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Status: Director
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The company's primary engagement with the community remains through its experimental, trans-disciplinary conference and art exhibition series (the third iteration of which was hosted by the University of Northampton and supported by the University of the West of England in Sept 2022). The Trans- States conference series remains widely acknowledged as a critical success, and this one was the first where we engaged in a profit share with the University of Northampton, providing a small but extremely important revenue stream to help cover our company's basic and ongoing expenses. We are investigating ways to build on the success of our brand, including our own open access online peer-reviewed journal, Monad: Journal of Transformative Practice, and other events under the Trans- States umbrella. During this year, the company's primary activity has been implementing and organising the 2022 conference and exhibition. Furthermore, the company continues to maintain an extensive online community and research network through our various web platforms, including our website and social media platforms. Of particular note is the continued success of our YouTube channel, where, in keeping with the company's policy on open access, presentations from previous conferences are filmed, edited, published, and made freely available online. In an attempt to find new revenue streams, we have elected to release our videos first through Patreon this time around, but after a six-month delay, they will be made freely available through YouTube. This aligns with one of the company's key community services: disseminating research, educating, encouraging informed debate, supporting evidence-based information exchange, and further building our research network and supporting the broader occultural community. To provide some specific figures, at the end of this financial year, this output was viewed 168,290 times (the slow up is no doubt due to the shift to Patreon), and the channel had 1,911 subscribers. These remain excellent numbers for academic material and demonstrate that said materials have an impact beyond scholarly audiences.
The company's stakeholders are the conference attendees, esoteric practitioners, esoteric artists, and the esoteric research community. In particular, the company has continued to be closely supported by the University of Northampton, The University of the West of England, and the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, with whom we have engaged in regular meetings, discussions, and email correspondence. The company consults with conference attendees in an open forum at our conferences. There was a very fruitful and engaging discussion panel and open forum at the 2022 conference about the future of the Trans- States network and conference/exhibition series. Off the back of this, we will be making some major changes in the fourth iteration in 2025. We also engage in a continuous informal manner through the many interactions on our various social media platforms. We have put together a formal feedback questionnaire/survey to consult with conference attendees and our broader community, but this is yet to be released due to illness and lack of capacity within our board of directors. We still plan to do this, even though we recognise there has been a long gap between the conference and our request for feedback.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
23 January 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Cavan McLaughlin
Status: Director