Periplum CIC creates ambitious heritage-inspired outdoor events and exhibitions with free training and participation opportunities for community members in locations nationally. During the financial year 2024-25 the company delivered: - a training programme for emerging creatives across Tees Valley - outdoor heritage-inspired events which were free to the public across 5 Tees Valley boroughs - a range of activities as part of a National Lottery Heritage Funded project, including oral history training for community members, and highlighting inspirational female figures from across the Tees Valley area through interviews and exhibitions Through the training programme, 19 Tees Valley emerging creatives attended a free residency including outdoor arts workshops, skills training and professional development activities, culminating in participants taking part in a free public sharing at the end of the week. Post-residency, participants received one-on-one mentoring sessions, and were supported through a pathways programme, which included on-site training into employment opportunities with Periplum, providing valuable professional experience. Through the entirety of the training programme activities, 31 local emerging creatives benefitted from professional development opportunities, including a number of practitioners who deliver free and open access community-focussed arts projects. 3,300 local community audiences attended free outdoor events in Saltburn and Skinningrove, East Cleveland. The events shared local history and heritage, with narration recorded by local community & professional performers. The successful impact of the performances was evidenced through positive feedback gathered through face-to-face interviews and on-line, demonstrating that communities benefitted from renewed pride in the history and heritage of the area. The Heritage Lottery-funded Trailblazers project also showed significant community impacts in enhancing local pride by highlighting inspirational Tees Valley women alongside wider environmental and industrial heritage of the area. Through the project: - 10 community members received free training in oral history techniques - 142 community members participated in conversation groups, sharing their stories and local history which informed the project, including nominating their own local trailblazing women - 15,000+ community members attended free community engagement events and exhibitions - Deaf collaborators trained in BSL Video History techniques, and featured in films made as part of an exhibition Expanding on our developments in previous years, we continued to open up training to a wider age range than 18-35 year olds. This movement has been in response to consultations with community and stakeholders, who have highlighted the value in providing life-long learning opportunities and intergenerational activities.

Our stakeholders are - the various host organisations / partners, local authorities and funders who support our projects - the community participants that take part in training and performance opportunities. - the community audiences that attend our free events For the projects in Tees Valley, we invited community input both through formal stakeholder and community meetings and through community engagement performances taking place in residential areas, landscapes linked to local industries and museum settings. These meetings and visits stimulated dialogue with a number of community members, defining and adding to the content of the various projects, helping reflect the communities we served. Periplum CIC and their host organisations attended regular key stakeholder meetings to consult and review the process in all aspects, and to monitor the project's impact on communities. Voluntary participants were consulted directly during our community conversations and their input and feedback helped to create the content of events and participatory activities. Local community audiences reviewed our work, and this was collected and analysed after the production to understand the impact of our work on communities and will be used to inform the content and design of future projects. Following consultation with and feedback from stakeholders, we have continued to expand our mentoring, training schemes and participation opportunities to wider age catchments than our original target group of 18-35 year olds, providing lifelong learning opportunities. We consulted with local community arts practitioners to inform design of the training programme for emerging creatives. We invited feedback from participants, employing an independent evaluator to analyse responses which will guide future development of these strands.

Directors were each paid a salary during the year as follows: - Ms C Raftery £27,996 - Mr D Wright £27,996 There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director's loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration