BRINGING US TOGETHER C.I.C.

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
08846875 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 January 2025

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 February 2024

End date: 31 January 2025

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

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

BRINGING US TOGETHER C.I.C.

Directors' report period ended 31 January 2025

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2025

Principal activities of the company

Bringing Us Together has continued its work to reach more families, parents carers with disabled children, young people and adults, together with disabled people across the country. Our organisation has greatly diversified and is working alongside parents and disabled people from ethnic minority communities which is clearly shown through our work with Carers United, our Steering Group for the new Doing it Solo Project, plus inviting new Directors to the team. We continue to deliver training for the Key Worker Programme in Yorkshire and Humber and were able to offer face to face training alongside our zoom sessions. This training is part of the induction of new staff, has wellbeing at the heart, whilst providing the opportunity for reflection. The overall aim is to improve communication with families and provides a rich insight into the world of disability. Through our relationship with Kirklees families and the local Parent Forum (PCAN) we designed a course for their steering groups on working together, avoiding conflicts and organising meetings. As a result of the successful training PCAN asked us to take part in the PINS programme Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools. This was a commissioned piece of work through NHS Kirklees and our role was to work alongside schools to support teachers, Teaching Assistants, SENCOs and Head teachers to think about how they could further develop positive relationships with families. We delivered this over 4 sessions with an excellent turnout and feedback in November 2024. Our Skills for Care workshops aimed at Direct Payment Employers has been a successful collaboration with Being the Boss, Halo, and Adult Social Care Warriors. This has enabled us to share our skills and resources, and reach a wide number of parent carers and disabled people through our joint networks and social media channels. We sadly lost our dear friend and work colleague Iggy Patel in January 2025. Iggy had led our sessions with compassion, knowledge and deep insight into the world of social care and disability. We continued to deliver the sessions in his memory with our own improvisation. Thanks to a relationship with Learning Disability England we received a contract to deliver 2 Social Care Charging and Disability Related Expenses workshops to their members. In November we heard we had a successful application to the National Lottery Awards for All grant to fund a brand new much needed project which was the innovation of our new Director Njaimeh Nmboge. As a single parent herself she felt that lone parents of disabled children rarely have a voice, and little is done in the way of emotional and practical support despite the enormous barriers they face. Thanks to the funding we have been able to bring together a Steering Group made up of lone parents and who are using their insight and lived experiences to lead on this much needed and innovative work. We are planning to launch the project on National Single Parents Day with the support of our Well Being facilitators and Dame Philippa Russell who has worked on Carers policies and guidance for many years at national level. We are all excited and looking forward to meeting the needs of single parent carers. We have set up a group called Carers United thanks to funding originally from NHS England in Yorkshire and Humber and with a grant from Community Foundation for Calderdale. This has built on our much needed work last year on the Culture Matters project based in Yorkshire .We are fortunate to work with two parent carer leaders from the Pakistani community who are well linked and have large networks in the Halifax area. They are both interpreters which has enabled us to bring together mothers who have English as a second language and who face isolation, discrimination within their own communities and families, and some of whom struggle with our complex education, health and social care systems. We are looking forward to the next year ahead with more Social Care workshops, continuing our work with parent carers, training professionals and building on the positive work we have done in 2024/2025.



Directors

The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025

Katrina Clarke


The director shown below has held office during the period of
23 May 2024 to 31 January 2025

Njaimeh Mboge


The director shown below has held office during the period of
13 May 2024 to 31 January 2025

Kate Mercer


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
10 June 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Katrina Clarke
Status: Director

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

2025 2024


£

£
Turnover: 56,510 52,768
Cost of sales: ( 56,045 ) ( 54,199 )
Gross profit(or loss): 465 (1,431)
Operating profit(or loss): 465 (1,431)
Profit(or loss) before tax: 465 (1,431)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 465 (1,431)

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Balance sheet

As at 31 January 2025

Notes 2025 2024


£

£
Current assets
Debtors: 3 0 3,000
Cash at bank and in hand: 54,554 29,863
Total current assets: 54,554 32,863
Net current assets (liabilities): 54,554 32,863
Total assets less current liabilities: 54,554 32,863
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: 4 ( 50,424 ) ( 29,198 )
Total net assets (liabilities): 4,130 3,665
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 4,130 3,665
Total members' funds: 4,130 3,665

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 January 2025 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 10 June 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Katrina Clarke
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Financial Reporting Standard 101

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

  • 2. Employees

    2025 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 2 2

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

3. Debtors

2025 2024
£ £
Trade debtors 0 3,000
Total 0 3,000

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

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

2025 2024
£ £
Other creditors 50,424 29,198
Total 50,424 29,198

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

BRINGING US TOGETHER C.I.C.

Company Number: 08846875 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 January 2025

Company activities and impact

Bringing Us Together has continued its work to reach more families, parents carers with disabled children, young people and adults, together with disabled people across the country. Our organisation has greatly diversified and is working alongside parents and disabled people from ethnic minority communities which is clearly shown through our work with Carers United, our Steering Group for the new Doing it Solo Project, plus inviting new Directors to the team. We continue to deliver training for the Key Worker Programme in Yorkshire and Humber and were able to offer face to face training alongside our zoom sessions. This training is part of the induction of new staff, has wellbeing at the heart, whilst providing the opportunity for reflection. The overall aim is to improve communication with families and provides a rich insight into the world of disability. Through our relationship with Kirklees families and the local Parent Forum (PCAN) we designed a course for their steering groups on working together, avoiding conflicts and organising meetings. As a result of the successful training PCAN asked us to take part in the PINS programme Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools. This was a commissioned piece of work through NHS Kirklees and our role was to work alongside schools to support teachers, Teaching Assistants, SENCOs and Head teachers to think about how they could further develop positive relationships with families. We delivered this over 4 sessions with an excellent turnout and feedback in November 2024. Our Skills for Care workshops aimed at Direct Payment Employers has been a successful collaboration with Being the Boss, Halo, and Adult Social Care Warriors. This has enabled us to share our skills and resources, and reach a wide number of parent carers and disabled people through our joint networks and social media channels. We sadly lost our dear friend and work colleague Iggy Patel in January 2025. Iggy had led our sessions with compassion, knowledge and deep insight into the world of social care and disability. We continued to deliver the sessions in his memory with our own improvisation. Thanks to a relationship with Learning Disability England we received a contract to deliver 2 Social Care Charging and Disability Related Expenses workshops to their members. In November we heard we had a successful application to the National Lottery Awards for All grant to fund a brand new much needed project which was the innovation of our new Director Njaimeh Nmboge. As a single parent herself she felt that lone parents of disabled children rarely have a voice, and little is done in the way of emotional and practical support despite the enormous barriers they face. Thanks to the funding we have been able to bring together a Steering Group made up of lone parents and who are using their insight and lived experiences to lead on this much needed and innovative work. We are planning to launch the project on National Single Parents Day with the support of our Well Being facilitators and Dame Philippa Russell who has worked on Carers policies and guidance for many years at national level. We are all excited and looking forward to meeting the needs of single parent carers. We have set up a group called Carers United thanks to funding originally from NHS England in Yorkshire and Humber and with a grant from Community Foundation for Calderdale. This has built on our much needed work last year on the Culture Matters project based in Yorkshire .We are fortunate to work with two parent carer leaders from the Pakistani community who are well linked and have large networks in the Halifax area. They are both interpreters which has enabled us to bring together mothers who have English as a second language and who face isolation, discrimination within their own communities and families, and some of whom struggle with our complex education, health and social care systems. We are looking forward to the next year ahead with more Social Care workshops, continuing our work with parent carers, training professionals and building on the positive work we have done in 2024/2025.

Consultation with stakeholders

Bringing Us Together runs steering groups for each of our projects. Members of the steering group are all disabled people and family members. They drive the projects forward, agree on each project’s objectives and aims, are accountable for meeting the needs of our community and work in a proactive and responsive way considering any feedback and surveys. We have a very active facebook group and page. Many of our flyers are shared widely across the disability sector and parent carer groups. We run regular polls on our facebook group to ask members what our focus should be, which workshops to run, and what is important to people in the current political climate. We are able do adjust our workshops accordingly and due to our wide networks have a reach of a range of speakers who are either disabled or parent carers. We send out a survey after each workshop or focus group and take the views into account when planning the next sessions. We have excellent stakeholder engagement and relationships with a range of NHS England programmes who have supported our work over many years. We have developed trust with organisations and Kirklees Local Authority, the Key Worker Programme in Yorkshire and Humber and have been asked to deliver training to professionals working on these projects. We are part of several groups including anti-poverty working groups, Skills for Care Northern Network, Inclusion London, Citizen Network, Think Local Act Personal and Disability Rights UK. We will continue throughout the next year to engage with disabled people and families across England and take their views on board with any future projects.

Directors' remuneration

The total amount receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £14,120

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
10 June 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Katrina Clarke
Status: Director