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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 July 2023
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Directors
The director shown below has held office during the period of
21 February 2023 to 31 July 2023
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
28 July 2022 to 31 July 2023
Secretary
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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Status: Director
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This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 July 2023
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It has been a productive year of building for Grassroots CIC both in terms of capacity, strategy, infrastructure, community reach and breadth of provision.We have been compelled to support crisis need again this year to support our community with the impact of the ‘cost of living.’ Funding from West Yorkshire Combined Authority via Community Foundation for Calderdale has enabled us to support 150 people in our community with emergency food support in the form of supermarket vouchers with additional supplies, toiletries and female hygiene products from our community pantry.We were also able to provide emergency energy support to 40 residents struggling with inflated energy bills with many on top up meters who came to us with no gas or electricity at all – a dire situation in the middle of winter.This funding also allowed us to provide a ‘warm space’ with lunch, activities and companionship to 783 people, signposting to local activities and, where needed, to statutory and charitable organisations that can provide targeted support. It has been a joy to watch this build and see multigenerational friendship and peer support springing from this space. It has also lent itself to other opportunities and we have offered community walks, Tai Chi classes, Camerados – public living room space and ran the Action for Happiness, happiness habits course from this space.Perhaps more importantly, members of the community have stepped forward to offer time and skills to support our work and activities to make the space better and more enjoyable – a very tangible sign that our community is both interested and invested in our endeavours.We ran a pilot of ‘cooking on a budget’ too which boosted skills, knowledge and came with the equipment to replicate recipes at home. Much of our winter support offer feels very much like a sticking plaster on the very real challenge where income simply does not match expenditure for much of our community; so this gave us some hope that our values of autonomy and community led prevention support and resilience could be realised.All of our work is led by community need and we were able to get thoughts and ideas for much of this at our community coffee morning, this was funded by the emotional health and wellbeing board via Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group to reduce isolation and improve emotional wellbeing. Overwhelmingly, attendees told us that they needed support with children with special educational needs and disability, particularly given lengthy waiting lists and the challenges of beginning a diagnosis pathway.We also heard from local women who told us that they were struggling through menopause and had becoming increasingly isolated and depressed.In response to this we started a menopause peer support group which is well attended and feedback so far has been very good. We will build this further this coming year and develop our resources so that women can access the information they need whenever they want.We also were successful in an application for funding from Locala to pilot a drop in for families with SEND children, again, this will be a casual monthly offer aiming to signpost and provide peer support. This will be backed up by SEND specialists from the Nursery and we will invite relevant partner organisations to drop by too.We are still operating from St Peters Community Centre and have started to build work at the Grassroots Family Centre - previously a SureStart Centre attached to a local primary school.So far we have held a digital drop in to help support parents & grandparents understand how best to keep their child safe online and to answer any questions to improve their own digital skills.We are about to start an Active Calderdale project this month to remove barriers to exercise for targeted groups in our community. We were very grateful to have been awarded community investment to offer free and subsidised fitness classes (held at the community centre) throughout the year and to hold a series of events throughout the year to launch the project and celebrate participants achievements.This investment is managed by Calderdale Council and funded by Sports England and we have lots of interest and excitement building in the community already.People outside of the target groups are also approaching us with ideas and requests for other fitness and sport related activities and a sub group has now formed to plan and build these.For the younger members of our community we have continued to take part in the Healthy Holidays program and have had 16-20 children, aged 5 - 12 years of age, attending for four hours, four days per week for 6 weeks of the school holidays. We host one week at Christmas, one week at Easter and four weeks over the Summer holidays. All children have been local to Sowerby and attend the local schools. We have given the children the opportunity to learn new skills and have new experiences through collaboration with local businesses, offering services such as teaching the children first aid, dance workshops and much more. We engaged their families through opening a cafe run by the children, to help educate them about healthy eating, planning, prepping, sourcing and budgeting a meal. All activities and experiences were thoroughly enjoyed and feedback was excellent.Going forward, we will continue to work on our strategic plan and to add provision where there is identified need in our community.Our overall aim is to reduce inequalities and to support a happier, healthier quality of life for our whole community, to facilitate connections and reduce isolation.Sowerby ranks very high on the indices of multiple deprivation and this has continued to rise between 2015 and 2019 with little to no investment forthcoming in the time since to improve this; not only are we a semi-rural and quite isolated community, but residents tell us that they had previously felt ‘forgotten about.’We will continue to work with our community residents and collaborate with local, regional and national groups, organisations and services to ensure this changes.We will continue to use a prevention model to make our work sustainable and to give longevity to community improvement, opportunity and wellbeing.
Our primary stakeholders are our community residents.We have held three voice events to ascertain need and hear from the community what they feel Sowerby lacks. From this feedback, we identified that a menopause group and physical activity project was needed and moved forward with this.We also held several round table discussions at our community coffee morning and in our public living room drop in space with members of our community to drill down specific areas of need and interest and to collate their ideas as to how we could make this happen.From this, we were able to stock sanitary products in the toilets at both sites, begin a community ‘check in’ scheme for older residents and moved forward with our Active Calderdale application.As part of this, we used their questionnaire to uncover barriers to activity and to ascertain what people wanted to take part in. Everything we do is informed and led by our community and nothing can happen without their support and investment. We have also consulted with New Road Primary School, Trinity Academy, St. Peter’s and Ryburn Valley High school and Anchor sheltered housing to strengthen existing relationships, broaden our partner network and hear how they feel we can support their work.We are a member of Voluntary and Community, our local infrastructure organisation and regularly attend their networking events. We have also recently attended co production workshops for the VCSE strategy and the food network run by the VSI Alliance.We would like to offer our thanks to both Sharon Harwood, headteacher at New Road Primary School, and to Reverend Jeanette Roberts and the Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Sowerby for their encouragement, support and partnership in the last year.Finally, our very grateful thanks to our community volunteers who make it all possible.They have offered commitment, kindness and generosity, sharing in our community vision by giving their time, presence and determination with love, energy and positivity.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
9 April 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Andrew Ridley
Status: Director