2012 – Year 15

This year was dominated by our Tribal contract and a new contract for a similar project run by Armstrong learning. We ran a large number of workshops and on some days we had 12 animators working in schools. All of the workshops worked well and there were no significant incidents. We also invested in the core activities of the company by running bursary schemes for adults and children and purchasing some better cameras. The volunteer scheme continued throughout the year and has worked well. Download full report and accounts.

The headline events this year were –

• Successfully running “Horizons” £280,000 over 3 years
• Starting a new contract with Armstrong “Create your future” £120,00 over two years.
• Involving 12 volunteers in the running of the organisation.
• Running children’s bursary scheme
• Setting up an adults bursary scheme

Young peoples workshops.
We completed 47 youth projects and worked with 937 young people providing a variety of moving image workshops. Last years figures were 40 projects working with 510 young people. This year breaks down into the following

•  2 Primary animation workshop – 3 days – 90 young people & parents
•  5 Primary animation workshops – 1 day – 150 young people
•  2 Primary video workshops – 6 days – 50 young people
•  1 Special school animation workshops – 8 days – 20 young people
•  35 Secondary animation workshops – 4 days – 525 young people
•  1 Secondary video project – 1 days – 60 young people
•  2 Secondary animation projects – 2 days – 60 young people

We also ran holiday clubs and weekend projects;

• 1 Islington holiday clubs – 4 days – 35 young people
• 6 Saturday clubs – 6 sessions – 40 young people
• 1 Bursary scheme for young people – 8 young people

In addition we ran a variety of other projects;

• Platform’s animation project with Shape – 8 days – 12 SEN young people
• Hungerford leaver’s dvd – 8 days – 55 children

London International Animation Festival
The Festival settled into the Barbican and did really well, building up a new audience. We also managed to extend our tour and industry events.

	Sept 2011	Sept 2010	Sept 2009	Sept 2008	Sept 2007
Ticket sales	5971	£4979	£4841	£4476	£3822
Films shown	299	326	342	240	240
Audience	2634	1780	2650	2550	2443
Films received UK	80	326
Films received all			2300	2150	1900
Advertising/sponsorship	1875	£2825	£1900	£500	£200
London venues	8	2
Venues not in festival	21	2

Adult Learning
We do not receive any funding for our courses and provide entry-level tuition for filmmakers and animators as well as some higher-level courses. We also subsidise some introduction courses. The aim is to provide a cheap way for people to get started.

Term	Courses	Students	Conc	% full	Cancelled	Profit
Autumn 11	19	136	60	50%	3	2628
Spring 12	16	132	57	55%	8	3520
Summer 12	18	123	54	49%	6	2579
Totals this year	53	391	171	51%	17	7649
Totals Yr 14	53	376	146	51%	10	9162
Totals Yr 13	50	402	109	53%	19	5315
Totals Yr 12	58	267	101	43%	14	6732

Student fees for the year were £30,358 as opposed to £31,398 last year. This includes approximately £1,700 of membership fees for both years. Profit for the year included a deduction for advertising and running subsidised courses.

Membership
Our membership has remained at an average of 90 people, this is driven equally by people wanting to hire equipment and people wanting to use our open access sessions. Our open access session continues to be used by an average of 5 people per session.

Specific Project details
1) “Horizons” funded by the LSC, ESF and YPLS. This project is run by Tribal education PLC. We are the main delivery partner. Our responsibility it is to recruit the schools and run the non-accredited learning for five sixths of the total outcomes (440 young pre NEET students). The project is designed to intervene whist the students are on the edge of exclusion or truanting and help them stay in school. The animation workshop attracts them to the project and the long term (three terms) of mentoring provides the care and support. We have recruited 90% of the students and the project has gone very well

2) “Create your future” This is an identical contract but with another prime partner: Armstrong learning. Their area is east London. We have completed all the negotiations and will start to recruit at the beginning of the new academic year.

Fundraising Activities
We have applied to a variety of sources with about a 35% success rate.

Staffing
These are the details as of 31/8/11, currently there are two volunteer posts available but they were usually filled during this year.

Name	Status	Role	Days per week	Days per week pd
Simon Oatley	Paid	Management		4
Tatiana Renneberg	Paid	Management		3.5
Denise Savage	Paid	Finance		1
Nag Vladermersky	Paid	Fund raising		1.5
Mandy Smith	Paid	Marketing		1
Harmesh Sharma	Volunteer	Admin	3
Claude T Curson	Volunteer	Technical support	3
Usually filled	Volunteer	Technical support	3
Usually filled	Volunteer	Admin	3
Totals			12	11
Yr 14			6	11.5
Yr 13			8	15

 

Internal and External Factors
The trustees have made a full assessment of any factors that may effect these financial statements and do not deem any factors material enough to have an impact, apart from the following:

The current climate of reduced funding has seriously affected our sector and will cause the company difficulties in securing funding. We will have enough work and funding for the coming year however Y17 will prove difficult and we will not be able to continue in the same format without new large scale projects. We will therefor look for this type of project whilst planning a plan B for reduced funding.

Objectives and strategies for the coming year

1. Fulfil our commitments to our contracts– we will do this by:
   1. Working closely with our partners and ensuring that enough management resources are in place to set up and organise the activity successfully.

2. Continue to stabilise the charity in the wake of the reduced funding – we will do this by:
   1. Continue to cut costs and keep tight control on spending.
   2. Look for opportunities to extend any contract work
   3. Search for new projects and funding
   4. Consider restructuring

3. Develop the programme of workshops and school activities – we will do this by:
   1. Research new markets and opportunities
   2. Research new techniques and technology
   3. Work with new tutors

4. Increase our training take up – we will do this by
   1. Increase advertising and improving our provision
   2. More advanced use of Google ad words and analytics
   3. SEO