LARKERS CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
11958687 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 April 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 May 2023

End date: 30 April 2024

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

Directors report
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

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Directors' report period ended 30 April 2024

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 April 2024

Directors

The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 May 2023 to 30 April 2024

Ruth Louise Flaherty


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
16 January 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Status: Director

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

2024 2023


£

£
Turnover: 23,107 24,573
Cost of sales: ( 13,121 ) ( 8,659 )
Gross profit(or loss): 9,986 15,914
Administrative expenses: ( 11,375 ) ( 16,217 )
Operating profit(or loss): (1,389) (303)
Profit(or loss) before tax: (1,389) (303)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (1,389) (303)

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Balance sheet

As at 30 April 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 168 249
Total current assets: 168 249
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 2,160 ) ( 852 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (1,992) (603)
Total assets less current liabilities: (1,992) ( 603)
Total net assets (liabilities): (1,992) (603)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (1,992) ( 603)
Total members' funds: ( 1,992) (603)

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 April 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.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 16 January 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 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 is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when goods have been delivered to customers such that risks and rewards of ownership have transferred to them. Turnover from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract. The stage of completion of a contract is measured by comparing the costs incurred for work performed to date to the total estimated contract costs. Grant Monies are recorded as a Liability upon receipt and taken into Income in the period in which they are expended.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Other creditors 2,160 852
Total 2,160 852

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

4. Loans to directors

Name of director receiving advance or credit: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Description of the transaction:
Current account - payable at call, nil interest.
£
Balance at 30 April 2023 852
Advances or credits made: 1,308
Advances or credits repaid:
Balance at 30 April 2024 2,160

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

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Company Number: 11958687 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 30 April 2024

Company activities and impact

Benched - the ongoinging monthly practice, in which a Larkers artist takes a sitting bench to a public location and gives space to listening and engaging with people in the community. This year also Larkers developed and presented 7 immersive theatre experiences in Cambridge, Derby, and Ireland. The theatre pieces draw on material from the monthly practice. 2023-24 saw increased focus on intergenerational relationships, enabling attendees to reflect on, discuss and explore these relationships in their own lives. Larkers continued to provide hosting and greeting services under its contract with Duckie’s monthly performance evenings at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern London for the queer community. This year also Larkers developed a community-building process leading up to an event, “Trans Daddy”, which strengthened networks and relationships in the transmasc commmunity and their friends and allies. Larkers also developed and presented the Pilgrim project, a workshop around mental health with young patients in Addenbrooke’s hospital Cambridge, which both staff and patients said was beneficial. An innovative writing project led by Larkers’ Director focused on bringing young people and older people together to explore themes of queer parenting/grandparenting and queer family. This included a grandchild/grandparent dyad. The project is ongoing. Larkers was invited to develop and deliver a programme of two afternoon participatory workshops in London around trans people and menopause. Larkers’ Director was invited to contribute to disability activist Tammy Reynolds’ writing project “Shooting from below”, bringing themes around audience participation and immersive work. The multi-organisation project to create a trans safety policy to protect artists, crew and participants that was started last year was finished and distributed to a range of other small producers and community organisations.

Consultation with stakeholders

Larkers has a highly participatory and collaborative approach, actively inquiring into what potential participants are interested in and the aims and objectives of funders, and keeping closely in touch with several community networks through participating as a community member in those networks. Benched, both the monthly practice and the performances arising from that, is an example par excellence of this approach, but also Larkers’ profile in the community is increasing as demonstrated by Larkers being invited to the menopause project and the disability writing project. In addition Larkers carries out formal activities to ensure close involvement with stakeholders: Had major conversations with Cambridge Junction, one of its principal funders, about future directions for collaboration and development between the the two parties now they have been working together for some time. As last year, had regular meetings with a “critical friend” (another producer in the community), sponsored by ArtsAdmin, who helps Larkers reflect on their engagement with the community and their motivations. Feedback as a mix of verbal and structured is always obtained from all stakeholders in a project or performance. This includes funders, crew and participants.

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
16 January 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ruth Louise Flaherty
Status: Director