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The notes form part of these financial statements
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
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
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Introduction In FY 24/25 Bicester Vision CIC (BV CIC) continued on its journey to work with private, public and the charitable sectors. The principal tools for doing this was the leveraging of our partnership meetings to include speakers from across all three sectors of the town's community and the development of content and the promotion of our electronic newsletter. In using these tools we identified appropriate speakers, what topics were of most importance to the audiences and ensuring the newsletter content, and partnership meetings would serve our aims. To achieve this our executive team engaged with the community to seek out how our efforts are useful. These findings were coordinated with the remainder of the CIC's executive board at regular online meetings that enabled relevance and the delivery of expectations. It was this attention to all three sectors of our community that was the principal guiding en-deavour, with a particular focus on skills, knowledge transfer and business support of the or-ganisation during BV 24/25. Measures of Success Enabling Business Growth. Businesses attend our annual partnership meetings and are in receipt of the monthly newsletter and are also able to engage with our Relationships Manager. This provides a literal and virtual information exchange that allows business to identify opportunities and also those other organisations who can help them deliver on them. We are particularly pleased to welcome as a member Bicester Market Traders, who deliver an important part of high street commerce that is less widely understood by the public. We also allowed Chiltern Railways, EZ-Charge, East West Rail and the HS2 to deliver a series or presentations on the future of transport in Bicester to our community. This is especially important as these public projects generate business locally. Other organisations that have presented updates at our Partnership meetings include Siemens Healthineers, British Bakels, Value Retail, and Bicester Hotel Golf and Spa. Solicit Support. As a CIC Bicester Vision is very much concerned with the wellbeing of those organisations who operate in Bicester. This year, amongst others, we have worked with The Hummingbird Centre, Bicester Foodbank, Open Doors Cafe, The Engineering Trust, Young Enterprise, and OxLEP Skills. We have given a voice to these organisations and undoubtedly helped with voluntary support and funding acquisition though this is perhaps difficult to quantify. Direction of Travel. This year we have worked with Oxford County Council, HMP Bullingdon, Bicester Garrison, Cherwell District Council, the Oxfordshire Enterprise, Bicester Town Council, Bicester School plus the Police and Crimes Commissioner to explain, promote and seek feedback on their undertakings which in the case of the local authorities is the development of Bicester Town Centre which without BV CIC would have been a difficult task. Crime is of huge concern to business whether it be shoplifting, cyber, fraud or some such other miscreant activity. To that end we began planning for a series of Cyber Security workshops that would be delivered during the next financial year. Closing Remarks During FY 24/25 Bicester Vision continued on its journey to support private, public and the charitable sector. Tools for doing so were our partnership meetings, electronic newsletter and the pushing into the community of our Relationships Manager. This has delivered benefit to businesses, charities and the public sector. There are strong indicators that Bicester Vision is delivering positive impacts that go above and beyond what would be suggested by our annual budget. These indicators are an innovative paying commercial membership, an enthusiasm to host or speak at our full partnership meetings, informative content for our newsletter, and much verbal feedback. Bicester Vision provides a model for every market town in the Country as an exemplar of what an holistic force for good can look like in a community using a model of four highly professional individuals supported by a volunteer board consisting of some of the finest minds in the town.
Stakeholders are local business owners, the charitable sector, Local Authority representatives at Town District and County Council level and the residents of Bicester. We have held several Zoom meetings and three, face to face, partnership meetings which were hosted locally. We are working with key stakeholders on the improvement to Bicester Town Centre to explore the identity of Bicester, ways to improve footfall in Bicester town centre and developing a creative and culture events initiative. We are also facilitating best practice events allowing interested parties to visit manufacturing companies and events venues in the area and learn about their operational procedures
The aggregate amount of emoluments paid to or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £9,388.49
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
5 August 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Graeme Laws
Status: Director