# **The Amplify Project** 

# **Report and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 March 2025 Charity Registration number 1209540** 

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Reference and administrative information Trustees’ annual report Statement of financial activities Notes to the financial statements 

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**Charity Number** 1209540 

**Registered Office** 5 Brayford Square, London, E1 0SG **Trustees** Dermot Daly Arti Prashar (Chair) Vedrana Velickovic **Staff** Patricia Cumper Pauline Walker **Bank** The Co-operative Bank Business Customer Services PO Box 250 Skelmersdale WN8 6WT 

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## **THE AMPLIFY PROJECT TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** 

Trustees present the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025. 

## **The Amplify Project** 

The charity is exempt from independent examination or audit as the gross income is less than £25,000 in the financial year. 

## **Purposes and Aims** 

The object of the CIO is for the public benefit to advance education in and appreciation of writing by British Afro-Caribbean authors and writers from other minoritised communities, particularly but not exclusively by presenting a regular series of recorded interviews in the form of a podcast, an accompanying website, and by arranging an annual public event. 

## **Fundraising** 

The charity aims to raise funds through grants from funding bodies and trusts and foundations, and donations from individual donors. 

A funding application to Arts Council England (ACE) submitted in November 2024 was unsuccessful.  A second application is planned to be submitted in the next financial year. 

## **Activities** 

As we were not able to secure funding from ACE the planned series of podcasts and live event were not delivered. 

## **The future** 

Arts funding has become increasingly difficult to access since the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis.  However social tensions around race and gender are increasing and it is important that The Amplify Project continue to document, promote and celebrate the work of Black and Global majority writers.  This could include expanding the subject and content created for the podcast and website beyond producing profiles of individuals and their work, as we respond to changes in the social and funding landscape in which we operate. 

## **Recruitment and Appointment of trustees** 

We currently have 3 directors: Dermot Daly Arti Prashar (Chair) Vedrana Velickovic 

## **Organisational Structure** 

The CIO operates with two freelancer Producers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker. 

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They engage practitioners and contributors on a freelance basis for each project. 

The trustees meet regularly with the Producers.  Meetings are quorate with an agenda and are minuted. 

## **Auditors** 

For the year ending 31 March 2025 the charity was entitled to exemption from audit as the income was under £25,000. 

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Charities Commission with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. 

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charities. 

Approved by the Board on: 10/11/2025 

and signed on its behalf by: 


(Chair) 

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**The Amplify Project No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a** Period start date Period end date **For the period To from** 12/08/2024 13/03/2025 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £** 

**Total funds** 

**Last year** 

**to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

**A1 Receipts** 

Donations, legacies and grants **650 - - 650 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 650 - - 650 -** 

_**Sub total** (Gross income for AR)_ 

**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).** 

**-** 

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**-** _**Sub total**_ **-** _**Total receipts**_ **650 - - 650 -** 

## **A3 Payments** 

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Total payments  326                           -                           -   326                         -<br>Net of receipts/(payments)<br>324                         -                         -   324                       -<br>A5 Transfers between funds<br>- - - -     -<br>A6 Cash funds last year end                           -                         -                         -                           -                         -<br>Cash funds this year end<br>324                         -                         -   324                       -<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Categories Details funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds** The Co-operative Bank **324 - - - - - - - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **324** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK OK **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - - - - -** 

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## **B3 Investment assets** 

**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** 

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