ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
11190049 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 28 February 2025

Period of accounts

Start date: 29 February 2024

End date: 28 February 2025

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2025

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

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 28 February 2025

2025 2024


£

£
Turnover: 7,662 1,307
Cost of sales: ( 1,880 ) ( 169 )
Gross profit(or loss): 5,782 1,138
Administrative expenses: ( 25,121 ) ( 4,483 )
Other operating income: 23,500
Operating profit(or loss): 4,161 (3,345)
Profit(or loss) before tax: 4,161 (3,345)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 4,161 (3,345)

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Balance sheet

As at 28 February 2025

Notes 2025 2024


£

£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets: 3 250 375
Total fixed assets: 250 375
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 9,414 922
Total current assets: 9,414 922
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 9,445 ) ( 5,238 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (31) (4,316)
Total assets less current liabilities: 219 ( 3,941)
Total net assets (liabilities): 219 (3,941)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 219 ( 3,941)
Total members' funds: 219 (3,941)

The notes form part of these financial statements

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 28 February 2025 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 9 April 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Lydia Hunt
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2025

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Financial Reporting Standard 101

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2025

  • 2. Employees

    2025 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 2 0

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2025

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
At 29 February 2024 500 500
Additions
Disposals
Revaluations
Transfers
At 28 February 2025 500 500
Depreciation
At 29 February 2024 125 125
Charge for year 125 125
On disposals
Other adjustments
At 28 February 2025 250 250
Net book value
At 28 February 2025 250 250
At 28 February 2024 375 375

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 28 February 2025

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2025 2024
£ £
Trade creditors 49 170
Accruals and deferred income 1,500 340
Other creditors 7,896 4,728
Total 9,445 5,238

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

ECHO PERFORMING ARTS CIC

Company Number: 11190049 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 28 February 2025

Company activities and impact

Our CIC runs opportunities in creative dance, dance leadership and performance making, with emphasis on uniting people with learning disabilities to take control of their dance work, express their own unique identity and culture, and experience meaningful social connection. We began our journey in weekly activities in August 2023, and we have become a crucial part of many people’s weekly routine. Both Directors have worked in this field of Dance and Disability for a considerable number of years, holding a great deal of experience and qualifications to be able to run this organisation safely for all of its members. Our classes have benefitted our community in the following ways: 1. We have mirrored the mainstream world in terms of how much we charge people for their activities. Care organisations have to charge a great deal of money per hour to people to attend institutions such as day services, where as we have been providing dance activities that mirror the mainstream world in terms of how much this costs them to participate. Thus we are working towards equality for those with learning disabilities, where we expect no more and no less, than those able to access mainstream community dance classes. Because this has been affordable, we have seen a wide range of individuals be able to access our activities and thrive within them on a weekly basis, regardless of their financial status. 2. With thanks to funding from The National Lottery, The Chalk Cliff Trust and the payments we have seen from our dedicated community, this past year has seen a huge amount of impact from ourselves, and in external artists and organisations connecting with us. We have widened our reach considerably, and are continuing to do so over the year ahead with two new weekly projects happening in Spring time 2025. 3. We have provided two weekly dance classes, three 8 week Dance Leadership courses for dancers with learning disabilities, 5 one off workshops in the community, and established meaningful connections with 12 external artists and organisations. Artists/organisations we fostered working relationships with were Rosaria Gracia, Anne Colvin, Rainboy, T21, Woodingdean Carnival, Woodingdean Primary School, Downs View School, Together Co, Grace Eyre, Downs View Life Skills College, Woodingdean Community Centre and Hangleton Community Centre. 4. Our weekly classes are at the heart of our community. These are called The Far Far Away Musical (Sundays based in East Brighton) and Jazz Hands Dance (Wednesdays based in West Brighton). Through these two sessions, we have worked with 34 people with learning disabilities or who are neurodivergent (29 of which have been weekly members, attending regularly) and 8 people without disabilities or identify as neurotypical who have benefitted from our classes, projects and social occasions surrounding these weekly projects. 5. We have also reached further numbers through our one off/ short term projects/performances. In our two workshops with Together Co, we worked with 20 elderly people. At Grace Eyre, we worked with 10 people with learning disabilities. At our show in October 2024, “I’m a Believer” we sold 80 seats to audience members. At our sponsored dance walk we had 21 participants, and we are unable to calculate the general public who saw us. We also performed at 4 summer Carnivals/Festivals run by other organisations, we are unable to calculate the number of people who saw us at these events, but they were all highly attended. At Downs View Life Skills College, we were recruited to lead workshops for their students with learning disabilities, where we worked with 25 of their students in our dance workshop. 6. The progression in confidence, ability in dance skills and in social connection has been captured through quotes from our dancers/ parents and carers, feedback forms, film and photography, and through our stats in attendance of classes, shows, courses and one off workshops. It is also marked by how highly attended our classes have been this year, and in how committed people have been to our work and their own development in our attendance registers. 7. We have enabled our participants to take part in 6 performances within their local community as live shows and demonstrations of work. This makes a huge difference to the world around us in challenging negative societal attitudinal views, and also plays a huge role in supporting our dancers parents and carers to experience pride and amazement in what our dancers have worked towards. 8. Our work has enabled meaningful relationships to occur between parents and carers, giving people who may feel very isolated, the opportunity to connect with people in similar positions to them, thus tackling social isolation in more than one way. We tackle social isolation for our dancers who have protected characteristics within the Equalities Act 2010, and for the community around them too. Parents and carers also support in our sessions as dancers themselves, helping to ensure everyone is safe, taking photos and films for us, and playing a part in supporting our work in connecting with the wider community. 9. At Echo Performing Arts CIC, we believe deeply in nurturing our dancers to be leaders within their own community. We have done this by training 13 individuals in Dance Leadership. We have provided 8 week courses of small groups at a time, of up to four people in each course. On these courses, they have explored theory and practice in Dance Leadership, and at the end of these courses they have received certificates and detailed reports on their progress, graduating from their program with their families watching as they have graduated. We are enabling our trained team to be able to lead in the community through one off workshops and weekly classes they are being supported to lead on. By the end of our year, we had built a team of Dance Leaders, and we have enabled them to connect with one another as colleagues in our organisation. There are many funded opportunities for them for the year ahead to continue to thrive and experience Dance Leadership with our professional, qualified and supportive guidance.

Consultation with stakeholders

Our stakeholders are our dancers (whom mostly have learning disabilities, some are neurodivergent and some are neurotypical), the parents and carers of our dancers who have learning disabilities, organisations and individual artists we have recruited, or been recruited by, to work with, and audience members of our live performances. We have built a community that has been life changing for its members, and plays a significant role in their active, creative and social lives. We gain regular feedback both in formal and informal ways from our stakeholders. Our main income this year was through the National Lottery Community Fund. This particular funding stream requires you to be responding to needs present in the community you serve, so we used our feedback from stakeholder surveys to apply for this funding. Prior to applying to this, in March 2024 we held a survey both online and in paper format for our dancers, parents and carers to feed into our successful application to National Lottery. This financial shift has boosted everyone's lives within Echo Performing Arts in extremely powerful ways. There are not many leadership opportunities for people with learning disabilities, so the part of our funding application has played around providing Dance Leader training came from feedback from our stakeholders in this being something that they value. Application to these courses were open to all of our dancers, and nobody was turned away, we managed to work with everyone who was interested in becoming Dance Leaders for Echo Performing Arts. We asked all of our leaders to feedback at the end of their experiences with us, and they all had extremely positive feedback towards us as their tutors and in their experiences with the course. Another part of our funding was about connecting with other artists and organisations. We have built firm relationships with very positive feedback from these people and organisations. Together we have built life changing experiences and invaluable memories for all involved. We have also received feedback from these people too as valued stakeholders. We have supported members of our weekly classes to give feedback informally every week. And we have also collected feedback through surveys. We have seen changes come from this in the way we work, demonstrating that we are led by our members. For example, one member fed back that she found it difficult to talk about parts of the session she didn't like incase she hurt people's feelings. So we bought in an accessible feelings board, and we changed the way we asked people to feedback, instead focusing on how they are feeling generally at the start and at the end of the session, therefore aiding peoples ability to express their feelings in non threatening ways. We collect quotes regularly from our stakeholders, and we are proud to share these on our website and when we apply for funding too. We have also documented a great deal of our work through film and photography, which demonstrates the impact we are making every week to the people we dance with.

Directors' remuneration

Directors remuneration per the accounts through Payroll was £16,184. Also through direct payments prior to the payroll £1,280.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
9 April 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Sarah Hamlett
Status: Director