# **Educational Dance Provision Services** (trading as MovementWorks[®] ) **Charity Number: 1176176** **Trustees' Annual Report & Financial Statements for the Period 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024** **October 2025** ## **Educational Dance Provision Services** # **Trustees’ Annual Report & Financial Statements** # **for the Financial Period from 1[st] January 2024 to 31[st] December 2024** ## **Reference & Administration Details** **Charity Details Name(s): Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks[®] Number: 1176176 Address: 86 Adelaide Avenue Brockley London SE4 1YR** ## **Names of the Charity Trustees Who Manage the Charity** |Karen Storey|Trustee and Chair|7 December 2017| |---|---|---| |**Names of the Trustees**|**for the Charity**|| |Bryher Scudamore|Trustee|7 December 2017| |Glenys Ingham|Trustee|7 December 2017| |Sonia Asli|Trustee|31 May 2024| |Kathryn Gordon|Trustee|21 June 2024| |**Names and Addresses of Advisors**||| |**Role**|**Name**|**Address**| |Patron|Sir Robin Bosher|64 Constance Crescent, Bromley BR2 7QQ| |Accountant|Geof Noble|76 Park Street, Horsham, RH12 1BX| |**Bank:**|The Co-operative|151 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6AA| ## **Names of Senior Staff with Delegated Responsibilities** Ali Golding Managing and Creative Director Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 1 ## **Structure, Governance & Management** Educational Dance Provision Services (EDPS) is a CIO - trading as MovementWorks® - that was established in December 2017. ## **Type of Governing Document:** A Constitution ## **How the Charity is Constituted:** Charitable Incorporated Organisation ## **Trustee Selection Methods:** Founding Trustees familiar with the initiative volunteered when the charity was originally established from a sole trading operation. We now recruit future Trustees through an application and interview process. ## **How New Trustees are Inducted and Trained:** New Trustees are briefed by the Chair and the Managing and Creative Director and are asked to familiarise themselves with the Charity Commission guidance on charity governance. ## **Objects** - **1.1** and the relief of those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage particularly but not exclusively by: - **1.1.1** providing dance movement tuition and classes; and - **1.1.2** providing training to persons in order to provide optimal movement opportunities within an educational context through dance movement tuition and classes providing training to persons in order to provide dance movement tuition and classes. ## The Trustees declare that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers or duties. Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 2 ## **Executive Summary** EDPS – a CIO trading as MovementWorks® – was established in 2017 to provide high-quality movement education experiences in deprived areas of London to children, young people, vulnerable adults, their carers and educators. We aim to make movement-based learning more accessible to all, with a focus on those with financial hardship, physical disabilities and learning difficulties such as autism, and other marginalised groups including black and ethnically diverse communities. Since our creation, our programmes have transformed the lives of thousands by boosting physical wellbeing and mental health, improving communication skills and self-confidence and reducing the feeling of social isolation and lack of community. They are also designed to form a strong base for the National Curriculum by complementing learning in the core subjects of literacy and maths for primary school students. Our work is delivered by specially trained, freelance professional artists at mainstream and special educational schools, Early Years settings, children centres, community groups that support vulnerable adults and community leisure facilities. We have the following established policies and procedures which are regularly reviewed and updated: Equal Opportunities Policy; Financial Management and Accounting Policy; Health and Safety Policy; Privacy Policy; Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy; Promoting Positive Behaviour and an Empowering Environment Policy; Safer Recruitment Policy; Volunteer and Trainee Policy and Procedures. All the Trustees have been inducted and have observed a variety of the sessions on offer to our During 2024 we continued delivery of our core work bringing our intervention programmes into mainstream and special educational settings. “All our Key Stage 1 pupils have autism and complex needs including learning disabilities. We have been privileged to have the opportunity to offer MovementWorks® to these children. “The outcomes of the programme have exceeded our expectations. All pupils have increased their ability to engage in the sessions. There has been a positive impact on their ability to maintain joint and shared attention and to participate as a group. Pupils' happiness is a priority across the school curriculum, and the MovementWorks® programme has added to this with great effect. The children look forward to the sessions each week, and they definitely enjoy themselves. “The MovementWorks® programme has played a valuable role in developing their learning skills.” **Beth Brough, Assistant Headteacher, Spa School Camberwell. November 2024** We also grew and developed this core element of our work in various other ways. For example, we strengthened our relationship with the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), expanding our Developmental Dance Movement® programme to more of their settings thereby tackling social injustice by serving young disadvantaged children in economically deprived areas. Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 3 ## **Case Study Example 1: Boy Aged 3 at LEYF Nurseries** **Baseline Concerns** : At the start of the programme J needed 1 to 1 support for all activities in the setting due to SEN. He was not greatly active, resulting in poor core strength and little interest in physical activities. He preferred to watch his peers and teachers during the MovementWorks® sessions. **Difference at End of Year:** During the year he began to show interest in the sessions as demonstrated through his body language and then started to partcipate in the sessions which resulted in an increase to his muscle strength and endurance. **Progress at End of Year:** His participation and involvement continued to increase which led to the development of social skills and being able to manage his feelings and emotions better. ## **Key Worker, LEYF Nurseries** MovementWorks® Session at LEYF Hither Green Nursery and Pre-School In addition, we converted our pilot projects with Oak Lodge and Lavender Lodge schools into year long programmes. These were supported by the Wandsworth Community Trust and the Wimbledon Foundation respectively. Those projects allowed us to augment our specialist work by providing inhouse professional training for teachers of students with highly complex needs (e.g. young people who are both autistic and deaf) so that they are able to continue to provide Autism Movement Therapy® after the projects’ end. This training element provides the assurance of quality and continuity, creating opportunity for greater impact and a lasting legacy. Similarly, we grew our community outreach projects by complementing the existing after school projects supported by Sport Engand and London Community funding with our new ‘Build A Bridge’ daytime project funded by City Bridge Foundation. This project enables families with young children with additional needs to access our programmes outside of school/nursery environments. In this Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 4 respect, we developed partnerships during the year with Tooting Leisure Centre, Norwood Leisure Centre and the Wandsworth Inclusion Hub as hosts for these projects. MovementWorks® ‘Build A Bridge’ session – Tooting Leisure Centre We also extended our ‘Action For Autism’ and ‘Artistes For Autism’ projects with the support of the Wandsworth Arts for Health and Wellbeing Fund who augmented their original seed grant with additional funding awards. Autistic young people living and/or going to school in Wandsworth were given the opportunity to attend regular free Autism Movement Therapy® sessions and, if they chose, to engage in the creation of a new dance piece. During the summer, the piece entitled ‘State of Mind’ was performed at the Royal Academy of Dance Community Showcase and the Happy Streets Festival. MovementWorks® ‘Action for Autism’ MovementWorks® Artistes for Autism’ Performance Weekly AMT session at the RAD Community Showcase Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 5 **Case Study Example 2: Girl Aged 14 ‘Action for Autism’ Participant** S is autistic, profoundly shy and a selective mute. She only speaks to two family members. She is very close to her sibling but she is regularly seen alone in school at lunchtimes. Her sibling was part of our ‘Artistes for Autism’ project 2023. We encouraged S to come and watch rehearsals but at that time she would not even step into the dance studio. S came with her family to watch her sibling perform at the Community Day of Dance at the Royal Academy of Dance, part of the Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival 2023. To our surprise she then enrolled onto the ‘Action For Autism’ project in the autumn of that year and started joining in the activities. She came every week with her sibling. At first she stood at the very back in the corner but she gradually developed some new physical skills and was happy to come forward and even share the lead with her sibling in some of the turn taking activities. Her mother says she now sees how differently her daughter “takes up space”. “Deep down she really struggles with socialising but participating with others [through a non-verbal expressive genre] has really helped her…there has been a massive improvement! “She now communicates non-verbally [through gesture] with teachers at school which she was not doing before. She is more into conversations via text with her friends. Before she was on her own but now is with friends at lunchtimes etc. She now attends an after school club and martial arts which she would not have done before. “She has always been good at schoolwork and excellent in writing but her shyness and anxiety have been barriers to her reaching her potential. Participating in the sessions gave her the confidence to enter a Young Writers competition which was the winning entry.” A major highlight of the year was the publication of our latest research article in the Journal of Special Educational Needs, _Expectations and experiences of a dance programme for autistic children: A qualitative study of parents, teachers and therapists,_ (co-authored by Ali Golding, Zoe Ambrose, Joanne Lara, Christina Malamateniou, Dido Green) This paper is an outcome of an exciting partnership with the Faculty of Education & Health at the University of Greenwich. Together we conducted a pilot evaluation of Developmental Dance Movement® (DDM) and Autism Movement Therapy® (AMT) for primary school children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in conjunction with an autism specialist school. Parents, dance therapists, teachers and children participated in the study. This ground-breaking publication is the first step towards developing a specific novel measurement tool for dance movement research and evaluating the efficacy and impact of dance interventions in educational and clinical settings. This research was conducted in association with Dr Christina Malamateniou who was, at the time, Research Lead in the Department of Family Care & Mental Health at the Faculty of Education and Health at the University of Greenwich, and Dr Dido Green, Associate Professor in Occupational Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 6 Therapy at Jönköping University, Sweden and Research Therapist, Royal Free London Hospital, London UK. The article published in March 2024 can be accessed through the Research page on our own website and Nasen’s website. In June 2024, MovementWorks® was invited to be a headline feature at The London Autism Show. As part of that two day event attracting 4000 visitors to the Excel Centre, our autism specific projects, ‘Action and Artistes for Autism’ were presented in the Autism Matters Theatre. The young people involved were able to share their experience of how the projects enhanced their lives with a live audience on a public platform. The Autism Show - MovementWorks® Display – ‘Movement Matters’ Feature The Autism Show – ‘Game, Dance, Repeat’ MovementWorks® Keynote Presentation In addition, the Show provided the opportunity for members of the MovementWorks® team to engage more generally with people with a professional and/or personal interest in autism. This resulted in the recruitment of people from various disciplines to our Autism Movement Therapy Stage 1 training in the autumn of 2024 and the recruitment of an autistic individual to our internship programme. We also delivered a one day early years practitioner training in our home borough of Lewisham which we plan to extend to local authorities as part of our outreach development programme, providing both theory and practical application on the importance of optimal movement experience in early education. MovementWorks® Training Day – Lewisham Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 7 Our partnership with A2ndVoice CIC Autism Parent Group supporting their Health, Activity and Food Programme continued throughout the school holidays and developed to include a Chair Exercise Project for older autistic adults. A session related to this project was filmed as part of new content to be added to our ‘MovementWorks® Dance On Demand’ library. This library is a growing pre-recorded online resource of our specialist dance and movement sessions, including examples of our flagship Developmental Dance Movement® and Autism Movement Therapy®, plus a wide range of complementary sessions such as Sensory Yoga, Laughter Yoga and Rhythm and Rhyme. These are available to buy and access on demand so that children, young people and adults with and without disabilities can benefit from them wherever they are based geographically. During the year we were celebrated at the 2024 London Sports Awards for our work Supporting Young Londoners. MovementWorks® Team at London Sports Awards At the end of all projects, detailed reports are submitted to our funders to demonstrate the ways in which their funds have been used and the positive social impact of those projects. We are pleased to present an infographic summarising from these reports our impact across the year as well as other key areas of our work. In the case of participants, data was collated from baseline assessments and end of project evaluations completed by teachers, keyworkers and parent-carers. Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 8 Nov NT IMPACT REPORT: JANUARY- DECEMBER 2024 OUR PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS AGE RANGE OF OUR PARTICIPANTS: 2-25 YEARS WE REACHED OVER450 CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WE PROVIDED IN EXCESS OF 750 CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS NO 16% NO 3896 MALE 52% FEMALE YES YES ADDITIONAL NEEDS I DEVELOPMENTALDELAY 841 of our participants had additional needs. ENGLISH AS AN GENDER IDENTITY ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE 520/0 of our participants For 38% of our participants identified as Male, while English was not their first language. 48% identified as female. 88% IMPROVED PARTICIPATION IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES 99% IMPROVED LEARNING& DEVELOPMENT 98%1MPROVED PHYSICAL ABILITIES 98% IMPROVED SPEECH, LANGUAGE &COMMUNICATION 100% IMPROVED EMOTIONAL, BEHAVOURIAL & WELLBEING 100% INCREASED CONFIDENCE OTHER ACTIVITIES I ACHIEVEMENTS TRAINING I CPD In excess of 100 partlclpants reached FINALISTS LONDON SPORTSAWARDS (Supporting Young Londoners) RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS Expectations and experiences of a dance programme for autlstlc children." A qualitative study of parents, teachers and therapists" SPONSORED KEY FEATUREAT THE LONDON AUTISM SHOW 'Movement Matters, &'Game, Dance, Repeat, KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Ali Mcclure's Parenting Podcast 'Movement Matters, Movement Works, Educational Dance Provision se￿1£es TIA Movementworks Registered Charity 1176176 ## **Financial Review** ## **Statement of the Charity's Policy on Reserves** The charity has a 3 month reserve policy. ## statement of assets & liabilities. ## **State of the Charity’s Finances** The total funds in the bank account as of 31st December 2024: £109,867.92 ## **Restricted Funds** £91,727.48 ## **Designated Funds** £18,140.44 ## **Particulars of Any Outstanding Guarantee Given by the Charity** The Trustees declare that the charity has given no guarantee where potential liability is outstanding at the date of the statement of assets & liabilities. ## **Particulars of Any Outstanding Debt** The Trustees declare that the charity has no outstanding debts which are secured by an express charge on any of the assets of the charity at the date of the statement of assets & liabilities. ## **Declaration** The Trustees declare that they have approved the above report and authorised that it be signed on their behalf. Educational Dance Provision Services T/A MovementWorks® Registered Charity No. 1176176 Page | 10 **Educational Dance Provision Services 1176176 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/01/2024 31/12/2024 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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