Trustees’ Annual Report for the period August 5[th] 2020 to April 4[th] 2021
The William Stok Art Centre Registration number 1184773
Address:13 Connaught Road London E11 4AB
Trustees: Alessandro Graziani (chair) Rosa Maria Letts Susan Braddell Smith Craig Gourley Bice Benvenuto Yvonne Large
The purposes of the charity are as follows : To advance education in and to promote the arts for the public benefit, by providing arts facilities, public exhibitions, lectures and workshops and by encouraging high standards of art which increase the public's knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts.
Due to the lockdown as a charitable group the Trustees have stayed connected by meeting on the phone and by internet.
VOLUNTEERS
We continue to be helped by a voluntary worker who organised our website last year to during a period when she was unemployed. Using our letter of recommendation and based on the work she did with us, she was able to find a job related to her specialised study in computers. Previously she had been unable to find work in this sector, constricting her to work in other areas of little interest to her.
PROJECTS RECEIVING FUNDING
In September 2020 and February 2021 we received funding from Waltham Forest Council for a teaching course using Waltham Forest library’s Facebook page that has been a great success: the course from July to the end of December was followed by 65 to 85 people in every twice weekly session. All of the sessions were recorded and have become part of the Waltham Forest library archive so they can continue to be used by the public in the future.
Because of the nature of Facebook, the teacher could only give a lecture, without being able to interrelate with the students, so to resolve this problem from October 2020 we started a class using Zoom, independently from the library class, to be able to see and correct the students’ work.
EXPENSES
As there was very little space on the desk for filming the large numbers of books, we needed to take photocopies of some of the images to be able to point out details for the lessons to make them clearer, so we spent funds on ink and paper to photocopy the necessary material.
Due of the difficulty of using paint and other materials we could not use Facebook or Zoom run by a single person, in this case the teacher, so we had the help of another volunteer to do the filming.
The expenses to pay the teacher and the technician are not included in this year’s accounts because we didn’t receive the final payment from Waltham Forest Council for this project until after April 4th 2021. These expenses will be recorded for the year 2021 – 2022. Only the small amount paid by the students that have followed the Zoom classes (Facebook classes were run with no fee to students) was used as an advance to pay the teacher.
EXHIBITIONS
Due to coronavirus three exhibitions that should have taken place in 2020 have been postponed. One in the Barbican Arts Group Trust, secondly in the Stone Space gallery in Leytonstone and the third at the Art Pavilion in Mile End. Two exhibitions were based on ecological subject matter and one on eco-feminism.Two of the shows are taking place in 2021, one in September and the other in October.
THE WILLIAM STOK ART CENTRE
INCOME YEAR 2020 – 2021
| SEPT 15 2020 | WALTHAM FOREST | 900 |
|---|---|---|
| FEB 22 2021 | WALTHAM FOREST | 300 |
| 2020- 2021 | PAYMENT STUDENTS | 525.95 |
| 2020 -2021 | TOTAL INCOME | 1725.95 |
EXPENDITURE YEAR 2020-21
| JULY 25 2020 | INK PAPER | 51.97 |
|---|---|---|
| AUG 3 2020 | INK PAPER | 25.98 |
| SEPT 12 2020 | LAPTOP | 415.00 |
| SEPT 19 2020 | WEBCAM | 137.99 |
| SEPT 22 2020 | SYNCWIRE | 9.99 |
| SEPT 26 2020 | INK | 37.49 |
| OCT 2 2020 | ZOOM | 14.49 |
| OCT 5 2020 | INK | 31.98 |
| OCT 9 2020 | INK PAPER | 44.99 |
| OCT 12 2020 | RING LIGHT | 29.99 |
| OCT 22 2020 | PAPER | 15.56 |
| NOV 2 2020 | ZOOM | 14.49 |
| NOV 2 2020 | INK | 23.99 |
| DEC 2 2020 | ZOOM | 14.49 |
| DEC 19 2020 | INK | 25.49 |
| DEC 19 2020 | PAPER | 5.58 |
| JAN 2 2021 | ZOOM | 14.49 |
| JAN 7 2021 | INK | 33.00 |
| FEB 2 2021 | ZOOM | 14.49 |
| FEB 21 2021 | INK | 42.99 |
| MAR 2 2021 | ZOOM | 14.49 |
| MAR 3 2021 | PAPER | 5.32 |
| MAR 8 2021 | TABLET | 119.00 |
| MAR 27 2021 | INK | 18.75 |
| APR 2 2021 | ZOOM | 14.49 |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 -2021 | PAYMENT TO TEACHER | 525.95 |
| 2020/21 COSTS DURING | ELECTRICITY | 86.40 |
| COURSE TIME | GAS | 93.32 |
| TOTAL EXPENSES | 1882.16 |