PERFORMERS WITHOUT BORDERS ifvVO.' • I IMPACT REPORT 1ST JUIY 2024 - 30TH JUNE Z025 rt
WWW.PWB.NGO ESTABIISHED: JUIY ZOOI CHARITY NUMBER CIO - 1182403 • PREVIOUS CHARITY NUMBER: IIZIZ36 CONTENTS TRUSTEES 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 NAME Office Comments Clalre Bader Secretary Appolnted at AGM 3rd March 2025 Georye Ma8$ey Treasurer Appolnted at AGM 6th Oct 2019 Emlly Ball Chalr Appointed at AGM 3rd Mareh 2025 Jonathan Forbes Founder Maihew Morrls Founder Llz Ston•$ MEARL Advls 5Z OID HOSPITAI IAWH, STROUD, UK C154CA Andy Hodkln Safeguirdlng Lead Appolnted at AGM 6th No¥ 2022 CONTACT AUDRESS:
In operation since 2007 Performers Without Borders (PWB) has completed 43 International Tours over 18 years in at least 10 diff erent countries. PWB-International: After our first successful tour in the Philippines with our new partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solulions Network (UN SDSN) Where we delivered 13 workshops to 1432 participants and 14 shows to l 0,443 audience members in 20231 In 2024 we went back and revisited 11 locations and connected with 9 new locations creating new partnerships, expanding excitement and reaching a total of 6554 participants! After the India 2024 Legacy Tour which had a big impactful influence on our students from the Kashi Fire Wairiors (KFW). They have now opened and built (by hand) a flow school in the mountains in Nepal (Flow Open School)! They also continue to be hired across India for performances and are still teaching circus skills with our longstanding partner Asha Deep Vidyashram in Varanasi. Go Team!! With a total of 6554 people reached on the 2024 Philippines tour, thats a cost of £0. 47 per person, talk about value for money. K4Skli FIJIE MIAKRIOJIS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NETWORK A GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR THE UNITED NATIONS
HEADIINE FIGURES PWB-UK PWB-UK: Pandemic restrictions in Ihe UK were lifted around July 2021, which meant we were able to focus on our outreach in the UK. In regard to bigger grant applications, new projects happened wilh Care4Calais, Ihe Isle of Man Douglas Council, Shropshire Supports Refugees and Blackburn Young Peoples Services; new funded projects in 2022-2023 were with Manor Academy and New College Worcester. Please see our revamped YouTube channel for more projecl videos! 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 lo 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 this project to new partner organisations. vrnw.youtube.coml@PWB_charl www.pwb.ngo/blackbur 'PWB Produces, Delivered 10 circus intervention workshops with *41 SEN students and their 36 support staff using 2 paid facilitators and 3 volunteers IAAVI
TURNOVER: July 2023-2024 - £5139 (unrestricted £5130, project 8pending £17,041) July 2024-2025 - £5349 (unre8tricled £3949, restricted £1400, Tour Costs £4045) Project Spending: PWB Philippine6 Tour = £3070.98 www.pwb.ngo/pwb-uk/pw&produc08 Ilili www.pwb.ngo/category/pwb-c•ntral
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CHARITY OBJECTS S VISION WE TEACH PERFORMING ARTS AND CIRCUS SKILLS TO YOUNG PEOPLE FACING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS IN THE UK AND ABROAD. "They thought only of the circus. They didn't think anymore about the tragedy of their lives." Zalinda, Los Quinchos, San Marcos - PWB Nicaragua Tour 2013 Vlslon: 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 woild as the truslees 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 circus skills provided in the interest of social welfare, designed lo Improve their conditlons 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.
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YEAR-YEAR kn. In 2007 Matt Morris and Jonny Forbes launched Performers Wilhout Borders (PWB) with the first tour of India in 2008 with 8 volunteers and we returned every year until 2020 then again in 2024. In 2013 Rob Thorburn led the first PWB Nicaragua Tour, followed by Sierra Leone's only tour in 2014 led by Peter King. Kenya was added to the regular lour list in 2016 led by Abi Cooper. In between Ihis, Francesca Dunford and Jess Herman, did short lours lo Calais and Dunkirk bi- annually for 4 years. All these International Tours were Managed by long time PWBer Emily Ball, who is now a Trustee, first as Secretary and now Chairl li NNY FORB MATT MORRIS LY&RO In January 2018 PWB-UK was launched with Peter King contracted to manage its developmenl. The idea bei ng that il would allow us to recruil a differenl variety of volunteers and access differenl funding streams, especially UK Trust Funds. In 2018 We slarted to recieve our first UK based grant funding to delivery projects to a variety of acess groups. In 201912020 PWB transformed to a CIO with a refreshed board of Trustees. Delivery and progression continued up unlil the arrival of Covid19 restrictions in March 2020 we had to delay delivering that programme until Autumn 2021, as well as suspending our 2021 2023 International Tours. Daz
4.1 YEAR-YEAR During 2021 PWB appointed Jamie Moore as the new Artistic Director and Gina Disney as the new General Manager, 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 Scolland. In 2023 we restarted our international tours with launching our Philippines project working with the UN SDSN. GINA DISNEY www.pwb.ngo/case-studies' PERFORMERS WITHOUT BORDERS WWwJ>wBCO
- 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 in person throughout the year. 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 (PO'S) on our longstanding tour in India to our legacy students in 2024 with the hopes to handover these connections lo them. We are continuing to explore new locations and partnerships globally, currently pursuing United Nations relations. 5.1 PWB-International (P-lnt) Hislorically we have supported over 100 volunteers to go on tours to India, Nicaragua, Kenya, the Philippines, France and Greece. We work with local POS to deliver a series of arts based skills workshops and performances to vulnerable children and communilies in their care. On some projects we help them create their own performance, which is delivered to the local community at the end project. Our new projects progress with sustainability in mind, with Ihe intention of delivery to be handed over to local youth leaders and teachers to continue the work amongst their communities. PHILIPPINES NDIA20241 = I'qpHILIPPINES.I' b;,ff 2024
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 looking forward to the next 4 years in the Philipplnes working with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Youth Philippines Division (UN SDSN), and starting to persue expanding new projects. TOUR Workshops Hours Participants Shows Audience PWBer GREECE NOV 2019 15 18 1500 610 KENYA 2020 32 75 458 180 INDIA 2020 39 84 3182 13 2380 PHILIPPINES 2023 13 40 1432 14 10,443 THAILAND 2024 249 89 INDIA 2024 39 88 1544 26 7661 PHILIPPINES 2024 16 53 1208 18 5346 TOTALS 163 369 9573 26,709 With a total of 6554 people reached on the 2024 Philippines tour, thats a cost of £0.47 per person, talk about value for money.
5.2 PWB-UK IPUKI Since January 2018 PUK has been delivering both self-funded and grant-funded sessions to Partner Organisations (POS) across the UK. Working with POS such as the Royal Society for Blind Children. the Manchester Deaf Centre, St Vincent's School for the Visually Impaired, Shropshire Supports Refugees, Blackburn's Foster Carers Association, Mannor Academy and New College Worcester. We are continuously searching for partnerships and applying for project grants backed by these sessions and our research into Circus Arts Instruction (CIA). wi rkf 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 cconductling 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.ngolblackburnl mm ni £1 After self-funding 4 workshops at Visually Impaired residenlial 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. 'PWB Produces, Percy headley & Circus C ntral - Sports England £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 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: knww.pwb.ngolpwb-ukl In January 2022 we received a further £10,000 from the Nalional 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. ink to our YouTuTe channel PUK-Play 1st: www.youtu e.com watc v=N90AFFBhzKs&list=PLV9fEO111blggc00FLXc8 TGlf57wT91J&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 17 82 1377 726 PUK 2023.2024 16 54 327 150 TOTALS 106 370 3126 24 1702 28
- FINANCIAI SUMMARY PWB is mainly funded by individual monthly donations from various sources that raise about £250pm. EX-PWB volunteers also run fundraisers, which can vary from year to year but are between £500 to £1000. We currently run one tour to the Philippines a year where volunteers raise money to pay for their own costs. Our main finacial outgoings are the Tour Costs (£4000) and for Contractors (£1800) to manage the day to day business of the charity. PWB will need some increased fundraising efforts to make this sustainable in the future. Apart from that, our only other income stream is restricted from project grants and one- off workshops for PWB-UK. In 2023 PWB made a decision to use our surplus from previous years to self-fund a few projects. Which is why our balance has dropped below £6000 RF RME BALANCE SHEET ASAT30th June2023 2025 2024 Fixed assets Tangible assets - workshop kit Depreciated to zero 75 Current Assets Cash ai bankand in hand 4,1 5,977 Creditors Net current assets 4.190 5977
FINANCIAI SUMMARY PERFORMERSWITHOUT BORDERS Jul 2024-2025 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 June 2025 Totals 2025 Totals 2024 Incomln Resource Incoming resources & generated funds Donations Fundraisers Volunteer contributions PWB-UK earned income Grants 3351 598 1400 5130 Totsl incoming resources 5349 5,130 Resources expended Marketing Admin Charges Safeguarding checks Training Contractors PWB-UK costs Grant expenditure Tour costs 690 1,035 115 360 62 1800 180 2,400 9.050 7.991 4045 Totsi resources expended 7136 20,592 Net income for the year -1787 -15,462 Fund balances at30th June 2025 4190 5,977
FINANCIAI SUMMARY The charity is entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the financial year ended 30 June 2025. No member of the charity has required an audit of these accounts under section 476 of the Act. The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities under the Companies Act 2006 for: ensuring that the charity keeps adequate accounting records in accordance with section 386,. and preparing financial statements that give a true and fair view in accordance with sections 394 and 395, and that otherwise comply with the requirements of the Act as they apply to small charitable companies. These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions applicable to small entities under Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements were approved by the Board on 2 March 2025 03103125 Emily Ball Chair of the Trustees Charity Number: 1182403 Independent Examiners report not required this year as turnover is under £25,000.
I. FUTURE PLANS Writing this in March 2026 after submitting our accounts to the Charity Commission, I can say that restarting our international touring again with our new partnerships and project goals has been an overall success despite the difficulties. We have come back after the pandemic with new energy, people and ideas to look forward to in the coming years! 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 and first year of delivery in the Philippines (2023 & 2024). We have produced our first-ever feature-length documentary for our tours; we are planning on submitting this to international film awards and using it to display our work at events and support fundraising. We produced this with the hopes of proving the project impact and solidifying connections for further work with UN-SDSN. This is part of a 5-year projecl commitment to bring circus arts to youth champions around Negros Island until 20271 PWB SDSN - We are currently applying for a membership with SDSN to raise awareness of our PI (iJL'LI guals and attend conferences to make new connections in other countries that they operate their youth programs within. PWB India- We will keep mentoring the India project from afar, supporting its development 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 we are continuing to find and support more Partner Organisations in the UK. PWB Residential's - This is a new idea we are looking to release to volunteers in 2027128, we have already trialed this idea in 2024 with Spoon Circus. Connecting Social Circus groups around the globe with PWB volunteers for l O days. The aims will be supporting teacher training, equipment dislribution and further outreach, working alongside the Social Circus group and supporting their needs. We look forward to increasing the depth and range of our outstanding legacy of impacts in 2025 and onwards! Report written by Gina Disney, Dr Peter King and Jamie Moore and designed by Gina Disney