COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
13262252 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 April 2023

End date: 31 March 2024

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

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

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

2024 2023


£

£
Turnover: 30,903 28,900
Cost of sales: ( 27,664 ) ( 504 )
Gross profit(or loss): 3,239 28,396
Administrative expenses: ( 15,365 ) ( 33,864 )
Operating profit(or loss): (12,126) (5,468)
Profit(or loss) before tax: (12,126) (5,468)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (12,126) (5,468)

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets: 3 5,288 432
Total fixed assets: 5,288 432
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 8,389 939
Total current assets: 8,389 939
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 33,910 ) ( 9,478 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (25,521) (8,539)
Total assets less current liabilities: (20,233) ( 8,107)
Total net assets (liabilities): (20,233) (8,107)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (20,233) ( 8,107)
Total members' funds: ( 20,233) (8,107)

The notes form part of these financial statements

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 March 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 26 March 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Helene Ruth GRIFFIN,
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 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

    Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy

    Assets included are Costs less Grants and Depreciated 20% straight line

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 4 1

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
At 1 April 2023 720 0 720
Additions 6,449 6,449
Disposals
Revaluations
Transfers
At 31 March 2024 720 6,449 7,169
Depreciation
At 1 April 2023 288 0 288
Charge for year 144 1,449 1,593
On disposals
Other adjustments
At 31 March 2024 432 1,449 1,881
Net book value
At 31 March 2024 288 5,000 5,288
At 31 March 2023 432 0 432

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2024

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Trade creditors 1,412
Other creditors 33,910 8,066
Total 33,910 9,478

Relates to Directors Loan Account

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

COCOON KIDS - CREATIVE COUNSELLING AND PLAY THERAPY CIC

Company Number: 13262252 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2024

Company activities and impact

Cocoon Kids - Creative Counselling and Play Therapy CIC is a lived-experience, not-for-profit therapeutic service that children, young people and their families use to safely explore their experiences. Our key community are families on low incomes/benefits, living in social/insecure housing. Like our own experience, families often have social services and/or criminal justice system involvement, and/or are Looked After, and often have intergenerational Trauma and poverty. Our aim’s for priority children, young people and families to be as they’d be if their experiences weren’t a part of their lives. As a lived-experience organisation, our key community’s are incredibly important to us as we come from the communities we serve. We continued our service with some Director’s Loans and funding from the Community Foundation for Surrey, social entrepreneur grants, donated funds and sale funding. This was used to provide fully-funded longer-term, Attachment, Trauma Informed Creative Counselling and Play Therapy sessions, therapeutic services and other support for local socio-economically under-resourced children and young people, and their families in the Surrey areas and London Borough of Hounslow borders areas (especially Spelthorne, Feltham and Hanworth). We also purchased an eCargo Trike to travel to sessions and to families’ homes, with a LoCase award and MidasPlus funding. Further detail: This is our third year of incorporation/accounts, so as a start-up in the cost-of-living crisis it has been tricky to continue whilst external costs such as licences etc. have all increased. It was a very challenging financial year for many organisations in our sector, as we were disappointed to not gain some of the awards we applied for. This had a big impact on our service and we had to make some difficult decisions to overcome this, e.g. focusing on children, young people and families already having sessions, and beginning new work with the grants we received (as we didn’t have surplus). Despite this, this year we’ve continued to provide fully-funded sessions for our key community: Priority children, young people and their families. We’ve continued to provide 1:1 sessions for children and young people, as well as support for parents and carers, and other professionals. Priority families are self-referring through ‘word of mouth’ from other children and young people and parents and carers (our aims is that the majority will do so). We’ve fundraised and sold our Play Packs at e.g. school fairs and school playgrounds where permitted, which has helped to extend the scope of our grants and awards. We’ve also had some private work paid for sessions, which supplement the fully-funded sessions. The number of families who’ve self-referred has increased (a key goal is for this to steadily increase, until the majority of our service is through self-referrals). We’ve also had increased number of paid Social Services and school-based referrals. With some additional green energy/environment-specific funding, we were able to buy a refurbished electric eCargo Trike to transport our kit and extend our reach, as well as reduce our carbon footprint and avoid Ulez charges (it’s made from recycled materials and is fully recyclable).

Consultation with stakeholders

Our children and young people and families themselves, as well as referrers have completed anonymous as well as named surveys about our service and their progress, where they self-reported the service’s/sessions’ impact for/on them (e.g. any changes and outcomes etc.). 100% of families shared sessions made ‘a positive difference’. All children, young people and families have personalised monitoring and goals which they decide – where families are referred by schools/Social Services, they also have additional personalised monitoring shared by these. Families and referrers have also been consulted about our website/accessibility and recommendations (which are being added and incorporated). Referrers shared positive outcomes, noting for example that as a result of their sessions, they ‘don’t hear anything – they’re a changed child’ about one child and young person who has finished their work. Most importantly, children and young people themselves have shared significant positive and observable differences in their mental health and wellbeing, self-esteem and resilience, as well as behaviours, e.g. improved anger and conflict resolution strategies and successful self-regulation skills, better sleeping and eating patterns, considerably lessened anxiety and resolved Separation Anxiety. Children, young people and families self-report multiple beneficial outcomes. For example, one child was understandably thrilled to have a ‘1st sleepover’, where they’d not previously been invited because of their behaviour. Another young person found it incredibly difficult to speak up and disagree with peers (and were extremely vulnerable to peer pressure). They’re delighted they can more confidently say ‘no’ if they don’t want to do something. One young person used to get into frequent difficulties with their self-regulation and had meltdowns and angry outbursts in class and at home. However, they’re now self-regulating the majority of the time in all scenarios (even during conflicts), and are also able to self-reflect and are advising friends how to better manage their emotions and to ‘say how’ they feel and ‘use words’ rather than get angry. Several children and young people have shared they’ve attended new friend’s homes and parties (some invited for the 1st time). All have shared better family (including wider) and new peer relationships, with many self-reporting joining new clubs and winning tournaments and matches in e.g. basketball and swimming, when previously they’d been too anxious to do so. We’ve reviewed our written procedures and emails and made improvements through discussions with individual families during meetings. Because of the cost-of-living crisis impacting family’s data, we always email and call families several times, as well as sharing and/or posting letters. We’ve shared our live document Day-to-Day procedures (created through family discussions, and live to changes as suggested) to different organisations and groups. We’ve also continued working in partnership with other local organisations and mental health and wider organisations, e.g. Stanwell Events and foodbank; Feltham Convening Partnership, A2Dominion Housing Association’s Customer Services Committee; The Coalition for Personalised Care’s 2-Year Working Strategy Group – Health Inequalities and The Association of Mental Health Provider’s Lived-Experience Advisory Board, to both share our families voices, as well as our own lived-experience, and to continue to champion equity for under-resourced priority children, young people and adults. We’ve continued one of our key goals by ‘Championing mental health equity’ as members of several mental health and therapy bodies, where we ensure our families' voices are shared and heard. For example, we’re part of the Coalition for Personalised Care’s 2-Year Working Strategy Group, the Association of Mental Health Provider’s Lived-Experience Advisory Board and our own Social Housing’s Customer Service Committee (Head Office). We’re also continuing members of the Children in Need’s pilot for small organisations Emergency Essentials program, where we make applications alongside our families for essential basic items that are needed. Through this, we’ve been able to support families with items they didn’t have, such as a cooker, bed, and in replacing items that were broken or they didn’t have, such as washing machine, cupboard. Several families have moved from Child in Need (CiN) and/or come off their Child Protection plans, following their sessions and our family support. Families continue to keep in touch beyond their work to share about their family and their child’s life and experiences. We’re privileged that families are comfortable enough to request and continue sessions in mornings in pjs, after work, and in holidays aways and/or where their child or young person is staying with e.g. other family. We’ve started a partnership with Stanwell Events and Foodbank, who let us use their space in the holidays so we can continue offer face to face sessions, as well as any Telehealth ones. We also have a partnership with Surry County Council and offer fully-funded Friday afternoon Song/Gong Baths for our parents and carers which families have shared significantly helps with longer-term illnesses, e.g. Asthma, COPD and back injuries/illness, and also helps them feel ‘relaxed’ and ‘calm’. Referrers have commented how our service provides essential consistency and predictability, and in the holidays. They share it’s particularly helpful for our families who sometimes have fewer support networks available. This continues to be our focus and aim as a service that uses an Attachment and Trauma model. We’ve been able to extend our therapeutic scope through a partnership with Roehampton University, providing therapy/counselling placements for students/trainees. The non-therapy/counselling aspects of our service has been extended and improved through Brunel and Exeter Universities, and the School for Social Entrepreneurs, through internships, as well as multiple volunteering roles through Reach Volunteering and Charity Job.

Directors' remuneration

Directors Remuneration £27,975

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
27 March 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Helene Ruth GRIFFIN,
Status: Director