## Arts All Over The Place is a small charity operating across Birmingham. Our stated aims include _**To promote greater community engagement for individuals with experiences of mental and emotional health/well-being issues and social isolation.**_ 

We had very busy year in 24/25, starting with the first of 4 projects funded by Levelling Up, the Shared Prosperity Fund. Round 1 had started in February 24, and the funds for round 2 came in March 24, just at the end of the previous financial year, so was sitting in the bank ready for an immediate start. Rounds 3 and 4 followed over the year. The projects took place in premises we rent just on a sessional basis: The John Carey Dance Centre, Elmdon House, Central Square, 138 High Street Erdington Birmingham, B23 6RS as well as sessions being delivered in Castle Vale, with the Think Positive, Be positive Group. There were some occasional sessions locally in St Margaret’s warm welcome session in Gravelly Hill. Arts and Craft, poetry and Music were the basis of the afternoon sessions but we added Digital sessions on Thursday Mornings, We already had several laptops, which were donated by Birmingham City Council and added a printer and an iPad. These sessions were ‘student centred’ so we were led by the needs of participants and each person followed their own interests some asking for help with using computers and the internet, or how to use their own devices, especially phones, but there were ‘Master Classes’ as well, with experts showing topics such as creating music digitally and graphic art. Various celebration events were held as project finished, so on several dates across the year, both at our Erdington Venue and at Castle Vale.  We were pleased to be able to include and fund several sessions which included Roma musicians and welcome them to our family of performers that we manage to pay. They were all short dated funds with a demand for quick results showing the change we made, for reports to National Government. The reporting required complicated data and more evidence than had been asked for previously but Margaret worked hard and fulfilled the requirements successfully in all cases. 

Alongside this, across the City, we were awarded a grant in Hall Green constituency, managed by Green Square Accord. This all took place in The Friends Institute, at 220 Moseley Road, Highgate, Birmingham B12 0DG. There were weekly sessions: On Mondays a group focussed on Afro Caribbean culture met and chatted, playing dominoes and reminiscing with occasional craft activities, bringing together people who had previously travelled to Soho to meet up, in the locality nearer to where they lived. The Monday afternoon session started after the summer with Arts and Craft the main focus, attracting a diverse group,  including some from a nearby care home. Margaret Murray ran both Monday sessions. On Fridays the long standing Poetry and Creative Writing Group met and flourished again after Birmingham City Council funding stopped in March. Hayley Francis led this group expertly and they were able to go on several visits to local poetry events to widen their participation and experience. We found the management by Green Square Accord difficult and they caused a lot of stress but we did fulfil all of their demands and finished the project with a collection of poems in a booklet. 

On Thursday 15[th] January 2026 we held our AGM (the previous one was 19[th] December 2024) It was attended by 4 Trustees Graham Taylor, Cathy Crossley, Tony Fox and Kevin Harrison joined remotely by Face-time. 15 members joined us as well. Early in 2025 Arshad Butt resigned as treasurer and Trustee due to ill health.  Fortunately another Trustee, Kevin Harrison stepped up and took on the Treasurer’s role. We also had to change our mailing address to Arts All Over The Place c/o TMRCCT 220 Moseley Road B12,  a premises we use to deliver some sessions. 

I hope you agree, that in the year 24/25 we have indeed fulfilled our Charities aims Many thanks to all our facilitators but especially Margaret, John and Jess not forgetting Trevor who has done amazing work in Castle Vale, and all our volunteers and indeed our participants, who make it all work! Cathy Crossley, chair of Trustees 15[th] January 2026 



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Ind•p•ndent Examlnerfs r¢port to the twstees of Arts All Over The Place
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Arts All OverThe Place Ithe Charity)
forthe year ended 31 March 202S.
ResP￿SIbIlI￿e5 and basLs of report
As the tfustees of the Charity you are responsible forthe proparation of the accounts in actordance
with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 Ithe'AcVI.
I report in respect of my examinaiion of the Ch3rit%ls account5 undef section 145 of the 2011 Act
and in carryinB Out my examination I have followed all the applicab￿ Directions given by the
Charlty Commission under section 14515llbl of the Act.
Independent examlDerf$ ststèment
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my aitention in
eonnection with the examination giwn8 me cause to belEve that in any material res￿-.
accounting records were not kept in ￿SpeCt of the Charrty as ￿qUired by section 130of
the Act,. or
2. the accounts do not accord with those ￿cords.
I have no concern5 and have come across no oth@r matters in conneciion with the examination to
which atteniion should be dTawn in thi5 report in order to enable a proper understandin8 of the
accounts to be reached.
Signed..
Name.. Terry Morgan
Address.. 42 Chesterwood Road. Birmingham. B13 (XIF
Date: IZYI r
202