EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
12447096 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 29 February 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 March 2023

End date: 29 February 2024

EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 29 February 2024

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Balance sheet

As at 29 February 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0 0
Tangible assets:   0 0
Investments:   0 0
Total fixed assets: 0 0
Current assets
Stocks:   0 0
Debtors:   0 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 5,479 704
Investments:   0 0
Total current assets: 5,479 704
Prepayments and accrued income: 0 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 4,830 ) ( 689 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 649 15
Total assets less current liabilities: 649 15
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year:   0 0
Provision for liabilities: 0 0
Accruals and deferred income: 0 0
Total net assets (liabilities): 649 15
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 649 15
Total members' funds: 649 15

The notes form part of these financial statements

EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 29 February 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 3 December 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Jodie Wilkerson
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 29 February 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

EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 29 February 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 29 February 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 0 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts 0 0
Trade creditors 0 0
Taxation and social security 141 0
Accruals and deferred income 4,270 270
Other creditors 419 419
Total 4,830 689

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

EXMOUTH BOSOM BUDDIES COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company Number: 12447096 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 29 February 2024

Company activities and impact

Exmouth Bosom Buddies Community Interest Company is a breastfeeding support service, supporting families in the community with their breastfeeding journeys. We have benefitted the community in the following ways: - We have offered a weekly, donation based, breastfeeding peer support group that local breast-feeding families have been able to attend. We provide a comfortable and safe space where families could meet other parents, network, and gain important emotional and practical sup-port from each other and from our trained volunteer peer supporters. We have supported families with a wide range of breastfeeding issues, signposted them to other organisations for further support and information, emotionally supported women through difficult transitions (e.g. breastfeeding and returning to work, or stopping breastfeeding) and mentored new vol-unteers in providing good quality peer support. - From March 2023 – Feb 2024, we held 49 weekly sessions in which we saw 378 mothers and 409 babies/children attendees. Children’s ages during this time ranged from 2 days to 3 years old. These sessions were run by a breastfeeding peer support lead along with 1-3 volunteers each week and supported a wide range of breastfeeding issues. - We have provided a free lending library of specialist breastfeeding and early years literature for families which was popular and provided reassurance and increased awareness of the breastfeeding journey. The attendees used the library to borrow books most weeks, and the li-brary was used for reference by parents and volunteers during the weekly sessions. - Our trained breastfeeding support volunteers, who help run the weekly support sessions, have amassed a total of 297 hours over the year of voluntary support, as well as attending ongoing training including first aid and safeguarding and supervision sessions. - We secured funding this year which has enabled us to plan our next training course for another group of local women to become breastfeeding peer support volunteers later in Spring/Summer 2024. This funding has also allowed us to purchase medical grade baby weigh-ing scales so that local women have regular access to a calibrated accurate device to monitor their baby’s weight. - All of our volunteers are local women are able to use their skills to support others in their community and increase their own confidence and self-esteem. - We provided a breast pump hire service for the local community for those that needed them, providing a cost-effective and more ecologically friendly way to access a good quality electric breast pump, rather than purchasing one. This is also a way for people to ‘try before they buy’ so if someone requires a breast pump for a longer term then they can see if it suits before in-vesting in one. - We have developed our branding and expanded our social media presence, using multiple platforms to allow us to share up-to-date, useful and educational information with families, advertise the work we do, the services we offer and promote the group and all it offers for the community. We have also launched a private social media group for parents to join to allow them to connect with and support each other outside of group times. - We have provided private, and donation based 1-2-1 online/telephone consultations for moth-ers with breastfeeding issues to provide timely and focussed breastfeeding support. - This year we have strengthened important local connections with healthcare community staff and developed our links with other organisations in the local community, including the com-munity midwives, health visiting teams, town council officers and councillors, the East Devon Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise network and other Charities and CIC’s.

Consultation with stakeholders

The company’s stakeholders and the women and children of East Devon, in particular Exmouth. The directors live in Exmouth, have worked in this area for many years and have developed the business model based on their professional and personal experiences while talking to local women about what they need. We encourage feedback, suggestions, and ideas from all the families that attend our groups and have adjusted the group in response to some of this feedback. For example, we received feedback that the timing of the group could be improved so we extended the session from 1.5 hours to 2 hours long to allow extra time to explore problems and issues thoroughly ad for mothers to connect and develop their own support networks. We also received some feedback that mothers were finding it difficult to access high quality and accurate baby scales to weigh their baby on. After discussion with the NHS about what was best to use, we secured funding to purchase a set that the local community can access during our group and are working with another local baby group so they can use the scales and be available to all mothers, not just those that are breastfeeding.

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
3 December 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jodie Wilkerson
Status: Director