Shiatsu College Manchester CIC provides training in shiatsu to people in the area around Manchester (Northwest England and North Wales), to become professional practitioners, to treat friends and family, and/or to support their own health and wellbeing. The following activities were provided this year: 1. Registration and beginning of the new academic year. The new academic year began in September 2025 with 6 students in Year 3, 5 students in Year 2 and 11 students in Year 1. 2. Completion of in-person training for students who were registered with Shiatsu College Manchester. 5 students completed the Holistic Acupressure Certificate; and 4 students completed the full shiatsu training (Level 4 Diploma). 3. Opening up to new students. One open weekend for new students (September 2025). Two one-day workshops for new students (March and June 2025). Newsletters to connect with potential students. Creating opportunities for people to find out about shiatsu. 4. Student and practitioner support – a. Shiatsu College Manchester days open to graduates and former students; b. offering the opportunity to work in our low-cost clinic and get feedback on their practice (3 former students). 5. Student clinics provided low cost shiatsu to 29 different clients (46 sessions offered in total, over four clinic dates). This gave a range of people the opportunity to experience shiatsu, including some who had not had shiatsu before. It also gave students confidence in working in a clinical setting. Feedback from the clients was overwhelmingly positive. 6. Shiatsu College Retreat – we ran a successful Retreat at Rydal Hall in April 2026, with our colleagues at other branches of the Shiatsu College. 7. Connection with the Shiatsu Society - Ratification process for Shiatsu College Manchester to remain ratified with the Shiatsu Society, including assessors’ meeting. 8. Working with other branches of the Shiatsu College to ensure our teaching systems are working well, including Internal Verification process focusing on teaching of Chinese Medicine; quality assurance for those learning shiatsu with us. 9. Using shiatsu to support our own health and wellbeing. This was an ongoing aspect of the training we offer for all our students, participants and assistants. Receiving shiatsu from other students supports our health and wellbeing, as well as learning techniques to help ourselves, and benefitting from exercises and meditation. 10. Support for people using shiatsu training to support their mental health. At least 3 of our students have ongoing long-term mental health issues, and we have been able to support them to access our classes (flexibility about re-joining years they have already attended, individual discussions about meeting their needs, keeping in contact when they are not well enough to attend class). 11. We have a Bursary Fund for our students, including a Bursary panel to make awards. We were able to support 5 students in the year 25-26, to reduce the fees they needed to pay. We also allocated funds to support disadvantaged people to attend our student clinics. 12. Two of our long-term teaching assistants have progressed with their training to become registered teachers of shiatsu, supported by two of our teachers. 13. We had a team training day for our team in October.

The community in whose interest we operate are: people in the North of England and North Wales who want to learn shiatsu and people in the North of England and North Wales who want to support their health and wellbeing holistically with shiatsu. Our stakeholders - those in our geographical area who are: Current Shiatsu College Manchester students Potential shiatsu students/people with an interest in training in shiatsu Shiatsu graduates, practitioners and former students People who would like to receive shiatsu to support their health and wellbeing People who would like to learn a basic level of shiatsu to support their health and wellbeing Shiatsu College Manchester teachers Shiatsu College Manchester teaching assistants We did not do any formal consultation this year.

The directors were renumerated for their work in the CIC: Rachel Ecclestone - £5,403 Anne Palmer - £4,526 Karey Taylor - £2,748 Hannah Mackay - £11,892

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