Trustees’ Annual Report for the period April 6[th] 2024 to April 5[th] 2025
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.
Taking into consideration that all our Trustees are near or above ‘80 the meetings between the Trustee members were made through the phone and the internet.
We have been invited to exhibit work in several spaces during the year, and also by a museum to show work next year in Italy.
We showed in the ArtWorks project space in Hackney, at the Elms Window gallery, “Yes Art” art fair and “Three Rooms” gallery and showed a short film in a festival at the Soho Cinema, Walthamstow
Our educational work continues with lectures on a variety of art topics and practical lessons ranging from art history to comics and illustration for all ages.
EXHIBITIONS
This year we held art exhibitions at “Fill the Gap” in Leytonstone, at Barbican Arts Group in Blackhorse Lane, London for the E17 Arts Trail.
PROJECTS RECEIVING FUNDING
We continued an art course using Zoom where the students pay a small fee. This year we did not receive the usual grant from Waltham Forest Council because due to changing conditions we could only receive funding from two wards where the 2 libraries invited us to give teaching where we were prepared to give a course of free art tuition, organised by Wood Street and Leytonstone Library as they requested.
Because we haven’t spent some of the grant we received in previous years,(we worked voluntarily), we can still afford to cover our expenses and keep the fee low for the Zoom classes.
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.
We continue to have the support of the 3 voluntary workers 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.
EXPENSES
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 students for the lessons.
THE WILLIAM STOK ART CENTRE
INCOME YEAR 2024-25
| 2024- 2025 | PAYMENT STUDENTS | 425.64 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 -2025 | TOTAL INCOME | 425.64 |
EXPENDITURE YEAR 2024-25
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
|---|---|
| INK | 39.20 |
| POSCA PENS | 12.25 |
| PAPER | 5.00 |
| TAPE | 4.95 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| INK | 9.99 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| INK | 42.69 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| INK | 9.99 |
| WIX WEBSITE | 111.00 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| WIX DOMAIN | 54.00 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| COPY PAPER | 14.49 |
| ZOOM | 15.59 |
| INK | 41.98 |
| TOTAL EXPENDITURE | 532.02 |