After successfully bidding for the contract to manage open access community resources on behalf of Keighley Town Council in its Civic Centre, the company has developed and managed: 1) A widely used and popular snack bar and food education resource offering restaurant quality food on a pay as you can/ pay as you feel “honest contribution” basis providing an accessible and welcoming space for local people irrespective of age, race and social status. This has been of particular benefit to those who struggle to socialise, older people living in isolation and those with mental health issues etc. A basic CCTV system installed in the food preparation area has enabled clients to watch and learn how food is being prepared. 2) A gallery promoting the creative abilities of local people and the work of community groups provides, together with free framing and professional reproduction services, an outlet for those who would not be able to mount or afford exhibitions of their own. It also serves as a platform for the promotion of the work of the company. 3) Open access creative workshops offering the free use a broad range of materials and resources with qualified professional guidance and support normally only available within large institutions and commercial training companies has helped to liberate the creative skills and subsequently improved the confidence of those who would otherwise have not taken part in the more formal activities (such as colleges and classes) offered elsewhere. The facility is also popular with other social care organisations in the town as it offers a range of opportunities and a unique style of working together not available anywhere else. We have a regular attendance of approximately 100 people per week and are engaged in additional partnership work with the Town Council to provide community development expertise in support of it’s wider aims and objectives. This includes the undertaking of commissioned activities including the provision of facilities and specialised qualified technical support for community events and live performance together with outdoor catering and photographic work. This has helped to generate, along with any snack bar takings, the modest additional finances that enable us to maintain an adequate level of material resource and offer our broad range of affordable and/or free services to those who would not be able to afford them.

Our stake holders are our beneficiaries, partners, associates, community leaders and those who visit and engage with us on a daily basis. Consultation with users and participants takes place on an ongoing weekly personal community engagement basis both “live” and via social media. Our core business is directly influenced and evaluated by those we seek to support. Our users are therefore an integral part of the company’s evolution.

No remuneration in respect of director’s qualifying services was received. However it was unanimously agreed by the board that two of the company’s directors could be employed at a nominal rate as the providers of professional qualified services and resources within the mission of the company that, given the level of available finances, would have been impossible to provide via the engagement of external contractors or the engagement of freelance professionals. Details provided within the payroll section of the accounts are as follows. Directors' salaries £9435

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