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|Chair's Foreword||||
|Administrative<br>information||||
|Trustees'<br>and Directors' annual||report|3 —7|
|Auditors'<br>report||||
|Statement offinancial|activities|||
|Balance sheet|||10|
|Statement ofcash flows||||
|Notes to the finandal|statements||12 —23|





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|Elizabeth Taylor|
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|Gillian Davles|
|I/ivian<br>Davenport|
|Sylvia Edwanls|
|Lucy Ross|
|Cllr James Shorrock|
|John Sturgess|
|Edward Walmsley|



|COMPANY|SECRETARY|Diane Page||||
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|SENIOR STAFF||||||
|Chief Execulive||Jan Larkin||||
|05ce&Finance Manager||Diane Page||||
|Operations|Manager|Faith Marrott||||
|REGISTERED OFFICE AND||The Boulevard Centre||||
|PRINCIPAL|PLACE OF|45 Railway Road||||
|BUSINESS||Blackbum BB11EZ||||
|AUDITORS||HGA Accountants|&Financial|||
|||Consultants<br>Ltd||||
|||t/a Chittenden<br>Hurley||||
|||Chartered<br>Accountants||&Statutory|Auditors|
|||Hyde Park House||||
|||Cartwright<br>Street'||||
|||Hyde SK144EH||||
|BANKERS||Barclays Bank Pic||||
|||8 —14 Darwen Street||||
|||Blackbum BB22BZ||||





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||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|INCOME|||||||
|Donations|||229,214||229P14|156,625|
|Charitable<br>activities|||728,675|148,153|876,828|744,298|
|Investment<br>Income - bank interest|||575||575|37|
|TOTAL INCOME|||958,464|148,153|1,106,617|900,960|
|EXPENDITURE|||||||
|Costs ofraising funds|||12,281||12,281|12,307|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities|5|921,205|151,131|1,072,336|989,264|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE|||933,486|151,131|1,084,617|1,001,571|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|||||||
|BEFORETRANSFERS|||24,979|(2,978)|22,001|(100,611)|
|Transfers<br>between funds|||||||
|NET MOVEMENT<br>IN FUNDS|||24,979|(2,978)|22,091|(100,6'l 1)|
|FUNDS<br>BROUGHT FORWARD||12|464,996|34,998|499,994|600,605|
|FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||12|489,975|32,020|521,995|499,994|








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|Cash used in operating<br>activities|||14|~I71 4|(156,005)|
|Cashflows<br>from investing<br>activities||||||
|Interest and dividends<br>Purchase oftangible<br>fixed assets||||575|37|
|Cash provided<br>by/(used<br>in) investing||activities|||37|
|Cashflows<br>from financing<br>activities||||||
|Cash used in financing<br>activities||||||
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in cash &cash equivalents|||in the year|(70,852)|(155,968)|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>brought|forward|||352,913|508,881|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>carded forward||||282,061|352,913|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>consist of:||||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||||282,061|352,913|
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|Statement' ofcharrge& in riet debt||||||
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|2|DONATIONS||||||||||
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||Reaching||Communities||||||||
||Brian Mercer Charitable|||Trust|25,000||25,000|25,000|||
||lnspiring|Uves|||||||||
||Lancaster||Foundation||||35000|25000||25000|
||HMRC - CJRS||||||||||
||Legacy||||||||||
||Donations||||||||||
||Donated|goods for distribution||||||1,076||1,076|
||Iyfonetary|donations:|||||||||
||General||||166,837||166,837|105,549||105,549|
||Supported||Living||2,377||||||
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|3 INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES||||||||||||
|Nightshelter||||62,582|6,000||68,582||54,325|17,000|T1,325|
|Day Centre (Platform 5)||||50,616|101,306||151,922||24,004|80,111|104,115|
|Supported<br>Living||||615,477|31,9T5||647,452||548,883|2,230|551,113|
|Spedal projects|||||8,872||8,872|||77,745|17,745|
|||||728,675|148,153||876,828||627,272|117,086|744,298|
|Nlghtshelter||||||||||||
|Garfield Wsston Foundation||||||||||||
|BwD Council|||||6,000||6,000|||17,000|17,000|
|Scn.wfix Foundafion||||||||||||
|Accommodation<br>charges|||||||35,534||26,234||26,234|
|Contract income - Supporting|||people|27,048|||27,048||28,091||28,091|
|Service level agreements||||||||||||
|||||62,582|6,000||68,582||54,325|17,000|71,325|
|Day Centre (Platform|5)|||||||||||
|Reaching<br>Communities||||||||||||
|Shelter||||12,000|||12,000|||||
|UCLAN||||8,133||||||||
|Duchy ofLancaster||||||||||||
|Corrtnunity<br>Fund|||||101,306|101,306||||87,086|81,086|
|National<br>Lottery<br>—Homeless|||Link|||||||||
|Youth Music Trust||||||||||(975)|f975)|
|Service level agreements. .<br>Other in ctime<br>'||||. 28,820<br>" '1,652''''|—<br>' "-":'|-|282I20<br>7,66i|'.|20.000<br>4,00&|—<br>' *'' . -'''"|20,000<br>4;0'|
|||||50,616|101,306|151,922|||24,004|80,77 7|1D4,115|
|Supported<br>Living||||||||||||
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||||25,000||25,000|||||
|Screwfix Foundation||||||||||||
|Other grants|||||6,975||6,975|||2,230|2,23D|
|Accommodation<br>charges||||121,673||121,673||130,761|||130,761|
|Contract income - Supporting|||people|173,808||173W8||765,654|||165,654|
|Service level agreements||||319,995||319W5||252,468|||252,468|
|||||615,477|31,975|647,452||548,883||2230|551,113|
|Special projects||||||||||||
|Chfidren<br>In Need<br>—LEAP|Project|||||||||||
|Children<br>in Need - Inspiring||Futures|||8,872||8,872|||17,745|1T,745|
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|4 COSTS OF RAISING FUNDS||||||||
|Direct salary costs|||||6,173||6,173|
|Direct costs||7,631||7,631|3,000|||
|Support costs||4,650||4,650|3,134||3,134|
|||12,281||12481|12,307||12,307|
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|5 CHARITABLE|EXPENDITURE|||||||
|Nightshelter||97,289|6,000|103,289|65,418|27,000|92,418|
|Day Centre (Platform 5)||70,781|101,306|172,087|36,689|89,857|126,546|
|Supported<br>Living||768,890|18,882|787,772|733,132|110|733,242|
|Special projects||(15,755)|24,943|9,188|31,345|5,713|37,058|
|Support costs charged to restdcted||||||||
|||921,205|151,131|1,072,336|866,584|122,680|989,264|
|Expenditure<br>is|analysed as fol/ows:|||||||
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|Nightshelter||||35,960|22,208|45,121|103,289|
|Day Centre (Platform 5)||||3,825|123,141|45,121|172,087|
|Supported<br>Living||||2,158|579,693|205,921|787,772|
|Spsriai pro)sou||||9,188|||9,188|
|||||51,131|725,042|296,163|1 072,336|
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|Nightshelter||||62820|13,768|15,830|92,418|
|Day Centre (Platform 5)||||27,176||15,830|126,546|
|Supported<br>Living||||102,438|560,062|70,742|733,242|
|Special projects||||5,713|31,345||37,058|
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|Staffcosts||||2,547||7,642|7,642|33,116||50,947|
|Stafftraining||and recruitment||||975|975|4,551||6,501|
|Depreciation||||||266|266|1241||1,773|
|Ofitce, communications|||8 other costs|2,103||6,308|6,308|27,335||42,054|
|Office rent|and service||charge|||24,681|24,681|115,178||164,540|
|||||4,650||39,872|39,872|181,421||265,815|
|Governance|||costs||||||||
|Staffcosts||||||626|626|2,924||4,176|
|Professional||fees||||4,553|4,563|21,296||30,422|
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|Staff costs||||2,421||7264|7?64|31,477||48,426|
|Staff training||and recruitment||||291|291|1,361||1,943|
|Depreciation||||||105|105|490||700|
|Offic, communicaticrts<br>Office rent and service|||faother coslg<br> chaige|.;-..-s-..716., <br>'<br>-||7 - .2140:<br>2,337|- .- 2 140<br>2,337|,, 9274c.=-<br>10,907|==,-.:-.=:.=-. <br>-|-..-14257<br>15,581|
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|Governance|||costs||||||||
|Staff costs|||||||576|2690||3,842|
|Professional||fees||||3,057|3,057|14,263||20,377|
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|7 STAFF INFORMATION|||||||||2023|2023|||2022|2022|
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|a Employees|||||||||||||||
|Salaries snd wages|||||||||697,663||||672,024||
|Pension costs|||||||||22,2g1||||22|751|
|Employers<br>Nl allowance|||||||||(4,000)||||(4,000)||
|Employer's<br>Nl contnbulions|||||||||63,516||||56,382||
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|No employees<br>earned<br>more than f60,000 p.a. In either|||||year.||||||||||
|b Key management<br>personnel|||||||||||||||
|The key management<br>ofthe charity|||comprise|the trustees and senior staff (as set out|||||on page1).||||||
|The trustees do not receive any remuneration||||for their|services.||||||||||
|The total employee<br>benefits ofother|||key management||were as follows:||||||||||
|||||||||134,111|||||134,111||
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|8 NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|BEFORETRANSFERS||||||||||||||
|This is stated after charging/(crediting):|||||||||||||||
|Independent<br>examiners<br>&accountants|||fees:||||||||||||
|Examination|||||||||930||||930||
|Accountancy<br>fees|||||||||||||828||
|Operating<br>lease rentals|||||||||||||54,745||
|Depreciation<br>offixed assets|||||||||1,773||||1,531||
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||As at April 12022|||||110,000|||38,411|54,083|202,494|
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||Asat31 March2023|||||110,000|||38,411|4,700<br>58,783|4,700<br>207,194|
||Depreciation|||||||||||
||As at April 12022|||||5,600|||35,945|53719|94,764|
||Charge for the year||||||||617|1,156|1,773|
||As at 31 March 2023|||||5,600|||36,562|54,375|96,537|
||Net Book||Value|||||||||
||As at 31 March 2023|||||104,400|||1,849|4,408|110,657|
||As at31 March 2022|||||104,400|||2,466|864|107,730|
||The charity's<br>freehold||property was professionally||revalued|in May 2015by|Mortimers||Chartered|Surveyors at|F110,000|
||(previous<br>valuation|May 2008 atf120,000). This|||valuation|was incorporated|into|the|accounts|in 2014/15 and|reduced|
||the revaluation<br>reserve by f10,000.|||||||||||
||The value attributed|tothe land by the trustees'||is|f40,000.|||||||
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|10|DEBTORS|||||||||||
||Income receivable||||||||158,363||88,555|
||Prepayments||||||||1,094||852|
||||||||||159, 57||89,407|
|11|CREDITORS falling|due within one year||||||||||
||Other taxes and social||security||||||11,091||10,695|
||Accruals|||||||||||
||Pension<br>liability||||||||15,481<br>3,608||2,520<br>2,969|
||Income and grants<br>in|advance|||||||||33,872|
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|Unrestricted<br>funds:|||||||||||
|General fund<br>Revaiuat/on<br>reserve<br>Total unrestricted|funds|484,133<br>75,880<br>560,013|783,874<br>783,874|(878,386)<br>505)<br>878,891||389,621<br>75,375|958,464|(933,486)||414,600<br>75.375<br>489,975|
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|Nightshehar<br>Day Denim (P/atform|5)|10,000<br>10,265|7,000<br>80,111|(27,000)<br>(89,857/||519|6,000<br>101,306|(6,000)<br>(101,306)||519|
|Supported<br>Liv/ng<br>Special Projects<br>Total mstrkted<br>funds||20327<br>40,592|2230<br>17,745 <br>107,086|(110)<br>~5,7/3<br>122,580)||2120<br>3235g<br>34,998|31,975<br>8,872 <br>14I,153|(18,882)<br> ~24,943<br> ~151,131||15~3<br>16368|
|Total funds||600.605|890,960|~1,001$71||499994|1,106618|~1084,617||521.995|





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|Operating<br>leases which expire:|||
|Within one year<br>Between 2 and 5years|61,609<br>17.|54,145<br>51,609<br>115,754|



