BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
12212500 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 September 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 October 2022

End date: 30 September 2023

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2023

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Balance sheet

As at 30 September 2023

Notes 2023 2022


£

£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0 0
Tangible assets: 3 208 176
Investments:   0 0
Total fixed assets: 208 176
Current assets
Stocks: 4 2,568 1,924
Debtors:   0 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 6,424 319
Investments:   0 0
Total current assets: 8,992 2,243
Prepayments and accrued income: 0 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year:   0 0
Net current assets (liabilities): 8,992 2,243
Total assets less current liabilities: 9,200 2,419
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): 9,200 2,419
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 9,200 2,419
Total members' funds: 9,200 2,419

The notes form part of these financial statements

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 September 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 20 March 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Fraisia Bruist-Papazian
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 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

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2023

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
At 1 October 2022 0 95 81 176
Additions 32 0 0 32
Disposals 0 0 0
Revaluations 0 0 0
Transfers 0 0 0
At 30 September 2023 32 95 81 208
Depreciation
At 1 October 2022 0 0 0 0
Charge for year 0 0 0 0
On disposals 0 0 0 0
Other adjustments 0 0 0 0
At 30 September 2023 0 0 0 0
Net book value
At 30 September 2023 32 95 81 208
At 30 September 2022 0 95 81 176

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2023

4. Stocks

2023 2022
£ £
Stocks 2,568 1,924
Total 2,568 1,924

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

BRICK PROJECT COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company Number: 12212500 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 30 September 2023

Company activities and impact

CIC report 2022 to 2023 October, November and December 2022 Wild Goose Rainbow Tile project Brick Project CIC delivered one workshop a month for three months to clients of the Wild Goose Cafe, a drop-in food service for people experiencing homelessness run by the charity InHope. Approximately 50 people took part in this workshop. The clients fed back that they experienced an increased sense of wellbeing when painting, it allowed them to take time out from their day-to-day activities and remove them from the stresses of their lives. There is a digital display of this project on our website. November 2022 to March 2023 Easton Mega Mandala – installed in April 2023 Brick Project CIC secured funding from Quartet to deliver workshops as part of the warm hub provision at Easton Community Centre in Bristol. The 36 workshops led to the creation of the Easton Mega Mandala – a large circle with a hexagonal inner frame that holds 630 individual paintings on round wooden discs. The sessions were scheduled to cover a wide demographic of people, for instance, some sessions were scheduled to coincide with the drop-off of small children at the nursery, others were timed to coincide with the Evergreens elders group finishing, so that members of those communities could join in. We also had sessions running at the same time as drop-in advice sessions with Citizen’s Advice, so that while people were waiting for their turn, they could take part in a calming painting activity. A lot of the time, we found that simply having a relaxing creative activity in a place that was warm, comfortable and welcoming, and where people didn’t have to pay to heat their homes for a few hours, really helped to lift people’s spirits and get them through a tough time. We also ran workshops during Super Supper Club, a low cost weekly feast night. We ran three invite only workshops for specific audiences to allow them protected time and space for their sessions. These were for over 55s, the Roma community and one for refugees. The finished Easton Mega Mandala is on display at Easton Community Centre. There is a digital display of this Mandala on our website. People Power with Bristol City Council, 1 session in March 2023Brick Project CIC delivered a six-hour long drop-in Mandala workshop with People Power, an initiative run and funded by Bristol City Council. This was a 90-piece Mandala and Brick Project painted with approximately 80 people. People Power was designed to explore community action and democracy, so an art piece where each individual dictates and produces their own miniature artwork that is displayed alongside 89 others is a perfect depiction of how individuals in society all interact with, and support each other. There is a digital display of this Mandala on our website. May 2023 to September 2023 Newtown Brick Project Arts Council England awarded Brick Project CIC £28,603 for the Newtown Brick Project Brick Project had been in meetings with Newtown Network, a local residents group representing the Newtown estate in Bristol, since 2021, about creating a Brick Project mural on an existing wall in the estate. The funding led to a project that started with door knocking and flyering the estate, speaking to as many residents as possible about the project. We then went on to get our flyers translated by local residents into Polish, Somali and Arabic, as we had identified that after English, these were the three most common languages spoken on the estate. The translators were all local residents and were paid for their duties. We then held several meetings with stakeholders (residents of the estate, or people who had family, friends or who worked at the estate) and advertised and took on 13 local people as Community Ambassadors for the project. These people were paid to hold their own community events, where they introduced the project to their networks. We held a weekly drop-in Mandala workshop opposite the site of the mural outdoors every week for 6 weeks, and advertised this, so that local residents could come and chat with us about the project. The Community Ambassadors also acted as facilitators at the project, initially priming each brick in the wall with a bright colour. After the bricks were primed we went on to the main phase of the project. This was split into two phases. In phase one, people from the estate and the neighbourhoods immediately surrounding it were invited to paint an image each on the wall. The idea was to amplify the identity of Newtown for the wider population of Bristol, and those passing through Bristol. This was because the residents expressed that they felt the area was neglected, that it hadn’t received much investment over the years. In 2021 a teen was stabbed in the area, and a lot of residents felt that this was, in part, due to a lack of infrastructure, such as lighting and management of undergrowth and hedges on the estate. After the first phase of the project, we held a celebration event, in conjunction with the Newtown Street Party, involving local performers that we sourced during the project. We also varnished the completed first half of the wall. After priming the rest of the wall - we primed more bricks than originally anticipated as we had surplus paint and we were working fast enough as a team, we started phase 2. Phase 2 was where we opened up the offer of painting a brick to the wider population of Bristol, so they could see where Newtown is, look at how the people of Newtown had represented themselves and respond with their own paintings. As well as getting general passers by to take part, we also Key Stage 2 pupils from the three closest primary schools to take part. These were St Nicholas of Tolentine, Hannah More and Easton CofE Primary School. A lot of the younger children in Newtown go to one of these three schools, so it was a great opportunity for them to introduce their neighbourhood to their classmates. In addition we also welcomed the Changes group that meet at the Trinity Centre once a week, these were people experiencing anxiety and depression who had been referred to this group where sharing creative arts and crafts together was used as a route to mindful activity, leading to improved wellbeing. 6 people from the local area also took part in celebration days that were held at the end of each phase. These were also paid as freelancers. The payment for all positions was worked out based on guideline rates outlined by the Artists Union and the Musician Union. For this project, we worked in partnership with several organisations, including Trinity Arts, a local music venue and space offering creative sessions, the three primary schools mentioned above, the local Salvation Army who gave us free space to meet in, and Newtown Network, a residents group. 1 July St Paul’s Carnival BrickProject CIC delivered a Mandala workshop resulting in a display piece made from 36 individual circular pieces hand painted by children and adults in Mandela's Hideaway at St Agnes Park during St Paul’s Carnival day. Creating a group Mandala is a unifying event in which people can express themselves individually within a cooperative structure. We worked with quite a number of family groups simultaneously, giving many mandala pieces away as fridge magnet souvenirs. We ran this calming activity for 4 hours, giving people an engaging activity in a space that got progressively busier throughout the day. We created a calming space to unwind during and after the main carnival event. There is a digital display of this Mandala on our website. 6 September, funding awarded by Sirona for Wild Goose Rainbow WallIn September we were awarded funding from the Sirona Foundation’s Small Grants programme for our Wild Goose Rainbow Wall project, which Brick Project CIC delivered between October 2023 and February 2024. We ran a programme of winter workshops at the Wild Goose drop-in centre and other nearby organisations concerned with homelessness and food insecurity, creating an expansion of our 2022 project, Wild Goose Rainbow Tiles. There is a digital display of this project on our website.

Consultation with stakeholders

Consultation with StakeholdersFor Mandala projects we respond to enquiries from clients and make relevant changes to ensure each project works for the space/ sessions.We had regular meetings with the Centre Manager of InHope at the Wild Goose drop-in centre, which resulted in our Rainbow Tiles Project and later Rainbow Wall. These meetings were initially about creating a Mandala for the space, but when the Centre Manager suggested he’d prefer us to use a different shape to deliver a project that fitted with the ethics and aesthetics of the centre, we came up with the Rainbow Tiles system. This consultation maximised the positive interactions with service users while making collaborative paintings. We made many tests to ensure the permanent display would fit in with the space before securing the final display piece. Throughout each session we’d take notes of how the project was making the clients of the space feel so we could make relevant changes if needed. The majority of feedback throughout each Mandala and Rainbow Tiles project has been incredibly positive. We were congratulated during an informal meeting with an InHope trustee for facilitating such a successful project.For the Newtown Brick Project we conducted community consultation from May to August with residents of Newtown to gauge their feelings about the project. We had secured partnerships with Trinity prior to securing funding for the project. Our main point of contact at Trinity Arts was Stefan Boyakye, who helped us to communicate with The Salvation Army and three local schools, who we met and consulted with from May and were all very positive about the project. These organisations helped us to recruit local people who we hired as ambassadors and arts facilitators in the project. We conducted several door knocking sessions in April and May 2023 where we introduced the project to local residents and collected email addresses from people who wanted to work with us in the delivery of the project, offering our phone number and email so that they could give us feedback and ask questions. There were also leaflet drops and social media posts outlining our potential plans for the project. We were collecting general feedback on the project, emphasising that all feedback was welcome. Following the consultations there was a lot of positive interest in our project, we proceeded with our recruitment of local people and expanded the project to paint double the amount of bricks we had initially proposed. During the project we collected feedback from participants of the project - we collected feedback using simple forms. We also collected equal opportunity information from approximately one third of participants. 100% of participants found the activity “very enjoyable” or “enjoyable”. We are still in communication with our Community Ambassadors and Trinity Arts, who we partnered with have been in touch with us a number of times to ask us about recommendations for their Community Connector programme. We are hoping that one of the Ambassadors may get this role and continue a career in community arts. Many of the residents of the estate have spoken to us personally about wanting us to “finish” the rest of the wall that faces onto the road.The People Power Workshop for Bristol City Council took place at the end of a series of meetings with other Bristol-based people, all invested in delivering community-driven arts projects. Everyone endorsed each other's workshops and developed and tweaked them along the way.The St Paul’s Mandela Mandala was developed with Naomi Davis who was in charge of programming activities for the Kid’s Field in St Paul’s Carnival. Naomi has lived in St Paul’s as a member of the African Caribbean community for many years and was convinced that our workshop would work well with the community. The funding for the Wild Goose Rainbow Wall from Sirona was secured through our continuing relationship with the Wild Goose from the previous project last year. The clients of the Wild Goose, some of whom we regularly see in the other near-by community settings where we conduct workshops, have expressed an interest in more workshops, to create a bigger display in the Wild Goose, to brighten up the place.

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
20 March 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Fraisia Bruist-Papazian
Status: Director