Company Registration No. 08524378 (England and Wales)
La Petite Mort Theatre
Unaudited accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
La Petite Mort Theatre
Unaudited accounts
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La Petite Mort Theatre
Company Information
for the year ended 31 March 2025
Directors
Helen Gould
George Adams
Elisa Macauley
Fiona Muntz
Diane Sammons
Lisa Marie Glass
Company Number
08524378 (England and Wales)
Registered Office
The Hub
Bold Street
Fleetwood
Lancashire
FY7 6BE
United Kingdom
La Petite Mort Theatre
Statement of financial position
as at 31 March 2025
Cash at bank and in hand
33,289
49,583
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
(15,623)
(40,028)
Net current assets
21,029
10,000
Profit and loss account
21,728
10,000
Members' funds
21,728
10,000
For the year ending 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit 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 and in accordance with the provisions of FRS 102 Section 1A - Small Entities. The profit and loss account has not been delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 31 May 2025 and were signed on its behalf by
Helen Gould
Director
Company Registration No. 08524378
La Petite Mort Theatre
Notes to the Accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
La Petite Mort Theatre is a private company, limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales, registration number 08524378. The registered office is The Hub, Bold Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6BE, United Kingdom.
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Compliance with accounting standards
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of FRS 102 Section 1A Small Entities. There were no material departures from that standard.
Directors Report (in full)
Achievements
Fleetwood Moves Festival 2024
Fleetwood Moves set out to bring a new dance and live music festival to the Fleetwood community as part of our Fleetwood Dance and Health Hub programme. The festival was underpinned by inclusivity, showcasing a diverse range of accessible community and professional music and dance from the local area, the NW and beyond. The curation of the festival was developed with and for the communities of Fleetwood.
Audience:
People of all ages, abilities & backgrounds attended the 1-day Fleetwood Moves festival on August 3rd 2024. The festival had an audience of 1302 people, 30% higher than predicted. The public engaged as audience members, as workshop participants and as performers in participatory performance work. The festival included 8 workshops, 21 performances and 2 walkabout performances.
Highlights:
Highlights of the festival were many but included Fleetwood Moves showcasing 2 world premieres, 1 international dance company, a first public performance by local group Fleetwood Fusion, a first visit to the North West by the Scottish group Young 1z (Indepen-dance), a showcase of new work by graduate company Morph Movement, a first time working with Mike Taylor, Loz Kaye and County of Song, TramShed and Harmony in Health, and a new collaborative work by two neuro-divergent artists. This evaluation report examines the planning, execution, and impact of Fleetwood Moves 24, offering insights into its successes, challenges, and opportunities for growth in the future.
Huge, huge congratulations and a massive thank you for such an amazing and inspiring Fleetwood Moves 2024! It was great to see how confident all the performers were in the outdoor setting; it really brought their work closer to the audience, and generated a contagious enthusiasm. The level of participation was brilliant – heart- warming, invigorating, and great fun! I really felt that dancing together opened up conversations, and a sense of celebration. It’s clear that the openness, rapport, and safe space that you enabled at Fleetwood Moves 2024 comes from years of experience of making dance happen in a warm, caring, and inclusive way. Seeing so many local children drawn in to watch the performances, and then get up and dance was truly magic!”
Dr Michelle Man, PhD, MA, FHEA, MHFA, Senior
Lecturer in Dance, Department of English and
Creative Arts, Edge Hill University.
“Found the event AMAZING! The dance troops were
super and it’
s good to see inclusion within the
community.”
“I found the focus on community dance made the
festival unique. There was such a big range of groups
and I felt it was very moving to see such a celebration
of people dancing together.”
“Made a really bad month and year amazing, coming here really brightened up my whole day. I loved every minute. Thank you for making it easier to deal with. See you next year.”
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“The festival was really good and was very heart
warming and fun with some really beautiful
performances.”
"It’s been such a joyful morning. The show was wonderful and everyone has really enjoyed themselves singing and dancing with you all.”
“It felt like a real celebration of community and
diversity, and it was really special to be there all day
and to take in so many styles of performance and
Number of acts performing 19
Number of Professional artists performing 33
Total Number of community & professional
performers 98
4 new works supported/premiered
Audience (clicker counted) 1302 (target 1000)
8 workshops
21 performances
2 walkabout performances
Volunteers engaged 16 (target 8)
Number of recent graduates performing 2
Brought in audiences from across the district and beyond. With data collection on the day showing some audiences coming in from Carlisle, Manchester, Abingdon, Salford, Lancaster, Leyland, Preston, St Helen’s, Ormskirk and Liverpool
Positive feedback on accessibility features including ramps, sign language interpreters, sensory spaces, disabled toilet facilities
Beyond the Park
Event activities extended beyond Memorial Park to ensure isolated communities and those new to LPM’s work could engage in the experience. Between April and August 24, two new interactive performances Spectacles by the Sea and DoodleBug were created for care homes/early years settings. The small-scale works each involved 2 dance performers and a live musician.
Spectacles by the Sea is a bespoke show for older people integrating life stories, participation, song, and movement. The company meet informally with residents before the performance, introducing themselves and building relationships. Memories and stories are shared over a cup of tea, music is played, and people dance. The artists then adapt and refine aspects of the show so it is informed and inspired by the audience. When the company return for the performance the show is relevant, fun, exciting and bespoke.
"I feel like I've been on a holiday”
"I've never seen anything like it. It had a little bit of everything and a little piece of home."
The show has toured to 6 care homes in Fleetwood and has received very positive responses from residents. In addition to the performances, artists offered one-to- one workshops for residents in rooms who could not access the performance in the
DoodleBug is a playful, inclusive participatory show with live music. The piece is based on developmental play and movement patterns and the non-verbal nature of the performance has made it very relevant for many SEN audiences too. DoodleBug toured to 6 early years settings in Fleetwood. The popularity of the show has also meant it was booked for further performances at Light Up Lancaster, The Family Fiesta for North Lancashire Down’s Syndrome Group and a family day for Warrington Culture at Warrington Museum.
“The Children all loved the show and it was wonderfully
interactive. We would love the performers to come back one day.
We have a few children with additional needs who I thought may
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Notes to the Accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
struggle a little. However, they loved it and joined in without
encouragement. Thank you so much for allowing us to be part of
the performance it's just perfect for early years. Many thanks once again.”
- Paula and all the Skylarks family
International
Directors George and Helen attended Limón Teacher training course in New York. George has also been funded through Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice and has been pursuing a yearlong programme of international research focusing on inclusive pedagogy. George continues to work with Indepen-dance in Glasgow on a weekly basis as Tutor, mentor and choreographer.
Dance and Health Hub Activity
We continue to invest time in the development of our Dance and Health Hubs in Fleetwood, Preston and in East Lancashire.
Neuro-Moves
Since 2023 we have been able to develop our Lancashire-wide programme of specialist classes for people living with neurological conditions with support from National Lottery Reaching Communities fund and Parkinson’s UK. This flagship programme is a key part of our Dance and Health Hub provision and reaches people from Rossendale and Preston who engage in weekly responsive, person-centred activity that supports the management of symptoms and improves quality of life.
Neuro-Moves also includes an online programme which support more people in Lancashire and beyond. Alongside our Rossendale and Preston provision, we have also established a pilot programme in Grindleton which has been led by local demand. This programme is facilitated by Filomena Ianni.
In Fleetwood, alongside the festival, we deliver our weekly Fleetwood Fusion class, for adults with and without disabilities. The group has grown over this year, and we are now at full capacity. The profile of Fleetwood Fusion is increasing as we extend opportunities beyond the weekly session. At the end of March, we are looking forward to opening Lancashire Inclusion Summit in May.
In East Lancashire we have established a new partnership with Burnley College over this year, offering training and shadowing opportunities and sharing a presentation of work for students. The college students have been working with LPM in March on the Rhythm of the Looms project with Lancashire Textile Biennial. The performance will be performed at Queen Street Mill in April 2025. We hope this partnership will continue to develop and feed into LPM’s wider work whilst also supporting the development of the sector through skills development and work experience for young artists.
In Preston we have focused activity around the development of our Neuro-Moves Preston programme and building relationships within the university to establish more opportunities for cross-collaborative research. Work includes.
Developing relationships with Biomechanics, Social Science departments
Delivery of aspects of the teaching module for dance students
Presentations as part of Older People’s Event at Preston Town Hall.
Delivery of professional development programme including a new partnership with Preston College.
In Lancaster, we continue to deliver weekly classes in partnership with North Lancashire Downs Syndrome Group.
Professional Development
To support the ecology and legacy of our work, this year, we have been developing our professional development offer.
This has involved the delivery of two strands of work.
Six professional development workshops in Lancashire targeting professional artists and emerging artists funded by Arts Council England. One workshop focused on skills development for community artists with disabilities and care workers.
Lead Artists:
Ithalia Johnson (Preston)
Lisa Simpson (Fleetwood)
Maya Leeke (Lancaster)
Julie Spence (Preston)
Ffion Cambell-Davies (Lancaster)
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Wendy Houstoun (Lancaster)
Weekly class in Lancaster
We have established a weekly class for professional and community participants in Lancaster. The diverse programme has drawn in professional artists from a wide range of disciplines. Classes have included;
Skinner Release, ballet, musical theatre, Limón Technique, voice work, Progressing Ballet Technique and improvisation. Class numbers have increased.
Organisational Development
LPM Dance is proud of its full freelance, artist-led workforce. This year we have engaged 49 different artists in paid work across our projects. We are working towards charity transition.
Reserves policy
The organisation has been working to build up a free reserve, excluding fixed assets. At the end of the year these were £11,728, an increase of £1128 from last year.
The reserves policy is to ensure there are sufficient reserves available to finance adequately, for at least three months, the operation of the company in the event of unforeseen circumstances. We aim to continue to increase this reserve pot with a target of £15,000.
The Management recognise that in times of funding uncertainty around our core funder, it is prudent to build reserves above this to enable the company to survive and deliver our mission in the event of loss of a major element of our grant income. LPM aims to build company reserves over the following year to bring them to a level which would withstand such longer-term changes to our business model.
The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below and have remained unchanged from the previous year, and also have been consistently applied within the same accounts.
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the revaluation of certain fixed assets.
The accounts are presented in £ sterling.
Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
Tangible assets are included at cost less depreciation and impairment. Depreciation has been provided at the following rates in order to write off the assets over their estimated useful lives:
Computer equipment
The value of the asset (£902) has been fully written off this year.
La Petite Mort Theatre
Notes to the Accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
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Tangible fixed assets
Computer equipment
Amounts falling due within one year
6
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2025
2024
Deferred income
15,101
34,765
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Company limited by guarantee
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital.
Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of a winding up, such an amount as may be required not exceeding £1.
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Average number of employees
During the year the average number of employees was 0 (2024: 0).