Chapel Arts Annual Report 2020-2021
Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From 1 May 2020 to 30 April 2021
Charity name: Chapel-en-le-Frith Arts (known as Chapel Arts)
Charity registration number: 1178080
Charity Address: 29 Market Street, Chapel-En-Le-Frith, HIGH PEAK, Derbyshire, SK23 0HP
Objectives and Activities:
The objectives for which the charity was established were:
To promote and encourage public participation in, and appreciation of, the arts in CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH and its surrounding communities, in particular, but not exclusively, by the organisation and production of community arts festivals, workshops, events and performances.
Chapel Arts meets these objects by running art and craft workshops; a writing group; spoken word evenings; musical and dramatic performances; a regular film night; an annual open art show and an annual short story competition. We seek to conform to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit by ensuring all activities are available to the people living in and around Chapel-en-le-Frith and are widely advertised. Any charges are kept to the minimum needed to defray costs or are offered free of charge, although donations are welcomed.
Governance and Management:
| Trustee Name | Position Held (if any) | Date appointed or resigned if during current year |
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| Anne Cawthorn | ||
| Jean Cooper | ||
| Jan Close | Resigned: 15/09/2020 | |
| Mark Henderson | ||
| Carol Jones | Treasurer | |
| Charles Pickering | Chair | |
| Simone Pottage | ||
| Christopher Sizeland |
Volunteers:
Chapel Arts is run entirely by volunteers, including its trustees, and has no paid employees. The trustees are extremely grateful for the help and support provided by our loyal band of volunteers. They devote many hours to the activities and without their contribution Chapel Arts would not be able to function.
Sue Stringer, a volunteer, sits on the Management Committee alongside the trustees and acts as our Minutes Secretary. Thanks to Sue for her help.
Achievements and Performance:
Chapel Arts had a successful financial year in 2020-21 despite the Covid-19 pandemic. We were sheltered from the worst financial effects of the pandemic, experienced by many other organisations, because we have no property and no employees. Our funds were bolstered by a significant amount of compensation paid by our bank in acknowledgement of poor service. During the period covered in the report we were only able to organise and run a very limited range of activities. Those that could not be moved online had to be stopped with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Government lockdown in midMarch 2020.
Performing Arts :
Lockdown necessitated the cancellation of performances by the Remi Harris Trio and The Tree of Crows that had been booked for Spring and Summer 2020. There was no further Performing Arts activity during the rest of our financial year, in line with Government policy.
Film Group:
Following the closure of Film Night at the end of our financial year 2019-2020 as a result of lockdown, there has been no further activity this year.
Short story competition:
This year’s title for the 1000 word short story competition was Blue. As always, the competition was open to everyone in the Chapel-en-le-Frith area and was free to enter. The winner in each of three age categories (junior school, 7-11 years; secondary school, 11-16 years; and adult, 16 years or over) was entitled to a £25 prize.
Unfortunately, there were no entries in the secondary school and few in the junior school categories, and only a dozen from adults. The standard of writing was variable but there were clear winners, and the committee decided to award a runner-up certificate to the other 7-11 years entrant.
In view of the low numbers participating in this and previous years, it was proposed that the competition be made national in 2021-22, with small submission fees (except for 7-11 year entrants) and bigger monetary prizes. Details about organisation and advertising for this extended venture have been discussed at subsequent committee meetings.
Creative writing:
Because circumstances precluded face-to-face meetings at Rems, we decided to continue our fortnightly winter series of ten Monday sessions (2-4 p.m.) by Zoom. One member of the class kindly agreed to host the Zoom sessions, but once Chapel Arts acquired its own Zoom agreement, thanks to two of our trustees, it was hosted in-house thereafter. Since some members of the group could not participate in the Zoom meetings, we ran email discussion sessions in the intervening weeks.
The principal aim of this series was to encourage each member of the group to pursue her (or in one case, his) personal writing objective – novel, memoir, autobiography, collection
of short stories or poems. All or part of the work written or drafted was shared with the group, who provided feedback. We also set two or three short writing challenges each week (short poems or 3-400 word fragments of prose).
Some of our “short fantasy horror fiction” submissions to a national competition were shortlisted and will be included in FBP’s forthcoming anthology. Two of them gained the first and second prizes out of over a hundred entries nationwide. These two winning stories were YouTube recorded and the recordings together with the manuscripts are available on the CA website. Other stories submitted to the competition were recorded subsequently.
During the five-session spring series in 2021, as in 2020, we prepared YouTube and manuscript presentations of our work for the annual Buxton Festival Fringe. In 2021 the focus was on stories and poems related to the 150[th] anniversary of the opening of the Pavilion Gardens. In addition, members of the group continued to develop their works in progress.
The tutor agreed to provide feedback on further excerpts from works in progress over the forthcoming summer.
Spoken Word Evenings:
The spoken word group would normally meet on the last Wednesday every two months at Rems in Chapel-en-le-Frith. As restrictions for Covid-19 were in place for most of the period above we switched to meeting via Zoom in September 2020.
Part way through the year Chapel Arts paid for the unlimited Zoom package which helped to take the pressure off from the 40 minute time constraint for the free Zoom.
The Zoom format continued to attract people from quite a large surrounding area including Alsager, Edale, Whaley Bridge, Glossop, Poynton and from Chapel itself. The numbers of people attending varied in this period from 5 to 8.
Spoken word is a free event but we received no donations as we were on Zoom. The advertising was limited to Facebook and emailing the existing mailing list.
We carried on with the usual format which allows people to read any literature, usually short stories or poems. There was a mixture of work they’d written themselves and work by other authors.
The winner of the Chapel Arts 1000 words competition from 2020, Sue Vernon joined us to read her story ‘Stars’ and Mark Henderson read the 2021 winning piece ‘Blue’ by Harriett Mummery. We were also joined in one session by a local artist Yvette Ribot-Smith who gave a talk about various painting she had done. She’d prepared a slide show of the paintings that worked really well on Zoom and it was very interesting.
We also recorded four of the sessions which were edited and uploaded to the Chapel Arts YouTube channel.
Visual Arts and Crafts:
Mustard Seed:
The Mustard Seed Cafe remained closed during the year as a result of the pandemic. Artists were unable to sell their work at the cafe, so no commission accrued to Chapel Arts.
Art show 2020:
The 7th Annual Open Art show planned for Autumn 2020 was unable to take place because of our concern people’s health and safety during the pandemic. It was felt that we would not be able to ensure social distancing and other measures to prevent transmission at the venue.
Art group @Mustard Seed:
Again, in line with the guidance and with the closure of the Mustard Seed, there were no meetings of the Art Group.
FINANCIAL REVIEW:
Brief Statement of the Charity’s Policy on Reserves:
The Charity employs no staff, nor does it rent permanent offices. Therefore, the Charity does not need to hold significant reserves.
Cash reserves are regularly reviewed. The Charity holds sufficient cash to cover six months of central costs, such as public liability insurance and web-hosting, plus amounts to cover any outlay committed to planned events, to replace equipment or to meet any unforeseen expenditure.
Further Financial Review Details:
On conversion to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2018, Chapel-en-le-Frith Arts had £4000 carried over from its previous format as a community organisation. In the 20192020 Report the accounts showed the reserves had grown to £4770. At the end of the 2019-2020 financial year the reserves stood at £5616.
However, the increase resulted from a one off payment of £750 from the NatWest bank in compensation for poor service plus income generated by supporters using the Easy Fundraising portal for online purchases. Excluding these items reveals a neutral balance sheet, as might be expected given the limited income and expenditure resulting from the effects of the pandemic.
CHARITY ACCOUNTS (1 May 2020- 30 April 2021) Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to n•ar•5t£ to rwarest£ to n•ar•st £ Categories Detsils B1 Cash funds Malwt CurientAcc Petty Cash 0,577 39 Total cash funds 4616 Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds Details to nearest £ to nearest£ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary Fund tts wthlch asset belongs Detai15 Cost loptionall Current value loplondl Investment assets Fund towhich asset belongs Details Cost (optior) Current value lop10nl B4 Assets retained for the charity's own use Film Projection & Sound System Unr8stricl8d 2,128 Fund towhich liabllity relates knount du• loptlonall When du• lop10nl Details Liabilities
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DECLARATION
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
Signed:
Charles Frederick Pickering
Chair
Signed:
Carol Ann Jones Treasurer
Date: 1 November 2021
| Chapel-en-le-Frith Arts |
Chapel-en-le-Frith Arts |
Chapel-en-le-Frith Arts |
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Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts Performance Arts - Film Night - EasyFund-Raising 110 LiteraryArts 710 Art & Craft 19 Bank Compensation 750 - - 1,589 - - Sub total - Total receipts 1,589 A3 Payments Performance Arts - Film Night - EasyFund-Raising - LiteraryArts 355 Art & Craft - Central Administration 388 - - - Sub total 743 - - Sub total - Total payments 743 Net of receipts/(payments) 846 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 4,770 Cash funds this year end 5,616 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ - - 110 710 19 750 - - 1,589 - - - 1,589 - - - 355 - 388 - - - 743 - - - 743 846 - 4,770 5,616 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| - | - | 732 | ||
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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Details NatWest Current Acc Petty Cash Details Details Details Details Signature Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Film Projection & Sound System |
to nearest £ to nearest £ 5,577 - 39 - - - 5,616 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) Unrestricted 2,128 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) |
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Details NatWest Current Acc Petty Cash Details Details Details Film Projection & Sound System Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
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