## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 08 2021 31 07 2022 **To** **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Intercultural Roots for Public Health **Other names charity is known by** n/a **Registered charity number (if any)** 1179885 **Charity's principal address** Flat 133, Thanet House Thanet Street London **Postcode** WC1H 9QE ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Lynette Hunter|Chair||Membershipat AGM| ||Ian Kenvyn|Treasurer||| ||Regina Gutiérrez|Secretary||| ||Alex Boyd|CEO||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution adopted 14 September 2017 Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members at AGM Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY: · PROMOTING PARTICIPATION IN TAI CHI, YOGA, PILATES AND **Summary of the objects of the** DANCE **charity set out in its** · ADVANCING EDUCATION IN THE BENEFITS OF HEALTHY **governing document** RECREATION · PROMOTING BEST PRACTICE IN THE DELIVERY OF TAI CHI, YOGA, PILATES AND DANCE. **TAR** March **2012** 2 Through the year, especially during planning meetings, the trustees have taken into account the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit (ref. ‘public benefit requirement’, The Charities Act, 2011) SEE APPENDIX BELOW **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main** SEE APPENDIX BELOW **achievements of the charity during the year** **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** At the end of the financial year there was £36,812 in the bank. £2,420 are non-restricted funds and £34,392 are restricted funds and being held in reserve. In line with our Reserves Policy, during 2021/22 further reserves are being accumulated to ensure the running costs of the organisation can be met up to one year in advance. This allows us to offer events on a ‘donation only’ basis which removes financial barriers to participation and opens access to all. **Details of any funds materially** No deficits **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Dr Alexander Boyd **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** CEO **etc) Date** 24/11/2022 **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Intercultural Roots for Public Health – IR Trustee / Directors Annual Report – August 2021 – July 2022 Further Information – Main Activities (Section C) & Main Achievements (Section D)** Throughout 2021-22 the following areas of activity have encompassed Intercultural Roots’ work as arts and education for health, wellbeing and social change’: Professional Development & Creative Practice; Network and Community Engagement; and Creative Wellbeing and Mental Health Support. From August until December 2021 we were attentive to our communities’ needs in relation to the ‘post’ pandemic moment. IR’s community engagement approach had a special regard towards supporting mental health needs and the emerging release from restrictions in some areas which led us towards applying for external funds to support the transition from on-line to in-person activities. This effort not only attended to practitioners who needed to engage again in social scenarios, but was also intended to re-build audiences and public confidence for engagement in the artistic-educational events we curated. All of these activities were underpinned with continuous community consultations and the maintenance of a safe space through the critical care that our creative labs provide. These were spread throughout the year and functioned as a continuous hub for listening and responding to the needs of our communities. They also provided a catalyst for further funding applications that successfully led to resources supporting Intercultural Roots’ core team to provide support to our growing community and projects. Some factual numbers of engagement August 2021 - July 2022: - Practitioners contracted: 55 - Public engaged: 1,777 - Sessions delivered: 147 - Newsletter subscribers: Approx 2,000 - Facebook Page Likes: 1,841 (01/08/2021) – 2,195 (31/7/2022) - Instagram Followers: 1,535 (24 November 2022) - Website (Google Analytics 01/08/2021 – 31/7/2022) – 58,000 views and 37,000 first users. ## **Community Engagement Post Pandemic Restrictions** **Life ∑mergence-y Project -** As restrictions were lifted after July 2021 we began to engage communities in creative wellbeing, performance sharing and educational events. In November 2021 IR promoted its first post pandemic gatherings at Siobhan Davies Studios and Open House Hackney in London. The experience and evaluative feedback from this project led to our Metamorphosis ‘Roots to Better Health’ project. ## **Funded Projects** ## **Organisational Partnership** IR with Cross Pollination Research Platform of Theatre partnered in two successful Crowdfunder funding campaigns in November 2021 and July 2022. These raised £8,413.96 and £21,890.35 in public donations respectively that were match funded in both instances by the National Emergencies Trust ‘Local Action Fund’ £8,599 in November 2021, £1,056 in April 2022 and £20,000 in August 2022 with additional match funding of £10,000 received from British Airways ‘BA World Connect’ in August 2022. IR supported Cross Pollination to act on behalf of young artists for their professional development and to build a supportive peer to peer network, work that took place over two weeks at East 15 Acting School in Southend also supported by two grants of £3,000 from the University of Essex in November 2021 and 2022. **‘Roots To Better Health’** funded £10,000 by The National Lottery Fund, resourced the realisation of IR’s Metamorphosis project which brought a series of in-person encounters from March till October 2022 looking at ways of overcoming the challenges of our times. IR provided professional facilitation, creative spaces, and tools for participants to ignite and harness a sense of inspiration, connection and resilience through practice. These encounters involved a comb of creative co-labs, public classes and performance sharing hubs where artists, thinkers and makers had the opportunity to engage the public with new ideas, practices and art. Metamorphosis became an inspiration for the 2022 ‘To Be With’ Health & WELLth Festival. ## **‘Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities’** In June 2022 IR received £28,000 Social Enterprise Support Fund (SESF) support for a project titled ‘Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities’ funded by The Big Issue Invest and The National Lottery Community Fund. The funding is particularly in recognition of and to further develop IR’s social enterprise approach towards the support of communities of practitioners and artists. This work, that we call ‘Practitioner Partnerships’ began in 2019 with our first Health & WELLth enable the enabler contracts, and grew throughout the pandemic. The funding will support our core team through until June 2023, helping IR to further develop its online and in-person engagement with communities in order to increase sustainability – in mutual benefit both for the practitioners and the organisation. ## **Organisational Sustainability** **‘Practitioner Partnership’** is IR’s social enterprise approach to engage with and provide continuous professional support to its community of practitioners. Since 2019 and especially throughout the pandemic, and transitioning from online to presential approaches, this program not only enables a source of income to practitioners yet also provides mentorship, assistance in developing proposals and with the publication, promotion and administration of artists’ work. This has been important also in providing IR with a percentage of net income that covers core costs independent of external funding raised. ## **Production and Exchange of Knowledge** ## **Intercultural Roots Presentation at SAIL - 14th June 2022** The Social Art Inclusion Lab (SAIL) - Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University invited Dr. Andrea Maciel (Artistic Director) to a panel presentation looking at social arts practice at both a local and global level, with a focus on how to co-create arts, culture and policy practices that benefit those routinely excluded from the arts. ## **Embodied Research Working Group (ERWG)** Intercultural Roots attended with Dr. Alex Boyd responsible for convening the ERWG at the IFTR – International Federation for Theatre Research conference in Reykjavík, Iceland in 20-24 July 2022. Alex had conceived and was a cofounder of the ERWG from 2015 and it was from the ERWG that he cofounded Intercultural Roots from alongside many of the existing IR Trustee / Directors and Advisors. ## **Online Practitioner Partnership Activities 2021-22** Sep - Oct 2021: Daoyin Ancient Taoist Breathwork -- Alex Boyd Sep - Oct 2021: Art of Listening -- Will Crawford Sep - Oct 2021: Assessment in TCM: Pulse and Tongue Diagnosis and Auricular Points -- Dr Alex Feng Sep - Oct 2021: spontaneous-imaginative-expressive Art Workshops -- Nasrin Golden Sep - Nov 2021: NIA DANCE - Joy of Movement -- Andrea Maciel Sep - Dec 2021: Neuroscience Informed Mindfulness (Eyes, Breath, Hands & Body) -- Jessica Andexer 8th Oct 2021: Elements of Life - Laban Bartenieff and Qi Gong Practice (in person) -- Andrea Maciel & Alex Boyd 9th Oct 2021: Practitioner Lab (in person) -- Andrea Maciel & Alex Boyd 24th Oct 2021: 18th Taoist Gathering - Resilience Through The Dao -- Dr Alex Feng Oct - Nov 2021: Embody You - discover your authentic self -- Kristin Loeer Nov 2021: BMC and NIA Dance - Neuro Movement Patterns -- Andrea Maciel Nov - Dec 2021: Daoyin - Ancient Taoist Breathwork and Qigong -- Alex Boyd Nov - Dec 2021: Medical QIGONG - Breath, Mind and Movement Classes -- Dr Alex Feng Nov - Dec 2021: Deep Listening in Zoom - re-GROUP; re-CONNECT; re-PLAY -- Jon Petter Nov 2021 - Jan 2022: Dear Body -- Anna Furse Jan - Feb 2022: Intro to Embodied Dreamwork -- Harald De Bondt Jan - Feb 2022: Daoyin & QiGong - Taoist Whole Body Breathing -- Alex Boyd Jan - Feb 2022: Art of Listening - depth-nature-connection -- Will Crawford Jan - Mar 2022: Alexander Technique for Performers - Introduction -- Rose Whyman & Victoria Door Jan - May 2022: Wellness Through an Anishinaabe Lens -- Anishinaabe Theater Exchange 6th Feb 2022: Celebration - The Year of the Tiger - Lunar New Year 2022 -- Zhi Dao Guan/The Taoist Center Mar - Apr 2022: Daoyin-QiGong-Yijinjing - Taoist Yin Yang Revitalising Breathwork -- Alex Boyd Apr - Jun 2022: Yijinjing-Qigong-Daoyin Taoist Embodied Culture -- Alex Boyd May - Jun 2022: Well Beings - Writing the body through illness and pain -- Marieke Bigg May - Jun 2022: Self-compassion and the Alexander Technique -- Victoria Door & Jo Roantree Jun - Jul 2022: The Art of Listening - growth-balance-stillness -- Will Crawford Jun - Jul 2022: Body Mythology: (re)imagining the body in movement and life -- Evelyn Aston Rhodes ## **In-Person Arts for Health & Social Change Programme 2021-22** 13th & 14th Nov 2021: Vocal Strata - Extended Voice Work and Song -- Patrick Campbell 13th Nov 2021: Elements of Life - Laban Bartenieff Dance and Qi Gong (in person) -- Andrea Maciel & Alex Boyd 13th Nov 2021: Life ∑mergence-y Performances and Party by Intercultural Roots Practitioner Lab Nov 2021: East 15 Acting School -- Intercultural Roots & Cross Pollination 24th Mar 2022: 'Creative Lab' 25th Mar 2022: 'Bartenieff-Laban Qigong Dance' workshop with Andrea Maciel and Alex Boyd 27th Mar 2022: 'Forum Theatre and Body Voice Paradox' Guest Teacher Workshop with Almiro Andrade and Gabriela Flarys 27th Mar 2022: 'Strangeness - Performance Sharing Evening' with Andréa Maciel, Gabriela Flarys, Alice Motta, Lizzy Tan & Maya Williams, Julia Testa & Hannah Nichols 28th Apr 2022: 'Creative Lab' 29th Apr 2022: 'Bartenieff-Laban Qigong Dance' with Andrea Maciel and Alex Boyd 1st May 2022: International Guest Teacher Workshops 'Body as earth / Earth as body' with Julia Pond and Andrés Montes Zuluaga' 1st May 2022: 'Performance Sharings' Featuring: * Trinacria by Irene Fiordilino * Nabba or the falls by Andrés Montes Zuluaga * “Not a Problem” by Julia Pond * MODAK by Purnima 26th May 2022: 'Creative Lab' 27th May 2022: 'Bartenieff-Laban Qigong Dance' with Andrea Maciel and Alex Boyd 28th May 2022: Guest Teacher(s) Workshop WILD BODY with Fernanda Mandagara and Julia Testas 28th May 2022: 'Performance Sharings' - Rewilding Performance Sharing with Kyara Orlando, Ernesto Sarezale, Christina Lovely and Anna-Maria Amato 28th Jul 2022: 'Creative Lab' 29th Jul 2022: 'Bartenieff-Laban Qigong Dance' with Andrea Maciel and Alex Boyd 30th Jul 2022: Guest Teacher Workshop ‘Moving Bodies of Water - Workshop’ with Helen Ainsworth & Fabienne Formosa 30th Jul 2022: 'Performance Sharings' Female Voices In Flow - Performance Sharing with Alice Motta, Isadora Bacon & Julia Testas **Charity Name No (if any) Intercultural Roots for Public Health 1179885 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/08/2021 31/07/2022 ## **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ A1 Receipts** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** |**A1 Receipts**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Classes/Workshops/Events/Performances|**17,676**||||**-**
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**-**|**17,676**||**-**| |Donations|**6,207**|||||**6,207**||**-**| |HMRC Gift Aid|**681**|||||**681**||**-**| |Grant - Universityof Essex||||||**3,000**||**-**| |CrowdFunder Campaign|**18,069**|||||**18,069**||**-**| |Grant - National LotteryFund||||||**10,000**||**-**| |Grant - BigIssue Invest(SESF)||||||**28,000**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**£ 42,632**|||||**83,632**||**-**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
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(videos/Zoom/Adobe/Dropbox)|**2,522**|||||**2,522**||**-**| |Miscellaneous Expenses/Charges|**2,681**|||||**2,681**||**-**| |Volunteer Expenses|**3,700**|||||**3,700**||| |Strategic, Funding& Legal Support|**7,700**|||||**7,700**||**-**| |Project Delivery- Universityof Essex||||||**3,000**||**-**| |Project Delivery- National LotteryFund||||||**4,182**||**-**| |Project Delivery- BigIssue Invest(SESF)||||||**244**||| |IFTR Conference|**1,000**|||||**1,000**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**53,363**|||||**60,790**||**-**| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**approval**| ||||16.09.2022| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/11/2022 2 Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner s Report Report tD tha trust•osl momb8Ys of ntercultural R4yJts for Public Health On account5 for tho year ended 31° July 2022 Charlty no (If any) 1179885 Set out on pa￿S 1-3 Respecllve The charivs trustees a￿ responsible foi the preparation of accounts. sponsibilitios of The charity's trustees consider thal an audil is not reqUI￿d for this year trustees and examiner under se(*on 144 of the Chariknes Act 2011 (the Charilies Act) and thal an independenl examination is rEeded. 11 is my ￿spOnSibl1￿ to.. examine th8 ac(>Junts uThder sectKin 145 crf tre Charilies Act. to follow the proCedU￿S laid dovm In Ihe general Dir8¢lions given by th8 Chanty Commission (under sedion 145(5}(bl of the Charities Act. and to state whether paiticular matters have come to my attentiC￿. Basls of indèpendent My exarninalion was carried out in ￿COr￿arte with general Directions given exarniner's slatement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the a¢￿Unting records kept by the ctharity and a comparison of the accA)unts presented wilh records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosure5 in the accounts. and seeking explanaticns frorn the trustees cOn￿M￿￿j any such mafters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the eviden￿ Ihal w0￿d be required in an audil. and cOnsequen￿Y ￿ opinion is given as to whether the actounts present a Irue d fair. v￿W and the report is limited lo Ihose matters sel out in t stalernent bekn. Independent In connedion with my examinalion, no matter has cx)me to my attention examinerfs statement (0th8r than Ihat disdosed below ') 1. which gives me reasonable cau88 lo b8llev8 that in. any malerial respecL Ihe requirements: to keep accounting reo)rds in ac¢ordance wth séction 130 of Ihe Charities A￿.. and to propare acc>Junts v4hich a(x))rd valh the acC￿ntIr0 re(￿rdS and comply with Ihe accounkn'ng requirements of the Charities Act have not been met. or 2. to whith. in my Okmnion. attentson sh(￿Id be drawn in order to enab18 a rKoper understanding of thè accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the words in tt7e brnckets rfthey do not apply. Slgned: Nam•: Pat Davey R•lèvant profèsBlonal quallflcatlon{si or body {11 any): IER March 2012 Address: SheThvood Bam, Chesters Lan8 High Bentham LA2 7AN Section B Disclosure Only complete Il the exaffliner needs to highlight material problems. IER March 2012 e here brief detalls of ny items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER March 2012