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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 April 2024
Directors
The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
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The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
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Status: Director
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Benched - the ongoinging monthly practice, in which a Larkers artist takes a sitting bench to a public location and gives space to listening and engaging with people in the community. This year also Larkers developed and presented 7 immersive theatre experiences in Cambridge, Derby, and Ireland. The theatre pieces draw on material from the monthly practice. 2023-24 saw increased focus on intergenerational relationships, enabling attendees to reflect on, discuss and explore these relationships in their own lives. Larkers continued to provide hosting and greeting services under its contract with Duckie’s monthly performance evenings at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern London for the queer community. This year also Larkers developed a community-building process leading up to an event, “Trans Daddy”, which strengthened networks and relationships in the transmasc commmunity and their friends and allies. Larkers also developed and presented the Pilgrim project, a workshop around mental health with young patients in Addenbrooke’s hospital Cambridge, which both staff and patients said was beneficial. An innovative writing project led by Larkers’ Director focused on bringing young people and older people together to explore themes of queer parenting/grandparenting and queer family. This included a grandchild/grandparent dyad. The project is ongoing. Larkers was invited to develop and deliver a programme of two afternoon participatory workshops in London around trans people and menopause. Larkers’ Director was invited to contribute to disability activist Tammy Reynolds’ writing project “Shooting from below”, bringing themes around audience participation and immersive work. The multi-organisation project to create a trans safety policy to protect artists, crew and participants that was started last year was finished and distributed to a range of other small producers and community organisations.
Larkers has a highly participatory and collaborative approach, actively inquiring into what potential participants are interested in and the aims and objectives of funders, and keeping closely in touch with several community networks through participating as a community member in those networks. Benched, both the monthly practice and the performances arising from that, is an example par excellence of this approach, but also Larkers’ profile in the community is increasing as demonstrated by Larkers being invited to the menopause project and the disability writing project. In addition Larkers carries out formal activities to ensure close involvement with stakeholders: Had major conversations with Cambridge Junction, one of its principal funders, about future directions for collaboration and development between the the two parties now they have been working together for some time. As last year, had regular meetings with a “critical friend” (another producer in the community), sponsored by ArtsAdmin, who helps Larkers reflect on their engagement with the community and their motivations. Feedback as a mix of verbal and structured is always obtained from all stakeholders in a project or performance. This includes funders, crew and participants.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
16 January 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Status: Director