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# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
14545855 (England and Wales)

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

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 1 January 2025

## End date: 31 December 2025

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

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

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Balance sheet

As at 31 December 2025

| Notes | 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | --- | ---
|  | £ | £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets: |  | 0 | 0
Tangible assets: | 3 | 2,160 | 975
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total fixed assets: |  | 2,160 | 975
Current assets
Stocks: |  | 0 | 0
Debtors: | 4 | 83 | 83
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 16,382 | 1,223
Investments: |  | 0 | 0
Total current assets: |  | 16,465 | 1,306
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 0 | 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: | 5 | ( 16,501 ) | ( 1 )
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | (36) | 1,305
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 2,124 | 2,280
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: | 6 | ( 1,590 ) | ( 1,590 )
Provision for liabilities: |  | ( 185 ) | ( 185 )
Accruals and deferred income: |  | 0 | 0
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | 349 | 505
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 349 | 505
Total members' funds: |  | 349 | 505

The notes form part of these financial statements

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## 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 5 July 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Jennifer Orji
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## 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

  Turnover policy

  Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, net of discounts and value added taxes. Turnover includes revenue earned from the sale of goods and from the rendering of services. Turnover is reduced for estimated customer returns, rebates and other similar allowances. Sale of goods: turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when the significant risks and rewards of ownership of the goods have transferred to the buyer, usually at the point the customer has signed for delivery of the goods. Rendering of services: turnover from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract, measured by comparing costs incurred for work performed to date against total estimated contract costs. Turnover is only recognised to the extent of recoverable expenses when the outcome of a contract cannot be estimated reliably.

  Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy

  Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases: Plant and Machinery, 5 years straightline; Computer Equipment, 3 years straightline.

  Other accounting policies

  Taxation: Income tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax. The tax currently payable is based on taxable surplus for the year, calculated using tax rates enacted or substantively enacted by the end of the reporting period. Deferred tax is recognised on timing differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and their corresponding tax bases, and is measured at the tax rates expected to apply when the liability is settled or the asset realised. Deferred tax liabilities are presented within provisions for liabilities and deferred tax assets within debtors. Current and deferred tax are recognised in surplus or deficit for the year, except where they relate to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 2025 | 2024
  --- | --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 2 | 0

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

## 3. Tangible assets

| Land & buildings | Plant & machinery | Fixtures & fittings | Office equipment | Motor vehicles | Total
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Cost | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £
At 1 January 2025 | 0 | 319 | 0 | 1,037 | 0 | 1,356
Additions | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,449 | 0 | 1,449
Disposals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Revaluations | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Transfers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
At 31 December 2025 | 0 | 319 | 0 | 2,486 | 0 | 2,805
Depreciation |  |  |  |  |  |
At 1 January 2025 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 360 | 0 | 381
Charge for year | 0 | 21 | 0 | 243 | 0 | 264
On disposals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Other adjustments | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
At 31 December 2025 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 603 | 0 | 645
Net book value |  |  |  |  |  |
At 31 December 2025 | 0 | 277 | 0 | 1,883 | 0 | 2,160
At 31 December 2024 | 0 | 298 | 0 | 677 | 0 | 975

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

## 4. Debtors

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Trade debtors | 0 | 0
Prepayments and accrued income | 83 | 83
Other debtors | 0 | 0
Total | 83 | 83
Debtors due after more than one year: | 0 | 0

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

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

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Bank loans and overdrafts | 0 | 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts | 0 | 0
Trade creditors | 1 | 1
Taxation and social security | 0 | 0
Accruals and deferred income | 16,500 | 0
Other creditors | 0 | 0
Total | 16,501 | 1

# HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 December 2025

## 6. Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year note

| 2025 | 2024
--- | --- | ---
| £ | £
Bank loans and overdrafts | 0 | 0
Amounts due under finance leases and hire purchase contracts | 0 | 0
Other creditors | 1,590 | 1,590
Total | 1,590 | 1,590

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### HOLDING-HANDS (NORTH EAST) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

### Company Number: 14545855 (England and Wales)

### Year Ending: 31 December 2025

Company activities and impact

Holding Hands (North East) CIC exists to empower women, families and marginalised communities to overcome barriers, build confidence and improve their social and economic wellbeing. During 2025, the organisation grew significantly, expanding from primarily delivering wellbeing activities to becoming a recognised provider of employability, digital inclusion, enterprise development and community empowerment programmes across Sunderland and the wider North East. Our work focused particularly on women facing multiple disadvantages, including domestic abuse, migration, poverty, racial inequality, social isolation, unemployment and digital exclusion. Drawing on lived experience and culturally responsive practice, we provided safe spaces where women could rebuild confidence, gain practical skills and progress towards education, employment and enterprise. Programmes delivered during the year included the EmpowerHer Women's Empowerment Programme (funded by The National Lottery Community Fund), employability and CV support, digital skills and digital safety training, one-to-one mentoring and advocacy, enterprise development through our new ThriveHer initiative, community wellbeing activities, youth leadership and development through Young Africans Aflame, and volunteer development and work experience. In practice, this meant: hundreds of women supported through one-to-one guidance, mentoring and employability support; free digital inclusion training helping women build essential skills for work, online safety and daily life; workshops on CV writing, interview preparation, confidence building, financial wellbeing and career planning; and expanded partnership working with statutory services, charities, universities, community organisations and employers, creating stronger referral pathways for the people we support. All of this was shaped directly by the community through participant surveys, focus groups, one-to-one feedback sessions and partnership meetings, ensuring our services kept responding to genuine, current need rather than assumptions about it.

Consultation with stakeholders

Holding Hands Northeast CIC remains a community-led organisation, placing lived experience at the heart of programme design and delivery. Our stakeholders include the women, families and young people we support; our volunteers; community members; partner organisations (including local authorities, universities, NHS partners, voluntary organisations, employers, and funders such as The National Lottery Community Fund and Lloyds Bank Foundation); and public sector agencies including Sunderland City Council and DWP. Throughout 2025 we consulted these stakeholders through participant surveys, focus groups, one-to-one feedback sessions, community conversations, partnership meetings, volunteer feedback, board discussions, and regular monitoring and evaluation reporting. This consultation directly shaped programme development during the year. We increased our focus on employability and digital inclusion, developed the new ThriveHer enterprise support offer, expanded one-to-one support for women facing complex barriers, strengthened our digital safety training, and increased partnership working to improve referral pathways for the people we support. Regular monitoring and evaluation ensured this remained an ongoing, responsive process rather than a one-off exercise, with feedback feeding back into how services were delivered throughout the year.

Directors' remuneration

Ms Jennifer Orji, in addition to her role as a Director, has since June 2025 undertaken paid operational work for the Company as its sole Operational Director. She received total gross remuneration of approximately £18,664 during the financial year (paid via PAYE), included within staff costs in the accounts. This remuneration relates to operational duties distinct from her role as a Director, and was reviewed and approved by the Company's other Directors, with Ms Orji recused from that decision. No other director received any remuneration during the financial year.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
5 May 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Stanley Amadi
Status: Director