We Are Freewheeling Limited - Accounts to registrar (filleted) - small 18.2

REGISTERED NUMBER: 09166413 (England and Wales)

UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST AUGUST 2018

FOR

WE ARE FREEWHEELING LIMITED

Page

Balance Sheet

1

FIXED ASSETS

7,955

11,106

CURRENT ASSETS

30,242

36,118

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

(38,943

)

(47,970

)

NET CURRENT LIABILITIES

(8,701

)

(11,852

)

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES

(746

)

(746

)

RESERVES

(746

)

(746

)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1.	STATUTORY INFORMATION

We Are Freewheeling Limited is a private company, limited by guarantee , registered in England and

Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address are as below:

Registered number:

09166413

Registered office:

12 High Street

TORRINGTON

Devon

EX38 8HN

2.	AVERAGE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

The average number of employees during the year was NIL (2017 - NIL).

3.	REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS (NON STATUTORY)

Report of the Directors for the Accounts 2017-2018

We Are Freewheeling Limited

The main activity of the company during 2017-2018 has been to continue to support Sue Austin to

develop a sustainable arts practice and lay the groundwork for some very exciting commissions for

delivery in Autumn 2018. After a reassessment of planned activity, there are now the following key

areas of work:

Adelaide Film Festival Performance

An exciting approach from Adelaide Film Festival, Australia to perform at their flagship event in October

2018 led to preparatory work, rehearsals and visa arrangements being made in 2017-2018. This request

arose following development work by Unlimited on raising the profile of Sue Austin's 360 degree

immersive underwater imagery through their international promotion of UK based disabled artists. This

also led to preparatory work with MAC Birmingham and Disability Arts Online (DAO) to put the ground

work in place to facilitate a live stream of the underwater live art events from Adelaide Film Festival

both into the exhibition at MAC Birmingham and Online through Disability Arts Online.

Digital R&D - 360º work

Freewheeling continued to benefit from the investment of the Digital R&D Fund through the ongoing

dissemination phase of 360 Degrees - A New Angle on Access. This has evolved successfully as a result

of the request in March 2017 to create a Masterclass for Disability Arts Shropshire (DASH). That led

directly to Sue Austin being asked by MAC Visual Arts Producer, Jessica Litherland, to create an

exhibition called 'Creating the Spectacle': Immersed in 360, with her Octagonal 360 degree installation

for the main gallery space at MAC Birmingham. That request sparked a sustained period of further

development on the Octagonal rig that is used to suspend the 5 projectors and the screen strips that

create a powerful, immersive experience. This resulted in a system that is closer to being able to

generate income for Freewheeling through Sue Austin being booked to work with organisations to assist

them to develop and show their own immersive 360 imagery. The symbiosis of work programmed

simultaneously at Adelaide and MAC was recognised by Freewheeling as an opportunity to show the

livestream of the Adelaide performance in the MAC exhibition (as well as online) and development work

between Freewheeling, Adelaide Film Festival, MAC and Disability Arts Online was instigated during this

period.

Fly

This aspect now covers all development and preparation for what has become the Fly/Dive wheelchair.

It is on a long-term development phase as and when Sue Austin's health and access provision allow (ie

appropriately skilled access support workers and the funding to employ them). Activity in this year

includes the excellent achievement of Sue passing all NPPL exams to become a qualified pilot and

filming in France to create 360 degree imagery for Adelaide Film Festival. Additionally, some of the

preparation for Adelaide Film Festival was covered by Fly because it consisted of pool sessions to test

the performance and reliability of the dive aspect of the Fly/Dive 'chair. Income in advance received for

this project has covered these costs and a reasonable proportion of related overheads, depreciation,

amortisation and development work.

Sue Austin Grant Development Fund

The Grant Development Fund has been used minimally this year to support administrative costs related

to Sue developing a sustainable arts practice. Further grants received in advance are held for activity in

future years

Support Services

Most support services activity is not reported in the Freewheeling accounts, having been covered by

Access to Work and Sue's own personal accounting system. This has meant that while the Access to

Work system has been incredibly challenging to navigate, no expenditure has been required on the

Freewheeling Support Services project this year, leaving a modest, but healthy balance of grants

received in advance to cover future access support costs for Sue Austin (or those of other disabled

artists working within Freewheeling) should the need arise. This is one of the strategies that

Freewheeling is developing/ researching to assist self employed disabled artists to overcome very

substantial barriers. This because as lived experience (within the team) demonstrates those barriers

continue to negatively impact on the ability of those artists to maintain a sustainable artistic practice.

It is important to recognise that, as in previous years, whilst a lot has been achieved, further

developments and progress were undoubtedly hampered by the vast amount of time and energy that

went into administration related access support for Access to Work during this period. This complex

administrative system had continued to drain support time (which is covered by Access to Work) that

diverts efforts away from generating and disseminating the artwork, and crucially, Sue's own time on

this will never be recovered. The support of Freewheeling to provide cash flow though the Director's

Loan Account to pay support workers during the delays was absolutely vital. The ongoing delays from

2016-2017 have undoubtedly had an administrative and developmental impact on the 2017-2018

period as that used up valuable capacity (both support worker hours and Sue Austin's time) that would

have been used to move forward on project development, funding applications and other forms of

income generation.

Financially, Freewheeling has been stable, due to the ability to inject the grants received in advance to

sustain much of its work in the year. The focus of the directors next year will be to explore appropriate

funding streams and/or partnerships to build on the development work that Sue Austin has already

been undertaking within Freewheeling. That work has been necessary to compensate for the above

mentioned complexities with obtaining and administering the Access to Work Grant system. It has

resulted in Sue Austin and the Core Access Support Team (CAST) developing custom built systems.

Those 'CAST' systems have proved successful in supporting the complex cognitive access needs of

members of that team as well as demonstrably increasing Sue Austin's capacity to oversee the strategic

development of Freewheeling. Through this proposed work the aim will also be to continue to raise

awareness of these issues within organisations that work with Sue Austin. It is planned that this will also

include developing dialogues with Access to Work. That work will focus on sharing the experiential

research and analysis gathered within Freewheeling on the additional complexities created for

self-employed disabled artists working in the the context of interacting physical and cognitive access

needs. The work completed so far had enabled Sue Austin and those she works with (many of whom

have their own cognitive access needs, particularly around the written word) to improve

communication, increase efficiency (particularly for remote access support working approaches) and

start to develop a long-term plan for Freewheeling that is flexible to the changing needs of those

involved in its delivery. The directors are also pleased to note that work completed on understanding

cognitive access issues has enabled a number of team members to acquire new skills that increase their

sustainability and future employability.

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31st August 2018.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31st August 2018 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:

(a)	ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and

(b)

preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the micro-entity provisions and delivered in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 31st May 2019 and were signed on its behalf by:

Ms S F Austin - Director

Ms P D Wheatley - Director