## ## ## ## ## ## ## ||||Page| |---|---|---|---| |Trustees'
report|||1-6| |Report ofthe hdependent||Auditors|7- 10| |Statementof
financial|activities||| |Balance sheet|||12| |Statementofcashfiows|||13| |Notes to the financial|statements||14-20| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |Wellbeing Services|Wellbeing Services||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |~|Caring Connections
launched
a wellbeing
programme
supporting
staff, service users and|the local|||| ||community.||||| |~|Wellbeing
Programme:
This programme
now provides over 500wellbeing
calls per month||to socially isolated||| ||vulnerable
adults
within the communities
we support.||||| |~|The charity now employs a staff wellbeing
worker who provides
weekly wellbeing
calls to|staff members.|||| |Employment|||||| |~|Over the year, Caring Connections
offered employment
to over 120local residents. Caring||Connections||| ||carried out an external
survey completed
by Best Companies.
The organisation
was rated||as an||| ||'Outstanding'
organisation
to work for.||||| |~|We also achieved a place on three best employer
lists: 70th Best Company
to Work for in||North West, 47th||| ||Best Smail Company
to Work for in the UK and 16th Best Charity
to Work for in UK.||||| |~|The Annual
Carer ofthe Year Awards announced
'Christina
Keiller' as 2021 Caring Connections
Carer ofthe||||| ||Year.||||| |Accolades|||||| |~|The organisation
was a shortlisted
finalist
in the Liverpool Echo Awards, The Great British||Care Awards||and| ||The National
Social Care Leadership
awards. Rachael Fraser was shorllisted
for numerous||leadership||| ||awards.||||| |~|Katy Turner was invited to meet the Prime Minister at the 'Social Care Thank You' event at No10 Downing||||| ||Street for her work throughout
the pandemic.||||| |~|The organisation
was showcased
in a BBCDocumentary
'Ed Balls: Social Care in Crisis'.||||| |Financial|Review||||| |~|The end ofyear produced
an increase
in reserves of233,290 against
an increase
in reserves ofF33,704 in||||| ||the year ended 31 March 2021.||||| |~|Plans are in place to increase the number ofsupport
hours we deliver
in order to drive us|closer to||long-term|| ||sustainability.
In order to deliver this growth, we will need to invest
in recruitment,
training||and staff||| ||retention.||||| |~
~|Our total income for the year was 21,211,395against a total income for the previous year
The reserves ofthe charity increased
byf33,290 and totalled f71,018 at 31 March 2022.||of2860,663.||| |Reserves Policy and going concern|||||| |~|The Trustees have established
a policy that the Charity
should
aim to retain unrestricted|reserves||(funds|that| ||are freely available) that will cover 3 months ofcore costs. There wss a small balance of|E2,586 in||freely|| ||available reserves at 31 March 2022 and the trustees are seeking ways in which additional||unrestricted||| ||funds can be raised.||||| |~|The organisation
has received social investment
funding
to manage cash flow and support||the development||| ||ofthe organisation.
The organisation
has reduced overheads
and developed a new business
model focused||||| ||on surplus
generating
activities.||||| |~|In addition,
the Charity aims to retain reserves
to cover potential
redundancy
payments
should
the|||charity|| ||have to reduce the scale of its operations.||||| |The trustees acknowledge
the continued
financial support ofthe funding
bodies and consider that,||providing|||| |the financial
support
continues,
the charitable
company
should
be able to continue
operations|||for the||| |foreseeable
future.|||||| ## ## |Funding|Sources|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |The principal
funding
sources for|||the charity are detailed|||below:| |~|Knowsley
Council|||||| |~|Liverpool
Clinical|Commissioning|||Group|| |~|Halton Borough Council|||||| |~|St Helens Council|||||| |~|Cheshire West and Chester Council|||||| |~|Sefton Council|||||| |~|Liverpool YMCA|||||| |~|The Whitechapel|Centre||||| |~|St Helens Public|Health||||| |~|Social investment|Fund||||| |~|The Oliver Lymes|Trust||||| |~|Big Lottery Fund|||||| |~|The Key Fund|||||| |~|LCR Cares|||||| |~|Department
of Communities,|||Media &Sport||| |~|Department
of Health|||||| |~|The Steve Morgan
Foundation|||||| |~|Cheshire West and Chester Council|||||| |~|Vtfirral Council|||||| |~|John Moores Foundation|||||| |~|Community
Foundation||for Merseyside|||| |~|The Co-operative|organisation||||| |~|Medicash|||||| |~|Community
Covenant|||||| |~|LCVS|||||| |~|Price Parry Fund|||||| |~|Souter Charitable|Trust||||| |~|Ravensdale
Trust|||||| |~|Wigan MBC|||||| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||funds|funds|funds|funds| ||||Notes|2022|2022|2022|2021| |Income:|||||||| |Donations,
grants and legacies||||245,808|107,582|353,390|170,023| |Charitable
activities||||858,005||858,005|690,640| |Total Income||||1,103,813|107,582|1,211,395|860,663| |Expenditure:|||||||| |Charitable
activities||||1,128,577|39,150|1,167,727|824,004| |Other —interest payable||||10,378||10,378|2,955| |Total expenditure||||1,138,955|39,150|1,178,105|826,959| |Net income I(expenditure)||and|||||| |net movement
in|funds for|year||(35,142)|68,432|33,290|33,704| |Reconciliation
of|funds||||||| |Total funds
brought|forward|||37,728||37,728|4,024| |Total funds carried|forward|||2,586|68,432|71,018|37,728| ## ## ## ## |||||2022||2021|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||Notes||||| |Fixed assets|||||||| |Tangibleassets|||10||6,064||709| |Current assets|||||||| |Debtors||||132,235||101,551|| |Cash at bank and inhand||||127,012||22,861|| |||||259,247||124,412|| |Liabilities|||||||| |Creditors
falling due|within one year||12|(132,851)||(71,596)|| |Net current assets|||||126,396||52,816| |Total assets less|current|lab(titles|||132,460||53,525| |Creditors
falling
due after||more|||||| |than one year|||13||(61,442)||(15,797)| |Netassets|||||71,018||37,728| |TheFtads dthe ctssity|||||||| |Unrestricted
income|funds||||2,586||37,728| |Restricted
income|funds||||68,432||| |Total charity funds|||18||71,018||37,728| ## ## ||||Notes|2022||2021|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||8||g|| |Cash generated
by operations|||16||64,360||11,189| |Cash absorbedbyinvesting|||activities||||| |Purchases|offixed assets||||(5,854)||| |Financing|activities||||||| |Proceeds from borrowings||||50,000|||| |Repayment|of borrowings|||(4,355)||(13,692)|| |Net cash|generated
from/||(used in)||45,645||(13,692)| |financing|activities||||||| |Increase/|(decrease)
in cash and cash||||104,151||(2,503)| |equivalents|||||||| |Cash and cash equivalents||at|beginning ofyear||22,861||25,364| |Cash and|cash equivalents||at end ofyear||127,012||22,861| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |Donation|s|and bg|ac les||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total| |||||funds|funds|funds|funds| |||||2022|2022|2022|2021| |||||E|6|5|5| |Donations|and gifts|||45,195||45,195|106,343| |Grants||||200,613|107,582|308,195|63,680| |||||245,808|107,582|353,390|170,023| |Charitable||activities|||||| |Services|provided||under contract|||858,005|690,640| ## ## ## ## |||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||funds|funds|funda|funds| |||||2022|2022|2022|2021| |||||6|E|6|E| |Staff costs||||936,864|39,150|976,014|648,191| |Depreciation||||499||499|403| |Rents||||19,935||19,935|17,573| |Travel
&subsistence||||17,514||17,514|33,933| |Other staff costs||||49,138||49,138|13,339| |Computing||||12,273||12,273|12,895| |Printing,
postage|and stationery|||796||798|1,082| |Telecommunication||expenditure||18,235||18,235|25,114| |Equipment
hire||||12,953||12,953|3,178| |Repairs & renewals||||1,715||1,715|11,001| |Insurances||||8,889||8,889|4,705| |Subscriptions||||11,644||11,644|8,551| |Legal & professional||||13,460||13,460|29,067| |Bad and doubfful|debts|||1,895||1,895|| |Pension fines||||2,800||2,800|| |Other operating|expenses|||4,648||4,648|2,498| |Advertising
and|promotional||costs|9,546||9,546|6,276| |Utilities||||473||473|2,572| |||||1,123,277|39,150|1,162,427|820,378| |Share ofgovernance||costs|(see note 6)|5,300||5,300|3,626| |||||1,128,577|39,150|1,167,727|824,004| ## ## ## |||Support|Governance|2022|Support|Governance|2021| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||costs|costs||costs|costs|| ||||6||6|6|6| |Legal and|professional|||||176|178| |Audit &accountancy|||5,300|5,300||3450|3,450| ||||5,300|5,300||3,626|3,626| |Analysed|between||||||| |Charitable|activities||5,300|5,300||3,626|3,626| ## ## |The average|monthly
number ofemployees
during t|he year was:|| |---|---|---|---| |||ZK|ZB| |||Number|Number| |Cere support|workers|57|55| |Administrative|staff|8|9| |Total||65|| |Employment|costs||| |Wages and salaries||913,902|606,273| |Social security costs||49,586|33,626| |Pensioncosts||12,526|8,292| |||976,014|648, 191| ## ## ## |FO|R THE YEAR END|ED 3|1 MARCH
2022|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |9|Other expenditure|||||| ||||||2022|2021| ||Interest on loans||||10,378|2,955| ||||||10,378|2,955| |10|Tangible fixed sssete|||||| |||||Flxtums and|Computers|Total| |||||tidings||| ||Cost|||||| ||At 1 April 2021|||7,803|20,552|28,355| ||Additions|||5,096|758|5,854| ||At 31 March 2022|||12,899|21,310|| ||Depreciation|||||| ||At
1 April 2021|||7,094|20,552|27,646| ||Depreciation
charged|inthe|year||32|499| ||At 31 March 2022|||7,561|20,584|28,145| ||Net book value|||||| ||At 31 March 2022|||5,338|726|| ||At 31 March 2021|||||| |11|Debtors|||||| ||Amounts
falling due|within|one year:|||| ||Trade debtors||||73,097|77,029| ||Other debtors||||16,231|| ||Prepayments
and accrued||hcome||42,907|24,522| ||||||132,235|101,551| ## ## ## ## |12|Creditors: a|mounts|falling due within one yea|r||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||2022|2021| |||||||6| ||Loan borrowings||acorns||16,209|16,507| ||Other taxation|and social security|||21,358|8,153| ||Trade creditors||||13,593|577| ||Other creditors|||||| ||Accrual s and deferred||||81,691|46,359| ||||||132,851|71,596| |13|Creditors: amounts||falling dueaftermorethan|one||| ||year|||||| ||||||2022|2021| ||Loan borrowings||||61,442|15,797| |14|Loans|||||| ||||||2022|2021| ||Financing bans||||77,651|32,304| ||Payablewithin|one year|||16,209|16,507| ||PayableaReroneyear||||61,442|15,797| |15|Remuneration|of key management|personnel|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||The remuneration|ofkey management|personnel|isafottows.||| ||||||2022|2021| ||Aggregate
remuneration||||95,365|62,487| ## ## ## ||Reconciliation
of|net movement|in funds to|net cash flow|2022|2021| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||from operations|||||| ||Net movement
in funds||||33,290|33,704| ||Adjustments
for:|||||| ||Depreciation||||499|403| ||Decrease/(hcrease)|in debtors|||(30,684)|(9,262)| ||Increase/ (Decrease) increditors||||61,255|(13,656)| ||Cash generated
from operations||||64,360|11,189| |TT|Analysis of net (debt) / funds||changes|||| |||||At 1Aprll
2021f|Cashflowef|At 31March
2022f| ||Cash at bank and|in hand||22,861|104,151|127,012| ||Loans falling due|within one year||(16,507)|298|(16,209)| ||Loans falling due|after more than|one year|(15,797)|(45,645)|(61,442)| |||||(9,443)|58,804|49,361| |18|Analysisof
fund|movemsnts||||| |||||Income|Expenditure|At31March
2022| ||Bereavement
projects funding - restricted|||107,582|39,150|68,432| ||General funds - unrestricted|||1,103,813|1,138,955|2,586| ||Total funds:|||1,211,395|1,178,105|71,018|