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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 August 2023
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 September 2022 to 31 August 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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Status: Director
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Every Cloud is a Play and Creative Arts Therapy Practice.During the financial year 1/9/22 to 31/8/23 we provided individual therapeutic services to 65 children and young people and Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) to 5 families. 35 of these were brand new clients and were from over 30 different schools and alternative provision providers. We continue to have good links with Adoption West and Social workers who both regularly refer children and young people to our service.At Every Cloud we pride ourselves on working in a multi-agency way with the educational, health and social care provision in our community. By involving the school or alternative provision in our reviews and giving the class teachers or mentors an insight as to how they can better support that child this often results in reduced classroom disruption as the child feels more understood. In September an Inset Day was run for staff at Tibberton Primary school on Combining Neuroscience with the Superpowers of Play with plans to develop this training offer and cascade this information out to the wider community.This year we also have run a free of charge session for student and qualified play therapists through the University of Wales on setting up a CIC, recognising that the demand for community projects like ours is significant in all areas of the UK. We work hard to recognise need or gaps in provision and strive to find creative ways in which our community interest company can support. To this effect, during this financial year we secured seed funding for a Project supporting Refugee children in therapy and from these both Clinical Directors have put in a PHD application with an aim of delivering a research project for the refugee demographic. Every Cloud has also been responsive to seeing the need within Gloucestershire and being reflective we are in the process of developing Interoceptive Awareness alongside play and creative art sessions. Interoception is how we ‘hear’ the clues our body gives us to how we are feeling (hot/cold/thirsty/excited/anxious). For a lot of the children we support this awareness is underdeveloped and there is no provision through Gloucestershire NHS for this type of work. We are upskilling our therapists to deliver this as an integrative part of our therapeutic offer. This financial year £10,826.24 was raised through grants, donations and our Corporate Social Responsibility Programme: the Silver Lining Asset Disposal Service through a local business supporter. Our Subsidised Session Fund is going from strength to strength with a donation of £10K received from GCHQ’s Employees and Charitable fund. In June 2023, Every Cloud received notice on the premises that we operated from as they were closing their CIC. We have found it difficult to find alternative community premises having grown too big for the space available in community or council buildings. We were able to eventually secure a tenancy in a commercial property however the costs are significantly higher than our previous arrangement. In August 2023 however we were successfully awarded a multi year grant from Barnwood Trust for our rent and administrator salary. This gives us excellent financial security and has helped significantly with the move. We have also submitted an application to the National Lottery for funding for our service charge costs, a new cost that we have not previously needed to budget for. Part of the requirements for the Barnwood multi year grant was to strengthen our governance. We have done this by appointing a Non- Executive Director, Gemma Roberts and our plan is to develop a 5 year business strategy to work with at Board Level to uphold the Every Cloud vision and aims. We were able to source pro bono legal support from Law Works to assist with our relocation and the move is planned for 1st Nov 2023. Because of the relocation we needed to put on hold our recruitment plans which can only proceed once the move is certain (EDIT: at the time of writing the move happened and new therapists have been recruited, reducing our waiting list dramatically).Every Cloud was short listed in two categories for Gloucestershire Live Business Awards 2022, runner up Start up Business of the Year and Winning Small Business of the Year in Oct 2022. This has had a very positive impact on our local reputation, recognising the importance of the service we provide locally. This financial year we made a profit of £329 bringing our reserves balance up to £5198. It is our long term aim that once we have a substantial reserve policy (of 6 weeks running costs, currently estimated to be £19,200), any surplus income each year will move to our subsidised session fund, enabling us to offer sessions at a reduced cost for families privately paying for our services or where limited funding is available.
When we finish working with a child or young person, a family or a school we seek out feedback from them and their family. We then use this feedback to adapt and improve our provision, below are examples of two parents feedback in 2023. 'Both of my sons (8 and 10) have benefited from coming to Every Cloud after a very difficult time: their dad, was diagnosed with leukaemia during lockdown and then died in June 2021. They look forward to coming to the sessions and have built up good relationships with their therapists. They are working through emotions and related behaviour in an accessible way to them.Our family has benefited from the sessions and advice from the play therapists. Every Cloud has made navigating a very difficult situation easier to manage, while giving us a much needed lifeline as we look to the future. I am very grateful for the subsidised sessions, as obviously the cost of having both boys attending soon mounts up. I was especially touched that the funding had come from GCHQ as my husband had very much enjoyed working on long term projects at GCHQ, and the boys have fond memories of attending the GCHQ family open day with him.’ Feedback on Every Cloud from a family who have had our support, 2023‘There was always a noticeable change in T’s mood after his sessions. If he wanted to talk, I would hear how validated and heard he had felt during the session. How free he was to express his thoughts and feelings through play, arts and crafts. This seemed like an oasis in T's week and we are so grateful for the support and encouragement this has offered him. As a parent, I cannot quite comprehend how much I have learned about how a child’s mind works. So much that I believed to be true, just doesn’t exist. Equally to cut myself some slack when I perform poorly as a parent, helped me relate to T so much better. I shall never forget the 60:20:20 rule of “good enough” “amazing” and “messed up”. You have transformed my parenting, given such care and support to my family and T is a different young man because of your support. ‘Parent Feedback 2023
Our accounts show the two Directors Remuneration received (£31K) each. The Directors are still not yet earning the ‘going rate’ for their role. It was hoped that during the third financial year salaries will increase to be closer to the expected wage for a Play Therapist of approx. £36-£40K - this has yet to be reached but a small increase in salary was possible this year.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
5 February 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Naomi Murray and Kay Tibbles
Status: Director