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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 October 2024
Principal activities of the company
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Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 November 2023
to
31 October 2024
The director shown below has held office during the period of
3 July 2024
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31 October 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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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 October 2024
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During the year Linden Dance Company CIC delivered four interconnected strands of socially engaged Afro-contemporary dance. The completion phase of Unconsciously You, the inter-generational health-focused programme Limitless. The national school-centred tour UNBOXED, and the research-and-development year for CAGED, our forthcoming call-to-action on loneliness. 1. Unconsciously You concluded with seven youth co-creation projects and preview performances in Birmingham, Devon and Newcastle, engaging 8,777 participants and audience members in total . 2. Limitless combined community workshops, digital outreach and a final public screening that addressed social isolation. 9,329 people took part or viewed content, and new digital resources were shared with health partners . 3. UNBOXED toured 24 duet performances, facilitated 26 co-creations in schools and ran 20 inclusive outreach workshops, live and digital engagement totalled 95,313 people . 4. CAGED entered its R&D phase, piloting five inter-generational co-creations across Arts Council priority places, hosting residencies at 101 Outdoor Arts (West Berkshire) and Falmouth University. Collectively these programmes. 1. Contracted 43 freelance professionals (12 on UNBOXED, 14 on CAGED R&D, 14 on Unconsciously You and three additional film/tech crew). 2. Offered paid or mentored work-experience to six emerging artists. 3. Maintained Linden Youth as a weekly, open-access company now serving 32 young dancers aged 10–22, four alumni progressed to Northern School of Contemporary Dance. 4. Delivered workshops to 2,450 pupils across 28 schools while partnering with three universities for rehearsal space or audience-development support. 5. Reached approximately 5,500 live spectators at theatres, festivals and outdoor sites, and a further 20,000 online viewers. Activity was centred in Birmingham and the Black Country but extended to Derby, Nottingham, Swindon, Devon, Newcastle, West Berkshire and Cornwall – broadly fulfilling the company’s mission of using dance for Positivity, Individuality and Empowerment and paying all artists at or above ITC/Equity rates.
Stakeholders include freelance artists, Linden Youth members and families, partner schools and universities, community participants (for example FND Dimensions and Marmalade Trust groups), audiences and commissioning venues. Consultation is carried out through anonymous evaluation forms after every workshop and performance, end-of-project round-tables with organisations such as FABRIC and Black Country Dance Hub, quarterly Zoom steering meetings with youth representatives, and environmental and access audits (using Julie’s Bicycle tools). As a result of feedback the company: 1) Created a free online unconscious bias toolkit for teachers following UNBOXED. 2) Added male only wellbeing workshops within the CAGED pilots in response to participant requests. 3) Adopted an electric vehicle first touring model and published a green rider for partners. Building on this iterative dialogue, Linden Dance Company is now formalising a Community Sounding Board composed of one representative from each stakeholder group freelance artist, youth participant, school partner, accessibility advocate and venue programmer, which meets twice a year to scrutinise strategic plans and draft new project ideas. The first cycle (March 2024) prompted us to pilot a sliding-scale fee model for small schools and to embed relaxed-performance guidance across all tour venues, demonstrating how consultation is driving structural change rather than one-off tweaks.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
25 July 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Christopher Radford
Status: Director