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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
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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Rising Arts Agency is a youth-led social enterprise based in Bristol that connects forward-thinking organisations with young creatives to create meaningful and lasting change. We use our resources, expertise and community of 100+ engaged young leaders to deliver successful training, youth-led campaigns, creative commissions, research and consultancy. 2024/25 was a big and award-winning year for the agency, from consulting young people on place-based strategies in Bristol (Harbour Placeshaping) and North Devon (Cultural Investment Strategy for Bideford) to moving into our very own space for the first time. We also secured our second-ever core funding from the Paul Hamlyn’s Art Fund, along with Bristol City Council's Openness Funding, until 2027. We also celebrated the end of our Space to Dream project funded by Freelands Foundation with an exhibition of the Rising Fundees’ work at Kit Form. We secured Continuation Funding from them to carry on our work, delivering on the recommendations from our WhoseCulture? Report. Other highlights were: Delivering another successful round of our Caring Work Cultures training Hiring a Community Producer Welcoming 3 new Advisory Board members Supporting the engagement for the Gender Stories exhibition at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Hosting a Community Film Showcase in collaboration with Bottleyard Studios Starting work on our Community Climate Action Plan, including a citywide consultation with young people on their climate priorities We did this all with one Co-Director and a Non-Executive Director on maternity leave for a large portion of the year, enacting our innovative New Parents’ Policy for the first time. Next year, we’re excited to build on some of this work with the additional capacity of a new team member, freeing up our Agency Producer to build new relationships, as well as working towards the leadership transition and designing our first accessible recruitment process for the new Co-Directors of Rising, who will take over from Jess and Euella in 202,6 and give new young creatives the chance to lead the agency’s future
Rising’s primary stakeholders are young people aged 18-30 living in and around Bristol who aspire to a career in the creative sector, particularly those who are currently underrepresented. As an agency led by and co-created with young people, our focus is on enabling them to take control of their futures and advocate for better representation across the arts and cultural sectors. Having received agency support, these emerging artists now possess a sense of ownership and continuously demonstrate their commitment by sustaining Rising’s work through promotion, engagement and word-of-mouth discussion. We are increasingly invited to contribute to city-wide cultural strategy, where we support young people from our community to take up space in strategic decision-making. As our profile has grown, our stakeholders have grown too to include not only those individuals and Organisations working in Bristol, but also regional and national organisations in other similar sectors, who see and identify with our work.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
17 September 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jess Bunyan
Status: Director