| Company | Information | ||
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| Trustees | Annual Report |
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| Statement | of Trustees' | Responsibilities | 19 |
| Independent Auditor's |
Report to the | ||
| Members | ofThe Pace Centre Limited | 20 | |
| Statement | of Financial Activities | 24 | |
| Balance Sheet | 25 | ||
| Statement | ofcash flows | 26 | |
| Notes to the financial statements | 27 |
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| Obje | ctives | for 2022/23 | for 2022/23 | for 2022/23 | for 2022/23 | for 2022/23 | Activities and achievements | |
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| Pace Digital | ||||||||
| We will | continue | to develop | digital | The advice and support hub has over 50 items attracting |
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| support | and advice content | for | our | over 17,600 users, We have now included a parent podcast |
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| new website: | on communication devices and using augmentative and |
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| alternative communication. |
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| We will | complete | the first phase | of our | The first phase of the Dynamic database has been |
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| new Dynamics | Database, | to | manage | completed. During testing of this phase, we identified that |
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| data relating to | children | and | families, | to get the systems to work will take investment beyond |
our | |||
| and decommission | the existing | legacy | means. | |||||
| database. | ||||||||
| We have refocused our efforts on developing a stack of |
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| databases that are fit for purpose, have connectivity that |
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| enable us to deliver against our objectives and achieve |
the | |||||||
| business insight, without the cost, and risk, of needing to |
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| maintain and continuously develop a bespoke system. |
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| We will | deliver, | the third | phase | of Pace | Recruitment and capacity of staffing has meant developing |
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| Digital, | our online | learning | platform. | courses around Pace practice has been challenging. The |
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| first course is under development with our creative and |
web | |||||||
| agency. As part of our Smart Programme strategy, we have |
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| developed 16short information videos, podcasts and |
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| training pieces, these can be viewed in our advice and |
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| support hub https;//thepacecentre. org/advice/ (filter by |
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| "communication"). |
| Pace | Digital (continued) | Digital (continued) | Digital (continued) | Digital (continued) | Digital (continued) | ||||
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| We can now deliver Management and Supervisor training |
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| well as Level 3 and 4 educational training courses to our |
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| LSA's, in partnership with Highfields Training. |
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| We have started commercialising our training capacity |
and | ||||||||
| delivered our First Aid at Work training to 8 external |
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| participants, with further courses planned. We have the |
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| potential to deliver First Responder training in the future. |
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| This is a diversification of our original training plan; however, |
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| having this resource in-house reduces internal training |
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| costs, generates commercial income and helps to establish |
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| Pace as an external training provider. |
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| SMART Programme | |||||||||
| We will roll | out further SMART |
We have secured funding and installed digital access points |
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| classrooms | within | Pace School, | to all doors at both locations. | ||||||
| focusing | in particular on |
SMART | |||||||
| classroom | delivery within |
our primary | Funding has been received for Smile Smart Drivedec, which |
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| school | and | door | automation | enables children with the most complex needs to move |
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| throughout | both | sites. | independently around the school. |
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| We have funded asecond AT Trolley so both sites have |
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| access to a better array ofswitching, computers and |
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| interfaces. | |||||||||
| We will | continue | to fund | and deliver | We have secured funding for an additional Assistive |
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| enhanced | AT delivery for children |
Technology (AT) therapist to integrate AT within our early |
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| under | 5 in | our early intervention | intervention practice. The new therapist started on 1" |
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| programme, | particularly | the | September 2023.We have funding to create an assistive |
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| recruitment | of an | AT-specialist | technology library of equipment for our early intervention |
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| therapist | and the | development | of an | service. This allows us to demonstrate or lend AT to families |
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| AT-rich | home simulation | environment. | in order to test what works and to coach families in using |
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| the equipment to support successful uptake at home. |
| SMART | Programme | Programme | Programme | (continued) | (continued) | (continued) | |||||
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| We will deliver | the Seven | Stages | of | The creation of seven stages of switch |
development is |
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| Switch Development | programme. | complete. This includes a progression |
framework, | ||||||||
| intervention curriculum and activities, |
assessment tool |
and | |||||||||
| social stories —all of which have been |
written with the |
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| switch user at the centre. | |||||||||||
| Desk research was carried out into existing pathways as well |
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| as user research into the proposed frameworks. We tested |
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| characters to support the development |
ofthe programme | ||||||||||
| with switch users. | |||||||||||
| Peer reviews have also been carried out with other |
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| AT/Switch specialists. |
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| We have delivered a presentation on the 7SSD,at |
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| Communication matters and London |
SEN (London AAC |
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| CEN). The feedback from the sector has been positive. |
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| The product launched in November 2023. |
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| Child and Family | |||||||||||
| We will continue | to fund | and deliver | Over the year we have supported 127 |
babies and toddlers |
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| our early | intervention | programme, | with neurodisabilities (from birth to 3 |
years 11months) |
and | ||||||
| expanding | the | number | of babies | and | their families. We estimate the family |
members reached |
to | ||||
| toddlers | we can see | free | of charge | be 317(2.5 times the child number). | |||||||
| and continuing | to embed | our outcome | |||||||||
| measurement | framework. | We delivered 679therapy sessions (compared to 446 |
in | Yl), | |||||||
| including speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, |
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| occupational therapy and conductive |
education, alongside |
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| coaching and advice for parents and |
families. | ||||||||||
| Parents continue to rate our Early Intervention service |
highly | ||||||||||
| with 82% rating it as "excellent" and 18%as "good". October |
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| 2022. |
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| 31August | 31August | 31 August | 31 August | |||
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| 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | |||
| Note | f | |||||
| Fixed assets | ||||||
| Tangible assets | 10 | 1,966,824 | 2,047,900 | |||
| Current assets | ||||||
| Debtors | 11 | 220,879 | 465,207 | |||
| Investments | 12 | 878,990 | 782,235 | |||
| Cash at bank and in | hand | 1,153,687 | 620,918 | |||
| 2,253,556 | 1,868,360 | |||||
| Creditors: amounts within one vear |
falling due | 13 | (902,581) | (829,738) | ||
| Net current assets | 1,350,975 | 1,038,622 | ||||
| Total assets less current | 3,317,799 | 3,086,522 | ||||
| Creditors; amounts | falling due | |||||
| after more than one | vear | 14 | ||||
| Net assets | 3,317,799 | 3,086,522 | ||||
| Charity funds | ||||||
| Restricted funds | 15 | 2,016,717 | 2,182,283 | |||
| Unrestricted funds |
15 | 1,301,082 | 904,239 | |||
| Total charity funds | 3,317,799 | 3,086,522 |
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| Income from | donations, grants |
and legac | ies | |||
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| Year ended | 31August | 2023 | 8 months | ended 31 August 2022 |
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| Unrestricted | Restricted f |
Total f |
Unrestricted | Restricted Total f f |
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| Donations and |
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| grants from trusts |
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| and foundations | 704,034 | 349,020 | 1,053,054 | 290,796 | 139,223 430,019 |
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| Government | ||||||
| grants | 51,065 51,065 |
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| Legacies | 22,324 | 22,324 | ||||
| Donations | 726,358 | 349,020 | 1,075,378 | 290,796 | 190,288 481,084 |
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| Pace benefits greatly from the enthusiastic supporters. In accordance with FRS 102 |
support and involve men tof its many volunteers and and the Charities SORP (FRS 1021,the economic |
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| contribution | of general volunteers is not |
recognised | in the accounts. | |||
| The government grants in the prior period are the monies received scheme and additional statutory sick pay monies in response tothe |
in respect ofthe "furlough" issues faced by COVI019. |
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| No material | gifts in kind were received in |
the year to | 31August 2023. |
| Charitabl | e activi |
ties: all unrestricted |
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| Year | 8 months | |||
| ended | ended | |||
| 31August | 31 August | |||
| 2023f | 2022 | |||
| LEA funding Therapy sessions Non LEA funding |
provided to children 0-18 of school places |
1,922,740 34,842 109,605 |
1,199,774 30,394 64,657 |
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| Provision | ofstaff | to other schools | 465,521 | 284,146 |
| Training Other |
16,196 10,460 |
300 6,015 |
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| 2,559,364 | 1,585,286 |
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| Total Funds | ||||||||
| Note | Unrestricted | Restricted | 8 months to | |||||
| Funds | Funds | 31August | ||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
| Income from | ||||||||
| Donations and |
legacies | 2 | 290,796 | 190,288 | 481,084 | |||
| Charitable activities |
3 | 1,585,286 | 1,585,286 | |||||
| Other trading | activities: fundraising | events | 98,516 | 792 | 99,308 | |||
| Investments | 4 | 3,739 | 3,739 | |||||
| Other | 3,971 | 3,971 | ||||||
| Total Income | 1,982,308 | 191,080 | 2,173,388 | |||||
| Expenditure on |
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| Costs ofgenerating | funds | |||||||
| Raising funds | 5 | 141,625 | 505 | 142,130 | ||||
| Charitable activities: provision |
of school | |||||||
| services, outreach | and sessional | services and | ||||||
| training and development |
6 | 1,638,556 | 389,193 | 2,027,749 | ||||
| Total expenditure | 1,780,181 | 389,698 | 2,169,879 | |||||
| Net income | 202,127 | (198,618) | 3,509 | |||||
| Transfer | (7,992) | 7,992 | ||||||
| Net movement | in funds | 194,135 | (190,626) | 3,509 | ||||
| Total funds brought | forward | 710,104 | 2,372,909 | 3,083,013 | ||||
| Total funds carried | forward | 904,239 | 2,182,283 | 3,086,522 |