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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 28 February 2023
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 March 2022 to 28 February 2023
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
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This report was approved by the board of directors on
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Training continues for Kamitan Arts with ‘Heritage Compass’ by the Arts and Fundraising department at Leeds University in partnership with Cause 4 and Arts Council England as NPO and SSO, which is a series of online and in-person hybrid training and development programme for C.I.C’s and charities in the arts and heritage sector; this training has continued to empower and help us grow, to better understand how to thrive and not just survive as a small C.I.C. This year we were appointed a mentor and critical friend to support us with our journal in reporting our growth in the following areas: Fundraising, Culture and Heritage, the role of a Chair, Business Planning and Audience Development, giving feedback on the sessions. By the end of Spring unique and vital programme came to a close, and Kamitan Arts will be putting its learnings into good use as we endeavour to obtain sustainability to better support our community in the long-run.Kamitan Arts’ in-person events and projects commenced Spring 2022, after the COVID-19 pandemic. This transition happened gradually, as we focused on open-air events. We started to offer ‘Sacred Space Sistars’ Creative Healing sessions in-person in the midst of an open-air green environment, with mainly more mature women from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) attending, and one or two from surrounding Tr-Borough. We also hosted another open-air event at the Hope Gardens by Maxilla, under the Westway, where the ‘Poetry 4 Grenfell’ project began. This voluntary Poetry showcase and open-mic brought together inter-generational members of the Grenfell-affected community, and artists that performed reflected and were also predominantly from the immediate community.By Easter-time we had been liaising with the Lancaster West Resident Association (LWRA), and it seemed the right time to offer our creative healing and Poetry services to that immediate community where they were able to access this service right on their doorsteps. “Memoirs of Loved Ones: Forever In Our Hearts” was born, supported by the Westway Trust and the Kensington and Chelsea Foundation’s ‘Community Spirit Small Grants Fund’. These sessions brought much joy, creative inspiration, peace and happiness to residents and community members that attended, it reduced isolation and connected community through the love for the arts and coming together in a natural open-air environment to take part in inter-generational mindful poetry sessions for 12 weeks.ITV took interest in our work at LWRA’s Tea Gardens and featured our Poetic work there leading up to the Grenfell Anniversary.For the Grenfell 5th Anniversary LWRA had requested for Kamitan Arts’ ‘Poetry 4 Grenfell’ team to join them in their garden commemoration gathering, where our inter-generational and multi-lingual local artists attended in solidarity to share pieces from the ‘Poetry 4 Grenfell’ book backed by our musicians. Our Poetic ‘Word, Sound and Power’ help channel mixed emotions, offers solace, hope and comfort at a difficult time.As every year Kamitan Arts partnered with the Kensington and Chelsea Arts Week where our members’ poems were selected and displayed on the windows of Art Galleries within RBKC; this year we Kamitan Arts had been featured at the iconic and philanthropic Bramley Studios.At the end of the Summer of 2022, we staged ‘Poetry 4 Grenfell 5 Year Anniversary’ at the Chelsea Theatre in commemoration of the 5 Year Grenfell Anniversary. This was a part of the Kensington and Chelsea Festival’s ’18 Shows’. As much as this was a brilliant opportunity for local community artists to amplify their voices and creativity, Kamitan Arts members feels it could have been better funded, supported and promoted by the KC Festival and it’s partner venues and sponsors.By the end of the year LWRA asked us to collaborate and partake in their ‘Well-being Day’ where Kamitan Arts ran a Creative Healing session that was well received by the immediately-affected women of the Grenfell community.Going forwards Kamitan Arts and other local RBKC grassroots performing arts organisations and diverse artists have been liaising with one-another and beginning to advocate for better funding, value and local diverse representation needed from the RBKC Council, and within the K&C Festival.
Kamitan Arts (KA) always consults with our immediate community and past project participants through feedback forms, surveys, zoom polls and conversations to find out how to best serve the needs of our community. Our community Outreach Volunteers are our core ambassadors primarily using social media, KA’s website and mailing lists, liaising with other community, voluntary organisations to help spread the word through their contacts and newsletters, flyers, local radio, T.V., local newspaper and magazines. As KA already engages in several online forums, we continue to strengthen our connections, promoting and supporting one another. Building relations with pre-existing partners plus with those we are newly connecting with, including: RBKC Community Engagement and Arts Department, Arts organisations/venues in the North and South of RBKC, VSO’s, Libraries and Charities.KA measures the success of our projects through with careful planning, monitoring and evaluating. This includes reviewing any changes of direction by ongoing evaluation based on participants responses, as well as the audiences. KA gathers evidence using different interactive research methods: online polls, evaluation forms, recorded/filmed discussions including post-event focus groups comprising tutors and participants. Also seek guidance from the Arts Council’s GLO information. We provide feedback in several ways, such as written, oral, filmed, photographed, we are able to demonstrate the impact of having positively affected all those involved in our projects.An example of KA taking on board our participant’s feedback is gradually adapting from online to in-person, making use of outdoor spaces, such as in ‘Sacred Space Sistars’ and ‘Memoirs of Loved Ones: Forever in our Hearts’.Also partaking in RBKC Arts’ department’s ‘Creative Consultations’ and voicing KA member’s feedback, as well as taking on board advise from fellow stakeholders such as the RBKC Arts department with applying to stage ‘Poetry 4 Grenfell’ at the Chelsea Theatre for their ’18 Shows’.When finding partners discriminating or not acting professional, KA members and board have agreed in consultations to address the issue at hand with partners, but if nothing changes and no resolution is found, to seek alternative partners/venues to collaborate with on project which we took on board with “Memoirs of Loved Ones: Forever in our Hearts” for example by changing the original venue planned to one more welcoming and professional. In the case of dissatisfaction in participation of RBKC Festivals, to take up the issue with the Board or Council leads if needed, to express the complaints that have not been dealt with as per protocol, the need for transparency and authentic representation and well-funded local professional artists and grassroots performing arts organisations embedded into the Culture Plan and necessary policies.Going forwards Kamitan Arts and other local RBKC grassroots performing arts organisations and diverse artists have been and will further be liaising with one-another and beginning to advocate for better funding, value and local diverse representation needed from the RBKC Council, and within the K&C Festival.Kamitan Arts’ Directors, tutors, artists and project co-ordinators are predominantly from the community that we serve that is the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, this is a vital point for us as it means that we have shared life experiences as our participants and can therefore better relate to the needs of our community members.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
17 November 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Emmanuelle Jabbour
Status: Director