for the Period Ended 28 February 2026
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| Community Interest Report |
Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 28 February 2026
Principal activities of the company
Political and charitable donations
Company policy on disabled employees
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
7 February 2025
to
28 February 2026
The director shown below has held office during the period of
13 October 2025
to
28 February 2026
The director shown below has held office during the period of
26 February 2025
to
28 February 2026
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
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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 28 February 2026
Basis of measurement and preparation
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Between our beginning as a CIC in February 2025 and the period of our first year of accounts,to 6th Feb 2026, we ran 15 bookshop crawls in cities around England and Scotland, running Group Bookshop crawls at each event which included a total of 370 people as well as 1269 downloads of Self Guided Bookshop crawl Kits over the events. With our groups of book loving people, we have visited 150 independent, second hand and charity bookshops across the UK. We worked with three festivals, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and Norwich Book Festival, to deliver bookshop crawls for them and reach a wider spectrum of the bookish community. As well as bookshop crawls, we also continued our regular Bookish Group and Book Swap in London, and established a new regular community event at Chapters Bookshop in Sturry, for Kent. We have small groups of regular attendees at each of these locations. In July we ran the first Canterbury Children's Literature Festival, which included 10 local venues, and was supported through sponsorship from seven local institutions, organisations and businesses. Over three days we ran 56 events for children and teens of all ages, including a day of events offered to local schools for free and celebrating the joy of stories, aiming to support the literacy curriculum by providing opportunities to access stories in many different ways. The feedback from the first year has been amazing, and there will be a big expansion in the second year as the response and demand from the local community for what we are offering has been so big.
We have consulted with our Bookshop Crawl Members (who support the CIC through a small monthly membership fee) to put together our calendar of events for each year, making sure that we are running events in locations that they would like to visit. We have also consulted with bookshops on the locations we are visiting. For the festival, we have consulted throughout with our venue partners and sponsors.
£3788.60 total over the year. One of our Directors (Rebekah Hughes) is paid 4 hours a week to do finance and admin, rather than as a director, plus overtime for group leading and running bookshop crawls and the festival, where appropriate.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
1 May 2026
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Rebekah Hughes
Status: Director