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# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
11135700 (England and Wales)

## Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 January 2025

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 1 February 2024

## End date: 31 January 2025

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

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

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

Directors' report period ended 31 January 2025

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2025

Principal activities of the company

The principal activity of Compost London C.I.C. is to give information, advice, support and training to voluntary and community groups.

Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025

Caroline Rouse
Anne Crisp
Briony Margaret Fleming

The director shown below has held office during the period of
1 February 2024 to 31 December 2024

Michelle Sian

The director shown below has held office during the period of
20 January 2025 to 31 January 2025

Keith Answell

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
5 September 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Caroline Rouse
Status: Director

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Turnover: | 362,073 | 430,097
Cost of sales: | ( 303,657 ) | ( 193,353 )
Gross profit(or loss): | 58,416 | 236,744
Distribution costs: | 0 | 0
Administrative expenses: | ( 120,619 ) | ( 119,861 )
Other operating income: | 0 | 0
Operating profit(or loss): | (62,203) | 116,883
Interest receivable and similar income: | 0 | 0
Interest payable and similar charges: | 0 | 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: | (62,203) | 116,883
Tax: | 0 | ( 26,468 )
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: | (62,203) | 90,415

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 31 January 2025

| Notes | 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | --- | ---
|  | £ | £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets: |  | 0 | 0
Tangible assets: |  | 0 | 0
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total fixed assets: |  | 0 | 0
Current assets
Stocks: |  | 0 | 0
Debtors: | 3 | 49,278 | 134,438
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 268,245 | 274,947
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total current assets: |  | 317,523 | 409,385
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: | 4 | ( 146,523 ) | ( 176,182 )
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 171,000 | 233,203
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 171,000 | 233,203
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): |  | 171,000 | 233,203
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 171,000 | 233,203
Total members' funds: |  | 171,000 | 233,203

The notes form part of these financial statements

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 January 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 5 September 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Caroline Rouse
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 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 represent grants, donations and net invoiced sales of services excluding Value Tax.

  Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy

  Tangible fixed assets are depreciated in equal installments over the economic life of the asset - Office Equipments 33.33%

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2025 | 2024
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 4 | 4

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

## 3. Debtors

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Trade debtors | 41,895 | 123,051
Prepayments and accrued income | 7,333 | 11,333
Other debtors | 50 | 54
Total | 49,278 | 134,438
Debtors due after more than one year: | 0 | 0

# COMPOST LONDON CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2025

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

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Bank loans and overdrafts | 0 | 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts | 0 | 0
Trade creditors | 0 | 1,362
Taxation and social security | 16,301 | 44,407
Accruals and deferred income | 130,222 | 130,413
Other creditors | 0 | 0
Total | 146,523 | 176,182

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### COMPOST LONDON CIC

### Company Number: 11135700 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 January 2025

Company activities and impact

We have continued to use our Nourish Fund – a fund from our profits – to maintain a level of information, support and training to enable voluntary and community groups to become more sustainable. As there was no local contract exclusively for capacity building for the voluntary and community sector in Newham this was welcome and well used. This year we have continued to work with the local authority on the participatory budgeting programme supporting residents that were successful winning grants. We held their grant when they didn’t have a project dedicated bank account, supported them with project management, safeguarding and budget management training. This has resulted in projects being run well and some participants choosing to continue the project and formalise as a voluntary or community group. We were successful in winning 5 years funding from UKRI to develop 3 community research networks for marginalised communities namely marginalised women, refugees and migrants and young people with SEND. We have been working with groups to establish these networks so they are managed and led by organisations representing the marginalised community with our support. Ultimately these networks will provide support and peer learning for similar organisations opportunities for consortia bidding and training for members to become Citizen Social Scientists. Our ESOL exchange project continues, and the steering group has developed a new strategic plan to broaden the reach and content of the exchange. This will make knowledge and shared understanding better for all members of the network. We completed 3 pieces of commissioned work to support groups with specific capacity needs or evaluation of projects. We are also a community partner on an ICS wide project to encourage people from the Global majority to understand and get involved in health and social care research. This has involved holding information events, a newsletter and electronic noticeboard showing opportunities to get involved. In this project we primarily work via groups working with and run by the global majority. Covid exposed the fact that the pool of volunteers for medical research is not reflective of the population. This project seeks to address that resulting in procedures and medicines designed for all parts of the community. This year we appointed a part time CEO and Finance Officer so giving us a core team to take us forwards. Through sitting on committees and attending meetings we have continued to be seen as an authority of the voluntary and community sector in east London in both health (ICS) and local authority forums.

Consultation with stakeholders

Composts stakeholders are primarily voluntary and community organisations and those intending to establish one such organisation. As an infrastructure organisation in this field, we are often sought out for our knowledge of the sector or called on the act as a bridge between the organisations in the sector and the statutory bodies so we would count the statutory sector as a stakeholder. Finally, we engage with funders to highlight trends and needs we are seeing within the voluntary and community sector to encourage them to direct their funds towards these needs. Our ESOL Exchange has been running since 2008 and we took the advantage of a lull in activity to work with the steering group to develop a new strategy that will broaden the mission of the ESOL exchange going forward. The steering committee is made up of large and small organisational members of the Exchange as well as tutors and groups working with potential learners. Going forward it shall not only support ESOL providers and organisations that support potential ESOL learners but will also seek to bring together other organisations and individuals that support the ESOL learner on their journey. Eg Welcome unit in the local authority that meets, greets and helps refugees and migrants settle into the area. Our Nourish Fund applicants are analysed so we have an awareness of the areas of capacity building organisations are looking for and this in turn shapes our training programme. We also feed this information into the London Funders forum that we are part of. Through our monthly newsletter we have a regular item that is a spotlight on one of the organisations we work with. This involves a deep dive into the organisation and any intelligence gained on our practice, challenges facing the sector or unmet needs are fed into our monthly team meetings and action needed in instigated – this could be a generic training need for the sector, a process introduced by a statutory body that is causing voluntary and community sector members difficulty. In establishing our 3 community research networks we have held meetings with the broader marginalised communities to inform and promote the networks and have worked with interested organisations to help them form and lead the networks. Once the membership and steering groups of each network has been established our staff member will teach and encourage each network to consult its members on the content of the network programme The VCFSE alliance for north east London ICS and the London wide CVS network, both of which we are members of, have both carried out consultation this year by surveys sent to the sector which have been poorly responded and we have been told by the sector that they do not have the interest or time to fill in surveys that do not result in any change to the situation so we have moved away for this consultation method to a more individual and in depth engagement with fewer groups where appropriate.

Directors' remuneration

Directors are not paid for their role of director. However, the following directors have been paid for work with voluntary and community groups they have carried out for Compost. Anne Crisp - £10,325.00 Caroline Rouse - £15,725.00 Keith Ansell - £12,000.00

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

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

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Caroline Rouse
Status: Director