The company facilitates and produces work on the InspiralLondon Trail with particular emphasis on developing local partnerships, public, community and socially-engaged art projects, often for or with vulnerable, underrepresented or marginalised communities. During another busy year of activity (1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025) the CIC benefited the community in the following ways: - We continued to provide creative and community engagement for local participants and worked collaboratively with other community/arts/charities groups including: Stave Hill Ecology Centre (Borough of Southwark); GPEP (Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park; Clockhouse Community Centre, (Borough of Greenwich) and Severdroog Castle; With Kinetika (in Essex) and with LV21 (in North Kent); with SDCAS (refuggees and those seeking asylum) and with Southwark Archives - Our main 2023/4 projects were On the ground remapping with a 3 year project grant from tfl Walking Cycling Grant London; Songlines for Greenwich (BlackHistory 365 Grant) and Sanctuary and Sustenance supported by Southwark Culture Together grant. We worked again with Urban Tree Festival; with Kinetika (T-100) and with soundcamp 2025. -The project provided freelance work for 11 artists while developing new aspects of walking art and public walking projects with other stakeholders: including with Culture Together grant - working to mentor and train 6 new Global Majority artists; + recruit 2 Global Majority artists to advisory board. - Over this year, 31 artists have directly benefited from CIC activities, plus 9 community volunteers. - We were able to run 45 walk workshops for the general public and for contributing artists. We also continued to work together online, co-creating workshop/projects, developing walk programme and funding opportunities. - We created collaborative partnerships with other community/cultural/arts organisations such as GPEP, London Geodiversity Group, and re-established links with LV21 (Hoo Peninsula Heritage Project). - We applied for 3 funds in 2025 and were awarded grants from all 3 funders: tfl WCGL for10th Anniversary Rewalk Festival; Greenwich Black History 365 grant for Songlines for Greenwich; and for the project Sanctuary and Sustenance (Southwark Culture Together Grant 2025/26). We also applied for another tfl grant for 2026 and follow on Grant Southwark Culture Together Grant 2026/27. - Audience, artists and participant diversity increased by approx 35%. We continue to work on broadening the impact and reach of our work – developing our work around urban ecology, biodiversity and sustainability, working in the field of art, activism and ecology, with Global Majority communities, particularly exploring black history. - Directors, artists and volunteers benefited from a range of training and networking events – walk guiding, publicity/marketing, fundraising, First Aid training offered by WCGL partners Groundworks; Diversity and Equality Training (NCVO); Governance and sustainability.

The company’s principal stakeholders are artist members, other local cultural workers, artists & volunteers, alongside workshop participants, plus other event audiences engaged in InspiralLondon core activity; this also includes funders, donors and crucially, our core volunteers who all benefit from continued professional development, feedback and training. The directors/advisory board have worked on public arts and social art projects for many years, and in 2025 we decided to broaden our governance and leadership – to make IL a more representative organisation working in Southwark (nearly 50% pop from Global Majority communities). We looked at ways to sustain the project into the future while developing its governance and broadening our diversity. To help nourish this consultation and feedback we seek to make: As many of our community work/walking projects as co-creations with other walking artists, local communities, social art & walking groups. We ask everyone who comes on our walk workshops/events to discuss their experience of trail/walk so that they are included in the development of future workshops. We ask for selective feedback (using forms and questions) and where appropriate gather statistics. For specific artistic events and our festivals, we ask audience and contributors to fill out detailed questionnaires. We are experienced in designing events/walks for all kinds of audiences in encouraging those who would most benefit from the physical/mental health and the social aspects of walking together, to participate and engage with the urban environment. We ask for feedback from all our varied audiences. One of the areas we are currently addressing is diversity and looking to provide diversity awareness training for all our volunteer/associate artists. We are also required by our funders to report and feedback the strengths and weaknesses of project delivery/outcomes. Publicly funded stakeholders ask for evaluation and rigorous evidence of all our stated activities. In 2025, we reported outcomes of activity to Inspiral Artist Advisory Group, and other stakeholder funders principally to Groundworks for tfl grant; Greenwich Council for BH365 grant; Southwark Council for Culture Together Grant. We also have an active associate artist group that provides further advice and support. This group meets a minimum of 8 times a year. Ongoing consultation and feedback from 2025 activity identified a number of key areas to focus on over the next year, and in 2025 we re-activated the CIC Advisory Board (to meet between 4 and 6 times per year). Principal areas we seek to develop further include IL governance and strategy; making the CIC a more representative and diverse organisation; new ways to work with underrepresented communities and to work with younger artists who wish to develop IL work. Next year we continue to focus on inclusion of Global Majority artists, advisors, participants and audience. In 2025/2026 we will work with Community Southwark and Southwark Council to develop the ways we work together on consultation, and fund-raising. The Directors, Advisory Board and Associate Artists remain aware of the competitiveness of the funding environment and the scarcity of resources within the sector, especially within London.

The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £3600. 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