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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 April 2023
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 May 2022 to 30 April 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:
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This report was approved by the board of directors on
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The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 30 April 2023
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We have continued to provide yoga and meditation classes to those who could not usually afford to do them or have previously considered it as a way to relieve stress, help with mental and physical health issues, and move towards wellbeing. This year, those who discovered yoga through previous projects run by Softly Softly Yoga have remained with us as regular attendees, who often recommend our classes to friends or bring them along. We worked with local community groups and organisationsCommunity Centres, Silver Road, and The Phoenix Centre, as well as Hinde House, a refuge for homeless women with complex needs, Waterloo Park, The Feed Cafe, a social enterprise Cafe in the community, working to prevent poverty, hunger, and homelessness. We have developed our partnership with other social enterprises and wellbeing practitioners, such as the Cloth of Kindness a sewing and wellbeing group. We offered a wellbeing event offering yoga, meditation, homeopathic advice and a therapeutic sound and gong bath for stress relief and deeper meditation. The sound bath was very well received, we ran another earlier this year and have plans for a Christmas wellbeing event and sound bath.We have given people opportunities to get together share food and chat. We offered a run of classes taught by Ivana, a highly accomplished teacher of hatha and yin yoga and spiritual practitioner, at a local studio. We organised a yoga for older men class at the same venue, taught by a man who discovered the physical and mental benefits of yoga for those with typical older male bodies and issues. We also planned a run of restorative yoga classes, where people can access deep rest with the aid of props and equipment run by an advanced yoga practitioner. Later this year we plan to offer some tailored one to one yoga therapy sessions. We forged relationships in the community and with local businesses, networking with other social enterprises. We have entered into dialogue with a local initiative campaigning to set up a creative hub of arts and wellbeing groups.Our organisation is becoming more sustainable through donations and ongoing class participation, and we have been contacted by many teachers and practitioners keen to work with our project in the future.In future we intend to continue to run community events together with other wellbeing organisations, who offer activities to reduce social isolation, offer regular free yoga classes to vulnerable groups. run regular dropin classes at Norwich community centres serving deprived areas, like Mile Cross, enabling residents to come together and feel part of their neighbourhood. Publicise and promote our organisation on social media, and to other community groups that people attend. Participants will continue to publicise our work through word of mouth and bring their friends along to benefit.
Class participants , we engage in a continual process of feedback from those that attend our classes and listen to suggestions around venues, timings, teaching content, approach, and style. We have shaped the project in response to participants needs, offering classes from various teachers with diverse approaches. Our classes have worked with people’s differing lifestyles, i.e., to fit in with work shifts, study, and or health needs. We have provided alternative wellbeing strategies, complementing the yoga, emotional healing, through Shiatsu and Tai Chi techniques, and Feldenkrais approach somatic movement. The wider yoga practitioner community. We contract with local yoga teachers who help service development, offering expertise in areas like neuro-divergence and yoga therapy and keep the teaching fresh and varied. Local businesses. We have been given free tickets for local events like Norwich Yoga festival from the organisers, which we distributed amongst our service users who would not otherwise have accessed these well-being events.Other social enterprises, housing associations and charities. Some asked us to teach Yoga for their service users such as Hinde House (residential home for women with addiction and mental health issues). We attended an event with The Cloth of Kindness organised to support sex workers well-being. Silver Rd Community Centre, The Phoenix Centre MX and Waterloo Park The Feed Cafe provide space and publicise our work.Norfolk County Council Social Care teams. Living Well Officers and support workers spoke with service users about the benefits of our classes. The National Lottery. We benefited from funding from the Awards for All Programme, to support our free yoga classes, Lottery funding supported The Kind Your Mind Project, 2022 -2023 and our current project The Yoga Reset Project 2023 designed to alleviate stress and act as a counterpoint to the economic hardship many people are currently experiencing.
Sue Tideswell, Director £3000
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
7 October 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Stephen Wiseman
Status: Director