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# THE META FOUNDATION CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
13270652 (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

# THE META FOUNDATION CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

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

# THE META FOUNDATION CIC

## 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: |  | 17 | 17
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total current assets: |  | 17 | 17
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 0 | 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: | 3 | ( 17 ) | ( 17 )
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 0 | 0
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 0 | 0
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): |  | 0 | 0
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 0 | 0
Total members' funds: |  | 0 | 0

The notes form part of these financial statements

# THE META FOUNDATION 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 19 December 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: James William Mervyn Davies
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# THE META FOUNDATION 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

# THE META FOUNDATION 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 | 2

# THE META FOUNDATION CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 March 2025

## 3. 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 | 0
Taxation and social security | 0 | 0
Accruals and deferred income | 0 | 0
Other creditors | 17 | 17
Total | 17 | 17

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### THE META FOUNDATION CIC

### Company Number: 13270652 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 March 2025

Company 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. The Company has worked to further develop and promote open-source software and open standards for the management and interpretation of health data. The software continues to be used in the production of data dictionaries for the NHS, for the UK SAIL databank (Swansea) and for the Provincial Health Services Authority in British Columbia. Other groups and organisations are evaluating the software and exploring its use, including the Office for National Statistics. The software is being extended to provide support for ‘trusted research environments’, a key aspect of the new approach being taken by NHS England to the management and analysis of health data for research and development. These groups, and the broader community of data users, data engineers, and data subjects, have benefitted from the improved quality and availability of information regarding data standards and the provenance and intended interpretation of health data. The software is freely available, and the associated standards are open and extensible, helping to avoid a situation in which the community is forced to adopt sub-optimal approaches to data management and incur significant costs through licensing (and being locked into) proprietary, commercial solutions.

Consultation with stakeholders

No consultation with stakeholders

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
19 December 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: James Davies
Status: Director