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|FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS|FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS|||||||||||||||||
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|VANEL's|key objectives,<br>in support of its mission and|key aims, are to:||||||||||||||||
|1.Increase the capacity of local VCSgroups and organisations<br>to perform||||effectively.||||||||||||||
|Key activities:||||||||||||||||||
||Development<br>work with new and growing/changing<br>voluntary||and community||||groups|||including|||social enterpnses||||and|
||other newly emergmg<br>VCS structures<br>via|management<br>team.||||||||||||||||
||Encouraging<br>and celebrating<br>volunteering,|hnking volunteers|with groups||(via||the|Volunteering|||||Development|||Service)||
||and supporting<br>the training<br>and development<br>ofvolunteers.|||||||||||||||||
||Promoting<br>financial<br>accountability<br>withm|VCS organisations|through<br>training||||for|staff||and trustees||||in managing|||their|
||fmances (via external support).|||||||||||||||||
|IV.|Providing<br>training<br>in preparing<br>funding|bids and contract|applications|||(via|Chief||Officer,|||Contracts|||Manager||and|
||Development<br>Manager).|||||||||||||||||
||Promoting<br>and<br>supporting<br>the achievement<br>of quality<br>assurance<br>accreditation||||||||amongst||||VCS|organisations|||via|
||management<br>team.|||||||||||||||||
|VI.|Championing<br>group and individual<br>engagement<br>with information|||technology|||(via|Development|||||Manager).|||||
|VII.|Assisting<br>local<br>VCS groups<br>in obtaimng,|maintaining,<br>and|sustaining||capital|||assets|||(via|Chief||Officer,||Contracls||
||Manager<br>and Development<br>Manager).|||||||||||||||||
|2.Provide free/affordable<br>services relevant to local||VCS groups' needs.||||||||||||||||
|Key activities:||||||||||||||||||
||Developing<br>and providmg<br>website bulletins<br>(Development<br>Manager).|||||||||||||||||
||Offering financial services such as payroll|and fund management||(Fmance||Manager)||||||||||||
||Providing access to funding<br>sources (Chief Officer and Contracts|||Manager).||||||||||||||
|IV.|Administering<br>local grant schemes (Contracts Manager).|||||||||||||||||
||Providing<br>internet<br>based<br>information|service<br>with<br>links||to<br>relevant|||local||and||national|||VCS|organisations|||
||(Development<br>Manager<br>and Chief Officer).|||||||||||||||||
|VI.|Providing<br>traming facilities (via member|organisations/82<br>Or(msby Road,|||Cleethorpes).|||||||||||||
|VII.|Identifying<br>and developing<br>volunteering|placements<br>(Volunteer||Support|Worker).|||||||||||||





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|3.Provide VCS representation<br>within and for the wider community.|3.Provide VCS representation<br>within and for the wider community.|||||||
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|Key activities:||||||||
||Promoting<br>and representing<br>local VCSinterests<br>locally, regionagy<br>& nationally<br>(Chief Officer)|||||||
||Removmg<br>barriers to VCS involvement<br>in local, regional,<br>national<br>work (Chief Officer).|||||||
||Keeping<br>the<br>local<br>VCS mformed<br>about<br>relevant<br>local,<br>regional,<br>and<br>national<br>changes<br>and||developments||||(Chief|
||Officer).|||||||
|IV.|Responding<br>to VCS needs and facilitatmg<br>skills/information<br>exchange between<br>groups. (learn)|||||||
|V|Promoting<br>partnership<br>working<br>within the VCS and between<br>VCS and others as needed. (Team)|||||||
|Vl.|Participating<br>in the NEL Community<br>Safety Partnership<br>and related<br>workmg groups (Chief Officer)|||||||
||Being a proactive<br>member of local community<br>forums as appropriate<br>(Team as needed).|||||||
|VIII.|Being the Local Trusted Orgamsation<br>(Big Local) for the national<br>Local t rust (Chief Officer)|||||||
|4.Ensure the sustainability<br>of VANEL with appropriate<br>staffing and adequately<br>resourced structure.||||||||
|Key activities:||||||||
||Implementing<br>full cost recovery within<br>VANEL funding<br>bids (asfar as practical). (Chief Officer)|||||||
||Negotiating<br>tailor-made<br>charging structures<br>with each of our members<br>for extra support.<br>(CO)|||||||
||Generating<br>reserves adequate to enable<br>us to develop<br>new and exisbng services<br>in response|to local VCS||||needs and||
||to maintain<br>(at least) our minimum<br>reserves<br>policy (Chief Officer).|||||||
|IV.|Encouraging<br>VCS groups to make full use of VANEL's services, including<br>supporting<br>their mcome||generation|||to|enable|
||them to take up VANEI.'s charged services. (Team)|||||||
||Managing<br>VANEL's mdirect costs consistent<br>with retaming<br>the skills needed to deliver the plan||outcomes|||as|flexibly|
||and cost-effectively<br>as possible. (Finance and Contracts Manager)|||||||
|S.Achieve wider recognition ofVANEL as a provider of high quality,<br>professional<br>services for the local VCS.||||||||
|Key activities:||||||||
||Maintaining/reviewing<br>VANEL's pohoes and procedures<br>annually<br>with staff/trustees.<br>(Development|||Manager)||||
||implementing<br>pro-active<br>staff member,<br>volunteer<br>and trustee<br>development<br>through<br>a staff/trustee||||development|||
||plan that supports the needs ofthis Business Plan. (Chief Officer)|||||||
||Maintaining<br>our NCVO Volunteer<br>Centre QA and other QA as deemed appropnate.<br>(Chief Officer)|||||||
|IV.|Working<br>in partnership<br>with other VCS orgamsations<br>in Number<br>area and Lincolnshire<br>County (Chief|||Officer)||||
||Offering Supporting<br>Volunteers'<br>Award (quality assurance) for member groups. (Development|Manager)||||||
|VI.|Offenng Volunteer<br>Passport for mdividual<br>people who choose to volunteer.<br>(Volunteer<br>Worker)|||||||





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|I report to the trustees<br>on my examination<br>of the financial|statements<br>of Voluntary|statements<br>of Voluntary|statements<br>of Voluntary|statements<br>of Voluntary|Action<br>North|Action<br>North|East Lincolnshire|East Lincolnshire|East Lincolnshire|East Lincolnshire||(the|
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|charity) for the year ended 31March 2023.|||||||||||||
|The accounts have been prepared<br>in accordance with the accounting||palicies set out||in|note 1to|the accounts||and||comply|||
|As the trustees ofthe charity (and also its directors for the purposes||ofcompany<br>law)||you are responsible<br>for the|||||preparation||||
|ofthe finanaal<br>statements<br>in accordance with the requirements<br>ofthe Campames<br>Act 2006(the 2006Act).|||||||||||||
|Havmg satisfied<br>myself that the financial<br>statements<br>ofthe charity are not|||required to be audited|||under<br>Part||16of||the||2006|
|Act and are eligible for independent<br>examination,<br>I report<br>in|respect|of my|examination||ofthe chanty's<br>financral||||statements||||
|carried out under section 145ofthe Charities Act 2011(the 2011Act) .In carrying out my examination|||||||I have followed||||ag the||
|applicable<br>Directions given<br>by the Charity Commission<br>under|section|145(5)(b)ofthe 2011Act.|||||||||||
|Independent<br>examiner's<br>statement|||||||||||||
|Since the chanty's<br>gross income exceeded 6250,000 your examiner||must be a member|||of a body|listed<br>in section 145|||||ofthe||
|2011Act.<br>I confirm that<br>I am qualified to undertake<br>the examination||because<br>I am a||member of||ICAEW, which|||is one||ofthe||
|listed bodies.|||||||||||||
|I have completed<br>my examination.<br>I confirm that no matters|have come to||my attention||in connection||with the||examination||||
|giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:|||||||||||||
|accounting<br>records were not kept in respect ofthe charity||as required<br>by section 386ofthe|||||2006 Act;||or||||
|the financial statements<br>do not accord with those|records; or||||||||||||
|the financial<br>statements<br>do not comply<br>with the|accounting<br>requirements||||of section|396|of the|2006||Act||other|
|than<br>any requirement<br>that the accounts<br>give a true and||fair view which||is not a matter considered|||||as|part||of an|
|independent<br>examination;<br>or|||||||||||||
|the financial statements<br>have not been prepared|in accordance||with the methods<br>and|||principles ofthe Statement|||||||
|of Recommended<br>Practice for accounting<br>and|reporting<br>by||chanties|applicable<br>to charities||||preparing||||their|
|accounts<br>in accordance<br>with the Financial<br>Reporting<br>Standard|||appkcable|in|the<br>UK and Republic|||of|Ireland|||(FRS|
|102)|||||||||||||
|I have<br>no concerns<br>and<br>have<br>come across<br>no|other|matters|in connection<br>with|||the|examination|||to||which|
|attention<br>should<br>be drawn<br>in this report<br>m order|to enable a proper understandmg<br>of|||||the|financial|statements<br>to|||||
|be reached.|||||||||||||
|Andrew<br>Robinson<br>BCom<br>(Hans), FCA|||||||||||||
|A P Robinson<br>&Co (Grimsby)<br>LLP|||||||||||||
|Chartered<br>Accountants|||||||||||||
|107Cleethorpe<br>Road|||||||||||||
|Grimsby|||||||||||||
|North East Lincolnshire|||||||||||||
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|Income from:|||||||||||
|Donations<br>and|legacies||||15,965|378,446||394,411||372,570|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||164,228|||164,228||200,462|
|Total income|||||180,193|378,446||558,639||573,032|
|Raismg funds|||||2,584|||2,584||2,920|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||185,788|374,216||560,005||606,503|
|Total resources expended|||||188,372|374,216||562,589||609,423|
|Net outgoing resources before transfers||||(|8,179)|4,230|(|3,950)|(|36,391)|
|Gross transfers|between|funds|||||||||
|Net income/(expenditure)||for the year|||||||||
|Net movement|in funds|||(|8,179)|4,230|(|3,950)|(|36391)|
|Fund balances|at 31March 2022||||199,404|107,053||306,457||342,848|
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|Cash|flows from operating||activities|||||||||
|Cash|absorbed|by operations||||||(|9,208)||( 30,089)|
|Net|cash used|in investing|activities|||||||||
|Net|cash used|in financing|activities|||||||||
|Net|decrease|in cash and|cash equivalents|||||(|9,208)||( 30,089)|
|Cash|and cash|equivalents|at beginning|ofyear|||||311,445||341,534|
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||Donations||and gifts||||9,015||9,015|1,405|
||Grants||||||5,475|378,446|383,921|369,170|
||Membership||||fees||1,475||1,475|1,995|
||||||||15,965|378,446|394,411|372,570|
||Forthe|year|||ended 31March 2022||17,467|355,102||372,570|
||Chaditable|||activities|||||||
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||Sales within|||chantable||activities|||164,228|200,462|
||Analysis|by||fund|||||||
||Unrestricted||||funds||||164,228|200,462|
||Restricted||funds||||||||
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||Other fundra||||ising costs||2,584||2,584|2,920|
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||Staff costs||195,567|208,137|
||Establishment<br>costs||6,604|7,537|
||Repairs||329|560|
||Pnnting,<br>postage and|stationery|4,812|5,495|
||Office expenses||5,303|3,917|
||Volunteer<br>expenses||528|11|
||Travel & subsistence||5,893|4,737|
||Project expenses||303,133|324,540|
||Sulidry||1,477|703|
||Professional fees||20,530|41,844|
||Stafftraining||52|4,052|
||Partiopant<br>allowances||11,484|1,342|
||||555,712|602,876|
||Share ofgovernance|costs|4,293|3,627|
||||560,005|606,503|
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||Employment|casts||||||||2023|2022|
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||Wages and salaries|||||||||179,417|188,752|
||Social security|costs||||||||10,388|13,041|
||Other pension|costs||||||||5,762|6,344|
|||||||||||195,567|208,137|
||1here were no employees<br>whose|||||annual|remuneration||was 660,000or more.|||
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||Amounts<br>falling due|||within one year:||||||||
||Trade debtors|||||||||4,149|540|
||Other debtors||||||||||275|
||Prepayments|and accrued mcome||||||||2,388|1,975|
|||||||||||6,537|2,790|
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|BBO-MOVE|||105|41,801||44,122)||2,217)|
|Big Local|||51,695|145,635|(|158,675)||38,655|
|Green influencers|||18,723|36,133|(|30,369)||24,488|
|Hangout<br>Youth|Group|||5,628|(|3,162)||2,467|
|Neighbourhood|Networking-|NLCF|11,089|37,067|(|35,678)||12,477|
|I-lardship<br>Fund|||6,533|8,000|(|3,831)||10,702|
|Urban Arts Project||||5,000|(|5,000)|||
|Summer<br>Youth|Activities|||5,000|(|5,000)|||
|Winter Activities Programme||||5,000|(|5,000)|||
|Safer Streets|(E Marsh)|||47,243|(|38,294)||8,949|
|Sidney Sussex Ward Projects||||3,750|(|1,592)||2,158|
|Clee Clubs||||1,789|(|476)||1,312|
|NAVCA Cost of|Livmg|||10,000|(|10,000)|||
|New to Nature||||3,400||||3,400|
|PCC Community|Safety Fund|||8,000|(|6,139)||1,861|
|Safer Streets East Marsh Commumty|||||||||
|Champion||||5,000||3,696)||1,304|
|East Marsh Wallet||||10,000||4,274)||5,726|
|VANEL TV|||6,063||(|6,063)|||
|West Marsh Wallet|||196||(|196)|||
|Youth Workrng|Links||3,000||(|3,000)|||
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||Current assets||||302,507|||302,5D7||306,457|
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|14|Related party transactions||||||||||
||There were no disclosabie||related party transactions||during the year (2022- none).||||||
|15|Cash generated<br>from operations|||||||2023||2022|
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||Deficit for the year|||||||3,950)|(|36,391)|
||Ivlovements<br>in working capitah||||||||||
||(Increase)/decrease|in debtors|||||(|3,746)||10,789|
||Decrease in creditors||||||(|1,511)|(|4,487)|
||Cash absorbed<br>by operations||||||(|9,207)|(|30,089)|
|16|Analysis ofchanges|in net|funds||||||||
||7 he charity had no debt dunng the year.||||||||||



