MORE THAN PONIES CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
12235710 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 November 2023

End date: 31 October 2024

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 October 2024

Directors report
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

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Directors' report period ended 31 October 2024

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 October 2024

Principal activities of the company

More Than Ponies nature of business is motion picture projection activities, cultural education, support activities to performing arts and artistic creation. More Than Ponies (MTP) is a roaming art programme rooted in the New Forest, Dorset and surrounding areas. MTP situates non-human majority places as sites for radical art making and critical thinking around wider contemporary ideas. MTP is a forum for collaborative creative investigation into unexpected stories, histories, practices and ecologies. Like the animals that live in the New Forest, MTP roams, moving across, between and within multiple sites, places, communities and beings. The programme is sometimes big and sometimes small. MTP is artists-led (conceptually and logistically), has no core funding and is a not-for-profit CIC. MTP is open to collaboration with artists, communities, cultural and research institutions to enrich and diversify our offering. MTP is currently run voluntarily



Directors

The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 November 2023 to 31 October 2024

Laura Perry


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
30 July 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Laura Perry
Status: Director

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Balance sheet

As at 31 October 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0 0
Tangible assets:   0 0
Investments:   0 0
Total fixed assets: 0 0
Current assets
Stocks:   0 0
Debtors:   0 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 2,388 15
Investments:   0 0
Total current assets: 2,388 15
Prepayments and accrued income: 0 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 1,700 ) 0
Net current assets (liabilities): 688 15
Total assets less current liabilities: 688 15
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year:   0 0
Provision for liabilities: 0 0
Accruals and deferred income: 0 0
Total net assets (liabilities): 688 15
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 688 15
Total members' funds: 688 15

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 October 2024 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.

The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 30 July 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Laura Perry
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 October 2024

  • 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

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 October 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 October 2024

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2024 2023
£ £
Bank loans and overdrafts 0 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts 0 0
Trade creditors 0 0
Taxation and social security 0 0
Accruals and deferred income 0 0
Other creditors 1,700 0
Total 1,700 0

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

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Company Number: 12235710 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 October 2024

Company activities and impact

Across the Summer MTP organised Rural Facets a project exploring ruralities and artist practices in collaboration with Visual Arts Southwest. Rural Facets was a trio of gatherings for artists to network, share practice and amplify our own narratives of the rural. In autumn 2024 we organised The Long View: Art, a sense of place, belonging and reciprocity in relation to landscape - a conference exploring themes of place, people and natural landscapes in relation to access to land, National Parks, Public Art Collections and collective acts of ecological care. It seeks to re-examine and radically reposition the role that art can play in this time of climate and nature crisis, moving beyond human-centred meaning and extractive narratives of nature in art and wider cultures of landscapes. Convened by Dr Melanie Rose and Laura Eldret, in partnerships and support from New Forest National Parks and the British Academy. We had scholars travel from across Europe to take part and 90 participants join us across 2 days. A publication is still to be created. In the past year we have also been busy continuing to a regular offer of professional development for artists in the form of PaC gatherings. Looking forward we are exploring expanding the area/ region in which we operate and to identify what we can offer that addresses the gaps in cultural offering in rural, green and open spaces.

Consultation with stakeholders

We have continued to maintain a network of local and national art and cultural communities with whom we will consult with when planning a future programme and opportunities for. We have worked with the New Forest National Park as a regional key stake holder and British Academy leader in the arts sector. Artists are woven into our programme as collaborators and with active consultation and reflection built into our process. In this year we are exploring offers for more general publics.

Directors' remuneration

All the directors work carried out as a director in this period was done voluntarily, apart from work on Rural Facets project which a £500.47 was paid.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

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

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Laura Perry
Status: Director