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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
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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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Our issue based organising in Staffordshire has continued: Raising Voices Steering Group. The priority is development of a Poverty Truth Commission in Stoke on Trent, widening membership and to secure longer term and sustainable funding. We supported two people with lived experience of hardship to attend the national Poverty Truth Network facilitators gathering in October. Expert Citizens CIC have agreed to take on the hosting of the group as lead facilitators and as fund holders in future Staffordshire More In Common Partnership We launched in September 2026 to promote connection and cohesion and launched in September with All the Small Things acting as the secretary. The North Staffs Loneliness Partnership has integrated with the new More In Common Partnership We organised 32 Steps to Togetherness capacity building training; A workshop organised with The Jo Cox Foundation on how to respond to extreme right organising; Training on how to have better conversations on sensitive topics including race and migration. Sing with More In Common sessions with Stoke Sings. We enabled seven people from Staffordshire to take part in the national More In Common In Action event in Manchester in May, hosted by The Jo Cox Foundation Place based organising With support from Roots CIC, we held a Community Conversation event at the YMCA in October. Around 40 people took part and 6 people showed interest in having some training to join the team to organise future conversations. Stoke 1000 Lives project completed in March funded by the Know Your Neighbourhood Fund. We promoted volunteering and social action to reduce loneliness and isolation. The 1000 Lives Network held in person events and re-connected with existing members and reach new people. There are 915 members of the 1000 Lives Facebook group where people share resources and opportunities for volunteering, social action and community connection. Under One Roof community heritage project with St Mark’s Church. We completed the community engagement programme supporting the repair and restoration of St Mark’s Church. The building is our main venue for meetings and activities, in the area of the city where we are most active – Hanley and Shelton neighbourhoods As a Social Action Hub affiliated to Community Organisers Ltd and as a training centre for their National Academy of Community Organising we continue training and mentoring people as organisers and to take a key role in a national roll out of the development of Assembly Culture. National work We have been commissioned to teach the Award in Community Organising nationally, for Community Organisers Ltd. We are working with Methodist Church nationally to develop community organising in action through the lens of the Christian faith. We are the lead Social Action Hub for this approach. We teach the Introduction to Community Organising with them three times a year. We are commissioned by Shelter to support their national team of Community Organisers, each working in different geographical areas around the country. We provide 1:1 monthly sessions. We are members of the APLE Collective addressing poverty through lived experience. We raise awareness, challenge stigma & work towards eradicating poverty.
We host, support and act as accountable body for smaller organisations and unconstituted groups. Stoke Sings – a network of community choirs and singing leaders in North Staffordshire. This enables us to bring community singing activities into social action as a creative way of engaging people and facilitating connection across divides. Village Voices Singing for Lung Health group - successfully applied for funding to Breathe Easy. Rhythm of Life - we plan to distribute the remaining funds from this project to support 7 local women of colour with their wellbeing and social action.
Subcontracting fees totalling £28,011
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
29 October 2026
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Lynne Ball
Status: Director