Guisborough Arts Balance Sheet 05/01/2026
| Assets Assets £3,294.63 Current Assets £3,294.63 Petty Cash £3.40 Savings Account £0.00 Current Account £3,291.23 Total_Current Assets_ £3,294.63 Accounts Receivable £0.00 Total_Assets_ £3,294.63 Imbalance-GBP £0.00 Total Assets £3,294.63 |
Equity | Equity |
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| Retained Earnings £3,294.63 |
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| Total Equity £3,294.63 |
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| Liabilities | ||
| Liabilities £0.00 Accounts Payable £0.00 |
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Total |
Liabilities £0.00 |
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| Total Liabilities £0.00 |
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| Total Liabilities & Equity £3,294.63 |
Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Day Month Year From 5 1 2025 To
Period end date
Day Month Year 4 1 2026
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Guisborough Arts
Other names charity is known by
Registered charity number (if any) 1206397
| red charity number (if any) | 1206397 | |
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| Charity's principal address | 98 Whitby Avenue | |
| Guisborough | ||
| Cleveland | ||
| Postcode | TS14 7BA |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Bernard Clarke | Chair of Trustees | ||||
| Alan Graham | Trustee | ||||
| Rosemarie Bell | Trustee | ||||
| VickyMann | Trustee | 5thJan -9thJuly2025 | |||
| Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) | |||||
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO (charitable incorporated organisation) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by Trustees Trustee selection methods
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(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
Regular Trustee meetings have taken place throughout the year. You may choose to include additional information, where The charity’s policies cover issues including: relevant, about: safeguarding policies and procedures financial management adopted for the induction and conflicts if interest training of trustees; complaints artistic merit.
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider Matters covered by these policies are reviewed by trustees; no significant
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network with which the charity risks, issues or concerns have arisen during the year.
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works;
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relationship with any related The charity has no links to commercial interests. parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
The objects of the CIO are: The advancement of education in the arts for the benefit of the public in Redcar and Cleveland and the surrounding area in particular, but not exclusively through the provision and creation of performances and educational projects for the public benefit. Summary of the objects of In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have the charity set out in its power: governing document
To establish or secure the establishment of an arts centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects.
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| 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) |
Our aim as a charitable organisation is to open an arts centre in Guisborough, and this year we have further developed and promoted the arts activities which will find a home in the arts centre, exploring additonal genres (sound, light, movement through local streets and scenes, storytelling and expressing through image, music and ambient soundscape) - demonstrating and strengthening again the community’s appetite for the arts and the centre. The following projects were initiated and completed during the year. Restorying audio trail Enabled by a generous award, donations, and a huge amount of voluntary work, our Restorying audio trail was well supported by community groups, artists and the public who explored the trail following the trail map we provided online and via local outlets. The trail features music, poetry, prose and local soundscapes combined in an immersive sound track, and it continues to be available via our website at https://gart.uk/restorying-2025/ . The project included a guided exploration of the soundscape moving through the locations it curates and celebrates, and a community day in which we provided a taste of what a community arts centre could do. The day was run in collaboration with our partner, Guisborough’s eco community the Nest, which enabled us to showcase the audio and visual art to an additional tranche of our local community via an immersive multi-media (audio visual projections and material visual objects) experience. We also published the Restorying book (available from Guisborough bookshop) which showcased some of the poetry, prose and visual art produced by artists, poets and writers working with and within the community which did not feature in the audio trail. Lifestories oral history project Our volunteers, after training by historian Dr Henry Irving of Leeds Becket University, recorded interviews with members of the community recalling their stories. This is an ongoing project and the recordings already made will be preserved in the Tees Archive with transcripts and full documentation. Please refer to Section D for more details |
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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
| Youmay chooseto include further statements, where relevant, about: policy on grantmaking; policy programme related investment; contribution made by volunteers. |
We welcome the contribution made by our wonderful volunteers, making art administering events keeping accounts and other back office functions. Numbers of volunteers varied week by week and were in the range 10-15 people in most weeks of the Guisborough Giant project. Professional artists made a significant contribution providing skills, confidence and inspiration to people in our community; some worked on a pro bono basis; others were paid: all fee payment rates were in line with artists’ union guidelines for best practice. |
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Section D Achievements and performance
| Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year |
Our main achievements during the year were to demonstrate the appetite for the arts locally and therefore to demonstrate that opening an arts centre in Guisborough is viable seeding skills, confidence and inspiration in our community building up the community and promoting a sense of agency celebrating our rich heritage and culture through a powerful soundscape which continues to be available to all free of charge laying the foundations for further promoting the creative community of Guisborough in future, with opportunities to collaborate on future projects and thereby develop the exciting thriving arts scene which can populate an arts centre in whatever form that takes in the near future proving ‘it can be done’ by our community, by successfully running arts events of significant size and scale throughout 2025, with a small but dedicated team of volunteers and some skilful professional creative support thereby setting the scene for more arts activity in future. |
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Section E Financial review
| Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details Youmay chooseto include additional information, where relevant about: the charity’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. |
We have no permanent paid staff and therefore do not need to hold reserves to cater for eventualities such as redundancy. Nor do we have permanent premises or stores of equipment and materials. Over time we may begin to build up reserves with a view to acquiring a physical location which can serve as an arts centre, and at that stage we would expect to have a more comprehensive and nuanced policy on reserves. |
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| The charity is funded by grants, awards and donations; and spends its funds to advance the charitable aims:- promoting arts activity within Guisborough and surrounding area. The Restorying project was funded through a generous award from Borderlands Creative Communities and small donations from local individuals. The Lifestories project was supported by a generous £700 individual donation. The funds were spent in local businesses and with local artists in accordance with our charitable aim to promote the arts within our area; with a view to sustainable environmental practices wherever possible. All financial details were fully disclosed to our funders in line with our policy to be completely open and give free access to all our data where not |
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restricted by law and any duty of care considerations.
Section F Other optional information
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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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| Bernard Clarke | ||
| Chair | ||
| 25thJune 2026 |
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