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2021-03-31-accounts

CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE LIMITED

(A Company Limited by Guarantee)

DIRECTORS’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

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Legal and Administrative details 3
Directors’ Report 4- 14
Independent examiner’s report 15
Statement of Financial Activities 16
Balance Sheet 17
Notes to the Financial Statements 18-26

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CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE LIMITED (A Company Limited by Guarantee)

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021

Directors & Trustees: Julie Bouin
Steven Brett
Sara Dos Santos (Appointed October 2019, resigned March
2021)
Simon Ellis (resigned April 2020)
Clara Giraud (Chair, previously Co-Chair)
Janine Harrington (Appointed February 2020)
Alexandrina Hemsley (resigned March 2021)
Naomi Jones (Resigned February 2020)
Gabriela Matic (Appointed October 2019)
Malik Nashad Sharpe (Appointed February 2020, resigned
February 2021)
Chinami Sakai (Appointed October 2019)
Francesca Turner (resigned August 2020)
Director (staff)
and Company Secretary: Daniel Pitt (succeeded by Interim Chief Executive Ruth
Holdworth July 2021)
Registered Office: 64-84 Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ
Independent Examier: Goldwins Limited, Chartered Accountants
75 Maygrove Road,
West Hampstead, London, NW6 2EG
Bankers: National Westminster Bank Plc, 403 Bethnal Green Road,
London, E2 OAL
Charity registration number: 288149
Company registration number: 01740641

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TRUSTEES / DIRECTORS’ REPORT

The Trustees, who are also Directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act, submit their annual report and the financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2021. The Trustees have undertaken the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ issued in January 2015 in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the charity.

Trustees / Directors’ responsibilities

Company Law which is also applicable to charitable companies in England and Wales requires the directors, who are also Trustees of the company, to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the results of the company for that year.

In preparing those financial statements, the directors/Trustees are required to:

The directors/Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In accordance with company law, as the company's directors we certify that:

1. Structure, Governance and Management

Governance and Organisation

The company is called Chisenhale Dance Space. It was set up in 1980 and until 2017 was governed by a Memorandum and Articles of Association which was last amended on 19 July 1983. New Articles of Association were officially adopted in September 2017, following an organisational review and in line with best practice.

The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The guarantees of individual members are limited to £1. The company is a registered charity (288149).

A Board of Trustees / Directors is responsible for the Charitable Company’s overall management and control. They employ an executive staff Director to lead a staff team to carry out all functions of the organisation.

This year, Chisenhale Dance Space had an active Membership of 161 artists who collectively lead the ethos of the organisation and the programme is made by, with and in response to. Membership is renewed annually and is not a constitutional entity.

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Recruitment and appointment of new Trustees

The Chisenhale Dance Space Board of Trustees / Directors meets formally four times a year, with additional meetings as necessary, and are actively involved between meetings. All new Trustees are identified and nominated by the Trustees and usually voted in at the Annual General Meeting. The Board is entitled to appoint further Trustees in after discussion at Board meetings and in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Trustees Induction and Training

All potential new Trustees who are new to the organisation are asked to submit a profile of the skills and experience they bring to the Board. They meet with members of the Board before attending a board meeting as observers. Their induction consists of a meeting with the chair of the board to assess the current needs of the board and how they might contribute to it. They are also given the most recent Annual Report and Accounts and other information relevant to the Company.

No formal training is undertaken except as it relates to particular functions such as being a bank signatory, however Board away days are hosted each year and board development opportunities actively sought out.

This year, Trustee induction processes have been identified as an area for development.

Related Parties

The Company has no subsidiaries. The company has a close working relationship with Chisenhale Art Place (CAPT), of which it is a Member organisation, and sub-leases its premises from. The Company also has a close working relationship with Chisenhale Gallery, the other member organisation of Chisenhale Art Place (separately constituted).

Risk Management

Trustees actively review the major risks which the charity faces and believe that maintaining financial reserves at current levels, combined with an annual review of the controls over financial systems, will provide sufficient resources in the event of adverse conditions. The Trustees have also examined other operational and business risks faced by the charity and confirm that they have established systems and plans to mitigate the significant risks.

Currently identified main areas of concern continue to be related to the building:

Physical condition:

Lease and rent:

Access :

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2. Principal Activity and Charitable Objective

Objectives

The principal activity of the company during the year continued to be supporting dance and movement based activities for professional artists and the local community. Its objectives are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education, particularly by the production and performance of dance and similar choreographic arts.

CDS Vision is: To enrich the lives of individuals and communities through the exploration and experience of dance and to support dance/movement/live artists in the development of their creative practices.

CDS Mission Statement is: Chisenhale Dance Space is a home for experimentation in dance and performance. Situated in the heart of Tower Hamlets for over 35 years, the organisation is responsive to the needs of our community: our immediate local community and our community of dance and movement artists whose influence and presence have been and continue to be crucial to the wider dance ecology, as part of British contemporary and community dance history. As a home for artists it is a unique space, a community which facilitates and engenders a creative environment. This ethos continues into the outreach programme where Chisenhale Dance Space encourages artists to respond imaginatively to the needs of those who live locally. True to its roots Chisenhale Dance Space continues to challenge perceptions and understandings of what dance and performance can be.

A formal refreshing of Vision and Mission statements began, in tandem with business planning, but resolution and formal adoption was delayed by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the organization. Through conversations in October 2020, taking into account the responses and contributions of Members at previous times, the staff and Trustees of CDS proposed these as the three key CDS values:

Venturous - Adj. “willing to take risks or embark on difficult or unusual courses of action”

Our team, programmes and structure encourage risk-taking, experimentation, learning by doing, and trusting in new people and new ideas. We have a ‘DIY’, ‘yes, and’ attitude to programmes and taking the lead in the way we want our organisation, and society, to be. We prioritise the alternative and the road-less-travelled as part of our organisational identity, and prioritise artists and audiences with identities that are marginalised by our society.

We want our artist Members, staff, Trustees, audiences, participants, local communities, funders and other stakeholders to develop a healthy attitude to new experiences and ideas, and aim to create the contexts where this can be done safely and supportively. With anti-racist action, we will venture to make the bold, structural changes and affirmative action that is required for trust to rebuild, facilitate reparation and long-term change.

Communal - Adj. “shared by all members of a community; for common use”

Our studios on Chisenhale Road are a shared resource for communities that want to dance: professional and non-professional, local and beyond, regardless of dance form, heritage or training, priced affordably. We’re based in the Roman Road area of Bow and aim to be both part of, and for, the local community, focussing our participation projects in our immediate locale.

Founded as a collective, and a Member organisation of the Chisenhale Art Place community, we retain that ethos. Our programmes, ethos and values are artistically led by a morphous community of artist Members, and informed by the wider independent artistic community that we’re a hub and meeting place for. We know that the community which cares for our charity and space is wider than the Membership, and that the Membership has historically been an exclusive structure. We seek to actively dismantle the structures that have perpetuated this.

Physical - Adj. “relating to the body; to things perceived through the senses; tangible or concrete”

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CDS’ work is an embodiment of creativity of our human bodies, inspiration in sensation, and of gathering together in a space. We are a dance organisation, however, in the spirit of venture and experimentation, we take the broadest possible view of dance and its related body-centred and choreographic forms.

At our core, as the organisation has evolved, we have always been a physical studio space for people to explore the potential of their physical bodies. Our Performance Studio, with its historic floor and wall, has forged a place in UK dance history through the people that have used it. We are committed to occupying a space, making it available to artists at affordable prices, and for securing a viable and affordable future for dance on Chisenhale Road.

Our programmes prioritise the sensation and communal benefits of physicality and liveness: the sharing of in-person dance experiences, through performance, classes, workshops and more. Though we embrace the digital world, we ask how it can enhance our physical sensation, rather than reduce or replace it.

Annual Review and Successes

At the end of the financial year 19/20 the Mayor of London’s Culture at Risk confirmed that they would financially support a consultancy to work with Chisenhale Art Place, Chisenhale Gallery and Chisenhale Dance Space to review inter-organisational governance, vision and business planning to help secure an arts future for the building after 2031.

CDS’ continued expansion was planned for 2020-21, anticipating a turnover of £280k. As a result of the pandemic, however, turnover for 2020-21 was £208k. Mar-Sept 20, CDS utilised the Job Retention Scheme for 3/4 staff, with Director Daniel Pitt working with Trustees on fundraising. During this period, CDS received grants from The Backstage Trust, ACE Emergency Response, Mayor of London (MoL)’s Culture at Risk Business Support / Creative Land Trust, Sylvia Waddilove Foundation, and £12k from 144 individuals through crowdfunding and MoL’s Back to Business Fund. Local trust Action for Bow provided two grants for return of children’s dance classes. CRF1 from Arts Council England/ DCMS ensured core team and operations could resume.

We adapted where possible early to the potentials of re-opening, working towards a full emergence as a more resilient and relevant organisation. CRF1 enabled a ‘partial reopening’ and organisational review support since Sept 2020:

Planned for community consultation was postponed to CRF 2 funding 21/22, as reaching new community partners in a tangible way became difficult. With the professional performing arts industry decimated, our core earned income from studio hire was impacted, and will be slow to recover. Social distancing restrictions make most of our programmes undeliverable, and others become financially unviable. Safety and hygiene have created a significantly increased operational workload for less

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income. CDS is reliant on income from a healthy dance sector for our recovery, which is unlikely to come back until 2022.

The organisation has been working under the intended remit of being “East London’s champion of experimentation in dance and performance” and its programme has five distinct but inter-related strands. Our programme is made by, with, and in response to our artist Members, and consists of:

  1. subsidised-cost rehearsal space for making

  2. classes for children and adults

  3. artist development programmes

  4. a boundary-pushing performance programme in our venue and beyond

  5. outreach and education projects in Tower Hamlets

Subsidised-cost rehearsal space for making

Affordable studio hire for independent artists, bookable online by-the-hour or for longer term residencies, continues to be at the core of both CDS’ charitable aims, financial model and operations.

CDS was open on 139 days of the year, usually for 9 hours per day (down 49% on 19/20 due to national COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ restrictions). Our studios were used by artists for 2066 hours this year, of which 392 hours were hired to our Members at their reduced, subsidised rate. We offered 91 hours of free studio space to our Members through last minute availability, plus 91 hours of studio space to our Venue Assistants through the Work Exchange system.

We are one of London’s most affordable dance and performance studios and we earnt 21% of our annual income providing this resource.

Adapting early to the potentials of re-opening post-Covid, we invested in hardware for operational changes including remote key-code access locks, cameras and IT changes to enable a low-contact model. This enabled us to continue legally and safely through November lockdown and is now a core part of our future operations. With reduced capacities and increased cleaning, and the incomes of artists and arts companies still low, we were unable to raise our prices.

After summer Member-only studio hire, we re-opened for public rehearsal hire on 1st Sept and took a major block hire from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, which has continued for 3 terms. This is alongside many individual artists booking studios for between 4 hours and a week. While other venues remained closed we found that there was healthy demand in Autumn 2020.

Between Christmas and February we remained closed, and due to adverse weather conditions, the roof of CDS’ ex-warehouse space began seriously leaking and caused extensive interior damage. It therefore became necessary to divert significant funds to their repair to enable a safe reopening.

Classes for children and adults

CDS delivered 52.5 hours of in-house produced classes in our studios this year and this contributed 3.1% of turnover to the organisation. Classes provided work for freelance dance artists, and held the building in the local community’s mind post-Covid, despite classes delivery being down 90%.

Of our established and popular Saturday morning children’s dance classes, Leaps and Stride, Mini Movers and Creative Contemporary resumed from September 2020. A total of 159 children participated in these classes 1460 times over the year, which is a huge reduction on the previous year’s participation. Through our relationships with local young participants, reaching out to local partners and implementing a targeted recruitment strategy, we were able to recruit 70% of participants from immediate Bow communities (E3 2 & E3 5 postcodes) and 30% from neighbouring East London communities (E2, E8 & E9), providing a reduced, but vital provision for children and families in the local community.

Local trust and one of our regular funders, Action for Bow awarded two separate grants for children’s classes to resume in Autumn and Spring 2021. This was a previously profitable programme that

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required financial support under COVID regulations. They began in-person, and then continued online with varying success, but the continuity has provided an increased interest in our classes now that they have resumed in-person.

Due to the impact of the pandemic we were unable to run any adult classes, and CDS will look again at the possibility of resuming these post-Covid for 21/22.

Artist development programmes

We crowdfunded approx £6k of bursaries, with donations from 141 individuals, which leveraged a £5k core grant from the Mayor of London. These happened ahead of this grant period, in the end. These bursaries of studio space and cash to Chisenhale Dance Space Members was used to create an Artist Support Fund, to support Members who had been gravely affected by COVID-19. This is in response to an acute need within the Membership; 1/2 of artists had lost 75% or more of their wage and many were affected in multiple compounding ways along lines of societal inequality.

18 Members applied to receive the fund and 14 agreed to meet with external facilitator Ali Tamlit (Resist + Renew) to decide how to split the funds through a consensus decision making process. A consensus was reached that there would be three levels of support, inspired by social justice models: an average amount, 20% more support, or 20% less support. This would be self-identified by each applicant and without justification.

In December 2020 all applicants were awarded an average £305 bursary or 3.5 days space. 28% asked to receive 20% more support and 22% asked to receive 20% less. In a survey answered by 16 of the 18 recipients, 14 thought the process was fair and 15 were interested in being part of other artist-led decision making processes at CDS in the future.

Community consultation was not delivered due to the impact of restrictions, and the Membership review element was postponed into CRF2 2021/22 so that it could be done in a more full and resourced manner, following further anti-racism training for our Membership.

As planned, a Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD on CDS’ archives, with Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research, in October 2020 and continues.

Our community programme Encounter Bow was postponed twice, and planning continued, ready for June 2021 delivery.

A boundary-pushing performance programme in our venue and beyond

Between January and March 2020, we launched the call-out for Members’ proposals for the Future Fridays season, assembled a diverse selection panel of artist Members to curate the season with the staff team, programmed them and prepared the marketing materials. We launched the programme in early March online, with the first shows scheduled for the end of March. Distribution of the printed programmes was just beginning, and then COVID-19 lockdown came and we cancelled the first shows, and then the full programme. This included both performances and Coffee Mornings. The programme was due to feature new, first-look work by anthologyofamess, Gaby Agis, Yumino Seki, Vanessa Mackaulay, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Joseph Funnell, Alisa Oleva, illyr and Dominique Baron-Bonarjee.

Alongside this, The Work Room managed their artist Member callout for an artist to take on the paid residency and show as at CDS in June. The artist selected for this opportunity was Glasgow-based thinker, movement artist, researcher and producer of Mollucan-Javanese diaspora, Claricia Parinussa. The June residency was postponed and the residency was re-scheduled to take place in April 2021 (without a performance showcase).

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CDS took the policy of paying all fees for artists and freelance workers for which CDS had received the funds, which meant that we paid the fee guarantees (but not box office splits) to all artists in the programme, as well as technicians and photographers etc.

As the pandemic progressed, conversations continued between CDS and The Place on whether the ‘takeover’ could happen, and then, due to their decisions on the shape and viability of their programme, CDS was invited to morph the partnership into a collaboratively programmed festival as part of their winter-spring 2021 season. The financial arrangements were altered to be all artistic fees covered by The Place (and with them retaining income), with CDS offering in-kind support on programme, marketing and artistic community, covered by this grant. CDS recruited artist Member Bakani Pick-up as a guest curator. The works were selected from an open call and the panel comprised of Amy Bell (Artist Development Producer, The Place), Bakani Pick-Up, Es Morgan (CDS), and Jessica Greer (Theatre Programme Producer, The Place).

This programme invited audiences to reflect on felt, sensate experiences – asking, when distance is a necessity, how can dance and performance remind us of what makes us feel alive? The programme included a mixed bill of film works, including audio works, short films, recorded performances, live online performances and a panel discussion. These works offer a range of different lived experiences of touch, sight, sound, attention and movement, whether situated in the current moment or from our recent history. Including work by CDS Member artists, Alexandrina Hemsley, Janine Harrington, and Susanna Dye, alongside Tim Spooner, Rhiannon Armstrong, Chisato Minamimura, Tobi Adebajo, and Bridget Fiske / Joseph Lau / Stelios Manousakis / Stephanie Pan. All projects were online and charged-for, with 7 online works and 1 panel discussion, involving 14 artists and with 1389 individual views, listens and streams of the works.

Work continued on a postponed section edition of Encounter Bow outdoor festival, also funded by Action for Bow, which is planned to take place June 12th 2021.

Outreach and education projects in Tower Hamlets

CDS’s outreach and education projects were suspended for the majority of 20/21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and government restrictions. This included pausing previous community projects Roman Road X Young Creative, The Community Ambassadors Programme funded by Clarion Future, Clarion Housing’s grant-making wingand THAMES Dance Consortium School projects.

Development of the CDS’s Participation Programme continued through this time including planning of the delivery of local school projects with Chisenhale Primary School, St Peter’s London Docks Primary School and Bigland Green Primary School. These projects will be delivered between April – July 2021, in collaboration with THAMES Dance Consortium (co-funded by THAMES and the participating schools).

Conversations began between Chisenhale Art Place partners; Chisenhale Dance Space, Chisenhale Studios and Chisenhale Gallery about a collaborative summer arts activity programme for the local community in the newly established outdoor Chisenhale Learn + Play + Space. Initiated by parents of children attending Chisenhale Primary School, and established with support from London Borough of Tower Hamlets council following a successful Spacehive crowdfunding campaign for the build costs, Chisenhale Learn + Play + Create Space on Chisenhale Road E3 5 is “a temporary space for play, meeting, chatting, making and taking a breather” The project is a truly resident, community-led project, responding to the needs that have arisen as a result of COVID-19 restrictions. The enclosed play spaces on Chisenhale Road E3 5 are used by Chisenhale Primary School during the week but are open for community activities at the weekends and during holiday times. Chisnehale Art Place acknowledged that due to COVID-19 travel restrictions this summer, families will be needing to access free local recreational and leisure activities more than ever before and in turn the responsibility for our organisations to deliver these essential services.

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Membership

Organisational Change

Following an incident of racism in the summer 2019 which necessitated the resignation of a board member, the Board and Staff began mediation and anti-racism training with Amanda Parker of Inc Arts, to begin to address all forms of racism that exist within the structures of our organisation and to develop strategies and policies to mitigate against further future such incidents. During this process three Trustees stepped back from Board duties for a 3 month period while continuing to meet with Amanda as mediator. All have since, individually, decided to permanently leave their roles as Trustees of CDS. This was a deeply regrettable situation. Necessarily CDS has since instigated a major organisational review, which continues. Following Director Daniel Pitt’s resignation in April 2020 an interim period has been planned to cover this process.

Janine Harrington (trustee) and Es Morgan (Marketing and Programme Coordinator) have worked to develop a Code of Conduct to be used by staff and trustees, as part of a process to better understand the impacts of intersecting privilege and oppression as they are expressed in our organisation and wider field. The interim version of this document will be signed off by staff and trustees by June 2021. It seeks to set out the values and culture that CDS Staff and Trustees want to nurture at CDS and a roadmap to making these changes operational. It lays out the commitments that individuals make when engaging within the organisation and is the primary way the they can be accountable for their actions and behaviours.

Jessica Richards (Operations and Education Manager) and Gabriela Matic (trustee) began to develop a Feedback and Complaints policy and procedures for the use of key stakeholders including Members, Board members, freelancers, hirers and the general public. This document sets out the approach to how Chisenhale Dance Space (CDS) manages feedback and complaints and covers both Informal Feedback (positive and negative) and Formal Complaints. The interim version of this policy and procedures will be signed off by staff and trustees by June 2021.

CDS’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy was revised in October 2020 by Jessica Richards (Operations and Education Manager) and Chinami Sakai (trustee), This policy sets out CDS’s approach to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This policy and procedures document includes a statement, series of action plans, code of conduct document for Education Facilitators (freelance teachers) and detailed reporting procedure. CDS’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy was approved and signed off by the Board on Monday 26th October 2020.

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Archive

As planned, a Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD on CDS’ archives, with Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research, in October 2020 and continued. The PhD student will work with the CDS archive to create a detailed historical and cultural analysis of CDS’s contribution to the dance sector. The PhD is academically supervised by current Trustee and Member Simon Ellis, with former Trustee and Member Rosemary Lee, and with Director Daniel Pitt as non-academic supervisor.

Partnerships

CDS continue to develop partnerships with local, national and international organisations including with Glasgow’s The Work Room, Birmingham’s Fierce Festival, London’s Stratford Circus Arts Centre and The Place, and Bow’s All Points East In the Neighbourhood Festival, Spotlight, Roman Road Adventure Playground, Clarion Futures and the Roman Road Trust.

Staff Development

At the end of the year, the team consisted of Daniel Pitt as Director (0.8 FTE permanent), Jessica Richards as Operations and Education Manager (FT, permanent) and Es Morgan as Marketing and Programme Co-ordinator (0.5 FTE), with Ruby Embley as Studios Administrator (fixed term).

CDS relies on freelance team members for project delivery and expansion. Regular freelance office team this year, Eve Veglio-White as Project Producer: Encounter Bow, Michael Picknett on a retainer as Lead Technician, and Flora Wellesley-Wesley as Interim Studios Manager.

The organisation depends on its Work-Exchange Venue Assistant programme to deliver its mission through cooperative staff support.

In line with HM Revenue & Customs guidelines, core staff are employed on a PAYE basis.

Trustee Development

The year began with Steven Brett and Clara Giraud as Co-Chairs, as was the previous year’s transition continuity strategy, however in October 2019 Steven Brett stepped aside from the Co-Chair position, leaving Clara as standalone Chair. The necessity for a supporting or sharing Co- or Vice- role remains a priority for capacity sharing in order to best support both the Chief Executive roles and the staff of CDS.

As previously reported, we identified the need for further Trustee recruitment, which began in Summer 2019 with an open call for expressions of interest advertised, alongside strategically solicited invitations to apply. Key skill-sets for recruitment included artist representation, education and community engagement expertise, marketing and business development, alongside intent to increase cultural and ethnic diversity at Trustee level. Interest was high and recruitment was successful with dance artists Janine Harrington, Malik Nashad Sharpe and Sara Dos Santos, start-up business development programme director Gabriela Matic and Chinami Sakai, Senior Producer: Informal Learning at V&A Museum of Childhood all joining during the year. We choose to enlist Trustees to the board at appropriate Quartlerly meetings, rather than waiting for the AGM.

As mentioned above four board members resigned as Trustees during this year and as such a new recruitment drive was planned.

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4. Financial Review

At the beginning of March 2020, CDS was anticipating a small unrestricted profit (c. £4,000), following a healthy year of earned income (with studio hire at that time taking more than £100,000) and well managed projects. However, the year ended with the forced closure and cancellation of CDS’ operations due to COVID-19 pandemic. Bookings were cancelled and/or refunds required for most (already invoiced) space hire bookings between March and August 2020 and this caused a significant variance to our forecast.

Reserves

The Trustees aim to hold three months’ operating costs in reserve. Due to the impact of COVID-19 and provision of emergency funding which allowed us to increase reserves, our Balance Sheet at the end of this year shows general reserves of £46,254 with an additional designation of unrestricted funds of £12,000 held for maintenance to our building, totalling £58,254, which is over three months of operating costs at current levels. The pandemic has caused unprecedented uncertainties for many charities.

Income Generation and Fundraising

Income Generation

This year saw the organisation decrease its turnover from £227,552 in 19/20 to £207,815. This was a decrease of £19,737, which is a 9% decrease in comparison to the previous year. This decrease was due to the pandemic, but lessened in impact through cultural recovery fund money from Arts Council England and the job retention scheme.

Earned income (including studio hire, classes, box office, catering) totals 29% of turnover this year (down 32% on last year), with studio hire contributing 21% (down by 17% last year).

Studio hire and educational classes are core charitable purpose trading for CDS.

Fundraising

Grants have all supported the current year, and with small margins, repayable finance is not viable. Closure refunds and cancellations impacted a year-end loss of £-14,496 leaving our unrestricted reserves at just £21,677, but these have been inflated to 3 months of contractual expenditure by CRF1 - £38k. It remains to be seen how these will be impacted in 21-22 as the effects of Covid continue to impact our business model. We have a significant fundraising target moving forwards to ensure we have enough in reserve to cover 3 months of contractual expenditure.

The Culture Recovery Fund grant saved CDS’s existence in the present, and sured it up for the next stage of its future. It enabled 2 out of 4 core staff to return to work from furlough, and the final PAYE staff member later returned flexi-furloughed and in the end there were no redundancies required for CDS. The funds enabled the studios to open for professional rehearsals, providing vital space for independent dance artists to resume their practice. Arts Council England grants contributed 43% of CDS’ turnover this year, up from 16% in the previous year. CDS has a strong track record with ACE which enables the building of additional programmes beyond our core studios-based offer.

Relatedly, we continued MoL Culture At Risk-funded consultancy with Chisenhale Gallery and Art Place on inter-organisational governance and securing a future development of our shared building.

For CDS’s survival in 2020, we’re also immensely thankful for additional funds awarded from Arts Council England’s initial Emergency Response Fund; The Backstage Trust; the Mayor of London’s Culture at Risk Business Support Fund and the Creative Land Trust; Action for Bow; the Sylvia Waddilove Foundation; and especially thankful to all 144 individual donors large and small, plus the Mayor of London’s Back to Business Fund, who together brought our crowdfunding campaign total to £12,000 – for our artist Members to use our studios.

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We have a growing relationship with local community development fund, Action for Bow, which we hope to be able to sustain and grow over the coming years, chiming perfectly with our organisational intent to focus activities in the immediate Bow community.

Donations represent 5.2% of income this year.

Investment Powers

The charity has no significant investments other than cash on deposit. Under the articles and memorandum, the Trustees have the power to invest in any way the Trustees wish.

Public Benefit

The principal activities of the charity during the year continued to be supporting dance and movement based activities for professional artists and the local community. The Trustees are aware of the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit reporting as set out in Section 17 Charities Act 2011. The Trustees believe that the charity achieves a public benefit by providing these services as detailed in this report.

Small company exemptions

The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

This report was approved by the Board of Trustees / Directors on and signed on its behalf 25 January 2022 by:

Steven Brett Co-Chair

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2018

I report to the charity Trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2021.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s Trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 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:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

  4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

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.

Anthony Epton BA FCA CTA FCIE Goldwins Chartered accountants 75 Maygrove Road West Hampstead London NW6 2EG

Date: 25/01/2022

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Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account) For the year ended 31 March 2021

Note
Income from:
Donations and legacies
3
Charitable activities
4
Total income
Expenditure on:
5
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
6
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
Net income / (expenditure) for the year		 Unrestricted
Funds
£
10,840
93,905
104,745
-
80,168
80,168
24,577
-
24,577
33,677
58,254		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
103,070
103,070
-
117,113
117,113
(14,043)
-
(14,043)
14,043
-		 2021
Total
Funds
£
10,840
196,975
207,815
-
197,281
197,281
10,534
-
10,534
47,720
58,254		 2020
Total
Funds
£
7,858
219,694
227,552
-
237,395
237,395
(9,843)
-
(9,843)
57,563
47,720

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities.

There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above.

The attached notes form part of these financial statements.

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CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE

Balance sheet As at 31 March 2021

Note
Fixed assets:
8
Current assets:
9
Liabilities:
10
11
Total unrestricted funds
Total net assets
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Debtors
Net current assets
Tangible assets
The funds of the charity:
General funds
Total charity funds
Unrestricted funds:
Designated funds
Restricted funds		 2021
£
7,863
79,442		 2021
2020
£
£
1,952
7,211
44,483
51,694
4,735
56,302
58,254
-
12,000
21,677
58,254
58,254		 2020
£
761
46,959
87,305
31,003
12,000
46,254
47,720
14,043
33,677
47,720

For the year ending 31 March 2021 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.The directors acknowledge their responsibility for.complying with the requirements of the Act withrespect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companiessubject to the small companies regime.

Approved by the trustees on 25 January 2022. and signed on their behalf by:

Clara Giraud Chair of Trustees

Company registration no. 1740641

The attached notes form part of the financial statements.

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CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2021

1 Accounting policies

a) Basis of preparation

Chisenhale Dance Space meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy or note.

b) Going concern

Income from government and other grants, whether grants or grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred. Income received in advance for the provision of specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.

d) Donations of gifts, services and facilities

Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item or received the service, any conditions associated with the donation have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP

On receipt, donated gifts, professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.

e) Interest receivable

Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.

f) Fund accounting

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1 Accounting policies (continued)

g) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include back office costs, finance, personnel and governance costs which support Chisenhale Dance Space's charitable activities. These costs have been allocated between cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities. The bases on which support costs have been allocated are set out in note 6.

i) Operating leases

Rental charges are charged on a straight line basis over the term of the lease.

j) Tangible fixed assets

Items of equipment are capitalised where the purchase price exceeds £200. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write down the cost of each asset to its estimated residual value over its expected useful life. The depreciation rates in use are as follows:

25% straight line

k) Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.

l) Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and bank deposit or similar account.

m) Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

n) Financial instruments

o) Pensions

The charity operate stake holder pension schemes.

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2 Detailed comparatives for the statement of financial activities

Income from:
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Other trading activities
Total income
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net gains / (losses) on investments
Net income / expenditure
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
Net income / expenditure before gains / (losses) on
investments		 2020
£
7,823
136,271
35
144,129
158,625
158,625
(14,496)
-
(14,496)
-
(14,496)
48,173
33,677
Unrestricted
Funds		 2020
£
-
83,423
-
83,423
78,770
78,770
4,653
-
4,653
-
4,653
9,390
14,043
Restricted
Funds		 2020
Total
Funds
£
7,823
219,694
35
227,552
237,395
237,395
(9,843)
-
(9,843)
-
(9,843)
57,563
47,720

3 Income from donations and legacies

Donations
4
Arts Council England
Backstage Trust
Action for Bow
Clarion Futures
Creative Land Trust
Other grants
Other incomes
Space hire
Income from charitable activities
Total income from charitable activities
Facilities hire
Children's classes
Others
Adult Classes		 £
10,840
10,840
£
-
10,000
-
-
16,619
43,118
6,556
17,612
-
-
93,905
Unrestricted
Funds
Unrestricted
Funds		 £
-
-
£
89,295
-
7,275
-
6,500
-
-
-
-
-
-
103,070
Restricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds		 2021
Total
Funds
£
10,840
10,840
2021
Total
Funds
£
89,295
10,000
7,275
-
6,500
16,619
43,118
6,556
17,612
-
-
196,975		 2020
Total
Funds
£
7,858
7,858
2020
Total
Funds
£
64,223
8,500
6,721
3,979
-
-
85,826
19,046
16,427
560
14,412
204,722

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CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2021

5 Analysis of expenditure

Analysis of expenditure
Staff costs (Note 8)
Fundraising costs
Direct costs
Freelance programme costs
Freelance admin costs
Technician costs
Other staff costs
Artists programme costs
Catering
Others
Administration expenses
Bank charges
Licence & Insurance
Cleaning & building maintenance
Printing, postage & stationery
Rent & utilities
Accountancy
Telephone & Internet
Trustee Expenses
IT expenses
Independent examniner fees
Depreciation
Support costs
2021 total
Support costs
2020 total		 £
80,015
-
6,265
6,175
2,210
8,227
11,755
150
9,983
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Charitable
activities		 £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
594
2,148
21,589
2,891
34,056
3,616
1,926
-
1,901
2,572
1,208
Support
costs		 £
80,015
-
6,265
6,175
2,210
8,227
11,755
150
9,983
594
2,148
21,589
2,891
34,056
3,616
1,926
-
1,901
2,572
1,208
2021		 £
73,605
104
29,643
6,865
3,210
3,800
41,139
1,393
7,118
2,145
3,172
9,394
3,298
43,784
3,240
768
89
1,669
2,352
607
2020
124,780
72,501		 72,501
(72,501)		 197,281
-		 237,395
-
197,281 - 197,281 237,395
166,878
70,517		 70,517
(70,517)
237,395 -

Support and governance costs were allocated pro rata to total direct costs.

Of the total expenditure, £80,168 was unrestricted (2020: £158,625) and £117,113 was restricted (2020: £78,770).

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Analysis of expenditure

Analysis of expenditure
Staff costs (Note 8)
Fundraising costs
Direct costs
Freelance programme costs
Freelance admin costs
Technician costs
Other staff costs
Artists programme costs
Catering
Others
Administration expenses
Bank charges
Licence & Insurance
Cleaning & building maintenance
Printing, postage & stationery
Rent & utilities
Accountancy
Telephone & Internet
Legal & Professional fees
Trustee Expenses
IT expenses
Independent examniner fees
Depreciation
Support costs
2020 total
Support costs
2019 total		 £
73,605
104
29,643
6,865
3,210
3,800
41,139
1,393
7,118
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Charitable
activities		 £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,145
3,172
9,394
3,298
43,784
3,240
767
89
1,669
2,352
607
Support
costs		 £
73,605
104
29,643
6,865
3,210
3,800
41,139
1,393
7,118
2,145
3,172
9,394
3,298
43,784
3,240
767
-
89
1,669
2,352
607
2020		 £
61,191
-
11,090
3,272
1,673
2,790
28,636
1,606
6,402
3,034
2,717
5,357
2,533
36,821
3,240
745
480
99
1,291
2,352
448
2019
166,878
70,517		 70,517
(70,517)		 237,395
-		 175,777
-
237,395 - 237,395 175,777
105,570
70,207		 70,207
(70,207)
175,777 -

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6
Net income / (expenditure) for the year
This is stated after charging / (crediting):
Depreciation
Independent examiner fee		 2021
£
1,208
2,572		 2020
£
607
2,352
7
Staff costs were as follows:
2021
£
78,536
1,479
80,015
Analysis of staff costs, trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel
Salaries and wages including social security costs		 7
Staff costs were as follows:
2021
£
78,536
1,479
80,015
Analysis of staff costs, trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel
Salaries and wages including social security costs		 2020
£
72,245
1,360
80,015 73,605

No employee earned more than £60,000 during the year (2020: nil).

The total employee benefits including pension contributions of the key management personnel were £31,438 (2020: £28,887).

One charity trustee, Janine Harrington has been paid £800 for a consultancy service on a code of conduct. No other charity trustees were paid or received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2020: £Nil) neither were they reimbursed expenses during the year (2020: £Nil).

Staff numbers

The average number of employees (head count based on number of staff employed) during the year was as follows:

Direct charitable work
8
Tangible fixed assets
Cost
At the start of the year
Additions in year
At the end of the year
Depreciation
At the start of the year
Charge for the year
At the end of the year
Net book value
At the end of the year
At the start of the year
All of the above assets are used for charitable purposes.		 £
636
-
Fixtures &
Fittings		 2021
No.
4		 2020
No.
4
4 4
£
1,792
2,398
Office
equipment		 Total
£
2,428
2,398
636 4,190 4,826
159
159		 1,508
1,048		 1,667
1,207
318 2,556 2,874
318 1,634 1,952
477 284 761
Debtors
Other debtors
Accrued income		 2021
£
7,863
-		 2020
£
2,228
4,983
7,863 7,211

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10 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Other creditors
Deferred income
Accruals
Deferred income
Balance at the beginning of the year
Amount released to income in the year
Amount deferred in the year
Balance at the end of the year		 2021
£
4,198
24,005
2,800		 2020
£
2,383
-
2,352
31,003 4,735
2021
£
-
-
24,005		 2020
£
28,319
(28,319)
-
24,005 -

Deferred income represents grants received for the purpose of expenditure in a future period.

11 Analysis of net assets between funds- Current year

Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets
Net assets at the end of the year
Analysis of net assets between funds- Prior year
Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets
Net assets at the end of the year		 General
Unrestricted
Funds
£
1,952
44,303		 Designated
Funds
£
-
12,000		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
-		 Total
funds
£
1,952
56,303
46,254 12,000 - 58,254
General
Unrestricted
Funds
£
761
20,916		 Designated
Funds
£
-
12,000		 Restricted
Funds
£
-
14,043		 Total
funds
£
761
46,959
~~21,677~~ ~~12,000~~ ~~14,043~~ ~~47,720~~

12 Movements in funds-Current year

Arts Council England
Clarion Futures
Creative Land Trust
Action for Bow
Total restricted funds
Building costs
Organisation contingency
Total designated funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 £
11,235
2,808
-
-
At the start of
the year		 £
89,295
-
6,500
7,275
Incoming
resources &
gains		 £
(100,530)
(2,808)
(6,500)
(7,275)
Outgoing
resources &
losses		 Transfers
£
-
-
-		 £
-
-
-
-
At the end
of the year
14,043 103,070 (117,113) - -
8,000
4,000		 -
-		 -
-		 -
-		 8,000
4,000
12,000 - - - 12,000
21,677 104,745 (80,168) - 46,254
33,677 104,745 (80,168) - 58,254
47,720 207,815 (197,281) - 58,254

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ISENHALE DANCE SPACE
tes to the financial statements
rthe year ended 31 March 2021
Movements in funds-Prior year
Arts Council England
Clarion Futures
Backstage Trust
Action for Bow
Total restricted funds
Building costs
Organisation contingency
Total designated funds
General funds
Total unrestricted funds
Total funds		 £
-
-
-
9,390
At the start of
the year		 £
64,223
3,979
8,500
6,721
Incoming
resources &
gains		 £
(52,988)
(1,171)
(8,500)
(16,111)
Outgoing
resources &
losses		 Transfers
£
-
-
-
-		 £
11,235
2,808
-
-
At the end
of the year
9,390 83,423 (78,770) - 14,043
8,000
4,000		 -
-		 -
-		 -
-		 8,000
4,000
12,000 - - - 12,000
36,173 144,129 (158,625) - 21,677
48,173 144,129 (158,625) - 33,677
57,563 227,552 (237,395) - 47,720

13 Operating lease commitments

The charity has no future payments under non-cancellable operating leases.

14 Related party transactions

Other than what has been disclosed in note 7, there are no related party transactions (2020: None).

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