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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 March 2025
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
31 March 2024
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30 March 2025
The director shown below has held office during the period of
31 March 2024
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8 July 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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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 30 March 2025
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OT creative space is a Community Arts Space on a local High Street in Old Trafford. During the year April 2024 to March 2025 we delivered over 700 workshops both in our studio space and in other locations around Old Trafford including parks, care homes, local schools and community centres. Participants and community members noted that their individual mental well being had improved, New skills and creative expressions have not only been learnt but also celebrated through our exhibitions and projects and community cohesion and pride has been improved. We have continued to develop our workshop programme delivered in our studio that benefits the community through access to free or low cost art workshops and activities that support their mental wellbeing, creative aspirations and community cohesion. We received funding from Public health in art to run 3 different courses of art for wellbeing which each in turn presented art in the window and hosted a community brew on the bench. These were attended by over 60 people. We have received further funding from the national lottery community fund to run a year of creative cultures workshops from January 2025 - December 2025. (deferred grant income) We have continued our weekly brew on the bench activity on Wednesday afternoons offering free tea and coffee and a chat to help combat isolation and encourage positive physical and mental well-being. We received project funding from Arts Council England to deliver a community project; Reclaimed Narratives to be presented at AR Fest 25, a festival along Ayres road that we run with other partners in Old Trafford that is held in June 2025 . The project has started but will be complete by August 2025. (deferred grant income) We have worked with partners IWM north to run a series of workshops with the Desi Grannies which resulted in an exhibition “outrageous women” at the museum. We have also worked with other local partners Ascension church Hulme, Trafford libraries, St Johns centre, Limelight old trafford, TfGM, trafford collective and university of Manchester to run workshops, events and community projects. We have organised an OT green trail in partnership with Love Old Trafford that celebrates the nature in the area and delivered workshops with 3 primary schools to support this. This will be launched in May 2025. We held a community open exhibition titled ‘Play’ with over 70 entries from local children, community members and Artists to celebrate creativity in OT and had an exhibition weekend with over 300 visitors from the local community. We have continued to hold monthly family art clubs in THE BACK gALLErY and have received funding from The Manchester Airport trust to do more planting and artwork in these places from a local housing association making it a much nicer space to come together for the local community. During the summer of 2024 we ran a Unity in Diversity- hopes and dreams wall pop up project that is now on display in THE BACK gALLErY. We have exhibited over 15 different Window Exhibitions by local Artists and groups, and have also facilitated Monthly creatives Nights to support local Artists, Makers and creatives. This has also led us to host christmas maker markets giving people the opportunity to sell and share their crafts and the local community to buy. The first for this year, was a kids christmas market encouraging entrepreneurship and creativity in under 18’s. We rent out the Artist studio space to 12 artists at an affordable rate allowing them to develop their artistic and creative career and have a studio hire offer so the community can rent the space for meetings, groups, workshops and parties at an affordable rate. We have four regular weekly bookings from The desi grannies, Art Twilight, Young identity and Awesome arts alongside other ad hoc booking supporting Artists and creatives to deliver their own workshops and events.
The Company's stakeholders are the local residents of Old Trafford. All the Directors are local to Old Trafford and have worked on developing the business plan through local knowledge and discussions with residents. We have a database of those who attend workshops and events by asking them to register on our website. This has enabled us to see the demographic of who we are currently reaching and ask for feedback and ideas of what they would like to see at OTCS as we develop further. From this we are running monthly creatives evenings to regularly check in with local artists and support them in their practice within the community. This has also influenced the times and types of workshops we run and we have started doing early afternoon workshops as a result of this. We also have our ‘OT creative voice’ group which consists of 6-10 local community members from all backgrounds that is our community advisory board to ensure that all we do reflects our community and is shared widely amongst the community. This group met twice this year. We regularly ask for feedback after workshops, short courses and pop up events that help us shape our future programme.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
27 November 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Danny Cheung
Status: Director