FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
SC775162 (Scotland)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 10 July 2023

End date: 31 July 2024

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

Balance sheet

As at 31 July 2024

Notes 13 months to 31 July 2024


£
Current assets
Debtors: 3 4,950
Cash at bank and in hand: 6,616
Total current assets: 11,566
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 2,795 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 8,771
Total assets less current liabilities: 8,771
Total net assets (liabilities): 8,771
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 8,771
Total members' funds: 8,771

The notes form part of these financial statements

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

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 10 April 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Lucy Virginia Mason
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

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

    Turnover policy

    Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when goods have been delivered to customers such that risks and rewards of ownership have transferred to them. Turnover from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract. The stage of completion of a contract is measured by comparing the costs incurred for work performed to date to the total estimated contract costs.

    Other accounting policies

    Financial instruments: Basic financial instruments are recognised at amortised cost, except for investments in non-convertible preference and non-puttable ordinary shares which are measured at fair value, with changes recognised in profit or loss. Derivative financial instruments are initially recorded at cost and thereafter at fair value with changes recognised in profit or loss. Deferred taxation: Deferred tax arises as a result of including items of income and expenditure in taxation computations in periods different from those in which they are included in the company's accounts. Deferred tax is provided in full on timing differences which result in an obligation to pay more (or less) tax at a future date, at the average tax rates that are expected to apply when the timing differences reverse, based on current tax rates and laws. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are not discounted.

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

  • 2. Employees

    13 months to 31 July 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 0

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

3. Debtors

13 months to 31 July 2024
£
Trade debtors 4,950
Total 4,950

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 July 2024

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

13 months to 31 July 2024
£
Taxation and social security 2,058
Accruals and deferred income 737
Total 2,795

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

FLOURISH COUNSELLING TRAINING CIC

Company Number: SC775162 (Scotland)

Year Ending: 31 July 2024

Company activities and impact

The main activity of Flourish Counselling Training has been to establish itself in delivering the COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills to members of the community. This has been successful in that five course groups and a total of fifty one people have studied and completed the course over the financial year to which these accounts apply. Flourish has rented teaching rooms and operated from two community centres in Edinburgh, one on the East and the other on the West side of town in order to increase accessibility to the course for those who are working or have caring responsibilities. The company’s activities are intended to benefit people in the community working in caring roles and to benefit vulnerable people being cared for by formal or informal caring services. The studying and completing of the course has helped enable people in the community to feel more confident in their ability to re-enter education as adult learners and develop their potential and skills in ways that have led to employment opportunities. The course benefits the community by supporting people working in caring/support roles to enhance and develop the quality of what they offer vulnerable service users, and to progress and gain promotion within that sector. Many of the students have been working in Third Sector organisations supporting highly vulnerable people, sometimes with considerable mental health struggles. Consistent feedback from those students has included; greater confidence in their abilities and in themselves in their helping roles, and a learning of new ways of being with and helping service users. One example is of several staff from a registered charity supporting and empowering highly vulnerable African and Ethnic Minority women with lived experience of migration. The course had a powerful impact on the self esteem and skills base of the staff and on the quality of support staff offered to women who had experienced traumatic events and situations. The head of a school for children reported the huge benefits to her of the course in supporting staff as their manager and in her relating with the pupils. Some students have also felt able to go on into further study and skills development in Further or Higher Education. The course has also had a profound and often unexpected impact on students in terms of the quality of their relating with children, partners, parents, siblings, colleagues and friends - a ripple effect of the community benefits of the course.

Consultation with stakeholders

The stakeholders are the students who study the course and the staff of the two community centres we use as venues. With students, consultation has mainly consisted of two written feedback forms given to them to complete, one at the midpoint of the course and one at the end. Feedback on a number of aspects of the student’s experience is elicited – learning by groupwork, written assignments, listening skills practicals, the assessment process, the effectiveness of the course delivery, facilities, and the course’s overall relevance to the student’s needs. Verbal feedback is also elicited in one to one tutorials and in consulting the course group as a whole. Flourish staff review and draw on the consultative feedback and try to respond to the feedback to tailor the course as much as is possible to individual and the collective learning and support needs. In terms of consulting the two Community venues we use, this is done informally and discursively in person and by email on an ongoing basis by the tutor themself and by the Directors who periodically visit the centres. It is very important to Flourish that in using a community space we try as much as possible to fit in with the culture of the community organisation and its values. When the consultations have revealed any tensions about our use of the centre impinging on its operations we have been quick to resolve issues.

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
10 April 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Lucy Virginia Mason
Status: Director