BONSAI FOUNDATION CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
14056469 (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

BONSAI FOUNDATION CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Community Interest Report

BONSAI FOUNDATION CIC

Balance sheet

As at 30 April 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 0 0
Total members' funds: 0 0

The notes form part of these financial statements

BONSAI FOUNDATION CIC

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.

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 22 January 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Goncalo Lopes
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

BONSAI FOUNDATION CIC

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

BONSAI FOUNDATION CIC

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

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

BONSAI FOUNDATION CIC

Company Number: 14056469 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 30 April 2024

Company activities and impact

During the financial year 2023-2024, the focus of the Bonsai Foundation was in establishing clear collaboration guidelines, outreach and dissemination: With support from NeuroGEARS Ltd, the Bonsai Foundation published the official Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and contribution policies for all open-source repositories. In collaboration with NeuroGEARS Ltd, the Champalimaud Foundation and Open Ephys production site, we promoted the Bonsai Foundation’s activities by manning a booth at the Society for Neuroscience 2023 conference. In collaboration with the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, we started preparations to organize the first Bonsai Developer Conference before the end of 2024.

Consultation with stakeholders

The company’s stakeholders are the community of users of the Bonsai programming language, and the open-source developers who contribute packages to the language. In the financial year 2023-2024 we focused our consultation efforts on getting feedback from developers on the draft contribution policies. During this time, we received several letters of interest both from existing and new open-source project maintainers, who were interested in contributing their projects to the Bonsai Foundation, and in receiving back support and guidance in how to improve their development practices. In response to this interest, we published the final contribution policies and expanded the number of contributors to our open-source projects. The participation of the Bonsai Foundation at the Society for Neuroscience 2023 conference was also very well received and allowed us to further gauge the interest of the community in contributing to the efforts of the CIC. Feedback was very encouraging, and specifically we gathered interest from key stakeholders at the Allen Institute and HHMI Janelia in creating a public development roadmap shared across the different institutions involved in the development of the Bonsai ecosystem. Furthermore, we received very positive feedback about our decision to host the Harp project at the Bonsai Foundation booth during the Society for Neuroscience 2023. This provided strong support for our plans to repeat the same booth organisation at the Society for Neuroscience 2024 event. Inquiring with our current partners we were able to confirm their availability to contribute resources and manpower to organise the booth next year.

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
22 January 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Goncalo Lopes
Status: Director