## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 April 2023 Period start date To 31 March 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Larkin100** ## **Charity registration number:** 1189969 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance the education of the public in the life
and work of the poet and librarian, Philip Larkin.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Larkin100 acts as an arms-length co-ordinating body
for planning, organizing, and promoting a range of
cultural events that both celebrate the legacy of
Philip Larkin during the centenary year of his birth
in 2022 and help to generate new creative and
artistic responses to it.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have been constantly vigilant as far as
public benefit is concerned: it is the major focus of
our activities which are all open to the public.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The charity has no paid staff. All activities which
involve direct delivery by trustees are undertaken
on a voluntary basis.| Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|By the end of 2022, Larkin100 had
effectively achieved its primary purpose in
terms of planning, organising and
promoting a comprehensive and highly
successful range of cultural events which
both commemorated the work of Philip
Larkin at the time of his centenary and also
helped to generate new creative responses
to it thus enabling a living legacy of
Larkin’s poetic inspiration. Full details of
these achievements were covered in the
previous annual report. However, at the
end of the year an opportunity arose to
further extend this work into the following
year by offering support and expertise to
Beverley Art Gallery in its plans to stage a
major Larkin exhibition in April 2023.
Trustees welcomed this as being an
excellent way to maintain the momentum
achieved during the centenary year.
In conjunction with our sister charity, The
Philip Larkin Society, trustees from
Larkin100 helped to extend the original
plans for a Larkin-themed art exhibition into
a Larkin Festival featuring music, art and
the spoken word in the market town of
Beverley lasting from 1st April to 13 May.
At the centre of the festival was ‘Home Is
So Sad’, a first ever Larkin inspired
exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery featuring
the work of Seoul-based artists
Yeonkyoung Lee and Sam Robinson. The
exhibition drew on the artists’ longstanding
interest in the life and work of Philip Larkin,
the idea of ‘home’ as a fluid concept and
new research into East Riding’s cultural
history. Alongside their work, the artists
selected pieces from the permanent
collections of East Riding Museums and
items of Larkinalia loaned by the Philip
Larkin Society.
The most specific contribution made by
Larkin100 was to use funding and trustee
expertise to plan and produce an evening
of Larkin inspired music and poetry at East| Riding Theatre, ‘A Joyous Shot’, featuring The Mechanicals Band from Coventry, writer and poets Vicky Foster and Chris Sewart. The event was extremely well supported and was very positively reviewed. Two talks on Larkin, drawing on the themes of Larkin’s appreciation of art and his connections with the East Riding, were delivered by Larkin100 trustees, Graham Chesters and Philip Pullen and took place in Beverley Treasure House. In addition, trustee Philip Pullen, led a guided walk around Philip Larkin’s Beverley, featuring places associated with the poet. A proposal to merge Larkin100 with The Philip Larkin Society, a larger charity with similar aims, will now be considered in 2025. **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **----- Start of picture text -----**
Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
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activities against objectives Para 1.41
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Investment performance Para 1.41
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## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Larkin100 had secured £3000 in financial
support from external organisations| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|1% of overall budget to be held as
contingency funding.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£300| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Standard CIO documentation| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Nominations to or directly from existing
directors.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Larkin100| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1189969| |Charity’s principal address|5 Flemingate Court
Beverley
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Dr PhilipPullen|Chair||| ||Professor Graham
Chesters|||| ||Victoria Foster|||| ||Dr Sarah Jane
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Chair|| ||12-12-24|| ||12-12-24|| **Larkin100 Statement of Accounts 2023-24** ||**Income**|**Expenditure**| |---|---|---| |**Larkin Beverley Festival 1st April – 13th**||| |**May 2023**||| |Box Office Receipts|1083.68|| |Print costs||390| |Mechanicals Band||350| |Chris Sewart||150| |Vicky Foster||150| |**Total**|**1083.68**|**1040.00**| |**Opening Balance 31-3-22**|**2964.46**|| |**Movement 23-24**|**(43.68)**|| |**Closing Balance 31-3-23**|**3008.14**||