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# NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
13998721 (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

# NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

Balance sheet |
Additional notes |
Balance sheet notes |
Community Interest Report |

# NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 31 March 2025

| Notes | 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | --- | ---
|  | £ | £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets: |  | 0 | 0
Tangible assets: | 3 | 50 | 101
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total fixed assets: |  | 50 | 101
Current assets
Stocks: |  | 0 | 0
Debtors: |  | 0 | 0
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 4,465 | 13,215
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total current assets: |  | 4,465 | 13,215
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 0 | 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: | 4 | ( 1,474 ) | ( 12,528 )
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 2,991 | 687
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 3,041 | 788
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): |  | 3,041 | 788
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 3,041 | 788
Total members' funds: |  | 3,041 | 788

The notes form part of these financial statements

# NORTHSTOWE ARTS 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.

The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.

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

Name: Wendy Kriz Evans
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

## 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 is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when goods have been delivered to customers such that risks and rewards of ownership have transferred to them. Turnover from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract. The stage of completion of a contract is measured by comparing the costs incurred for work performed to date to the total estimated contract costs

  Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy

  Tangible assets are included at cost less depreciation and impairment. Depreciation has been provided at the following rates in order to write off the assets over their estimated useful lives: Plant & machinery 25% straight line

  Other accounting policies

  Grants Grants relating to revenue are recognised in profit and loss on a systematic basis over the periods in which the entity recognises the related costs for which the grant is intended to compensate.

# NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2025 | 2024
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 2 | 1

# NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

## 3. Tangible assets

| Land & buildings | Plant & machinery | Fixtures & fittings | Office equipment | Motor vehicles | Total
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Cost | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £
At 1 April 2024 |  | 203 |  |  |  | 203
Additions |  |  |  |  |  |
Disposals |  |  |  |  |  |
Revaluations |  |  |  |  |  |
Transfers |  |  |  |  |  |
At 31 March 2025 |  | 203 |  |  |  | 203
Depreciation |  |  |  |  |  |
At 1 April 2024 |  | 102 |  |  |  | 102
Charge for year |  | 51 |  |  |  | 51
On disposals |  |  |  |  |  |
Other adjustments |  |  |  |  |  |
At 31 March 2025 |  | 153 |  |  |  | 153
Net book value |  |  |  |  |  |
At 31 March 2025 |  | 50 |  |  |  | 50
At 31 March 2024 |  | 101 |  |  |  | 101

# NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

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

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Taxation and social security | 381 | 552
Accruals and deferred income | 300 | 11,976
Other creditors | 793 |
Total | 1,474 | 12,528

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### NORTHSTOWE ARTS CIC

### Company Number: 13998721 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 March 2025

Company activities and impact

During 2024 25, Northstowe Arts has continued to support connection through creativity in the new town of Northstowe, engaging with people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures. Our broad range of activities has reached and affected people in many different ways, making a major contribution to the community’s placemaking, identity-building and individual wellbeing agendas, whilst collaborating with and enabling other organisations (grassroots and voluntary, public and private sectors) to achieve their missions and priorities. Several public-facing creative projects and installations were delivered this year. Commissioned by Homes England, Northstowe Arts managed the completion and launch of sculptural signage for Unity Lake and Halcyon Mere, including a walking trail and a launch event featuring a dance school and work by another local artist. We were the local partner for Paper Films’ Northstowe Neighbours short film, providing introductions, featuring Northstowe Arts Director Mari O’Neill as on-screen presenter, supporting offline survey submissions and presenting the premiere event. Our free programme of creative engagement included Spring Crafts and Holi Mela family workshops in partnership with Northstowe Hub cafe and Hindu Samaj Northstowe, and a Great Big Green Week workshop co-produced with BPHA (all supported through Co-Op Local Cause funding). Through the NSC Birds project, funded by Cambridgeshire County Council’s Community Reach programme, artist Paula Bond taught Arts Award students how to pass on their skills to younger children while creating ceramic birds, which were exhibited in partnership with COAX’s Summer Exhibition. Northstowe Arts was a lead partner for the inaugural Midsummer Festival, a community-wide celebration featuring community group stands and activities, a performance/workshop space, food trucks and a silent disco, supported by multiple funders including Homes England’s Community Activation Fund. Following its success, later in the year work began on planning for Midsummer Festival 2025. Light Up Northstowe returned with expanded partner involvement: in addition to the lantern parade, music stage, food trucks and toy swap, we delivered a series of creative workshops for schools, community and faith groups, local creative practitioners and the wider public. Funded by the National Lottery Communities Fund and other sponsors, this event continues to grow as a major moment in the town’s calendar. We were commissioned by Kier to develop a Public Art Delivery Plan (PADP) for the new Unity Centre, and delivered special outdoor cinema screenings as part of Northstowe Running Festival, including a screening of Northstowe Neighbours and a family film chosen by the community. Our Make and Mingle small-group crafting sessions found a new home at Northstowe Tap & Social, while Northstowe Chorus, delivered in collaboration with Northstowe Learning Community, began to bring residents together through monthly choir rehearsals. As well as undertaking business development, management and fundraising, Northstowe Arts Directors have continued to support wider community development and advocate for the role of creativity in Northstowe’s journey. This has included participation in Northstowe Support Partnership and Networker meetings, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority’s Culture and Creativity Forum, and conferences, and ongoing work to amplify the voice of the community locally and nationally.

Consultation with stakeholders

Our stakeholders include: -People of all ages living or working in Northstowe -People of all ages living or working in the surrounding villages -Community groups and organisations active in Northstowe -Independent creatives and creative organisations in the local area -The local authorities and developers working to build the new town of Northstowe All our activities this year have been developed as a direct response to consultation with stakeholders. Much of this consultation has happened informally during conversations with residents attending our events or other events/activities we have supported; for example bringing outdoor cinema to the Running Festival. By meeting regularly and working on specific projects with other community groups and organisations, we have developed activities – such as the Midsummer Festival – which enabled them to achieve their goals and have brought members of the community together in ways which wouldn’t otherwise have happened. Having heard from local authorities and developers that there was a need to focus on placemaking activities to answer their agendas, we were pleased to collaborate on the Northstowe Neighbours short film, highlighting the vibrancy of the community that has already developed here. Throughout all our activity, we have prioritised and embedded involvement by residents of Northstowe and the surrounding villages to ensure continuing development of their ownership of and sense of identity of their new community.

Directors' remuneration

Full details of directors’ remuneration are provided in our accounts. 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
1 December 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Wendy Kriz Evans
Status: Director