We continued to navigate the ever changing covid times, to stay on top of guidelines and to provide support as we followed restrictions. As the covid threat receded we worked to reduce anxieties, encourage participation and get back out in the world toward more usual everyday lives in the communities we work alongside.It’s been an interesting and sometimes challenging year through covid and a demanding public services agenda but also an overall successful one and again the organisation has risen to the challenges we face.We’re back on track, as hoped, following the ending of our Lottery funding in March 2020 and have over this year attracted and managed a range of funding sources to continue with Imayla’s delivery offers.Some examples of this years activity includes:- Children in Need ‘Re-Wild Child’ project – a partnership with St Werburgh’s City Farm.- Awards for All enabling ‘ Getting Out, Getting On’ – young people together planning and delivering the CYP (Children and Young People) area at the 5 day summer camp for themselves and others at the intercultural summer school Tribe of Doris.- Quartet Express Fund supporting ‘Summer Camps’ in partnership with Talo for 45 CYP and families to plan and deliver access to a 3 night summer camp at Degmo in mid Wales.- Wesport ‘Tackling Inequalities Fund’ to support participation in sport and physical activity in green spaces across the city.- BCC Youth Sector Support Fund, Thresholds and Avon & Somerset Violence Reduction Unit funding brought together to deliver the 8th year and 14th cohort of our targeted and often requested year long ‘Wildly Different’ Programme.We’ve maintained community contact across the city with our ‘Doorstep Engagement’ family support project, maintaining engagement through delivering food, signposting to resources, offering 1-1 support, guidance and information on doorsteps and online.We saw the consolidation of the progression work, part of the Playful Bristol Lottery funded Sustainable Play project in its second year of delivery, and demonstrating its purpose and potential into these 5 areas of Bristol -- Stockwood, Hartcliffe, Barton Hill, Lawrence Weston and Hillfields -- from our hub in St Pauls. Notably we were also bringing additional resources into all these areas, as well as Ashley, through the Holiday Activity Fund and Bristol Youth & Community Action.We started the year with our office space in St Paul’s Learning Centre; during the year we were offered a space in a community building managed by Docklands alongside Talo, an organisation offering support and advice predominantly to communities of Somali heritage. We saw the potential for Imayla in having combined office and activity space, including a small garden, immediate access to an outdoor green space and two urban parks -- all this alongside the opportunity to connect more closely with Talo and the local community based largely in the local flats on a day to day basis. We accepted the offer and moved to Halston Drive in January 2022.We’ve continued to maintain our focus on supporting CYP and families whose lives are negatively impacted by trauma, economic disadvantage and race inequality -- looking to impact on confidence, resilience, stability, well-being, equality and accessibility. Key to achieving this is listening to CYP, families and communities and delivering targeted and community work in innovative ways. We want to hear, understand and meet requests and needs for services.To support this we also participate strategically across the city to create improved cohesion of services as part of Playful Bristol: developing the Youth Strategy, the Inner City Collective across BS2 and participation in other local networks; specifically this year the new community network meetings following the tragic loss of another young person.All this with the aim of getting services and opportunities right, avoiding gaps and duplications for CYP and families and make the most of available resources in St Paul’s, across East Central and Bristol wide alongside local and city wide partners.The Board of Directors met regularly and finally face to face this year. We had a development day and are pleased to maintain a positive range of experience, diversity and representation on the Board, vital to the work we do.Thanks to funders, support organisations, colleagues and partners and above all to Imayla’s core team and the sessional workers who have, as ever, responded effectively, creatively and with skill and warmth to the challenges of the year to continue Imayla’s support for children, young people and families based in the outdoors and creative arts through another year.

Key stakeholders this year have been: CYP, parents and adoptive/ foster carers, BCC CYP Services – Education (HAF), FIF, Social Care, Avon & Somerset Police, CAMHS Riverside Unit, Wesport, Voscur, Babbasa, Full Circle Project, Creative Youth Network, Learning Partnership West, Adventure Playgrounds, APE Project, Bristol Refugee Festival, Heroes (Refugee & Asylum Seeker Support Group), BYCA, Tribe of Doris, Children's KitchenKitchen, Avon Wildlife Trust, St Werburghs City Farm, We the Curious, M-Shed, Bristol Ferries, SS Great Britain, Avon Wildlife Trust -Grow Wilder and Folly Farm, Family Arts Campaign, YHA, Scrapstore, Circomedia, Travelling Light, Bristol Old Vic, Tobacco Factory, Jamie’s Farm, Talo and My Future, My Choice.These relationships and consultations alongside programme evaluation findings continue to influence Imayla's direction.

The total remuneration paid to Directors during the year was £35,226.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