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# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
13408178 (England and Wales)

## Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 May 2026

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 1 June 2025

## End date: 31 May 2026

# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 May 2026

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

# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

Directors' report period ended 31 May 2026

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 May 2026

Principal activities of the company

We are a social club run by volunteers, where users come for friendly help with their technology.

Additional information

Every Tuesday morning, we send out a newsletter to our 630+ club members to remind them that club is happening in the afternoon. There is also a Facebook and Instagram post published at the same time (when the tech works!). We keep our website updated (https://five-bells-computerclub.mailchimpsites.com/). Our printed flyers are on the counter in the pub and have been handed out to local phone and computer shops and repairers. Our flyers are also left at local food banks, gyms, doctor’s surgeries, libraries, Churches, etc. We have attended two local U3A events where we have chatted to people there and handed out our leaflets (which has resulted in about 30 new members each time). We have a couple of 2 metre stand-up posters which we erect wherever we are. We recently entered a Tech4Good award competition. We were not shortlisted, but the resulting video is now doing a good job of promoting the club on our website. Last summer we split our busy WhatsApp group into three groups which are active, during times when the club is not running. We have one group for ‘volunteers’ to keep in touch with each other, and post solutions they’ve found to more unusual problems. We have a second ‘tech’ WhatsApp Group for our members to post their problems and hopefully one of our volunteers will answer in time. And the third WhatsApp group is a ‘social’ group - just for fun – whatever the members want to talk about, jokes etc. There were over 1000 attendances at our Tuesday Club sessions (including learners and volunteers) over the past academic year, which is an impressive number considering we only run for two hours a week during term times. In addition to total numbers, we track the number of distinct individuals who attend the Club sessions because that is a useful indicator to our sponsors of how widely we are spreading our help. The fact that we had 98 different learners attending during the last term goes to show that, in addition to the "social attendees" who come very often, we are reaching a good number of people who come once or twice just to get their problems sorted out. Over the whole year it is 242 individuals and the average number of the 36 possible sessions attended is Volunteers 13.7, Learners 3.1 We have some social attenders who live alone and come along every week just to socialise. An average session has around 18 learners and 10 to 11 volunteers, a ratio of 1.7. The ratio of learners to volunteers is crucial: somewhere between 1.5 to 2 is manageable, beyond 2 to 1 people waiting for help can get frustrated. We were forced to implement a 20-minute time limit per learner after one particularly fraught session, a rule which is still in place but more discreetly managed. In spite of hot weather and some crowded sessions we seem to have avoided any more unpleasant incidents. Recent attendance has been between 24 and 40 people for each session. One of the main attractions of the Club is that you can turn up without booking or having to describe your problems in advance, but still have a reasonable expectation of getting help. Individual volunteers sometimes write accounts of what they did today at a session, but this is not done for statistical purposes. Going forward, we will supplement statistics with individual case histories, and attempt to measure the club’s impact on the community. Our major teaching event was the Five Bells Digital Workshops 2025. We ran 13 workshops from September to December 2025. A total of 246 learners attended, making an average class of 19. The average number of workshops a learner attended was 3.4. There were 5 volunteers on average at each workshop and volunteers attended 4.9 workshops on average. Number of Participants & Seating Arrangements We had between 10 and 25 participants show up to each session, with at least 4 volunteerseach time. We tried to group people with similar devices at the tables. The participants enjoyed talking around their tables and seeing that other users had the same challenges. The attendees would help each other and could be guided by the volunteers when necessary. This system also worked well. Conclusion This was a great experience for us, and the general feedback was very positive. The venue proved very popular, and many residents of East Finchley were pleased to find out about this excellent local venue with its large garden, which can also be hired for social functions. We are grateful to The National Lottery Community Fund for the funding, allowing us to go ahead with this. The club is a successful venture promoting free digital and social inclusion for older people in North London. It is a valued source of friendly help in the community. Some people come along just for a cup of tea and a chat, whilst others are eager for someone to help them with their tech. We plan to continue for as long as we are needed. Many thanks to Steve and the team at the Five Bells pub for reserving tables for us every week, and for making us feel so welcome (and for serving so many cups of tea and coffee with smiles!

Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026

Alan Judes
Toni Koppel

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
8 July 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Toni Koppel
Status: Director

# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

## Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 May 2026

| 2026 | 2025
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Turnover: | 0 | 23,145
Cost of sales: | 0 | 0
Gross profit(or loss): | 0 | 23,145
Administrative expenses: | 0 | ( 23,145 )
Operating profit(or loss): | 0 | 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: | 0 | 0
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: | 0 | 0

# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 31 May 2026

| Notes | 2026 | 2025
--- | --- | --- | ---
|  | £ | £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets: |  | 0 | 0
Tangible assets: |  | 0 | 0
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total fixed assets: |  | 0 | 0
Current assets
Stocks: |  | 0 | 0
Debtors: |  | 0 | 0
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 14,454 | 19,800
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total current assets: |  | 14,454 | 19,800
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 0 | 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: |  | 0 | 0
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 14,454 | 19,800
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 14,454 | 19,800
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: |  | 0 | 0
Provision for liabilities: |  | ( 14,512 ) | ( 19,858 )
Accruals and deferred income: |  | 0 | 0
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | (58) | (58)
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | (58) | ( 58)
Total members' funds: |  | ( 58) | (58)

The notes form part of these financial statements

# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

## Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 May 2026 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 8 July 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Alan Judes
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 May 2026

- ## 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

  Turnover policy

  The turnover shown in the income and expenditure represents revenue recognised by the company in respect of goods and services supplied during the period.

# TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 May 2026

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2026 | 2025
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 0 | 0

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### TEA AND TECH CLUB CIC

### Company Number: 13408178 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 May 2026

Company activities and impact

We are a social club run by volunteers, where users come for friendly help with their technology. The club runs every Tuesday afternoon during term-time between 2pm and 4pm. The club offers free and friendly help with anything digital -smartphones, laptops and tablets mainly, but we have also tuned car clocks and radios, paired other digital devices, and even looked at an old Sony Walkman, and similar older gadgets. Everyone is offered a free cup of tea or coffee – or cold drinks and ice cream in summer months (paid from our kitty). When we first started, we were often helping people who were using a phone or computer for the first time. Retired men who had always had a secretary are an example, or grandmothers who had only used a landline, but their children wanted them to use a mobile phone when they were out with the grandchildren. Nowadays, the help is more frequently for people who have upgraded their device and need to know how the new phone or tablet works. But the challenges that our volunteers are given are very wide-ranging. We have a wealth of knowledge amongst our volunteers who specialise in different fields: Windows, Apple, Android, Microsoft, social media, photography, programming, websites, video editing, cloud storage, old operating systems, security, spreadsheets, wordprocessing etc. The most frequently requests are very simply solved: e.g. turning off WhatsApp notifications or downloading Transport apps. But we also help with advanced challenges if we have the skills. Some of our volunteers have been nicknamed ‘the Big Guns’ by one of our learners who believes these volunteers with very advanced skills can solve any problem, no matter how difficult! Our main focus is to provide free and friendly help with digital devices to anyone who turns up at any of our Tuesday drop-in sessions. Our social element is as important as our tech element, and everyone is welcome. We also organise a social activity at the end of each term. At the end of the summer term in 2025 we had booked an introduction to bowls session at a local bowls club. However, on the day the temperature was nearly 35 degrees C. and we took the decision to cancel the event due to the unusually high heat levels and the danger posed to our aged members. In July we held a thank you lunch for our volunteers and updated them on new practices and future plans, and the annual financial statements were approved. We successfully raised extra funding from the National Lottery (£19,750) so that we could repeat our term of Thursday morning classroom style workshops for the next two years, as well as fund our regular Tuesday sessions. Our second set of workshops ran on Thursday mornings from September to December 2025, with a different theme for each workshop – more details below - based at the East Finchley Constitutional Club. At the end of the Autumn term, we had a lively Christmas party at the pub involving a three course Christmas lunch with an excellent magic show, followed by live music. At the end of the Easter term, we had a good old-fashioned pub singalong with a live musician, free to participants.

Consultation with stakeholders

We are mindful of our obligations as a CIC under the Community Interest Company Regulations 2005 Consultation steps We send out a survey once a year asking for feedback from attendees. We also have feedback forms available at our check-in station on Tuesdays for anyone to praise or suggest improvements for the club. At the end of our workshops, everyone must complete a feedback form. We run three WhatsApp Groups 1 Five Bells TECH Club 2 Five Bells SOCIAL Club 3 Volunteers Five Bells Computer Club Members are very welcome to chat to volunteers to suggest improvements which are filtered through to the group lead, either orally or via the Volunteers Five Bells Computer Club WhatsApp group. Members can also post suggestions on our other WhatsApp groups. Consultation outcomes These survey feedback and forms are acted on whenever possible. For instance, last year someone complained that they had to wait too long to get help. We have since introduced a system whereby, during busy sessions, volunteers are asked to set their timers for 20 minutes, to ensure that everyone waiting has a chance to speak with a volunteer. We also had to make learners aware that they cannot always be paired with the volunteer of their choice, as people are paired in the order that they arrive at club. They can only expect one question to be answered, freeing up the volunteer, unless there is no-one else waiting for help. The new system seems to work well when needed. Following a discussion with Ruth Mulandi of Inclusion Barnet, we plan to incorporate more systems for consulting our community, collecting feedback and measuring outcomes next term.

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
8 July 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Toni Koppel
Status: Director