**Twitter:** @RationaleArts **Email** : rationalearts@gmail.com ## Rationale Arts Yearly Report: 2022 -2023 ## **Trustees:** Vignesh Murali (Chair) Author Jason King Altüghán Collingwood ## **Employees:** Nathan Geering – Charity Director Rationale Arts RCN: 1181681 **Twitter:** @RationaleArts **Email** : rationalearts@gmail.com ## **1. Mission Statement** Rationale Arts is a registered charitable arts organisation with the key aims to promote, improve, and maintain public education and appreciation of the arts. Specifically, but not exclusively the art of dance, music, and theatre. We aim to achieve our mission mainly through 4 avenues. - **Community engagement:** We work with communities on topics they feel are relevant to them and develop bespoke arts packages to tackle specific issues the community faces. - **Theatre:** We pride ourselves on creating professional standard accessible theatrical productions that are created in consultation with the communities we are trying to engage with. - **Injury Prevention** : We deliver special courses to people with visual impairment These incorporates b-boying (Breakdance) as a means of injury prevention by improving spatial awareness. - **Workshops:** We offer a variety of artistic workshops including: - Theatre Skills - Hip Hop Dance - Contemporary Dance - Disc jockey’ing and Music Production ## **2. Background** Rationale Arts officially received charity status in February 2019 from the charity commission. Our first board meeting took place on the 2[nd] of April 2019 and we have had regular board meetings since. Rationale Arts RCN: 1181681 **Twitter:** @RationaleArts **Email** : rationalearts@gmail.com ## **3. Review of 2022 -23** Like many other charities, we focused on recovery post pandemic by adapting to the situation and to carrying on with our mission to make art accessible in ever more innovative ways. ## **3.1. Hip Hop Rehabilitation** Between April 2022 and November 2022, we delivered Hip-hop rehabilitation sessions at Sheffield Children's Hospital where we worked with physiotherapists to deliver engaging artistic sessions to promote recovery. The children we worked with had a variety of conditions ranging from Traumatic Brain Injury, Leukemia and Brittle Bone Disease. ## **Feedback from Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists** _“The sessions injected fun into therapy!”_ _“The sessions helped the hospital feel less sterile and provided meaningful activity and find a space where they could have fun.”_ _“The music sessions allowed us to see the patient’s potential in a way we cannot replicate in a standard therapy session.”_ _“It was fantastic to see how the energy and fun from the hip hop session carried across to the next day. The energy from the first session lifted the whole ward and it had a positive impact for days.”_ _“The parents loved to see their child joining in and the children loved to see their parents joining in too.”_ _“It helped us connect positively with children and young people who were having a very difficult time.”_ _“The children’s faces lit up when we mentioned the Hip Hop artist was coming back in. They really looked forward to seeing him.”_ ## **The results:** The hip hop and physiotherapy collaborative sessions were welcomed by children and young people, families, and therapists, with the experience being overwhelmingly positive. Parental feedback centred around the sessions improving energy, motivating and boosting mood. Therapist feedback referred to the sessions being fun, meaningful, connecting with children positively and being able to better understand a child’s ability and potential. The feedback from parents supports the encouragement of physical activity which is fun, safe and family-centred. It was tailored to each child’s abilities, interests and goals. Parents often Rationale Arts RCN: 1181681 **Twitter:** @RationaleArts ## **Email** : rationalearts@gmail.com joined in sessions with their child and encouraged them to join in, or asked to film sessions so they could share with the wider family, allowing the child to watch again and keep practising the dance steps between sessions, motivating the child be physically active outside of the session. Parental support is a known factor in encouraging children to be physically active. ## **3.2. Injury prevention courses** We were successful with our funding bid with the Children in Need to deliver our state-of-theArt Injury Prevention course. We delivered the first course consisting of eight sessions in Autumn 2022 and the second course between February and March 2023 by working with Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind (SRSB) and Sheffield International Venues (SIV). ## **3.3. Workshops** - During August 2022 we delivered a variety of Breakin and hip-hop dance sessions in Barnsley as part of their summer festival. - In February 2023 and March 2023, we delivered dance sessions for Reach Up Youth. - We did a hip hop and graffiti workshop with Nottingham Children’s Hospital Youth Service. ## **3.3. ACTs of creativity** We delivered ACT is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to: - Early years children at Ellesmere Children's Centre – May 2022 - July2022, March 2023 - Care For Young People’s Future at Grimethorpe Community Centre with a specific focus on the Roma community. May 2022 – June 2022 - Refugees at Sheffield's City of Sanctuary – June 2022 - 3 schools in the Glossop area in partnership with Derbyshire County Council – Autumn 2022 Rationale Arts RCN: 1181681 **Twitter:** @RationaleArts **Email** : rationalearts@gmail.com ## **3.4. Theatre** In August 2022 Rationale Arts performed at an event called Paint Jam which was organized by Site Gallery as part of their Out and About series. The day was made up of some of Sheffield's best painters and artists coming together to reanimate Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter with vibrant paintings from Graffiti writers to visual artists. A DJ provided an energetic soundscape to the event, playing genres that spanned, funk, house and hip-hop. In December 2022 we performed at Burn greave’s light switch on event to a culturally diverse audience. In January 2023 Rationale Arts performed at Rotherham Children's Capital of Culture Manifesto Launch at Gulliver's Valley. ## **4. Finance Accounts** During the financial year 2022-23 the Charity received a total income of £24,510 and had a total expenditure of £37,847 with a total surplus of £532 (which includes monies carried over from the previous year). Since our inception as a Charity, we have managed to raise **£100,785** to ‘ _**make art accessible’**_ . Rationale Arts RCN: 1181681 **Twitter:** @RationaleArts **Email** : rationalearts@gmail.com ## **6. Summary** Overall, a very successful fourth year despite the ongoing after effects of the Pandemic in which we created some further inroads into our mission and built some sustainability into the Charity functions. We have gained national recognition for our projects and we have several partnerships lined up for 23-24. 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