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# THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
16036848 (England and Wales)

## Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 23 October 2024

## End date: 31 December 2025

# THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

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

# THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 31 December 2025

| Notes | 14 months to 31 December 2025
--- | --- | ---
|  | £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets: |  | 0 |
Tangible assets: |  | 0 |
Investments: |  | 0 |
Total fixed assets: |  | 0
Current assets
Stocks: |  | 0 |
Debtors: | 3 | 2,290 |
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 8,933 |
Investments: |  | 0 |
Total current assets: |  | 11,223
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 0 |
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: | 4 | ( 6,570 ) |
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 4,653
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 4,653
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: |  | 0 |
Provision for liabilities: |  | 0 |
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | 4,653
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 4,653 |
Total members' funds: |  | 4,653

The notes form part of these financial statements

# THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 December 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 18 May 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Nicola Daley
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 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 BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 14 months to 31 December 2025
  --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 0 |

# THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

## 3. Debtors

| 14 months to 31 December 2025
--- | ---
| £
Trade debtors | 2,290 |
Prepayments and accrued income | 0 |
Other debtors | 0 |
Total | 2,290
Debtors due after more than one year: | 0 |

# THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

## 4. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

| 14 months to 31 December 2025
--- | ---
| £
Bank loans and overdrafts | 0 |
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts | 0 |
Trade creditors | 3,150 |
Taxation and social security | 0 |
Accruals and deferred income | 3,420 |
Total | 6,570

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### THE BIG ONION (MERSEYSIDE) CIC

### Company Number: 16036848 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 December 2025

Company activities and impact

The Big Onion CIC has delivered a range of activities. A Community cafe affordable food and drink at our Bootle Strand hub, creating a welcoming meeting place and volunteering/work-experience opportunities for local people. A Hub and co-working space shared workspace, meeting rooms and facilities hosting social enterprises, community groups, creative practitioners and start-ups, strengthening Sefton's social economy. Business start-up support and incubation one-to-one mentoring, business planning and incubation space targeted at aspiring entrepreneurs who face barriers to starting a business. Training and skills delivery digital inclusion, employability, enterprise skills and wellbeing programmes aimed at people furthest from the labour market. Community events and activities workshops, drop-ins, cultural and wellbeing events that reduce isolation and build belonging. A flagship example is our Our Time, Our Place project, which started in November 2025 with funding from the LiVV Housing Community Grant. The project delivers a weekly programme of activities, signposting and social-connection opportunities for local residents aged 55 plus, tackling loneliness and isolation while building friendships, confidence, wellbeing and new skills. Over 800 individuals benefited directly from these activities during the period. Beneficiaries include unemployed and economically inactive residents, isolated older people, aspiring entrepreneurs from under-represented backgrounds, small community enterprises, families on low incomes, and the wider Bootle community who benefit from a regenerated, occupied high-street unit contributing to town-centre recovery.

Consultation with stakeholders

Consultation has taken three main forms during this first period. Community feedback and user surveys, informal and structured feedback gathered from cafe customers, hub visitors, training participants and start-up entrepreneurs through short surveys, comment cards and one-to-one conversations, shaping opening hours, programme content and the layout of shared spaces. Co-design of workshops and community events, sessions inviting local residents, social enterprises and beneficiaries to help shape the hub's offer, informing decisions about the cafe, incubation space, training priorities and community activities. Partner meetings and sector engagement, ongoing engagement with Sefton Council, educational institutions, credit unions, health partners and the wider VCSE sector to ensure our activities complement existing provision and address identified gaps. The directors are committed to deepening this consultation approach, with formal annual review exercises planned for future periods.

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
18 May 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Nicola Daley
Status: Director