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# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
14473149 (England and Wales)

## Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 1 January 2024

## End date: 31 December 2024

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2024

Directors report |
Profit and loss |
Balance sheet |
Additional notes |
Balance sheet notes |
Community Interest Report |

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

Directors' report period ended 31 December 2024

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

Principal activities of the company

Works with local universities in Tyne and Wear and Durham. Training student social workers on topics of Disability Equality, Social Care Needs and Communication Skill. Involvement training to NIHR, working with people with lived experience.

Company policy on disabled employees

As a company led by Disabled People, our policy is to promote and employ disabled people wherever possible and to promote their professional development.

Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024

Ian Atkinson
Steven Clough

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
1 September 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ian Atkinson
Status: Director

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 December 2024

| 2024 | 14 months to 31 December 2023
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Turnover: | 30,802 | 18,089
Cost of sales: | ( 31,741 ) | ( 20,096 )
Gross profit(or loss): | (939) | (2,007)
Operating profit(or loss): | (939) | (2,007)
Profit(or loss) before tax: | (939) | (2,007)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: | (939) | (2,007)

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 31 December 2024

| Notes | 2024 | 14 months to 31 December 2023
--- | --- | --- | ---
|  | £ | £
Current assets
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 2,694 | 1,619
Total current assets: |  | 2,694 | 1,619
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: | 3 | ( 3,500 ) | ( 2,485 )
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | (806) | (866)
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | (806) | ( 866)
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | (806) | (866)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | (806) | ( 866)
Total members' funds: |  | ( 806) | (866)

The notes form part of these financial statements

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 December 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.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 1 September 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Ian Atkinson
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 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

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2024

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2024 | 14 months to 31 December 2023
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 2 | 2

# INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2024

## 3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

| 2024 | 14 months to 31 December 2023
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Other creditors | 3,500 | 2,485
Total | 3,500 | 2,485

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### INVOLVED AND EQUAL CIC

### Company Number: 14473149 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 December 2024

Company activities and impact

The main aim of the business is to promote disability rights, involvement and inclusion of disabled people by providing lived experience of the impact of society on disabled people’s lives and to promote disability rights. Our staff and service users are involved with working with local universities, in delivering disability equality training, communication skills teaching and participating in decision making processes about potential new students. We have also worked with research partners to inform their policies and help to develop their research proposals in relation to involving patients and public contributors. We have also provided support around research impact and dissemination, and links between researchers, the voluntary sector and service users. We continue to develop and expanding our Business Partners as well as the range of work that we are involved in. We work with Sunderland University and New College Durham, supporting their Social Work Degree Programs. These Partnerships have been developed and evolved further through Involved and Equal CIC in the last year. Involved and Equal CIC now also work in partnership with The Open University, supporting their Social Work Programmes. In addition, we work with The National Institute in Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) through the North East and North Cumbria Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) and with Durham University, engaging with Local and National Health Inequality Research Projects, as well as training Researchers in Disability Equality and Inclusion Best Practices. We have worked with many student social workers this year and this is an important aspect of Social Work programmes aims and objectives. Involved and equal CIC are actively involved from the point of admission, bringing lived experience to inform active participation in decision making about potential new students coming on the programme. Once on the programme students then have opportunities to learn from the lived experience and perspective of service users and carers. As part of this Involved and Equal CIC deliver a powerful and thought-provoking session in which the combination of personal perspective, knowledge of disability rights and advocacy prompts students to think deeply about the impact of disability and to reflect on how they as practitioners may be part of a more informed and inclusive understanding of disability, and to empathise with the lived experience of those whose lives have been impacted by disability. The involvement influences the students and ultimately qualified Social Workers in their interaction and involvement with disabled people and their carers.

Consultation with stakeholders

Involved and Equal CIC regularly informally consult our organisation Stakeholders: University of Sunderland, New College Durham, The Open University, Durham University, and the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR), using evaluation forms and informal consultation and, as a matter of course, as our sessions are often designed to meet the requests of the client. Involved and Equal CIC have continued to provide the services they require and have updated and tailored training and service user involvement via lived experience to enable the stakeholders to provide their statutory requirements and to enhance the teaching and experience of their students and staff. Our stakeholders include those within the community who are disabled people their families and/or support networks. We are currently building up our contacts with these stakeholders and will be able to better consult with them in the future about the impact of our services. In addition, we consult our Business Partners regarding any new ways of involving community Stakeholders to be able to share their Lived Experiences. An example being, as a result of holding discussions with various partners we are ready to create Podcasts as a way of reaching a wider audience and involving more disabled service users.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
1 September 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Ian Atkinson
Status: Director