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|Reference and administrative<br>details of ths charity, its trustees end advisem||1-2|
|Trustees' report||3-17|
|Independent<br>auditors'|report|18-21|
|Statement offinancial|activities|22|
|Balance sheet||23|
|Notes to the financial|statements|24- 38|
|Appendix to the Financial Statements||28-|





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||Blackburn Rovers FC||||||||||||||
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||Blackburn<br>with Darwen|Borough|Council||||||||||||
||Blackburn<br>with Darwen|Carers Seniice|||||||||||||
||Blackburn<br>with Darwen|Hive Network|||||||||||||
||Blackburn<br>with Darwen|Interfaith|Forum||||||||||||
||Blackbum Youth Zone||||||||||||||
||Brian Mercer Trust||||||||||||||
||Bureau Centre for the Arts CIC||||||||||||||
||Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale||CVS||||||||||||
||Calico Group||||||||||||||
||Care Station Northwest||||||||||||||
||CGL Inspire||||||||||||||
||Community<br>and Business Partners|||CIC|||||||||||
||Department<br>for Work and Pensions||||(European||||Union)||||||
||DPM Security||||||||||||||
||Early Break||||||||||||||
||East Lancashire<br>Hospice||||||||||||||
||Eric Wright Charitable|Trust|||||||||||||
||Farleys Solicitors LLP||||||||||||||
||Good Things Foundation||||||||||||||
||Healthwatch<br>Blackburn|with Darwsn|||||||||||||
||Herbert Parkinsons<br>(part ofths John||||Lewis|||Partnership)|||||||
||Hyndburn<br>and Ribble Valley CVS||||||||||||||
||IMO||||||||||||||
||Lancashire Association|of CVSs|||||||||||||
||Lancashire<br>BME Network||||||||||||||
||Lancashire<br>Police and|Crime Commissioner|||||||||||||
||Lancashire<br>Women||||||||||||||
||Lancaster District CVS||||||||||||||
||McDonalds||||||||||||||
||Morrisons<br>PLC||||||||||||||
||National<br>Children's<br>Bureau<br>/ Council||||for Disabled|||||Children||/ DFE|||
||NAVCA and the VCS Emergencies|||Partnership|||||||||||
||Newground<br>Together||||||||||||||
|~|NHS - the Clinical<br>Commissioning|||Groups||||in Blackburn||||with Darwen|end East Lancashire|and Richmond|
|Medical Practice|||||||||||||||
||NHS - Blackpool NHS Teaching Hospitals||||||Trust,||||||||
||NHS - East Lancashire|NHS Teaching||||Hospitals||||Trust|||||
||NHS —NHS England||||||||||||||
||NHS —Lancashire<br>and|South Cumbria||||NHS||Foundation|||Trust||||
||Nightsafe||||||||||||||
||Red Rose Recovery Lancashire||||||||||||||
||SELNET||||||||||||||
||Shelter||||||||||||||
||Spring North||||||||||||||
||Suez Recycling||||||||||||||
||Star Tissue UK||||||||||||||
||The Well-Being Farm||||||||||||||
||Tristar Printers,<br>Sign It|Display|||||||||||||
||Truemsn<br>Change||||||||||||||
||VOICE||||||||||||||
||Voluntary<br>Sector North|West|||||||||||||
||Volunteer<br>Centre Blackpool, Wyre||and|||Fylde|||||||||
||West Lancashire<br>CVS||||||||||||||





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|INCOME FROM:||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||3,842|3,842|17,535|
|Charitable<br>activities||944,356|450,394|1,394,750|748,552|
|Other trading<br>activities|||DD,332|90,332|65,150|
|investments|||257|257|29|
|Other income|||||'122,520|
|TOTAI. INCOME||944,356|544,825|1,489,181|953,795|
|EXPENDITURE ON:||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|8|926,310|468,437|1,394,747|879,139|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE|9|926,310|468,437|1,394,747|879,139|
|iNET tNCOME BEFOREOTHER||||||
|RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSES||18,046|76,388|94,434|74,656|
|NET MOVEMENT<br>IN FUNDS||18,046|76,388|94,434|74,656|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS;||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||1,437,119|5D9,309|1,946+28|1,871,772|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||1,456,165|585,697|2,D40,862|1,946,428|





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|||BALANCE SHEET|BALANCE SHEET||||
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|||AS AT 31 MARCH 2022|||||
|||Note|f|2022<br>f||2021f|
|FIXEDASSETS|||||||
|Tangible assets||12||1,935,387||1,965,384|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||||
|Debtors||13|775,948||375,667||
|Cash at bank and|in hand||22,424||170117||
||||798,372||545,784||
|CREDITORS: amounts||falling due within|||||
|one year||14|(193,915)||(53,43f)||
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||||604,467||492,353|
|TOTAL ASSETS|LESS|CURRENT LIABILITIES||2,639,844||2,477, 737|
|CREDITORS; amounts||falling due after|||||
|more than one year||15||(498,982)||(531,309)|
|NET ASSETS||||2,040,862||1,946,428|
|CHARITY FUNDS|||||||
|Restricted funds||16||1,455,165||1,437,119|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||16||565,597||509,309|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||2,040,862||f,946,428|





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|GRANTS AND SERVICE LE|VEL AGREEME|NTS||||
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|||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total funds|Total funds|
|||funds 2021|funds<br>2D21|2022|2021|
|||E|E|E|E|
|BwD Borough Council<br>SwD BCChildren's<br>Services|||30,000<br>56,000|SO,ODa<br>66,ooa|30,000<br>28,000|
|NHS|||180,279|160,279|2S3,SS2|
|Big Local Trust- Shadsworth<br>Commmunity<br>Grant Fund<br>SWD BC - Changing<br>Futures<br>NCB Independent<br>Supporters<br>ESFSCPHE Action for Jobs|with Whitebirk<br>SENDIASS|263,688|11,333<br>10,000|11,333<br>10,000<br>263,588|'l1,025<br>31,881<br>172,877|
|ESF Upskilling<br>the Health 6Social Care||||||
|Workforce||870,775||670,775|5,500|
|Spnng<br>hiorth<br>Ltd<br>Winning<br>Pitch - Boost Sub Contract|||36,754<br>36,400|36,754<br>36,400|45,85S<br>17,828|
|Affilius|||29,341|29,341||
|NAVCA Emergencies<br>Partnership||4,750||4,760|9,500|
|Blackburn<br>Foodbank|||||45,450|
|Brian Mercer Charitable<br>Trust|||||40,0M|
|DWP|||60,287|60,287||
|Good Things Foundation||5,243||6,243|13,500|
|Total||944,356|450,394|1,S94,760|748,552|



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|RENT, ROO|M HIRE AND OFFICE SER|VICES||||
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|||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||funds|funds|funds|funds|
|||2022|2D22|2022|2021|
|||E|E|E|E|
|Rent, room|hire and office services||79,663|79,683|65,150|
|Consultancy|and training fees||10,649|10,649||
||||90,332|90,332|55,150|
|Total 2021|||55,150|65,150||





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||funds|funds|funds|funds|
||||||2022|2022|2022|2021|
||||||6|6|6||
|Bank interest receivable||||||257|257||
|Tolal 2021||||||29|29||
|OTHER INCOMING||RESOURCES|||||||
|||||Restricted||Unrestricted|Total|Total|
||||||funds|funds|funds|funds|
||||||2022|2022|2022|2021|
||||||6|5|6||
|Funding<br>for CJRS/Marketing||||and design etc||||122,529|
|Total 2021||||||122,529|122,529||
|GRANTS PAYABLE|||||||||
|||||||Grants to|||
|||||||Institutions|Total|Tolal|
|||||||2022|2022|2021|
|||||||8|8|5|
|Big Local Shadsworth||with||Whitebirk||||403|
|Grants,<br>Community||Fund|-|Brian Mercer Charitable|||||
|Trust/SFA||||||6,431|6,431|8,445|
|Grants Commumty|Fund||- Eric Wright Charitable||Trust|11,960|11,960||
|Grants,<br>hlHS Population|||Health Management|||69,950|69,950||
|||||||88,341|86,341|5,848|
|Total 2021||||||6,848|5,848||



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|GOVERNANCE<br>COSTS||||||||
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||||Restricted||Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||||funds|funds|funds|funds|
|||||2022<br>5|2022<br>5|2022<br>5|2021f|
|Accountancy<br>and professional<br>Auditor's<br>remuneration|fees||||7,136<br>3,000|7,136<br>3,000|'l,400|
|Mortgage<br>interest|||12,215|||12,215|22,780|
|Total|||12,215||10,135|22,351|24,180|
|ln 2021, unrestricted<br>expenditure||on<br>governance||costs|was 51,400 and|restricted|expenditure<br>on|
|mortgage<br>interest ofE22,780.||||||||
|ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE BYEXPENDITURE TYPE||||||||
||Staff costs||Depreciation||Other costs|Total|Tolal|
|||2022||2022|2022|2022|2021|
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|Central Services (including<br>Boulevard Centre)||35,836||||35,836|314,427|
|Commissioned<br>Services||265,421|||69,950|335,371|228,921|
|Big Local Trust-||||||||
|Shadsworth<br>and Whitebirk||||||||
|Community<br>Grant Fund|||||||3,528|
|Big Lottery -Volunteer Co-||||||||
|ordinator<br>Post/Ways<br>to<br>Wegbeing|||||||47,164|
|Community<br>Fund - Brian<br>Mercer CT/Eric Wright CT<br>Good Things Foundation||1,125<br>5,244|||24,822|25,947<br>6,244|6,445<br>13,500|
|hlAVCA Emergencies<br>Partnership||4.750|||11,960|16,710|9,500|
|DWP-ESF-SCPHE Action||||||||
|for Jobs||306,982|||70,688|377,670|172,877|
|DWP - ESF Lipskilling the||||||||
|Health<br>&Social Care||||||||
|Workforce<br>Capital projects||265,421|49,997||260,200|525,621<br>49,997|8,500<br>49,991|
|Charitable<br>activities||884,779|49,997||437,620|1,372,396|854,959|
|Expenditure<br>on<br>governance|||||22i351|22,351|24,180|
|Total 2022||864,779|49,997||459,971|1,394,747|879,139|
|Total 2021||646,128|49,997||183,014|879,139||





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|||||2022<br>E|2021f|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Depreciation<br>of|tangible fixed assets:|||||
|- owned|by the charity|||49,997|49,997|
|Auditors'<br>remuneration<br>-audit||||3,000||
|Independent<br>Examiner's fees||||||
|During the year,|no Trustees received any remuneration||(2021 - ENIL).|||
|During the year,|no Trustees received any benefits|in kind (2021 - FNIL).||||
|During the year,|no Trustees received any reimbursement||ofexpenses (2021|- EhiIL).||



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|STAFF COSTS<br>Staff costs were as follows:|||
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||2022|2021|
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|Wages and salaries|777,665|568,518|
|Social security costs|61,140|42,967|
|Other pension costs|45,774|34,643|
||884,779|646,128|



|The avera|ge<br>number<br>of persons employed<br>by the|charity during the year was as follows:||
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|||2022|2021|
|||No.|No.|
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||||Freehold|Office|||
||||property|equipment||Total|
||||E||E|E|
||Cost||||||
||At<br>1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022||2,468,608|195,741||2,664,349|
||Depreciation||||||
||At<br>1 April 2021<br>Charge for the year||484,474<br>49,372|194,491<br>825||678,965<br>49,997|
||At 31 March 2022||533,846|196,116||728,962|
||Net book value||||||
||At 31 March 2022||1,934,762||625|1,935,387|
||At31March 2021||1,984,134|f,250||1,985,384|
|13.|DEBTORS||||||
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|||||E||E|
||Trade debtors|||90,733||117,180|
||Prepaym ents<br>Accrued income|||5,840<br>679,375||5,323<br>253,164|
|||||776,948||375,557|
|14.|CREDITORS: Amounts|falling due within one year|||||
|||||2022<br>E||2021f|
||Bank loans and overdrafts|||24,000||14,003|
||Trade creditors|||46,983||14,143|
||Other taxation and social <br>Other creditors|security||24,53'7<br>241||19,922<br>97|
||Accruals and deferred income|||98,154||5,266|
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||||1 April 2021|Income|Expenditure|Infoat|2022|
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|Designated<br>funds||||||||
|Match funding|projects||66,856||||66,856|
|Business continuity||and redundancy||||||
|costs|||40,000|||60,000|100,000|
|Boulevard<br>Centre||costs|10,000||||10,000|
||||116,856|||60,000|176,856|
|General funds||||||||
|General Fund|||392,453|544,825|(468,437)|(191,'i03)|277,738|
|Fixed Asset Fund||||||131,103|131,103|
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|Total Unrestricted||funds|509,309|544,825|(468,437)||685,697|





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|STATEMENT OF FUNDS - PRIOR||YEAR||||||
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|||||1April 2020f|Income<br>f|Expenddura<br>f|2021|
|Designated<br>funds||||||||
|Match funding<br>projects<br>Business continuity<br>and redundancy<br>Boulevard Centre costs||costs||ss,ess<br>40,000<br>10,000|||ss,ess<br>40,000<br>10,000|
|||||116,856|||116,856|
|General<br>Fund||||238,908|698,293|(544,748)|392,453|
|Restricted funds||||||||
|ERDF - Building<br>(from previous years)<br>Change Up<br>DCSF - Co-Location<br>Fund||||74,925<br>46,363<br>711,743||(2,025)<br>(1,287)<br>(54,953)|72,900<br>45,076<br>656,790|
|Capacitybuilders<br>- Capital Investment<br>Strand C||Programme||383,612||(9,512)|374,100|
|BwD BCHousing<br>Grant||||205,000||(5,000)|200,000|
|Big Local Trust - Shadsworth<br>and Whitebirk<br>Community<br>Grant Fund||||(5,134)|11,025|(3,528)|2,363|
|NAVCA Emergencies<br>Partnership|||||9,500|(9,500)||
|National<br>Lottery Community<br>Fund (was Big|||Lottery)-|||||
|Ways to Wellbeing<br>ESF -DWP-SCPHE-Action<br>for|Jobs|||47,164|172,877|(47,164)<br>(172,877)||
|ESF - DWP - Upskilling<br>the Health|&|Social|Care|||||
|Workforce|||||8,600|(8,600)||
|Good Things Foundation<br>- Future Digital Inclusion<br>Community<br>Fund - Brian Mercer Charitable<br>Trust<br>Community<br>Fund - EricWright Charitable Trust||||39,250<br>13,085|13,500<br>40,000|(13,500)<br>(6,445)|72,805<br>13,085|
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|Total offunds||||1,871,772|953,795|(879,139)|1,946,428|





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|||1 AprS 2021|Income|Expenditure|in/out|2022|
|||6|5|6|||
|Designated|funds|116,656|||60,000|176,856|
|General funds||392,453|544,82S|(468,437)|(60,000)|408,841|
|||509,309|544,825|(468,437)||585,697|
|Restricted|funds|1,437,119|944,356|(926,310)||1,455,165|
|||1,946,426|1,489,181|(1,394,747)||2,040,862|



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|||1April 2020|Income|Expenditure|2021|
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|Designated|funds|116,656|||116,855|
|General funds||238,908|698,293|(544,745)|392,453|
|||355,754|698,293|(544,748)|509,309|
|Restricted|funds|1,516,008|255,502|(334,391)|1,437,119|
|||1,871,772|953,795|(879,139)|1,945,428|



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||funds|funds|funds|
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||f.|E||
|Tangible fixed assets|1,281,302|654,085|1,935,387|
|Current assets|173,863|624,509|798,372|
|Creditors due within one year||(193,915)|(193,916)|
|Creditors due in more than one year||(498,982)|(498,982)|
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|Tangible fixed assets<br>Current assets|1,422483<br>14,636|562,901<br>531,148|1,985,384<br>545,784|
|Creditors due within one year<br>Creditors due in more than one year||(53,431)<br>(531,309)|(53,431)<br>(531,309)|
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