FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
06814964 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 April 2024

End date: 31 March 2025

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

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

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Directors' report period ended 31 March 2025

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

Principal activities of the company

to carry out activities which benefit the community through Puppetry and Creative performances and use them to provide opportunities for personal development and mentoring.

Additional information

This report has been prepared in accordance with the small companies regime under the Companies Act 2006.



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

Alexandra C Quas-Cohen
Laurence R Agnew
Sandra J Worsley
Anna E Watson
Sarah A Gordon


The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 April 2024 to 12 December 2024

Marcus Clarke-Smee


The director shown below has held office during the period of
19 September 2024 to 31 March 2025

Julia Heaton


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
24 July 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Alexandra C Quas-Cohen
Status: Director

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

2025 2024


£

£
Turnover: 11,653 6,060
Cost of sales: ( 10,352 ) ( 5,045 )
Gross profit(or loss): 1,301 1,015
Administrative expenses: ( 787 ) ( 624 )
Operating profit(or loss): 514 391
Interest receivable and similar income: 177 101
Profit(or loss) before tax: 691 492
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 691 492

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2025

Notes 2025 2024


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 17,668 9,808
Total current assets: 17,668 9,808
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 12,506 ) ( 5,337 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 5,162 4,471
Total assets less current liabilities: 5,162 4,471
Total net assets (liabilities): 5,162 4,471
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 5,162 4,471
Total members' funds: 5,162 4,471

The notes form part of these financial statements

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 March 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 24 July 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Anna E Watson
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

  • 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 represents amounts charged by way of fees for artistic services to customers and amounts received by way of grants and funding for particular projects and amounts received by way of general donations and our own fundraising.

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

  • 2. Employees

    2025 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2025 2024
£ £
Trade creditors 2,154 1,435
Other creditors 10,352 3,902
Total 12,506 5,337

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

FUNNY WONDERS INCORPORATED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company Number: 06814964 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2025

Company activities and impact

Our usual activities continued during April 2024 to March 2025 and we launched a new project. Our long-term project, Changing Faces, supporting disadvantaged young people in Buxton, continued through to July 2024. Workshops restarted in September 2024, continuing through to beyond March 2025. During the autumn school term, we worked on a shadow puppet theatre film called ‘The House Upon the Hill’. Participants were referred via schools, local children’s and care services and by parents. In May, we joined Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust for their Arts & Culture Group Volunteering Fair at The Pump Room and continued to attend Buxton Youth Engagement Forum meetings. During spring and summer 2024, we delivered our Buxton Flowerpot Trail project. The trail ran during July and August and celebrated the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris. We ran pick-up pots stall/workshops at the Buxton Spring Fair, Buxton Markets, Buxton Rotary Summer Fair and in May, ran an outdoor making workshop at The Green Man Gallery, a local, volunteer-run community arts hub. Members of our team also ran two workshops at The Gables Nursing Home, Buxton, and one workshop at TimeOut Group, Handforth, which works with adults with disabilities. We installed their flowerpot creation at The Green Man Gallery and installed our own at a local business. We once again entered the trail into the Buxton Festival Fringe to support the festival. The trail was another popular event, with 55 locations on the map, and we sold more maps than previous years. Trail maps were sold by The Green Man Gallery, Poole’s Cavern Visitor Centre and Buxton Visitor Centre in The Pump Room, which is operated by the Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust. During January-March 2025, we started making plans for and promoting the Buxton Flowerpot Trail project in 2025. In September 2024, we launched our youth-led High Peak Youth Robotics project, after securing enough funding for the project to go ahead. The project offers local young people (12-18 years) the opportunity to take part in the FIRST Tech Challenge, an international robotics competition. Teams are typically from private/public schools and we are 1 of only 4 community teams in England. All our participants attend state schools or are home-educated. Most live in the High Peak with some attending from Derbyshire Dales and Sheffield. The sessions took place at Buxton Methodist Church in Higher Buxton, a new activity venue for us. Sessions were led by a new Funny Wonders member and owner of a local LEGO cafe and we brought in local engineers to mentor the group at their workshops. Members of the group attended a friendly ‘scrimmage’ event in Chesterfield in December 2024 and then the regional competition in March 2025, held in Sheffield. Though the only non-school team out of 15 competing, our team came second on the day and qualified for the national finals in London in June!! Unfortunately, The Green Man Gallery, where we ran our workshops and stored our kit, closed in December 2024, so we have had to secure new workshop venues and we are still looking for more storage for our kit. In September 2024, we appointed a new Director who came on board to support the High Peak Youth Robotics project and later in the year said farewell to another, upon retirement.

Consultation with stakeholders

Our stakeholders are local schools and organisations and the local community in general. We have evaluation forms which are completed at the end of each project, which are completed by those taking part in projects and also those in an audience capacity. These are then reviewed and reported to the Funny Wonders team to help improve our services and the way we interact with the community. We also use these to structure ideas for future projects.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received by directors for performing their duties as directors. However, some payments were made for artistic, administrative and other work on projects. During the year this totalled the sum of £4,489. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
24 July 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: A C Quas-Cohen
Status: Director