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Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
12095749 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 July 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 August 2022

End date: 31 July 2023

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2023

Directors report
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

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Directors' report period ended 31 July 2023

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 July 2023

Principal activities of the company

Provision of cultural education



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023

Louisa Adoja Parker
Louise Boston-Mammah


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
30 October 2023

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Louisa Adoja Parker
Status: Director

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 July 2023

2023 2022


£

£
Turnover: 18,732 53,359
Cost of sales: ( 17,302 ) ( 51,378 )
Gross profit(or loss): 1,430 1,981
Administrative expenses: ( 1,430 ) ( 1,981 )
Operating profit(or loss): 0 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: 0 0
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 0 0

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Balance sheet

As at 31 July 2023

Notes 2023 2022


£

£
Current assets
Debtors: 3 4,800 5,200
Cash at bank and in hand: 7,219 14,368
Total current assets: 12,019 19,568
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 12,019 ) ( 19,568 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 0 0
Total assets less current liabilities: 0 0
Total net assets (liabilities): 0 0
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 0 0
Total members' funds: 0 0

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 July 2023 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 30 October 2023
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Louisa Adoja Parker
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2023

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

    Turnover policy

    Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, net of discounts and value added taxes. Turnover includes revenue earned from the sale of goods and from the rendering of services.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2023

3. Debtors

2023 2022
£ £
Trade debtors 4,800 5,200
Total 4,800 5,200

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2023

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2023 2022
£ £
Trade creditors 120
Other creditors 12,019 19,448
Total 12,019 19,568

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

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Company Number: 12095749 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 July 2023

Company activities and impact

The Inclusion Agency CIC (TIA) is a community interest company championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the arts, heritage and education across the southwest region. We were founded in July 2019 by Co-Directors Louisa Adjoa Parker and Louise Boston-Mammah. This financial year, 2022-2023, we have benefitted the community by:Continuing to provide our consultancy services online and in-person to enable the community to access our work which includes meetings, training, resources, projects and support. Our website www.theinclusionagency.co.uk continues to provide access to our services for anyone who needs it. We have worked with our clients with care, empathy and understanding. We have continued to work with our highly valued regular clients: University of Bristol (UOB); University of West England (UWE); and Theatre Royal Plymouth (TRP). We continue to attract new clients. This year we have worked with RGB Recruitment; Ottery Help Scheme/Volunteer 4 All; Interwoven Productions CIC; and Exeter Phoenix. Any critical feedback is dealt with swiftly, adjusting training and resources as we go, and outlining any improvements we will make to our clients, continually improving our offer.Professionally supporting black and brown people of the southwest, and beyond, ensuring their voices are heard through our work. We have continued to work with UOB Black Engineers Society (BES) to research and report project on the lived experience of Black engineers to help improve support for them at UOB. We have worked with a further 6 students this year as part of a project focus group. One student commented ‘[I] Enjoyed having you (TIA) listening. It was therapeutic.’ A further 5 BES students have been consulted via an online questionnaire. Their responses have contributed to a written report to be shared with the School of Engineering at UOB. We also worked with the TRP providing EDI training for all their staff, some of whom are black and brown creatives and arts professionals, helping to build empathy and respect for their lived experience.Co-creating and developing high quality EDI training with a focus on anti-racism. We continue to cover all protected characteristics when working with many of our clients building on our listening circles training with Natural England last year. But our lived experience mainly covers ‘race,’ racism and anti-racism in the southwest. We continue to deliver our ‘race,’ racism and anti-racism training for UOB and UWE and have worked with a total of 18 students online to help them tackle racism both on and off campus. We ran an in-person training session for 50 construction professionals in Exeter called ‘Embracing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Construction,’ which was very well received, looking at the challenges of diverse recruitment in construction and how to create safe, inclusive workspaces. We ran an online ‘Introduction to EDI’ session for 7 members of Volunteer 4 All/Ottery Help Scheme, a voluntary sector network in Honiton and ran an online EDI consultation for Interwoven Productions CIC who were looking to review their services and make them more inclusive of the ethnically diverse communities living in and around Exeter. “I just wanted to reflect back my thanks for including us in this EDI training. It comes at a great time for us as we’re exploring the barriers we’re experiencing here in Devon to building a more diverse and inclusive volunteer/participant recruitment.” Volunteer 4 All/Ottery Help SchemeWe have continued to work with arts organisations when we worked with Exeter Phoenix, running a staff EDI training day through an anti-racist lens. We had a great day working with 50 members of staff to look at ‘race,’ racism and ethnicity in the southwest and how the arts can challenge discriminatory behaviour and systemic racism. This interest and commitment to EDI in the arts continued with our work for TRP this year. We continued to deliver the ‘Creating A More Inclusive TRP’ EDI training we co-created with them last year, reaching a further 82 members of staff. The whole project has been a delight, especially delivering the in-person sessions at TRP enabling deep conversations around lived experience and behaviours to improve understanding of people with diverse needs.Evaluating our own services for feedback, improvement, research and development. We continue to work across all protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act 2010, and beyond those characteristics into all lived experiences of prejudice and discrimination. We continue to offer a blend of online and in-person services in response to clients’ needs and to increase our accessibility. Our training, consultations and research feed into reports and action plans to make institution and organisation-wide changes. Our conversations with those with diverse lived experiences have enriched and challenged our understanding of EDI, as well as others. We continue to use real world case studies, where possible, to help workshop real world practice, and always encourage those we work with to look to members of their own staff teams to embed and sustain good EDI practice in their own organisations. We are beginning to build a body of lived experience around ‘race,’ racism, anti-blackness and anti-racism in the south west which we wish to further develop in partnership with other individuals and organisations. We want to develop more online services in the future, including potential training packages in this area, which will take more research, development and investment.“Louisa and Louise provided a safe and warm discussion space for us. This was essential to be able to identify and unblock barriers to our thinking. Their observations were insightful and very helpful. We were particularly pleased to be encouraged to start our story in a context that was familiar to us and then to build from there until we had a relevant and practical plan. A thoroughly enjoyable and extremely useful session.” JoJo Spinks, Interwoven Productions CIC

Consultation with stakeholders

TIA’s stakeholders are the black, brown and ethnically diverse people of the south west who we enable to share their lived experience through our projects, resources and training; the wider diverse communities and clients which includes arts, heritage, education and increasingly, business/private sector professionals who are committed to embedding EDI in their policies and practices; and people from all backgrounds living in the south west who seek to make it a fairer, happier place to live, work and study. Co-directors, Louisa Adjoa Parker and Louise Boston-Mammah have lived experience of issues of rural racism having lived in the southwest most of their lives and being of Black African and White British mixed heritage. We share our experiences, and the experiences of others who have suffered discrimination through lived experience of a range of protected, and non-protected characteristics, in the training, support and guidance we give. Individual’s lived experience we use as part of our training, we seek permission and/or anonymise to protect their identity, if requested.We ask all our clients, service users and project participants for feedback and how they might want us to improve and develop in the future through evaluation activities or interviews. This has helped us develop our knowledge of all the protected characteristics and other areas of disadvantage and discrimination and improve, or remove, our training. We now co-create training with others who have lived experience of different characteristics from our own and this is enriching our training, services and own professional development. Our work with UOB Black Engineers Society has been developed in full consultation with them. They helped develop the questions for each focus group as well as the method for delivery being a mix of online/in-person/hybrid participation. The same process was used when working with Theatre Royal Plymouth:“Working with TIA has been such a collaborative process and this is important for an organisation like ours. We set out to engage our colleagues in crafting their own ED&I learning and thanks to the sensitive and expert facilitation of Louise and Louisa, we were able to achieve this. The result was a programme that created opportunities for teams to explore important and sometimes challenging themes in a healthy and supportive environment. Louise and Louisa have a wealth of experience and knowledge within their fields, but they are also skilled in drawing on the stories and experiences of participants and through empathy and reflection – using these to enhance learning outcomes. If you favour a partnership approach to developing confidence and competence round ED&I practice – then I recommend talking to TIA.” Deborah Clinton, Head of People, Theatre Royal Plymouth

Directors' remuneration

£20,770

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
30 October 2023

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Louisa Adjoa Parker
Status: Director