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# LEARNING A NEW WAY CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
13996662 (England and Wales)

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

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 1 April 2024

## End date: 31 March 2025

# LEARNING A NEW WAY CIC

## 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 |

# LEARNING A NEW WAY CIC

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

Principle activities:

Directors

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

Samantha McCormick
Penelope Gordon
June Shirley Janes

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 November 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Samantha McCormick
Status: Director

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## Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Turnover: | 44,124 | 12,227
Cost of sales: | ( 12,230 ) | ( 20,968 )
Gross profit(or loss): | 31,894 | (8,741)
Distribution costs: | ( 48,284 ) | ( 31,658 )
Administrative expenses: | ( 12,016 ) | ( 8,204 )
Other operating income: | 28,573 | 48,780
Operating profit(or loss): | 167 | 177
Interest receivable and similar income: | 0 | 0
Interest payable and similar charges: | 0 | 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: | 167 | 177
Tax: | ( 32 ) | ( 33 )
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: | 135 | 144

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## Balance sheet

As at 31 March 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: |  | 0 | 0
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 40,431 | 36,954
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total current assets: |  | 40,431 | 36,954
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 379 | 255
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: | 3 | ( 32 ) | ( 32 )
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 40,778 | 37,177
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 40,778 | 37,177
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: |  | 0 | 0
Provision for liabilities: |  | 0 | 0
Accruals and deferred income: |  | ( 40,125 ) | ( 36,659 )
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | 653 | 518
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 653 | 518
Total members' funds: |  | 653 | 518

The notes form part of these financial statements

# LEARNING A NEW WAY CIC

## 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 17 November 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Samantha McCormick
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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## 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

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## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2025 | 2024
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 23 | 8

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## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

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

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Taxation and social security | 32 | 32
Total | 32 | 32

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### LEARNING A NEW WAY CIC

### Company Number: 13996662 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 March 2025

Company activities and impact

Our third year (2024-25) proved to be a year of growth, and we continued to strengthen our reputation as an organisation that meets their vision of supporting low income and SEND families (Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities) in a totally inclusive, non-judgemental way. We started the year with a new pilot project, that set us off on an unexpected trajectory; one that will be a significant milestone for our organisation. The pilot - Friday Club - was full from before it launched, and was the pre-cursor to successfully being accepted onto Durham County Council’s Framework for support services for children with SEND. Our SEND provision is strong, and we have a great reputation within the community. We have continued to deliver Fun & Food sessions for Durham CC, including SEND only sessions without parents staying to allow them some respite. And we were able to employ 6 students to support this - most of whom have continued on specific projects with us, and help strengthen our team of staff. Our original community groups, The Hive & Lunch Club continued to flourish – extending provision to include a meal in both clubs, with hot food in the colder months, means we reduce the mental burden on parents and help ensure children are not hungry outside of school. Activities provided alongside align with the principles of the NHS’ 5 Ways to Wellbeing and we are also strengthening their mental health too and providing opportunities to reduce social isolation. Other community groups were running this year too; Friday Club, YouthZ and our first IVY Club, all of which were open access community groups for children from low income families and with SEND. We were approached to set up a youth group by another local community hub, and we set up our ‘Bear Pack’, which has been running for 6 months in an area of high poverty, and is providing opportunities for young people to socialise safely and learn life skills to help them as they progress through secondary school. Notably we were able to launch our remote AQA Unit Award Scheme programme with unimagined success! We have almost 250 learners registered, offering affordable access to the scheme that is often too expensive for many families. We are also working with local charity Eric Knows, allowing them to offer training and certification to their adult work placement programme. Our position as a strong business means we are able to move to self-fund more community groups. This allows us to be more responsive and flexible, to better meet the immediate and changing needs of the families we work with. In summary: We have supported 49 individual families regularly over the course of this year, with others on a less frequent basis, We have 64 children attending community groups weekly, We served 2136 meals in our Lunch Club, The Hive and Holiday Clubs.

Consultation with stakeholders

We have continued to grow our stakeholder panel and now carry out virtual meetings quarterly. This allow us the opportunity to speak directly to our community representatives and enable us to get feedback on ideas and understand any issues that may be arising from a service user point of view rather than operational. These have been key in organising our school holiday provision especially. We also continue to gather feedback at regular intervals from all families accessing provision, and this allows us to tweak services where necessary and help plan for future sessions. We use this to contact families individually too, to collect more specific feedback to help develop our portfolio of case studies, testimonials and impact statements.

Directors' remuneration

£11,790

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

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

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Samantha McCormick
Status: Director