for the Period Ended 31 January 2024
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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 January 2024
Principal activities of the company
Additional information
Directors Responsibilities The directors are responsible for preparing the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice. The Companies Act 2006 requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit and loss of the company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the directors are required to: Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; Prepare the financial statement on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business. The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2023
to
31 January 2024
The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 February 2023
to
1 January 2024
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:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 January 2024
Basis of measurement and preparation
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We exist to support and develop voluntary and community sector groups in London and Es-sex. Groups approach us with a range of needs and commission our services. We offer packages that include evaluation reports and frameworks, feasibility studies, option appraisal reports, research and impact reports. We mentor staff with a specific challenge, provide train-ing and workshops. We facilitate networks to enable the sharing of good practice and peer learning. This year we continued to deliver a contract for Newham Council providing support infor-mation training and advice to voluntary and community organisations based in Newham. We have employed 4 part time staff on this project. We have also offered this broad service of support and development to all groups that did not fall within the remit of the above contract and could not afford our fees through our bursary fund (The Nourish Fund) that we maintain with a contribution annually from our surplus. We facilitate Newham ESOL Exchange that brings together organisations that provide ESOL (English as a second or other language) and organisations that work with potential ESOL Learners. We continued to work with UCL on the Evaluation Exchange project and have been part of a coproduction project working with the UCL CoPro Collective to enable groups to evaluate projects. We have provided support and advice on and to the voluntary and community sector with Newham Councils participatory budgeting programme and UCL’s Citizen Social Scientist programme. We have also undertaken a programme of work to strengthen our governance undertaking skills audit of our needs and our directors with the view to recruiting new directors. We have also undertaken a review of the organisation and will be recruiting a CEO and Finance officer to strengthen our core team.
We continue to ask for feedback from participants at the end of each event, workshop and training we deliver. The findings are analysed and discussed at the staff meetings. In preparation for the end of the Newham infrastructure contract we have sent out questionnaires that will provide data for an impact report on the difference we have made to all groups we have engaged with as a result of this project. Currently this is in excess of 600 groups. The impact report will feed into our strategic plan for the next 3 years and shape our offer to groups.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
27 September 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Caroline Rouse
Status: Director