BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
10598430 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 28 February 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 March 2022

End date: 28 February 2023

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2023

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Balance sheet

As at 28 February 2023

Notes 2023 2022


£

£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0 0
Tangible assets:   0 0
Investments:   0 0
Total fixed assets: 0 0
Current assets
Stocks:   0 0
Debtors: 3 112 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 3,060 16,518
Investments:   0 0
Total current assets: 3,172 16,518
Prepayments and accrued income: 0 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 3,201 ) ( 16,547 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (29) (29)
Total assets less current liabilities: (29) ( 29)
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year:   0 0
Provision for liabilities: 0 0
Accruals and deferred income: 0 0
Total net assets (liabilities): (29) (29)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (29) ( 29)
Total members' funds: ( 29) (29)

The notes form part of these financial statements

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 28 February 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.

The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 31 October 2023
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Isabel Carlisle
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 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

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2023

3. Debtors

2023 2022
£ £
Trade debtors 0 0
Prepayments and accrued income 0 0
Other debtors 112 0
Total 112 0
Debtors due after more than one year: 0 0

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2023

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2023 2022
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 0 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts 0 0
Trade creditors 460 0
Taxation and social security 0 0
Accruals and deferred income 2,741 16,547
Other creditors 0 0
Total 3,201 16,547

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

BIOREGIONAL LEARNING CENTRE CIC

Company Number: 10598430 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 28 February 2023

Company activities and impact

We continued the project called Voices of the Dart which commenced in September 2021 and was funded by South West Water. This was a community engagement project in the valley of the River Dart that explored ways for communities to use less water. The context was climate change as changing rainfall patterns, swinging from heavy rains in the winter to drought in the summer, has made our freshwater supplies more precarious. During the period of February to April we ran four community workshops in different locations in order to raise awareness of the likely scenarios of climate change and to discuss ways in which communities can save water. We worked with climate scientists, local radio, artists, ecologists and community groups to engage with data and climate modelling, lived experience, creative expression and design for the future. We asked the question ‘If water could speak, what would it say?’ and the responses collected were presented at a Creative Peninsula Summit at the Eden Project in Cornwall. Overall, we engaged around 26,000 people in the valley of the River Dart and successfully brought community groups into dialogue with South West Water in order to design climate-resilient water futures. The project has its own webpage here: As well as working on the ground in South Devon, BLC is actively involved in promoting the practice of ‘bioregioning’, working collaboratively at the scale of landscapes and systems for climate resilience. As part of the international Regenerative Communities Network BLC, with colleagues in the USA and Columbia, put together and hosted an online event called the Bioregional Regeneration Summit. This brought people working at bioregional scale from around the world together for two weeks in talks, discussions and networking sessions. Participants came from as far afield as the Amazon headwaters, India and the Arctic. Recordings of the sessions can be found here. We researched regenerative finance as it relates to bioregions and wrote a series of blog posts on our findings as a synthesis of our report “Bioregions as a Framework of Value” that is included in the r3.0 Blueprint Series 2019-2022 Blueprint 8: Funding Governance for Systemic Transformation. In the first part of this year, January and February 2023, BLC convened a team of local ecologists, wildlife experts and our harbour authority to start working an Environment Agency funded project to restore the saltmarshes on the River Dart. BLC is project managing this work, which is called Living Dart: the Saltmarsh Project. Our role is to bring community groups into the project and to grow climate literacy around the importance of saltmarshes in our estuary.

Consultation with stakeholders

All our work is done through consultation and co-design with stakeholders. Stakeholders vary from project to project but are usually the local people who live in the place where we are working. For Voices of the Dart we worked with four communities: Dartmouth, Totnes, Buckfastleigh and Ashburton and collected up the design work on saving water we did with them to feed back to South West Water. For Living Dart: the Saltmarsh Project we are working with communities around the estuary as well as landowners and exploring community science and communities taking responsibility for monitoring the biodiversity of their local saltmarsh.

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
31 October 2023

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Isabel Carlisle
Status: Director