LARKERS CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
11958687 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 April 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 May 2022

End date: 30 April 2023

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

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

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Directors' report period ended 30 April 2023

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 April 2023

Directors

The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 May 2022 to 30 April 2023

Ruth Louise Flaherty


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
18 January 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Status: Director

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

2023 2022


£

£
Turnover: 24,573 0
Cost of sales: ( 8,659 ) ( 300 )
Gross profit(or loss): 15,914 (300)
Administrative expenses: ( 16,217 ) ( 80 )
Operating profit(or loss): (303) (380)
Profit(or loss) before tax: (303) (380)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (303) (380)

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Balance sheet

As at 30 April 2023

Notes 2023 2022


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 249 2,240
Total current assets: 249 2,240
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 852 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (603) 2,240
Total assets less current liabilities: (603) 2,240
Provision for liabilities: ( 2,540 )
Total net assets (liabilities): (603) (300)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (603) ( 300)
Total members' funds: ( 603) (300)

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 April 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 18 January 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 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

    Turnover policy

    Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value addedtax and other sales taxes.Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when goods have been delivered to customers such that risks and rewards ofownership have transferred to them.Turnover from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract. The stage ofcompletion of a contract is measured by comparing the costs incurred for work performed to date to the total estimated contractcosts.Grant Monies are recorded as a Liability upon receipt and taken into Income in the period in which they are expended.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2023
£
Other creditors 852
Total 852

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

4. Loans to directors

Name of director receiving advance or credit: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Description of the transaction:
Current Account - at call, nil interest payable.
£
Balance at 30 April 2022
Advances or credits made: 852
Advances or credits repaid:
Balance at 30 April 2023 852

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

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Company Number: 11958687 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 30 April 2023

Company activities and impact

This year had a busy programme of activities. Benched is the ongoinging monthly practice, in which a Larkers artist takes a sitting bench to a public location and gives space to listening and engaging with people in the community. This practice also is a source of material/content for “Benched”, participatory theatre showcasing stories and events from the lives of people in the community.Larkers continued to provide hosting and greeting services under its continuing contract with Duckie’s monthly performance evening at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern London. The hosting role provides rich and valued continuing contact across the generations of Larkers’ community especially older queers / tranwomen who are at risk of social isolation.Both “Benched” and the Duckie hosting offer “radical attention” to Larkers’ community, a simple yet rich quality of human presence in the moment which for many isolated and marginalised people is one of the most valued experiences.The grant money received in 2022 was spent to deliver workshops as part of Cambridge Junction’s “Red Balloon Project”, an outreach programme for children many of whom are trans, disabled or neurodivergent who self-exclude from school for mental health reasons.Cambridge Junction also sourced funding from the Pilgrim Project and commissioned Larkers to work with young people in psychiatric hospitals both by themselves + in their family on a stop-motion film project about their lives and experiences.Larkers provided an artist in Impact Driver, a participatory performance piece in which professionals collaborate with non-professionals, teasing out intergenerational themes around labour and class, trust and friendship.Two of Larkers’ artists were accepted onto a selective specialised playwriting course with Royal Court Writing Group to upskill their theatre development work. During the course they developed the “Gen X-Gen Z Project”, about parent-child relationships from the perspective of a child raised by trans parent, and each generation’s weaknesses and strengths.In 2023-24 this play has been shortlisted by Unlimited (“we back disabled artists”) for making application for £25,000 funding to develop the play.

Consultation with stakeholders

Through Artsadmin the Larkers Director had a startup meeting with a “critical friend” (another producer in the community) who led a structured examination of all crew’s motivations for being part of this specific type of work.Because they are participatory, both Benched as practice and as performance, and the Duckie hosting service are inherently a highly contextual mixture of delivery and feedback from participants.Feedback as a mix of verbal and structured is always obtained from all stakeholders in a project or performance. This includes funders, crew and participants.The Larkers Director started a collaboration with two other performers to write a trans safety policy to protect artists, crew, participants. This vital project is intended to develop resources and actionable techniques and is not yet complete.Larkers artists now work with access workers to make programs and performances maximally accessible, such as audio/text descriptions, BSL interpretation, and a touch tour prior to the show. Larkers also worked with professional mentors under the DYCP programme to ensure work lands with target groups. There were several meetings with funders and administrators during the year to ensure alignment with funding goals and legal compliance. These often included a younger Larkers artist to coach them in finding their voice in these more formal contexts.

Directors' remuneration

Reimbursement for use of private motor vehicle £2039 and use of home £250.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
18 January 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Status: Director