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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 September 2025
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 October 2024
to
30 September 2025
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
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
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 30 September 2025
Basis of measurement and preparation
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Our plant-based cafe and continues to provide an accessible and sensory-friendly safe haven for multiply marginalised neurodivergent (ND) people to socialise, create and work together, helping to reduce the loneliness and social isolation which affects our community disproportionately. We continue to employ autistic and neurodivergent adults and offer inclusive volunteering opportunities to the ND community. Our relationship with the neighbouring Cathays Community Centre has strengthened as we’ve been hosting their regular weekly coffee mornings and dementia friendly social groups and providing catering services to the Centre and its users. We completed a year long arts and wellbeing project funded by Arts Council Wales employing a team of neurodivergent freelancers to deliver a wide variety of creative workshops and open-mic music and poetry events in the cafe, creating opportunities for creative development, networking and confidence building for emerging ND artists and performers. We also worked with larger venues around Cardiff to showcase some of the participants to a wider audience than our cafe can accommodate. We received lots of positive feedback from participants and identified case studies in the positive impact of creating autistic-led events and spaces. Our plans for the next financial year include more creative workshops building on the success of the previous project.
Aubergine CIC was set up to create a community for autistic people, as well as people from other marginalised communities such as BAME or LGBTQ to have a safe space to socialise, eat and be creative. We communicate with them mainly via social media such as Facebook and Instagram, gathering feedback through comments, messages, online polls and questionnaires. We also keep a physical suggestion box and notice board in the cafe to collect feedback from visitors. We maintain a continuous dialogue with Cathays Community Centre from whom we rent the cafe space with regular check ins including an annual review. We contribute to the centres annual report to its stakeholders and attend the centres AGM. In the past year we have made adjustments to our pricing and menu offerings in response to feedback from the centre and its users and seen an uptick in the amount of sales with centre staff and volunteers since. We proactively seek our feedback from participants at all our events. We also collect feedback from freelancers with whom we work. We have used this feedback to continually improve our activities. For example in the course of our 24/25 arts project we collected feedback and testimonials in a visitors book from participants at workshops and other events in order to improve the experience of participants and audiences in future events gaining valuable insights which will inform our next project. We have an active social media presence with thousands of followers who give us feedback in messages and comments, as well as emails and form messages through our website. We also maintain continuous communication with visitors to the cafe. Our conversations with visitors and with people in the local community in Cathays form an essential part of our outreach which informs the way we work.
The aggregate amount of emoluments paid to or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £12,000. As detailed in the accounts, the Director S Elliott received a stipend of £2,275 to reflect work carried out on Aubergine Cafe and Events CIC’s activities as outlined above. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
24 June 2026
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: A Brown
Status: Director