1 Highly Commended, 3 Bronze Awards, 1 Silver Award and a 1 Platinum Award.

Punch Knitted Welcome Sign from Leeds Hub

Our ‘Blind Date with a Book’ fundraiser has continued this year. We have explored additional ways of selling these including larger Craft Fair events and Etsy. The larger craft fairs have worked well, but as of yet the Etsy store hasn’t been too successful. Tiktok shop seems to be recommended as the newest platform to broaden reach but as of yet it doesn’t seem to be set up for registration from CIO’s so this could be an option in the future if this changes.

Blind Date with a Book set up at The Ridings

This year has felt quite solid with activities started previously feeling like they are becoming core aspects of work. Now that is in place the focus going forward will be on using these successes to build a regular provision of activities at HMP Wakefield.

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1. FINANCIAL REPORT CHARITY COMMISSION FO¢ INGIANO ANO WAI(& CabNrnrthRTy Receipts and paym ents accounts CC16a Fortt Stion A Receipts and payments Lknrestrttèd f￿￿15 Rèstrictèd fun< EThJowmer funds T￿al fwM15 Lkntpar kn•b• nMrn•t£ toth• nMr••tt n•Tht£ toth• TrMr••t£ A1 F&ce 26.￿5 1195 X.5 1.1 21210 4.575 I.•G5 rJ• 1.0É5 67? Sub total IGn)88 Frrom e for AR) 2?.141 27K4 A 2 A55et and rbveslment 5akn. (see table). Sub tota zzzz 29.14 2>.14 27J24 A3P I.-￿ 3JSIYLSSA￿￿￿s 5•4 134 SM 5•4 s Tl¥l 1355 27• nj 132 27• 2? 26.J35 29M7 26.335 2>A27 21415 2LX7 Sub tota A4 A55et and wNe5tmert U￿h￿Se5. see tab Sub total 29.627 26987 Net ofrec•ptqpaJ•nent4 A 5 Transfèrs between fun A6 Cas h fu￿15 last year end Cash funds this yav end 478 478 837 1.579 1575 742

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1. INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report R•port to th• tfU•t••41 Icmiiy P•i m¢mb•r• of CommumARTy On ac¢ounts for th• y•Af 31 Decfjmber 2024 Charlty Tro 10547364 (tt any) 6t07 I rerth to the trustees M my examination of the aCt￿￿ts of abov• chanty fihe T￿￿1) for trÉ year erthd 31112r2024 R•sponslbllltles •nd As the charity trustees of Ihe Tru51. y¢u ar¢ respcmwtkn lor the wepara 2011 fth8W) under section 145 of the 2011 Acl arKI in ¢arryirYJ out my examinats'on. I have fotlthved the appticablè treclwTh by ts Charty Commissi under Sec1￿ 145(5)Ib> of th8 Aci. Indepondont I have c(ny￿e¢l my ex•mmation. l ¢onfm) that no menal matters h •xamlnerfs stat•m•nt come to my attenbon in connecaim with Ihe exam¥￿ts(mI wlmch 6¥ves me guse lo belwe that in, any material respo(I: Ih? Ad or wrth the examinion to thi¢h attention should be drw•fft wi order to enabl• a oper Urrtknlar￿ of the accI￿nts to be reached. Sn•d: 2W1012025 N•m•: Christofv Dix Relovant prof•ssloMI , ICAEW qu•lificatlonl•) or body Ilf any): Addr•ss: 4 Silkwood Court $9TP Section 8 Dls¢losufe Only CoM￿ete rf examiner needs lo hohlKJht matters of concem (see CC32, IrWndenl exwninalion of •arity ac£4)unts: dir8ctions guidanc• f¢r examinern). IER O¢tob•r 2018