Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 Company Registration No. 01161029 (England and Wales) Charity Registration No. 503238 Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Trustees Julian Rodriguez Emma Cheshire Sophie Gerrard Kevin Docherty Sarah Evans Usmaan Ashard Secretary Anne McNeill Charity number 503238 Company number 01161029 Principal address Centenary Square Bradford BD1 1SD Registered office Impressions Gallery Centenary Square Bradford BDI 1SD Independent examiner Alison Whalley FCA Azets Audit Services Ltd Carlton House Grammar School Street Bradford BD14NS Bankers Virgin Money 46 Coney Street York Y019NQ Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED CONTENTS Page Trustees, report Statement of Trustees, responsibilities Independent examinerfs report Statement of financial activities Balance sheet Notes to the accounts 10-23 Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED TRUSTEES. REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS. REPORT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 The Trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024. The accounts have been prepared in accordance wth the accounting policies set out in note 1 to tFE accounts and comply with the Charity's Memorandum and Articles of Association, Ihe Companies Act 2006 and 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities.. Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland {FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019). The Legal and Administration page fom)s part of this report. Objectives and activities The Charity's objects are.. To further and advance photography as an art and to promote public knowledge, appreciation and understanding thereof., To organise and conduct public exhibitions of photographs and photographic art and apparatus- To acquire, collect and preserve for the public benefit examples of photography and photography apparatus of historic and artistic interest or importance- By means of research, instruction, infomiation advice. lectures. publications. sources of reference and otherwise to increase and to make publicly available information conceming photography and photographic art apparatus and history. This is achieved through the presentation of high quality exhibitions. to offer a selection of these to other galleries and arts organisations both nationally and intemationally, and to offer the public a range of educational events, activities and leaming opportunities. In setting our objectives and planning our activities our trustees have given serious consideration lo the Charity commission's general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of education, arts and culture. and consider they comply with the duty in section 4 of the 2011 Charities Act. The Board of Trustees take reasonable steps to ensure that Impressions Gallery operates policies thi¢h ensures the following.. The Gallery is operating efficiently and effectively in accordan￿ with the Gallery's stated purpose and objectives Gallery assets are safeguarded against unauthorised use or disposition Proper records, including financial records, are mainlained Financial information used within the charity or for publication is reliable The gallery complies with relevant laws and regulations An annual budget is approved and any variance is reported and subsequently agreed Artistic policies are approved, with key performance indicators reviewed and evaluated Delegation of authority and segregation of duties to the director and the staff team are appropriate for the size and nature of the organisation. Impressions Gallery works to its Equal Opportunity Policy. this policy is supported by our EqualityAction Plan. Impressions Gallery works to its Environmental Sustainability Policy. This policy is supported by our Environmental Action Plan. Applications for employment by disabled persons are always fully considered, bearing in mind the aptitudes of the applicant concerned. In the event of members of stsff becoming disabled, every effort is made to ensure that their employment within the Charity continues and that the appropriate training is arranged. It is the policy of the Charity that the training, career development and promotion of disabled persons should, as far as possible, be identical to that of other employees. Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED TRUSTEES. REPORT {CONTINUED){INCLUDING DIRECTORS. REPORT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 Achievements and performance Impressions Gallery is a charity that helps people understand through photography and acts as an agent for change. We believe pholography is for all and our mission is to get people looking, thinking, doing, and talking about photography. We do this by collaborating with photographers. other charities, and organisations locally and nationally to commission. exhibit and publish photography. We work in partnership to present the best of contemporary photography to wide and culturally diverse audiences. Our artistic, learning, engagement. audience development. community and event programmes are devised to help people see things differently, andlor empower them to reach their potential through photography. We stage our activities because we believe photography is for everyone and should be open to all. The charity had another successful year attracting 17,810 visitors into the gallery, and reaching more than 1 million people through our outdoor, digital and touring programmes. We presented four exhibitions in our main gallery spa￿, two addressed themes of cultural identity, gender, race, and class, while one bore witness to The Holocaust. and one shone a spodight on human stories behind war. In spring we staged Zaibunnisa {Urdu work meaning the beauty of women) an exhibition of photographs by award winning artist Maryam Wahid who uses photography to convey her identity as a British Pakistani Muslim woman. This emotional exhibition traced V4Èhid's joumey to her mother's childhood home in Lahore. On tour from Midland Arts Centre "Crying while seeing it. l am from Pakistan, just came here 3 months ago .Love everything about this exhibition." Initiated by Sedachius Museum, Finland. and toured as a partnership with Impressions and Photo Museum, Ireland, our summer exhibition Trish Mo￿lSseY.. Autofictions was the UK premier of Morrissey's major survey show featuring 20 years of photography and film. Morrissey artworks use 'perfomiance and wt as tools to investigate feminism. the exhibition brought back to the gallery Morrissey's seminal photographic series Seven Years and Front both commissioned by Impressions in the earfy 2000s. "One of the best imme￿1Ve art eXperien￿S I've seen here. Thanks ImpreSs￿nS for being here in the heart ol Bradford." Our autumn exhibition Marc Wilson's A Wounded Landscape." Bearing ￿nesS to the Holocaust. was a poignant reminder of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their collaborators across a vast and varied landscape. Instigated by his own family history Wilson embarked on a profound six-year joumey from 2015 to 2021, documenting 130 locations across 20 countries. "Incredibly touching accounts fn)m all Ihe many people's lives here. Their stories are some that have been both heartbreaking and inspiiing into showing the pe￿eve(a￿￿ and spirit of some people despite the tragic events that had taken place." In winter we launched the exhibition We Are Here. Because You Were There.. Afghan Interpreters in the UK a collaborative project by photographer Andy Bamham and University of York researcher Dr. Sara de Jong, which documented the experiences of Afghan interpreters who were employed by the British Amiy in Afghanistan and resettled in the UK in 2021. This exhibition told the interpreters, experiences of employment and resettlement through portraiture and quotes, and photographs from Afghanistan. "A very moving exhibition, I've leamed things I didn't know beft)￿ about ￿￿nt history." Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED TRUSTEES. REPORT {CONTINUED){INCLUDING DIRECTORS. REPORT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 Commissioned by Historic England and Bradford Council. Picturing Bradford was an outdoor photography exhibition celebrating Bradford's high streets. During the summer months large-scale photographs animating the city centre were presented on shopfronts and windows, in City Park, Kirkgate Shopping centre, Darley St and Godwin Street. This exhibition was launched as part of the BD.'FESTIVAL weekend., with an estimated 25,000 visitors, and foolfall of 700,000 at Kirkgate Centre, Darley St and G0dV￿n St,. 300,000 at City Park for the duration of the exhibition. We presented four interactive 3D virtual digital exhibitions, which provided high-quality online walkthroughs of our 'real life, exhibitions. Viewed online via our website, on mobile and in virtual reality, these were accessed by 2.200+ people worldwide. Two of our touring exhibitions travelled throughout the UK. The internationally acclaimed Our Plastic Ocean by award-wnning Mandy Barker addressed the cu￿ent global crisis of marine plastic pollution, exhibited at Dunfemline Carnegie Library and Galleries. Being Inbelween by photographer Carolyn Mendelsohn, a series of powerful photographic portraits of girfs exploring the complex transition between childhood and young adulthood was shown at Bishop Auckland Town Hall, County Durham. This touring programme reached and engaged 14,000+ visitors, meaning that more people had the oppcrtunity to experience high quality photography exhibitions. This helped us maintain our reputation as a centre of excellence, beyond Yorkshire and England. Our touring portfolio supported non-specialist venues, equipping them with contemporary photographic knowledge and expertise. New Focus, is the charity's young people's collective consisting of talented and committed individuals, aged 18 to 25 who live in Bradford. Vmth our support eight young people who had previously little access to the arts gained professional skills to become the creatives. artists and cultural leaders of the future. Following a series of mentoring sessions from our curatorial team, New Focus presented Belongings photographs and stories in a series of concertina books within a specially designed exhibition space in the gallery's bookshop. Their stories ranged from a celebration of Northern Soul and a shared belonging to a subculture, through to honouring family members who escaped war. This project was funded by Bradford Community SOUP and Bradford council. People are at the heart of what we do. Wle created and delivered multiple opportunities that widened and actively supported people, of all ages, and ￿lturallY diverse bad(grounds, to express their creativity in various ways. A wide range of 160 events and sessions took pla￿ to accompany our exhibitions, with 2,885 children, young people and adults taking part. Our Look, Think, Talk & Do learning and education programme provided a year round offer of workshops and resources to schools, colleges, universities and community groups. We worked wth 29 groups from across Bradford, the north and the wider UK, and 582 people took parl, wth a teacher feeding back that "Many students poinled out that they have never seen art in gallery befo￿, so our visrt has tnjly developed the Cultu￿ of our students.. Our artistic and community programmes received positive press and reviews in local (Telegraph & Argus)., regional (Yorkshire Post)- national rfhe Guardian) media, and specialised journals (Royal Photographic Society, British Journal of Photography) both in print and online. This coverage converts into an equivalent advertising spend of £35,400 which translates as a PR value of £106,200. We continue to value greatly the year-on-year financial contribution of Arts Council England, Bradford Council and in-kind support from Spectrum Photographic. Fundraising Section 162a of the Charities Act 2011 requires charities to make a statement regarding fundraising activities. The legislation defines fundraising as 'soliciting or otherwise procuring money or other property f(K charitable purposes,. The charity does not actively raise funds from the public either directly or via use of an agent, accordingly no such amounts are presented in the financial statements for the year under review. The charity has received no complaints in relation to fundraising adivty for the year under review. Given the nature of the funding of the charity the Trustees consider that it remains appropriate not to be voluntarily bound to be regulated by the Fundraising Regulator. Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED TRUSTEES. REPORT {CONTINUED){INCLUDING DIRECTORS. REPORT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 Financial review Income for the year amounted to £348,456 {2023 £305,016) with expenditure amounting to £377,106 (2023 £297,976) resulting in a net expense of £28,650 for the year (2023 £7,040 net income}. It is the policy of the Charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specffic use should be maintained at a level equivalent to three months. operating costs, equivalent to £95,000. This amount has been designated by the Trustees in order that it is ring fenced. The Trustees considers that reserves at this level will ensure that, in the event of a significant drop in funding, they wll be able to continue the Charity's current activities while consideration is given to ways in which additional funds may be raised. Unrestricted, undesignated funds at the year end amounted to £138,253 (2023 £163,704). The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the Charity is exposed, and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks. Structure, governance and management The Charity is a company limited by guarantee and was incorporated in England and Wales on 22 February 1974, number 01161029, and registered as a charity on 7 June 1974, number 503238. The registered address is Centenary Square. Bradford, BD11 SD. The charity is govemed by its articles of association. The Trustees, who are also the directors for the purpose of company law, and vtho served during the year and to the date of signing the accounts were= Julian Rodriguez Emma Cheshire Sophie Gerrard Kevin Dochety Sarah Evans Usmann Arshad The recruitment and appointment of new trustees is the responsibility of the existing Board of Trustees. Potential new trustees are initially interviewed by the Chaimian of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Director. The second stage of the process is to attend the next Board of Trustees meeting as an observer and to meet all of the trustees. The Board of Trustees appoint the new trustees by a simple vote. This process ensures the right mix of artistic and commercial experience appropriate to the gallery's needs are represented across the whole of the Board of Trustees. Before being appointed as a trustee they have an informal meeting with the Chair and Executive Director. This is followed up circulating Impressions Gallery s Business Plan, stralegies & policies and annual budget. They also attend a board meeting as an obsetver. Once elected they received an induction from both the Chair and Executive Director. Once elected as a trustee, the Executive Director manages a simple prO￿sS of induction for new trustees to ensure they are familiar with the staff, the gallery, the governing documents and the artistic aims and objectives. The precise nature of the induction process varies depending upon the artistic or commercial background of the new trustee and is tailored to the needs and interests of the new trustee. None of the Trustees has any beneficial interest in the company. All of the Trustees are members of the company and guarantee to contribute £1 in the event of a winding up. During the year costs of £822 were incurred for trustees indemnity Insuran￿ {2023- £822). Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 IMPRESSIONS GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED TRUSTEES. REPORT {CONTINUED){INCLUDING DIRECTORS. REPORT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024 The charitable company is governed by a Board of Trustees. supported by specialist sul>committees with responsibility for finance and the artistic programme. The gallery is managed by an Executive Director responsible to the Board and supported by the members of staff of the Gallery. Day to day management of the charity has been delegated by the trustees to Anne M¢Neill, the Company Secretary and Executive Director. All staff are issued with the staff handbook that defines employees. rights and obligations whilst in employment with Impressions Gallery. It is updated as and vthen statutory regulations and employees, conditions of employment change. Staff appraisals with the director and the relevant staff are conducted annually. This covers, an￿ngst others, training and development. Staff meetings are held weekly. Artistic Sub Committee The purpose for which the charity is established is 'to further and advance photography as an art and to promote public knowledge, appreciation, and understanding thereof (Memorandum of Association}. The artistic subooo 000 *ooo T￿[￿•r) CLU C Li (£ Q) (( Docusign Envelope ID.. EBFDC106-A79641 D7-B2S&FBE5CF8B￿E4 7J th ¢• 0 <2* fSJ rD oc C3 7Jth*