BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
13320268 (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

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

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

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

2023 13 months to 30 April 2022


£

£
Turnover: 21,977 23,414
Cost of sales: ( 11,509 ) ( 10,506 )
Gross profit(or loss): 10,468 12,908
Administrative expenses: ( 13,447 ) ( 26,403 )
Other operating income: 405 11,000
Operating profit(or loss): (2,574) (2,495)
Profit(or loss) before tax: (2,574) (2,495)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (2,574) (2,495)

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

Balance sheet

As at 30 April 2023

Notes 2023 13 months to 30 April 2022


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 495 835
Total current assets: 495 835
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 5,564 ) ( 3,330 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (5,069) (2,495)
Total assets less current liabilities: (5,069) ( 2,495)
Total net assets (liabilities): (5,069) (2,495)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (5,069) ( 2,495)
Total members' funds: ( 5,069) (2,495)

The notes form part of these financial statements

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

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 5 February 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Andrew Christopher Redfearn
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

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 Financial Reporting Standard 101

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023 13 months to 30 April 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 4 4

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2023

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2023 13 months to 30 April 2022
£ £
Accruals and deferred income 480 531
Other creditors 5,084 2,799
Total 5,564 3,330

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

BRIGHTON CSA - FORK AND DIG IT CIC

Company Number: 13320268 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 30 April 2023

Company activities and impact

The company ran it’s CSA Fruit and Veg Share for its annual 48 weeks of delivery. It continued to deliver and improve it’s free 12-month Traineeship with 18 registered trainees. The company hosted various annual events and most importantly, realised it’s responsibility to further develop its function as a Community Hub for Agroecological Food Production and its wider ethos and ethics.PRODUCTION - We provide, locally grown, seasonal organic food to 40 families (36 paid Shares). Shared meals onsite weekly., Crop Hampers, plugs and kick-start seedling kits, delivered, with growing instructions to families in Brighton and Hove.EDUCATION - Weekly free training and onsite practical experience throughout the year to committed Trainees and Volunteers (averaged 25/week inclusive. We are open to the public 48 weeks a year. Traineeship Group set up for each year’s traineeship. Facilitates past and present trainees’ communication with one another. Year 2 – “Deepeners” established. Regular “Spring Course”; 2-day course “No Dig/ How to Grow your Own Food Successfully”.COMMUNICATION - Community Group set for our ever-growing membership called “Friends of Fork and Dig It “including longstanding volunteers, completed Trainees and Project Leaders. Each year the Traineeship Group is to be added to this wider group to continue to build our network offering a space to connect and communicate with each other off site. Seasonal newsletters to CSA families sharing onsite news, invitations to site for visits and events, recipe suggestions. Advertising and news updates on Brighton and Regional web pages.INSPIRATION - Annual events hosted and promoted to connect our community with the wider Community - Seedy Sunday – Guest speaker, Good to Grow Day, Oxford Real Farming Conference, Stanmer Organics Open Day, and Ed Haymers’ course – Scaling up a CSA. We endeavour to connect with local groups and communities with our outreach work and our site supports the Community Paybacks weekly.CREATION - The project provides jobs and supports four part-time workers. Continued with the work instigated by the previous years funding from TNL Community Resilience and Farming the Future Fund to pay skilled and knowledgeable individuals connected to our community to reach out to deprived areas to help and support them to develop wellbeing spaces and grow organic food in their specific urban area; in Whitehawk Communitys’ Wellsbourne Health Care CIC centre. (Weekly volunteer sessions to maintain their food growing and therapeutic spaces for patients of the Doctors Surgery). Addition weekly outreach work continued at the Bevendean Community Garden designed to teach members core growing skills.

Consultation with stakeholders

Stakeholders are any Brighton and Hove resident interested in organic food production and services that we offer. CSA Share customers – who receive a Seasonal newsletter sharing onsite news, invitations to site for visits and events, recipe suggestions to ensure they feel connected and are learning; they are regularly invited up onto site each season. We also encourage them to share any recipes they have enjoyed making with our produce. Trainees - although we see our Trainees probably 40 weeks of the year on average, we have setup emails and telegram groups for further communication needs. The Traineeships’ Annual Group is a good and well used platform for them to share inspirations as they come across them. At the end of each year, we ask a couple of Trainees to review the process with us and give any recommendations or advise they may have to help us improve our service. Regular Facebook group posts provide our members with updates, event reminders and general nuggets of onsite inspiration.

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
5 February 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Andrew Christopher Redfearn
Status: Director