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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2026
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2025
to
31 January 2026
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 31 January 2026
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We continue to provide support, advice and information to voluntary, community, faith-based community groups and not-for-profit social enterprises in East London and surrounding boroughs through networks, mentoring, training and workshops. I attach a link to our latest Impact report. We undertake to produce an impact report every two years. Compost Impact Report We have secured two years of funding to help us achieve the strategic plan for the ESOL Exchange and, hopefully, reignite this network. Our health-funded research engagement network has been funded for another year with Compost as one of the partners. Our role is engaging with communities via Research cafes, where members of the organisations can meet and discuss health and social care research. We also produce a newsletter and noticeboard highlighting current research looking for volunteers. We were also commissioned to establish a community of practice for groups across the NE London ICS area to find out about the new health structure and explore ways in which local VCSE groups can engage. Our Community Research Network continues, and we have now trained 12 new Citizen Social Scientists from the Refugee and Migrant network and the training programme for the Marginalised Women network is being recruited to. One of the students from the Refugee and migrant network produced a carpet depicting the findings of his research, and this has been displayed in Greenwich Museum. Our own Nourish Fund provides support for new and developing groups, although we are moving towards delivering more workshops as opposed to one-to-one support to meet the growing need. Workshop topics are chosen from feedback from the groups we meet at events and work with. We produce a monthly newsletter and have an electronic noticeboard where organisations can advertise events and services, and we can post information.
At all our events, training sessions and workshops, we ask participants to complete a feedback form that asks how useful the event was, what could have been improved and any ideas for future events. Post-event, these are recorded and analysed The decision to move to more workshop support via the Nourish fund has been as a response to more groups asking for similar topics in applications to the Nourish Fund. We held a successful Theory of Change workshop that was attended by 20 people. The themes for the Research cafes that we deliver are directly based on feedback we receive from attendees at the previous research cafe and in conjunction with NIHR and local hospital trusts who supply the researchers. Our Community Research trainee Citizen Social Scientists carry out research as part of their training, drawing on their own lived experience. The project then gives them a platform to present their work to policymakers and people who can use their findings to improve or shape practice. We have worked with Heriot-Watt University on their Joseph Rowntree longitudinal project tracking deprivation. Our role is to put forward groups that work with deprived communities, so their experience is included in the national research. We have also been part of the NAVCA project exploring the power and usefulness of infrastructure organisations like ourselves. Feedback from our local groups will help shape our services as well as feed into the national picture.
Directors are not paid for their role as directors. However, the following directors have been paid for work they have undertaken with voluntary and community groups for Compost London CIC. Anne Crisp - £4357.00 Caroline Rouse - £7530.00
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
21 September 2026
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Caroline Rouse
Status: Director