BUDDING NATURE C.I.C.

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
13943505 (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

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

Directors report
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

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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

Other education not elsewhere classified.



Directors

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

Dr Sally-Anne LUKER
Derek James Green
Fiona Tate


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
15 November 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Dr Sally-Anne LUKER
Status: Director

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Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2024

Notes 2024 13 months to 31 March 2023


£

£
Current assets
Stocks: 3 0 90
Cash at bank and in hand: 1,153 4,752
Total current assets: 1,153 4,842
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 199 ) ( 3,844 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 954 998
Total assets less current liabilities: 954 998
Accruals and deferred income: ( 479 ) 0
Total net assets (liabilities): 475 998
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 475 998
Total members' funds: 475 998

The notes form part of these financial statements

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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 15 November 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Dr Sally-Anne LUKER
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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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 comprises the invoiced value of goods and services supplied by the company, net of Value Added Tax and trade discounts.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 13 months to 31 March 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 3 3

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

3. Stocks

2024 13 months to 31 March 2023
£ £
Stocks 0 90
Total 0 90

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 13 months to 31 March 2023
£ £
Taxation and social security 137 352
Accruals and deferred income 0 479
Other creditors 62 3,013
Total 199 3,844

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

BUDDING NATURE C.I.C.

Company Number: 13943505 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2024

Company activities and impact

The company provides, through the delivery of workshops, children's activities, nature walks and BioBlitz events, opportunities for communities to engage with nature, improve their knowledge of nature, and contribute to the protection and improvement of their local natural environment. The company started delivering services in April 2022. During the financial year 2023-2024, Budding Nature CIC's activities have benefited the community in the following ways: 1. Working with Penwith Landscape Partnership to deliver a programme of 6 workshops and a mini-BioBlitz (and ongoing online support) to members of the Penwith Wildlife Recorders' Group, helping them to provide support to local individuals and communities who are working to improve local biodiversity. 2. Delivering 14 workshops and ongoing online support to local volunteers on the Dynamic Dunescapes Cornwall project, helping them to establish the Dunes Recording Group, which -- now works with local conservation organisations, individuals and communities to help record and monitor biodiversity on Cornwall's sand dunes. 3. Delivering 9 wildlife identification workshops to members of the public via Cornwall Wildlife Trust's G7 Legacy Project. 4. Delivering 2 public workshops on behalf of the Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (ERCCIS), and 2 further ERCCIS workshops for volunteers at Newquay Community Orchard. 5. Delivering 5 wildlife identification workshops for students at the University of Exeter Penryn campus. 6. Delivering 4 workshops for the Wildflower Collective CIC, supporting volunteers involved in plant monitoring. 7. Delivering 1 workshop for Plantlife volunteers and 1 for CREST (Cornwall Rural Education & Skills Trust) volunteers. 8. Delivering 3 Introduction to Ecology workshop programmes (each comprised of 3 workshops) for the public, funded by a grant from Penwith Landscape Partnership. 9. Delivering 1 children's activity day for Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Kernow Glassa Project, helping children to engage with their natural environment. 10. Organising and delivering a 24-hour community BioBlitz event at Tehidy Country Park and a mini community BioBlitz at The Warren, Godrevy, and supporting the University of Exeter's Penryn campus BioBlitz 11. Leading, without charge, a wildflower walk for residents of Constantine and delivering a nature recovery talk for parish councillors and members of the community in Constantine. 12. Delivering a nature recovery talk for Zennor Women's Institute. 13. Providing volunteering opportunities with Budding Nature CIC for 4 local volunteers, who contributed a total of 218 hours of volunteer support to community events. A total of 714 participants attended Budding Nature CIC events in 2023-2024, comprised of 400 different individuals.

Consultation with stakeholders

The company's stakeholders are local people and communities with an interest in nature, and the organisations with which we work to deliver services to them. We consulted closely with staff and volunteers from Penwith Landscape Partnership, Dynamic Dunescapes Cornwall and the G7 Legacy Project to develop workshop content appropriate to their ongoing development needs. We likewise regularly review and update the content of all our workshops and activities in response to participant feedback. Our Introduction to Ecology programme was developed after consultation with participants of previous workshops, with content designed to meet needs that they had identified. Towards the end of the financial year, we carried out consultations with community groups from the Treneere Estate in Penzance and the parishes of Constantine and Sancreed to develop a (subsequently successful) funding bid to the National Lottery's Awards for All programme to deliver a Connecting Nature Recovery Communities project, which will link up and support the three communities - consultations on project content are ongoing.

Directors' remuneration

The aggregate amount of emoluments paid to directors in respect of qualifying services was £11,842.50.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
15 November 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Dr Sally-Anne LUKER
Status: Director