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|Contents|||||
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|Legal and Administrative||Information|||
|Report ofthe Trustees|||||
|Independent<br>Examiners||Report||20|
|Statement of Financial||Activities|(incorporating|21|
|Income and Expenditure|Account)||||
|Balance Sheet||||23|
|Notes tothe Financial|Statements|||25|





|L»gal and|Adminhrtrathre|Adminhrtrathre||information|||
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|Charity Name:||||The Children's|Foundation|Limited|
|Registered|Charity Number.|||1000013|||
|Registered|Company|Number.||02528291|||
|Registered|Office and|||SirJames Spence Institute||of Child Health|
|Operational|address:|||Royal Victoria|Infirmary||
|||||Queen Victoria Road|||
|||||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne|||
|||||NE1 4LP|||
|Patron|||||||
|The Children's<br>Foundation|||is honoured to have Sir Bradley Creswick as its Patron.||||



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|forthe Tear|ended 31March|2023|||||
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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
||||funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
||||2023|2023|202S|2022|
|||Notes|8|8|8|6|
|Income and|endowments||||||
|from:|||||||
|Donations|and legacies||132,328|92,670|224,998|171,960|
|Other trading actMties|||11,377|2,575|13,952|10,992|
|Investments|||1,534||1,534|(40)|
|Other|||10,699|12,559|23,258|16,488|
||||155,938|107,804|263,742|199,400|
|Expenditure|on:||||||
|Raising funds||9|2,913|7,835|10,748|8,522|
|Charitable activities||10|2,189|63,467|65,656|46,601|
|Other||11|105,120|51,364|156,484|127,624|
|Total|||110,222|122,666|232,888|182,747|
|Net gains on|investments||||||
|Net income||12|45,716|(14,862)|30,854|16,653|
|Transfers between funds|||8,535|(8,535)|||
|Net income before other|||||||
|gales/(losses)|||54,251|(23,397)|30,854|16,653|
|Other gains and losses|||||||
|Net movement<br>Infunds|||54,251|(23,397)|30,854|16,653|
|RecondllaNon|offunds:||||||
|Total funds brought forward|||305,980|159,110|465,090|448,437|
|Total funds carried forward|||360231|135,713|495,944|465,090|





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|||||2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Income|||262,208|199,440|
|Interest and|investment|income|1,5$4|(40)|
|Gross Income forthe year|||26$,742|199,400|
|Expenditure|||227,452|177,285|
|0epreclation|and charges|for|||
|impairment|offixed assets||5,4$6|5,462|
|Total expenditure<br>forthe year|||232,888|182,747|
|Net income|before tax forthe year||$0,854|16,653|
|Net Income|forthe year||30,854|16,653|





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||2023|2022|
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||6|6|
|Cash llows from operating activities|||
|Net Income per Statement ofFlnandal Activities|30,854|16,653|
|Adtustments<br>for:|||
|Depredation<br>ofproperty,<br>plant and equipment|5,436|5,462|
|Dividends,<br>interest and rents from investments|(24,792)|(16,448)|
|Decrease In stocks||729|
|Increase in trade and other receivables|(21,8231|(6,367)|
|Increase in trade and other payables|79,064|4,507|
|Net cash provided<br>by operating acthdtles|68,739|4,536|
|Cash fhws from Investing acdvldes|||
|DMdends, interest and rents from investments|24,792|16,448|
|Net cash from Investing activities|24,792|16,448|
|Net cash from flnandng<br>activities|||
|Net Increase In cash and cash equivalents|93,531|20,984|
|Cash and cash equivalents atthe beginning ofthe year|241,965|225,457|
|Cash and cash equhralents<br>atthe end ofthe year|335,496|246~1|
|Components ofcash and cash equivalents|||
|Cash and bank balances|333,607|241,965|
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|last year snd no cha|last year snd no cha|last year snd no cha|nges have been made to accounts for previous years.|||||||
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|Fund accounting||||||||||
|Unrestricted||funds|These are available for use stthe discretion ofthe trustees<br>in furtherance|||||ofthe||
||||general objects ofthe charity.|||||||
|Designated|funds||These are unrestricted<br>funds earmarked<br>bythe trustees|for particular||purposes.||||
|Revaluation||funds|These are unrestricted<br>funds which include arevaluation||reserve representing||||the|
||||restatement<br>ofinvestment<br>assets at their market values.|||||||
|Restricted funds|||These are available for use subject to restrktlons<br>imposed||by the donor||or|through||
||||terms ofan appeal.|||||||
|Income||||||||||
|Recognition||of|Income is included<br>in the Statement of Financial Activities||(SoFA)when||the|charity||
|Income|||becomes entitled to, and virtually certain to receive, the Income and the amount of|||||||
||||the income can be measured<br>with sufgcient regability.|||||||
|Income with||related|Where income has related exPenditure<br>the income and|related expenditure||||is||
|expenditure|||reported gross in the SoFA.|||||||
|Donations and|||Voluntary<br>income received by way ofgrants, donations|and gifts is Included||||In|the|
|legades|||the SoFAwhen receivable and only when the Charity has||unconditional|||||
||||entitlement tothe Income.|||||||
|Tax reclaims||on|Income from tax reclaims is included<br>in the SoFAatthe same time as the|||||||
|donations and gifts|||ggt/donation<br>to which itrelates.|||||||
|Donated services|||These are only induded<br>in income (with an equivalent<br>amount<br>in expenditure)|||||||
|and facglties|||where the benefit tothe Charity is reasonably<br>quent)gable,||measurable||and|||
||||material.|||||||
|Volunteer help|||The value ofany volunteer<br>help received isnot induded|In the accounts.||||||
|Investment|income||This bInduded<br>inthe accounts when receivable.|||||||
|Gains/(losses)||on|This includes any gain or loss resulting from revaluing<br>Investments to market value|||||||
|revaluation|offixed||atthe end ofthe year.|||||||
|assets||||||||||
|Gains/(losses)||on|This Indudes any gain or loss on the sale ofinvestments.|||||||
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|es tothe Acc|ounts|||
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|Expenditure||||
|Recognitlon|of|Expenditure<br>is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure<br>indudes any VAT which||
|expenditure||cannot be fully recovered, and Isreported as part ofthe expenditure to which It||
|||relates.||
|Expenditure|on|These comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary|Income, fundralsing|
|raising funds||trading costs and investment<br>management<br>costs.||
|Expenditure|on|These comprise the costs incurred<br>by the Charity in the delivery ofits activities and||
|charitable<br>activities||services in the furtherance ofits objects, including the making|ofgrants and|
|||governance<br>costs.||
|Grants payable||Ag grant expenditure<br>Isaccounted for on an actual paid basis|plus an accrual for|
|||grants that have been approved<br>by the trustees atthe end of|the year but not yet|
|||paid.||
|Governancecosts||These include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional<br>and statutory||
|||requirements<br>ofthe Chadty, including<br>any audit/independent|examination<br>fees,|
|||costs linked to the strategic management<br>ofthe Charity, together with a share of||
|||other administration<br>costs.||
|Other expenditure||These are support costs not allocated toaParticular activity.||



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|3<br>Statement of hnandal|Actlvides - prior ye|ar||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restdcmd||
||||funds|funds|Total funds|
||||2022|2022|2022|
|Income and endowments<br>Donations and legades<br>Other trading activities<br>Investments|from:||84,410<br>9,847<br>(40)|87,550<br>1,145|171,960<br>10,992<br>(40)|
|Other|||1,471|15,017|16,488|
|Total|||95,688|20$&712|199,400|
|Expenditure on:||||||
|Raislngfunds<br>Charitable<br>activities|||7,986<br>312|536<br>46,289|8,522<br>46,601|
|Other|||95,576|32,048|127,624|
|Total|||103,874|78,873|182,747|
|Net Income|||(8,186)|24,8$9|16,653|
|Net Income before other|||(8,186)|24,839|16,653|
|galas/(losses)||||||
|Other gains and losses:||||||
|Net movement<br>In funds|||(8,186)|24g39|16,653|
|Recondllatlon<br>offunds:<br>Total funds brought forward|||$14,166|134,271|448/$7|
|Total funds carried forward|||305,980|159,110|465,090|
|4<br>Income from donations and legades||||||
|||Unrestricted|Restdcted|Total|Total|
|||||2023|2022|
|||8|g|E|8|
|Donations - Individual||28,388|1,451|29,839|33,120|
|Donations - Corporate<br>Grants||16,737<br>85,703|8,659<br>82,560|25,396<br>168,26$|17,696<br>119,944|
|In Kind Gifts||1,500||1,500|1,200|
|||132,328|92,670|224,998|171,960|





||||||Total|
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|Durham<br>County Coundl|||||3,879|
|Community<br>Foundation|||||41,300|
|PFGibson Trust|||||7,000|
|Duke Charity Northumberland|||||500|
|Street Games|||||1,089|
|RISE NE|||||10,233|
|Baglnger Trust|||||10,000|
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||||25,000|
|Children<br>in Need|||||500|
|Barbour Foundation|||||10,000|
|LGA Foundation|||||5,000|
|The joseph Strong|Frater Trust||||1,000|
|The Greggs Foundation|||||15,000|
|Ernest Cook Trust|||||6,236|
|Connected Voice|||||3,510|
|Groundwork|||||365|
|Newcastle<br>Hosphals|Charity||||24,834|
|Tunitin|||||817|
|AB David Charity|||||2,000|
||||||158.2N|
|Income from other|trading activities|||||
|||Un estrlcted|estdcted|Total|Total|
|||||2023|2022|
|||E||E|E|
|Events||11,377|2,575|13.952|10,992|
|||11,377|2,575|13,952|10,992|
|Income from invastmants||||||
||||Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||||2023|2022|
|||||E|E|
|Interest Received|||1,534|1,534|(40)|
||||1,534|1,534|{40)|
|Other income||||||
|||Unrestricted|strlcted|Total|Total|
|||||2023|2022|
|||E|E|8|E|
|Other Income||10,699|12,559|23,258|16,488|
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|9|Expendhure|on raising|on raising|funds|funds|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Unrestdcsed|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||E|8|
||Costs o/generotinp||voluntort3|||||||
||income|||||||||
||Donations - Individual|||||2,913|7,835|10,748|8,522|
|||||||2,913|7,835|10,748|8,522|
|10|Expenditure|on charitable|||activities|||||
|||||||Unesttdted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||8|8|
||Expenditure|on charitable||||||||
||acgviges|||||||||
||Charitable<br>Activities|||||2,189|63,467|65,656|46,601|
||Governance|costs||||||||
|||||||2,269|63.462|65,656|46,601|
|11|Other expenditure|||||||||
|||||||Unresrkted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||||||2023|2022|
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||In Kind Gihs|||||1,500||1,500|1,200|
||Employee costs|||||83,848|43,736|127,584|111,907|
||Motor and travel costs|||||322|2,167|2,489|2.213|
||Amorgsation,|depredation,||||||||
||impairment,|profit/loss||on||5,436||5836|5,462|
||disposal of fixed assets|||||||||
||General administrative|||costs||6,993|3,960|10,953|6,538|
||~egal and professional|||costs||7,021|1,501|8,522|304|
|||||||105,120|51,364|156,484|127,624|
|12|Net Income|before|transfers|||||||
||||||||2023||2022|
||This isstated after||charging:||||8||E|
||Depreciation|ofowned||Rxed assets|||5,436||5,462|





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|Staff costs|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||202$||2022|
|Salaries and wages||||||112,755||102,939|
|Social security <br>PensIon costs|costs|||||9,016<br>5,342||3,281<br>4,762|
|||||||127,113||113,332|
|No employee|received|emoluments||in excess ofE60,000.|||||
|The average monthly||number|offull|time equivalent|employees|during the year was asfollows:|||
|||||||2023||2022|
|||||||Number||Number|
|||||||1||1|
|||||||5||3|
|7hhpPMdll|||d|~ihei P\h.||6<br> ihP\~hmP9||6|
|contributions|payable|bythe|company tothe fund and amounted|||to63961(202063163).Contributions|||
|totalling<br>Eng (2020Eng) were|||payable tothe fund at||the balance|sheet date and are included|in|creditors.|



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||||Leasehold|Fixtures 5||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||gulldings|Fittings|Total|
||Costor mvaluatlon|||||
||At 1April 2022<br>At 31March 2023||260,000<br>260,000|92,479<br>92,479|$52,479<br>352,479|
||Depreciation|and||||
||impairment|||||
||At 1Aprg 2022||31,200|90,122|121,$22|
||Depreciation|charge for the||||
||year||5,200|236|5,436|
||At31March|202$|36,400|90,$58|126,758|
||Net book values|||||
|15|At 31March <br>At31March <br> Debtors|2023<br> 2022|223,600<br>228,800|2,121<br>2,357|225,721<br>231,157|
||||2023||2022|
||||E||E|
||Trade debtors<br>Other debtors||24,8$4<br>240||8,7$0|
||Prepayments|and accrued income|6,709<br>31733,||1,230<br>9,979|





|16|Qedltonu||||
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||amounts|faglng due within one year|||
||||2028|2022|
||||E|E|
||Trade creditors||6,125|3,951|
||Other taxes and sodal security||2,076|1,321|
||Other creditors||820|631|
||Accruals||1,800|3,689|
||Deferred|income|84,346|8,400|
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|Movement<br>In funds||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Incoming||||
|||msoulces|Resources||At31|
||At1Aprg|(indudlng<br>other|expended||March<br>2023|
||2022|gains/losses)||||
|||E||||
|Restricted funds:||||||
|Restricted Income funds:||||||
|Therapeutic<br>Horticulture|46,129||(6,584)||39,545|
|Fuuy Subjects|14,602|660|(21,345)|11,836|5,75S|
|Green Mentor|20,205|6,236|(16,956)|(600)|8,885|
|Clown Doctors|18,371|500|(7,035)|(11,836)||
|MaM Campaign|41,170|57,133|(47,842)|(4,719)|45,742|
|Holiday Activities|3833||(3,821)|959|471|
|Couch to 2K|7,203|8,233|(2ANi)||12,590|
|Clown Doctors Hospice|913||576|(1,489)||
|Great North Hospital|435|||(435)||
|Roots to Health|3,916|28,344|(9,643)|(2,526)|20,091|
|Community<br>Allotment|2WS||(2,367)||466|
|Site Back||2,000|(2,047)|47||
|Holiday Activities||1,089|(1,317)|228||
|Story Chair||3,609|(1,439)||2,170|
|Total|159,110|107&804|(122,666)|(8535)|135,713|
|Unmstrtcted<br>funds:||||||
|General furuh|74,561|155,938|(105,022)|(16,465)|109,012|
|Designated<br>funds:||||||
|leasehold<br>Property|231,419||(5,200)||226,219|
|Fuuy Subjects||||13,000|13,000|
|Holiday Activities||||4,000|4,000|
|Community<br>Allotment||||2,000|2,000|
|Database||||2,000|2,000|
|Marketing<br>G Consultancy||||4,000|4,000|
|Total|231819||(5200)|25,000|251,219|
|Total funds|465,090|263,742|(232,888)||495,944|









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|||||||2022|Cash flows|2023|
|||||||6|6|6|
||Cash and|cash equivalents||||241,965|91,642|333,607|
|||||||241,965|91,642|333,607|
||Net debt|||||241,965|91,642|333,607|
|20|Commlunents||||||||
||Operntfng|lease commgments|||||||
||Annual commitments||under non~ncegable|operating|leases are as follows:||||
|||||2023||2023|2022||
|||||Land|and|Other|Land and||
|||||bugdlngs|||buildings||
||||||6||6||
||Operating|leases with|expiry date:||||||
||Pensfrm commgments||||||||
||The pension cost charge tothe company||||||||
||amounted|to:||||5,342||4.762|
|21|Related party dhdosures||||||||
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|forthe year ended|$1IN|arch 202$|||||
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||||Unrestrlcte|estrhaed|||
||||d funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
||||2028|2028|2023|2022|
||||E|6|6|6|
|Inmme and endowments||from;|||||
|Donations and legades|||||||
|Donations - Individual|||28,$88|1,451|29,839|33,120|
|Donations - Corporate|||16,7$7|8,659|25396|17,696|
|Grants|||85,703|82,560|168,263|119,944|
|In Kind Income|||1,500||1,500|1,200|
||||132,328|92,670|224,998|171,960|
|Other trading activities|||||||
|Events|||11,377|2,575|13,952|10,992|
||||11,$77|2,575|13,952|10,992|
|Investments|||||||
|Interest Received|||1,534||1,534|{40)|
||||1,534||1,534|{40)|
|Other|||||||
|Other Income|||10,699|12,559|2$,258|26~|
||||10,699|12,559|2$,258|16,488|
|Total Income and endowments|||155,938|107,804|26$,742|199,400|
|Expenditure on:|||||||
|Costs ofgenerating|donations and||||||
|legacies|||||||
|Donations - Individual|||2,913|7,835|10,748|8,522|
||||2,91$|7,835|10,748|8,522|
|Total ofexpenditure<br>funds|on|raising|2,913|7&835|10,748|8522|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Charitable<br>Actlvtges|||2,189|63,467|65,656|46,601|
||||2,189|63,467|65,656|46,601|
|Total ofexpenditure<br>acgvities|on|charitable|2,189|6$,467|65,656|46,601|
|Other expenditure|||||||
|In Kind Gifts|||1,500||1,500|1,200|
||||1,500||1,500|1,200|
|Employee costs|||||||
|Salaries/wages|||73,219|39,536|112,755|102,9$9|
|Employer's<br>NIC|||6,$65|2,651|9,016|3,281|
|Pension costs|||3,793|1,549|5,$42|4,762|
|Staff recruitment|||345||345|50|
|Stafftraining||||||659|
|Staffwelfare|||126||126|216|



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|Detaged Statement of|Flnandal<br>Acthritles|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||83,848|43,736|127+84|111,907|
|Motor and travel costs||||||
|Travel and subsistence||285|2,167|2852|2,213|
|Fares||37||37||
|||322|2,167|2,489|2,213|
|General administrative|costs,|||||
|including depredation|and|||||
|amortisatlon||||||
|Depreciation ofland and<br>buildings||5,200||5,200|5,200|
|Depreciation ofLeasehold||||||
|Buildings||||||
|Depreciation<br>ofFixtures gt||||||
|Fittings||||||
|Depredation<br>of||236||236|262|
|Bank charges|||||12|
|Equipment<br>expensed||883||883|515|
|General insurances||1,117||1,117|1,132|
|Postage and couriers||67||67|267|
|Software, ITsupport and related||||||
|cosls|||||1,009|
|Stagonery and printing||978|3,089|4,067|&63|
|Subscrlptlons||2,071|206|2,277|1,267|
|Sundry expenses||254|445|699|246|
|Telephone, fax and broadband||1,259|220|1,479|1.227|
|||12,429|S,960|16,389|12,000|
|Legal and professional|costs|||||
|Accountancy<br>and bookkeeping||5,760||5,760||
|Consultancy fees||170|1,157|1,327||
|Sogdtor's fees||627|344|971|93|
|Other legal and professional<br>coals|||||211|
|||7,021|1,501|8,522|304|
|Total ofexpemgture of|other costs|105,120|51,364|156,484|127,624|
|Total expenditure||110,222|122,666|232,888|182,747|
|Net gains on investments||||||
|Net Income||45,716|(14,862)|30,854|16,653|
|Transfers between funds||8,535|(8,535)|||
|Net Income before other||||||
|gains/(krssos)||54,251|(23,397)|30,854|16,653|
|Other Gains||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds||54,251|(23,397)|30,854|16,653|



