FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
06814964 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 April 2023

End date: 31 March 2024

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

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

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Directors' report period ended 31 March 2024

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 March 2024

Principal activities of the company

To carry out activities which benefit the community through puppetry and creative performances and use them to provide opportunities for personal development and mentoring



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024

Marcus Clarke-Smee
Alexandra Quas-Cohen
Laurence Agnew
Sandra Worsley
Anna Watson
Sarah Gordon


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
19 September 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Sandra Worsley
Status: Director

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

2024 2023


£

£
Turnover: 5,189 6,060
Cost of sales: ( 3,742 ) ( 5,045 )
Gross profit(or loss): 1,447 1,015
Administrative expenses: ( 1,055 ) ( 624 )
Operating profit(or loss): 392 391
Interest receivable and similar income: 101 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: 493 391
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 493 391

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 9,808 13,375
Total current assets: 9,808 13,375
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 5,337 ) ( 9,397 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 4,471 3,978
Total assets less current liabilities: 4,471 3,978
Total net assets (liabilities): 4,471 3,978
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 4,471 3,978
Total members' funds: 4,471 3,978

The notes form part of these financial statements

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

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.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 19 September 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Anna Watson
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

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

    Turnover policy

    Turnover represents amounts charged by way of fees for artistic services £255; amounts received by way of grants and funding for particular projects £4415; amounts received from our own fundraising and general donations £519.

    Other accounting policies

    Any unrestricted surpluses are added to Reserves to secure sustainability, with none being taken as profits for distribution, in line with our not-for-profit policy.

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Trade creditors 1,435 780
Other creditors 3,902 8,617
Total 5,337 9,397

Other Creditors include the unspent balance of grants and funding received, on the basis that any monies not spent in the future may need to be returned.

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company Number: 06814964 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2024

Company activities and impact

CIC34 Report Y/E March 2024 Our usual activities continued during April 2023 to March 2024 plus the addition of a new project. Our long-term project, Changing Faces, supporting disadvantaged young people in Buxton, continued through to July 2023. The group, along with friends and family and the wider Funny Wonders team joined the Buxton Carnival parade in July with our ‘Wild Hats’ entry, running additional making workshops in the lead up to the event. We won 1st prize in our category. Workshops restarted in September 2023 and again in February 2024 continuing through to beyond March 2024. In April 2023, we returned to High Lane’s Active at Windlehurst group for adults with disabilities to run another shadow puppetry workshop, after the group requested us again. We last visited before the pandemic in 2019. During spring and summer 2023, we delivered our Buxton Flowerpot Trail project. This year the trail ran during July and August and celebrated the return to Buxton of the full International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in August. To support our trail, the IGSF ran a Best Flowerpot Person competition awarded at their festival awards ceremony. We ran pick-up pots stall/workshops at the Buxton Spring Fair, Buxton Markets, Buxton Rotary Summer Fair and ran an outdoor making workshop at The Green Man Gallery, a local, volunteer-run community arts hub, in May. Members of our team also ran three workshops with Grapevine Wellbeing Centre which supports vulnerable adults. We installed a flowerpot creation at The Green Man Gallery. We once again entered the trail into the Buxton Festival Fringe to support the festival. The trail was the most popular ever, with more map views/sales than previous years. Trail maps were sold by The Green Man Gallery, Poole’s Cavern Visitor Centre, Buxton Visitor Centre in The Pump Room which is operated by the Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust and a local bookshop, Scriveners. During January-March 2024, we started making plans for the Buxton Flowerpot Trail project in 2024, having already secured the funding during the financial year. In April/May 2023, we were approached to support a new robotics club for young people which follows on from a LEGO League club run at a local LEGO cafe but which cannot support the second group. During the summer we applied for funding and sufficient has since been secured to enable us to launch the project later in 2024. In June 2023, the Buxton Garden Trail selected us as one of their community organisations to support, including us in their promotion and programme. We planned to resume our activities for our PANDEMIC community project in September 2023, delivering workshops at Grapevine Wellbeing Centre with a group of adults with mental health issues. However, due to staffing issues at the Centre, these were unable to go ahead.

Consultation with stakeholders

Our stakeholders are local schools and organisations and the local community in general. We have evaluation forms which are completed at the end of each project, which are completed by those taking part in projects and also those in an audience capacity. These are then reviewed and reported to the Funny Wonders team to help improve our services and the way we interact with the community. We also use these to structure ideas for future projects.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received by directors for performing their duties as directors. However, some payments were made for artistic, administrative and other work on projects. During the year this totalled the sum of £2,584. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
19 September 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Alexandra Quas-Cohen
Status: Director