SANCTUARY QUEER ARTS CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
SC673045 (Scotland)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 September 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 October 2023

End date: 30 September 2024

SANCTUARY QUEER ARTS CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Community Interest Report

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

2024 2023


£

£
Turnover: 73,955 29,523
Cost of sales: ( 74,091 ) ( 29,625 )
Gross profit(or loss): (136) (102)
Operating profit(or loss): (136) (102)
Profit(or loss) before tax: (136) (102)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (136) (102)

SANCTUARY QUEER ARTS CIC

Balance sheet

As at 30 September 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 9,463 57,075
Total current assets: 9,463 57,075
Net current assets (liabilities): 9,463 57,075
Total assets less current liabilities: 9,463 57,075
Provision for liabilities: ( 9,800 ) ( 50,490 )
Total net assets (liabilities): (337) 6,585
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (337) 6,585
Total members' funds: ( 337) 6,585

The notes form part of these financial statements

SANCTUARY QUEER ARTS CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 September 2024 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 26 June 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Annabel Cooper
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

SANCTUARY QUEER ARTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

SANCTUARY QUEER ARTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

SANCTUARY QUEER ARTS CIC

Company Number: SC673045 (Scotland)

Year Ending: 30 September 2024

Company activities and impact

Launched in September 2020, Sanctuary has now firmly established itself as a vital part of Scotland’s arts and culture sector with our focus on supporting and uplifting LGBTQIA+ people. We do this by creating artistic development opportunities for queer performance makers (of all ages and experience) and bringing the community together for events, workshops, performances and celebrations. Sanctuary Queer Arts has directly and indirectly supported hundreds of LGBTQIA+ artists to begin or deepen their craft by partnering with organisations including Gallery of Modern Art, SQIFF, Scottish Ballet, National Museum of Scotland, Edwin Morgan Trust, A Play a Pie and a Pint, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Take Me Somewhere, Magnetic North, Unlimited and a network of theatre organisations nationwide to co-create meaningful experiences that directly benefit the community and have international resonance. Over the last year we have continued to support the Culture Club Collective - an initiative aimed at providing experiences for the older LGBTQIA community - with funding from Glasgow Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund. The Culture Club Collective is a group which was formed to celebrate the lives of LGBTQIA Elders, to create places where we can connect, have a blether, and have a good time. Activity has included regular dance clubs, an online cooking-based social and skills session, our now firmly established special outing for Porty Pride. We also support the Elders’ forum, the core decision-making apparatus of the group, which is led by the Elders themselves. In the Live strand we presented our third Eat the Rich Cabaret - a producing partnership with Aberdeen Performing Arts to present a rabble-rousing queer cabaret at the sumptuous Lemon Tree in the heart of Aberdeen, providing a much-needed platform for LGBTQIA+ artists and community members to gather. In 2024 we worked with cabaret artists from across Scotland to create a utopian dream, playing to a packed out house and platforming Sanctuary supported artist Shawn Nayar as part of the line-up. With further significant funding from Creative Scotland, we launched the new Sanctuary Queer Arts Artist Development Programme 2023/24 in Autumn 2023 - a three-strand application, for a year-long programme supporting LGBTQIA+ artists across Scotland: 1. Collaboration with Play, Pie and a Pint to create a mentoring programme for a new LGBTQIA+ playwright and a bespoke professional development programme for an emerging LGBTQIA+ director – with both artists working on a new Play, Pie and a Pint production. 2. The creation of two Activity Periods delivered nationwide of the Sanctuary Artist Development Fund supporting the development needs of up to 6 small-scale artistic projects, responding to the needs of a specific LGBTQIA+ artist or project – working in collaboration with venues across the country [Lyth Arts Centre - Wick, Theatre Royal Dumfries and Aberdeen Performing Arts]. Sanctuary worked with the A Play, A Pie and a Pint Artistic Director to design the application process and in September launched the campaign for new LGBTQIA+ play with PPP. The call out garnered a lot of attention and closed with 72 applications. The selected play, NESS by Hannah McGregor, stood out for its craft, innovation, humour, social relevance and ability to appeal to a broad Scottish audience. Hannah was matched with renowned playwright and PPP veteran James Ley as dramaturg and was supported by Sanctuary towards creating a draft for readthrough at NTS Rockvilla. This extra phase of support and development for the first time PPP playwright - before entering the PPP rehearsal phase - meant that Hannah had additional support to develop their style and approach for the PPP format by seasoned professionals - James Ley, Debbie Hannan and Laila Noble. The Co-Production of charming NESS, which ran at Oran Mor in Glasgow, 8th - 13th April and the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen 16th - 20th April, was a box office, audience and critical success, steadily building an audience at Oran Mor until selling out on the final day. Featuring an iconic drag queen Nessie, Ness is a new queer Scottish comedy exploring the tradition of monsters, identity, and how we tell our own stories. Em, a young queer non-binary Scot, is on the bonnie banks of Loch Ness when they encounter the fabled monster. Together, the pair form an unlikely bond which is determined to break boundaries, as they attempt to reconcile Em with their estranged mother and Nessie with a world which has been determined to make them disappear. For the Sanctuary Artist Development Fund, supported artists included: Ivor MacAskil - restaging and recontextualising a previous work with a view to rural touring; Huss Aya - exploring the concept of home as queer Arab in Scotland, away from their home in Glasgow and with the full capacity of Dumfries Theatre Royal’s AV support; Shawn Nayar - leaning in to the immersive possibilities of the studio at Lyth Arts to explore a solo movement piece, a bridge to taking work from the club into the theatre. learnt a great deal about the appetite and need for this type of curated support - evidenced by the 170+, high-quality applications we received across the three call outs for our previous residency programme - and that our ability to relationally connect artists with venue partners and all the resources therein, is incredibly valuable. Overview statistics of the analysed qualitative data from the Artist Development Fund 2023/24: 150 applications directly supported 9 artists employed 42 artists and practitioners all supported artists have gone on to develop work further This activity has meant we were able to cement partnerships with venues across Scotland in order to offer artists much needed time, space and resource. Our partner venues include Lyth Arts in Caithness, Eden Court in Inverness, Lemon Tree/Aberdeen Performing Arts in Aberdeen, Take Me Somewhere/Tramway in Glasgow and Theatre Royal Dumfries in Dumfries. In summer 2024, Sanctuary began supporting Nelly Kelly and Afton Moran to undertake an Unlimited UK Open Award 2024 commission as producing partner. The Trans-Mission is a satirical performance piece that playfully interrogates what happens to the public perception of trans people when that perception is more often than not entirely created by the media rather than trans people themselves. More information: https://www.sanctuaryqueerarts.com

Consultation with stakeholders

The stakeholders of Sanctuary Queer Arts CIC are the LGBTQIA+ community in Scotland and the artists and practitioners we engage with as part of our programmes of work. Sanctuary Queer Arts has established a pool of Associate Artists and an Associate Director who help shape the direction of our activities. These practitioners ensure that a diverse pool of experiences and identities within the LGBTQIA+ are represented in our decision-making processes. In December 2023 we undertook a Space/Time residency week with Magnetic North led by Nicholas Bone and Luke Pell for Sanctuary Co-Directors (Annabel Cooper, Drew Taylor-Wilson and Fraser MacLeod), and collaborating artists Harry Mould and Nelly Kelly. This space for personal reflection and sharing resulted in a deepening of relationships with Harry, Nelly and Luke, who have each gone on to become Associates. This provided an opportunity to expand the pool of Associate Artists to contribute to the artistic vision of the company and guide us in terms of access, diversity and inclusion. Harry Mould, who had previously sat on selection panels for the Artist Development funds joined with a view to offering expertise in diversity and wellbeing ; and Nelly Kelly as an expert in access and inclusion, both respected artists in their own right. Drew’s skills have not been lost to the company and they remain as an Associate Artist and will continue to be involved in future planning of activity. Take Me Somewhere offered time and space in their studio at Tramway Glasgow for Sanctuary in May 2024. This enabled us to consult directly with each Associate Artist for a focused period of time, allowing invaluable space and time to hear directly from our stakeholders about the work of the company. The Sanctuary team has been able to attend relevant events representing the work of the company, including the recent LGBTQIA+ artists networking event at the National Theatre of Scotland and LGBT Health and Wellbeing’s celebration event at the Scottish Government and the launch of the FST’s ‘Sexual Harassment in the Arts’ resource as well as meeting with artists and companies about future support and collaborations. Sanctuary Queer Arts uses the Compass framework, endorsed by Creative Scotland, to evaluate our activities. This enables us to evaluate our work by consultation with the LGBTQIA+ artists and practitioners we work with and has helped us shape plans for new artistic development opportunities. As part of our work with LGBTQIA+ Elders, we support the Elders forum, where group strategy, organisation and development is discussed and evolved within the community.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
26 June 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Annabel Cooper
Status: Director