Trustees’ Annual Report for the period April 6[th] 2022 to April 5[th] 2023
The William Stok Art Centre Registration number 1184773
Address:13 Connaught Road London E11 4AB
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.
We are very sorry to announce that one of our Trustees, Leonard Gourley,has died and we extend our sympathies to his family He is greatly missed.
Taking into consideration that all our Trustees are above 70 and 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. The contacts at organisations that promised us help to find a space in the past in several boroughs have either left or been unable to help at the present. We are continuing our search but 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 “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 shown sculptures in the Quaker House grounds, Wanstead. We participated in the E11 Arts Trail with a photographic show.
PROJECTS RECEIVING FUNDING
We continued an art course using Zoom where the students pay a small fee. With a grant from Waltham Forest Council we gave a course of free art tuition covering the whole borough via Zoom through Waltham Forest organised by Leyton Library. Local residents including students, adults and parents and children together were able to join the weekly class with a meeting code from the library. This was a well publicised and successful venture but slightly hampered by technical issues. The academic programme has now been completed.
OTHER PROJECTS
We continues to stay in contact with “Woodland Heritage” (a registered charity supporting British woodlands) and offer anyone who gives a sizeable donation to this charity a work of art from our organisation’s chairman. A donation has already been made to the organisation and the artwork was well received.
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 2 volunteers cannot help as frequently as before because they have found employment.
The University of Westminster who offered us help last year selected one of their students and she assisted us with grant applications for our charity. This has enabled the student to fulfil the criteria of part of her course by working for our organisation and we have helped her 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.
We had in addition general expenses, paper, paint and materials for secretarial work. Due to the difficulty of using paint and other materials we could not use 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 decided not to receive any fee for his work from the Council grant only the fee paid by the other course where the students paid for the lessons.
THE WILLIAM STOK ART CENTRE
INCOME YEAR 2022 -23
| 7 NOV 2022 | WALTHAM FOREST | 825 |
|---|---|---|
| 17 JAN 2023 | WALTHAM FOREST | 375 |
| 2022- 2023 | PAYMENT STUDENTS | 1223.22 |
| 2022 -2023 | TOTAL INCOME | 2423.22 |
EXPENDITURE YEAR 2022-23
| Unpaid expenses from 20-21 | INK/ PENS | 123.76 |
|---|---|---|
| APRIL 15 | INK | 20.27 |
| APRIL 23 | INK | 20.36 |
| MAY 2 | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| MAY 6 | INSURANCE | 126.27 |
| MAY 21 | INK | 20.21 |
| JUN 2 | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| JUN 8 | INK | 20.91 |
| JUN 12 | INK | 34.48 |
| JULY 2 | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| JULY 21 | INK | 17.33 |
| JUlY 30 | INK | 18.00 |
| AUG 2 | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| AUG | INK | 27.00 |
| SEPT 2 | INK | 35.33 |
| SEPT 2 | INK | 26.68 |
| SEPT 2 | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| OCT 2 | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| NOV | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| NOV 22 | INK | 25.00 |
| DEC | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| DEC | PENS | 13.06 |
| JAN 4 2023 | WEBSITE CHARGES | 93.60 |
| JAN 4 | ZOOM | 14.39 |
| JAN | PAPER | 6.99 |
|---|---|---|
| JAN 25 | PENS | 5.58 |
| FEB | ZOOM | 14.49 |
| FEB | INK | 24.97 |
| FEB | CABLE, CHARGER | 40.00 |
| FEB | INK | 19.55 |
| MAR | ZOOM | 15.59 |
| MAR | INK | 20.49 |
| TOTAL EXPENSES MATERIALS |
899.93 | |
| 2022-23 | PAYMENT TO TEACHER | 1223.22 |