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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 March 2025
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2024
to
31 March 2025
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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The notes form part of these financial statements
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 March 2025
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Our work can mainly be sumarised into delivering lantern and community parades, outdoor street performances, and leading community workshops and events. We held regular puppet and mask making workshops at our city-centre space. We held several community and school lantern-making workshops for World Heritage Day 2024 and held an evening community lantern parade for WHD in Roberts Park. We performed at a variety of community events and festivals with puppet walkabout acts, circus shows, fire shows and illuminated puppets across the north of England. An example of our performances include: our skeleton puppets at Leeds Light Night, a fire show and workshops at Barnoldswick Ice and Fire Festival, several pre- Christmas performance days at Tatton Park etc. etc We met up with Lempen Puppet Theatre Co who gave us advice and practical support in how to develop our new puppet show, ‘Compost City’. We delivered workshops and a pondlife parade in Horton Park for Better Place, Bradford. We led 3 workshops as part of a staff development day at Kirklees College. We held a bike puppet parade in Lund Park, Keighley at their Great Get-Together event after several weeks of workshops making dragon head puppets with young people and families in Keighley and adults in Bradford, funded by The Leap and Ark Bradford. We held a small lantern parade at ‘Dub’s in’t Dales’ Festival after delivering lantern making workshops. We visited Junction Arts in Chesterfield to deliver a large puppet making training day to artists linked with the organisation. We delivered a variety of small workshops at Bradford New Church, Anchor Project, Bradford Stories Bus, Ravenscliffe and Keighley. We were part of an artistic team delivering an older peoples festival in Keighley called ‘Let Me Tell You a Story’, run primarly over a weekend. We led 6 weeks of community lantern making workshops in schools, community centres and at our space in Girlington for our Lister Park Lantern Parade in Lister Park, Bradford 2024. The parade event was funded by money from Bradford Council and Sovereign Healthcare. Our parade was filmed live on local TV. We were invited to take part in a piece of research with British Future on the impact that art can make in bringing diverse people together. We subsequently featured as a case study in their research. We led school workshops in Ilkley before delivering a community lantern event for their Christmas light switch-on, funded by the local council. We successfully got funding to support a new project ‘Welcome Inside’ at a collective funding event linked to health money and BD25. This project will start in the next financial year. We worked on a willow tunnel project with young people in Allerton. Work started at the Anchor Project on a large hanging sculpture which will run through 2025, funded by Give Bradford and BD2025. Our skeletons performed at Light Up Leicester over 2 nights. We worked in partnership with Creative Scene, to deliver lantern making workshops in Batley for a forthcoming Eid light event held later in the year. We led a series of 6 community workshops on making performances with shadow puppets.
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
21 July 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Henry Charles Bischoff Kingham
Status: Director