YOUTH LANDSCAPERS COLLECTIVE CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
14114079 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 September 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 October 2023

End date: 30 September 2024

YOUTH LANDSCAPERS COLLECTIVE CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

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

YOUTH LANDSCAPERS COLLECTIVE CIC

Directors' report period ended 30 September 2024

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 September 2024

Principal activities of the company

The principal activity of the company during the year under review was to explore and share the landscape’s industrial past and forest future through creative projects.



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024

R. Lee
B.E.A. Shephard
J.V. Wheeler


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
2 May 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: R. Lee
Status: Director

YOUTH LANDSCAPERS COLLECTIVE CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

2024 16 months to 30 September 2023


£

£
Turnover: 50,493 91,539
Cost of sales: ( 40,333 ) ( 79,884 )
Gross profit(or loss): 10,160 11,655
Distribution costs: ( 2,553 ) ( 3,265 )
Administrative expenses: ( 7,607 ) ( 7,141 )
Operating profit(or loss): 0 1,249
Profit(or loss) before tax: 0 1,249
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 0 1,249

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Balance sheet

As at 30 September 2024

Notes 2024 16 months to 30 September 2023


£

£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets: 3 2,484 1,953
Total fixed assets: 2,484 1,953
Current assets
Debtors: 4 634
Cash at bank and in hand: 6,590 3,608
Total current assets: 7,224 3,608
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 5 ( 5,890 ) ( 4,312 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 1,334 (704)
Total assets less current liabilities: 3,818 1,249
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: 6 ( 2,569 )
Total net assets (liabilities): 1,249 1,249
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 1,249 1,249
Total members' funds: 1,249 1,249

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 September 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.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 2 May 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: R. Lee
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

YOUTH LANDSCAPERS COLLECTIVE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 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. Turnover is reduced for estimated customer returns, rebates and other similar allowances. Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised when all the following conditions are satisfied: the Company has transferred to the buyer the significant risks and rewards of ownership of the goods; the Company retains neither continuing managerial involvement to the degree usually associated with ownership nor effective control over the goods sold; the amount of revenue can be measured reliably; it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow to the Company; and the costs incurred or to be incurred in respect of the transaction can be measured reliably.

    Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy

    Tangible fixed assets held for the company's own use are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. At each balance sheet date, the company reviews the carrying amount of its tangible fixed assets to determine whether there is any indication that any items have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of an asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss. Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off the cost or valuation less the estimated residual value of each asset over its estimated useful life: Plant and machinery 25% reducing balance Office equipment 25% reducing balance

    Other accounting policies

    Taxation Income tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax. The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from the surplus as reported in the income and expenditure account because of items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and items that are never taxable or deductible. The Company's liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the end of the reporting period. Deferred tax is recognised on timing differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the corresponding tax bases used in the computation of taxable profit. Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all taxable temporary differences. Deferred tax assets are generally recognised for all deductible timing differences to the extent that it is probable that taxable profits will be available against which those deductible temporary differences can be utilised. The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at the end of each reporting period and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period in which the liability is settled or the asset realised, based on tax rates (and tax laws) that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the end of the reporting period. Current or deferred tax for the year is recognised in the income and expenditure account, except when they relate to items that are recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity, in which case, the current and deferred tax is also recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity respectively. Trade and other debtors Trade and other debtors are initially recognised at fair value and thereafter stated at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts. Trade and other creditors Short term creditors are measured at the transaction price. Other financial liabilities, including bank loans, are measured initially at fair value, net of transaction costs, and are measured subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 16 months to 30 September 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
At 1 October 2023 2,600 0 2,600
Additions 648 710 1,358
Disposals
Revaluations
Transfers
At 30 September 2024 3,248 710 3,958
Depreciation
At 1 October 2023 647 0 647
Charge for year 650 177 827
On disposals
Other adjustments
At 30 September 2024 1,297 177 1,474
Net book value
At 30 September 2024 1,951 533 2,484
At 30 September 2023 1,953 0 1,953

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

4. Debtors

2024 16 months to 30 September 2023
£ £
Prepayments and accrued income 397
Other debtors 237
Total 634

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

5. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 16 months to 30 September 2023
£ £
Trade creditors 15 15
Accruals and deferred income 5,875 1,728
Other creditors 2,569
Total 5,890 4,312

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 September 2024

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

2024
£
Other creditors 2,569
Total 2,569

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

YOUTH LANDSCAPERS COLLECTIVE CIC

Company Number: 14114079 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 30 September 2024

Company activities and impact

Youth Landscapers Collective (YLC) is a place-based youth arts CIC exploring the National Forest’s (NF) industrial and natural history via ambitious collaborative projects with our community. Our members (aged 13 – 21), collaborate with professional artists, technicians and the National Forest community to produce ambitious art projects that we share with a 7000 plus audience at Timber Festival and other events. Over half our members are neuro-divergent. Others are disabled, have mental health difficulties, have experienced bullying, or face other challenges in mainstream youth and educational provision. Our projects support technical and creative skills such as sound production, designing and building structures and digital image making. Importantly, our members also develop their self-confidence, communication, and social skills, as well as their creativity, sense of responsibility, identity and belonging. Our work supports their improved mental health, connection to nature, and career pathways. This year, we completed our most complex creative community project, offered new types of creative activity, built our offer for our older members and grew our organisation. - We delivered The Stage of Possibility 2024, a youth programmed stage of youth arts performances and workshops. - We completed the line up with our own YLC band, who had composed songs working with local folk band The Coaltits, to research and devise new songs - We produced a songbook from the project that can be a legacy of the project which we’ll shared at two community events. - We brought 9 local youth, community and heritage partners together to perform on our stage, drawing on existing and new community connections, with a determination to ensure that local and youth voices had a bold presence alongside the visiting and professional acts. This involved 38 0-13 year olds, 38 13-19 year olds, 115 19 plus and attracted an audience of 1247. Feedback shows that this work supported the work of our partners and amplified local voices by helping them try new ambitious and higher profile delivery models, giving them more knowledge of and connecting them up with each other, providing an opportunity to visit a new festival and have new experiences, deepen a collective sense of identity. - YLC members work collaboratively, learn new skills, develop personally and connect to local history, taking part in more than 75 sessions, resulting in more than 200 individual workshop experiences. They reported that they felt supported to lead and shape our project by working collaboratively, learnt new skills in music making, composition and performance, stage management, community engagement, technical production, visual design, project management and felt connect to their history, locality, feeling pride and a sense of place - We continue to build on youth leadership, continuing to offer our paid project assistant role for a YLC alumni, entering the second year of our YLC Youth Council (who meet quarterly to work with staff on strategic decision making) and training a YLC alumni to join the board as a director. - We undertook our first tour, taking our artwork The Underneath to the Wye Valley River Festival, and shaping a new set of workshop offers which we can take to other organisations. - Alongside this, we are developing a new area of programming which would support our older members in developing the next stage of their creative ambitions via practical advice, mentoring and work experience opportunities. - We’ve also completed a new round of developmental work – updating policies, establishing a new website, growing our board from 3 members to 5, undertaking new safeguarding training and beginning work on a new strategy with an external consultant.

Consultation with stakeholders

The company’s stakeholders are members of Youth Landscapers (aged 13-22) and local delivery partners. The directors of the company were involved in establishing the community youth project in 2016 that lead to development of the company and incorporation and therefore have pre-existing local relationships and an understanding of the local need that lead to its establishment and the profile of the young people who take part. Youth Landscaper members are consulted with monthly through our YLC forums, where all members can be a part of decision making and shaping our delivery based on their personal needs, interests and skills. Five members aged 18 plus also sit on our Youth Council where they meet with directors to support and consult around strategic decision making and procedures. Our 2024 project used input from these processes -shaping projects which included more physical building, the use of new technologies, and the creation of a space in which other local people and artists can also share their creativity.

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
2 May 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: R. Lee
Status: Director