PERFORMERS WITHOUT BORDERS I IWPACT REPORT IST JUIY 2023 30TH JUNE 2024
WWW.PWB.NGO ESTABIISHED: JUIY ZOOI CHARITY NUMBER CIO -1182403 • PREVIOUS CHARITY NUMBER: IIZIZ36 TRUSTEES NAME Office Comments CONTENTS Clalre Bader Chalr Appointed al AGM 6th Oct 2019 1. Legal and Admin Info 2. Headline Figures & Impact 3. Charity Objectives and Vision 4. Brief History 5. Operations Summary 6. Financial Summary 7. Future Plans Appolnted at AGM 6th Oct 2019 George Ma8$¢y Treasurer Emlly Ball Secretary Jonathan Forbes Founder Malhew Morr1$ Founder Llz Stone$ MEARL Advl$•r Andy Hodkln Safeguarding Lead Appolnted at AGM 6th Nov 2022 PRINCIPAL ADDRESS: 5Z OLD HOSPITAI IAWN, STROUD, UK GI54GA CONTACT ADDRESS: IZ PITIHBOHOUGH DRIVE, 13050P
In operation since 2007 Performers Without Borders (PWB) has completed 42 International Tours over 17 years in at least 10 different countries. PWB-International: With the doors reopening after the pandemic, in 2023-2024 we were able to revisit and solidify our old and new international projects. Starting off with our new partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) with a successful first tour in the Philippines. Here we delivered 13 workshops to 1432 participants and 14 shows to 10,443 audience members! We then collaborated with another social circus partner in Thailand, where we worked with Spoon Circus, a social circus project that developed out of the 2019 PWB India tour. During this time we mentored their trainers and helped to support their winter programming in Pai, delivering 9 workshops to 249 participants and 1 show with an audience of 89. After this, the India 2024 tour had a big impactful influence, where we took some of our legacy students from the Kashi Fire Warriors (KFW) on their first tour. We brought in expert tutors and gave them a taste of touring professionally, with dedicated tailored training on a longer bootcamp before introducing, handing over and delivering with our longstanding project partners; the tour totalled 39 workshops with 1544 participants and 26 shows to 7661 audience members. That's a whopping total of 61 workshops, 3225 participants, 41 shows, 18,193 audience members! PWB'S International touring is back in full force. KASFII FJKE W'AKRIOKS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NETWORK A GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR THE UNITED NATIONS
HEADIINE FIGURES PWB-UK PWB-UK: Pandemic restrictions in the UK were lifted around July 2021, which meant we were able to focus on our outreach in Ihe UK. In regard to bigger grant applications, new projects happened with Care4Calais, the Isle of Man Douglas Council, Shropshire Supports Refugees and Blackburn Young Peoples Services,. new funded projecls in 2022-2023 were with Manor Academy and New College Worcester. Please see our revamped YouTube channel for more projecl videos! Iwww.youlube.coml@PWB_¢harlty Since conception in 2018 we have successfully delivered 106 UK workshops using the same 4 workshop leaders involving 82 funded hours, reaching 1377 participants. and doing 24 shows to an audience of over 1702 In 2021 we launched our 'PWB Produces, project with a first successful partnership with Circus Central in Newcastle. Funding was achieved through Sports England and with support in kind from the Percy Hedley Foundation. We are currently looking to expand Ihis project to new partner organisations. wvwvw.pwb.ngo/blackburn Ir 'PWB Produces, Delivered 10 circus intervention workshops with *41 SEN students and their 36 support staff using 2 paid facilitators and 3 volunteers •IIAVI These are the total number of participants in each workshop, not the number of different Children reached because some children wouldhave attendedmultiple workshops.
TURNOVER: July 2022-2023 - £17,498 (restricted £10,385, unrestricted £7113) July 2023-2024 - £5130 (unrestricted £5130, project spending £17,041) Project Spending: Awards for All - New College Worcester - £9050 PWB Philippines and India Tours = £7991 www.pwb.ngo/pwb-uk/pwb-produce8 www.pwb.ngo/category/pwb-central ,
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CHARITY OBJECTS S VISION Vision: To teach performance arts and circus skills to young people who lack access to the artform, in the UK and Internationally in order to contribute to improving their physical, social and mental wellbeing. Charity Objectives: To advance in life and relieve the needs of children and young people in such parts of the world as the trustees shall determine, and in particular those who are socially and/or economically disadvantaged, including by physical or mental disabilities through: (a) The provision of recreational and leisure time activities In the performing arts and clrcus skills provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life. (b) Providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabililies to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals. (c) Raising awareness of the positive psychological and physical impact of training in, and experience of, performance arts and circus skills for children and young adults. ra$5
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YEAR-YIAR In 2007 Matt Morris and Jonny Forbes launched Perf ormers Without Borders (PWB) with the first tour of India in 2008 with 8 volunteers and we have returned every year since then. In 2013 Rob Thorburn led the f irst PWB Nicaragua Tour, followed by Sieira Leone's only tour in 2014 led by Peter King. Kenya was added to the regular tour list in 2016 led by Abi Cooper. In the meantime Francesca Dunford and Jess Herman, did short tours to Calais and Dunkiik bi-annually for 4 years. All these International Tours were Managed by long time PWBer Emily Ball, who is now a Trustee (Secretary). MATT MORRIS In January 2018 PWB-UK was launched with Peter King contracted to manage its development. The idea being that it would allow us to recruit a different variety of volunteers and access different f unding streams, especially UK Trust Funds. In the summer of 2018, 3 tsster workshops were delivered to new UK pariners dealing with visually and aurally impairpd yoiinry ppftple. In ?019 wp delivered 8 workshops to a special needs school under the NSC grant (see: www.pwb.ngo/our-impact) In 201912020 PWB tiansformed to a CIO with a lef reshed board of Tru slees We rece Ived oiir fi rst grant from Awards for All in January 2020 to teach Looked After Children in the Blackburn area circus skill but because of the arrival of Covidl 9 restrictions in March 2020 we had to delay delivering that programme until Autumn 2021, as well as suspending our 2021 2023 International Tours.
4.1 YEAR-YEAR During 2021 PWB appointed Jamie Moore as the new General Manager and Gina Disney as the new Tour Manager, Fundraiser and Volunteer Coordinator, this saw a renewal of energy to PWB with some big ideas of where to go in the future! We also saw Julia Cooke and lain McDonald appointed to UK regional manager status with intentions of achieving more grant funded work up north and in Scotland. In 2023 we restarted our international tours with launching our Philippines project working with the UN SDSN. ( Vi JAMI GINA DISNEY www.pwb.ngolcase-8tudle$l PERFORMERS WITHOUT BORDERS ww.pwb.ngo
- OPERATIONS SUMMARY PWB delivers high-quality circus skills and performance arts workshops and shows in the UK and internationally. We have 3 part-time contracted managers, and everyone else is a volunteer. We advertise for volunteers for our international tours every year online between March and August and the rest of the year in person at events. Our UK operations only operate with funding where we pay our workshop leaders an average industry rate for their work. We successfully introduced our Partner Organisations (POS) on our longstanding tour in India to our legacy students in 2024, the future of this tour is under consideration. We are continuing to explore new locations and partnerships globally. 5.1 PWB-International (P-lnt) Historically we have supported around 20 volunteers to go on tours to India, Nicaragua, Kenya, the Philippines and Calais from around January to March. We work with local POS to deliver a series of circus skills workshops and performances to vulnerable children and communities in their care. On some projects we help them create their own performance, which is delivered to the local community at the end project. We have now started new projects with sustainability in mind with the intention of delivery to be handed over to local youth leaders to continue the work amongst their communities. SÈ GREECE2019 Due to Covidl 9 uncertainties we decided to cancel our 2021-2023 Tours and focus on fundraising and PWB-UK work instead. Please see below for a list of Tours from previous years and their impact. For more details (photos, videos and blogs) of the tours please see: www.pwb.ngo/our-tours/ PHILIPPINES 2023 _
4 5.1 PWB-INTERNATIONAI IP-INTI We had to stop our international tours from 2020-2023 due to the pandemic, including being unable to revisit our Calais and Dunkirk project because, due to the increasing cost of living crisis, we want to restart our projects here but will have to wait until it can become fundable or affordable, as after the covid crisis and then subsequent relief funding ending, it has become increasingly difficult to fundraise. However, we have managed to make a comeback between 2023 and 2024 with our new project starting in the Philippines, our managers travelling to Thailand to work with Spoon Circus, and delivering the 4-year gap-planned handover legacy tour in India. We are now looking forward to the next 5 years in the Philippines working with the United Nalions Sustainable Development Solutions Network Youth Philippines Division. (UN SDSN) TOUR Workshops Hours Participants Shows Audience PWBer INDIA 2020 39 84 3182 13 2380 KENYA 2020 32 75 458 180 GREECE NOV 2019 1500 610 TOTALS 86 174 5140 21 3170 16 PHILIPPINES 2023 40 1432 14 10,443 THAILAND 2024 249 89 INDIA 2024 39 88 1544 26 7661 TOTALS 61 139 3225 18,193
5.2 PWB-UK Since January 2018 PUK has been delivering self-funded taster sessions to Partner Organisations (PO'S) in the UK, such as the Royal Society for Blind Children in London, the Manchester Deaf Centre and St Vincent's School for the Visually Impaired in Liverpool, Shropshire Supports Refugees, New College Worcester (school of the blind) delivered by Jamie Moore, Peter King and Gina Disney. We are continuously applying for project grants backed from these sessions and happy to talk to any potential PO'S or fundraising streams. In March 2019, For more see: www.pwb.ngolpwb.ukl & www.pwb.ngolswlsscottage4 On 25th Oct 2019 PWB delivered a free taster session at Blackburn With Darwen (BWD) Children's Services Participation Relaunch Event, attended by Looked After Children (LAC) and associated professionals. It proved popular and after cconductting surveys we managed to get more funding to return via National Lottery Community Fund of £10,000. For more on this evaluation please see: www.pwb.ngo/blackburnl After self-funding 4 workshops at Visually Impaired residential school New College Worcester in 2022 we managed to obtain funding to return for a longer intervention with the aim of teaching fire skills at the end of the project. We have deliverd half this project in 2023 and will finish in 2024. y{[y headley & Cir pfflrlLEngland £4900 In 2023 we launched 'PWB Produces, and working alongside Circus Central in Newcastle and the Percy Hedley Foundation we managed to obtain partial funding from Sports England, and the Percy Hedley Foundation contributed £1500 to meet the full funding target. For more on this evaluation please see: www.pw .ngo pw pw -pro uces
PWB-UK The table below lists our main impact figures for PWB-UK, but please see our website for more details of our work in the UK: yww.pwb.ngolpwb-ukl In January 2022 we received a further £10,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund to continue this project. The project was delivered successfully in line with the budget and time frame. During this project we introduced fire performing to the older participants, for a memorable experience. In 1st: www.youtube.com watch? v=N90AFFBhzKs&list=PLV9fEOIII blggcOOFLXC8QTGlf 57wT91J&index=3 TOUR Sessions Hours Attended Shows Audience PWBers PUK 2018-2019 19 62 69 PUK 2019.2020 25 380 152 PUK 2020-2021 60 250 PUK 2021-2022 53 90 920 355 PUK 2022-2023 82 1377 726 PUK 2023-2024 16 54 327 150 TOTALS 106 370 3126 1702
- FINANCIAI SUMMARY PWB-HQ is mainly funded by individual donations via our small donations fundraising network the FAB500 (www.pwb.ngo/fab500) which raises about £500pm which is about £6000py. The remainder comes from Events or General Giving (EGG) which varies from year to year but averages out at about £1200 per year. We aim to keep around £3,000 in reserves to cover 3 months expenses and possible emergency repatriation costs from our International Tours. Apart from that, our only other income stream is restricted from project grants, one- off workshops for PWB-UK or from our volunteer contributions that are raised to go on tour. The latter averages out at about £1000 per volunteer and is used to pay for their accommodation, food and travel costs whilst on tour and totals around £11,000 per year. Flights, vaccinations and travel insurance are all paid directly by our volunteers, and the tours usually break even every year, although we allow for about £2000 for Tour Coordinator costs. Last year PWB made a decision to use our surplus from previous years to self-fund the Philippines Tour. Which is why our balance has dropped below £6000. This year our restricted income was again boosted by the Awards for All grant for £9985, which was delivered in Autumn 2023. PWB-UK had an earned income of £400. BALANCE SHEET ASAT 30th June 2024 2023 2022 Fixed assets Tangible assets - workshop kit Depreciaied to zero 75 150 75 Current Assets Cash at bank and in hand 5.977 21,493 Creditors Net current assets 5.977 21568
FINANCIAI SUMMARY PERFORMERSWITHOUT BORDERS Jul 2023-June 2024 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITUREACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 June 2024 Totals 2024 Totals 2023 Incoming resources & generated funds Donations Fundraisers Volunteer contributions PWB-UK earned income Grants 5130 5,809 1,304 400 9.985 Total incoming resources 5130 17,498 esEx nde Marketing Admin Bank Charges Safeguarding checks Training Contractors PWB-UK costs Grant expenditure Tour costs 1,035 115 438 775 24 331 3,000 8,300 4,135 2,400 9,050 7,991 Total resources expended 20,592 17.003 Net income for the year -15,462 495 Fund balances at 30th June 2024 5,977 21,439
FINANCIAI SUMMARY The company is entitled to the exemption from the audit requirement contained in section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, for the year ended 28 February 2015. Members have not required the company to obtain an audit, since no member of the company has deposited a notice, pursuant to section 476, requiring an audit of these accounts. The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Act and for preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to accounts, so far as applicable to the company. These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies within Part 15 the Companies Act 2006. The accounts were approved at the AGM by the Board on 2nd March 2024. 11112123 Claire Bader Chair of the Trustees Charity Number: 1121236 Independent Examiners report not required this year as turnover is under £25,000.
I. FUTURE PLANS Writing this in March 2025 after submitting our accounts to the Charity Commission I can say that starting our International Touring again has been a success after such a long break and we have come back with new energy, people and ideas to look forward to in the coming yearsl In the UK we have been met with funding difficulties due to the current political climate but are looking at launching new avenues of funding streams. We continue to work on expanding our operations with some exciting prospects listed below. 7.1 Future Prospects PWB Philippines- After a successful reconnaissance tour in the Philippines and solidifying our new partnership wilh UN SDSN, we are planning on opening applications again and delivering in October 2024. This is part of a 5-year project commitment to bring circus arts to youlh champions around Negros Islandl PWB SDSN- We are applying for a membership with SDSN to raise awareness and attend conferences and make new connections in other countries that they operate within. PWB India- We will keep mentoring the India project while looking at changing it's format entirely to a legacy continuation where our longstanding students from Asha-Deep Vidyashram (The Kashi Fire Warriors) will continue to deliver social circus projects supported by PWB. PWB Produces - Having already completed one PWB Produces project successfully with Circus Central in Newcastle we will look at finding more Partner Organisations in the UK to develop a new project for this we have appointed a new trial Regional Manager for Scotland. PWB Residential's - This is a new idea we are looking into developing for 2024125 connecting Social Circuses around the globe with our volunteers for short stay experiences, looking at supporting teacher training, equipment distribution and further outreach, working alongside Caravan network. PWB Documentary - We are looking at creating a feature length documentary of our tours in the Philippines, opening doors to film funding and sharing the story of PWB following this new project. Expect a video release in 20241 We look forward to increasing the depth and range of our outstanding legacy of impacts in 2024 and onwards! Report written by Gina Disney, Dr Peter King and Jamie Moore and designed by Gina Disney