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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date||
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||**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<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||John Organ|Chair|||
||Norman Walsh|Treasurer|||
||Beth Knowles||||
||JeremyGreen||||
||Sarah Hiscock||||
||Karl Hyde||||
||Joanne Wilson||||
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## **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**<br>**achievements of the charity**<br>**during the year**|Achievements over 1styear<br>The charity was operating prior to being formally registered.<br>Adapting our activities and keeping our group connected over various stages of<br>lockdown.<br>Box On the Docks - Commissioned collaboration with Hemingway design and Media<br>City, 1stdesign was July 20 then invited back in Nov 20 and again in April 21.<br>Secured preferential terms on our rent at Islington Mill. £100/month<br>Oct/Nov 20, Project with young homeless people in partnership with Centrepoint<br>resulting in "Jordan" and "Dajee" films.<br>2020 Tales - Self-produced a series of films, each including the creation of a cardboard<br>story wall, documenting the year through the stories of individuals connected to our<br>community.<br>MSP Advent Calendar - Xmas 21, released a new piece of artwork online every day from<br>1/12 - 24/12<br>Successful funding bids to We Love MCR and The National Lottery to run creative<br>workshops over the winter/spring 20/21, plus purchase connective technology and art<br>supplies.<br>Funding from Necessity (via Street Support) to run online workshops with asylum<br>seekers in Feb/Mar 21.<br>Maintaining and growing our core group while reaching out to new communities.<br>Zoom has given us the ability to work anywhere in the world and we welcomed<br>participants from Japan, Brazil, Russia, US, Germany, Belgium and France to our online<br>workshops in March 21.<br>Supported by MIF towards choosing a collaborator with a view to MIF23. We chose<br>Brighton collective, Blast Theory, who were glad to engage in a series of online R&D<br>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** 

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## **Manchester Street Poem** 

|||**For the period from**|**For the period from**|**26/06/2020**|**To**<br>||**31/05/2021**|**31/05/2021**|
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|**Accounts**|||||||||
|**Receipts**<br>Donations and Grants<br>**Total receipts**<br>**Payments**<br>Studio Rent<br>Project Manager Fees<br>Workshop and Project Art costs<br>Travel and Subsistence costs<br>Computer costs||**Unrestricted funds**<br>**£**<br>**9,300**<br>**9,300**<br>**9,300**<br>**300**<br>**5,500**<br>**85**<br>**534**<br>**20**||**Restricted funds**<br>**£**|||||
|||||**6,961**|||||
|||||**6,961**|||||
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|||**300**||**400**|||**700**||
|||**5,500**||**4,500**|||**10,000**||
|||**85**||**1,258**|||**1,343**||
|||**534**||**423**|||**957**||
|||**20**||**162**|||**182**||
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|Sub total<br>**Total payments**<br>**Net of receipts/(payments)**<br>**Cash funds this year end**||**6,438**||**6,743**|||**13,182**||
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|||**2,862**||**218**|||**3,079**||
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|||**2,862**||**218**|||**3,079**||
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|**Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||
|**Cash funds**<br>**Total Assets**<br>**Signed by one or**<br>**two trustees on**<br>**behalf of all the**|||||**Unrestricted funds**<br>**£**<br>**2,862**<br>**2,862**||||
|||**Current Account**|||**2,862**||||
|||Signature|||**2,862**||||
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