Annual Report

April 1st 2000 - March31st 2001

Trustees Anthony J Knapp

Denise Herrington

Dr Marion North

Bankers Lloyds Bank

CAF

The Trustees

After being a trustee since the Fund was first constituted Mr Crombie resigned and we were pleased to welcome Mrs Denise Herrington from Barlows, Solicitors, as a new Trustee.

The Management Committee

1. Meetings took place on the following dates:

October 30^th 2000

March 5th 2001

2. Retiring members

Gregory Nash resigned and Jean Johnson Jones finished her term of office at the end of this year.

3. New Committee members

Pam Anderton was re-elected treasurer and BJ Lewis re-elected for another term as Chair from the end of the year. Linda Jasper, Sue Smith and Tim Tubbs were elected as committee members for next year.

Members of the committee were very sad to hear of the death of Mary Wilkinson in January. Mary was the first secretary of the Fund. The Fund was represented at her funeral.

Scholarships

Awards for 2000/2001

Forms send out			134
Applications received			59
Forms from Website			15
Scholarships			25
Reserves			0

Sum applied for			£30,393
Sum allocated			£11,560

Travel destination
				Applicants	Awardees
	USA			25	11
	Europe inc Russia			15	7
	S America			5	2
	Africa			4
	India			5	2
	Australia & Bali			4	3

Travel from				Applicants	Awardees
	London & environs			31	16
	other			27	9
		(including Ireland 3, Scotland 2, and Wales 1)			(all from England)

Gender				Applicants	Awardees
	Female			46	19
	Male			12	6

Age				Applicants	Awardees
	Range			17-57	21-51
	30 & under			32	12
	31 - 49			20	9
	50+			6	4

Assigned awards

	Gillian Lynne		Katie Marsh, Darren Pritchard, Melanie Seagrave
	Renee Waterman		Jack Kingslake, Catherine Sims

Administration of awards

1. No significant changes have been made to the way in which the awards are administered.

Selection Procedure

1. No significant changes have been made to the underlying criteria for selection or the selection process.

Publicity .

1. In May a press release and list of recipients were sent to journals, critics and national dance organisations, agencies and associations.

2. In the autumn 272 small posters and 293 sheets giving details of the fund were mailed.

3. The National Independent Dance Artists Network set up by DanceUK was used again to publicise LUTSF.

4. Information providers in dance in the UK who have web sites were informed of our web address.

Finances

1. The accounts for the year ending 31 March 2001 show that all expenditure was within budget. Once again our use of a travel agent led to a saving. As a result of an extra fund raising event income was exceeded by expenditure by £3,132 as opposed to the £5,500 budgeted. It is our policy to spend capital that we are given and so, as there is enough capital to continue at the present level of spending for a number of years, the charity normally proposes deficit budgets.

2. Once again committee members have borne much of the administrative cost themselves.

3. We have received a number of donations including a gift of £1,280 from Gillian Lynne and we are grateful for the continuing support from the Linbury Trust. Further income was received from covenants set up in 1997 and some cash donations. We held one fund raising event in the garden of Tylosand in Surrey which raised over £1,000, and we were given tickets to sell for a dance production in London which also raised just over £1,000.

B J Lewis (Chair)

November 2001

List of committee members

Geraldine	Stephenson - President
Ellinor	Hinks Advisor
Pamela	Anderton
Julia	Carruthers
Judith	Chapman
Vivien	Gear
Jane	Hackett
Jean	Johnson Jones
BJ	Lewis
Tamara	McLorg
Jan	Murray
Alysoun	Tomkins
Tim	Tubbs