## Carn Media Annual Trustees Report March 2021 to 28[th] February 2022 ## Contents ## Introduction ## Legalities ## Constitution and Purpose Main Activities to Further Public Benefit Review of Public Benefit Outcome Review of Financial Position at year end 28[th] February 2022 ## **Introduction** This is the fifth Annual Trustee Report for Carn Media, as required by the Charity Commission. The details enclosed refer to the financial year 2021-2022. This document has been prepared with guidance from the Charity Commission and trustees have understood the requirements in relation to the Commission's Public Benefit requirements. Signed on behalf of trustees N O'Kane Chair 20[th] May 2022 ## **Legalities** **Carn Media is a registered charitable organisation, known only as Carn Media.** **It is a registered Company, Limited by Guarantee with Charitable Status.** **Its Company registration number is NI053949** **Its Charity Commission reference number NIC 102716** **Carn Media's address and registered office are the same:** **Carn Media** **C/o An Carn** **132a Tirkane Road,** **Maghera,** **Co. Derry** **BT46 5NH** ## **Trustees** The following members are Trustees of the organization: |**Name**|**On Feb2022**|**Served During 2021/2022**| |---|---|---| |**Niall O'Kane**|**yes**|**yes**| |**Declan Devlin**|**yes**|**Yes**| ## **Constitution and Pur of Carn Media pose** Carn Media is a registered charity for tax purposes. It works in the community sector providing expert tuition and associated facilities and equipment for a range of multimedia based programmes, including visual arts, film making, and animation. During the year it also provided employment for a registered disabled worker with acquired brain injuries. We provide work closely with local schools and community organisations in delivering multi-media participation and training and we film social events and information films for community groups, schools and other organisations, help them create promotional videos while, at the same time, initiating ongoing internet awareness and social media awareness and on-line safety. The Company fits our resources and expertise around the needs of our partner/ client organisations. The organisation is closely connected to and is supported by Carntogher Community Association, and it is housed within the Community Association’s An Carn, Community Enterprise Centre at An Carn, Tirkane Road, Maghera. ## **Main Activities to further Public Benefit** The public benefits flowing from the purposes of Carn Media is that people, in particular Mid Ulster and the Maghera Area, have access to an organisation with the skills, knowledge, and equipment to offer education and training in multimedia programmes including visual arts, film making, animation, printed materials and digital arts. Beneficiaries benefit from being able to engage with qualified multimedia artists who can both train people mostly within the community sector and the education sector and develop a finished product. Individuals and groups can benefit from becoming involved in workshops, training, film making, animation, and other activities and some of these have included individuals or groups suffering from disabilities. The community benefits by engaging with the arts, enabling people of all ages to experience and educate themselves in multi-media. The benefits are measured by the number of productions / activities undertaken by Carn Media, the number of beneficiaries participating and the feedback that the organisations and individuals provide to the Company on these programmes. There is no private benefit driving from the work of Carn Media apart from remuneration paid to the those involved in delivering the programmes and there is no harm emanating from their work. ## **Review of Public Benefit Outcomes 2021-2022** ## **Public Benefit** The work undertaken by Carn Media during the year consisted primarily of Film production and animation workshops for community organisations and schools and associated training that these delivered. This consisted of involving community members and school students in the making of these videos including planning, shooting footage and recording sound and undertaking the editing of this footage into a finished video clip that can be used in social media or on their website. This work effectively empowered the beneficiaries by providing them with the skills to start to make their own productions in the future. These short videos were used by the organisations to promote their services and highlight the good work that they have undertaken. The activity in the Charity has been limited due to the constraints of our limited staffing and the amount of time that our volunteers can commit to the various projects. We currently have plans to expand the operation of the charity in the coming years to expand the range and extent of the services that it offers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2m2zZGlwnA&t=1692s ## **Resources and Governance** Carn Media has continued with its important role within the community and education sector in the Mid-ulster area and has sustained part-time employment for an employee with an acquired brain injury. Carn Media, has had a challenging two years in relation to its financial sustainability and it plans to undertake a review of the range and extent of services that it offers over the coming year with a view to expanding its services, its income and the level of employment and volunteering that it delivers. This will be done in conjunction with Carntogher Community Association, a very successful community-based charitable organisation that already has a relationship with Carn Media through providing the accommodation within which the business operates. We are also planning increased collaboration with other charitable organisations over the coming 2 years and to expand our trustee and volunteer membership. ## **Financial Activity** As attached Carn Media's annual audited accounts have been independently verified from ASM Howarth Accountants. Details of the income and expenditure and the resources of the company are listed within these accounts. With regard to any financial planning or spending, all of these decisions are made through the board of directors. ## **Review of Financial Position at r endin yea g** The financial position of the company at the start of the year showed a deficit of £-4067. and during the year this deficit increased to £9,974. This is very disappointing and has brought about the necessity for us to review our activities as identified above. It is our intention with support and assistance from Carntogher Communty Association to eliminate this deficit within two years and to expand the charitable activities of the organisation in the process.