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 directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 April 2024
to
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
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
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
Basis of measurement and preparation
Turnover policy
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PART 1 - GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY’S ACTIVITIES AND IMPACT In the space provided below, please insert a general account of the company’s activities in the financial year to which the report relates, including a description of how they have benefited the community. During this financial year ArtfulScribe prepared to convert to a Community Interest Company, and officially became one on the 3rd April 2025. This report details the company activities and impact prior to it becoming a CIC. In 2024-25 ArtfulScribe delivered a range of creative writing and literature appreciation activities. Classes and workshops, some open to the general public and others focused on underrepresented target groups, aimed to develop personal writing and literacy skills, enhancing confidence and wellbeing, increasing social capital and enabling people to better make the most of life’s opportunities. These included: - Free weekly creative writing classes for children and young people aged 7-18 at Lighthouse Poole, Forest Arts New Milton, Mayflower Studios Southampton and online. - Two poetry celebrations with workshops and showcases with local schools from Alton as part of the Alton Arts Festival and from Southampton and the surrounding area at Mayflower Studios. - Regular Writing for Wellbeing sessions in the New Forest in partnership with Solent Mind, in Bournemouth in partnership with Vita Nova, and online. - Other writing workshops and programmes including Writing for Spiritual Practice and the Creative Language Cafe for refugees and asylum seekers. -Storytelling sessions in care homes in the New Forest Live events, performances and online broadcasts aimed to educate the public about literature in all its forms and advocate for creative writing as a tool of personal empowerment: - The Play on Words Festival, a community-led literature festival across the New Forest, and LitFest, ArtfulScribe’s literature festival at Mayflower Studios in Southampton, including writing workshops, live literature performances and CPD for writers. - Monthly spoken word and poetry open mics at Mayflower Studios and Forest Arts. - Other live literature events including Writers in Conversation in partnership with the University of Southampton. - continued expansion of our audio archive and development of a literature podcast for broadcast in 2025/26. - Commissioned research into arts and cultural provision for ethnic minorities in the New Forest. Additionally we offered commissions and development opportunities to emerging writers, developing skills, encouraging personal goal setting and supporting career decision making: - Commissioned audio play ‘Before Alice’ by Stacie Bates. - Worked with Southampton-based contemporary opera company, OperaUpClose, commissioning a new prologue by community writers led by poet Antosh Wojcik for their production of Riders to the Sea and micro-commissions for an experimental ‘OperaSlam’ event as part of the R&D for a new production of Schicchi. - Mentoring of underrepresented Solent-based writers and producers.
ArtfulScribe C.I.C.’s stakeholders are our funders, partner organisations and schools, writer facilitators and other employed and freelance staff, participants in workshops and other activities, and audiences at our events. Representatives of different types of partner organisations including universities, schools, local arts organisation and local social impact organisations are included in our Advisory Group. They meet quarterly and have the opportunity for oversight of, and to advise on, artistic and project planning, business planning and finances. Our team of freelance writer facilitators meet on a termly basis, to update on artistic and project planning, to network, and to feedback on artistic delivery. Facilitators are regularly invited to feed into planning for the specific groups they run through 1:1 meetings and an annual appraisal. Regular feedback is invited from participants and audiences through informal consultation in workshops and at events, and through online and paper-based surveys. The Play on Words Literature Festival in the New Forest is coordinated by ArtfulScribe and led by a steering group of local writers, residents and cultural organisations. ArtfulScribe’s planning decisions are guided by community input and direct action is often taken, for example programming a new group led by, and based on a need identified by, a writer with lived experience of a particular perspective on craft or social functioning. Programming decisions are also made based on feedback from existing participants, or by running pilot sessions to trial new approaches, ensuring community buy-in wherever possible. New projects are devised with care and consideration, with generous support for research and development, to ensure new communities who might wish to engage with our work are valued and consulted, enabling organic and sustainable growth within our operating sector.
In the year 2024-2025 the directors were Susan Sharp, Stephen Sharp and Matthew West. None of the directors were paid any renumeration for their director’s duties. Matthew West was paid a total of £42,379.00 as a freelance contractor for facilitation and project management, as well as reimbursement of expenses totalling £12,069.38. This was an unusually high figure due to a one-off payment of monthly invoices direct from a personal account when the organisation’s banking systems were down.
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: M West
Status: Director