THE FURNIVAL

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
08582273 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 September 2024

End date: 31 August 2025

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Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

Directors report
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes

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Directors' report period ended 31 August 2025

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 August 2025

Principal activities of the company

The Furnival is a welcoming community, working together to empower families and local people. We build capability and confidence to support social inclusion and cohesion. We are based in a community space in Burngreave and thrive through our network of relationships across the community and city area. The Trustees, with the involvement of the Charity’s management, have formed a future development plan (‘the plan’) for the next 3-5 years in order to have a clear roadmap of where the Charity is going, and how it will get there. In forming the plan the Trustees have performed a thorough review of the Charity’s current model, risks and opportunities. By reducing and moving away from the risks and towards the opportunities the Trustees have formed a plan that will enable the Charity to thrive, rather than just survive. The plan has set the objectives of the Charity as: To deliver projects with demonstrable social impact that match our capabilities and the needs of our community in particular through leveraging our great network of relationships with women from ethnic minority backgrounds. To be a financially sustainable organisation To grow awareness of our work with current (and potential) beneficiaries, supporters/partners/funders and wider influencers

Additional information

The Furnival has continued to provide a warm welcome to newly-arrived and migrant women and their families during the year. We have done this by providing an accessible Welcome Space in the heart of the community in Burngreave and delivering a range of courses and activities to build English language and numeracy skills, to support them in their new lives. When women join our community, they benefit from learning opportunities and the opportunity to build connections across cultures. This year we have engaged many women in the community in our Multiply (numeracy for ESOL) courses and in our ESOL courses. Our Creative English and Read and Write, ESOL courses have continued to attract large numbers of learners to our twice weekly classes. Around 100 women have accessed our classes this year and the majority have progressed to further learning or employment. We have run weekly craft and well-being sessions, building confidence in craft and sewing skills, while also practising English and building self-esteem and friendships. This is followed by cooking and eating together as we share food cooked in our kitchen, by women in the community, with the support of our community support worker. Our learners live mostly in North-East Sheffield and come from a range of 14 countries across, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our many partners make a huge difference to the impact we make as a small charity in an area of high deprivation. Through our partnership with Fareshare we collect surplus food from Waitrose and Tesco Extra, each week. This food is then delivered to many local families from our Welcome Space, supported by local volunteers. We run with a staff team of four who are committed to our community, together with a few volunteers, as well as our four supportive trustees. In November 2024 we were honoured to receive the SYMCA Outstanding Tutor Award for our delivery of Multiply courses.



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025

Iain Cloke
 Ralph Keene
 Mike Power
 Louise Johnson

Secretary Iain Cloke

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
21 May 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Louise Johnson
Status: Director

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Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

2025 2024


£
£
Turnover: 102,861 75,978
Cost of sales: ( 60,525 ) ( 53,613 )
Gross profit(or loss): 42,336 22,365
Administrative expenses: ( 10,866 ) ( 9,694 )
Other operating income: 6,094
Operating profit(or loss): 37,564 12,671
Interest receivable and similar income: 1,120 873
Profit(or loss) before tax: 38,684 13,544
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 38,684 13,544

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Balance sheet

As at 31 August 2025

Notes 2025 2024


£
£
Current assets
Debtors: 3 1,140
Cash at bank and in hand: 104,616 64,768
Total current assets: 104,616 65,908
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 4 ( 490 ) ( 465 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 104,126 65,443
Total assets less current liabilities: 104,126 65,443
Total net assets (liabilities): 104,126 65,443
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 104,126 65,443
Total members' funds: 104,126 65,443

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 August 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 28 May 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Louise Johnson
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 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

    Other accounting policies

    Reserves Policy The trustees have reviewed their reserves requirements and have designated an amount of £23,750 to cover the cost of closure and statutory redundancy payments should the remaining operational reserves deplete to a level that is no longer sustainable. Operational reserves are monitored monthly through management reports and assist to determine the level of additional funding required through grant application processes.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

  • 2. Employees

    2025 2024
    Average number of employees during the period 4 4

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

3. Debtors

2025 2024
£ £
Trade debtors 1,140
Total   1,140

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Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2025 2024
£ £
Trade creditors 490 465
Total 490 465