Dance Hastings CIO Registered Charlty Number 1177657 Annual Accounts for the perlod 22 March 2023 21 March 2024 Cont8nls'. Organisatlonal Infomi8llon Trustees Annual R8POrt Receipts & PayTnents account Statement of Assets & Liabilities Notes Independent Exam1n8￿8 r8POrt Hastings Voluntary Action Jackson Hall Portland Place Hastings Easl Sussex TN34 1QN Organl$ational informatbon for Dance Hastings CIO for the year ended 21 March 2024 Nam• of ch•rfty'. Dance Hasting$ CIO R•gl$terod charfty number. 1177657 Logal forni: Charitable Incorporated Organisatlon Gov•rnlng do¢umont: Constitution Addr•ss: Clo Jackson H811 Portland Place Hasting$ TN34 1QN Commlttee memb¢v•: Teresa Flower (Chairl Phbllppa Beagley (Treasurerl Ruby Cox (Trust88} B•nk•rn: Lloyds Bank. Blackheath London Branch Indepondent Ex•mlner. Laura Dawons, Independent Examlner HVA, Jackson Hall, Portland Place. Hasllngs. TN34 1QN Objects: The provision of lacilities for recreation and othar leisure ty'm¥ occupatKJn in the inierests of social welfar8 with Ihg object of improwng the condltlons of lsfe for the persons for whom they are Intended by providing dance acb'wtie9 and events whlch are accessible to all. Report of the Trustees of Dance Hastlngs CIO for the year ended 21 March 2024 Our two classes for adults with learning and physical disa bilities continue to run successfully with between 5 and 18 participants and their carers at each session. These sessions are supported by a dedicated team of five volunteer dance buddies, and most carers are also active participants. Participants pay £5 per session and the classes had become almost financially self-sustaining. The community class held at Ore community centre was attended by residents from Eastview Housing on the Ridge. In May it was agreed that we would move to deliver these sessions in-house for a fee of £50 per session. This covers the facilitator fees but admin fees and office costs have to be found from elsewhere in our budget. One of our volunteer dance buddie5 has learninE disabilities. She first engaged with us as a participant and demonstrated gentle awareness of and empathy for the needs of others In the class. This year we have invlted her to be an advisory member of our trustees board. The reasonable adjustments around providing transport for her will incur extra costs which we will include in future f undraising. In September our community class in Hollington had to move from the Robsack Centre after 4 years there, due to FSN taking a full-time booking for the hall. We were very Sad to leave this large and welcoming space and have found it impossible to find anywhere else that offers such wonderful accessible facilities at an affordable price and that is available on a regular basis. We have established ourselves at the Parish Rooms in Hollington, The space is accessible but much smaller than the Robsack hall and it has proved to be difficult to accommodate the number of participants with the wide range of needs that we accommodated at the Robsack, In order to be financially self- sustaining we need 16 participants each week, but at best the space can accommodate 12- 14 comfortably. We have had to turn away two new settings asking to take part. We are in the process of fundraising to subsidise an additional two community classes, one for those with complex needs and one for those with moderate learning difficulties. We have delivered 10 free sessions in three different care homes, Mais House, Amble side and Old Hastings House, with between 10 and 20 resident5 dancing during each session. The homes have been offered additional session5 at a reduced cost of £50 per session and Old Hastings House is now paying for two sessions a month. Again, this fee just covers the c05t of a dance facilitator and not additional office and admin costs or costs of resources. These sessions are supported by one volunteer dance buddy and we are in the process of recruiting additional dance buddies to help participants to engage more fully. Carers at the homes also join in and support these sessions. Last year we explored how to increase our delivery capacity and to ensure robust and fair recruitment of additional dance facilitators as required. After much consideration we agreed that our aim was to increase opportunities to access inclusive and accessible dance sessions in and around Hastings, whether delivered by us or not. We decided to fundraise so that we could offer dance and community practitioners free training with Paradance UK, accompanied by support and work experience delivered by our team. By the end of March 2023 we had successfully raised £500 from South East Thriving Communities for an introductory day for up to 15 practitioners; £6,840 from Sport England to pay for up to 8 people to access the online Paradance Inclusive Dance Leadership Training and three sessions each of paid work experience; and £3040 from the Chalk Cliff Trust to enable us to offer a robust mentoring service to the Paradance trainees and to run four inclusive dance network meetings over two years. The introductory training day took place in May 2023 and was attended by 16 local community or dance practitioners. Everyone agreed that it was a useful and engaging training and that they would be interested in being part of a local inclusive dance network. Six practitioners went on to complete the online Inclusive Dance Teacher tralning delivered by Paradance UK in July 2023. Five of those practitioners have gone on to run their own sessions, including dance in care homes and supported living, dSsco for those with moderate learning disabilities, creative dance for wellbeing, and tik tok dance for adults in the community. We have increased our core team of dance facilitators to four. Two additional practitioners have started their Paradance UK training in March 2024, and one more is booked onto the next training. We ran a successful Crowdfunding Campaign to enable us to run six dementia friendly social tea dances. We raised £900 which was match-funded by East Sussex County Council Wellbeing fund. We have arranged four monthly tea dances so far, to be held at the Arthur Easton Centre at St Michael's Hospice. The first tea dance will take place on th April 19 2024. We are in the proces5 of recruiting a bespoke team of volunteer dance buddies and hospitality hosts to support these events. We have made links with the social care course leaders at Sussex Coast College and have been invited in to talk to students and run an introductory interactive dance session to introduce them to our work. We then hope to recruit some students as volunteer dance buddies and to support them to think about how they might creatively engage with clients when they are working in the sector. We are waiting for the results of two funding applications to subsidise additional inclusive dance sessions in the community and free block5 of sessions in five more care homes. We hope that next year we will be able to continue to support our Paradance trainees to deliver a wide range of inclusive accessible dance sessions, and then to continue to raise funds to be able to offer and support more inclusive accessible dance in the community and residential care homes. Philippa Bet7gley, March 2024 Dance Hastings CIO Rec￿pts & PayTnentS accounts forth8 poriod 22 March 2023 21 March 2024 Yur CumintY••r R8Slrfct8d fund$ Lknrestricled fun(k Totsi futhl Re¢el ts Grants Other income Bank Interest Notes 7.480.00 2,528.75 6,769.90 6,769.90 4,327.40 4,327.40 10,008.75 6,769.90 4,327.40 11,097.30 Ex endlture Dance leaderslvolunteers Venue hire M8rkeling Training Equipmenl T8gch8r R8source8 Project Management Admln Offlc8 Exp8n8es InsurancelPAT le811ng Accounts'nglpost box M13c Expenses TOTAL PAYMENTS 4,081.80 847.50 5,196.15 321.00 3,149,65 59).00 8,345.80 911.00 500.00 4,800.00 4.800.00 120.00 289.65 81.00 120.00 606.45 390.01 50.00 200.00 15,423.26 96.00 294.01 318,80 309.01 50.00 200.00 11,192.96 222.78 6,042.09 4,230.30 3,966.66 Net surplu814efidl 14,423.061 97.10 14,325.961 M¢)vernenl in funds 4.687.34 Fund balances bm 2213123 8,708.31 54.31 8.654.00 B,654.00 Fund baLqnces clf 2113124 4,28S.25 42.79 Dance Hastings CIO Statement of Assets & Llabllltles asat 21 March 2024 PreviL¥JS y&ar Re5trScted Income Unr88tricted Income Total Total Current 8s$èts Current Account Recelpts 3w811ing banking 21103124 4,285.25 42.79 4,328.04 8.654.00 4,285.25 42.79 4,328.04 8,654.00 Curr•nt Ilabllltl•• Uncashed cheques 4,285.25 42.79 4,328.04 8,654.00 Charity Law wqulres the Trustees io p￿pare fin8ncial stsiementB for each finandal year whlch cornply th regulallons $8t out in the Charitles Act 1g93. Th8 tru51ess have ekcled lo 18ke 8dv8nlage of the provlslon8 thol èpply to small charftles and have prepa￿d a Rec8ip18 and Payments Account ond St8lement ol Asset5 and Approved by th¢ Trustees on and 8lgne(l on their behalf by Teresa Flower {ChaSrl Illppa Beagley ITr8asurerl Dance Hastings CIO Notes to the Accounts for the period ending 21 March 2024 Restricted Funds Income Sp8nt Left Ch•lk Cllff Trust £ 803.36 Grant racefivad Spending Amount carried forn¥ard £ 803.36 Sport England Grant rac8iveO Spending Amount forward £ 6,193.75 £ 1,200.00 £ 7.393.75 Maglc Llttl• Grant• {2019) blh¥d Grant recelved Spendlng Amount carried forward £ 506.00 £ 536.35 £ 980.1)0 62.35 Su•••x Communlty Fund blfyvd Gr&nt recelved Spendlng Amount cathed forward £ 1,205.20 £ 1,186.80 18.40 Crowdlundlng Grant received blfvvd £ 1.993.55 £ 200.00 Am￿ant cath8d forward £ 1,793.55 Chalk Cllff TN•t 2023 Grant rèceived S￿ndIng Amount C8rri8d fO￿ard £3,040.00 £ 629.05 £ 2,410.95 Tot41 RMtrlct•d Funds £ 4,285.25 Indopend•nt Examln•rfs Report to the Commltteo of Dance Hastlngg CIO I report on the accounts of D8nce Hastings CIO for th8 ￿1ve month pèriod ended 21 March 2024 vjhich are set out on the prevlous ￿ge8. Rèsp•ctive responsibllities ot Commlttee & examiner The th8ritys trustees are responsibl8 for the preparation of the accounts. The chariws Irus18e5 consider Ihal an audit is not required for this year undor section 144 of the Ch8riUes Act 2011 Ithe Charities Acll, and that an independent examination is needed. It is rny responsibility.. lo examlne the accounts under sectlon 145 of the Charftles Act to follow the procedures laid down in th8 General Directions given by ihe Charity Commission (under section 14515llbl of the Charities Act), and to 51ale whether particular matters have come to my attention Basls ol Indop•nd•nt •xamln•fs report My oxamination was carried oui in accordance vAlh the General Directlon¥ given by the Ch8rlly Commisslon. An gxaminatson Includes 8 review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a Comparison of the supporting documenlalion presented with those records. 11 also Includes considoralion of any tjnusual ilgms or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking exp18n8tlons from the truslees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertak8n do not provlde all the evidence that would be required in an audll, and consèquently no opinion is given as to whether Ihe accounts present "true and fairt vlew and the report is limilad lo those matter8 $01 out in tho statement below. Ind•p•ndènt •xamlnerf¥ •tatsmont In connection wllh my examlnalbn. no matter h88 com¥J to my otten11c￿- 11 vthlch giv8s me reasonable cause lo believe that in any material rtsspect the roquirernenls.. to keep a¢¢ounbng records In 8ccordance wlth sectton130 of the Charltles Act to prepar8 accoun15 which accord ￿th the aCcoun￿'n9 records and to comply wfth the accountlng requlrements of the Act have not been met," or 21 to whlch. In my oplnlon. attent5on should be drawn in order lo onablo a proper underst8nding of the accounts to be reached. Laura Dawson Finance Manager Haslings Voluntary Action Jockson Ptall, Pordand Place. Hasling5. TN34 1QN Dated..