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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 August 2024
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Mend and Make Wonderful (continued from previous financial/operational year): The second Joined Up visible mending course ran over 6 sessions, including a taster ahead of the sessions proper commencing. The project sought to illuminate and modestly test one possible response to climate change, namely tackling clothing consumption/waste and our associated attitudes, exploring whether it might be able to encourage behaviour change via visible mending and the incorporation of artistic repair. At conception, Joined Up outlined the delivery of 2 x artist-led courses, each taking place over 5 sessions (10 formal delivery sessions in total), each course hosting expert speakers giving brief presentations and leading short discussions. Sought outcomes: - Flamboyant creations will help remove repair-stigma and promote the notion that to mend is admirable and a rationale response to the environmental crisis. - Participants connect their current behaviours, with their environmental impact. - Prompt behaviour change (e.g. reduce unnecessary purchases/waste), observing a change in attitudes, and a growth in awareness. - Participants will become ambassadors for visible mending, wearing their creations proudly and prompting discussion. - Unassisted travel of the climate message, with the hope each attendee sparks several conversations external to the classes, with friends/family about their attention grabbing repairs. - Lessen the pain of the initial reduction in clothes shopping, by returning 4 items back in to the attendees clothing rotation. This would then only require each individual to buy 4 further items less than the yearly average - as a result of the course emphasising the importance in doing so - and this could result in a 50% reduction in clothing consumption for the year or rather 8 items per person (down from an average suggested 16 items). - Therefore, the equivalent carbon reduction for the course (untested aspirational target), would be 8 items of clothing pp/pa and so 2.6kg of CO2 pp.
Joined Up began consultation in Openshaw and Gorton in 2022 and throughout 2023-24, in order to develop a multi-thematic arts programme in the area, including dance, textile and visual art. A variety of stakeholders were consulted (including local artists, non-profits and approaching 30 local residents), with the course framework collaboratively designed. This overwhelmingly found a need, gap, interest and demand for arts activities in the area. Additionally, secondary desk based research was also undertaken, which corroborated the primary research findings, in that local stakeholders reported that rapid demographic change had occurred in the local area in relation to ethnicity, presenting opportunities for greater cohesion between groups. This then became the premise for the arts programme, to enhance integration, interaction and connection, alongside the exchange of cultural learning between groups and through the medium of art. In the initial attempt to secure funding, three applications were submitted receiving very positive feedback yet against considerable competition it was advised, these attempts ultimately being unsuccessful. One of the more established key partners then adopted the lead in a fourth attempt to secure funding, with the same result. Ultimately, the research and proposal was shared with 2 sizeable local partners involved from the outset, with one of these requesting to utilise the programme concept and research produced by Joined Up to inform another programme and support the application of further funding. Permission was granted and an element of support given in relation. During development of the above programme, Joined Up encountered several local minority business owners and artists, who felt stuck in terms of their own activities/their business’s development. Joined Up convened a workshop and facilitated a discussion to explore their needs and aspirations, providing the findings to a local lead organisation in the hope they might be able to assist these local actors further, highlighting the potential for a network/forum.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
22 May 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Sally Lee
Status: Director