## **BRICKS CIO**
## _**Annual Report 2022- 2023**_
|**Charity Name**|Bricks|
|---|---|
|**Other Names**|Bricks Bristol|
|**Charity Number**|1183118|
|**Registered Address**|St Annes House, St Annes Road, St Annes, Bristol, BS4 4AB|
|**Structure**|Charitable Incorporated Organisation - Foundation Model|
|**Date Registered**|25 April 2019|
|**Dates Inclusive**|5 April 2022 - 31st March 2023|
|**Year of Operation**|Four|
|**CEO**|John (Jack) Gibbon|
|**Chair of Trustees**|Kim Wide and Dean Coates as Co-Chairs until 31 January
2023, then Dean Coates as Chair|
|**Website**|www.bricksbristol.org|
## _**CHARITY OVERVIEW**_
Bricks supports the collaboration of local communities, creative communities and social enterprises to ensure they have a strong voice in the city of Bristol, together instigating and delivering creative community activities and managing building assets for the long term.
## _**CHARITABLE OBJECTS**_
The object of the CIO is to advance the arts for the public benefit through the establishing and maintaining of an art gallery, the promotion of contemporary art, the education of the public in the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art and the provision of workspace and services to artists.
## _**PUBLIC BENEFIT**_
Bricks trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the charities commission in exercising their powers and duties.
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## _**TRUSTEES**_
|**_TRUSTEES_**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Person**|**Role**|**Appointment Date**|**Retirement Date**|
|Kimberly Ann Wide|Co-Chair|25 April 2019|31 January 2023|
|Joanna Lathwood|Trustee|25 April 2019|n/a|
|Lucy Ward|Trustee|25 April 2019|n/a|
|Dean Anthony Coates|Co-Chair, Chair|25 April 2019|n/a|
|Robin Hague|Trustee|24 June 2019|n/a|
|Eleanor George|Trustee|08 December 2020|n/a|
|James Flintoff|Treasurer|07 November 2022|n/a|
## **Appointment and Retirement of Trustees**
- Trustee/ Chair Kim Wide retired from trusteeship during this period.
- Dean Coates became Chair of Trustees when Kim Wide retired from Chair and trusteeship.
- New trustee James Flintoff was appointed during this period, and took on the role of Treasurer.
In accordance with Bricks Constitution we would have followed the following procedure: _Appointment of charity trustees:_
_(1) Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees._
_(2) In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO._
_Information for new charity trustees:_
_The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:_
_(a) a copy of the current version of the constitution; and_
_(b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts._
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## _**DIRECTOR’S REPORT**_
April 2022 - April 2023 has been a key year in Bricks progress. Key aspects of this year include:
## **KEY PROGRAMME AT ST ANNES HOUSE**
During this period we worked with creative and local communities in St Annes to deliver a number of projects including
- St Annes Community Living Room - during the cost of living winter 2022/23
- BRIZ Magazine - Community magazine expanding our community publishing
- Morning Meet Ups - intergenerational weekly meet up event for St Annes
- Community Hub work across Brislington to support during Cost of Living Crisis.
- The wrapping up of our Arts Council England funded project Scratch St Annes
- Collaborative Research events with Bristol and Bath Creative RND
- Community Flash Point Event: Spring Thing
- Expanding our free to use space at SAH including for Mini Milk, Shared Reading and others.
- Studio Mothership creating a new visual identity for St Annes House.
- Securing funding for Holiday Activity Fund in Summer 2023
- Working to secure Youth Programme Producer role and deliver an open access youth session - TBC
- Control Shift - an arts programme bringing creative and critical approaches to technology
- Arts & Sustainability Conference Event
- Demostage Collaboration with MAYK
- Francesca Simmons - Sound Henge project
- Mayfest 2022 - Film Screenings
- Super Dooper St Annes Football Club - by Jonathan Kelham
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- Hideout/ Retreat Bottle Kiln - by Sam Hellett.
## **BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL - LONG TERM PLANS**
Throughout this period we worked with Bristol City Council on plans for the long term community asset transfer of St Annes House to Bricks.
This initially took the form of Bricks working with Community Led Homes West and other partners to put forward a vision and plan for how the site could best work to accommodate the continuance of our current work in the existing structure, and also include space for social housing delivered by a third party social housing provider.
Then this moved on to a collaborative partnership between Bricks and BCC Housing team with the remit to 1) Establish Bricks a 5 year lease extension as a short term solution to take pressure of negotiations and 2) to establish the long term
opportunities of the site, and put in place the mechanisms where communities can co create this. Both aspects are ongoing.
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## **ENERGY USE**
A key challenge that we faced this year was energy use at St Annes House, with the electricity and gas bills being a significant part of our monthly expenditure despite all mitigations that we put in place. During the summer months the gas heating was turned off, and during the winter months this was strictly managed to balance the needs of our communities and building users, with our financial viability.
Audits were carried out, including via external consultants and west of england combined authority and these have helped us to put in place plans for future building changes to best reduce our consumption and outgoings.
## **INCOME & TRADING AT ST ANNES HOUSE**
During this period we invested in painting and decorating our community spaces and installing new flooring in our main community hire rooms to make them more desirable for the community, increase use and increase income. Income raised through being a location for film hires (Rain Dogs BBC, and Sixth Commandment BBC), managed through our trading company Bricks Trading Limited was a key funder of those improvements and played a key role in us building financial resilience to our energy costs.
## _**VALUES**_
_**Creative :**_ We believe in the power of creativity inside everyone.
_**Collaborative**_ **:** We believe in the magic and added value of collaboration.
_**Hospitable :**_ We are welcoming and want to bring people together.
_**Sustainable :**_ We are financially and environmentally sustainable and conscientious.
_**Local :**_ We are locally rooted and accountable. We support local voices.
_**Inclusive :**_ We listen to people and are people-led.
_**Entrepreneurial**_ **:** We believe in new ways of doing things and connecting value.
_**Civic :**_ We are for all people in our city.
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## _**NEW FUNDS**_
|**_NEW FUNDS_**||
|---|---|
|**Funder**|**Project**|
|Coop Community Fund|St Annes community chosen fund|
|East Street Arts|GUILD programme|
|St Monica Trust|Community Projects at St Annes House|
|Bristol City Council|Community Resilience Fund (consultancy)|
|Age UK|Community Projects at St Annes House|
|Bristol and Bath Creative RND|Amplified Publishing|
|School for Social Enterprise|Trade Up St Annes|
|GYF Trust|Welcome Spaces|
|UWE Bristol|Hopeful Futures|
|Bristol City Council|Brislington Map|
|Clarion Futures|BRIZ|
|Bristol City Council|Community Hubs funding|
|Bristol City Council /
Department for Education|Holiday Activity Fund - Summer 2023|
## _**FINANCES**_
## _**Reserves Policy**_
Our policy is to by January 2024, retain as reserves:
- Three months of salaries
- Three months of operating costs.
We changed our year end for both Bricks (this CIO) and Bricks Trading Company to 31st March 2023 so that they line up for more efficient reporting.
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## _**BRICKS TRADING LIMITED**_
On 11 December 2019 Bricks Trading Limited (Company Number 12359038) was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bricks CIO. Bricks CIO Trustees Kim Wide and Russell King are the sole directors of Bricks Trading Limited. Bricks Trading Limited was primarily incorporated to protect the assets of the charity while undertaking trading activities such as public art commissions and art sales.
In 2021-2022 Bricks Trading Limited entered into contracts to deliver programmes of public art, as well as entering contracts with tenants, hirers of spaces at St Annes House.
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|**BRICKS**|||**1183118**|**1183118**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
5th April 2022|**To**|Period end date
31st March 2023|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|**Last year**|
|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations and legacies|||92,816|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**92,816-**||||62,085|
|Charitable activities|||79,482|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**79,482-**||||58,242|
|Other trading activities|||41,198|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**41,198-**||||33,726|
|Investments|**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|
|Separate material item of income|**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||||||||||||||||||||
||**BRICKS**|**BRICKS**|**BRICKS**|**1183118**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
5th April 2022|**To**|Period end date
31st March 2023||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**|||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||
|Donations and legacies|92,816|**-**
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**92,816-**|62,085|
|Charitable activities|79,482|**-**
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**79,482-**|58,242|
|Other trading activities|41,198|**-**
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**41,198-**|33,726|
|Investments|**-**
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|Separate material item of income|**-**
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**213,496-**|**-**
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**213,496-**|**-**
**154,053-**|
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**A3 Payments**|**-**
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**154,053-**|
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|Charitable activities|213,425|**-**
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**213,425-**|173,623|
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**213,425-**|**-**
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**213,425-**|**-**
**174,823-**|
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**
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|**Section B Statement of a**|**ssets and liab**|**ilities at the e**|**nd of the period**|||
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||Cash at Bank||**-**
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
all the trustees|
(agree balances with rec
**Details**|**_Total cash funds_**
eipts and payments account
(s))|**-**
**9,295-**|**-**
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**1,200-**|**-**
**600-**|
||Debtors|||**-**
**495-**|**-**
**495-**|
||Prepayments|||**-**
**35,268-**|**-**
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**liability relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
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||Creditors|||**-**
**3,693-**||
||PAYE and NI Payable|||**-**
**7,429-**||
||Pensions Payable|||**-**
**744-**||
||Tenants Deposits Held|||**-**
**4,530-**||
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Sign|ature|Print|Name|Date of approval|
||||Dean|Coates|2nd Aug 2023|
||||James|Flintoff|2nd Aug 2023|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
03/08/2023
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Bricks CIO
St. Annes House St. Annes Road St. Annes Park BRISTOL BS4 4AB
4 January 2024
Dear Sirs,
## Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Bricks CIO
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Bricks CIO for the year ended 31 March 2023.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the CIO 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 examiner’s statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material 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 CIO as required by section 130 of the Act;
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
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.
Yours Faithfully
Sarah Youll ACA Belvedere Chartered Accountants The Old Forge 136 Long Ashton Road Bristol BS41 9LS