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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 July 2024
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The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
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31 July 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
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The Lighthouse Learning Project runs an activity club for home educated young people two days a week. Three facilitators oversee the running of the club, two per day. The club has been running from a community forest garden in Cardigan. This year, with the support of a grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, Lighthouse was also able to support the running of a weekly Teen group. Over the financial year 1st August 2023 - 31st July 2024 the Lighthouse Learning Project has benefited the community in the following ways: - 31 children from 25 families from the counties of Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire have benefited from the provision of a wide variety of arts, crafts and sporting activities otherwise hard to access within a home education setting. Additional activities during this period included a camp-out, a trip to Heatherton Theme Park and the Bird of Prey Centre at the Botanic Gardens, Dungeons and Dragons roll-play game workshops and an Archery skills workshop. - Stimulating and interesting part time work was provided for three facilitators as part of the project. The Lighthouse Learning Project provides relevant training to the facilitators (eg first aid, and conflict management) which increases their skills, both when working at the club and in the wider community. During this reporting period, the whole team attended an NVC training held by a local trainer around how to effectively give and receive feedback. - Additional occasional paid work was provided for a range of local people, who have the opportunity to offer workshops and sessions at the club. Local community venues benefit from the project renting spaces to run our sessions. This includes a community run forest garden (Naturewise) and community arts space (Walden Arts). -The Lighthouse Teens group ran until Dec 2024 through the support of a 12 month grant from The National Lottery Community Fund. The project filled a gap in provisions for teens educated otherwise. The project offered weekly sessions for 13+ year old’s to meet, learn new skills, address social isolation and improve mental health and wellbeing. The group participated in blocks of activities which included surfing, cooking, stop-motion animation, sewing and pottery. The teens group also organised and fundraised to travel to the Netherlands to participate in the International Democratic School Summer Camp programme. Five teens went with one project facilitator. This was a great opportunity to feel part of something bigger and to network and share learning and experiences of alternative education programmes. - With the support of the facilitators, the children have created a sense of community within the group. The grop benefit from a sense of belonging which increases wellbeing and benefit from learning to build relationships across a diverse range of ages. - Using tools such as sociocracy and non-violent communication, the children are learning to make collective decisions about what they want to do at the club, manage budgets, organise activities and resolve disputes with care for one another. These skills will serve them well as they move into adulthood, and benefit the communities that they live and work in. - Families benefited by being a part of a network of support, this has been strengthened by offering termly parent slots and also quarterly parent sharing-circles where Lighthouse invite parents to share their own experiences of home-educating with opportunities for peer-support and relationship building. - The directors are recording the process of running the activity club and have now developed a series of relevant policies and related documents. This enables the effective running of the project and provides a valuable resource to share with the local community. We hold annual open days and have good relationships with other similar projects locally, and across Wales and England. Within these networks, Lighthouse is able seek advice and support, problem solve and share learning and best practices. This benefits the local community as we are able to share our work with other families and groups who want to set up similar projects, saving them time and effort and enabling the benefits to reach more families. - Through support from PAVS (Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services), Lighthouse conducted a social value report which identified that for every £1 input, LH generates £3.08 in social value. The report highlighted our community as “thriving” and “well connected”.
The stakeholders are the families involved with the activity club and the facilitators working for the project. The facilitators meet regularly with the directors to discuss both the day to day running of the project and how it meets the overall aims of the company. There is a minimum of one face to face meeting every six weeks that the project is running, plus additional meetings and communication via electronic means as necessary. The children involved in the activity club have a daily meeting. They can also speak with facilitators at any time about ideas or concerns. This information is acted on by facilitators or fed back to the directors at staff meetings and action is taken as necessary e.g. organising workshops. Families receive a weekly email updating them on activities at the club. They are offered the opportunity to raise questions and concerns with facilitators, which are discussed with directors and action taken as necessary.
The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £1,544.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
4 March 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: B
Status: Director