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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 June 2024
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
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30 June 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
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This year saw the second annual Robin Hood International Improv Festival take place. The companies activities have increasingly been centred around this as it is a project founded by the Curious Network which seems to have captured the imagination of the local and international improv community. For a second year in a row, the festival saw over 100 improvisers come from all over the world to perform. Countries including USA, Canada, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Sweden. The festival ran over four days at Nonsuch Studios in Nottingham City Centre. The company obtained a donation from a benefactor to help cover some of the staffing costs, although there were a few exceptional costs due to a family emergency encountered by one of our guest teachers, which meant we went over budget this year, compared to the surplus in our previous year. The festival was once again hugely popular with a number of sell-out shows, world class teachers and a mix of local, national and international performers. Following the festival, we started work on the 2024 festival. In December 2023, Nonsuch Studios (our festival venue for the first two years) ceased trading as a venue and we went on the hunt for a new space. In February 2024 we visited Squire Performing Arts Centre in the Arboretum area of Nottingham and made arrangements for them to be our new festival venue. In April and May 2024 we then put out open calls for teachers and performers to apply to be at that year’s festival, with some giving donations to help fund the forthcoming festival. We also took the decision to make the festival a five day feast of improv, rather than the previous four days. The Curious Network was founded to help projects like the Robin Hood International Improv Festival set-up and grow. We are now at the stage where all of the CIC’s time has been consumed by the festival’s activities, and there is an ongoing conversation about how we structure the CIC going forward.
The company’s stakeholders are the participants in the festival. For a second year in a row we undertook a participants survey. We had 23 responses, of those 57% were improvisers from outside of the East Midlands and 43% were local. 78% of respondants took part in workshops. 91% of respondents watched shows. 96% of respondents performed in shows. Overall 82% of people rated the festival ‘very good’, 14% good, 4% ‘poor’ and 0% ‘very poor’. We also received recommendations for how the festival could improve and teachers people would like to see the following year, and all practical suggestions were considered with several teachers on the recommended list ending in the schedule for the 2024 festival.
One of the directors received a one-off lump sum £750 for their festival duties which came from the money donated specifically for paying festival staff.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
22 January 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: James Lloyd
Status: Director