for the Period Ended 30 September 2023
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Community Interest Report |
Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 September 2023
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
for the Period Ended
2023 | 13 months to 30 September 2022 | |
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Notes | 2023 | 13 months to 30 September 2022 | |
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Tangible assets: | 3 | | |
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 30 September 2023
Basis of measurement and preparation
for the Period Ended 30 September 2023
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QueerAF is a community interest company that helps people understand the LGBTQIA+ world and supports queer creatives to change the media. We incorporated on Sep 1st 2021, and launched our newsletter and writing schemes to the public in January 2022. In the last year, we have worked with 39 LGBTQIA+ creatives. They’ve been provided with paid commissions, along with writing skills sessions and mentoring. Several writers felt much more confident after writing with us a number of times. This was clear from the very fact that their words, after a few sessions, needed far less feedback or sub-editing. After writing with us, several have received commissions from other publications, blogs and companies.Our podcast ‘What The Pox?’ was nominated in the prestigious ARIAS awards that recognise outstanding audio in the radio in the podcasting industry in the UK. It was recognised for being a community-driven, grassroots, social action initiative, campaign, and podcast series that engaged our audience in a positive way. Other notable milestones this year include; - Became the first LGBTQIA+ publisher to publish contributor data and spending amounts to the public as part of our mission to be transparent about how our media and publishing work happens - Continued our work with the LGBTQ+ Journalism Network on a series of content and helping them build a thriving network of queer media professionals. - Worked with The Love Tank CIC and the World Health Organisation to run MPOX-related online events. - Launched a partnership with Inclusive Journalism Cymru to run a dedicated series of think pieces as part of a unique set of Queer Gaze commissions which begin in November 2023. - Ran a successful crowdfunding and subsequent membership campaign to fund a team of queer creatives to run our editorial and social media output from November 2022 to February 2023 and September 2023. - Reached a membership base of 200 recurring paying members who fund our non-profit’s work.
The stakeholders are the LGBTQIA+ community and, specifically, ‘QueerAF’ members of our publisher. We survey all new members of QueerAF to find out what kind of content they’d like to see commissioned by our not-for-profit publisher. Alongside regular surveys to our audience within our newsletter to get information, feedback and suggestions for future content, we also ran an annual survey campaign, which helped reshape our editorial output. We have met with over 20 different LGBTQIA+ and media organisations to develop relationships with the sector about our work in the last year. We have used these meetings to generate feedback and support for our work, so it is working towards the interests of the LGBTQIA+ community at large.For our writing and mentoring schemes, we survey each writer. Their input allowed us to regularly improve the brief and the session to make it better for writers from different backgrounds. We also asked them to rate our communication and the retrospective after the session in a form so they had more freedom to say what they felt. The writers ranked us on average 9.6/10 for our communication and the session itself 9.6/10. They find them useful, reassuring, and easy to do - with one writer describing the session as ‘like therapy, but for your writing’.
The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £7,500.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
20 October 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jamie Wareham
Status: Director