SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
13419378 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 1 September 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 2 September 2023

End date: 1 September 2024

SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 1 September 2024

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Balance sheet

As at 1 September 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 17,788 641
Total current assets: 17,788 641
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 19,770 ) ( 1,152 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (1,982) (511)
Total assets less current liabilities: (1,982) ( 511)
Total net assets (liabilities): (1,982) (511)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (1,982) ( 511)
Total members' funds: ( 1,982) (511)

The notes form part of these financial statements

SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 1 September 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 14 October 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Susannah Tate
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 1 September 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

SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 1 September 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 1 September 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 2,328 1,152
Accruals and deferred income 17,442
Total 19,770 1,152

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

SUSIE TATE PROJECTS CIC

Company Number: 13419378 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 1 September 2024

Company activities and impact

This year Susie Tate Projects focused on: 1. Continuing existing work with community groups & Nature project 2. Development of special school project 3. Outreach project 4. Partnerships 5. Funding for 24/25 1. Continuing existing work with community groups With funding from the People’s Postcode Lottery, and match funding through leading community dance organisation, People Dancing, we were able to continue weekly sessions for the stroke dance group, About Being, and Parkinson’s dance group, Living Well: dance with Parkinson’s . In addition to having a dance artist and support artist facilitating the sessions, this funding has enabled us to continue to work with our live musician from local music organisation, Blue Jam. The musician now also leads some of the sessions which particularly supports participants with speech difficulties as often found following a stroke or in Parkinson’s University of Cumbria continues to support the groups with space in kind and with their Occupational Therapy students supporting the sessions. Our Volunteer continues to work with us supporting the sessions and we will be taking on a University Graduate volunteer from the autumn who is looking to go on to study speech and language therapy. She has been signposted to volunteer training: https://www.communitydance.org.uk/training-and-qualifications/online-courses/volunteering-in-dance-dance-with-parkinsons-online In line with our policies, all OT’s and volunteers have DBS’s checks. Susie Tate Projects covers liability insurance for volunteers and UoC for the OT students. We have led 2 ‘taster’ sessions to local stroke groups and presented our work, with Msc OT students, at a Cumbria Stroke event that was open to people who have had a stroke. 8 of the group came to the day and supported the presentation with their feedback on how much they gain from the dance sessions. From this, we have 4 new people who have had a stroke join the group. With funding from Active Cumbria, we have started the Stroke Ambassadors scheme. The 6 Ambassadors have visited the local community OT team to talk about their lives now post stroke. The Team will be able to contact us should they need someone with lived experience of stroke to attend an event. The Ambassadors also joined and Arts and Health lecture our Artistic Director was leading for nursing students. This was extremely well received and will be offered at future lectures (we are asked to take 3 -4 a year for nursing students). Nature project: Postcards In June we started a nature into dance project, Postcards. The groups are invited to join a session in nature led by a specialist nature practitioner and what participants experienced from the day was written in a postcard and themes from the day taken back into dance and music. We have 4 more days of this project and it is all being filmed to create a short film that demonstrates both the creativity of the groups, but how their confidence is developed through visiting new places outdoors. The film launch will be in November. Whilst the project is going well, is very labour intensive. We have a freelance administrator and marketing officer supporting the project. Over the year, people have been bringing friends to the groups who do not have Parkinson’s or stroke. As such, we are now looking at how the groups are described and who they are aimed at. On asking the groups, they like to have others in the group have live with this same health experiences, but are very open to inviting others to join as well. We will be working on our website to make this clearer. 2. Special school project Our special school project, running in partnership within partnership Dance Art Foundation, developed extremely well over the year with weekly sessions for children and young people and teacher training sessions. The film artist joined a week long residency in June and the film will be launched in the autumn. The work with children with profound and multiple disabilities was particularly well received and we applied for funding to Small Sparks, Inclusion NE, to develop this area of the work. We were successful and work will start before the end of the year. This work also includes music and we are continuing our partnership with Blue Jam for this. 3. Outreach project With funding from Active Cumbria, we have developed a short outreach project focusing on supporting older adults to be active. This funding came out of a member of the Active Cumbria being present at the Stroke Awareness day we presented at. We partnered with a Carlisle based group for people living with dementia and delivered 5 sessions that also involved young children. The integrational aspect of the work bought great enjoyment to all and it is an area of work we would like to develop, more to the point that it is of need: there are extremely few groups for people living with dementia in North Cumbria, even with it being a ‘super ageing’ region, and none that exist encourage movement or engagement with children. Before we look to develop this work, we need to review our Safe Guarding policies which will be prioritised over the next 6 months. A further 5 sessions with another community group are still to take place. Since June, we took on a freelance administrator and marketing officer to help with the growing workload. We have reached approximately 280 people over the year. 4. Partnerships We have continued partnerships with People Dancing, Tullie House, Dance Art Foundation and Blue Jam. The People Dancing partnership ended in May 2024 in line with their project funding. Our Nature project, Postcards, is funded by Natural England. We have bi-monthly meetings and though this have been invited to present our work at an arts and nature event in November. Our partnership with UoC continues to develop and our interest in research into the intersection of dance and occupational therapy has moved on and we are now working with the research team on a scoping review in order to help find funding. We have started conversations with Occupational Therapy staff at NHS acute mental health hospital, Carlton Clinic, to look at a pilot project in both the hospital and the community and with the Cancer Prehabilitation team in Northumberland for work reaching people diagnosed with cancer in rural locations. 5. Funding for 2024/25 We have received funding from Cumbria Community Foundation, Hadfield Trust, Active Cumbria, Lottery Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, Small Sparks Inclusion North East and Parkinson’s UK Carlisle branch (who pay for people with Parkinson to attend the classes). Our stroke and Parkinson group ran their own fundraiser at Christmas making £440. Since June, we have submitted 7 funding applications to secure funds for the work in 2025. 2 have been unsuccessful and we are awaiting the other 5. We are submitting an application to Sport England and a Lottery Reaching Communities application, in partnership with Dance Art Foundation, to develop work 2025 – 2028 to cover our current work and go further to Cancer Prehabilitation, hospices and also to include a training strand for dance artists to ensure we can meet the demand of the growing number of programmes we are running. We have spoken to Reaching Communities and, in line with their reworking of the fund (it will close in Nov for a few months), will make an application in Spring 2025. We have a partnership expression of interest application with Healing Arts, North Cumbria hospitals, to Legal and General, to work on the elderly care ward (dementia) and in the community. We are aware at how difficult it is to get funding at this current time, and that the forecast is not good for 2025. However, we work in priority areas that support much needed community health activity and aim to start looking at commissioning from the NHS / Councils to ensure the work cannot just continue, but grow.

Consultation with stakeholders

The stakeholders of Susie Tate Projects are people living with Parkinson’s and stroke survivors, their families and care givers, NHS healthcare providers in the community and charitable organisations that work with these populations including The Stroke Association and Parkinson’s UK. Those who have attended the stroke and Parkinson’s group (total of 48 people which includes care givers and family) regularly feedback informally over refreshments on what they enjoy about the sessions, what they want to do more of and what they are interested in exploring further. We listened to their ideas on working outdoors with nature more and this developed into Postcards. NHS community healthcare providers include Occupational Therapists, Physio Therapists and Social Prescribers. They have all expressed the need for groups where both physical and mental health is addressed. They are invited to the stroke and Parkinson’s groups to meet the participants and help in recruitment by identifying people from their client base. We continue to work with the local Parkinson’s and Stroke association delivering ‘taster’ sessions and this year, to another Carlisle based stroke group. These ‘tasters’ are invaluable to help let people know about the session but also to keep informed and in conversation with those with lived experience of these conditions, and their careers. At the special school, we continue to liaise with the staff, children and young people on the work we develop. The film we made in June, named by the participants ‘About Us’ demonstrates this approach – the work is from and about those involved. The directors of Susie Tate Projects work in training, healthcare, the arts and fundraising. Collectively they are able to guide on the strategic development of Susie Tate Projects.

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
29 September 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Susie Tate
Status: Director