SUPER ROOTS OUTDOOR KIDS CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
12294867 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 August 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 September 2022

End date: 31 August 2023

SUPER ROOTS OUTDOOR KIDS CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2023

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

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Balance sheet

As at 31 August 2023

Notes 2023 2022


£

£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets: 3 4,844 6,025
Total fixed assets: 4,844 6,025
Current assets
Stocks: 4 67 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 1,442 7,317
Total current assets: 1,509 7,317
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 5 ( 7,796 ) ( 13,140 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (6,287) (5,823)
Total assets less current liabilities: (1,443) 202
Provision for liabilities: ( 282 )
Total net assets (liabilities): (1,725) 202
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (1,725) 202
Total members' funds: ( 1,725) 202

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 August 2023 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 29 November 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Ellen Vellacott
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

SUPER ROOTS OUTDOOR KIDS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2023

  • 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

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2023

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
At 1 September 2022 343 7,245 0 7,588
Additions 138 138
Disposals
Revaluations
Transfers
At 31 August 2023 343 7,245 138 7,726
Depreciation
At 1 September 2022 114 1,449 0 1,563
Charge for year 115 1,158 46 1,319
On disposals
Other adjustments
At 31 August 2023 229 2,607 46 2,882
Net book value
At 31 August 2023 114 4,638 92 4,844
At 31 August 2022 229 5,796 0 6,025

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2023

4. Stocks

2023 2022
£ £
Stocks 67 0
Total 67 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2023

5. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2023 2022
£ £
Accruals and deferred income 227 7,773
Other creditors 7,569 5,367
Total 7,796 13,140

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

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Company Number: 12294867 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 August 2023

Company activities and impact

September 2022 - August 2023: LONDON: September - December 2022 >>Magic Mondays at Robin Hood Community Garden: weekly Friday parent & child sessions for under 5s, working with parents on low incomes. Average 10 - 18 children each week, lots of regulars and a visit by Grasshoppers Nursery from a local estate. Staff particularly supported local families to get involved with volunteer days at the Nursery, lots of positive feedback around decrease in loneliness and isolation as new parents, sharing of resources and co-support by parents getting to know other parents who enjoy taking their children outdoors. September 2022: - Hackney Marshes / Tree Musketeers Tree Nursery Open Day craft sessions for children - Over 250 visitors attended the event. SR activities supported by 4x parent volunteers offering open-ended collective large mud art landscape, natural twine & material stitching, green woodwork and making cards with natural inks. FROME/ SOMERSET Sept - Oct 2022, Super Roots continued Frome Town Council funded programme of open access Pop up Play project offering “risky” and adventurous play in green spaces (“off the beaten track”) around Frome. Engagement was high (on average from 15 - 40 children per session). All sessions were aimed at families local to each location, so marketing was through leaflets and word of mouth and purposefully not shared on social media by FTC. Feedback was 100% positive! with families joining sessions from one location to the next/ -this meant lots of Frome families attending reported they’d never visited these places before! Feedback book at every session and online questionnaires: families & young people reported they really enjoyed having opportunities to - meet other like-minded children/ young people and for the parents of these to socialise while children were engaged, particularly the older 9-13 years get “bored” in Frome parks/ green spaces - practise fire lighting, knots & ropes, and other “survival” or bushcraft type activities, that they don’t normally do - create and experiment with different materials & resources they hadn’t thought about as playing inc. games, crafting & techniques (eg. carpet cardboard, inner tubes, bottle tops, lashing sticks to tree trunks) - for (supported) “risky play”: building swings, being wild on hammocks, using tools, tree climbing - again this linked to engaging older children who were bored of their local parks We (Rachel Davies & Ellen Vellacott) fed back to Frome Town Council (FTC) that we wanted to create something more regular, targeted, consistent to build deeper relationships with families and communities, as well increase capacity by supporting a volunteer programme. October 2022: - FTC funded community adult learning sessions: games, craft & activity ideas using natural & recycled materials. - Feedback was supportive but clear that timings were wrong, more would have attended - 6x Play Wild Sessions at the Quarry: carpentry, craft, circus (silks/ hoop), cooking, storytelling, nature connection through wild and free play in amongst the Quarry habitats - Oversubscribed (25 - 30 children attended each one, with waiting lists of up to 10 children), positive child/ parent feedback via conversations and emails, more requested - Frome Field to Fork “Pumpkin event”, Cheese & Grain offering family friendly/ inclusive natural crafts. - Over 200 attended, lots of positive feedback from organisations & parents, who felt a previous lack of environmentally-friendly but playful offer within these events November/ December 2023: - 3x Recycled crafts for inclusive Xmas fairs: Frome Families for the Future/ Sustainable Witham/ Future Shed youth-led MakeSpace - Huge support from parents, wanting help/ ideas around creating natural/ recycled craft and gift ideas. Loved Super Roots offers: “fun to make”, “unique” “want to learn more” November - March: Ellen Vellacott had to step down due to extenuating circumstances (caring for her mother with stage 4 brain tumour, died Feb 2023) April 2023: - Easter Play Wild sessions - Popular/ oversubscribed, 25 children per day. Consistent positive feedback re. need for nature connection that was “adventurous”, “exciting for kids”, “new experiences” April - July 2023: - Weekly home ed forest school sessions at The Quarry, in partnership with Wild Tribe - Financially supported by SR, for inclusive sessions/ sliding scale/ offered to wider reach of families struggling within mainstream/ SEND/ Frome Learning Partnership May 2023: - Shindig Festival imaginative play build: - Hugely positive feedback from the festival organisers/ families, particularly women around feeling empowered: children co-built structures “first time I’ve ever used a tool with my child, didn’t think I or they could do it” “my child wants to live here” - 2 day Drama sessions: very popular (25 children p/ day) with waiting list, ended in brilliant performance with audience of over 35 people. June 2023: - 100 years of National Bike Week, bringing recycled arts to a Sustainable Witham community Bike Day, “pimp my bike” in collaboration with Mutartis, information from Missing Links, games with Frome Community Bike Project: first time event, very popular / positive feedback from parents who struggle to get kids cycling together. - FTC funded/ organised Refugee week with Caravan Arts: free day bringing books on refugees & immigration/ zine making, adventurous play and storytelling at Victoria Park - Plastic Fantastic at The Mount, with Caravan Arts funded by FTC, bringing recycled arts making instruments: difficult to engage area - lots of children attended w/ out parents. - Supporting/ training staff to establish regular Scrap/ Loose Parts Play session by Victoria Park cafe: very positive response from staff/ volunteers/ parents/ kids, age range 1 - 17yrs. Building up daily regular use, 6 days a week: developing community through being free & accessible, open ended play. July 2023 - collaboration with No Time To Waste Arts, bringing Tyre Turtle Gusita and recycled art workshop raising awareness about waste (plastics, tyres), connection to ocean pollution - School Recycled Craft days: Avanti Park, Vallis First School - Play Wild holiday sessions, fully booked/ waiting list - 15 yr old, work experience: learning about outdoor workshops/ outdoor photography & filming: positive feedback from parent and school - Invited to participate in Green & Healthy Frome conference, 3 year climate action fund - Women’s Circle starts at The Quarry, by member of SMUT (Singles & Mothers Unite Together) - EV ran a Play workshop at Frome Town Hall, with FTC Nikki Cox talking about Play Strategy commissioned by Edventure & Somerset Skills & Learning August 2023: Quarry - Play Wild sessions, fully booked/ waiting list: circus skills, outdoor & bush crafts, cooking, games - Metal work & welding workshops in collaboration with F. Jones, fully booked - amazing feedback - Family whittling workshop pilot: - National Play Day, FTC funded session in torrential rains! Re-located due to flooding, approx. 30-40 participants through into Welshmill Woods, shifted session to fire & survival craft instead of river activities on Rodden Meadow - Valley Fest: open access recycled arts, scrap materials play building Quarry: Infrastructure: installed a zip wire, wood store, volunteers space, re-built compost toilet in the Quarry. Established regular Sunday volunteers group “Friends of Wildcat Quarry”, 10.30 - 1/ 1.30 providing soup/ bread/ hot drinks. On average 8 - 15 regular volunteers each Sunday, every 2-3 weeks “this is my outdoor gym, I’ll definitely come every time” “such an antidote to my normal work” “my kids love coming here and I would never get them to do this if it were just me” “such a lovely thing for me to do with my daughter, as a single mum I find Sunday mornings really hard, but this brings me together with other parents/ children” Conservation and maintenance jobs: - building green wall on shipping container - Drainage - developing, maintaining pathways (gravel, woodchip) - woodland trimming and coppicing Permaculture Gardening. With volunteers on weekdays Shaun Turner has - developed volunteer area, inputting sink/ hot drinks area and compost toilet by the shed - installed green wall along 2nd shipping container - installed sedum green roof on shed/ compost toilet - built polytunnel to plant saplings - No dig concept to develop and plant 2 vegetable beds - trimmed back and planted more fruit bushes - village supported to plant giant sunflowers & other sunflower species as an entrance pathway - Pressure washed and fixed chicken coop/ metal safety fencing

Consultation with stakeholders

Stakeholders: Children - Discuss sessions around opening & closing circles, fave/ worst/ surprising bits or open invitation for things they want to share Action press FTC to support in creating regular open access or targeted group(s), help to build SR capacity for more adventurous & inclusive play in Frome. This includes staffing pool, admin support via Ruth Knagg. Parents - Try to send feedback forms after each session Action: better rhythm to send out feedback form consistently - admin support/ allocate a day after each block/ end of term dedicated to sending out feedback forms/ collate info gathered from sessions. Generally, parents want more frequency in Quarry sessions, to offer weekly smaller groups. Volunteers - Feedback asked after each session, around soup/ drinks - Emails sent out Action: to continue, broaden jobs based upon skills and interests. Partner with Community Health Connectors Local Community, rural/ Witham Friary - Joined Sustainable Witham and regular community meetings. Hosted meetings at The Quarry, given local residents tours and discussed plans - Set up Kids wing of Sustainable Witham = Witham Wild Life - Building links with Heal Rewilding and 42 Acres Action: continue to build links and build relationships with neighbouring landowners Community Engagement: Ellen Vellacott has been representing SR to build links via Frome Town Council, Play/ YP providers networks and wider community: Frome Mental Health Forum, Schools meet-ups, FTC Play Strategy meetings, YMCA, Frome Families for the Future, Edventure FutureShed community network - partnering in events with Purple Elephant, Caravan Arts, Frome Families for the Future, Science Boost, The Pod Scrapstore, Sustainable Witham

Directors' remuneration

The aggregate amount of emoluments paid to or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £1900 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
29 November 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ellen Vellacott
Status: Director