A world Film class centre 72,178 audience members for all Summer Nights The business Participation 23,000 of inspiration People over 34 nights QUAD exists to use art, film and digital media to make people’s lives better and this annual & learning report shows just some of the ways we do this.
The stats won’t tell you the whole story QUAD is approaching its tenth birthday but they do give you an idea of the scale and during that time we have established Professor Judith Lamie Delivered of what we are able to do every year our reputation as an innovative & Gordon Mitchell with the support of our stakeholders and organisation that cares on a local, more than most importantly our audience. One way national and international stage. 33,455 we like to measure our success is smiles, The FORMAT festival is just one example not easy to quantify or show as a metric of where the best of local, national and Gallery but powerful, tangible and seen every international artists and audiences meet day at QUAD. to be inspired and inspire each other. visits Adam Buss I am proud to be Chair of QUAD but CEO must pay thanks to the hard work put 425 in by every member of the team and to our core partners Arts Council England Workshops and Derby City Council for their ongoing support, without each and everyone of them none of this success would across learning be possible. and participation Professor Judith Lamie Chair Gallery In 2016/17 Attendance Year on year All attendees 33,455 Visitors saw our gallery exhibitions That’s an increase of 99.55% engagement year on year
12-19 year olds Under 12 Over 100,000 people engaged Exhibition with Extra Gallery Spaces 2013/14 2,700 2013/14 4,228 exhibitions during the year. 2014/15 2,472 2014/15 3,654 2015/16 1,540 2015/16 2,310 Programme 2016/17 3,753 2016/17 7,496
Finding inspiration throught art Bringing the best international contemporary 95 artists from all over the world alongside a showcase for local and regional talent. Photographers QUAD’s programme aims to develops Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf and focus on the exploration of Creative 2nd July - 4th September 2016 Creating impactful experiences through the Digital media, teamLab was QUAD’s GLITCHED: Quest took part gallery programme and associated events. the most successful exhibition yet with for the Lost MacGuffin 20,000 visitors. At this year’s FORMAT festival we had 24th September - 20th November 2016 record attendance at our portfolio reviews QUAD Gallery teamLab: What a Loving exhibitions 2016-17 and Beautiful World Many congratulations to all involved. Its been one of the best Format festivals I can remember and, judging by the response of our students, it will linger in 10th December 2016 - 5th February 2017 FORMAT International Photography their memories for a long time to come and hopefully its influence will soon Festival off-year: reGeneration3 FORMAT17 International Photography start to find its way into their work and ideas. 26th March - 12th June 2016 Festival: Ahead Still Lies Our Future Thanks again for giving our students an opportunity to see such amazing 24th March - 11th June 2017 and diverse work. We really appreciate it.” College Lecturer, FORMAT17 This year Film incorporated our top 4 A curated film programme selling films for all Tickets sold In 2016/17 All four had over 3,000 admissions making up The best in independent, The Lady 38% of the year’s non-specialised admission world, Hollywood and In The Van event cinema. 6,820 and 25% of the overall admissions. While the Non-Specialised cinema attendances dropped after the stellar product in We believe in the role of film to inspire, our Star Wars: The commitment is to ensuring all parts of our 72,178 2015-2016, the gap was almost entirely made up with the increase in Non-Specialised Force Awakens community can access our diverse programme. Cinema. La La Land was the only film that gained over 3,000 admissions and made up audience members 4,331 only 10% of the year’s non-specialised admission and making up just 5% of the year’s Alongside our ongoing programme we bring overall admissions. our audience further choice through Derby Film Festival, with preview screenings, officially selected attended screenings Spectre features, shorts and special guests. Not forgetting Image by Charlotte-Jopling Summer Nights, now in its 8th year, which is shown 3,723 in heritage locations across the country from RHS Garden Wisley Surrey to Nostell Priory, Wakefield, Suffragette with an audience total of over 23,000. 2016/17 C assic cine a archi e 4,408 E ent cine a 8,897 Sir John Hurt 2015/16 In January 2017 C assic cine a archi e E ent cine a 3,883 we renamed Cinema 8,785 One the Sir John Hurt Cinema in honour of our Patron.
Audience aged % of 16-25 March 16 - August 16 Specia ise 24,707 Specia ise 2.07% on 14,304 on specia ise From September 16 - March 17 specia ise 16-25 47,728 34,706 attended screenings 2.83% 15 School Education screenings
School & Colleges 1,900+ Engagement attendees Children and young Evidence shows that engagement with the arts people’s programmes: is a crucial learning tool for creative cognitive development for people of all ages. 86 sessions We continued to deepen relationships We worked in strategic partnership with with a small number of schools through the other NPOs in the city to establish 7 screenings 539 attendances our School in Residence programme, Derby’s Cultural Education Partnership. 86 sessions working with Da Vinci Academy during Our School programme generated over 890+ attendees Increased number of sessions and attendances for children 16-17 to explore new skills and career £13,400 income, which supports bespoke and young people (15%), and people with disabilities (13x opportunities in creative and digital media. and free projects across our Schools and increase)270 workshops specifically for children and young Children and Young People’s programmes. people, with more than 5,600 attendances. 3,403 School in Residence attendees One per academic year 23 sessions, 415 attendances Workshop 38 Sessions FORMAT 615 attendees International Photography Gallery visits Festival and building tours CPD 24 activities/workshops 11 tours, 582 attendances
Tours to colleges and universities 3 sessions from across the UK. Open Call for young people attracted 43 submissions from primary to university age and 26 710 exhibited at Riverlights alongside work produced by QUAD Young Creatives. Tours Attendees More than Funding Health & secured 425 Wellbeing for Q Club Workshops across learning and participation Participation “Helps us make friends and use our imagination” Q Club participant & learning Weekly delivery of GoldsQUAD Increased number of artists used in learning and & Listen Love Learn participation programmes 500+ 24% attendances More than Increased attendance across learning 50% of GoldsQUAD and participation programmes (2.3%). Digital Studio Increased attendance in targeted sessions led by participants sessions for Disability (5x increase) and Socio-economic groups (6%). 110 refurbishment Health & Providing extra physical and technical Exhibited wellbeing Over capacity to deliver sessions to more and larger groups, and using a wider sessions range of equipment. Health & With more than 9,100 wellbeing 2,000 attendances Delivered nearly 6 More than 50 workshops attendances the number of sessions x3 Projects for older people, with in 16-17 compared to 15-16. at external venues more than 600 attendances 30k Profit raised
As a registered charity we are constantly seeking new ways of diversifying income against a backdrop of falling public investment, TECH:SQUAD builds on our core strengths and enables us to Summer a radiu experiment with new technologies for hin s o and with the commercial sector. it f w Nights 350 TECH:SQUAD miles 23,000 Creating inspiring people over 34 nights events with digital July - September TECH:SQUAD provide all technical production requirements across the festival, this includes simultaneous screenings every technologies weekend across the country.
Focusing on the key areas of outdoor projections, creative digital consultancy and App development TECH:SQUAD Sell out nights Launched has worked all over the country with at Belton House leading brands. 2 tech-squad.co.uk Installed Tech support for our Lights and Song
Artwork across 14 venues across Our screen at Derby Cricket club’s Christmas projection Derby for FORMAT Photography Festival. bonfire night event – 5K audience. mapping project with Worked with Augmented 10 an audience of Arts Derbyshire to provide specialist Timm’s Lawyers office events with mobile film screenings for people with Christmas projection mapping. dementia. Celebrated 1,250 Chinese new year in collaboration with Vent media and Nottingham University’s Lakeside arts with a flagship projection Scan the QR code with mapping event. your phone to see a video of the event. Worked with 10 new clients including Aston Martin Business & Café Enterprise Bar
An aspiring venue QUAD Café bar is committed to offering the widest selection of vegetarian, vegan and gluten Eat, drink, catch up at the heart free options, we are also allergen aware. enjoy and relax QUAD Café bar offers an exciting, varied & of Derby popular menu throughout the day and evening. It continues to run at a profit, contributing From family lunches to the organisations income generation. to business meet-ups to Almost 10,000 delegates QUAD held attend QUAD’s conferences, evening drinks with friends meetings and private events. Produced over Our sell-out events this year included: Modern Buddhism 237 55,000 Conference Corporate hires cups of coffee University Of with an income Derby Degree Show of £54,529.51 University Of Derby The Lawn Business School HUUB showroom QUAD launched opening Auction a refurbished Charity screenings outside seating area ‘The Lawn’. March’s auction was Thanks to Brown’s Builders merchant for Sponsors the best year yet. donating and fitting out the Lawn area. With 104 attendees all business owners, corporates and professionals from Derby.
Derby Film Festival 2017 QUAD’s Upstairs Bar. and Summer Nights Outdoor screenings. £9,324 80% of our food and raised for drink sold is sourced QUAD Sponsorship package. QUAD drinks supplier from local suppliers The year in numbers
Consolidated Income & Expenditure 2016/17 Income
Business & Enterprise 138,768 Fundraising & Development 29,626 Arts Council England Catering 457,753 511,062
1,935,101
Derby City Council 175,587 Expenditure
Programme Fixed Assets 123,069 18,105 Cinema Organisational Cinema 622,306 Running Costs 333,209 285,039
Marketing Find Us 36,679 1,931,031
Commercial QUAD, Market Place, Activity Cathedral Quarter, Derby, DE1 3AS 473,054
QUAD is supported by
Staffing 661,876