The Boileroom (Guildford) CIC – 2025 Impact Statement In 2025 the Company marked 19 years of operation and continued to run two sites in Guildford. The Boileroom on Stoke Fields is a grassroots music and arts venue. New House Art Space provides twenty artist studios, a public gallery, Frida’s Coffee House and Guildford Pottery. Both buildings are run as safe, inclusive and accessible spaces, and that commitment shapes who we programme for and how we operate. The Boileroom In the year The Boileroom staged 198 ticketed events, issuing 11,927 tickets across 6,755 orders, with programming in every month of the year. Alongside 143 music performances the programme included 14 community games nights, 12 emerging artist showcases, 11 Drink and Draw creative workshops, 6 student showcases delivered with local colleges, 4 fundraisers and benefit nights, 3 cabaret and LGBTQ+ nights, and film, spoken word and community food events. Headliners of Tomorrow ran monthly, giving eleven nights of first billing to artists at the earliest stage of their live careers. Gamer’s Lounge ran twelve times as a free-to-attend community night, and Fruitbowl, our LGBTQ+ night, included Anti-Valentines and Pride editions. Fund the Sound, our own fundraiser in April, drew 197 people in support of the venue. New House Art Space New House presented eleven exhibitions across the year, including Unbowed: Stories of Ukraine, the Cherish International Women’s Day exhibition, Playful Pigments by Kev Munday, a University for the Creative Arts student exhibition, the Blossom exhibition, a studio residents’ exhibition, the Jill West exhibition and the annual Summer Show, together with an open call for the Guildford Festival of the Arts. Around that gallery programme New House ran 70 recurring community sessions: Drink and Draw ten times, and the Knitting Circle, Guildford LGBT+ Book Club, New House Lates, Writers’ Saloon and Queer Life Drawing nine times each, the Visual Arts Workshop eight times, Queer Coffee Morning six times and Guildford Coffee Club once. A further sixteen artist-led workshops ran with Nathalie Day, alongside one-off workshops led by Eleanor Ratcliffe and Theodora Price, a Cherish textile workshop and a barista workshop. Our vision and purpose The Boileroom (Guildford) CIC remains committed to supporting vibrant, community-led initiatives that promote cultural enrichment and artistic expression; to championing inclusivity, accessibility and wellbeing through creative mediums; and to developing projects and events that encourage learning, belonging and participation. Benefit to the community Across the two sites the Company delivered more than three hundred distinct public events in 2025. The beneficiaries are the residents of Guildford and the surrounding area, in particular emerging musicians and artists, students, LGBTQ+ people, and community groups who need affordable and welcoming space in which to meet and to make work. A substantial part of the New House programme was free or donation-based at the point of access.

The Company’s stakeholders are its audiences and participants, the artists and community groups who use both buildings, its studio holders, its staff and volunteers, and its partner organisations across the arts, education and voluntary sectors in Surrey. Consultation takes place continuously through direct working relationships rather than by formal survey. During 2025 the Company worked with Blossom LGBT+ Social Enterprise, who exhibited at New House, ran a monthly visual arts workshop and co-produced the Pride month Fruitbowl fundraiser; the University of Surrey, on an art workshop, the LUCIA workshop and the ESRC Festival; the University for the Creative Arts, on the May exhibition and a Black History Month open call; Big Leaf Foundation, on community sessions through the spring and summer; and ACM, on six student showcases. Further partners and stakeholders included Guildford Festival of the Arts, the Guildford and Freiburg twinning, Guildford Coffee Club, Surrey Rainbow Choir, Lionsheart Bookshop and Cafe, House of Mahogany, Music Venue Trust, Independent Venue Week, the Independent Venue Community, Attitude is Everything and its Next Stage working group, Plastic Free Guildford, Zero Carbon Guildford, Experience Guildford, Oakleaf, the Koja Project and the Surrey Cultural Partnership. The Director sits on the Independent Venue Week board and is active in CVAN South East, the Surrey Cultural Partnership Leaders Network and the Guildford Creatives’ Network, which keeps the Company in regular dialogue with the wider sector.

A director’s salary of £60,000 per annum was paid to the sole Director during the year, through payroll. Full details are included in the accounts. The level of remuneration was set by reference to ACEVO sector benchmarking for comparable roles in arts organisations of similar scale, and was recorded through the Company’s sole-director decision-making procedure in accordance with the Articles of Association. 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.

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