Charity Number: 1202948
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Switchflicker CIO
Report and financial statements
For the year ended 31 March 2025

Switchflicker CIO
Reference and administrative information
for the period ended 31 March 2025
Charity number 1202948
Registered office and operational address
c/0 Slade & Cooper Ltd Beehive Mill Jersey St Ancoats Manchester M4 6JG
Trustees
Trustees who Se￿ed during the year and up to the date of this report were as
follows:
Dr Monica Pearl
Chair
Dr Andrew Westle
Vice Chair I Secretary
Richard Barnes
Treasurer
Key management Jayne Compton Executive Direttor
personnel
Bankers
Santander
Santander Business Banking Operations, Sunderland, SR43 4FW
Solicitors
Laura Marsden. Counterculture
Unit 115 Ducie House, Ducie Street, Manchester, Ml 2JW
Independent Examiner
Jennifer Daniels FCCA DChA
Slade & Cooper Limited, Beehive Mill, Jersey St, Manchester, M4 6JG

Switchflicker CIO
Trustees, annual report
for the period ended 31 March 2025
The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 March
2025.
Reference and administrative information set out on page I forms part of this report. The financial
statements comply with current statutory requirements. the charity's constitution and the Statement of
Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing
their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.
Objectives and activities
The object5 of the CIO are
To advance the education of the public in the perfom?ing arts and to promote the performing arts in
particular but not exclusively by producing, promoting, and touring high-quality contemporary work
across the UK for the public benefit.
The 'the performing arts, includes music, dance, drama, and perfom7ance art.
Our main activities are to produce art projects and tour new work.
The charity's main goals for the year 2024125 were to fundraise for, develop and present a programme
of work by a wide range of live performance makers, and present this programme to as wide a public
audience as possible. Everything Switchflicker CIO does is project-based. Some projects are artist-led,
and some are conceived and led by Switchflicker CIO.
SWITCHFLtCKER CIO:
Works locally, national and internationally
Is a leading producer of contemporary perfomiance and interdisciplinary work in the Northwest
Connects emerging artists with established institutions / venues / festivals seeking to
commission and present outstanding & diverse contemporary work
Produces challenging. diverse and inclusive arts practice and content
Develops producing practices that enable artists to overcome barriers to participation in the
sector
The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at
what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The trustees report
the success of each key artivity and the benefits the charity has brought to those groups of people that
it is set up to help. The review also helps the trustees ensure the charity's aims, objectives and
activities remained focused on its Stated purposes.
The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on
public benefit when reviewing the charity's aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In
particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that
have been set.

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Achievements and performance
The charity's main activities and who it tries to help are described below. All its charitable activities
focus on producing art projects and touring new work and are undertaken to further Switchflicker CIO'S
charitable purposes for the public benefit.
Switchflicker CIO'S artivity during the 2024125 financial year was very busy, touring several productions
nationally and internationally. We developed and delivered a mixed programme of live performances
both indoor and outdoor, as well as workshops, talks, in-conversation, and digital perfomiances for
public benefit.
Our 2024125 projects championed the voices of artists who have been historically excluded and
underrepresented in the arts, presenting urgent, bold cross-artform works to audiences in national and
international contexts. We are a collaborative partner, working with artists as they explore and develop
new projects, contexts and ways of working.
Key artivity..
as british as a watermelon by mandla & Graham Clayton Chance, was acquired by MOMA, the
Museum of Modern Art. The video installation and live show as british as a watermelon,
examines systemic racism experienced by the artist in the process of migrating to the UK to seek
asylum.
Closer to My Dreams by Chad Taylor was commi55ioned for the Without Walls 2024
programme and toured to Brighton International Festival. The Whitworth Gallery Manchester,
Ensemble Festival London, Stockton Intemation Riverside Festival and the Binningham
hippodrome. The show weaves poetrylrap with Hip Hop choreography to provide an intimate
portrayal of the joys and struggles of urban Black British life. The tour was well received with
positive reviews and audience reartion, and solid relationships built with new venues
Family Catwalk Extravaganza by Ghetto Fabulous toured to Waterside Arts Manchester, The
Met Bury, Migration Matters festival Shefffield, Factory International Manchester, Oldham
Coliseum, Chesterfield Children's Festival. The Den by Royal Exchange theatre Rochdale,
National theatre Riverside Stage London. Encounter Festival Preston, Festival of Thrift and Arts
by the Sea in Boumemouth. The show is aimed at young people and their families to come
together in a celebration of self-expression highlighting the LGBTQl+ community.
We provided producing and bespoke consultancy support to arts organisations and projects:
Carnesky Productioris, Homotopia and Duovision.
Ongoing
Organisational review of the charity's strengthslweaknesses:
The performing arts sector is experiencing financial pressures due to the cost-of-living crisis
impacting artists and audiences and an increasingly challenging touring context due to higher
delivery costs. We are moving forward with a focus on trusts and foundations for multi-year
funding to support the charity's financial resilience and sustainability.
Representation..
We affirm our commitment to focusing on producing work by artists from under-represented
demographics. maintaining representation on our board. staff team, on and offstage freelance
roles, and actively engaging audiences and participants from under-served and LGBTQIA+
demographics.

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Benef iciaries of our services
The trustee5 have had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit when planning the
programme of activity and determining how best to utilise funds raised.
The beneficiaries from our artivities are the artists and creative team involved, and people experiencing
the work as participants and audience members and through workshops/talks. We continue to actively
try to increase the diversity of beneficiaries including staff, board, collaborating artists and
practitioners, audiences and participants, and continue to implement our Diversity & Equality Policy.
Beneficièries include..
Members of the public experiencing the work as audience members.
Artists working in a range of art-forms.
Other professionals working in the arts including producers, dirertors, choreographers, writers,
photographers, produrtion and technical personnel.
Funders and supporters of the work.
All the above are specific to each projert but have a range of protected chararteristics in terms of age,
disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership. pregnancy and maternity, race, religion
or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Financial review
The financial statements show the current state of Switchflicker CIO'S finances for year ended 31 March
2025.
Switchflicker CIO'S principal sources of income are:
Earned.. production fees and box office income from touring and presenting partners £86,157
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants in support of individual projects/programmes
£19,500 and Without Walls £470
Fundraising.. income through grants from trusts and foundations and donations towards core and in
support of individual projectslprogrammes. £9,105
The sUPPOrt of our partners is essential in our ability to continue supporting contemporary performance
and interdisciplinary artists in the Northwest for local. national and international audiences. A5 most
artistic projects are not self-supporting. the perfomiing arts relies on a mixed economy of funding to
survive. We continue to employ our team of freelancers on a project-by-projert basis as funding allows
to ensure that we deliver on our stated aims. Our revenue has grown, and a few project bids have been
submitted to fund our work into next year.
We should like to thank our funders for their generous support of Switchflicker CIO this year.. Arts
Council England and Without Walls.
For more information, visit www.switchflicker.co.uk

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Reserves policy
The aim of the reserves policy is to ensure that the charity's ongoing and future activities are
reasonably protected from unexpected fluctuation5 in its income and expenditure.
The trustees have examined the charity's requirements for reserves considering the main risks to the
organisation. In light of ongoing sertoral challenges arising from the wider economy and those specific
to the perfonning arts sector, and to cashflow potential new projects, the trustees believe that the level
of unrestricted funds held by the charity should be around £16,000 - around 14Yo of tumover
{£115,232).
Our current free reserves (excluding designated funds and fixed assets) are currently on target. We will
continue to keep this policy under review in line with the operational guidelines issued by the Charities
Commission.
Plans for the future
Touring current projects for presentation in the UK and intemationally, including Closer to My
Dreams, as british as a watermelon, and Family Catwalk Extravagonza.
Research and development of new touring work for 2026127
The continuation of our work in supporting and developing creative talent to ensure a robust
talent pipeline and promote workforce entry routes.
To expand and increase the reach of our Associate Artists Programme to help artists, writers,
producer5 and arts practitioner sustain their careers.
Organisational development review.
To expand our projects and services to best meet need, we are piloting how best to take work
into schools to help the mental health and wellbeing children and young people post covid.
Structurei governance and management
Switchflicker CIO is managed by a board of trustees. chal￿d by Dr Monica Pearl.
Members of the board meet on a quarterly basis. Day-to-day management is delegated to the Executive
Director Jayne Compton, who manages all project based freelance staff and artists.
The organisation is a charitable incorporated organisation, registered as a charity on 4 May 2023 in
England and Wales.
The charity is constituted under a constitution dated 4 May 2023. The trustees are members of the
charity but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the
charity.
All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity. Any expenses reclaimed
from the charity are set out in note 7 to the accounts.
The board and senior team regularly review the skills, knowledge and experience required to properly
govern the organisation including a skills audit. We are a newly formed charity and, in the future, when
a need for new trustees is identified, we will follow the processes outlined in our Diversity and Equality
Policy to match the knowledge and skills required and to increase representation at Board level. On 31
March 2025, of three trustees, IOOO/o identify as LGBTQAI+ and 330/0 as female.
As set out in the Articles of Association new trustees are appointed by the existing trustees and a robust
process is in place to advertise for or solicit new charity trustees, based on their skills, experience and
what they can offer to the organisation alongside the other trustees. No other person or body is entitled

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to appoint a charity trustee, and we carefully follow our Articles and Memorandum of Association
concerning the appointment and retirement of trustees.
We recognise the responsibilities placed by law on a trustee and a thorough induttion process will be
put in place for all new trustees which includes meetings with the Chair, senior team, and other
Trustees, sharing the Trustee Code of Conduct, Memorandum and Articles of Association, the latest
Annual Report and Financial Statements, past minutes. and reading materials and talking through
processes and information on their role and responsibilities as a trustee.
Related parties and relationships with other organisations
There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period that ￿qUIre disclosure.
Funds held as custodian trustee on behalf of others
Not applicable
Statement of responsibilities of the trustees
Law applicable to charities in England and Wale5 requires the trustees to prepare financial statements
for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the charity's financial activities during the
period and of its financial position at the end of the period. In preparing financial statements giving a
true and fair view, the trustees should follow best practice and:
Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP
Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have
been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
Prepare the financial 5tatement5 on the going concern basis unle5S It is inappropriate to presume that
the charity will continue in operation
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable
accuracy at any time the financial p051tion of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial
statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of
the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other
irregularities.
The trustee5 are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial
information included on the charity's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the
preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
The trustees. annual report has been approved by the trustees on 6 11112025 and signed on their
behalf by
Richard Barnes
Treasurer

## Independent examiner’s report 

## to the members of 

## Switchflicker CIO 

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31[st] March 2025 which are set out on pages 8 to 13. 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). 

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

## **Independent examiner's statement** 

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; and 

2. the accounts do not accord with those records. 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 


Jennifer Daniel FCCA DChA 

Slade & Cooper Limited, Chartered Certified Accountants Beehive Mill, Jersey Street Manchester, M4 6JG 

Date 6[th] November 2025 

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Switchflicker CIO
Receipts and Payments Account
for the year ended 31 March 2025
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Total funds
2025
Total furpds
2024
Note
Receipts
Donations
9,105
9,105
Grants
19,970
19,970
20,230
Gross receipts from other
charitable activities
32,535
53,622
86,157
61,250
Sub-total
41,640
73,592
115,232
81,480
Total recelpts
41.640
73.592
115,232
81.480
Payments
Payments relating directly to
charitable activities
Governance costs-
Legal support
18,111
82,076
100,187
70,430
454
Sub-total
18.111
82.076
100,187
70.884
Total payments
18.111
82.076
100.187
70.884
Net receipts/(payments) before
transfers
23,529
(8,484)
15,045
10,596
Transfer between funds
Net receipts/payments for the
period
23,529
{8,484)
15,045
10,596
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
2,112
8,484
10,596
Total funds carried forward
25,641
25,641
10,596

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Statement of balances
as at 31 March 2025
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Total funds
2025
Total fund5
2024
Note
Cash funds
Bank and cash balances at start of
year
1,217
8,484
9,701
Debtor balance received
Surplus / (deficit} shown on
receipts and payments account
895
895
23,529
{8,484)
15,045
9,701
Bank and cash balances at end
of year
25,641
25,641
9,701
other assets
Debtors
895
Total other assets
895
Total Balances
25,641
25,641
10,596
Approved by the trustees on 6 11112025 and signed on their behalf bv..
Richard Barnes
(Treasurer)

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025
Basis of accounting
These accounts have been prepared on the Receipts & Payments basis.
Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are avai lable to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of
charitv.
Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for
particular areas of the charity's work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.
Income from donations and legacies
Current reporting period
Unrestrirted
Restrirted
2025
Donations
9,105
9,105
9,105
9,105
Previous reporting period
Unrestricted
Restricted
2024
Donations
Grants received
Current reporting period
Unrestricted
Restricted
2025
Arts Council England
(Family Catwalk Extravaganza 2024}
Without Walls
(Closer to my Drearns 2024)
19,500
19,500
470
470
19,970
19,970
Previous reporting period
Unrestricted
Restrirted
2024
National Lottery Projert Grant
(Family Catwalk Extravaganza 2023)
Without Walls
(Closer to my Dreams 2024)
16,000
16,000
4,230
4,230
20,230
20,230
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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025
Receipts from charitable activities
Current reporting period
Unrestricted
Restricted
2025
Touring income
32,535
53,622
86,157
32.535
53,622
86,157
Previous reporting period
Unrestrirted
Restrirted
2024
Touring income
36,246
25,004
61,250
36,246
25,004
61,250
Payments relating directly to charitable activities
Current reporting period
Unrestrirted
Restricted
2025
Artist fees
Production Costs
Activity Costs
Accomodation Costs
Administration Costs
Professional Costs
Other Expenditure
50,588
24,059
4,293
2,796
52
200
88
50,588
40,006
5,316
2,796
929
350
202
15.947
1,023
877
150
114
18,111
82,076
100,187
Prevlous reportlng perlod
Unrestricted
Restricted
2024
Artist fees
Production Costs
Activity Costs
Accomodation Costs
Administration Costs
Professional Costs
other Expenditure
15,337
6,453
5,375
3,291
3,177
476
25
29, 704
6,348
271
406
21
45,041
12,801
5,646
3,697
3,198
476
25
34,134
36, 750
70,884
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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 (continued)
Trustee remuneration and expenses, and related party transactions
None (2024.. none) of the trustees nor any persons connected with them received any
remuneration during the year .
None (2024: none) tmstees received tTrvel and subsistence expenses during the year
No trustee or other person related to the charity had any personal interest in any contract or
transaction entered into by the charity, including guarantees, during the year.{2024'. none)
Outstanding debts and liabilities at 31 March 2025
As at 31 March 2025 there was no outstanding potential liability under any guarantee given
by the CIO (31 March 2024: nil).
A5 at 31 March 2025 there was no outstanding debt owed by the CIO which was secured by
a charge on any of the CIO'S assets (31 March 2024: nil).
Analysis of movement in unrestricted funds
Current reporting
period
Balance
at l April
2024
Asat31
March 2025
Receipts
Payments
Transfers
General fund
2.112
41,640
(18.111)
25,641
Previous
reporting period
tsaiance
at31
March
2024
Balance
t4May
2023
Receipts
Payments
Transfers
General fund
36,246
(34,134)
2,112
Name of fund
Descrlptlon, nature and purposes of the fund
General fund
Bank and cash balances available for general charitable artivities.
12

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 (continued)
10 Analysis of movement in restricted funds
Current reporting
period
Balance
at l April
2024
A5at31
March 2025
Receipts
Payments
Transfers
Family Catwal k
Extravaganza project
Closer to my
Dreams project
Touring
19,500
(19,500)
4,230
470
(4,700)
4,254
53,622
(57,876)
8,484
73,592
(82,076)
Previous
reporting perlod
Balance
at4May
2023
Asat31
March
2025
Receipts
Payments
Transfe
Family Catwalk
Extravaganza project
Closer to my
Dreams project
Touring
16,000
(16,000)
4,230
4,230
25,004
(20,750)
4,254
45.234
(36.750)
8.484
Restrirted fvnds relate to specific touring projects.
13

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 (continued)
I I Prior period Receipts & Payments Account
The CIO was registered on
4th May 2023
Unrestrirted
funds
Restricted
fund5
Total funds
2024
Note
Income from..
Grants
20,230
20,230
Gross receipts from other
charitable activities.-
36,246
25,004
61,250
Sub-total
36,246
45,234
81,480
Total receipts
36,246
45,234
81,480
Expenditure on."
Payments relati ng directly
to charitable activities
Governance costs:
Legal support
33,680
36, 750
70,430
454
454
Sub-total
34,134
36,750
70,884
Total payments
34,134
36,750
70,884
Net recelpts/(payments)
before transfers
2.112
8.484
10.596
Transfer between funds
Net receipts/payments
2,112
8,484
10,596
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