2021-09-30-accounts

				Our first year of activities were greatly affected by the restrictions and
				lockdowns imposed by the Covid 19epidemic. Prior to our Registration,
				our annual festival was to be held in May of2020 but was cancelled.
				Thanks to the strenuous efforts ofthe organisers an 'on-line' festival was
				put together and drew audiences from around Britain, and, much further
				afield such as the United States and Australia.
				During our first actual year of being a charity, the Covid outbreak resulted
				in both our planned Folk Day to be held in February 2021 and our 4-day
				festival to be held in May of2021 being cancelled.
Summary ofthe main
activities undertaken		for	the	Building on the experience gained from the Zoom and Web based festival
public benefit in relation			to	of2020 both events ran 'on-line'. We were greatly supported by local,
these objects (include within this section the statutory				national and international artists who perfarmed either for free or on a share ofreceipts after costs basis. We felt itwas vitally important to
declaration	that trustees		have	support artists at this time as many did not receive support from
had regard	to the guidance			government schemes as they were classified as self-employed,
issued by the Charity
Commission	on public			Our May on-line festival was a collaboration with Chippenham Folk
benefit)				Festival. They normally run their live festival aver the same weekend	as
				ourselves and both organising groups were able to see great benefits	in
				producing a mix ofshared content and separate 'streams' representing
				the focus and atmosphere afthe different festivals. Again, a huge
				amount ofwork and expertise was put into the organisation and running
				ofthe festival, and itwas acclaimed as a huge success.

Summary ofthe main achievements ofthe charity during the year	Summary ofthe main achievements ofthe charity during the year	Summary ofthe main achievements ofthe charity during the year	We feel that, despite the terrible impact ofCovid 19on the cultural, physical and mental wellbeing of our community, we have overcome the obstacles posed by it and our aims and delivered the aims set out in our constitution. We have been able to provide 2 online events which have
			directly supported our aim of advancing public education in, and
			appreciation of, British and Multicultural Folk Arts. We have also been
			able to create events that provided artists with much needed paid work
			and worked with artists to support them during this difficult period.