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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 29 November 2022
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CROSSING FOOTPRINTS CIC aims to generate creative production with both an educative and artistic emphasis that can encourage action by developing a better under-standing of human rights, environment, equality and wellbeing. In this our second year of operation, while the scale of activity and funding appears modest we can see the depth of the work is demonstrably strong and clearly endorsed by a number of organisations working in the field. The project work delivered in the year December 2021-November 2022 includes the following:Main projectsSanctuary, Climate and LibrariesClimate Connections at Northmoor LibraryHope For The Future community climate activism with local councils Manchester Histories Festival – this festival’s theme was on Climate ChangeMigration Stories North WestSmaller projects:Anamika Bangladeshi project – Covid 19 remembranceAmani Creatives and Emmanuela Yogolelo - African arts and climate changeOther significant activity:Great Big Green Week panel representationClimate Emergency UK Council ScorecardsDecember 2021 and the beginning of 2022 saw the completion of a significant project in partnership with local charity Community Arts North West and with 8 libraries across three Greater Manchester boroughs, titled Sanctuary, Climate and Libraries. The major element of the project was titled Climate Connections and both managed and delivered by Crossing Footprints, a new arts project including digital media which raised awareness about climate change and enabled diverse, migrant and working class local communities from Oldham to have a greater voice in the environmental movement. It is a testament to the depth and pioneering nature of this work that Climate Connections was used as a case study of positive and ground-breaking practice by national Great Big Green Week (GBGW), and Oldham Libraries presented this work at a Parliamentary select committee of MPs and Peers. Crossing Footprints were represented on a GBGW panel discussing models of good practice in engaging communities not normally associated with the climate movement and environmental activism. We also were asked to contribute to the development and evaluation of the Local Council Climate Scorecards by Climate Emergency UK due to the insights developed over years of work connecting diverse communities with narratives around climate change.Oldham Libraries subsequently submitting a bid for further funding for climate-related work based on the success of the Climate Connections project, and which became an extension of Climate Connections entirely focused on communities around Northmoor Library. This project included a climate science workshop day, a Climate Connections community festival, two sessions of training for local people in understanding and fighting climate change, then finally a Bangladeshi climate change cultural celebration to coincide with Bangladesh Victory Day. In addition, again due to the strength of our work, we were contacted and funded by Hope For The Future to integrate research and lobbying methodology within the Climate Connections at Northmoor Library project, and to run a series of climate activism and creative arts training sessions for a group of local women, with a particular focus on ‘school streets’ initiatives. This was run by an excellent facilitator Jesmin Chowdhury from Ayna Arts, and resulted in letters being written to local councillors and a textile exhibition being created.The Manchester Histories Festival takes place every two years, and in June 2022 the theme was on climate change. Having heard of the work by Crossing Footprints, we were invited to deliver a climate justice themed strand of activity within the festival. This comprised four events including a panel discussion ‘Climate Change is a Race and Migration Issue’ followed by a powerful Bangladeshi theatre piece ‘GHOORNI’ by Ayna Arts, both at Manchester Central Library. Then the singer-songwriter Emmanuela Yogolelo from DR Congo performed a music set focused on Climate Justice at Angel Meadow. Lastly, throughout the Festival the ‘Climate Connections’ set of short video films made mostly by low income and diverse communities in Oldham responding to climate change was exhibited on a screen at Oldham Art Gallery, with an informal talk by project director Kooj Chuhan.Finally, Crossing Footprints have undertaken the delivery of the Greater Manchester section of a Heritage Fund supported project titled Migration Stories North West https://migrationstoriesnw.uk . This is a 3-year project unearthing histories of migration in the North West from ancient times to the present day, which will present migration as something that has been fundamental to the UK for a very long time. It’s headed by Global Link based in Lancaster, and is a partnership with four other organisations across the North West out of which Crossing Footprints is the one covering the wider Manchester region. The other three are Liverpool World Centre, Cumbria Development Education Centre and Cheshire Global Learning.In this first year Crossing Footprints recruited around 15 voluntary community researchers to each explore local archives to find individual stories. The group began in early May 2022 working with Manchester-based author Mickela Sonola and included induction / training / visits to archives / discussions about the stories that emerged, with supported research in between meetings. This first year focused on migration stories up to WWII but not later, including stories of migration out of the UK as well as coming into the UK, and also internal migration. The work produced created a significant online resource of stories with enormous value and educational potential, which will be added to in the second year of the project working with local schools.In addition, Crossing Footprints completed the creative media production for a film about the experience of Covid by the Manchester-based Bengali cultural group Anamika for the Ahmed Igbal Ullah Education Trust, and delivered climate training and media production for a significant arts project on climate justice with an African focus by the local non-profit cultural group Amani Creatives.In November 2022 the director of Crossing Footprints, Kooj/Kuljit Chuhan, was also a nominated finalist in the Manchester Culture Awards for his work at Crossing Footprints engaging diverse and racially marginalised communities with climate change using the arts and culture.
The company’s projects and served communities will vary according the current needs, priorities and available support, therefore our stakeholders may also vary year on year. In 2022 our stakeholders comprised our project partners especially Community Arts North West, Oldham Libraries, Global Link in Lancaster, Manchester Histories, Amani Creatives, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive, the related local communities and user base, physical and online audiences, local artists and community activists, and our funders.This is a complex set of relationships and all projects involve a regular and continual level of communication using meetings, emails and telephone at all stages of project delivery - from devising, designing and planning through project management and delivering the activities to documentation and final evaluation. Given the complex nature of such projects we tend to rely on the knowledge gained by staff, freelancers and other organisations embedded in and with long standing connections with local communities to advocate on behalf of those communities. In addition, project delivery generally begins with sessions involving elements of trial activity and generating evaluative feedback as a highly engaged way of consulting on the way forward for the rest of the project.Our work adheres to a high level of principles and ethics around community engagement as is shared by our long established and reputable partners.
Kuljit Chuhan, the sole director receives no remuneration in return for services as an officer of the Company. He does receive remuneration for his involvement in project work delivery, management and administration. In the period under review, he received £15,990 as presented in the accounts. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
9 November 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Kuljit Chuhan
Status: Director