The company is a social-purpose musical theatre company with a mission to build the creative skills, experience and confidence of people and communities in Cornwall. The company aims to inspire, engage and delight our participants, creative practitioners and audiences in everything we do, transforming lives by: developing opportunities in creating and staging original musical theatre pieces within community settings; supporting people in accessing career pathways and life opportunities in the performing arts; developing and showcasing talent, including from under-represented groups; building and fostering harmonious local and international connections; and improving the wellbeing, mental health, and confidence of the people we work with by supporting friendships and combating social isolation. In 2025/26 our activities have been focused on the following objectives: Complete the next run of the Bal Maiden Musical - this covers community engagement workshops, rehearsals with the community cast and pre- run gigs as well as the four performance run at the Redruth theatre in Redruth, centre of the World Heritage Mining site in October 2025. Generate income to fund company activities - this objective is primarily focused on establishing income for company overheads and the production of Bal Maiden. Our activities have been carried out for the benefit of our communities which include diverse people in Cornwall who could benefit from being involved in a creative project; people who are interested in Cornish cultural output, Cornish heritage and mining; local people who love to experience musical theatre; and students of musical theatre and music. We started the year by finalising the details for the next run of the Bal Maiden musical theatre show in Redruth, Cornwall. This included planning the rehearsal schedule with the creative professional coaches, liaising with the technical support - sound and lighting, set design, budgeting and fundraising for the show. Our previous series of community workshops in Redruth and Camborne generated local interest in the project cast members, many participants went on to audition and be part of the cast. The engagement with Falmouth University AMATA also attracted a new cohort of students we hadn't previously worked with. The Bal Maiden band was also assembled with a mix of professional musicians who had been hired for the last run as well as young talented musicians who were given the opportunity to play in a new exciting context. We continued our fundraising and were delighted to be successful again with two further grants from Cornwall Community Foundation (Tanner Phoenix and Amaranth Fund) as well as the World Mining Heritage and the Cornish Gorsedh which funded our programme for the performances and Marketing strategies such as bill board advertising, posters and flyers. The rehearsals ran until October and there was huge engagement and hard work. The cast was a wonderful dynamic mix of ages and abilities who all pulled together to achieve a fabulous second run of performances at the Regal theatre in Redruth accompanied by the accomplished Bal Maiden Musical band. The set designer created a beautiful set which sat perfectly with the stunning visual animated projections. We created a film of the show which will serve as a useful archive for Bal Maiden Musical. To celebrate the achievements of all and this chapter of Bal Maiden Musical we put on a final concert in March 2026- an unstaged version of the show - with the cast and band from the 2025 run. We achieved funding for this too and created a professional recording which will also serve as an archive of the project for any future re-workings.

Our stakeholders are the communities we support and the organisations we work with in official and unofficial partnerships. The majority of our stakeholder engagement and consultation activity this year was focused on learning loops during the community workshops and auditions. This helped us to design the very best format for cast rehearsals and the re-shaping of the show following learning from the previous run. We worked with our creative professionals to ensure we targeted their contribution to the best effect for our community cast, focusing on the ultimate quality of the show.

Aggregate director remuneration in respect of qualifying services for the year ended 31 March 2026 was £3,393 ( 2025 - £500)

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