## **- The Urban Arts Centre Limited Trustee Report 2023 24** 

## **Charity Commission No - 105558** 

## **Charity Number-  XR80364** 

The charitable purposes of the Urban Arts Centre are the advancement of education, the arts and heritage. Which enables pupils to maintain and improve personal artistic standards through their chosen art form, aspire to excellence, and provides our students with opportunities for self-development and growth. This is achieved via educational arts services provided at a local level, the development of professional and amateur productions, showcasing live performances at a national level, the creation of media content, the encouragement of high standards in the arts including music, drama and cinema as well as heritage focused arts such as traditional music and dance. 

The educational value of such activities being demonstrated by pupils progression, taking into account each students individual aims, talents and abilities whilst working towards industry standard goals and targets, further demonstrated by the inclusion of pupils’ work in film festivals or for broadcast, which is further validated by the vetting process of recognised external organisations. There is no private benefit flowing from these purposes. 

We submitted several applications to various funding bodies in order to facilitate various projects and to deliver them to a wider audience.  However we were unsuccessful in obtaining funding, which prevented the charity from rolling out its programme for 2023 - 2024 in various projects such as filming and performing arts. Therefore the company has a current status of Dormant as we have not received any money to facilitate these projects as our accounts will demonstrate. 

We were also able to obtain some new volunteers for the organisation to help with the day to day running of the charity as we had envisioned in the previous financial year.  We had planned various fundraising ideas such a Sponsored Walk, Summer Barbeque & Raffle, Karaoke Night and Halloween Fancy Dress Contest, however due to Social Distancing and other restrictions on Community Gatherings regarding Covid-19, we offered these events free of charge and did not make any profit for the organisation, leaving us remaining in a dormant status 

We hope to obtain funding for the upcoming year by submitting grant proposals to help enable and facilitate the various projects of the Urban Arts Centre for 2024-25. 

Signed 


Paul Kitson Trustee 

Date: 31 May 2024 

Urban Arts Centre 46 Eliza Street Close, Belfast, BT7 2BS Tel: 07394 046820 E-Mail: uabelfast@gmail.com 

Charity No: XR 80364