JOINED UP CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
12822333 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 August 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 September 2023

End date: 31 August 2024

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2024

Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

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Balance sheet

As at 31 August 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0 0
Tangible assets:   0
Investments:   0 0
Total fixed assets: 0 0
Current assets
Stocks:   0
Debtors:   0 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 208 1,295
Investments:   0 0
Total current assets: 208 1,295
Prepayments and accrued income: 0 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 790 ) ( 590 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (582) 705
Total assets less current liabilities: (582) 705
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year:   0 0
Provision for liabilities: 0 0
Accruals and deferred income: 0 0
Total net assets (liabilities): (582) 705
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (582) 705
Total members' funds: ( 582) 705

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 August 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.

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 28 May 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Sally Lee
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 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

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 0 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts 0 0
Trade creditors 0 0
Taxation and social security 0 0
Accruals and deferred income 0 0
Other creditors 790 590
Total 790 590

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

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Company Number: 12822333 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 August 2024

Company activities and impact

Mend and Make Wonderful (continued from previous financial/operational year): The second Joined Up visible mending course ran over 6 sessions, including a taster ahead of the sessions proper commencing. The project sought to illuminate and modestly test one possible response to climate change, namely tackling clothing consumption/waste and our associated attitudes, exploring whether it might be able to encourage behaviour change via visible mending and the incorporation of artistic repair. At conception, Joined Up outlined the delivery of 2 x artist-led courses, each taking place over 5 sessions (10 formal delivery sessions in total), each course hosting expert speakers giving brief presentations and leading short discussions. Sought outcomes: - Flamboyant creations will help remove repair-stigma and promote the notion that to mend is admirable and a rationale response to the environmental crisis. - Participants connect their current behaviours, with their environmental impact. - Prompt behaviour change (e.g. reduce unnecessary purchases/waste), observing a change in attitudes, and a growth in awareness. - Participants will become ambassadors for visible mending, wearing their creations proudly and prompting discussion. - Unassisted travel of the climate message, with the hope each attendee sparks several conversations external to the classes, with friends/family about their attention grabbing repairs. - Lessen the pain of the initial reduction in clothes shopping, by returning 4 items back in to the attendees clothing rotation. This would then only require each individual to buy 4 further items less than the yearly average - as a result of the course emphasising the importance in doing so - and this could result in a 50% reduction in clothing consumption for the year or rather 8 items per person (down from an average suggested 16 items). - Therefore, the equivalent carbon reduction for the course (untested aspirational target), would be 8 items of clothing pp/pa and so 2.6kg of CO2 pp.

Consultation with stakeholders

Joined Up began consultation in Openshaw and Gorton in 2022 and throughout 2023-24, in order to develop a multi-thematic arts programme in the area, including dance, textile and visual art. A variety of stakeholders were consulted (including local artists, non-profits and approaching 30 local residents), with the course framework collaboratively designed. This overwhelmingly found a need, gap, interest and demand for arts activities in the area. Additionally, secondary desk based research was also undertaken, which corroborated the primary research findings, in that local stakeholders reported that rapid demographic change had occurred in the local area in relation to ethnicity, presenting opportunities for greater cohesion between groups. This then became the premise for the arts programme, to enhance integration, interaction and connection, alongside the exchange of cultural learning between groups and through the medium of art. In the initial attempt to secure funding, three applications were submitted receiving very positive feedback yet against considerable competition it was advised, these attempts ultimately being unsuccessful. One of the more established key partners then adopted the lead in a fourth attempt to secure funding, with the same result. Ultimately, the research and proposal was shared with 2 sizeable local partners involved from the outset, with one of these requesting to utilise the programme concept and research produced by Joined Up to inform another programme and support the application of further funding. Permission was granted and an element of support given in relation. During development of the above programme, Joined Up encountered several local minority business owners and artists, who felt stuck in terms of their own activities/their business’s development. Joined Up convened a workshop and facilitated a discussion to explore their needs and aspirations, providing the findings to a local lead organisation in the hope they might be able to assist these local actors further, highlighting the potential for a network/forum.

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
22 May 2025

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