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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination

Annual Review 2024-2025

“When you go outside and think there’s nothing then you look closely and its full of beauty” Year 4 Pupil, The Weatheralls, Soham

Registered Charity Number: 112625

Contents

Highlights of our year 3
Report from the Director 9
Report from the Chair 12
Background to CCI 13

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 the 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 fairy-tale world of impossible extent and adventure.

Truly, this is the work. Lives are changed by it. 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, writer, CCI Patron

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Highlights in this year 2024 – 25

over 140 events/activities in 41 spaces,

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The Fantastical Forest

Made with Artscapers Nurturing Creativity Growing Nature Connections Cultivating Communities

In 2024-2025, we asked ourselves how else could our Fantastical Forest grow. Our ongoing public art project co-created with communities across our region since 2020 can help us think about different modalities across the arts, including movement, sound and sculpture. What sensory experiences are prioritised in everyday life? And how does the immersive experience of being in the forest help us reconnect with all our different ways of being in the world?

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There are now over 120 hangings in this beautiful collection and thanks to our work with the Centre for Landscape Regeneration this year and their research programme exploring different potential ecological futures for the Fens, we have been able to develop sonic elements of the forest. This new piece of sound art created with children at Wilburton Primary School joined Kathy Hinde’s installation at Wicken Fen over the summer. You can listen to it here.

Co-created with 25 communities and 8 artists.

Working this year with the Centre for Landscape Regeneration, Cambridge Out And About Festival, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Past Present and Future, and Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

The year is 5000, what creatures lurk at the bottom of the Fens? Dive into the World Beneath The Water and hear an imagined underwater soundscape performed by students from Wilburton Primary, inspired by research in the Fens led by the Centre for Landscape Regeneration, and produced by artist Susanne Jasilek of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination and Frazer Merrick of CLIP Sound and Music CIC. This project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council

Images:

Fantastical Forest, Tree Charter Day 2024, Wandlebury Country Park © Emily Dowdeswell 2024 (previous page) The World Beneath the Water, Wilburton Primary School © Frazer Merrick 2025 Listen to the Voices of the Fen, Wicken Fen 2025 © Frazer Merrick 2025

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A Mycelial Delivery Plan

In 2024-2025 CCI was thrilled to be awarded three years of support from the National Lottery Communities Fund to support its aim to nurture, grow and amplify the value and impact of our Artscaping programmes for communities in the East of England. This sits at the heart of our overall mission to invite everyone to be an Artscaper: caring for ourselves, our communities, and our natural world, from deep below the ground to the sky above our heads. Our mission has never been more urgent.

We are delivering our aim through three complementary strands, each with clearly identified priority areas to address:

As part of our early outcomes, CCI has established its first Children’s Council with Mayfield Primary School, showing us how we can follow the lead of children and young people throughout the year and across our projects. We have piloted our first Children’s Critical Friend Circle, with Cambridge Acorn Project, a child-led advisory board that has guided us in creating a more child-friendly evaluation process for our residencies that aims to be accessible, therapeutic and creative for everyone involved. CCI is also delighted to have appointed Jo Diver to be CCI’s Green Champion. Supported by regular training, our Green Champion empowers CCI to extend our Environmental Pledge, strengthening our knowledge and skills so that we can embed sustainability across our practice, connect this to our research and influence our closest partners.

Creative highlights in our first year of funding include strengthened partnerships that are amplifying our ability to promote how engaging with the arts in natural settings can improve the health of our communities including our planet. While the academic funding landscape has proven challenging, we have enjoyed closer collaborations with several networks including Counterpoints, Create Cambridge, and the inaugural Advisory Board for Cambridge School of Arts.

The added capacity has supported CCI in recruiting Lucinda Price, as CCI Charity Manager, who is working incredibly effectively to strengthen the systems and processes that underpin our Artscaping programmes, and build knowledge and skills across our team, freelancers, volunteers and collaborators. Multi-year support from the National Lottery is unlocking our ability to build more long term, resilient and versatile partnerships. We have collaborated with a therapeutic coalition of practitioners to co-create with young people an Artscaping garden at the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Music Hub. We have collaborated with the Cambridge Arts Theatre to design a creative curriculum for Cambridge Regional College’s ESOL programme. And we have supported the Botanic Garden to deliver their participatory research project this summer exploring themes of belonging, access and inclusivity.

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Artscaping Ecosystems: Creating and Connecting Therapeutic and Enrichment Networks Across A Whole School Ecosystem

This Evelyn Trust project builds on learning from our partnership with Cambridge Acorn Project, working in schools and through the published research from our Branching Out Programme. Our artist and therapist residency model has synergised a therapeutic and creative approach across two school ecosystems in order to promote wellbeing through creativity and nature connectedness, and to prevent the escalation of emotional distress amongst staff and pupils.

In 2024-2025, we worked with our first two partner schools: The Pathfinder Primary School in Northstowe and Thongsley Fields in Huntingdon. Led by Susanne Jasilek, Tonka Uzu, Anna Billington, Matt Edge and Hannah Chapman we have reached 682 primary school students this year, evaluating our impact with an evaluation led by Hannah Chapman and Jenn Opare-Kumi. Within each residency we have delivered a variety of creative and therapeutic projects, including: 1:1 sessions, nurture groups, professional development opportunities for staff, family and community links, and volunteer development to ensure sustainability. This project offers a unique and innovative approach to address well-documented challenges in the children's mental health system, with a particular focus on prevention/early intervention. By combining a number of key elements of early support and preventative work, alongside community development, we have worked with a large number of children in need but also offered support to children before they reach crisis point, supporting the development of a unique creative and therapeutic thread across the schools.

Image: Playing with light with an old cloth from the den which looked like a cave painting © Tonka Uzu 2024

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“The whole vibe was joyful and fun and all of the children seemed really happy to be a part of the group. It was such a pleasure to watch them develop in the short space of time they were with us, often from being a bit withdrawn and reticent to being keen to impress and share their work, finding their own ways of working... Some of the quieter children did such BEAUTIFUL work with colours - experimenting with mixing - and incorporating natural objects and leaves etc. One little girl used blue twine to make a river and cut up a long leaf to make reeds along the river bank. There were lots of pictures of birds and really impressive images of how they imagined the wind would look if you could see it. One really little boy in the preschool group drew a beautiful picture which included some fallen trees where the wind had blown them over. Lots of the kids enjoyed sticking leaves and other found objects onto their pictures.”

Jenny Seabrook, CCI artist

This year the work has included:

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Report from the Director

As we collect our thoughts at the end of our year, I return to that beautiful September evening in the woods to celebrate Ruth: weaving together creativity, community, the woods, the sky over our heads, joyfulness and a strong shared belief in the power of another way of doing things. Ruth entrusted us with a charity that despite the headwinds and intensifying storms was stronger than ever before and it has been an absolute privilege to work with Alex, Jo, Richard, Lucinda, and our artists, trustees and partners over the past year. I spoke a year ago of how I am blown away on a daily basis by the compassion, talent and experience we have within our CCI community. We stand here today wholly because of the time, care, and support that you all have given throughout this year.

2024-2025 highlights

Our dual solution with Raspberry Pi and The Junction has been a great success. The Junction will continue to host our registered address and host our co-working/meeting space, while Raspberry Pi have renewed their generous offer of deskspace, storage, and secure delivery for our orders of materials and publications. A big thank you to Matt Burman and Jess Weston at the Junction, and Philip Colligan, Kamila Hughes, Laurie Smith and Doru Szocs at Raspberry Pi for your welcome and support this year.

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CCI’s work with the Tree team at Cambridge City Council as part of the River Cam Climate Action Network continued with an excellent programme of outdoor events featuring the Fantastical Forest across city green spaces. A collective artwork of trees painted in natural inks assembled by Hilary Cox Condron is now beautifully installed at Brown’s Field Community Centre in North Cambridge as a legacy of the contributions from neighbours from across the city.

“It has felt such a generous offer - like a community forest feast of the senses - and there were many participants who came to the workshops a number of times. Matthew and Kenny’s passion (from the Tree Team) was so infectious, and it has been incredible to share the awe of the willow they inspired in me with so many city residents and to have had the pleasure of enthusing about phoenix regeneration on both Cambridge 105 and Cambridgeshire Radio. I have really noticed how it has also fed my own soul by gathering leaves and plants and making the inks.” CCI artist Hilary Cox Condron

Cambridgeshire is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the country with projections indicating a demand for 50,000 new homes between 2020 and 2041 in Greater Cambridge alone. CCI invited planners, developers, designers, community development workers and resident associations to participate in an immersive, creative, walking meditation to imagine how to create kinder, safer, greener futures by engaging young people in new and developing communities. Our presence at the conference was testimony to our ongoing conversations with developers and planners, and our collaborations have continued throughout the year with two further commissions from TOWN in Hemel Hempstead and Northstowe.

Above: Play on the Way with TOWN. Pathfinder School © Helen Stratford 2025

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Our 2024-2025 Guiding Values

Continuity highlighted the importance of our Artscaping programme, our existing relationships and our fabulous team. By working very closely with Ruth, Alex, Jo and Richard over the first six months, and then continuing that approach with Lucinda and Jo since March, we have strengthened our partnerships across key sectors (for example with TOWN, the Botanic Gardens and the Arts Theatre Cambridge). Our exciting collaboration with the Centre for Landscape Regeneration this autumn led to new forums for our work at Wicken Fen and with Anorak Magazine. While our residency with Cambridge Acorn Project has sparked new ways of working in school lunchtimes, and with local partners.

Visibility emphasised the importance of reinforcing our voice and presence locally, regionally and nationally. Locally, this involved, being part of the annual events like the Botanic Gardens Fungi Field Day, and contributing to the latest research at the forefront of conversations around funding, curriculums, and innovation through collaborations with the Open University and Fullscope , supporting a research project led by Elsa Lee and Joy Perry at ARU focused on reimagining the primary school curriculum with young people, and discussing place-based innovation at a roundtable hosted by the Arts Council. Nationally, our long standing collaboration with Nicola Walshe has led to funding to create an Artscaping module for UCL’s Teaching for Sustainable Futures digital programme of teacher professional development, and our National Lottery funded collaboration with tialt has enabled us to join a community of researchers and practitioners working with arts-based approaches to their mission.

Finally, curiosity reminded me of these words from CCI’s mission:

We believe that curiosity and imagination matter. Without them our world can be overwhelming and frightening, with them it can become a place of wonder where we feel we can belong.

Holding on to curiosity has meant carrying ‘yes and’, ‘what if?’ and ‘what else?’ into our everyday conversations, listening deeply to what people are saying and then taking active steps together to explore what might be possible. There is a desire from institutions to find a different way of being together that doesn’t reinforce existing hierarchies, and a growing recognition that freelance work and smaller organisations can develop heterogeneous practices that are deeply

rooted in place. At CCI, we are nurturing a healthy scepticism towards singular narratives, alongside a strengthening literacy around whose knowledge shapes the agenda. Together with our communities, despite the rising complexity of the challenges ahead, we show how curiosity and imagination can help us create a world where we no longer betray the future.

Emily Dowdeswell

Above: Snapshot from the Artists’ Autumn Gathering, Wandlebury Woods © Lucinda Price 2025

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Report from the Chair

The reporting year from August 2024 to July 2025 was another remarkable year for Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI). CCI’s work continues to demonstrate what is possible when creativity, care and collaboration come together. Our community of artists, educators, and partners has shown that curiosity and imagination are not a luxury — they are how we connect with the world we share, how we sustain one another.

The year marked a time of change and renewal for CCI, with Emily Dowdeswell taking over from Ruth Sapsed as CCI’s new Director in September 2024. After 17 years with a founding director at the helm, such a pivotal leadership transition could have stalled a small organisation, but thanks to Emily & Ruth working thoughtfully together to ensure a smooth passing of the baton, CCI is flourishing and going from strength to strength.

So CCI continues to enchant, challenge, and inspire in equal measure. Establishing our first Children’s Council and the growth of our volunteer community are tangible examples of an organisation that is listening carefully, evolving thoughtfully, and acting intentionally.

Partnerships remain central to everything CCI does, and the charity has again shown how creativity can root deeply in place while connecting widely across disciplines and Communities.

The generosity of our partners at Cambridge Junction, KISS, the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Evelyn Trust and the National Lottery Community Fund has provided a new home for the charity and vital multi-year funding.

This stability has given CCI the confidence to think ambitiously about the future. Working with organisations such as Cambridge Acorn Project, the Centre for Landscape Regeneration, and Cambridge University Botanic Garden, CCI has been able to reach new communities and create spaces where curiosity and imagination thrive. By nurturing these partnerships and our practice and by developing our organisational structures and systems, CCI has been able to grow and amplify its impact and influence, reaching more children, families and practitioners, and helping to embed creativity and wellbeing into the everyday life of schools and communities. Behind the work — which has been both rich and far-reaching — lies the same magic that in my mind has always defined CCI: the understanding that curiosity and imagination change the world, one small creative act at a time.

I want to thank our exceptional team of artists, volunteers, trustees, and staff, including Emily, Jo Diver and Lucinda Price, for their dedication and care. My thanks also to our partners and funders, and the many communities we work alongside.

Richard McLean Chair, Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination

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Background to CCI

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

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, supporting creativity and learning. Our work, which sits uniquely at the intersection of community, education, mental health and well-being, environment and conservation, research and creativity, has significant potential to positively influence systems as demonstrated by the quality and depth of our partnerships and impact evidence gathered across the past twenty plus years of practice.

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 civic centres.

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

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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 in the region including Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC), the University of Cambridge (UofC), Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and many school communities across Cambridgeshire.

Research links have also been established with Universities beyond the region, particularly the new Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability

Education at University College London, and Goldsmiths and Bath Spa Universities. We are particularly proud of our work with Professor Nicola Walshe (UCL), and the Eco-capabilities and Branching Out programmes that she has led.

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.

The climate emergency demands that our education system nurtures children equipped to be able to question and reimagine everything. The seeds of what that looks like can be found in Artscaping. Rob Hopkins, Founder of the Transition Movement and author of What is to What if

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, Fullscope presents the first consortium of its kind in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Working as part of the Fullscope consortium is opening up ways to ensure children’s voices stay at the heart of innovation in the system, building on the principles of co-production and collaboration.

In 2024-2025, CCI joined partner organisations in the city to form CREATE Cambridge, a cultural compact that is bringing together artists and cultural organisations, with academic, industry and civic organisations to champion the role of culture in Cambridge, connect communities through cross-sector dialogue and community co-creation and ensure culture can continue to contribute positively to the future of Cambridge.

Above: Snapshot from the Artists’ Autumn Gathering, Wandlebury Woods © Lucinda Price 2025

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Our Goals

We have worked with these goals:

For children and young people: to ensure there is universal access for all children and young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to our creative health programmes, supporting them to flourish.

For the natural world: t o support communities in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to love and value the natural world on their doorsteps in order that they can care for it.

For Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination : to sustain and strengthen the Charity so that we can successfully accelerate our impact.

We have done this by:

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The World on Our Doorsteps

Our commitment to a strong local focus for our work continues and this year we offered creative experiences in 41 different settings across the city and county and beyond:

Place-making with communities

The Fantastical Forest continued to grow throughout the year, forging new links with schools and community organisations across the region. We really appreciate its capacity to move and inspire people, enabling reflective conversations about creativity, children and nature and continue to connect our programmes and initiatives to it wherever possible. The whole collection is shared each year on Tree Charter Day and we end this year with a collection of 121 artworks, each unique and extraordinary and co-created with the 25 communities we’ve worked with.

Our work with TOWN, master-planners for Hartree, the new district on the north eastern edge of the City, continued with the development of a new Public Art Strategy, our contribution to a conference focused on children and young people’s involvement in new and developing communities, and projects in Hemel Hempstead focused on imagining dormice bridges across gaps in the hedgerow, and in Northstowe exploring playing on the way to school.

Sharing our learning and advocacy

All of our resources and publications are free to access online. Thanks to our new website built by KISS Communications for the charity in 2023, these continue to be easier to share with the result that they are now accessed by many more people – for example in this year our collection of free to read publications (supported by the online platform Calemeo) were viewed approximately [check] times during the year.

CCI currently features in three significant education publications:

Arts in Nature with Children and Young People: A Guide Towards Health Equality, Wellbeing and Sustainability , edited by Zoe Moula and Nicola Walshe, published by Routledge

The Curriculum Compendium , edited by Rae Snape, published by Bloomsbury

Branching out: mobilizing community assets to support the mental health and wellbeing of children in primary schools, published by Frontiers in Public Health

Above: Common Grounds, Arbury Court © Lucinda Price 2025

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Above: Snapshot from the Artists’ Autumn Gathering (artwork Susanne Jasilek) Wandlebury Woods © Lucinda Price 2025

CCI hosted or contributed to the following events this year:

Capacity Building

CCI Trustee Karin Horowitz continued to lead a regular programme of care and support conversations for all colleagues to hold a space for safe reflective dialogue. This year CCI has re-established a consistent programme of Artist Gatherings, in winter, spring and summer, and continued its successful practice of Community Conversations, held online to share elements of our projects with our CCI Community.

Our Partners this year have included:

Anglia Ruskin University Anorak Magazine Arbury Library

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Broad’N’Mind Cambridge Acorn Project Cambridge City Council Cambridgeshire County Council Cambridge Junction Cambridge Past Present and Future Cambridge University Botanic Garden Cambridge University Careers Fair Cambridge University Hospitals Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, University College London CLiP Sound and Music Counterpoints Fullscope together with: Centre 33, The Kite Trust, YMCA Trinity, Ormiston Families, Arts and Minds, CPSL Mind, Blue Smile Centre for Landscape Regeneration Huntingdon Community Action Project KISS Communications

LAND (Learning through Arts, Narrative and Discourse) Mayfield Primary School North Cambridge Academy Raspberry Pi Foundation St Andrew’s Church Soham The Crown Estate The Evelyn Trust The Foyle Foundation The Open University The Pathfinder Primary School The Shade Primary School The Weatheralls Primary School Thongsley Fields Community Primary School TOWN.

U+I Cambridge Limited University College London Wilburton Primary School

CCI hosted work in 26 different places including these: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Music, Histon Cambridge University, Cambridge Institute of Education, London Nine Wells Nature Reserve, South Cambs The Long Shop Museum, Leiston Wandlebury Country Park, South Cambs

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With thanks to the incredible team of artists, researchers and creative producers:

Jade Anderson, Gabby Arenge, Hannah Arnett, Liam Barker, Hilary Bungay, Hilary Cox Condron, Di Goldsmith, Susanne Jasilek, Dougie Lonie, Tatiana Moreno, Frazer Merrick, Zoe Moula, Jenn Opare-Kumi, Anna Schofield, Helen Stratford, Filipa Pereira Stubbs, Sally Todd, Tonka Uzu, Caroline Wendling, Nicola Walshe, and Debbie Yeboah.

And to the many wonderful volunteers who regularly support our programmes, in particular:

Chiara Cardini, Holly Cromwell, Aliabbas Dhanji, Samantha Harvey, Iben Sollewijn Gelpke, Gladys Jones, Tsai-Shuian Ho, Sue Lowndes, Samantha Massey and Jemima Robertson.

And the individual Donors and Cambridge Colleges who help make the work possible, including:

Magdalene College, CUCFS Cambridge Uni Fashion show and our private individual donors

And to our Directors and Trustees:

Fiona Brice, Michael Corley, Emily Dowdeswell (Director), Owen Garling, Zoe Gilbertson, Karin Horowitz, Richard McLean (Chair), Jemima Robertson, Caroline Wendling.

Above: The World Beneath Our Feet, The Shade © Sally Todd 2024

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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination Statement of Financial Activities (incorporating Income & Expenditure Account) for the year ended 31 July 2025

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 2024
Balances at 31 July 2025		 Unrestricted
Funds
2025
£
-
14,503
50,022
5,111
69,636
29,141
34,318
1,026
64,485
5,151
10,342
15,493		 Restricted
Funds
2025
£
-
62,500
-
-
62,500
-
32,500
-
32,500
30,000
8,000
38,000		 Total
Funds
2025
£
-
77,003
50,022
5,111
132,136
29,141
66,818
1,026
96,985
35,151
18,342
53,493		 2024
£
-
20,023
67,656
5,786
93,465
9,613
95,697
1,553
106,863
(13,399)
31,741
18,342

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 2025

Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination
Balance Sheet
as at 31 July 2025
Notes
2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Current assets
Debtors 6 9,349 16,211
Accrued Income - -
Cash at bank and in hand 47,450 3,535
Current Liabilities 56,799 19,746 19,746
Deferred Income -
Creditors: amounts falling due within -
one year 7 (3,306) (1,404)
53,493 18,342
Net assets 53,493 18,342
Funds
Restricted 38,000 8,000
Unrestricted 15,493 10,342
8 53,493 18,342

For the year ending 31 July 2025 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 24th September 2025 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 2025

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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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025

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.

No other director received any remuneration during the period or was reimbursed for any expenses.

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
£
-
-
29,141
-
-
-
29,141		 Projects
£
27,054
6,856
31,338
-
117
1,453
66,818		 Governance
£
-
-
900
-
-
126
1,026		 2025
Total
£
27,054
6,856
61,379
-
117
1,579
96,985		 2024
£
21,812
31,680
50,958
500
-
1,913
106,863

4 Staff Costs and numbers

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

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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025

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.

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Debtors
Trade debtors
7
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade Creditors
Accruals
8
Analysis of net assets between funds
Fund balances at 31 July 2025 are represented by:
Current assets
Current liabilities		 Unrestricted
funds
£
18,799
(3,306)
15,493		 2025
£
9,349
9,349
2025
£
3,306
-
3,306
Restricted
funds
£
38,000
-
38,000		 Total
funds
2025
£
56,799
(3,306)
53,493		 2024
£
16,212
16,212
2024
£
1,404
-
1,404
2024
£
19,746
(1,404)
18,342

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Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination Notes to the Accounts

for the year ended 31 July 2025

9 Funds

Unrestricted Funds
General Reserve
Restricted Funds		 Brought
forward
£
10,342
8,000
18,342		 Incoming
Resources
£
69,636
62,500
132,136		 Resources
Expended
£
64,485
32,500
96,985		 Balance at
31 July 2025
£
15,493
38,000
53,493

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

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