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|Charity Reference and|Administrative|Details||
|Trustees'<br>Annual<br>Report||||
|Independent<br>Auditor's|Report|||
|Statement<br>of Financial|Activities|||
|Balance Sheet||||
|Statement<br>ofCash Flows|||13|
|Notes to the Financial|Statements|||





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|e year and since th|s year end are as|follows:||||
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|J Murphy||Independent|—Chair|||
|SBrake||Independent|—Vice chair|||
|C Stephens||Independent|—Vice chair|||
|J Walker-Thompson||Independent|—Treasurer|||
|Cllr FAbbott||Nominated|representative|—Coventry|City Council|
|BSingh||independent||||
|M Lloyd||independent||||
|LTaylor||Independent||||
|P Frost (appointed|1 June 2023)|Independent||||



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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
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|||Note|6|f|6|f|
|Income and endowments|from:||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||741||741|1,305|
|Charitable<br>activities|||404,599|2,004,610|2,409,209|2,510,712|
|Other trading<br>activities|||2,800||2,800|3,200|
|Investments|||2,290||2,290|63|
|Total income and endowments|||410,430|2,004,610|2,415,040|2,515,280|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||6|383,859|2,072,353|2,456,212|2,430,545|
|Total expenditure|||383,859|2,072,353|2,456,212|2,430,545|
|Net Income/ (expenditure)|||26,571|(67,743)|(41,172)|84,735|
|Transfers<br>between<br>funds||16|(33,183)|33,183|||
|Nst movemsnt<br>In funds|||(6,612)|(34,560)|(41,172)|84,735|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||16|310,704|264,389|575,093|490,358|
|Total funds carried forward||16|304,092|229,829|533,921|575,093|





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|As at 31 March|2|023||||
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|Fixed assets||||||
|Tangible assets||||||
|Current assets||||||
|Debtors|||12|372,708|275,226|
|Cash at bank and|in|hand||350,463|549,922|
|||||723,171|825,148|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year|13|(89,250)|(150,055)|
|Nst current assets||||633,921|675,093|
|Total assets less|current liabilities|||633,921|675,093|
|Provisions<br>for liabilities|||14|(100,000)|(100,000)|
|Net assets||||533,921|575,093|
|Charity Funds||||||
|Restricted funds|||16|229,829|264,389|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||16|304,092|310,704|
|Total charity funds||||533,921|575,093|






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|Cash flow from operating|activities||||18|(201,749)|(83,995)|
|Cash flow from investing|activities|||||||
|Interest received||||||2,290|63|
|Net cash flow from investing|||activities|||2,290|63|
|Net increase /(decrease)|in|cash and cash equivalents||||(199,459)|(83,932)|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at|1 April|||549,922|633,854|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at|31 March|||350,463|549,922|
|Analysis ofchanges<br>In net funds||||||||
|||||At 1 April||Cash|At 31 March|
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|Net cash||||f||8|8|
|Cash at bank and<br>In|hand|||549,922||(199,459)|350,463|
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|4|Income from other trading|Income from other trading|Income from other trading|activities||||||
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||Room hire|||||||2,800|3,200|
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||2022 comparatives|indude||room hire income ofE3,200 In||unrestricted|funds.|||
|5|Income from Investments|||||||||
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||Interest - deposits|||||||2,290|63|
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||2022 comparatives|include||Interest ofE63 in unrestricted||funds.||||
|6|Analysis<br>ofexpenditure||on charitable||activities|||||
||||||Activities|Supportand||Total|Total|
||||||undertaken|governance||2023|2022|
||||||directly|costs||||
||Charitable<br>activities —advice||||E|E||||
||and information|services||||||||
||Staff costs||||1,415,561||277,884|1,693,445|1,607,720|
||Recruitment<br>and other costs||||8,136||19,427|27,563|25,584|
||Training||||3,578||358|3,936|6,887|
||Travel||||5,834||859|6,693|5,995|
||Ghent expenses||||33,791|||33,791|72,798|
||Volunteer expenses||||562||54|616|399|
||Translation<br>costs||||19,493|||19,493|28,430|
||Pubgdty||||150|||150|138|
||SubscripUons<br>and|licences|||7,796||14,254|22,050|18,966|
||Printing,<br>postage|and stationery|||11,261||2,587|13,848|15,274|
||Telephone||||22,301||1,649|23,950|24,564|
||Insurance||||||9,573|9,573|9,194|
||Rent, rates and service charges||||||78,329|78,329|79,802|
||Heat and light||||||17,096|17,096|9,535|
||Premises and equipment<br>and maintenance|||repairs|||34,076|34,076|41,706|
||Computer costs||||6,141||19,632|25,773|27,035|
||Settlement<br>costs||||421,610|||421,610|429,618|
||Professional<br>fees||||840||12,310|13,150|13,843|
||Other costs||||2,405||8,665|11,070|13,057|
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|7|Governance<br>costs||||||||||||||||||
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||Auditor's<br>remuneration||||||||||||||||6,311|6,951|
||Professional<br>fees||||||||||||||||12,310|13,843|
||Staff costs||||||||||||||||63,783|51,474|
||Other||||||||||||||||1,516|4,318|
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|8|Net income for the year||||||||||||||||||
||Net income is stated after||charging||||I(crediting):||||||||||||
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||Auditor's<br>remuneration||||||||||||||||6,311|6,951|
||Operating<br>lease rentals||||||||||||||||74,074|73,780|
|9|Trustees'<br>and key management|||||personnel|||remuneration||||and expenses||||||
||The trustees neither received|||nor||waived||any remuneration||||during||the year (2022:||fnit).|||
||No trustees (2022; No|trustees)|||had||expenses for travel reimbursed|||||||during the|year.||||
||The charity considers<br>The total employment|its key management<br>benefits induding||||||personnel<br>to comprise the trustees<br>and <br>pension<br>contrlbufions<br>of key management||||||||the Chief Executive Officer.<br>personnel<br>was f86,101|||
||(2022.'868,959).||||||||||||||||||
|10|Staff costs and employee||benefits||||||||||||||||
||The average<br>monthly<br>number|||of|employees||||during the year,||||expressed as full-time|||equivalents,<br>was||as follows:|
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||Charitable<br>activities||||||||||||||||48|51|
||Management<br>and administration||||||||||||||||6|5|
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||The total staff costs and employees'||||||benefits||was|as|follows:||||||||
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||Wages and salaries||||||||||||||||1,494,547|1,419,860|
||Social security||||||||||||||||131,767|121,108|
||Defined contribution|pension||costs|||||||||||||67,131|66,752|
||Bureau agency costs||||||||||||||||5,098|4,878|
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|11|Tangible fixed assets||||||||||||||
||||||||Leasehold||Computer|Fixtures||and|||
|||||||||premises|equipment||fittings||Total||
||Cost or valuation:|||||||E|E||E||E||
||At 1 April 2022 and||||||||||||||
||31 March 2023|||||||166,946|120,375||66,673||353,994||
||Depreciation:||||||||||||||
||At 1 April 2022|||||||166,946|120,375||66,673||353,994||
||Charge for the year||||||||||||||
||At 31 March 2023|||||||166,946|120,375||66,673||353,994||
||Net book value:||||||||||||||
||At 31 March 2023||||||||||||||
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|12|Debtors||||||||||||||
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||Trade debtors|||||||||||347,016||245,704|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued|||income||||||||25,692||29,522|
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|13|Creditors: amounts||falling|due within one|||year||||||||
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||Trade creditors|||||||||||23,735||44,173|
||Other tax and social||security|||||||||30,468||31,252|
||Other creditors|||||||||||21,842||21,638|
||Deferred income|||||||||||||25,000|
||Accruafs|||||||||||13,205||27,992|
|||||||||||||89,250||150,055|
||Deferred<br>income comprises|||amounts||received||in advance|where the performance||conditions||ofthe grant|have not|
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||Balance at 1 April|||||||||||25,000||65,000|
||Amounts<br>released|to Incoming resources||||||||||(25,000)||(40,000)|
||Amounts<br>deferred|In|year||||||||||||
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|14|Provisions<br>for liabilities||||||||||||||
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||Balance at 1 April 2022|||||||||||100,000|||
||Charge to Statement||of Financial||Activities||||||||||
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|15|Leases||||||||||||
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||Total future<br>minimum|||lease payments||under|non-cancegable||operating|leases are as|follows:||
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||Not later than|one year|||||||||1,580|57,380|
||Later than one and||not later than five|||years|||||1,185|2,765|
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|||||||Balance at||||||Balance at|
|||||||01/04/2022<br>f||Income||Expenditure<br>f|Transfers<br>F|31/03/2023<br>6|
||Unrestricted|funds|||||||||||
||General funds||||||280,704||410,430|(383,859)|(33,183)|274,092|
||Designated<br>funds:||||||||||||
||Relocation reserve||||||20,000|||||20,000|
||Restructuring|reserve|||||10,000|||||10,000|
||Total unrestricted||funds||||310,704||410,430|(383,859)|(33,183)|304,092|
||Restricted funds||||||||||||
||CitA —Money|Advice||Service|||||252,679|(278,772)|26,093||
||NaUonwide —Reach||||||8,976||25,000|(24,573)||9,403|
||Eveson<br>-Reach||||||||20,000|(11,152)||8,848|
||Saintbury<br>-Reach||||||||2,000|(2,000)|||
||STEP||||||49,582||(48,093)|(1,489)|||
||HALS||||||||50,000|(43,368)||6,632|
||NHS Coventry|—HIV/TB|||||790||30,000|(25,650)||5,140|
||Macmillan||||||||302,777|(303,361)|584||
||CBSASS||||||||50,000|(11,363)||38,637|
||CitA —Pension|Wise|||||3,341||156,207|(151,197)||8,351|
||CBS Hardship|Fund|||||||40,950|(9,882)||31,068|
||Sue Darling<br>Hardship||||Fund||4,058|||(1,326)||2,732|
||BSS||||||364|||||364|
||Cardinal<br>Ltd —Major|||Trauma|||6,013||39,863|(41,799)||4,077|
||Help<br>in Crisis||||||36,924|||(24,429)||12,495|
||St Martin<br>in the Fields||||—FrontUne||3,619||33,796|(23,883)||13,532|
||CBSDebts||||||81,235|||(77,108)||4,127|
||Big Lottery —BBOBreakthrough||||||||49,729|(56,235)|6,506||
||Integration<br>1||||||||764,358|(764,791)|433||
||integration<br>2||||||69,487||220,344|(219,975)|(433)|69,423|
||CitA COL||||||||15,000|||15,000|
||Total restricted<br>funds||||||264,389|2,004,610||(2,072,353)|33,183|229,829|
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|Relocation reserve||||||||Funds set aside to manage<br>relocation ofoffices.|
|Restructuring||||reserve||||Funds<br>set aside<br>to<br>manage<br>staffing<br>restructure<br>due<br>to|
|||||||||changing<br>contracts.|
|CitA|—MAS|||||||Funding<br>from the Money Advice Service for the provision<br>of|
|||||||||debt advice.|
|Nationwide|||-|Reach||||Funding<br>from Nationwide<br>Building<br>Society to offer advice on|
|||||||||debt, budgeting,<br>housing<br>and benefits issues.|
|Eveson/||Saintbury||||Reach||Grants towards<br>work with clients who have housing<br>issues.|
|STEP||||||||Grant<br>towards<br>working<br>with<br>clients<br>and<br>frontline<br>workers<br>to|
|||||||||reduce<br>fuel<br>poverty<br>and<br>increase<br>the energy<br>efficiency<br>of|
|||||||||people's homes.|
|HALS||||||||Grant<br>towards<br>access to early social welfare<br>and/or<br>family|
|||||||||legal<br>advice/<br>support,<br>to enable<br>users<br>to resolve<br>these|
|||||||||problems as early as possible or otherwise<br>supporl<br>litigants<br>in|
|||||||||person<br>through<br>their legal journey.|
|NHS|- CCG/HIV TB|||||||Grant towards<br>provision ofoutreach services.|
|Macmillan||||||||Grant<br>towards<br>advice service<br>for cancer patients<br>and<br>their|
|||||||||families.|
|CBSASS||||||||Funding<br>from Coventry<br>Building Sodety to cover the costs of|
|||||||||additional<br>Advice<br>Session<br>Supervisor<br>and<br>to<br>manage|
|||||||||volunteers.|
|CitA|—Pension||||Wise|||Grant<br>towards<br>the<br>Pension<br>Wise<br>Service,<br>to ensure<br>that|
|||||||||consumers<br>who<br>are<br>approaching<br>retirement<br>with<br>defined|
|||||||||contribution<br>pension<br>pots will be offered guidance<br>on how to|
|||||||||make<br>informed<br>and confident<br>decisions<br>on how to use their|
|||||||||contribution<br>savings<br>in retirement.<br>It Isdesigned<br>forthose over|
|||||||||the age of55.|
|CBS|Hardship|||||||Funding<br>from Coventry<br>Building<br>Society to help<br>vulnerable|
|||||||||clients with Bankruptcy,<br>DRO and Emergency<br>support.|
|Sue Darling|||Hardship||||Fund|Funding<br>to alleviate those in aggravated<br>need.|
|Cardinal||Ltd|—Major Trauma|||||Funds towards the delivery ofSlgnpostlng<br>Partnership<br>Service|
|||||||||that aims<br>to facilitate access to advice<br>on matters<br>such as|
|||||||||welfare<br>benefits,<br>housing,<br>legal services and rehabilitation<br>to|
|||||||||Major Trauma Centre (MTC) patients<br>and/or<br>their families and|
|||||||||carers whilst<br>in hospital.|
|Help|in Crisis|||||||Grant enables<br>the charity<br>to provide<br>practical<br>and emotional|
|||||||||support<br>to clients who are homeless<br>or vulnerably<br>housed.|
|||||||||The project is between<br>Coventry<br>Citizens<br>Advice and Valley|
|||||||||House.|
|St Martin||in|the||Fields||—Frontline|Funds<br>to build<br>up a network<br>of housing<br>and homelessness|
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|Net movement<br>for the|year||(41,172)|84,735|
|Interest receivable|||(2,290)|(63)|
|(Increase)l decrease|in debtors||(97,482)|(139,489)|
|(Decrease)/ increase|in creditors and provisions||(60,805)|(29,178)|
|Net cash flow from operating||activities|(201,749)|(83,995)|



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