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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 March 2024
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2023
to
31 March 2024
The director shown below has held office during the period of
25 April 2023
to
31 March 2024
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:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.
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
for the Period Ended 31 March 2024
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In its second year as a Community Interest Company, Northstowe Arts has continued to support connection through creativity in the new town of Northstowe, engaging with people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures. Our broad range of activities have reached and affected people in many different ways, making a major contribution to the community’s placemaking, identity-building, and individual wellbeing agendas, whilst collaborating with and enabling other organisations (grassroots and voluntary, public and private sectors) to achieve their missions and priorities. Several temporary and permanent visual arts installations have been completed or begun this year. The “Nature in Northstowe” project originally commissioned by South Cambridgeshire District Council saw members of the Northstowe community provide inspiration photos of wildlife and plants in Northstowe; workshops with Northstowe Youth Hive and the Warm Hub resulted in paintings which were then digitised and transformed by a local artist and graphic designer team into an artistic vinyl wrap for the temporary community centre in Northstowe. Homes England then commissioned the team to redevelop the artwork to cover hoardings in another part of Northstowe. Begun last year, another local artist completed work on a heritage-inspired sculpture largely funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, named “A Symbol for Northstowe”, and installed it in the garden of the temporary community centre. Residents of all ages of Northstowe, Longstanton and Willingham actively contributed to the design of the sculpture and were able to handle the Roman pottery found in Northstowe and used in the sculpture – developing a sense of connection to the heritage of the land and the new community. Homes England then commissioned sculptural signage for two of Northstowe’s new lakes, Unity Lake and Halcyon Mere. The artist worked with the resident that had named Unity Lake and Homes England staff working in Northstowe to develop a pentagon-based design for a wreath sculptural sign that can be “dressed” by the community for future events. Taking inspiration from photos of birds provided by Northstowe Wildlife Watch, a community workshop developed a design for the Halcyon Mere sign, adding to a design for a bug hotel developed by children at a local school. During this twelve months, Northstowe Arts has also delivered several events of different scales and appealing to different groups within the community. Creative Get-Togethers, a programme of small-scale, informal weekly creative gatherings for adults, exploring a range of artforms, was piloted. A month-long online Creative Challenge encouraged people who might find it difficult to engage in person to spend a few minutes each day being creative. The Northstowe Community Cinema was launched, with Northstowe Arts supporting a voluntary group of community members to put on mainstream films appealing to both family and older audiences at Northstowe Secondary College. This year, the annual lantern parade was temporarily transformed into “Light Up Longest Night”, with lantern-making activity (largely funded by The National Lottery Communities Fund) in community workshops and schools focused on lighting up homes in and around Northstowe on Longest Night. Collaborative planning with Northstowe Hub and many other locally-based organisations was also begun on a new major cornerstone of the Northstowe calendar, Midsummer Festival. Northstowe Arts also contributed to or partnered with events run by other local organisations. This included a family workshop at Sustainable Northstowe’s Great Big Green Week event, and providing several activities at the launch event for Northstowe’s temporary community centre. We also brought “Arts on Prescription” to Northstowe for the first time, working with county-wide charity Arts & Minds on this 12-week referral programme for adults experiencing mental health challenges. As well as spending time on business development, management and fundraising, Northstowe Arts Directors have dedicated time this year to supporting wider community development in Northstowe and advocating on behalf of the Northstowe community and the arts. This has included participation in Northstowe Support Partnership and Networker meetings, and media activity including an open response to negative national media coverage about Northstowe. Directors also gave presentations at and participated in conferences and webinars organised by Cambridge Arts Network, Together Culture and Homes England.
Our stakeholders include: 1) People of all ages living or working in Northstowe 2) People of all ages living or working in the surrounding villages 3) Community groups and organisations active in Northstowe 4) Independent creatives and creative organisations in the local area 5) The local authorities and developers working to build the new town of Northstowe All our activities this year have been developed as a direct response to consultation with stakeholders. Much of this consultation has happened informally during conversations with residents attending our events or other events/activities we have supported; for example, to support adults wishing to prioritise their mental wellbeing through creative activities we have piloted Creative Get-Togethers. Points raised at Northstowe Support Partnership meetings resulted in conversations at the Cambridge Arts Network conference, which lead to a partnership between Northstowe Arts and Arts & Minds delivering an Arts on Prescription programme in Northstowe. By meeting regularly and working on specific projects with other community groups and organisations, we have developed activities – such as the launch event for Northstowe’s temporary community centre – which enabled them to achieve their goals and have brought members of the community together in ways which wouldn’t otherwise have happened. Having heard from local authorities and developers that there was a need to focus on placemaking activities to answer their agendas, we have developed community-led work such as the community centre wrap and hoardings projects. Throughout all our activity, we have prioritised and embedded involvement by residents of Northstowe and the surrounding villages to ensure continuing development of their ownership of and sense of identity of their new community.
Full details of directors’ remuneration are provided in our 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
21 November 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Mari O'Neill
Status: Director