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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 November 2024
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 December 2023
to
30 November 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
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
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 30 November 2024
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Maymessy has one paid member of staff, a chef/project manager who worked one day a week over the financial year. This financial year, we have supported a lady who has been on past cooking classes and she has assisted in the kitchen on a free-lance basis. She has moved to Cornwall in May 2024 and has found work supporting an adult with complex needs there. Formally a NEET and with low confidence, a mum and a domestic abuse survivor, she has grown in confidence and worked part time at Maymessy supporting adults with complex needs for Style Acre charity. Maymessy has trained up a lady to work in the vegetable beds with the hope to be able to grow most of our fruit and vegetables for the cookery school. She is working as a free-lance therapeutic gardener for a few hours, once a month. We will support her with training and skills. This will help her into more full time work as a gardener in the future. This has been funded by OCVA Oxfordshire Community Voluntary Action and OCF Oxfordshire Community Foundation. We are lucky to have a new beekeeper now looking after our bees also on a free-lance basis. Maymessy predominately relies on volunteers, all of whom are chosen for their skills and qualifications. We have a volunteer gardening group made up of 7 all from past cooking classes and all whom have severe mental health problems and come from the charity Root and Branch. We now have 2 volunteer kitchen assistants, and our 4 directors are not paid and volunteer their time. This year, we have continued to work with Style Acre – an Oxfordshire charity supporting adults with complex needs. Since early 2022, we have provided 65 participants with bespoke cookery classes and all at Style acre with a cookbook. We were able to see the book to the local community which raised some funds for Style Acre and Maymessy. At the beginning of 2024, we were part of a cooking coalition with 4 other community organisations. We were thrilled to have won the ‘Inspiration award’ from Oxfordshire Care Awards organised by the Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers for our cooking classes with Style acre and our cook book. We have continued to run the Mental Health Gardening group lead now by Nix Ivy who is paid on a freelance basis. We have supported 7 past participants from cookery classes all with severe mental health issues once a month. They gain volunteer opportunities, new skills as well as reducing loneliness and making new friends. The group get fresh vegetables to take home with them as well as a nice warm lunch. We are very grateful for funding for this group under Thriving spaces fund from Oxfordshire Community Foundation until end of 2026. This will fund our gardener and provide essential equipment such as seeds and soil. We also have funding to provide nature walks and owl boxes and bird table to encourage more wildlife into the area. We held an event -Cook book signing and picnic for Style Acre and had some of the past participants from Style Acre over to sign books. We also had the Mayor of Faringdon and Deputy from Wantage over along with Deputy Lieutenant. We continue to collaborate with charity with Project Salama – a charity supporting women survivors of domestic abuse and their children . We have had over 10 ladies in for therapeutic cooking and this year we have run Chai, chop and chat 4 yearly sessions. We are about to start a new cookbook supporting this group and their children. We have been fortunate this financial year to be given substantial donations from two Charitable Trusts -The Bransford Foundation and The Swire Trust as well as 2 year funding from Awards 4 All National Lottery and Oxfordshire Community Foundation which includes rent for the cooking school which gets ploughed back into the enterprise for cookery classes. We continue to rent the space Maymessy brings in additional income but on a much smaller scale now. We have welcomed back Wellington College again for prefects to camp as well as renting out the space for a local photographer to use. We still collect voluntary contributions from the charities that come in.
This financial year, stakeholders have been local charities. We have enjoyed building up our relationships with our partners Style Acre who we have mostly supported this year. We also enjoy Harvest at Home and FAAAZE, Fitzwarren School and have now collaborated with them over at least 5 years. They are always consulted before they come so we can provide bespoke cookery classes. This is particularly important with adults and children with complex needs. We have also continued to support Project Salama and therapeutic cooking for ladies and their children who are survivors of domestic abuse and look forward to having them back in 2025 to make a cookbook. We continue to have a good relationship with local food banks like The Mix and Community larder. We enjoyed visiting the Community Cafe Down to Earth in Wantage. I am still on the FAWG (South and Vale Food Action Working Group) and this has brought together a range of different stakeholders to discuss food related issues around the district. This means that I am in contact with local community organisations, council member and an array of different stakeholders. I need to develop partnerships with local farmers. I continue to work with local schools providing after school youth clubs for schools in Wantage and Faringdon. We have developed a partnership through South and Vale district council to work with other charities through SOFEA and local food working groups in South and Vale. I have attended Suicide first aid prevention course and am a Domestic abuse champion and a Community Catalyst. I recently visited Root and Branch charity to see the good work they do and encourage more collaboration in the future. Maymessy stakeholders are also local and national grant bodies who require impact reports to be written. We have received funding from OCVA/OCC for our work with Style Acre and also Oxfordshire Community Foundation for two year for gardening and a separate one for cooking We will use the two year grant from Awards 4 All for more cooking classes. Testimonials, videos and photographs go towards specific reports which are sent directly to these grant makers when requested. We received donations from local Charitable Trusts such and new partnerships with Bransford Charitable Trust and on-going support from The Swire Trust , Lord Faringdon Charitable Trust and Tesco/Groundworks on a yearly basis We receive ongoing donations from the sale of book LEADER from a long-lasting partnership from Wellington College and well as some small income from the sale of the Maymessy cookbook. Maymessy receives rebaits from OFGEM quarterly for wood pellets that heat the barn that Maymessy operates in which goes into income for Maymessy. Maymessy was honoured to get an Inspiration award from Oxfordshire Care Awards organised by the Oxfordshire Association of Care Providers for our cooking classes with Style acre and our cook book for adults with complex needs and our work with Style acre. Maymessy has 4 directors who have been at Maymessy from the beginning. We had one face to face meeting this year and 6 monthly target are set They have been consulted through regular meetings, email updates, impact reports and updated targets. They receive regular snapshots of evidence through social media and have been a great support to the company. All directors were invited to the Style acre cookbook and they will be invited to key events in 2025.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
6 February 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Anna Richards
Status: Director