CROSSING FOOTPRINTS CIC aims to generate creative production with both an educative and artistic emphasis that can encourage action by developing a better understanding of human rights, environment, equality and wellbeing. In our fifth year of operation, our focus has shifted towards reviewing strategy and undertaking development including some pro-bono work to enable better support and strengthen our foundation for future activities. The project work delivered in the year December 2024-November 2025 includes the following: PROJECT DELIVERY ACTIVITY: - This is Us (formerly Histories, Stories and Voices) with Manchester Histories: three community-based heritage projects with Wai Yin Society, Linford Sweeney’s Black History Group, and Wythenshawe History Group. - Pan-African Congress 80 Working Group (convened by the Scott Trust). - Amani Creatives ‘Fumbo Heritage Project’ – editor for the exhibition narrative - Migration Stories North West (completion and reporting) PROJECT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY: - Ghoorni climate play – impact producing - Pan-African Congress 1945 Digital Plaque Oversight (pro-bono) - Film development in response to Sanctuary and Viraj Mendis podcast series Sept 2025 - First Cut Media WISSC project - Louise Wong – end of life care in the Chinese Community ADDITIONAL WORK - Poem with Video by Shamshad Khan ongoing negotiation for it to be re-exhibited at Manchester Museum (pro-bono) Other worthwhile activity included maintaining Black heritage websites for First Cut Media, networking within arts and climate justice groups, organisational research and development and attending online training. PROJECT DELIVERY ACTIVITY: THIS IS US (formerly HISTORIES, STORIES AND VOICES) Manchester Histories were successful in their £250k bid to the Heritage Fund along with a £100k commitment from Manchester City Council for a major 3-year project aimed at locating, uncovering and archiving under-represented historical narratives. Crossing Footprints are a key partner in the project which will generate material in a presentable and accessible online form, develop resources and deliver educative activity for future generations. Once funding was confirmed, we then collaborated on the project development process including co-devising the branding and the final re-name of the project and website as “This is Us”. Crossing Footprints were then contracted for Kooj to develop strands of work with Chinese elders at the Wai Yin Society, with the Manchester Black History Group led by Linford Sweeney, and with Wythenshawe History Group. These progressed as follows: - A series of six engaging, enjoyable, informative and insightful workshops at the Wai Yin Society took place, and produced material for an audio documentary and a combination of text and image content for the accompanying web-page which will be published on the ‘This is Us’ website. - Local community historian Linford Sweeney was given advice and support towards a process to generate content relating to specific periods and events in Manchester’s Black History, for a project which was scheduled to take place in 2026. - Wythenshawe History Group also developed a six-week sessional format for their own project, again this would not begin until early 2026. The delay in the latter two projects was in part due to Manchester Histories needing to get new workers in place and properly inducted before commencing some of the work. More information about the project will gradually be added at https://www.crossingfootprints.com/this-is-us . PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS 80 WORKING GROUP 2025 was the 80th Anniversary of the Pan-African Congress which took place in Manchester in 1945. The Scott Trust (which owns The Guardian news) has a Legacies of Enslavement team, which successfully applied to GMCA (Greater Manchester Comnbined Aiuthority) for £25k for a project described as follows: “A cross-sector working group will spend at least six sessions together between August 2025-March 2026 to create a long-term strategy for the city. It will take direct inspiration from the Manchester-hosted Pan-African Congress that took place in 1945. The PAC80 WG’s new strategy for restorative justice will confront constraints to show how restorative justice does not simply mean monetary repatriation but it is about using money to instigate change. With a clear boundary of time and money, the group will demonstrate how we can embed a culture of ethical innovation in our future investments with a rejuvenated sense of pride.” Kooj as a representative of Crossing Footprints was selected as a member of this working group, and collaborated with other members from a range of organisations and individual profiles with a track record of racial justice activism and support. The final outcome of the sessions, which involved considerable depth and critical discussion, will emerge in 2026. This was also an excellent opportunity for networking, appraisal and sharing. [Note: for reasons to do with the financial administration by the Scott Trust, the freelance fees for this work were paid directly to Kooj Chuhan). AMANI CREATIVES ‘FUMBO HERITAGE PROJECT’ This photography exhibition by Amani Creatives explores the rich naming traditions of African communities living in Greater Manchester and the North West of England. Kooj worked as a representative of Crossing Footprints as the narrative editor and advisor for the project, it was exhibited at Manchester Central Library during November 2025. Introductory information about the project is as follows: “Through portraits, personal stories and proverbs linked to names, we celebrate the profound cultural significance behind the names that shape our identities, honour our memories and keep our heritage alive. We salute the contribution of Congolese, Ivorian/Beninese, Kenyan, Malawian, South African/Eswatini, Ghanian, Moroccan, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Zimbabwean, Cameroonian and Eritrean communities to the arts and culture of the African Diaspora in the Northwest of England.” Further information about the project is available at https://www.crossingfootprints.com/fumbo-african-names-and-meanings MIGRATION STORIES NORTH WEST The project concluded in 2024 with a small display exhibition at Manchester Central Library https://www.crossingfootprints.com/migration-stories-exhibition/ focusing on the Manchester based stories researched by the Crossing Footprints volunteers and our partner school in Bury. There was also a special event titled Migration, Identity, History’ https://www.crossingfootprints.com/migration-identity-history/ at Manchester Central Library with speakers, discussion, Q&A and live music. During the 2025 year the remaining activity was to simply complete the final reporting which was then collated by Global Link along with the same from the four other North West regions into the overall report for the Heritage Fund. The final resource is excellent, and available to view at https://www.migrationstoriesnw.uk/stories/ . PROJECT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY: GHOORNI IMPACT PRODUCING The play ‘Ghoorni’ is the creation of AYNA Arts originally commissioned by Crossing Footprints in 2022. Crossing Footprints are again partnering with AYNA Arts as the Impact Producer for a new tour, implementing an innovative set of strategies to enhance the ability of the play to generate real-world change. During mid-2025, an application to Arts Council England by AYNA Arts on this basis was developed in collaboration with Crossing Footprints, with the intention to deliver the project and tour in 2026. PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS 1945 DIGITAL PLAQUE OVERSIGHT GROUP (pro-bono) There is a plaque which commemorates the 1945 Pan-African Congress held there at what was once the Town Hall for Chorlton-on-Medlock, now a part of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Crossing Footprints via Kooj Chuhan have become a project partner and a member of the Oversight Committee , whose immediate endeavour is to create an interactive, digital plaque in partnership with MMU that tells the story of the steps taken in Manchester that spearheaded the decolonisation of the African continent. Crossing Footprints has become instrumental in supporting the group to develop and refine the potential it has to engage and educate using creative methodologies. We have also provided support with communications and networking systems, and website design and development. This pro-bono work is principles-base support, but also with a view towards the development of funded work in 2026. (The ‘Oversight Group’ would later become the Pan-African Movement Network in 2026). DOCUMENTARY FILM DEVELOPMENT – VIRAJ MENDIS Towards the end of 2025, Crossing Footprints began early negotiations and established an intent to develop a documentary film about the work of Viraj Mendis, following the online broadcasting of a BBC podcast series about him titled “In Detail: Sanctuary – An Act Of Defiance” which aired in September 2025. FIRST CUT MEDIA WISSC PROJECT After stumbling blocks in 2024, renewed discussions took place for online website support and digital workshops by Crossing Footprints for a heritage application by First Cut Media, about the history of the West Indian Sports and Social Club in Moss Side (WISSC). The centre was initially set up as The Community House Social Centre by Nobel Prize Winning economist Arthur Lewis originally from St Lucia. Arthur was Professor of Political Economy at the University of Manchester 1948 - 1957. The outcome of this application would again not be known until 2026. PROJECT ON END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE CHINESE COMMUNITY Louise Wong, who worked with us in Migration Stories and also with the This is Us Wai Yin project, approached Crossing Footprints to collaborate on developing a Heritage Fund application and project. The focus is about aspects of culture and belief systems in relation to end of life care in the Chinese community, towards a CF Heritage Fund application. The intention would be to progress and hopefully submit this application in 2026. ADDITIONAL WORK POEM WITH VIDEO BY SHAMSHAD KHAN ACCEPTED FOR GCSE STUDY TO BE RE-EXHIBITED AT MANCHESTER MUSEUM. For various reason this work has been delayed, stopped, re-started and still not resolved. However, new staff and other pending structural changes at the Museum has given some hope for 2026. To recap as follows: The poem “pot” by Shamshad Khan was originally commissioned and filmed by Kooj Chuhan for the Manchester Museum in 2003, where it was exhibited for a number of years. Shamshad describes the poem as, “Dedicated to a Nigerian pot currently incarcerated in the Manchester Museum without charge or access to legal representation.” The poem has now been included on the GCSE English Literature syllabus, having been published in the AQA poetry anthology 2022/3. Kooj and Crossing Footprints worked with Shamshad to update the video of Shamshad performing the poem so that it can accompany and support its use in a GCSE educational setting. This was achieved with additional audio and editing support from Crossing Footprints member Ricardo Vilela of Sagitta Media. The video has been made available on the Crossing Footprints YouTube Channel and can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aDZNnrWrP4 . We also began negotiations with the Manchester Museum to re-exhibit the pot, along with the text and the video of the poem.

The company’s projects and served communities will vary according the current needs, priorities and available support, therefore our stakeholders may also vary year on year. In 2025 our stakeholders comprised our project partners especially Amani Creatives, Global Link in Lancaster, Manchester Histories, Sagitta Media, Shamshad Khan, First Cut Media, The Scott Trust, AYNA Arts, Wythenshawe History Group, Wai Yin Society, Linford Sweeney, Louise Wong, the related local communities and user base, physical and online audiences, local artists and community activists, and our funders. This is a complex set of relationships and all projects involve a regular and continual level of communication using meetings, emails and telephone at all stages of project delivery - from devising, designing and planning through project management and delivering the activities to documentation and final evaluation. Given the complex nature of such projects we tend to rely on the knowledge gained by staff, freelancers and other organisations embedded in and with long standing connections with local communities to advocate on behalf of those communities. In addition, project delivery generally begins with sessions involving elements of trial activity and generating evaluative feedback as a highly engaged way of consulting on the way forward for the rest of the project. Our work adheres to a high level of principles and ethics around community engagement as is shared by our long established and reputable partners.

Kuljit Chuhan, the sole director receives no remuneration in return for services as an officer of the Company. He does receive remuneration for his involvement in project work delivery, management and administration. In the period under review, he received £3,480 as presented in the accounts. 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