Trustees’ Annual Report for the period August 6[th] 20201to April 5[th] 2022 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 **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 Covid 19 and several lockdowns the meetings between the Trustee members were made through the phone and internet. The pandemic has stopped us from fully accomplishing our original intentions for the charity. We have not yet found a site where we would be able to show art work, but we have been invited to exhibit work in some spaces during the year and have continued our educational work. ## **EXHIBITIONS** This year we held art exhibitions at the “Stone Gallery” and “Fill the Gap” in Leytonstone, and have taken part in an ecology and feminism exhibition and series of events at the “Art Pavilion”, Mile End Park and a show of prints at the Barbican library. ## **PROJECTS RECEIVING FUNDING** We started an art course using Zoom where the students pay a small fee. The previous course, with a grant from Waltham Forest council, was free for attendees and used the Facebook page of Waltham Forest library. The academic programme has finished but all the lessons were recorded so in the future they can still be viewed by the public. Using Zoom is preferable because instead of only giving a lesson as on Facebook, it is possible to interact with students and to be able to see and also correct their work as well as having a discussion with the rest of the group. Since November 2022 (so the information will be detailed in next year’s account) we are continuing the paying Zoom class but in addition we are using Waltham Forest libraries for a free Zoom course for local residents of the borough as we received a grant from the council for this purpose. ## **OTHER PROJECTS** Through Clarence House we were able to contact “Woodland Heritage” (a registered charity supporting British woodlands) and we have offered anyone who gives a sizeable donation to this charity a work of art from our organisation’s chairman. We continue to have the support of the 3 voluntary worker who have helped us for the last few years with IT issues and secretarial work even if they cannot help as frequently as before because they have found employment. We were approached by the work-experience co-ordinator at the University of Westminster and one of their students will assist us with grant applications for our charity. We will enable the student to fulfil the criteria of their course by their work for our organisation and help them on the road to employment. ## **EXPENSES** As there was very little space on the desk for filming the large number 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 to 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 a volunteer to do the filming. The teacher, one of the Trustees, has received a small amount from the council grant , covering the last 2 years of teaching,and some of the fee paid by the students as we didn’t have the funds before. THE WILLIAM STOK ART CENTRE ## INCOME YEAR 2021 -22 **----- Start of picture text -----**
15 APR 2021 WALTHAM FOREST 1350
WALTHAM FOREST
2021- 2022 PAYMENT STUDENTS 860.64
2021 -2022 TOTAL INCOME 2210.64
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2 MAY ZOOM 14.39
10 MAY PAPER 6.56
22 MAY INK 18.74
30 MAY TAPE 7.75
2 JUNE ZOOM 14.39
2 JULY ZOOM 14.39
JULY PENS 4.90
2 AUG ZOOM 14.39
2 SEPT ZOOM 14.39
14 SEPT INK 19.01
14 SEPT PAPER 6.04
2 OCT ZOOM 14.39
2NOV ZOOM 14.39
2 DEC ZOOM 14.39
31 DEC WIX 44.73
2 JAN ZOOM 14.39
4 JAN WIX 93.60
1 JAN INK 20.35
7 JAN PAPER X 2 17.78
8 JAN COLOUR COPY PAPER 9.49
25 JAN INK 21.48
2 FEB ZOOM 14.39
17 FEB INK 21.44
2 MAR INK 20.90
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2 MAR ZOOM 14.39
2 MAR INK 20.90
MAR INK 20.27
26 MAR INK 22.49
18 MAR PAPER 7.09
2 MAR INK 24.23
2 APRIL ZOOM 14.39
2021 -22 ELECTRICITY 86.10
2021 -22 GAS 92.52
PAYMENT TO TEACHER 1000.00
TOTAL EXPENSES 1759.05
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