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
Directors
The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 November 2023
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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
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Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
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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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.
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.
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.
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