ISHARA PRESS CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
13969323 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 10 March 2022

End date: 31 March 2023

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

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

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

13 months to 31 March 2023


£
Turnover: 0
Cost of sales: 0
Gross profit(or loss): 0
Distribution costs: 0
Administrative expenses: ( 614 )
Other operating income: 0
Operating profit(or loss): (614)
Interest receivable and similar income: 0
Interest payable and similar charges: 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: (614)
Tax: 0
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (614)

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2023

Notes 13 months to 31 March 2023


£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0
Tangible assets:   0
Investments:   0
Total fixed assets: 0
Current assets
Stocks:   0
Debtors:   0
Cash at bank and in hand: 8,427
Investments:   0
Total current assets: 8,427
Prepayments and accrued income: 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year:   0
Net current assets (liabilities): 8,427
Total assets less current liabilities: 8,427
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: 3 ( 9,041 )
Provision for liabilities: 0
Accruals and deferred income: 0
Total net assets (liabilities): (614)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (614)
Total members' funds: ( 614)

The notes form part of these financial statements

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 March 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 29 September 2023
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Ulrike Zeshan
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 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

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

  • 2. Employees

    13 months to 31 March 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

3. Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year note

13 months to 31 March 2023
£
Bank loans and overdrafts 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts 0
Other creditors 9,041
Total 9,041

These are funds provided by one of the CIC directors.

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

ISHARA PRESS CIC

Company Number: 13969323 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2023

Company activities and impact

Ishara Press CIC was set up in March 2022. In our first year of operation, we established the necessary start-up infrastructure for the company: writing a detailed business plan with support from a business development advisor, working on website development, setting up office arrangements, and developing a job description and advert to hire a part-time Assistant Editor for our second year of operation.For the field of sign languages and Deaf Studies, we worked with an academic publisher in Germany (De Gruyter Mouton) to put in place a co-publishing agreement for two book series. A co-published book entitled “The social condition of deaf people” appeared in the series “Sign Languages and Deaf Communities”. According to the agreement, all books are made available online as Open Access (that is, free of cost) after a grace period, so deaf communities will benefit by accessing these free online books.Working on collaboration tools in the form of Serious Games focused on the design and development of a new series called “Regen-D” (for regenerative design). This game profiles initiatives in the sustainability/regeneration field by curating a selection of multimedia files that is combined with a game choreography. The game can be used for dissemination, onboarding, fundraising, networking, etc, which benefits the published initiative as they can make their work known in new and engaging ways. It consists of a physical game made from plywood with integrated QR-codes linking to the multimedia materials, and an optional accompanying ebook. Towards the end of the year, we developed and launched a call for recruiting members of the editorial board for this series.We worked on the first volume of the Regen-D series throughout the year with an ecovillage initiative based in rural eastern India. After repeated prototyping, we arrived at the final design. Working on this game also involved training the ecovillage partners in this gamified method of publishing, which was enriching for them.

Consultation with stakeholders

One category of stakeholders are initiatives working in sustainability and regeneration. We worked with one such initiative to prepare for the first publication in our new "Regen-D" series.This initiative is located in India at Shikha Ecovillage in the state of Odisha. We worked with these stakeholders towards compiling the first Regen-D game and ebook. The topic of Regen-D no. 1 is “Water management at Shikha Ecovillage”, and the game is published in both English and the local language(s). Our ecovillage partners, who are also the authors of this Regen-D publication, have given us continuous feedback on the visual design, physical format, technical details and content of the game. For example, they explained that spoken components should be in Sambalpuri (the local language of western Odisha), but written components should be in Odia (the official language of the state, which is used for writing). We have implemented their feedback at various points throughout the design process.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
29 September 2023

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ulrike Zeshan
Status: Director