for the Period Ended 31 March 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 March 2025
Principal activities of the company
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
The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 April 2024
to
12 December 2024
The director shown below has held office during the period of
19 September 2024
to
31 March 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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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 March 2025
Basis of measurement and preparation
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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.
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.
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.
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