2021-05-31-accounts - Manchester Street Poem

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date	Period end date
	Day	Month	Year		Day	Month	Year
From	26	06	2020	To	31	05	2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Manchester Street Poem Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1190139 Charity's principal address 110 Oldham Road

Manchester Postcode M4 6AG

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	John Organ	Chair
	Norman Walsh	Treasurer
	Beth Knowles
	JeremyGreen
	Sarah Hiscock
	Karl Hyde
	Joanne Wilson

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Simon Le Roux

Section B Structure, governance and management

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Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) A Charitable Organisation whose only How the charity is constituted voting members are its charity trustees

(eg. trust, association, company)

In selecting individuals fo r appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees’ must Trustee selection methods have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective (eg. appointed by, elected by) administration of the Charity. Appointed by the board of Trustees at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
t rustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society, by providing: • Arts based activities, workshops, forums, advocacy and general support

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

raising public awareness of the issues affecting those who are
socially isolated
social and recreational facilities and events involving the local
community.

For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: Homelessness, unemployment; financial hardship, ill health (physical or mental, substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs and crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society).

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In planning activities for the year the Trustees have had due regard of their responsibilities to meet the Charity Commission’s guidance o n Public Benefit from the purposes for which the charity was established.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity
during the year

Achievements over 1styear
The charity was operating prior to being formally registered.
Adapting our activities and keeping our group connected over various stages of
lockdown.
Box On the Docks - Commissioned collaboration with Hemingway design and Media
City, 1stdesign was July 20 then invited back in Nov 20 and again in April 21.
Secured preferential terms on our rent at Islington Mill. £100/month
Oct/Nov 20, Project with young homeless people in partnership with Centrepoint
resulting in "Jordan" and "Dajee" films.
2020 Tales - Self-produced a series of films, each including the creation of a cardboard
story wall, documenting the year through the stories of individuals connected to our
community.
MSP Advent Calendar - Xmas 21, released a new piece of artwork online every day from
1/12 - 24/12
Successful funding bids to We Love MCR and The National Lottery to run creative
workshops over the winter/spring 20/21, plus purchase connective technology and art
supplies.
Funding from Necessity (via Street Support) to run online workshops with asylum
seekers in Feb/Mar 21.
Maintaining and growing our core group while reaching out to new communities.
Zoom has given us the ability to work anywhere in the world and we welcomed
participants from Japan, Brazil, Russia, US, Germany, Belgium and France to our online
workshops in March 21.
Supported by MIF towards choosing a collaborator with a view to MIF23. We chose
Brighton collective, Blast Theory, who were glad to engage in a series of online R&D
sessions in April/May 21.

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Section E Financial review

The Charity Commission defines reserves as “income which comes available to the Brief statement of the charity and is to be extended at the Trustees discretion in furtherance of the charity’s charity’s policy on reserves objectives, but is not yet spent, committed or designated ”. The Trustees believe that two months of budgeted operating costs should be held as unrestricted funds, approximately £2,200. This policy is reviewed annually. As at 31 May 2021, total unrestricted reserves were £2,862 which is in line with the policy.

Details of any funds materially

in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the chari ty’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) �� Position (eg Secretary, Chair, �� etc) Date ��

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Manchester Street Poem

	For the period from	26/06/2020	To	31/05/2021	31/05/2021

Accounts
Receipts Donations and Grants Total receipts Payments Studio Rent Project Manager Fees Workshop and Project Art costs Travel and Subsistence costs Computer costs	Unrestricted funds £ 9,300 9,300 9,300 300 5,500 85 534 20	Restricted funds £
		6,961
		6,961

		6,961

	300	400		700
	5,500	4,500		10,000
	85	1,258		1,343
	534	423		957
	20	162		182

Sub total Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) Cash funds this year end	6,438	6,743		13,182

		6,743

	2,862	218		3,079


	2,862	218		3,079

Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Cash funds Total Assets Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the			Unrestricted funds £ 2,862 2,862
	Current Account		2,862
	Signature		2,862
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