for the Period Ended 31 January 2025
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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2025
Principal activities of the company
Additional information
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2024
to
31 January 2025
The director shown below has held office during the period of
7 October 2024
to
31 January 2025
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
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 January 2025
Basis of measurement and preparation
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In the past year we have devoted a lot of focus to our skills transfer programmes helping unemployed adults into work and supporting grassroots community groups to become more resilient. We have run skills transfer programmes in Streaming and Content Production, in partnership with the Job Centres in Brighton, Newhaven, Lewes, Hastings, Bexhill and Eastbourne, skills transfer programmes for the unemployed, mentoring them in content creation, filming, editing, post-production. They create short films which are then broadcast on terrestrial television and streamed on many platforms. On successful completion of the course, they are awarded a diploma accredited by Latest TV. We have mentored over 70 unemployed adults on the programme with many of them now in employment which we helped them to find. We have worked extensively with community groups across Sussex, particularly neighbourhood groups set up to combat loneliness and isolation, filming over 50 groups showing their activities and the impact they have had on their communities. We have a series of 14 programmes’, showing this work, which have been widely used to increase fundraising, recruit volunteers and show senior community leaders what really happens on the ground. The series has been widely praised by all and is now available to all groups to use to help their own communications. We are now supporting several community groups to use modern communication methods – streaming, social media, websites, to support their strategies and making them more resilient. We continue to work with The Regeneration Team at Lewes Council to create positive features to counter the neglect and bad reputation, restoring a sense of civic pride and duty. We have run many cultural events that are inclusive and diverse giving opportunity to groups that do not have a platform and usually denied access to the world of television and modern digital skills. We ran Ukraine Music and Film Festivals, giving welcome and opportunities to Ukrainian refugees. We were commissioned by Brighton and Hove City Council to help the refugees create their own CIC and support them to stage events. We continue to mentor selected refugees. We have created opportunity to spread the Film Festival across the UK including screenings in Shoreham, Lewes and Cardiff. We ran the ‘What A Nice World’ 24 Festival, a series of annual musical events with ‘tolerance’ and togetherness as their theme. We staged Gas, the uplifting opera about genocides, set in Auschwitz, Syria, Ukraine, to great critical acclaim We have created films on this as well as a documentary on the mostly untold life of Arnold Daghani, a very important and unique Holocaust chronicler, with a powerful story told through his art, who survived the concentration camp and died later in Brighton. Film Pride again ran successfully in association with Brighton Pride, attracting many audience members and watched by thousands on television and in person, and we facilitated many LGBTQ+ events. We ran festivals for the black and ethnic minority communities. We again ran the Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration for Brighton and Hove Council. Latest’s own music composed by Bill Smith and Angi Mariani was used at The Northern Ireland commemorations at Stormont, the seat of Northern Ireland’s Government. We focus our activities on our nearest communities to the CIC which are: East Brighton - These communities are largely young and deprived, often in poverty and often poor education Kemptown This is primarily the LGBTQ+ area of Brighton and known as The Gay Village Brighton and Hove Deprived areas across Sussex Supporting unemployed adults across Sussex.
We have constant discussion and consultations with the diverse communities. Our senior management team are very diverse, and include from the black community, the Jewish Community, Ukrainian refugees, the LGBTQIA+ community. All consulted extensively with their communities on the activities to be undertaken, They are central to running these events and lessons are learnt and applied constantly. All projects are formally evaluated including feedback for all stakeholders. All evaluations have been accepted by the relevant funders. We consult regularly with the Job Centres and have attended many face-to-face meetings with claimants to hear their views. We ask all participants at the end of every programme and take note and act upon any recommendations. Our main stakeholders are: Brighton and Hove communities Brighton’s LGBTQ+ community Brighton’s BAME community BHCC Lewes District Council Brighton’s city leaders Job Centres across Sussex Sussex Community Development Association All grassroots organisations in the city with whom projects have been devised All our funders – Arts Council, BFI, Rainbow Fund, BHCC, UK Shared Prosperity Fund, Aviva, Tesco Other small funders.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
13 June 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ms CM Smith
Status: Director