During the financial year, Centre For Strategic Aesthetics CIC continued to deliver its Electronic Music Club (EMC) programme, providing socially engaged music projects to underserved communities across Rotherham. The programme co-creates accessible music technology and delivers creative activities in partnership with specialist artists, engaging thousands of children over the course of the year, with over 75 core participants attending regularly. The company ran regular, free after-school and family workshops at ROAR art space, providing consistent, accessible access to music-making and music technology for local families. This work was delivered in ongoing partnership with a range of community organisations, schools and the local council, including Relentless Youth Club, Clifton Learning Partnership, Rush House, Rotherham Music, Oakwood School, Clifton Community School, and Rotherham's Children's Capital of Culture programme. Over the year, participants took part in multiple local performances, and the group released a cassette on a music label, giving young people a tangible creative output and a sense of achievement and pride. The company also established a new community music studio, creating a permanent, accessible space for local people to develop music and technology skills. The programme's work fostered social cohesion, collaboration, new skills development, increased aspiration, and improved mental health and wellbeing among participants. It also enabled new partnerships with local organisations including Clifton Park Museum, No Bounds Festival, Clifton Community School, and the family learning network, extending the reach and impact of the company's activities. The company's activities this year were supported by a range of funding and commissions including: - £15,000 from Youth Music (12-month funding) to develop accessible music technology for SEND groups - £3,750 from Children's Capital of Culture, to fund a family learning programme - £1,000 from Voluntary Action Rotherham (VAR), for a Truth Studio collaboration supporting a community cohesion project - £1,500 from Voluntary Action Rotherham (commissioned via Flux & No Bounds), for a dance - project with Clifton Community School and No Bounds - £1,500 from Found Events (commissioned via Flux & No Bounds), for a further dance project with Clifton Community School and No Bounds Together, these activities demonstrate the company's sustained commitment to using music and creative technology as a tool for social benefit, community cohesion, and improved outcomes for children, young people and families in underserved parts of Rotherham.

The company's stakeholders include the children, young people and families who take part in Electronic Music Club activities; partner schools including Oakwood School and Clifton Community School; community partners including Relentless Youth Club, Clifton Learning Partnership, Rush House, Rotherham Music, Clifton Park Mu seum, No Bounds Festival, and the family learning network; Rotherham Council, via the Children's Capital of Culture programme; and funders including Youth Music, Voluntary Action Rotherham, and Found Events. Stakeholders are consulted on an ongoing basis, through informal conversations with participants and families after every session, quarterly review points, and evaluation at the end of each commissioned project. This con tinual process keeps the programme responsive and shaped directly by participants. The company also holds regular meetings with partner organisations, schools and Rotherham Open Arts Re naissance (ROAR) to discuss progress and feedback. Our approach to partner organisations is built on long term relationship building, collaboration and flexibility, rather than one-off consultation. With individual partici pants and families, feedback consistently highlights the impact of the programme. A participant from Rotherham Sight & Sound (a visually impaired group) reflected: "Being blind, you don't usually get a lot of freedom in what you can do... With this, we get the freedom to do what we want." This is particularly significant given that free, accessible creative technology is rare for visually impaired groups, who often face high costs and inaccessible design elsewhere. Parham, an Iranian refugee participant, described the programme as the only place he felt safe enough to share certain conversations. This feedback continues to shape the development of the company's sessions and its accessible music technol ogy, ensuring the programme responds directly to the needs of the individuals and communities it works with.

During the financial year, two directors received payment from the company for work delivering workshops and activities for coordinating project delivery. This work was invoiced separately from that director's role as a Company director and is not treated as a core organisational cost. These payments totalled £2550.00.

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