Gannicox CIC was established and incorporated on 24 April 2014. It was set up by the Trustees of St. Luke’s Trust in response to requirements by the Care Quality Commission and by Local Authorities Learning Disabilities Commissioners, in particular Gloucestershire County Council. These now demand organisational separation of housing provision from care and support provision for vulnerable persons living in the community. In the twelve months from April 2024 to March 2025 Gannicox CIC staff and management have been supporting the residents in meeting their needs and aspirations established in care needs assessments and support plans. Two new residents joined our group of service users, both have been settling in very well. Throughout the year we have continued to build on our positive relationship with the Local Authority through full obligation compliance, timely response to information requests and close collaboration with social workers, members of the commissioning, assessment and support planning teams and with the legal department. We now have relationships with four local authorities – Gloucestershire, Dudley, Surrey and Tower Hamlets We have been able to maintain and develop our high level of support quality and staff competence through consistent staff supervision, mentoring and training. We continue to hold regular all-staff training sessions guided by the registered manager. Over the period of this financial year we have taken on extra part-time staff; our strategy in place to return to profit over the year has been successful. We feel confident that our staffing levels and quality more than meet the requirements of our contractual support provision. Gannicox House is the focus for a wide range of community activities and resident relationships, including interactions with children and parents of a pre-school Kindergarten, with a number of elderly residents of an adjacent retirement facility and with the work of the neighbouring St. Luke’s Therapy Centre. The organisation’s involvement in maintaining the grounds contributes to the existence of an important wildlife habitat that also serves patients, the elderly and children as a peaceful and health supporting environment.

Our stakeholders are the Residents at Gannicox House, their families and friends, our staff, our partners in the support of our Residents – day activities leaders, health professionals, advocates, community learning disability teams; Local Authority commissioners and quality teams, the Care Quality Commission. Throughout the year we held weekly ‘Gannicox Meetings’ to which all residents and staff are invited. This forum enables sharing views, ideas and experiences on activities, projects, developments etc. All residents are consulted before new staff or volunteers are engaged. We have consistently participated in the informative and consultative Gloucestershire County Council Disabilities Provider Forums, attended and contributed to meetings of the Association of Camphill Communities in GB and Ireland. We are a member of a range of professional and sector organisations in the social care field including Gloucestershire Care Providers Association, The Association for Real Change and Skills for Care.

Three of the four Directors of the organisation were Camphill Vocational Co-workers resident at Gannicox House during the year . Camphill Vocational CO-workers are not contractually employed by the company and their relationship to the company is expressed in the organisation’s ‘Co-worker Charter’. Their reasonable personal needs are covered by the organisation on a discretionary basis and their personal tax affairs are regulated in accordance with a special HMRC agreement and template for Camphill Vocational Co-workers who are working in member organisations of the Association of Camphill Communities in the UK and Ireland. The aggregate amount of emoluments received by directors for the financial year was £117,024.71 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.

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