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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 July 2024
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 August 2023
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31 July 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
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Status: Director
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Write Out Loud began running poetry events in 2003, created its community poetry website in 2005 and has run as a CIC since 2015. For the period August 2023 – July 2024, Write Out Loud continued to carry out its activities in two main areas: 1) Running poetry events and workshops for the community 2) Providing website facilities for (i) users to upload and discuss poetry (ii) disseminating news about poetry in the UK (iii) promoting poetry events UK wide, not just those run by Write Out Loud. We continued support events via our Poetry Gig Guide, listing 127 new events. The Gig Guide is a valuable resource that connects community poetry events with our online community of people interested in poetry who use our website. This year we introduced an improved interface for finding gigs by location, date and keywords. Elsewhere on the site 193 poetry news and reviews articles focusing on the interests of the poetry community were published. We also provide online messaging services to specific poetry groups to allow them to organise events and develop their own communities within the site. The site has a flourishing online of poets, many of whom have been members for several years. In the financial year 2023-2024, users published over 4000 poems generating discussion and comment among community members. Write Out Loud continued to run monthly open-mic poetry nights in Wigan, Bolton, Stockport, Sale and Woking. We stay in contact with donors to the site to find out why they value the site. An example of feedback received was "You all do a marvellous job and that site helped me enormously during a very difficult time in my life. And I've also met some marvellous people through the poetry world."
The organisation stakeholders are its website users, individual, developing poet/performers, volunteers who provide content and run the website, volunteers who organise poetry events and those who attend them, as well as other organisations who provide services or information to individual poets, such as competition and educational opportunity organisers. We continue to receive feedback from website users and make improvements to the site. An example of this was improved interface for the Gig Guide and easier sharing to other social media sites.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
21 November 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Paul Emberson
Status: Director