3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
___________________________________________________________________________________ In Compiling this Report the Trustees have had regard to the Northern Ireland Charity Commission’s Public benefit requirements statutory guidance.
## **Objectives and Activities**
Bbeyond was set up to advance the education, participation and promotion of performance art in Northern Ireland. Bbeyond sets out to achieve this by raising awareness amongst its membership, the artistic community and the general public, through our Performance Monthly meetings, Exchanges with different countries, Workshops, Talks, Lectures, Discussions and the disseminating of this information through Electronic Media, Publications and Archives. It also works closely with Ulster University and Queens University to achieve these aims.
## **Public benefit Statement**
The direct benefits which flow from the Bbeyond purposes to its beneficiaries are:
- Greater knowledge, understanding and appreciation of performance art
- Opportunities to participate in performance art events, workshops and discussions - Opportunities to engage with a wide range of performance art practitioners and enthusiasts
The direct benefits are capable of being demonstrated, proven or evidenced via:
- Research/Surveys/Questionnaires undertaken with Bbeyond members and the general public
- Increased participation in performance art activities by Bbeyond members and the general public - Increased membership of Bbeyond
There are no harms that may arise from the purpose.
The private benefits that may arise incidentally to the carrying out of the purposes include a sense of well being, mindfulness and enhanced self awareness amongst both participants and audiences alike. Whilst modest membership and workshop fees are sometimes charged to beneficiaries concessionary rates are available for those in receipt of state benefits to ensure accessibility for all, regardless of income. Furthermore, a wide range of free information is available on both social media and within the organisational archives. Finally, the opportunity to engage in performance is available to all at no cost on a monthly basis.
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
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## **Achievements and Performance**
## - **Past Projects** (12 months, July 2023 June 2024)
During this time frame, Bbeyond has been involved in a total of 80 Events and Activities, the breakdown is as follows:
- 0 – Call out
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- 8 - Performance Events (Solo + Group Performances)
- 1 - Talks
- 4 - Workshops
- 15 - Performance Monthly Meetings
- 46 - Online Group Performances (BBDB / Bbeyond)
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- 1 - Awards program - New Commissions (1 Artists)
- 4 – Festivals Participation Fix, BIFPA, Look North,
## **Details: (for each activity above)**
|TYPE|DETAILS|MONTH||ARTISTS|NO.
Arti
sts|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Awards**||||||
|New Commissions|BSOA Graduate Award|June 2024||Gabija Jocyte|1|
|||||SUB-TOTAL|1|
|**PERFORMANCES**||||||
|Group Performance|Fix Festival,|18 Nov 2023||Emma Brennan, Husk Bennett, Brian
Patterson, Holly Millar, Rebecca Strain,
Mariana Iodice, James King, Caroline
Murphy, Elaine McGinn, Alex Conway,
Alatair MacLennan, Bronagh Lawson,
Sinead Brannagh- Cashel, Thomas
Wells + catalyst crew, Olivia Hassett,|19|
|Group Performance|Look North Arts Festival|24 Feb 2024||Alastair MacLennan, Bronagh Lawson,
Dr Pamela Whither +1, Justine
McConnell,TommyDunlop,Wioletta|24|
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
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|||||Ratajczak, Brian Patterson, Keiki
Twisslemann, Emma Brennan, Holly
Millar, Christof Gillen, Sarah
Riseborough, Mariana Iodice, Nina
Quigley, Hilary Gilligan, Rebecca Strain,
Coby Moore, Carmen Ennis, Cattum
Lewis, Ivy Pallerin, Christine Donaghy,
RaynaMoore||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Solo performances|Common Groundwork
(2RA, Redeemer Central,
various locations in
Belfast,|1-3 May 2024||Xiang Xishi, Pan Chennong, Lyu
Deshang, Wang Pan, Rainer Pagel,
Wioletta Ratacjczak, Chen Kexiong,
Rebecca Strain, Chen Quige, Sandra
Johnston, Li Mengyan, Sinead’O’Donnell|12|
|Group performance|Northern Ireland Mental
Health Arts Festival –
Guildhall, Derry|10 May 2024||Brian Patterson, James King, Rebecca
Strain, Bronagh Lawson, Zara Lyness,
Paul Moore, Xiang Xishi, Lyn Deshang,
Wang Pan, Chen Quige, Li Mengyan,
Mirror Huang Jingxuan, 300+ audience|13|
|Group performance|Common Queen’s Quay,
Belfast|11 May 2024||Alastair MacLennan, Sandra Johnston,
Brian Patterson, Bronagh Lawson,
Rainer Pagel, Keiki Twisslemann,
Wioletta Raracjczak , Xiang Xixhi, Pan
Chennong, Lyn Deshang, Chen
Kexiong,Chen,Quige, Li Lengyan Mirror
Huang Jingxuan, Christof Gillen, Paul
King, Rebecca Strain, Zara Lyness –
audience 500 +|18|
|New Commissions –
solo performances|CQAF 2024
Common Groundwork
Belfast International
Festival of Performance
Art 2024|22 Mar 2024
1 May 2024||Rebecca Strain
Rebecca Strain
Zara Lyness|1
1
1|
|||||||
|||||SUB-TOTAL|89|
|**TALKS**||||||
|Beuys Talk|Talk at Ulster
University,Belfast
speaker Robert
McDowell Part of Look
NOrth Festival|23 Feb 2024||James King, Keiki Twisslemann, Rainer
Pagel, Rebecca Strain,Brian Patterson,
Tony Hill, Alastair MacLennan, Zara
Lyness, Wiola Raracjczak, Dr Cherie
Driver,Sandra Johnston100+ people|2|
|Common
Groundwork|Ulster University/
University of A Typical|7-8 May 2024||Pan Chennong, Lyu Desheng, Xiang
Xishi, Huang Jingxuan|4|
|||||SUB-TOTAL|6|
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
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|**WORKSHOPS**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Ulster University|1 day workshop led by
Brian Patterson &
Bronagh Lawson|||Bronagh Lawson, Brian Patterson , Dr
Noreen Giffney + 20 students|2|
|Inhabiting Time|Performance Art
Workshop with Eleni K
for the Imagine Festival
at Crescent arts|Mar 2024||Alastair MacLennan,Ali Warner,Brian
Patterson, Bronagh Lawson, Fergus
Byrne + one other|6|
|||||Sub total|8|
|**RESIDENCY**||||||
|Moyallon Residency|Bbeyond members
residency. Workshop
facilitator Sandra
Johnston|Aug 2023||Sandra Johnston, Brian Patterson,
Bronagh Lawson, Elaine McGinn, Zara
Lyness, Paul Moore, El Putnam,
Christine Donaghy, Fergus Byrne, Alex
Conway, Wioletta Ratajczak, Olivia
Hassett, Rachel McManus, Pavanna
Reid, Eleni Kolliopoulou, Debi Paul,
Pavana Reid, Valerie Whitworth, Pauline
Keena|19|
|Berlin Residency|PODO Arts Festival|September
2023||Brian Patterson, Keike Twisselmann,
James King, Rebecca Strain, Elaine
McGinn, Kane Stonestreet, Sandra
Johnston,Alastair MacLennan|8|
|||||SUB-TOTAL|27|
|OTHER
Film Presentation|Equinox screen for
Intimate Screening in
Ledger Studio, Bounce
ArtsFestival,Belfast|4 October
2024||Rainer Pagel, Bronagh Lawson, Elaine
McGinn, Brian Connolly, Siobhan Mullan
Wolfe, Zara Lyness, Paula Clarke +20
members ofthe public|35|
|||||SUB-TOTAL|35|
|||||**TOTAL**|166|
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
___________________________________________________________________________________ Further Information
## **PERFORMANCE MONTHLY MEETS** - (181 - Artist Participations)
Our Performance Monthly meets were held in Public spaces throughout Northern Ireland,
1. 22 July 2023– Helen’s Bay
2. 19 Aug 2023 – Online
3. 23 Sept 2023 – Queen’s Quay, Belfast
4. 15 Oct 2023 – Society Street, Derry
5. 18 Nov 2023 – Fix Festival, Portview Trade Centre
6. 17 Dec 2023 – Online
7. 21 Jan 202 - On Line
8. 23 Feb 2024 – Writers Square, Belfast (Look North Festival) 9. 23 Mar 2024 – Writers Square (BIFPA + Imagine Festival)
10. 20 Apr 2024 – Rotunda, 2 Royal Avenue
11. 28 May 2024 – Queen’s Quay, Belfast
12. 22 June 2024 – Queen’s Quay, Belfast
**ON-LINE GROUP PERFORMANCE SESSIONS (BBDB/BBEYOND)** ( - Artist participations) These sessions hosted by James King take place online every Wednesday and are open sessions and have attracted international participation.
## **New Commissions Artists**
Zara Lyness and Rebecca Strain
The total artist participation numbers involved in this time period was 484, 32 were performing for the first time with total of an estimated 1750+ in-person audiences and 750+ virtual audiences.
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
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## **Financial Review**
## **Bbeyond**
**Statement of Receipts and Payments**
## **Year ended 30 June**
**2024**
## INCOME
|INCOME|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted (ACNI)**|**Restricted**
**(Other)**|**Total**|
||**Funds**|**Funds**|||
||**£**|**£**||**£**|
|**_Voluntary Receipts_**|||||
|Arts Council Lottery
Funds received|-|13627.20||13627.20|
|Other Funders (NIO,
BCC, UU, BC)|4543.61||8000.00|12543.61|
||||||
|**_Charitable Activities_**|||||
||||||
|Membership fees|681.09|||681.09|
|Miscellaneous|380.83|||380.83|
|**Total Income**|5605.53|13627.20|8000.00|27233.03|
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
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|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|**EXPENDITURE**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted (ACNI)**|**Restricted**
**(Other)**||
|Rent||2929.27||2928.27|
|Artists fees|150.00|3050.00||3200.00|
|Artists travel and
accommodation|651.75|7130.09||7781.84|
|Insurance|410.02|||410.02|
|Administration||2622.50||2622.50|
|Materials|200.00|857.41||1057.41|
|Photographer and
video||466.32||466.32|
|Venue||1036.00||1036.00|
|Telephone /
internet/Bank/Zoom|473.28|326.11||799.39|
|Miscellaneous|1483.73|168.17||1651.90|
||||||
||||||
|**Total EXPENDITURE**|3368.78|18626.57||21995.35|
|**Accounting (Deficit) /**
**Surplus for the year**|2236.75|3000.93||5237.68|
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
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## **Reconciliation 30 June**
|**Reconciliation 30 June**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**2024**|||||
|**Cash at bank 1 July**
**2023**|9412.58|339.96||9752.54|
|Accounting (Deficit) /
Surplus this year
(transfer from
Unrestricted to
Restricted)|2236.75|3000.93||5237.68|
|**Cash at bank 30 June**
**2024**|11649.33|3340.89||14990.22|
## **Reserve Policy**
Bbeyond’s reserves policy is to maintain sufficient level of reserves to enable operating activities to be maintained, taking account of potential risks and contingencies that may arise from time to time.
Amounts are set aside to meet financial risks associated with potential contingencies and uncertainties relating to the charity’s operating activities.
These include:
- the provision for an orderly winding-down of operations in the event of a significant adverse event that is outside the control of the organisation
- the funding of unforeseen major projects that have not been provided for in the normal financial planning process;
- and the setting aside of an appropriate sum for ensuring the continuation of Bbeyond’s activities
## **Structure Governance and Management**
## **Governing Document**
The Charity is governed under a Constitution and is managed by a Board drawn from the membership of the organisation. This board is elected on an annual basis.
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3G Third Floor | Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace |109-113 Royal Avenue | Belfast| BT1 1FF | Northern Ireland **Phone:** Brian Patterson | 07968643871 **Email:** info@bbeyond.live
## **Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30[th] June 2024**
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## **Appointment of Trustees**
The Trustees were appointed on 22 April 2024 in accordance with the Bbeyond constitution.
## **Reference and administrative details**
**Name of Charity** Bbeyond
**Charity number** 102867
## **Principal Address:**
3G Third Floor, Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace, 109-113 Royal Avenue, Belfast, BT1 1FF
## **Points of Contact:**
3G Third Floor, Cathedral Quarter Managed Workspace, 109-113 Royal Avenue, Belfast, BT1 1FF Email: bbeyond@europe.com (Chair – Bronagh Lawson)
www.bbeyond.live https://www.facebook.com/BBEYOND.PerformanceArt/ https://twitter.com/BbeyondLive https://www.instagram.com/bbeyondlive/
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