THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
13503800 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 August 2023

End date: 31 July 2024

THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Balance sheet

As at 31 July 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 176 0
Total current assets: 176 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 215 ) 0
Net current assets (liabilities): (39) 0
Total assets less current liabilities: (39) 0
Total net assets (liabilities): (39) 0
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (39) 0
Total members' funds: ( 39) 0

The notes form part of these financial statements

THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 July 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 8 February 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 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

THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Accruals and deferred income 215 0
Total 215 0

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

THE CHILDREN'S PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE C.I.C.

Company Number: 13503800 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 July 2024

Company activities and impact

The Children’s Photography Archive C.I.C. is a not-for-profit online digital archive that serves the interests of children and young people, their visual heritage, and their role as documentors of their everyday lives, history, and social change, as well as creators of artistic work. Our mission is to create an ethical infrastructure for the collection and preservation of children’s photography internationally and to develop ways in which to involve children and young people in archiving of their visual culture through education and training of cultural workers. The CPA has filled dormant accounts in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 on account of not having a bank account to be able to trade. In our third year, August 1 2023 until Developing a digital preservation policy, a gifting policy, and assessing appropriate ways to involve children and young people in governance. Considerable focus is being given to developing strong governance structures as a way of ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Children’s Photography Archive which will indirectly benefit children and young people in that it enables us to deliver on the mission of the archive. Reviewing the Articles of Association to enable us to open a bank account. The process of opening a bank account was delayed due to one of the directors not residing in the UK. We worked with legal firm Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPto amend the Articles of Association which saw the resignation of Director Dr Christos Varvantakis on 11 November 2023. Our bank account was opened in January 2024. We hold a Treasurers Account with Lloyds TSB. With a bank account we are now in a better position to fundraise and develop projects that will Continue to raising awareness of the archive with schools and cultural heritage organization. We were invited to be Image Maker in Residence for the Sociological Review Foundation Magazine (Summer 2023) where we curated a six-part online post series raising awareness about children’s photography and show casing our three collections.We began a collaboration with the education arm of the Chennai Photo Biennale, Prism, who invited us to co-curate the children’s submisison of the IV Edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale (Jan-Mar 2025). July 31 2024, we have continued to work on developing our governance and operational structures. This has included:

Consultation with stakeholders

The company’s stakeholders are children and young people, and professionals who work with them. The director is an experienced researchers who has worked with children and young people for over 20 years, and the CPA has taken a child-centred approach in its design from the outset. All our activities and actions have been designed with in-depth research knowledge of children and young people’s lives and in particular, the absences of meaningful photographic preservation of those lives. We have not carried a direct consultation with children and young people yet. Given that the archive works on behalf of minors and that our community of children and young people is distributed and dispersed (i.e., we are not working with a place-based group), we are taking some time to develop meaningful ways of involving children and young people in our work that benefits them and which reduces consultation burden on them. In terms of professionals that we seek to serve, membership to our advisory group which has been set up from the outset, represents key areas of activity including but not limited to legal dimensions of the CPA (copyright and IP), digital infrastructure, art history, and creative practice. The advisory group meets once a year and members are available to the direct on an ad hoc basis to support her. We did not meet in 2023-2024 due to the director’s personal circumstances which involved recovery from serious personal injury sustained in May 2023 followed by going through a process of redundancy at her place of prior employment (Oct 2023-July 2024).

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
8 February 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
Status: Director