PART 1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY'S ACTIVITIES AND IMPACT In the space provided below, please insert a general account of the company's activities in the financial year to which the report relates, including a description of how they have benefited the community. The aims of The Lost ARC are to provide quality live music and arts events in Rhayader. The company also operates a cafe and is able to provide a community space for events and activities in line with our ethos. 2024 - 2025 has seen another successful year of programming, building on our reputation for bringing quality original live music to a rural audience and meeting a self-imposed target of an average frequency of fortnightly ticketed events. The Homegrown series was successfully extended. Two local artists Toby Hay, who is now receiving world-wide acclaim and Bag of Cats chose our venue to launch new albums. The scheduled events featured artists from all over the world and this year again many of our audience left amazed and delighted with the quality of artists, many commenting on how incredible it is to experience these artists in the heart of rural Mid Wales. With the support of Creative Wales, at the end of this financial year, we began a series of improvements to our stage and to our sound system offering an incredible experience to our artists and providing an enhanced audience experience. This will be continued into next year. In addition to our ticketed programme we have hosted regular Open Mic events, Community singing, Dance Flow nights, a Clothes Swap, a Music Tech Taster event led by MPYT a local youth theatre group. The foyer and cafe has been used to exhibit local art work, and a Save the Wye' display, which is regularly updated by two of our local citizen scientists. This year we again worked closely with The Arches, our local community Trust, we continue our 'pay-it-forward' vouchers and have coordinated with the Arches food bank administrator to look at more effective ways of reaching those who would benefit most from the generosity of our customers. We have combined with The Arches to provide kitchen and cafe space for their cooking club. We are a weekly drop off point for the Coop overstock which is given to the community. We are also a drop off and collection point for a local producer providing local and organic veg and fruit bags. We remain registered as a Warm Space for the community. The Make and Mingle sessions open to all, continued to be enjoyed by a range of attendees. We also hosted a very busy and enjoyable Pumpkin Carving event for Halloween using pumpkins which had been grown on a local farm. We have a number of regular volunteers supporting our free Open Mic sessions and supporting other gigs and helping in the garden. We have worked closely with other organisations in the region promoting the area as a tourist destination to the benefit of all businesses within the community. The Christmas Day lunch continues to be well attended and enjoyed by local residents and is supported by volunteers in the build up and on the day. We have continued the link with the Music Venues Trust and members of their Music Venues Alliance, and our events coordinator remains a member of the Music Venue Trust Wales steering committee, a lobbying group for the music industry. Our links with the Noson Allan initiative continue to facilitate performances that would otherwise not be financially possible to bring to a small venue in rural Mid-Wales.

PART 2 – CONSULTATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS – A “stakeholder” is any person or organisation affected by the company’s activities. Please indicate who the company’s stakeholders are; how the stakeholders have been consulted and what action has the company taken in response to feedback from its consultations. If there has been no consultation you must state ‘There has been no stakeholder consultation held’. The stakeholders in The Lost ARC are local residents, local businesses, local and visiting artists, musicians and performers as well as tourists and other visitors to the area. We continue to have regular discussion with local groups and organisations. Informal discussions with audience and patrons continue to shape our output and this has been formalised with the implementation of feedback forms with the addition of a QR code to simplify the customer experience. Social Media platforms remain key parts of our communication and feedback – we obviously read and respond to all reviews and act on recommendations where it makes sense to do so. Without continued funding for a volunteer coordinator, we have relied on our online groups to maintain and coordinate our volunteer base. Our Events Manager follows up on all artist experiences which continue to be overwhelmingly positive. We have also had universal approval for the quality of sound since making improvements which has directly increased the number of amateur artists attending. We support local festivals and events, including Rhayader carnival – we work particularly closely with the team that arrange the Groe Gathering, (a free live music event that is a part of the Carnival week) loaning equipment and supporting their technical team. We meet with other town organisations and with Elan Links, regularly meeting with their visitor attractions manager. We attend business group meetings facilitated by Rhayader Town Council and remain members of the BOBB group organised by the Community Police.

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