RELEASE SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
08678525 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 4 September 2025

Period of accounts

Start date: 5 September 2024

End date: 4 September 2025

RELEASE SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 4 September 2025

Directors report
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

RELEASE SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Directors' report period ended 4 September 2025

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 4 September 2025

Principal activities of the company

Release Southwest was set up as a Community Interest Company by its two directors, Martin Redfern and Emma Redfern, in September 2013. The aim was to create a company with a trauma focus that would, in time, provide various forms of support to those affected by trauma in the Exeter area. The initial business plan predicted a company loss of approximately £4570 in the first year. The actual loss was £3277.39 that year. During the second year it made a profit of £2587.07 which was much better than predicted. In the third year it made a loss of £50.01 and in the fourth year a loss of £54.08. In the fifth year the loss was £48.42. During these three years we had ceased leasing our premises at 80 Merrivale Road and effectively stopped trading. The directors were also busy with other work. During the first years the directors loaned the company a total of £923.85 with no interest payments required. The company has not yet paid this back to the directors. In 2019 (the sixth year) the directors, after consultation with the wider community, decided to run an event facilitated by a leading clinician (Dr Laura Wood) from the US. This was a weekend’s training in the Southwest (Bristol) on embodied approaches to working with people who have Eating Disorders (ED). The model incorporated Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy which addresses healing from trauma as a central component. The weekend event led to a profit of £992.58 in 2018/19, but after final event expenses of £280.77 were paid the following year (Sep 2019 to Sep 2020), the real profit of the ED training weekend was £711.81. This profit was fed back into the company and was earmarked to kick-start a similar project rather than pay those who delivered the original event (who kindly chose to give their time for free) or repay the company’s loan. Paying out the £280.77 of expenses in the seventh year (2019/20) for an event in the previous year contributed to the overall loss of £248.77 that year. The company had plans to run an in-person deepening day in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy on 10 May 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic meant this was cancelled. In the (eighth) financial year, the company employed one of the directors and a colleague to run two online one-day trainings on the supervision of Internal Family Systems training (IFS). The first took place on 30th November 2020 and was for UK attendees only. The second took place on 20th February 2021 and had a wider reach than the Southwest. All income received from attendees was shared out as remuneration to the two co-trainers and the tech host. The company was dormant for the last 4 financial years (2021 to 2025). No remuneration was paid to either director or the facilitators or others to run the company this year or in previous years. While the directors have continued to consider ways to meet the above objects, they now plan to dissolve the company during Spring/Summer 2026. No formal consultation process was initiated with stakeholders this year.



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
5 September 2024 to 4 September 2025

Martin James Redfern
 Emma Elizabeth Redfern

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
7 May 2026

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

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 4 September 2025

2025 2024


£
£
Turnover: 0 0
Cost of sales: 0 0
Gross profit(or loss): 0 0
Distribution costs: 0 0
Administrative expenses: ( 49 ) ( 28 )
Other operating income: 0 0
Operating profit(or loss): (49) (28)
Interest receivable and similar income: 0 0
Interest payable and similar charges: 0 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: (49) (28)
Tax: 0 0
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (49) (28)

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Balance sheet

As at 4 September 2025

Notes 2025 2024


£
£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0 0
Tangible assets: 3 40 40
Investments:   0 0
Total fixed assets: 40 40
Current assets
Stocks:   0 0
Debtors:   0 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 591 640
Investments:   0 0
Total current assets: 591 640
Prepayments and accrued income: 0 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year:   0 0
Net current assets (liabilities): 591 640
Total assets less current liabilities: 631 680
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: 4 ( 924 ) ( 924 )
Provision for liabilities: 0 0
Accruals and deferred income: 0 0
Total net assets (liabilities): (293) (244)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: (293) ( 244)
Total members' funds: ( 293) (244)

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 4 September 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 7 May 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Martin James Redfern
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 4 September 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 4 September 2025

  • 2. Employees

    2025 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 0 0

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 4 September 2025

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
At 5 September 2024 40 40
Additions
Disposals
Revaluations
Transfers
At 4 September 2025 40 40
Depreciation
At 5 September 2024
Charge for year
On disposals
Other adjustments
At 4 September 2025
Net book value
At 4 September 2025 40 40
At 4 September 2024 40 40

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 4 September 2025

4. Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year note

2025 2024
£ £
Other creditors 924 924
Total 924 924

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 4 September 2025

5. Loans to directors

Name of director receiving advance or credit: Martin James Redfern
Description of the transaction:
This loan was made in the first 2 years to help start up the CIC. This is the same loan that is shown on the accounts as 'Creditors amounts falling due after more than 1 year' and is not additional to that.
£
Balance at 4 September 2024 924
Advances or credits made:
Advances or credits repaid:
Balance at 4 September 2025 924

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

RELEASE SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Company Number: 08678525 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 4 September 2025

Company activities and impact

During this financial year the company has been dormant and therefore not benefited the community.

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
7 May 2026

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