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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 December 2023
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
15 December 2022
to
31 December 2023
The director shown below has held office during the period of
15 December 2022
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13 December 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
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Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
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We have been committed to helping to reduce isolation, loneliness and increased inclusion through our low cost or free art-based activities to the citizens of Birmingham and the wider area including Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We have engaged with the local communities running art workshops for children and families who have been excluded due to cost, confidence, disability or mental ill health. Our workshops have been intergenerational, including grandparents living with dementia, working on lino cutting with their grandchildren who have autism. All have learnt new art skills, been able to talk to peers and friendships have been formed. Our Playschemes funded through HAF (Holiday active funding) have been huge hits, working with over 200 children who are vulnerable including Looked after children, Young Carers, SEND, children living in homes of domestic violence and children with low self esteem. Our volunteers and freelance staff have been made up of adults and young people who are neural diverse and have been very lonely in the past few years due to the pandemic and continued fear of the unknown. These adults have benefitted from inhouse training that is accredited, such as Food Hygiene and Safeguarding and done in a way that is inclusive and adapted to their needs. This is the ethos we hold for all workshops, events and play schemes, that the participant will get the most out of it, if we adapt to their individual needs. Our work has resulted in 13 first play dates for children who would not normally be invited to a birthday party or excluded from afterschool clubs due to behaviour, or lack of understanding social cues. Friendships have been built through mirror play, greater understanding of individual needs and shared interests. Parents and Carers have expressed how thankful they have been supported in signposting to external organisations and meeting fellow parents that have been fighting for inclusion and accessible activities for their children. Our training arm of the CIC has supported volunteers and freelance staff in house and also in Sandwell, where volunteer managers have been trained in volunteer management issues including Level 2 Food Hygiene, Safeguarding and volunteer recruitment and retaining. In 2023 we were nominated, shortlisted and became finalists in 2 Birmingham based awards. Birmingham Awards and Community Inspiration Awards, for our inclusion and accessibility to our art based projects.
Stakeholders include: participants in activities, local community, Northfield NNS, parents, local charities, social workers, schools, churches/places of worship. Stakeholder consultation has been carried out with our play schemes – Parents have been asked to grade our provision and to give a short sentence on what was good and what could be improved. This was collected using a basic questionnaire read out to our parents at the end of their child’s placement. The questionnaires could be carried out there and then with people supported with their spelling. This was anonymous at the point of directors reading it. HAF/Streetgames (funders) also carried out a simple questionnaire using emojis to gauge parental/carer satisfaction. Our children who have taken part have graded each day with a happy to sad face system and have been given a free table to draw or write about the day, with feedback collected. This allowed us to tweak the days to make sure that our days suited the children and covered the activities they liked. This is all anonymous. Each Play Scheme has taken aboard the feedback and has adapted daily where possible or at the next one. For instance, different art activities have been brought in due to the interest gauged. Parents have stated about calmer behaviour, the routine and the mixture of activities as being a life line to both themselves for respite and for their children. With our weekly pottery, through the stakeholders consultation we changed the payment system so that the firing process of work was fairer. Towards the end of the year we no longer charged by firing item, but gave the choice if something was to be fired. This meant that people could air dry and acrylic paint work if wanted. No Stakeholder consultation held for the volunteer training arm of the organisation. 758 have used our services in 2023 including parents/carers, participants, children, young carers and members of the public looking for signposting.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
27 November 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: R Jennings
Status: Director