MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
14624130 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 30 January 2023

End date: 31 March 2024

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2024

Notes 14 months to 31 March 2024


£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets: 3 455
Total fixed assets: 455
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 22
Total current assets: 22
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 1,111 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (1,089)
Total assets less current liabilities: (634)
Provision for liabilities: ( 86 )
Total net assets (liabilities): (720)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (720)
Total members' funds: ( 720)

The notes form part of these financial statements

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 March 2024 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 17 July 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: S PDavies
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

  • 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

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

  • 2. Employees

    14 months to 31 March 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 3

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
Additions 578 578
Disposals
Revaluations
Transfers
At 31 March 2024 578 578
Depreciation
Charge for year 123 123
On disposals
Other adjustments
At 31 March 2024 123 123
Net book value
At 31 March 2024 455 455

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

14 months to 31 March 2024
£
Other creditors 1,111
Total 1,111

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

MILITARY GRAVE RESTORER CIC

Company Number: 14624130 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2024

Company activities and impact

During this first year of trading, there was initial necessary reliance on 'seed' grants accessed from armed forces' charities to enable and foster engagement across England and Scotland with extant and nascent veterans' groups who were new to activities as carried out, or proposed, by Military Grave Restorer CIC.- Military Grave Restorer CIC also successfully liaised with charities to foster working relationships with local authorities.- For example, Military Grave Restorer CIC in carrying out heritage memorial restoration work for the Diocese at Rochester Cathedral, also facilitated collaborative-funding [between a regimental charity and the local authority] to renovate Rochester's own [town] war memorial.- Work was carried out veterans under supervision and mentoring by Military Grave Restorer CIC.- Ongoing and steadily through the year, engagement and outreach activities were able to be independently funded either through Military Grave Restorer CIC not-for-profit trading activities, or by (significantly in terms of 'impact') motivated donors who fund-raised locally to engage Military Grave Restorer CIC services.- Military Grave Restorer CIC has also mentored and supervised a non-veteran into BRAMM training and qualification. While not yet directly employed by Military Grave Restorer CIC another qualified memorial mason will support, facilitate and enable growth and development of company aims.- At the request of veteran-client NGOs, Military Grave Restorer CIC researchers authored a bespoke 'military grave research guidelines'.- This has facilitated engagement by veterans in pro-actively accessing other local services such as libraries; independently carrying out research and contributed to an ongoing enrichment and value-added factor to veteran engagement with grave restoration activities.Through more commercially focused activities - an income-stream which supports veteran outreach activities - Military Grave Restorer directors were honoured to meet HRH The Princess Royal, in her role as the Patron of the Remembrance Trust (charity), at Dover's St James's cemetery, on the occasion of her inspection of their Military Grave Restorer CIC-restored military gravestones.- The occasion was widely reported in the national press.- Informal conversations indicated that- as a result of the publicity attached to this occasion - the local authority were keen to explore the tourist destination and visitor enrichment of the cemetery with its many historically significant interments.- To support this aim Military Grave Restorer CIC freely contributed original biographical research on interments.As well as an up swell in engagement with the public, supported by Military Grave Restorer CIC, new veteran groups have been created in two more counties:- They now maintain their own ongoing restoration activities.- One group is fundraising to support BRAMM training for themselves.Elsewhere, mentoring and supervision by Military Grave Restorer CIC has enabled positive feedback from the UK ex-Armed Forces community regarding benefits to mental health and wellbeing.- Service-providers have advised Military Grave Restorer CIC that, in a positive change from intervention-led referrals, veterans had self-referred to services.- Consequently, those serve-providers have funded several veterans to undertake BRAMM memorial masonry training and qualifications.- Now-qualified veterans will be able to supervise groups of 15 and to knowledge-cascade grave renovation skills, to enable even wider engagement with veterans and other stakeholders across the UK.- This is a positive wellbeing and also a 'routes to employment' outcome for which the initial outreach and engagement by Military Grave Restorer CIC was the catalyst.

Consultation with stakeholders

Military Grave Restorer CIC was set up to outreach to, and engage with stakeholders:- The ex-Commonwealth and British Armed Forces community (i.e., veterans) who may be vulnerable, have mental health issues and/or be at risk of social isolation, and/or may be in contact with, or at risk of, the UK justice system.- Dedicated organisations and services (charities and NGOs) who support and this community;- And to foster wider community integration and collaboration, through shared heritage activities, specifically restoration of local communities' neglected graves (military and otherwise).- Other stakeholders including local heritage groups and the wider general public. Consultation activity:- This first year, built on extant relationships with stakeholders and responding to their feedback.- General public stakeholder consultation has arisen spontaneously through consistent local and national media attention activities, and resulted in hundreds of members of the public from across the UK contacting Military Grave Restorer CIC, motivated to engage with restorations in their own communities.In response:- Military Grave Restorer CIC has sign-posted enquiries to local groups and built a new website with FAQS advice on how to become involved locally.- Veterans who made contact with Military Grave Restorer CIC were signposted to appropriate veteran services in their local area, as well as advice given on creation of veteran-led groups.Military Grave Restorer CIC-enabled grave restorations elsewhere, with veterans in Great Yarmouth, resulted in complete restoration of the large, monumental tombstone of a significant social reformer and its first lady mayor.- This attracted significant local press and media attention which, disseminated nationally, contributed to consultative activities.- Those veterans have now carried out further restoration of numerous local 'landmark' graves;- The local authority (heritage and tourist) now incorporates these into heritage walks.

Directors' remuneration

Steven Paul Davies - Managing Director £14,880.00 Adrian Foulkes - Director £500.00Hilary Jane Cook - Director until 19/12/23 £4,500.00

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
28 May 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: S P Davies
Status: Director