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2022-07-31-accounts

Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination Annual Report, 2021-22

Wonder and education are two of the essential survival skills. We cannot wish our way out of the ecological crisis, but we might be able to grow our way out of it — and surprisingly fast, too. Things are changing from the ground up: new generations emerging who are holding government to account, calling for us to be better ancestors.

CCI is part of this work of growth. Sometimes I think of what CCI does as a kind of 'practical dreaming': imagining new and fantastical ways of being in the world which root deep in minds and imaginations, and from there grow into reality. Nothing makes me despair as much as resignation: there is always good to be done somewhere, whether it is flourishing a Forest of Imagination on Christ's Piece, or re-mapping a spinney or copse in a scrap of edgeland so that it becomes a fairytale world of impossible extent and adventure.

Truly, this is the work. Lives are changed by it. So please do support it in any ways you feel able — the problems we find ourselves in as a planet have been made by many hands working together, and they can only be undone by many hands working together too.

Robert Macfarlane, CCI Patron, November 2021

Registered Company Number: 6301716 Registered Charity Number: 1126253

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Contents

Snapshot of our year 3
Report from the Chair 8
Report from the Board of Trustees 11
References and Administrative Detail 16
Structure, Governance and Management 17
Financial Review 20

What makes a place? Artscapers commission from TOWN and U+I to consult with young people about a changing Cambridge

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Snapshot of our year, 2021–22

Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI) is an innovative, socially-inclusive arts and wellbeing charity whose collaborative practices actively engage children and adults of all ages in order to nourish their creativity and connections to themselves and their community. At the heart of our work is an understanding of the importance of creativity and its value as a critical life skill that enriches people, communities, and our society as a whole.

Creative relationships

CCI engaged creatively with a total of 1,437 participants. This included 809 children and 197 educators, which is an increase of nearly 200% from last year.

Digital

Our dynamic websites were visited by 16,007 visitors during the year, an increase of 46% on last year.

Working in local spaces Alongside our online programmes, work took place in 24 different local spaces in this year including primary school playgrounds, nature reserves, woods, community spaces and Addenbrooke’s Dialysis Unit. Co-creation CCI has co-created three new resources to support the amplifying of artscaper practices.

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Creative Activism – A Call for Being Together Differently

Step in/try out/open up Adventure takes hold Lightfulness…giggling Together side-by-side Playful magic sparks joy Vulnerability to value-ability (word fragments from ‘A Call for Being Together Differently’)

We added a new artput to our collection of resources to support reflection and dialogue about creative practice – A Call for Being Together Differently . Designed and created by the same team who had worked on A Call for Spaces for Liberated Learning last year, this resource has already travelled far and wide through events and workshops, including as the opening provocation for the Power of Partnerships Conference, May 2022, which gathered practitioners from across the midlands and eastern regions.

What a great way to start the day today – thank you so much. It created a lovely atmosphere and I loved the start, imagining what it would be like if we were all together. Great feedback from the team here at ARU too. Steph Peachey, NNF

A Call for Being Together Differently’ has its roots in our work with PHACE (the local cultural education partnership for Peterborough) as part of Fullscope’s Creative Care programme. Two pilot projects for practitioners from schools and educational settings focused on growing their confidence and skills to work creatively with the families they support. The many rich threads of learning from these projects - including reflections from participants, data from school, feedback from families, and observations from colleagues - were shared with researchers Gabby Arenge and Emily Dowdeswell as material from which to create this new CCI ‘artput’. The process was beautifully supported by artist Susanne Jasilek, who helped realise their ideas in a sculptural form. Unlike reports or presentations, with their tendency to not quite convey the power of the work plus their propensity to gather dust, we wanted an output from this work that sparked new conversations and continued to open up these new ways of working for colleagues.

It was the perfect messaging and activity. Fiona Brice, Funding Officer, National Lottery

This is magic & important & really made me quite emotional. Rachel, teacher

Images: A Call for Spaces for Liberated Learning and Being Together Differently with a workshop response

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Co-creation with young people - enabling their voices and ideas to influence change

Co-creation is a core value for CCI and was richly evidenced across many programmes this year, particularly in our work as part of the Fullscope consortium. Our shared vision is for a relevant, accessible and inclusive mental health system for all children and young people and we have been working with statutory and voluntary partners across the region to influence this since 2019. CCI leads on the Fullscope Creative Care programme, which this year invested in CCI’s innovative Branching Out programme to train new community artscapers to build capacity in primary schools.

We commissioned new artistic resources to support this plan for amplifying artscapers in order that many more can experience and be nourished by this practice. These included Shirley Pocket Adventures, a series of cards to support families exploring local nature spaces, and the Companionship Compass and Guide to Artscaping, new training materials produced as part of the Branching Out programme.

For many children and young people, the current mental health system is over medicalised and overstretched. Fullscope is focusing on how we can prevent mental health issues as well as offer support much earlier. CCI’s work is fundamental to this. With their wealth of knowledge, we can provide opportunities for all children to flourish, and design new programmes that bring this thinking to many more people across our county and beyond. Eva Acs, Director, Fullscope

CCI has also connected children’s voices and ideas to the work of politicians, developers and planners in the City during the year, opening up conversations about how we can re-imagine the future in ways that enable everyone and everything to thrive.

Images from top: showing Brookgate Developers a local nature reserve, young artscapers discuss what makes a place with TOWN, Daniel Zeichner visits Shirley Community Primary School; Companionship Compass (p6)

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Growing our Fantastical Forest

This is brilliant!!! It is by far the most impactful outcome of our efforts to show people the hidden fungi under their feet. Jen McGaley, researcher Crop Science Centre, Dec 2021

Our collection of magical forest hangings co-created with children and their communities continued to flourish this year. New work was seeded through our collaborations with our research partners and other commissions to work with communities and by November 2021 the collection numbered over 50 hangings, made with nearly 400 children and young people and those who work with them from across the county.

The forest has its origins in 2019. CCI was commissioned to cocreate a Forest of Imagination for a production of Hansel and Gretel by Cambridge Youth Opera

with children from two local primary schools. Lockdowns meant the opera couldn’t happen, but we were able to curate events to mark the signing of the Tree Charter by Cambridge City Council in November 2020. The impact of this work and its capacity to make visible in beautiful and memorable ways our wider work with communities led us to commit to making the Forest an annual occurrence and so – thanks to generous sponsorship from Software Acumen – in 2021 we hung the ever-growing collection back in Wandlebury Country Park and also in Cambridge City Centre and in the University of Cambridge Pitt Building as part of an event for corporate partners sponsored by our media partner Kiss Communications.

I think you should go outside and do nature because it’s fun and you are free. Indianna

Art helps you do what you choose. It shows you what you feel. Felicity

If you get outside you can concentrate. Millie-Nic

Tree Charter Day, Wandlebury, Nov 2021; Celebration of CCI and Fantastical Forests at University of Cambridge Pitt Building, Dec 2021, hosted by KISS

Working with nature makes everyone happy . Bea

Messages from 8/9 year olds to business people in City, Nov 2021

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inspired by chalk streams, May 2022 Work by 7 year old at Galfrid School
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Report from the Chair

The past reporting year (from August 2021 to July 2022) has been a successful year for CCI, throughout which the charity – together with its network of artists and partners - has followed its values and helped more people than ever to develop their creativity and imagination.

As with the previous two years, our income was again over £100k. This is the first time ever that the charity has sustained this level of annual income over three successive years. As part of our efforts to ensure the sustainability of the charity, we have successfully cultivated relationships with a broader range of donors and funders in this region. The charity now has a consistency of funding and breadth of funding base which it can be proud of. Crucially, 88p in every £1 raised by the charity is directly invested in our charitable activities.

The positive funding situation has meant that the charity has been able to do more work with artists to create magical moments for communities and touch more lives. CCI engaged creatively with over 40% more people than last year. In carefully selected opportunities, and in a thoughtful and considered way, the charity is experimenting with new ways of working and managing the tricky balancing act of maintaining the quality of quality of our interactions with people, whilst broadening the breadth of our work. CCI worked with 197 educators this year, an increase of nearly 200% from last year, which has the potential to positively impact even more children as we work alongside these important professionals.

Whenever I’m close to what CCI does, I come away inspired, and when I look back over the year, they provide many personal highlights. Here are a few of the moments that particularly stood out for me:

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As we move into a new reporting year, we confidently begin our new year with a large number of projects already funded and planned. I’m looking forward to seeing the next version of the Fantastical Forest, I am excited to watch the Branching Out project develop, and I’m curious to see how the opportunity to share the charity’s approach and materials more widely online develop.

Thanks to a generous benefactor, the charity received a significant sustainability grant during the year, which means that, for the first time, CCI now has a three-year plan, and we are working to sustain the organisation’s work beyond that period. Even planning with CCI can be a creative and uplifting process – the series of meetings we’ve had to shape our three-year plan brought together a community of wonderful people who share a set of values.

I’d like to thank all the wonderful artists who work with CCI, our volunteers, and the other board members. I’d also like to thank Chris Doddington & Helen Taylor, who retired from being trustees, and I was very pleased to welcome to the board Emily Dowdeswell and Zoe Gilbertson, two new trustees who joined this year.

I’d also like to thank KISS Communications, one of our region’s leading marketing and PR agencies, as their generous work on our websites makes it possible to sharing the charity’s work online – and this year we’ve had more website visitors than ever before.

Finally, I want to recognise the tireless and terrific work of the fantastic team behind the scenes who make it all possible – and in particular Neil Parker, Jo Diver, and our wonderful director, Ruth Sapsed.

Richard McLean Chair, CCI

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Report from the Board of Trustees

Every one of its projects makes me see things strangely again, tips a little more wonder back into the world. Robert Macfarlane, CCI Patron

Background

Our work is driven by a vision of an inclusive, accessible and creative society.

CCI is an arts and well-being charity working to support cohesive and collaborative communities in Cambridgeshire and beyond through our locally-based creative arts experiences. We came together as a group of artists, educators, parents and researchers in 2002 with a shared passion for how the arts can transform lives and a belief in the power of democratic forms of community activism. Our programmes foster deep connections and a sense of togetherness for everyone involved.

We believe that curiosity and imagination matter.

We create spaces where ideas can flourish and solutions to our problems be found, spaces with creative and engaged citizens of all ages able to collaborate effectively together. We work through exchanges: with children, their friends and families; with schools and everyone who works in them; with communities and their connections; with artists, scientists, architects, musicians, experts and enthusiasts of every kind. We have worked with people of all ages in all sorts of spaces, including most recently woods, hospitals, libraries, playgrounds, new developments and recycling centres.

Children are at the heart of our work; their ideas and questions lead the way.

CCI is a founding member of the FullScope consortium, established in 2019 and coordinated by seven leading charities that support the mental wellbeing of children and/or young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. FullScope champions, collaborates with, and is inspired by the voices of children and young people, taking their lead in order to deliver its aims. Supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, with development support from Arm Limited and Norfolk & Norwich Festival Bridge, Fullscope presents the first consortium of its kind in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and has been able to have significant influence in the system.

We seek to empower active citizens of all ages to be creative and share ideas.

CCI became a charity in 2007 and has established a significant track record for creating unique impactful programmes of activity, working in partnership with many of the major organisations including: University College London’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education (UCL’s CCCSE); University of Cambridge; Addenbrooke’s Hospital; Cambridge City Council; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough County Council (CCC); Anglia Ruskin University (ARU); and many school communities across the county. Research links have also been established with Universities beyond the region, particularly Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway and Bath Spa Universities.

Key advocates for CCI’s work are Michael Morpurgo and Robert Macfarlane (Patrons), and Rob Hopkins, Jackie Kay and Dame Fiona Reynolds – all passionate defenders of the rights of children, the arts and the outdoors.

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Our Year August 2021 – July 2022

CCI’s work is built around three key strands – connect, research and reflect, share, all underpinned by our environmental pledge. We work with partners to find innovative and impactful ways to:

Our commitment is to a strong local focus for our work and this year we offered creative experiences in 24 different spaces across the city and county, including 14 schools and 3 conservation areas.

Place-making with communities:

School-based programmes:

Images: Children aged 4 – 8 years old work together at Shirley Primary School; Abbey People Community Coffee morning create work inspired by Chalk Streams

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Working in partnership with CCI has significantly enhanced how we can support the schools we work with. The simple truth is that the children we are working with are very vulnerable – many don’t have a place they can go in their community where they feel safe. Many spend little or no time outside. Many speak regularly about death and sadness. Yet the children who have joined the projects often say that these are their favourite two hours of the week, that they notice how happy they feel outside. This work is therapeutic, but not therapy.

Matt Edge, CEO, Cambridge Acorn Project

Educators capacity building/cpd

Providing time and space early on for children to reconnect (or connect for the first time) with nature and art is the actual ‘’medicine’ that’s required. Giving children a fresh start, with the adults seeming them a-new with talents that were previously under the surface is huge. Thing of what could be achieved if more children worked with CCI. And that of the money that would potentially be saved in staff time, paediatrician referrals, expensive therapy…..’

Paula Ayliffe, Headteacher, Mayfield Primary School, Cambridge and Branching Out partner

I appreciated the opportunity to reflect on my own practice and to spend important and useful time as a ‘participant’.

I have valued most seeing the way in which people’s response to a variety of words, activities and mediums is so beautifully diverse and how the conversations generated from the activities are so rich and meaningful.

Feedback from participants at Peterborough City College Creative Parenting course with PHACE, June 2022

Our findings in the Eco-capabilities programme on the impact of CCI’s work demonstrate significant changes among the children including increased resilience and capacity for risk-

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taking, greater collaboration and empathy and strengthened relationships between children and teachers. Professor Nicola Walshe, UCL

Income diversification and Trading initiatives

These included continuing to offer A Day in the Woods experiences to teams, selling publications and building our base of donors and supporters.

Capacity building

CCI recognises the importance of the freelance artist community we are part of. We have been working to develop a Mutual Respect Pledge with Cambridge Community Arts, Arts and Minds, CUH Arts and University of Cambridge Museums. This has been co-created with city based artists and shared at Cambridge Art Network’s conference.

Sharing our learning and Advocacy

You can be with yourself, find a nice quiet spot and just relax.

Outside the sky is open, there are trees, and if you have all of your sense on […] it’s so much more memorable, you are much more likely to remember and enjoy your experience.

They also discussed how important the open-endedness of Artscaping was to finding their own creativity:

They didn’t tell us what to make, or how to make it, they just said make some artwork with it… .. You don’t need set rules, just a framework […] a loose structure to build on, you can then build around the structure.

The session, chaired by MP Rachel Hopkins, was online, with over 100 people tuning in. Many commented on how articulate the children were in describing the benefits of this work and the impact it has had on their wellbeing.

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Partners this year included:

Abbey People Cambridge Acorn Project Cambridge City Council Cambridge Community Arts Cambridge Nature Network Cambridge Past Present and Future Cambridge University Hospitals (incl. Addenbrooke’s Arts and The Dialysis Unit)

Cambridgeshire County Council Cambs Youth Panel Fullscope – YMCA, Blue Smile, Arts and Minds, CPSL Mind, The Kite Trust, Ormiston Families, Centre 33 National Centre for Creative Health Norfolk and Norwich Festival Bridge PHACE (Peterborough local cultural education partnership) Research – Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education at the Institute of Education (UCL), Faculty of Education (UofC), Anglia Ruskin University, Goldsmiths University, Bath Spa University Schools - Mayfield Primary, Shirley Community Primary, Galfrid Primary, North Cambridge Academy, Thongsley Fields Primary, Howard Primary plus Branching Out schools Town and U+I University of Cambridge Museums

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Reference and Administrative Detail

Registered Company Number: 6301716 Registered Charity Number: 1126253

Registered Office Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI) The Studio 20 Hurst Park Avenue Cambridge CB4 2AE

Bankers Santander Bridle Road Bootle, L30 4GB

Website

www.cambridgecandi.org.uk www.adayinthewoods.org.uk

Directors and Trustees: Michael Corley Chris Doddington (Resigned 13th July 2022) Emily Dowdeswell (Appointed 8th June 2022) Owen Garling Zoe Jane Gilbertson (Appointed 8th June 2022) Karen Horowitz Karen Lingley Richard McLean (Chair) Helen Taylor (Resigned 26th April 2022)

Images: families in Bramblefields as part of Cambs Nature Festival June 2022, fundraising concert by Nicky Webb and Robert Ziegler, December 2021

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Structure, Governance and Management

The organisation is a company limited by guarantee (Registered Company Number: 6301716), incorporated on 4 July 2007 and registered as a charity (Registered Charity Number: 1126253) on 10 October 2008.The company was established under a Memorandum of Association, which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. The directors of the company are also charity trustees for the purposes of charity law. The company has a Board of nine trustees, drawn from a wide spectrum of disciplines, each bringing expertise to the company. The Board meets at least four times a year. Day to day running of the company is delegated to the director.

Trustee induction and training

On appointment, new trustees meet with the chair of the board and with senior management. These meetings include in-depth discussions regarding the structure, management and aims of the organisation and the responsibilities of the board as a whole and of individual trustees. New trustees are provided with a pack of relevant policies and other background information (including budgets and financial statements) and are informed about the general information available on the Charity Commission website.

Key management personnel

Ruth Sapsed is CCI’s Director, Neil Parker is responsible for all administration and Jo Diver is responsible for finances.

Pay policy for senior associates

Pay levels are agreed annually by the Board. All pay levels, including those of senior associates, are based on an understanding of fair and equitable pay within the arts sector.

CCI is committed to pay all associates the Living Wage (as set by the Living Wage Foundation) as a minimum.

CCI does not pay performance related bonuses.

Risk Review

The trustees have conducted their own review of the major risks, strategic, financial, physical and operational to which the Charity is exposed and systems have if necessary been modified to mitigate those risks. Procedures have been put in place to minimize both external and internal risks and these procedures are periodically reviewed to ensure that they still meet the needs of the Charity.

Financial Review

Despite increasing competition for funding for arts and education charities, CCI continues to have excellent relations with its principal partners.

CCI income is raised from project funding from an impressive range of sources. Work continues to diversify income streams and develop partnerships in the private education and commercial sectors. This is a deliberate policy for the organisation in order to help to mitigate risks of being vulnerable to changes in conditions from partners.

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CCI is proud of its capacity to achieve a remarkable impact with minimum overheads. Through careful budgeting and a focus on advance planning, the financial year ended with £55,616 for projects in the next financial year.

Reserves policy

CCI recognises the importance of creating an unrestricted reserve to sustain the charity through uncertain times. It has adopted a clear and formalised reserves policy. This has been drawn up following an assessment of risk by the trustees and director.

CCI is reliant on income mainly generated from donations, trusts & foundations and commissioned work. These funds are mainly designated for project delivery. Where possible full cost recovery is built into all costs and this together with funds raised by direct commissions is used for the ongoing running costs of CCI. A reserves fund is needed should it not be possible to cover these. There is an ever present risk that the income will not cover the core commitments and the trustees main concern in this situation is that staff can continue working, primarily to secure new funding. The reserves fund will be used in this situation.

It is the trustees’ intention to build up the general reserves over the next few years, working towards a level that will cover 6 months running costs. The company hopes to achieve this level within five years through continued careful budgeting and cost monitoring and maintaining its policy of recovering full costs where possible. The reserves policy is reviewed annually.

Plans for the Future

CCI’s commitment to strong partnership has enabled the Charity to spread stable and growing connections and links across a number of sectors (primarily mental health, education and the environment).

The opportunities presented by work with UCL on the Branching Out programme and FullScope on the consortium work mean that CCI approaches the future with firm plans and optimism.

The offer to corporates of A Day in the Woods has been appropriately and imaginatively reimagined post lockdown and can continue to contribute to CCI’s core funds.

Public Benefit

We have referred to the guidance in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on Public Benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives set.

The trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission in determining the activities undertaken by the charity.

Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

The trustees (who are also directors of Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination) are responsible for preparing the trustees Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law required trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of the affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming

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resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included in the charity’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of the financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Governance

As part of the process of reviewing CCI’s work and structures during this period, the trustees continued to look closely at various governance issues related particularly our environment pledge and our risk register. A new Environment Pledge was created and ‘shared thinking’ interim meetings introduced where Board members, artists and invited guests could explore relevant issues and questions informally. All policies can be found on the website.

Small Company Exemption

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part VII of the Companies Act 1985 relating to small companies and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2007).

On behalf of the Board of Directors/Trustees 12[th] October 2022

Richard McLean Chair

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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination

Statement of Financial Activities (incorporating Income & Expenditure Account) for the year ended 31 July 2022

Notes
Incoming resources
Incoming resources from generated funds
Activities from generating funds:
Interest receivable
Incoming resources from charitable activities
Grants
Earned Income
Donations
Total incoming resources
Resurces expended
Costs of generating funds
3
Charitable activities
3
Governance costs
3
Total resources expended
Net incoming resources for the year
Balances at 1 August 2021
Balances at 31 July 2022		 Unrestricted
Funds
2022
£
-
-
29,448
9,037
38,485
10,076
48,275
1,470
59,821
(21,337)
26,041
4,704		 Restricted
Funds
2022
£
-
27,597
26,224
20,000
73,821
-
36,132
-
36,132
37,689
7,723
45,412		 Total
Funds
2022
£
-
27,597
55,672
29,037		 2021
£
-
45,123
53,489
4,101
112,305 102,713
10,076
84,407
1,470		 10,224
95,464
1,488
95,953 107,176
16,352
33,764		 (4,463)
38,227
50,116 33,764

The Statement of Financial Activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.

The notes on pages 9 to 12 form part of these financial statements.

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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination Balance Sheet

as at 31 July 2022

Notes
Current assets
Debtors
6
Accrued Income
Cash at bank and in hand
Current Liabilities
Deferred Income
7
Net assets
Funds
Restricted
Unrestricted
8
Creditors: amounts falling due within
one year		 £
11,560
-
44,056
55,616
(5,500)		 2022
£
50,116
50,116
45,412
4,704
50,116		 £
-
-
33,764		 2021
£
33,764
-
33,764
33,764
-
-
33,764
7,723
26,041
33,764

For the year ending 31 July 2022 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit inaccordance with section 476 of the Companies Act.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved by the Trustees on 12th October 2022

and signed on their behalf by:

Richard McLean Chair

Company Number: 06301716

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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination Notes to the Accounts

for the year ended 31 July 2022

1 Accounting policies

Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Companies Act 1985 and follow the recommendations in the Statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting and Reporting by Charities (revised) issued in March 2005.

Accounting Standards

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards.

Incoming resources and resources expended

Income and expenditure items have been credited or charged in the Statement of Financial Activities on an accruals basis.

Grants, donations and sponsorship income

Income relating to future accounting periods is taken to the balance sheet as deferred income for recognition in those future accounting periods.

Restricted funds

Resources are recorded on a receivable basis and allocated to a Restricted Fund if a limitation on their use is specified by the donors and providers. Funds received in the direct operation of the Charity are treated as unrestricted funds. Other resources received without external restriction are designated by the Trustees for particular purposes as deemed appropriate.

Direct charitable expenditure

Overheads are allocated to direct charitable expenditure on the basis of the time spent by staff on activities which directly serve objectives of the Board

Fundraising and publicity expenditure

All expenses incurred with the intention of raising funds for the charity are allocated to fundraising and publicity expenditure.

Cashflow statement

In accordance with Financial Reporting Standard no 1 no cashflow statement is included in these financial statements as the Company is covered by the small company exemption.

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2 Directors' Remuneration and Expenses

CCI considered it important to have as directors artists who are actively involved in delivering projects, who could therefore bring considerable knowedge to the Board . The Memorandum & Articles permit payment for professional services to no more than one third of the Directors.

A trustee, Emily Dowdeswell received remuneration of £750 during the financial year.

3 Total Resources Expended

Basis of
allocation
Costs directly allocated to activities
Artists
Direct
materials
Direct
project management
Direct
Accounting
Direct
Travel
Direct
Support costs allocated to activities
Office costs
time		 Costs of
generating
income
£
-
-
10,076
-
-
-
10,076		 Projects
£
34,212
6,133
43,256
-
-
806
84,407		 Governance
£
-
-
900
500
-
70
1,470		 2022
Total
£
34,212
6,133
54,232
500
-
876		 2021
£
43,718
7,732
54,099
500
27
1,100
95,953 107,176

4 Staff Costs and numbers

Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination employs no staff. Projects are managed on a consultancy basis.

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5 Taxation

The company is a registered charity and is therefore not liable to income tax or corporation tax on funds received and expended on activities covered by its charitable status.

6
Debtors
Trade debtors
7
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade Creditors
Accruals
8
Analysis of net assets between funds
Unrestricted
funds
£
Fund balances at 31 July 2022 are represented by:
Current assets
10,204
Current liabilities
5,500
-
4,704		 2022
£
11,560
11,560
2022
£
5,500
-
5,500
Restricted
funds
£
45,412
-
45,412		 Total
funds
2022
£
55,616
5,500
-		 2021
£
-
-
2021
£
-
-
-
2021
£
33,764
-
50,116 33,764

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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination

Notes to the Accounts

for the year ended 31 July 2022

9 Funds

Funds
Unrestricted Funds
General Reserve
Restricted Funds		 Brought
forward
£
26,041
7,723
33,764		 Incoming
Resources
£
38,485
73,821
112,305		 Resources
Expended
£
59,821
36,132
95,953		 Balance at
31 July 2022
£
4,704
45,412
50,116

The guarantee remains in force for one year after the resignation of a member.

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