PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
14415414 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 November 2023

End date: 31 March 2025

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

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

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

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

Principal activity of the company during the financial period was that of providing special education in animation, film and digital production to vulnerable children, young people and families. This took place in schools, with arts organisations and for East Sussex County Council in a number of external settings.



Directors

The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 November 2023 to 31 March 2025

Lara Elisabeth Meyric Hughes


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
14 August 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Lara Elisabeth Meyric Hughes
Status: Director

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

17 months to 31 March 2025 13 months to 31 October 2023


£

£
Turnover: 85,057 38,260
Cost of sales: ( 75,814 ) ( 36,530 )
Gross profit(or loss): 9,243 1,730
Administrative expenses: ( 9,314 ) ( 2,209 )
Operating profit(or loss): (71) (479)
Profit(or loss) before tax: (71) (479)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (71) (479)

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2025

Notes 17 months to 31 March 2025 13 months to 31 October 2023


£

£
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: 50 121
Total current assets: 50 121
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 600 ) ( 600 )
Net current assets (liabilities): (550) (479)
Total assets less current liabilities: (550) ( 479)
Total net assets (liabilities): (550) (479)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (550) ( 479)
Total members' funds: ( 550) (479)

The notes form part of these financial statements

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

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 14 August 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Lara Elisabeth Meyric Hughes
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

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 comprises the invoiced value of goods and services supplied by the company, net of Value Added Tax and trade discounts.

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

  • 2. Employees

    17 months to 31 March 2025 13 months to 31 October 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

17 months to 31 March 2025 13 months to 31 October 2023
£ £
Accruals and deferred income 600 600
Total 600 600

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

PRESS PLAY FILMS C.I.C.

Company Number: 14415414 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 March 2025

Company activities and impact

The company works in East and West Sussex and sometimes further afield. We work specifically with families, young people, young adults and educational institutions. We also work with children and families that have Special Educational Needs and vulnerable groups with low incomes or mental health challenges. During the last financial year the company activities have benefited the community in the following ways: Children from families who are in receipt of financial benefits and free school meals have been able to attend workshops in holidays to learn how to make films, animate and cook healthy food. We also provide hot cooked meals to children at these workshops. This is free of charge to families and also provides parents on low incomes valuable childcare in the holidays as these are drop off workshops. We are teaching children a useful, creative skill for their futures as well. We have run sessions at Xmas, Easter and across the summer and in total ran 414 sessions for FSM eligible children/young people. 50% of sessions have additional staff to support young people with SEND. Children with Special Educational Needs and in particular autism have benefited from attending free of charge bespoke animation workshops to increase their confidence in groups and give them new skills in animation. We also cater for children with complex needs and employ to our specialist support staff. We have built up our pool of expert staff over the past 8 years so we can give the best and most appropriate provision. We have provided after school club animation sessions locally weekly. We have seen the same children at this club develop and grow in confidence and ability. This club also gives parents an extended day, enabling them to work. We offer concessionary rates to families who cannot afford to pay the full fee. For the past 18 months, we have been involved in a research project with the University of Sussex and the dept of psychology into the reasons autistic people enjoy animating. We worked on brain scans as part of this work and are now in discussion with UOS about taking this research into specific schools across Sussex. The aim would be to make a valid case for encouraging local schools and ESC to introduce stop motion animation into SEND classrooms as a way to help them to engage with and learn mainstream subjects such as literacy and maths. We are now in search of more funding for this project to continue. We are about to start working with the Coastal Community & Creative Health project as part of a three year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s ‘Mobilising community assets to tackle health inequalities’ programme. We are helping to generate an evidence-based plan to support cross-sector collaboration to tackle health inequalities in Hastings specifically linked to drug misuse. WE are working with groups who have lived experience of drug misuse on the project and using film and animation to encourage discussion and extend research. We have been working on our Historic England project for the last 18 months (now complete). The project was wholly focused around Newhaven and the local community and can be viewed here: https://pressplayfilms.co.uk/parkerpens/ The project aimed to bring generations, locals, children and schools together to celebrate the interesting history of Newhaven town and its famous Parker Pen factory. We have taken on a second company director this year and a board of advisors to help us to expand our community remit further.

Consultation with stakeholders

The company’s stakeholders include East Sussex County Council, The University of Leeds, The University of Sussex, The East Sussex Library Service, Historic England, the University of Sussex and University of Brighton, various local schools in East Sussex, local families and young people who attend workshops and events, our board of advisors. We have consulted stakeholders in a number of ways and responded to feedback from these consultations: A key aim is to help the greatest number of children and families possible gain skills in film and animation while making sure health is always a consideration (both mental and physical health). We also offer courses and a safe space to young people with SEND who may be excluded from other forms of extra curricular activities for a variety of reasons. We aim to ensure we have the right provision in place to include them and very rarely turn a child away from a session. In particular we are interested in working with families who are in receipt of free school meals or pupil premium. We make sure these aims are achieved by consulting East Sussex County Council as much as possible. For example, when designing our holiday programmes we listen to what the council tells us about where the most economic need is and ensure we offer our provision in these locations. We look at health data and other community data to design projects which benefit the physical and mental health of participants. We always offer healthy food and snacks and work with our food partner to provide tips on healthy eating to families. sessions and running cookery sessions for families. We also run Family Hubbs sessions for East Sussex council this year and again worked closely with the council to work out where the need for these workshops were, how many workshops and what type of sessions to cover. We work with a local chef (Lucie Simon) to ensure all meals are well designed, healthy and tasty and try to ensure as many ingredients as possible are sourced locally. We have refined the food at workshops with Lucie since 2021, when we started providing this service and listened to feedback from children/parents about what they enjoy eating and what they did not want to eat. Children generally go home having eaten very well and often trying new foods. Often the local community has a bearing on the funding we apply for and the subjects we choose. For example, we wanted to involve the Newhaven Museum in a project to increase its audience and broaden its remit within the local community. This process started with a consultation with museum staff/ volunteers to find out which subjects would be of benefit for the museum and wider community to remember. Off the back of this we applied for and got funding from Historic England to run a local history, oral history and animation project about the large Newhaven Parker Pen factory which opened in 1940s and closed in 2011. When working on our research into autism and animation project with the University of Sussex we held a number of focus group discussions with parents of children with autism and with autistic young adults. These discussions were recorded and written up.

Directors' remuneration

The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £58,395. 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
14 August 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Lara Elisabeth Meyric Hughes
Status: Director