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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 October 2023
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The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
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31 October 2023
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
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The company works in East and West Sussex and sometimes further afield. We work specifically with families, young people, young adults and educational institutions. We also work with children and families that have Special Educational Needs and vulnerable groups with low incomes or mental health challenges. During the last financial year the company activities have benefited the community in the following ways: Children from families who are in receipt of financial benefits and free school meals have been able to attend workshops in holidays to learn how to make films and animate and how to cook healthy food. We also provide meals to children at our workshops. This is all free of charge to families. It also provides parents who cannot afford to stop working or who need a break valuable childcare in holidays as these are drop off workshops. We are teaching children a valuable skill which can be used in the workplace as they grow too! We ran sessions in Xmas, East and summer and in total ran 414 sessions for FSM eligible children/young people. 50% of sessions also included additional staff to support young people with SEND. Children with Special Educational Needs and in particular autism have benefited from attending free of charge bespoke animation workshops to increase their confidence being in groups and give them a new skill (animation). We are able to cater for children with complex needs due to our specialist support staff which we have built up over time to ensure we give the best and most appropriate provision to each child possible. We have provided after school club animation sessions locally weekly. We have seen the same children at this club over a few years develop and grow in confidence and ability to make films and this again allows them to gain a new skill and gives parents an extended day, enabling them to work. We have been part of culture shift which is funded advice to children in secondary schools about career choices, speaking about and showing young people in a Special School how to animate and increasing access to film and media to those who may not have this opportunity otherwise. We have also worked in local school on project to help year 6 children with transition to secondary school to help a literary charity Little Green Pig to bring the sessions alive through animation. We have extended our work into working with children and adults with autism and are currently involved in a research project with the University of Sussex and the dept of psychology into the reasons autistic people enjoy animating (we are doing brain scans as part of this work). The aim is to bring our research findings into the light and encourage local schools and councils to introduce stop motion animation into SEND units or classrooms for SEND children as often they can access this way of working much more easily than traditional maths or literacy. This is current and a work in progress which aims to benefit children with SEND in the log term and across E Sussex.
The company’s stakeholders include East Sussex County Council, The University of Leeds, The University of Sussex, The East Sussex Library Service, local schools in East Sussex and the families and young people who attend our workshops and events. We have consulted them in a number of ways and responded to feedback from these consultations: Our key aims is to help the largest number of children and families possible to gain skills in film and animation while making sure health is at the fore of what we do (both mental and physical health). WE also aim to offer courses and a safe space to young people with SEND who may be excluded from other forms of extra curricular activities for a variety of reasons. We aim to ensure we have the right provision in place to be able to include them and very rarely turn a child away from a session. In particular we are interested in working with families who are in receipt of free school meals or pupil premium. We make sure these aims are achieved by consulting East Sussex County Council as much as possible. For example, when designing our holiday programmes listen to what the council tells us about where the most economic need is and ensure we offer our provision in these areas of E Sussex. We also look at health data and other community data to design projects which benefit the physical and mental health of local people eg by ensuring we are offer healthy food and snacks at sessions and running cookery sessions for families eg batch cooking tips and healthy eating information sessions. We also run Family Hubbs sessions for East Sussex council and again worked closely with the council to work out where the need for our workshops was greatest, how many workshops and what type of sessions to cover. We work with a local chef (Lucie Simon) to ensure all meals are well designed, healthy and tasty and to try to ensure as many ingredient as possible are sourced locally. This chef also cooks for us at workshops and children go home satisfied having eaten lots! We have refined the food with Lucie since 2021, when we started providing this service and listened to feedback from children/parents about what they enjoy eating and what they did not want to eat and now children go home having eaten all our food most of the time. Often the local community has a bearing on the finding we apply for and the subjects we choose. For example, we wanted to involve the Newhaven Museum in a project to increase its audience and broaden its remit and reach within the local community. This process started with a consultation with museum staff/ volunteers to find out which subjects would be of benefit for the museum and wider community to remember. Off the back of this we applied for and got funding from Historic England to run a local history, oral history and animation project about the large Newhaven Parker Pen factory which opened in 1940s and closed in 2011. This project is currently still in progress and we consult the community and local museum at each step mainly through group meetings online every few months. When working on our research into autism and animation project with the University of Sussex we held a number of focus group discussions with parents of children with autism and with autistic young adults. These discussions were recorded and written up and used when designing the project and how best to explore our research question.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
4 October 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Lara Leslie
Status: Director