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|Trustees' Report||2 to 14|
|Statement ofTrustees'|Responsibilities||
|Independent<br>Auditors'|Report|16to 19|
|Statement ofFinancial|Activities|20 to 21|
|Balance Sheet||22|
|Statement ofCash Flows||23|
|Notes to the Financial|Statements|24 to 34|





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|||Balance Sheet as at 31|March 2023|||
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|Fixed assets||||||
|Tangible assets|||15|1,000,000|1,935,387|
|Current<br>assets||||||
|Debtors|||16|541,955|775,948|
|Cash at bank|and in hand|||596,375|22,424|
|||||1,138,330|798,372|
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within one year|17|(221,513)|(193,915)|
|Net current|assets|||916,817|604,457|
|Total assets|less current liabilities|||1,916,817|2,539,844|
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due after more than one year|18|(480,180)|(498,982)|
|Net assets||||1,436,637|2,040,862|
|Funds ofthe|charity:|||||
|Restricted income funds||||||
|Restricted<br>funds||||442,876|1,455,165|
|Unrestricted|income|funds||||
|Unrestricted|funds|||993,761|585,697|
|Total funds|||19|1,436,637|2,040,862|





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|Cash flows from operating<br>activities|||||
|Net cash (expenditure)/income|||(604,225)|94,434|
|Adjustments<br>to cash flows from non-cash|items||||
|Depreciation|||(533,221)|49,997|
|Investment<br>income|||(40)|(257)|
|Revaluation<br>ofland and buildings|||1,468,608||
||||331,122|144,174|
|Working capital adjustments|||||
|Decrease/(increase)<br>in debtors||16|233,993|(400,281)|
|Increase in creditors||17|27,598|130,487|
|Net cash flows from operating<br>activities|||592,713|(125,620)|
|Cash flows from investing<br>activities|||||
|Interest receivable<br>and similar income|||40|257|
|Cash flows from financing<br>activities|||||
|Repayment<br>ofloans and borrowings||17|(18,802)|(22,330)|
|Net increase/(decrease)<br>in cash and cash equivalents|||573,951|(147,693)|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at I April|||22,424|170,117|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at 31March|||596,375|22,424|





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||||||funds|Restricted||Total|Total|
||||||General|funds||2023|2022|
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|Charitable|activities||||642,007|1,276,636||1,918,643|1,394,750|
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|Interest receivable|||on bank|deposits|||40|40|257|
|6<br>Other income||||||||||
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|||||||funds||Total|Total|
|||||||General||2023|2022|
|Fees and supplies|||||||8,202|8,202|10,649|
|Rental income|||||||93,980|93,980|79,683|
||||||||102,182|102,182|90,332|
|7<br>Expenditure|||on charitable||activities|||||
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||||||Designated|General|funds|2023|2022|
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|similar costs|||||||43,220|43,220||
|Grant funding of||||||||||
|activities|||||||62,641|62,641|88,341|
|Staff costs||||||322,495|694,599|1,017,094|885,904|
|Governance|costs||||24,941|5,818||30,759|10,136|
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|Impairment||offreehold building|1,002,571|1,002,571|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Designated|General|2023|2022|
|Audit fees||||||||
|Audit ofthe financial|||statements||5,818|5,818|3,000|
|Other governance||costs||24,941||24,941||
|Allocated|support|costs|||||7,136|
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|The aggregate<br>payr|oll costs were as follows:|||
|---|---|---|---|
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|Staff costs during|the year were:|||
|Wages and salaries||884,240|777,865|
|Social security costs||78,779|61,140|
|Pension costs||54,075|45,774|
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|2023|2022|
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|---|---|---|---|
||Land and|Furniture<br>and||
||buildings|equipment|Total|
|Cost||||
|At 1 April 2022|2,468,608|195,741|2,664,349|
|Revaluations|(1,468,608)||(1,468,608)|
|At 31 March 2023|1,000,000|195,741|1,195,741|
|Depreciation||||
|At 1 April 2022|533,846|195,116|728,962|
|Charge for the year|(533,846)|625|(533,221)|
|At 31 March 2023||195,741|195,741|
|Net book value||||
|At 31March 2023|1,000,000||1,000,000|
|At 31March 2022|1,934,762|625|1,935,387|
|16 Debtors||||
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|Trade debtors||72,970|90,733|
|Prepayments||10,926|5,840|
|Accrued income||458,059|679,375|
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|17 Creditors:|amounts<br>falling due within<br>one year|||
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|Bank loans||24,000|24,000|
|Trade creditors||61,682|46,983|
|Other taxation|and social security|7,656|24,537|
|Other creditors|||241|
|Accruals||128,175|98,154|
|||221,513|193,915|



|Creditors|due within|due within|one|year includes|the|following|liabilities,|on which security has been given by|on which security has been given by|on which security has been given by|the charity:|the charity:|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||2023||2022||
|Bank loan|- Barclays||Bank||||||24,000||24,000||
|The bank|loan is|secured||on the properties||owned by|the charity.||||||
|18 Creditors: amounts||||falling due after||one year|||||||
||||||||||2023||2022||
|Bank loans|||||||||480,180||498,982||
|Creditors|amounts|falling||due after more||than one year includes||the following|liabilities,|on which|security|has|
|been given by the||charity:|||||||||||
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|19 Funds||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Balance at||||Other|Balance at|
|||1 April|Incoming|Resources||recognised|31March|
|||2022|resources|expended|Transfers|gains/(losses)|2023|
|||||K||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||
|General||||||||
|General Funds||277,738|744,370|(520,010)|92,879||594,977|
|Designated||||||||
|Fixed assets||131,103||(31,714)|(99,389)|||
|Strategic Investment||||||||
|Fund||66,856|||34,580||101,436|
|Business continuity||100,000|||30,170||130,170|
|Buildings<br>fund||10,000|||40,000||50,000|
|Revaluation<br>reserve||||||117,178|117,178|
|||307,959||(31,714)|5,361|117,178|398,784|
|Total unrestricted|funds|585,697|744,370|(551,724)|98,240|117,178|993,761|
|Restricted funds||||||||
|Fixed assets||1,281,302||(1,045,791)|143,131||378,642|
|BigLocal Trust||2,363|(2,363)|||||
|ESF —Action for|Jobs||603,666|(396,258)|(207,408)|||
|ESF —Upskilling||105,126|685,995|(685,995)|(40,892)||64,234|
|Brian Mercer Charitable||||||||
|Trust||66,374|(10,662)|(62,641)|6,929|||
|||1,455,165|1,276,636|(2,190,685)|(98,240)||442,876|
|Total funds||2,040,862|2,021,006|(2,742,409)||117,178|1,436,637|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Balance at 1|Incoming|Resources||31March|
|||||April 2021|resources|expended|Transfers|2022|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||||
|General|||||||||
|General Funds||||392,453|544,825|(468,437)|(191,103)|277,738|
|Designated|||||||||
|Fixed assets|||||||131,103|131,103|
|Match funding|projects|||66,856||||66,856|
|Business continuity||||40,000|||60,000|100,000|
|Boulevard centre||||10,000||||10,000|
|||||116,856|||191,103|307,959|
|Total unrestricted||funds||509,309|544,825|(468,437)||585,697|
|Restricted funds|||||||||
|Buildings||||1,348,866||(67,564)||1,281,302|
|BigLocal Trust||||2,363||||2,363|
|ESF —Action for||Jobs|||263,588|(263,588)|||
|ESF —Upskilling|||||670,775|(565,649)||105,126|
|Brian Mercer Charitable|||||||||
|Trust||||72,805||(6,431)||66,374|
|Eric Wright Charitable|||Trust|13,085||(13,085)|||
|Small grants|||||9,993|(9,993)|||
|||||1,437,119|944,356|(926,310)||1,455,165|
|Total funds||||1,946,428|1,489,181|(1,394,747)||2,040,862|





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|||Unrestricted|funds|Restricted|31March|
|||General|Designated|funds|2023|
||||K|||
|Tangible fixed|assets||400,000|600,000|1,000,000|
|Current assets||636,961|281,606|219,763|1,138,330|
|Current liabilities||(41,983)|(24,000)|(155,530)|(221,513)|
|Creditors over|1 year||(258,822)|(221,358)|(480,180)|
|Total net assets||594,978|398,784|442,875|1,436,637|
||||||Total funds at|
|||Unrestricted|funds|Restricted|31March|
|||General|Designated|funds|2022|
|Tangible fixed|assets||654,085|1,281,302|1,935,387|
|Current assets||350,732|176,856|270,784|798„372|
|Current liabilities||(169,915)|(24,000)||(193,915)|
|Creditors over|1 year||(498,982)||(498,982)|
|Total net assets||180,817|307,959|1,552,086|2,040,862|



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