ARTCONNEXION UK CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
11256842 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 April 2024

End date: 31 March 2025

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

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

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Directors' report period ended 31 March 2025

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 March 2025

Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

Sally CRABTREE
Amanda CRABTREE
Mandy ENGELSMA


The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 April 2024 to 5 April 2024

Faye Melissa BEAVIS BROWNING


The director shown below has held office during the period of
2 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

Jo Anne FITZGERALD


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
20 April 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Sally CRABTREE
Status: Director

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

2025 2024


£

£
Turnover: 33,825 10,873
Cost of sales: ( 33,500 ) ( 9,670 )
Gross profit(or loss): 325 1,203
Administrative expenses: ( 324 ) ( 325 )
Operating profit(or loss): 1 878
Profit(or loss) before tax: 1 878
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 1 878

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Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2025

Notes 2025 2024


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 13,292 16,631
Total current assets: 13,292 16,631
Net current assets (liabilities): 13,292 16,631
Total assets less current liabilities: 13,292 16,631
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: 3 ( 2,334 ) ( 2,073 )
Accruals and deferred income: ( 11,107 ) ( 14,708 )
Total net assets (liabilities): (149) (150)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (149) ( 150)
Total members' funds: ( 149) (150)

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 March 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 20 April 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Sally CRABTREE
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

  • 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

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

  • 2. Employees

    2025 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

3. Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year note

2025 2024
£ £
Other creditors 2,334 2,073
Total 2,334 2,073

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

ARTCONNEXION UK CIC

Company Number: 11256842 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2025

Company activities and impact

We were delighted this year to be awarded funding from GWR’s Community fund to be able to successfully deliver a project called Day Trip to Happiness – which gave those taking part a ticket for their journey to wellbeing. We were able to work with wide and diverse groups in the community – from refugees, to carers, to women who had been in prison, those with disabilities and children and young people suffering from poor mental health. “Your projects are pure joy!” Emma Morris, GWR. We were also honoured to be invited to the National Industry Rail Awards where our Birds on the Branchline initiative, delivered last year, was placed amongst the winners for innovative community rail arts projects. With our French cultural partners and community organisations, we have been developing the international aspect of our Poetry Plane project by linking communities in Cornwall with those in N France to create a cultural exchange. We invited participants from both sides of the channel to write poems on seeded paper that could be fluttered from the skies over the Somme and over Cornwall. We have been lucky to be able to partner with such organisations as Bodmin airfield and the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust which has enabled us to make this concept a reality and which has captured the imagination of the wider public as well as the BBC. We were thrilled, in the summer of 2024, to finally see them being fluttered from the sky. Where the poems landed they grew into flowers as a symbol of peace and friendship. We were also able to gain extra funding from the J J Charitable Trust to develop the Poetry Postie work and to use it to inspire those who found reading difficult. A Poetry Plane comic, featuring the Poetry Postie’s Parcel Pet characters, was created with the help of Beano Cartoonists Cartoonfun as a resource and proved to be very successful in helping those who struggle with literacy learn to read. One aspect of the project which was also very popular were the FLYkus – haikus written on paper airplanes – and we have been asked by National Poetry Day if these can feature as part of their 2025 celebrations. We also gained funding from Sport England to deliver a project called Verses Versus Adversity – Dancing Words and StorYoga. Those taking part shared their ideas and experiences and inspired verses that could be set to music and become instant songs to dance to. They also learned a series of StorYoga ‘flows’ that helped them both move and be moved. We invited the children and young people involved to become ambassadors and help their own family members and friends to move more through the songs we had created. The overwhelming success of this project has led us to explore developing it further so that we will be able to continue to help creating happier people and happier communities.

Consultation with stakeholders

Our major stakeholders are the company’s directors and the community as a whole. We have consulted with wide and diverse groups in the community - including youth groups, schools, community leaders, memory cafes and local councils - offering taster sessions and open days where people can come together to find out about the work we do and to give feedback on how best to shape projects that will best help the community’s needs and address the problems they are facing. As result of such consultation it was clear that loneliness and isolation, poor mental health, low levels of literacy, and lack of social cohesions and aspirations are still the key factors. Because of Brexit, our French partners were also incredibly keen to continue such cultural exchanges as they have found it very uplifting to be able to still connect in such a cultural way through projects such as ours. As a result of such consultation, the Directors have used all the ideas gathered to to focus on projects which are achievable in scale and help address these problems. By their very nature, our projects are community led and involve absolutely everybody regardless of age or background or ability, helping to improve levels of physical and mental health and wellbeing, raise aspirations and levels of literacy and to reduce loneliness and isolation and increase social cohesion. We are now in consultation GWR to deliver a new project to celebrate Railway 200 and liaising with the health care professionals and the NHS to ensure our Dancing Words and StorYoga project can reach a wider audience. Our poetry Plane project continues to soar and at a recent World Literary Summit in Oxford we were able to make new contacts with world wide organisations who are interested in getting involved. We are very interested to develop a product based on our popular Parcel Pet mascots and will be researching how best to do this so that our company can create a new source of revenue to help us further deliver our projects.

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
20 April 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Sally CRABTREE
Status: Director