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2023-03-31-accounts

Charity number: 1179740 Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network For the year ended 31 March 2023 h'RAEN

Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Contents Page For the year ended 31 March 2023

Report of the Trustees 1 to 3
Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees 4
Statement of Financial Activities 5
Statement of Financial Position 6
Notes to the Financial Statements 7 to 10

Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Report of the Trustees

For the year ended 31 March 2023

The Trustees have pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements for the charity for the year ended 31 March 2023. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Objectives and aims

The objectives of the CIO as laid out in the governing document are:

1.To work with children, young people, artists, cultural and educational organisations to strengthen links between great cultural provision and learning opportunities.

2.To advance the knowledge, skills, confidence and capabilities of children and young people helping them to grow into active, culturally engaged citizens.

3.To develop children and young people's mental, physical and moral wellbeing through arts and culture.

4.To increase opportunities for all children and young people in Hastings, Rother and the surrounding area to participate fully in arts and culture.

5.To ensure a strong commitment to equality, inclusion and diversity is embedded throughout our practices and programmes.

The trustees have considered the Charity Commision's guidance on public benefit, including the guidance 'public benefit: running a charity (PB2)'.

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Report of the Trustees Continued For the year ended 31 March 2023

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

In the financial year 2022-23 the Hastings & Rother Arts Education Network refocused on growing the networking meetings. Feedback from teachers was that the arts have become increasingly marginalised in school as a renewed post Covid focus on maths and writing is introduced. This is alongside more pupils needing additional mental help support in which the creative subjects can be a useful tool.

Networks meeting came back fully in person and the hybrid working in terms of the work HRAEN does, has gone. Teachers are looking for quality time to meeting, share and reflect on the creative subjects. Teachers are being supported by schools to access network events such as the ones we offer and we are seeing a greater number of teachers signing up to attend.

On the flip side, the need for projects going into schools has been less evident. It is assumed this will come back in time but the advice we are getting from teachers is that its too much at the current moment.

In the academic year 2022- 2023 HRAEN ran 4 network meetings (only 2 of these fall withing this financial year):

October 2022 - De La Warr Pavilion: 12 teachers attending

Feb 2023 - Hastings Contemporary: 21 teachers attending

May 2023 - Hastings Museum: 16 teachers attending

July 2023 - Beeching Road Studios: 8 teachers attending

The Beeching Road Studios development in Bexhill, has now been completed by Rother District Council and there is a space that HRAEN are interested in leasing as a base for our workshops. If the option to sub-let is available to us, there is potential for HRAEN to develop this space into an income stream for the charity. We are in conversation with the council and this option will continue to be explored.

HRAEN's aims as defined in the 2022-27 Business Plan:

1)Work with young people to develop a lifelong relationship with the arts.

2)To ensure quality we will partner with delivery organisations that offer strong cultural education provision locally and nationally.

3)Following the Health and Wellbeing work of 2018 and in light of the changes in young people's mental health brought about from the pandemic the research should be reviewed and adapted to provide a clear focus of wellbeing work for immediate and medium-term time frames.

4)Continue to work with schools/teachers and cultural organisations in Hastings and Rother as a means of providing culture to young people from all walks of life.

5)Development and promotion of HRAENs reputation as a body that understands, challenges and meets need and that is secure and focused.

6)To have a strong regional presence and increasingly become known on the national scene.

7)To bring HRAEN to a financially stable position by 2027 in which it can bid for larger grant funding.

This year has enabled us to make strides in our continued and renewed engagement with schools and teachers and reposition HRAEN as a key component to creative practice in local schools.

Next year we look to focus our work on reengaging with the Local Education Partnership which is being managed at County level and is currently in the process of being revised to sit alongside the Culture East Sussex.

Reserves

The trustees have agreed to retain a reserve of £3,000 which they believe is sufficient to ensure the future development of the charity at this stage.

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Report of the Trustees Continued For the year ended 31 March 2023

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Pay policy for senior staff

Steering Group:

· De La Warr Pavilion

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Name of Charity Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Charity registration number 1179740 Principal address 4 High Street Robertsbridge East Sussex TN32 5AA

Trustees

The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:

Independent examiner

Mr Michael Roger Hambridge Ms Melanie Julia Powell Ms Rebecca Mary Reed Mr Marc Woodhead Andrew M Wells FMAAT Counterculture Partnership LLP 66 High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XG

Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by

............................................................................. 09 January 2024 Ms Melanie Julia Powell

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Independent Examiners Report to the Trustees

For the year ended 31 March 2023

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2023.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act').

I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiners statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by section 130 of the 2011 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Andrew M Wells FMAAT Counterculture Partnership LLP 66 High Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 1XG

09 January 2024

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31 March 2023

Notes
Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies
Total
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
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Total
Net income/expenditure
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
funds
£
3,590
3,590
(4,713)
(4,713)
(1,123)
18,031
16,908		 2022
£
12,829
12,829
(9,808)
(9,808)
3,021
15,010
18,031

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Statement of Financial Position As at 31 March 2023

Notes 2023 2022
£ £
Current assets
Debtors 8 - 3,676
Cash at bank and in hand 17,508 14,955
17,508 18,631
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 9 (600) (600)
Net current assets 16,908 18,031
Total assets less current liabilities 16,908 18,031
Net assets 16,908 18,031
The funds of the charity
Unrestricted income funds 10 16,908 18,031
Total funds 16,908 18,031

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Board and signed on its behalf by:

Ms Melanie Julia Powell Trustee 09 January 2024

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 March 2023

1. Accounting Policies

Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, except for investments which are included at market value and the revaluation of certain fixed assets and in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), and the Charities Act 2011.

Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).

Going concern

The financial statements are prepared, on a going concern basis, under the historical cost convention.

Funds

The charity maintains a general unrestricted fund which represents funds which are expendable at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objects of the charity. Such funds may be held in order to finance both working capital and capital investment.

Designated funds comprise of unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the Trustees for particular purposes.

Restricted funds have been provided to the charity for particular purposes, and it is the policy of the board of trustees to carefully monitor the application of those funds in accordance with the restrictions placed upon them.

There is no formal policy of transfer between funds or on the allocation of funds to designated funds, other than that described above

Incoming resources

All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the Charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.

At the balance sheet date the Charity had not yet received any funding.

Resources expended

Liabilities are recognised as resources expended when there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the Charity to the expenditure.

Taxation

As a registered charity, the company is exempt from income and corporation tax to the extent that its income and gains are applicable to charitable purposes only. Value Added Tax is not recoverable by the company, and is therefore included in the relevant costs in the Statement of Financial Activities.

3. Costs of charitable activities by fund type

Unrestricted funds
To promote Arts education
Support costs		 2022
2023
£
£
9,050
4,190
758
523
9,808
4,713

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 March 2023

4. Costs of charitable activities by activity type

Support
costs
Activities
undertaken
directly
£
£
Support costs
To promote Arts education
523
4,190
nalysis of support costs
To promote Arts education
IT
Insurance
Governance costs		 2023
£
4,713
2023
£
223
-
300
523		 2022
£
9,808
2022
£
75
383
300
758

5. Analysis of support costs

6. Net income/(expenditure) for the year

This is stated after charging/(crediting):

2023 2022
£ £
Accountancy fees 300 300

7. Comparative for the Statement of Financial Activities

The comparative year values on the Statement of Financial Activites are for unrestricted funds.

8. Debtors

Amounts due within one year:
Prepayments and accrued income		 2023
2022
£
£
-
3,676
-
3,676

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 March 2023

9. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

reditors: amounts falling due within one year
Accruals and deferred income 2023
£
600
600		 2022
£
600
600

10. Movement in funds

Unrestricted Funds
General
General
Unrestricted Funds - Previous year
General
General
Purpose of unrestricted Funds
General
Funds held to further the charity's opjectives
Analysis of net assets between funds
Unrestricted funds
General
General		 Balance at
01/04/2022
£
18,031
18,031
Balance at
01/04/2021
£
15,010
15,010		 Incoming
resources
£
3,590
3,590
Incoming
resources
£
12,829
12,829		 Outgoing
resources
Balance at
31/03/2023
£
£
(4,713)
16,908
(4,713)
16,908
Outgoing
resources
Balance at
31/03/2022
£
£
(9,808)
18,031
(9,808)
18,031
Net current
assets /
(liabilities)
Net Assets
£
£
16,908
16,908		 Balance at
31/03/2023
£
16,908
16,908
Balance at
31/03/2022
£
18,031
18,031
16,908
16,908

11. Analysis of net assets between funds

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Hastings and Rother Arts Education Network Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 March 2023

Previous year

Previous year
Unrestricted funds
General
General		 Net current
assets /
(liabilities)
Net Assets
£
£
18,031
18,031
18,031
18,031

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