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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 August 2024
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
29 August 2023
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31 August 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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Status: Director
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Status: Director
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September – November 2023: We began coordinating and pulling together resources to prepare for our 2024 community festival. We also began talking to artists and local businesses to prepare for our annual winter fundraiser. December 2023: We were mostly prepping for our festive fundraiser which occurred on December the 17th 2023: The event included a crafting afternoon which was free to attend with crafting supplies provided to allow our community to meet and create festive crafts together. We also held a cabaret night featuring a line up of trans, non-binary and female folks, we used a tiered ticketing structure to allow people from different economic backgrounds to attend. We had raffle tickets also with prizes sourced from local businesses. We raised roughly £700 through this event which went to our free ticket fund. The fund provided 70 free tickets to our 2024 festival for folks with economic barriers, whilst ensuring our artists were still paid their ticket sales. The event sold out for the crafting afternoon and cabaret. January 2024 - February 2024: We prepared for our festival and also held mentoring sessions with our three early career artists. This mentorship included: direction support, dramaturgy, graphic design and tech support as well as general troubleshooting and mental wellbeing checks to ensure our artists were not too overwhelmed. We held a week of free rehearsal space at Brighton dome for all performing artist’s at the 2024 festival. We had a really good uptake for this and had a nearly full schedule. Providing free rehearsal space for our artists was really beneficial as it can be incredibly expensive to find a room to create when you are from a working class background or have no external funding. March 2024: We held the festival, we had 695 recorded attendees from our community. We held multiple events across four days, events included 14 theatre/comedy performances, 2 variety/drag shows, 7 crafting workshops, 2 poetry events, 1 bellydancing workshop, and 1 scratch night (showcasing work from artists to gain audience feedback. All performance events were held using our tiered ticket structure (£5, £10, £15) to ensure there was attendance from community members facing economic barriers. We, as standard, have a no questions asked concession policy and ask folks to pay what they feel they can. As mentioned above we were also able to give away 70 free tickets to folks who couldn’t usually attend due to financing issues. Where possible financially we held events downstairs to ensure wheelchair users could participate in events. Many events were very explicit in their inclusion and who they were targeted at to ensure that we were reaching the right areas of our community, for instance events such as: “South Asian Women’s Poetry Workshop”, “Zine Making and Life Drawing for Disabled D*kes and Queers”, and “Gender Blender”. We wanted to be explicit in programming the festival to draw in our target community (female, non-binary and trans people in Brighton, Hove and surrounding areas). The 2024 festival was our most successful year yet with huge uptake in engagement from our community as well as being able to offer more to our fledgling artists. As of May 2024 we have decided to cease operations at FemFest whilst we establish a more sustainable model of working to ensure fair pay for all we work with.
No consultation with stakeholders
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
6 May 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Madeleine Ross
Status: Director