COMMUNITY GLUE C.I.C.

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
07300592 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 April 2022

End date: 31 March 2023

COMMUNITY GLUE C.I.C.

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

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

2023 2022


£

£
Turnover: 147 731
Gross profit(or loss): 147 731
Administrative expenses: ( 570 ) ( 552 )
Operating profit(or loss): (423) 179
Profit(or loss) before tax: (423) 179
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (423) 179

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Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2023

Notes 2023 2022


£

£
Current assets
Debtors: 3 255 611
Cash at bank and in hand: 1,574 1,647
Total current assets: 1,829 2,258
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 534 ) ( 540 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 1,295 1,718
Total assets less current liabilities: 1,295 1,718
Total net assets (liabilities): 1,295 1,718
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 1,295 1,718
Total members' funds: 1,295 1,718

The notes form part of these financial statements

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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 November 2023
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Jon Hyslop
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

COMMUNITY GLUE C.I.C.

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

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 2 2

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

3. Debtors

2023 2022
£ £
Trade debtors 611
Prepayments and accrued income 255
Total 255 611

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2023

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2023 2022
£ £
Trade creditors 258 258
Accruals and deferred income 276 282
Total 534 540

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

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Company Number: 07300592 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2023

Company activities and impact

Working with small groups of citizens, charities and health and social care commissioners and services to develop and sustain services or other supports for people using (or in need of) health and social care services.

Consultation with stakeholders

We were in direct communication with a wide range of stakeholders, as well as liaising more widely through social media.Local/Regional- Keep Our NHS Public Oxfordshire- Low Carbon West Oxford- Makespace Oxford- Making Families Count CIC- Oxford City Larder- Oxford Hub- Oxfordshire Family Support Network (OxFSN)- Oxfordshire Older Chinese People’s Centre (Happy Place)- Oxfordshire Social Entrepreneurship Partnership (OSEP)- The Nature Effect- Unlimited Oxfordshire- West Oxford Community Association (WOCA)National- Association of Mental Health Providers- Community Catalysts- Co-operative Futures- In Control- Men’s Sheds- Social Care Futures- Think Local Act Personal- Berks, Oxon, Bucks VCSE AllianceCOMMUNITY GLUE’S SPECIFIC AIMS1. Working with service users (or people eligible to use services or their representatives) to develop resources that meet their needs more exactly than services that may be available now.Activities, Impact, and Stakeholder Engagement relating to this aima) Self-Directed SupportWe were unable to carry forward any of our own local projects in this area. However, we remain active in national networks (e.g. Social Care Future) and in regular communication with local organisations that are taking this work forwards. For example we are proud to sit in the advisory group for Embolden 2, a project run by Oxfordshire Family Support Network that provides older family carers with the support they need to help them plan for the future for their family member with a learning disability and/or autism.b) Campaigning and Grass Roots ActivismWith the ongoing cuts to budgets, we continued to be more involved in supporting services under threat of reduction or closure, and providing information on the impact of the cuts.We have contributed to the debates around a future national strategy for social care on social media. 2. Working with charities that may not have the staff capacity to develop new projects or services, but may have the capacity to sustain them.Activities, Impact, and Stakeholder Engagement relating to this aima) Self-Directed SupportWe worked with Community Catalysts, who are promoting micro-enterprises in the county, supporting them to make links with organisations working with personal budget users. In other parts of the country, we know that Community Catalysts have helped PB users to start their own businesses, and supported the development of social enterprises that sell support to PB users.b) Social EnterpriseThe pandemic has forged many new alliances, some of which are starting to bear diverse fruits. Amongst the many organisations that came together to collect prescriptions and deliver food, there has been a growing awareness of the large gaps in support that existed even before 2020, and an expanding commitment to tackle them. We’ve been very privileged to be part of some of this work locally, in a small way, by facilitating support and peer education groups for staff working on community development and in pioneering partnerships with primary care services. We’re very grateful to the Oxford Hub and Sophie Kendall for the opportunity.We have offered advice and guidance to a number of hyper-local organisations considering going down the CIC/Cooperative/Community Benefit Society route. An example occurred when the well-loved social enterprise Cutteslowe Garden Centre, run by Midlands charity People in Action, was forced to close. It supported disabled people in a work setting, and had made fantastic connections within the local community. What was really heartening was the way individuals and agencies immediately rallied round to try and find a way forward. We were asked to facilitate a public meeting at short notice, which very quickly set up an unincorporated association. As well as ourselves, Alice Hemming from Co-operative Futures, Grant Hayward and the team at eScalate, honourable mentions go to Anita Wingad from our long-term collaborators Community Catalysts and Annie Davy, our equally long-term friend from The Nature Effect and others too many to list. Since then (without Community Glue’s input), it has been heartening to learn that the UA has continued and created ‘Cutteslowe Greenhouse’ Community Benefit Society. We gave a short presentation updating members about recent developments in adult social care policy at Unlimited Oxfordshire’s AGM.Organised by Co-operative Futures and Community Catalysts, we attended the ‘Owned by Oxford Roundtable’ in March, looking at how a co-operative structure can work for organisations in the social care sector. It gave useful insights from experience of how co-ops can help with a more reflective approach and wider stakeholder participation.We are, as ever, grateful for the continuing support of WOCA, which has provided us with an affordable base for many of our own projects over the past decade. 3. Working with NHS and local authority commissioners to develop the market for personal health and social care services.Activities, Impact, and Stakeholder Engagement relating to this aima) Self-Directed SupportWe have participated in the BOB VCSE Health Alliance brings together the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham).b) GeneralFollowing on from our (ultimately unsuccessful) proposal last year for a ‘Community Development Unit’ to work in St Thomas, St Ebbes and Grandpont, primarily to link people from socially excluded communities to local support initiatives, we have continued to engage with the local authorities and other organisations in taking forwards elements of the proposals. Since December 2022 we have taken part in Oxford City Council’s Steering Group on the development of a ‘Community Profile’ of the area

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
27 November 2023

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Keith Birnie
Status: Director