## **SISTER CIRCLE LTD. ANNUAL REPORT**
Board of Trustees, Annual Financial Statement, year ending 31[st] March 2024
**REGISTERED OFFICE: THE BRADY CENTRE 192-196 HANBURY STREET LONDON E1 5HU**
**CHARITY REGISTRATION NO. 1033764 COMPANY REGISTRATION NO. 2897750**
SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Trustees’ reports for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
THE DIRECTORS, WHO ARE ALSO TRUSTEES, PRESENT THEIR REPORT AND AUDITED ACCOUNTS FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED 31[st] MARCH 2024.
DIRECTORS/TRUSTEES:
JOANNA FOWLER (CHAIR) 01.09.2023 DONG CHEN (TREASURER) CAMILLA HAMPTON KATHERINE BRINTWORTH WENDY OLAYIWOLA SAKSHI TOMER SUPRIYA DAVDA KAMALJIT KAUR
RESIGNED: ANNIE KARLIN (CHAIR) 01.09.23 AYAAN GULAID 01.03.2024 ALISHA ESMAIL 01.09.2023 CHARLENE CHANDRASEKARAN 01.12.2023
CHIEF EXECUTIVE: KAREN WINT
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER:
GOLDWINS CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 75 MAYGROVE ROAD LONDON NW6 2EG
## BANKERS:
CAF BANK 25 KINGS HILL WEST MALLING KENT ME19 4JQ
REGISTERED OFFICE: THE BRADY CENTRE 192-196 HANBURY STREET LONDON E1 5HU
CHARITY REGISTRATION NO. 1033764 COMPANY REGISTRATION NO. 2897750
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SISTER CIRCLE LTD.
Trustees’ reports for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
presenting their annual report and financial statements for the year ending 31[st] March 2024.
## Structure, Governance, Management and Governing Document
SISTER CIRCLE is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee, incorporated on the 14th February 1999, with a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company; and is governed under its Articles of Association. In the event, of the company being wound up, members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding one pound.
The charity was formerly known as Women’s Health and Family Services and rebranded in 2023. There were no changes to the Governing documentation for the charity at the date of issue of this Annual Report.
## Recruitment and responsibilities of Trustees
The company is governed by a Board of Directors who are also known as Trustees for the purposes of charity law and under the company’s Articles of Association are known members of Management Committee. Board of Trustee meetings need at least three Trustees’ for a quorum.
Recruitment is by advertisement through national websites, and by networking and targeting specific groups to attract a diverse Trustees’ membership with expertise and experiences relevant to the advancement of the charity’s mission. The Trustees have the power to co-opt members to fill specialist roles.
The Trustees are responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organisation, policy development, senior staff recruitment and financial management. There are currently nine Trustees from a variety of professional backgrounds to support the delivery and success of the charity.
## Risk Management
A risk register is reviewed at each Board meeting which includes strategies to manage risk, this includes financial reporting. The Board receives written reports as well as presentations made by the Chief Executive and staff to ensure transparency and good governance.
## Statement on Public Benefit
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and that the purpose and aims of SISTER CIRCLE are for the greater good. All our charitable activities focus on empowering women with knowledge and confidence to develop social connections, access the health services they need to improve the health and wellbeing for themselves and their family and prevent future harmful practices.
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SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Trustees’ reports for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
## The Charity’s Vision
Every woman has access to the healthcare services she needs to have good mental, physical and social wellbeing to thrive.
Our Objectives
SISTER CIRCLE is a multi-cultural community health charity with a long history of working closely with the disadvantaged ethnic minority women and their families in East London, to improve their health and wellbeing in a meaningful and sustainable way, by giving them the support and confidence they need to do it for themselves.
One of the key ways we do this, is to train local volunteers to support women through pregnancy or when they have experienced female genital cutting. We believe, a relationship between one woman and another who finds herself living with multiple complexities, can be transforming for both women. It can lead to each empowering themselves to create change and in turn, building local community capacity.
## The charity’s objectives are:
a) To advance education, knowledge and empowerment amongst women residents in Tower Hamlets and other East London boroughs, across all communities, before, during and after pregnancy and survivors of Female Genital Cutting (FGC).
b) To preserve and protect the health of the inhabitants of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and elsewhere.
c) To promote equality and diversity by challenging discrimination and encouraging services to meet the diverse needs of the local communities; the sharing of experiences in order to bring about equality in health and wellbeing, and good relationships across local communities. which often includes employment and further education in healthcare.
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SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Trustees’ reports for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
Tailored 1:2:1 antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal support (6-12 weeks). Delivered by trained local volunteers with shared experiences, cultural and social knowledge. Our programme is integrated within maternity service, working closely with maternity teams across Bart’s Health NHS Trust, acting as a bridge between pregnant women and maternity services. Our Maternity Mates are there for pregnant women who find themselves struggling due to difficult circumstances. We listen, and we support them with whatever they need.
Tailored 1:2:1 health advocacy support (two languages) integrated within Slyvia Pankhurst Clinic, Mile End Hospital, for over eight years. Survivors of female genital cutting who are pregnant and non-pregnant receive tailored support.
A Women’s Conversation Cafe (sexual and reproductive health) provides six week educational sessions with health specialists. A secure and safe space for women to share their experiences.
Supporting women to access gynecological services: Cervical screening, menopause clinic, psychosexual counselling services.
Trauma Counselling for women who have experienced gender based violence and other forms of trauma with counsellors. This is delivered in four languages, ensuring as many women as possible, in need of counselling can access this support.
Peer support for women who have experienced birth trauma and pregnancy loss, led by volunteers and staff with shared experiences. Working in partnership with OCEAN service aat East London Foundation Trust.
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SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Trustees’ reports for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
## Wellbeing of Employees and Volunteers
The Board of Trustees take the wellbeing of the charity’s employees and volunteers seriously and have continued to invest in the provision of a dedicated spaces with specialists for both employees and volunteers.
Our trauma counsellors (Healing Conversations programme) are available for one-to-one support. Secondary trauma is a reality when supporting others with complex lives as our employees and volutneers do.
We trialed (paid) wellbeing time off for each employee and together with the employees designed a permanent offer to meet their needs.
We would like to take this opportunity to THANK:
- our volunteers for their passion, commitment and dedication. We could simply could not reach and
- support the women who need extra support at critical times in their lives, without our volunteers.
- our staff who have worked tirelessly to deliver our programmes and meet the needs of the women we support.
- the women who dedicate their time to shaping and delivering outstanding training for our volunteers.
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SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Trustees’ reports for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
## OVERALL FINANCIAL REVIEW
Funding for overheads continues to be challenging, combined with cost of living and increases in rent of our office space, the pressure is real for a small charity like ours.
Our actual income during the year was £783,912 (2023: £616,936) and the actual expenditure was £738,351 (2023: £656,038).
The total funds available to the charity is £365,242 of which £317,577 are restricted, £40,000 are designated and £7,665 are unrestricted reserves. The reserves are needed to meet the working revenue requirements of the charity. The current level of reserves is £47,665.
The Board of Trustees made a conscious decision to investment unrestricted reserves into team salary increases, skills development and wellbeing, meet the increases in office rental rates and an IT upgrade to ensure security and needs of the charity.
## Reserves policy
The Trustees have examined the charity’s requirements for reserves considering the main risks to the organisation resulting from shortfall in funding and time expired project, that are not refunded. They have established a policy whereby any surplus and unrestricted funds held should be between 3 and 6 months operating costs. Sufficient reserves are needed to ensure that projects are not hampered by delays in receiving grant income and to fund any revenue shortfall.
There is also the need to bear the cost of cover for the likes of maternity leave, investment within our team to develop skills and wellbeing, increase in office rental rates and IT upgrade, which, in a not-for-profit charity, are never funded by grants or contracts. In addition to this, the charity has a commitment to trying to pay its staff appropriate salaries for the work undertaken. Commissioning contracts do not allow for this approach; therefore, alternative financing approaches will be required in the coming years.
We would like to be able to increase our reserves, to weather the unexpected eventualities; and investment in strengthening the organisation’s capacity and capabilities, for expansion to reach more women with our support programmes.
## Income and fundraising
This year, we focused our efforts on strengthening the capacity of the charity, enhancing aspects of our programmes and solidify productive partnerships with other organisations to enhance the support we provide to women.
We are grateful to our funders for their continued support and to our new supporters for choosing Sister Circle.
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SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Trustees’ reports for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
Statement of Trustees and Directors Responsibilities
The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with the applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Charity law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for the year. In preparing those financial statements the Trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The charity has a safeguarding policy and conduct safeguarding training. The trustees review the policy on a biannual basis.
Approved by the board of trustees on 12/12/2024 and signed on their behalf by:
Joanna Fowler (Chair/Trustee)
Dong Chen (Treasurer/Trustee)
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SISTER CIRCLE LTD. (Previously known as Women’s Health and Family Services) Independent examiner’s report for the year ended 31[st] March 2024
I report on the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31[st] March 2024.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity’s trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
Independent examiner’s statement
Since the Company’s gross income exceeded £250,000, I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the ICAEW, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## A Wn ony Epten
Anthony Epton BA FCA CTA FCIE Goldwins Chartered accountants 75 Maygrove Road West Hampstead London NW6 2EG
16/12/2024
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## **SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Statement of financial activities**
(incorporating an income and expenditure account)
## **For the year ended 31 March 2024**
|**Note**
**Income from:**
Donations
**3**
Charitable activities:
Grants received
**4**
Investment income
**5**
Other income
**Total income**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
**6**
Charitable activities:
**6**
**Total expenditure**
**Net income / (expenditure) for the year**
Net gains / (losses) on investments
**Net income / (expenditure) for the year**
**8**
Transfers between funds
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**£**
1,822
304,230
6,798
-
**312,850**
8,619
389,097
**397,716**
**(84,866)**
**-**
**(84,866)**
-
**(84,866)**
132,531
**47,665**|**Restricted**
**£**
40,000
431,062
-
-
**471,062**
-
340,635
**340,635**
**130,427**
**-**
**130,427**
-
**130,427**
187,150
**317,577**|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
**41,822**
**735,292**
**6,798**
**-**
**783,912**
**8,619**
**729,732**
**738,351**
**45,561**
**-**
**45,561**
**-**
**45,561**
**319,681**
**365,242**|2023
Total
£
30,332
584,472
2,132
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||616,936|
|||||6,144
649,894|
|||||656,038|
|||||(39,102)
-|
|||||**(39,102)**
-|
|||||(39,102)
358,783|
|||||319,681|
There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. The attached notes form part of these financial statements.
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**SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Balance sheet As at 31 March 2024**
|**SISTER CIRCLE LTD.**
**Balance sheet**
**As at 31 March 2024**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**2024**|**2024**|2023|2023|
||**Note**|**£**|**£**|£|£|
|**Fixed assets:**||||||
|Tangible assets|**10**||**1,545**||2,060|
|**Current assets:**||||||
|Debtors|**11**|**72,241**||85,008||
|Cash at bank and in hand||**520,221**||298,167||
|||**592,462**||383,175||
|**Liabilities:**||||||
|Creditors: amounts falling due within one year|**12**|**(228,765)**||(65,554)||
|**Net current assets / (liabilities)**|||**363,697**||317,621|
|**Total net assets / (liabilities)**|||**365,242**||319,681|
|**Funds**|**14**|||||
|Restricted funds|||**317,577**||187,150|
|Unrestricted funds:||||||
|Designated funds||**40,000**||40,000||
|General funds||**7,665**||92,531||
|Total unrestricted funds|||**47,665**||132,531|
|**Total funds**|||**365,242**||319,681|
The Trustees consider that the company is entitled to exemption from the requirement to have an audit under the provisions of section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 and members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit for the year in question in accordance with section 476 of the Act.
The Trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and for preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at 31 March 2024 and of its net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year in accordance with the requirements of sections 394 and 395 of the Act and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
Approved by the board of trustees on **12. 12. 2024** and signed on their behalf by: Fics
**Joanna Fowler Dong Chen**
**Chair Trustee**
## **Company registration no. 02897750**
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**SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Statement of cash flows For the year ended 31 March 2024**
|**SISTER CIRCLE LTD.**
**Statement of cash flows**
**For theyear ended 31 March 2024**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Note**
**Cash flows from operating activities:**
Net cash provided by / (used in) operating activities
**a**
**Cash flows from investing activities:**
(Purchase) of fixed assets
**Cash provided by / (used in) investing activities**
**Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year**
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year**
**b**
**a) Reconciliation of net income/(expenditure) to net**
**cash flow from operating activities**
**Net (expenditure) for the reporting period**
(as per the statement of financial activities)
Depreciation
(Increase)/ decrease in debtors
Increase/ (decrease) in creditors
**Net cash provided by/ (used in) operating activities**
**b) Analysis of cash and cash equivalents**
Cash at bank and in hand
Total cash and cash equivalents|**2024**
**£**
-|**2024**
**£**
2023
£
222,054
-
-
222,054
298,167
**520,221**
**2024**
**£**
**45,561**
515
12,767
163,211
**222,054**
Other
Cash flows
changes
£
£
222,054
-||2023
£
(13,098)
-|
||At 1 April
2023
£
298,167||Other
changes
£
-||
|||222,054
298,167||(13,098)
311,265|
|||**520,221**||298,167|
|||**2024**
**£**
**45,561**
515
12,767
163,211||2023
£
(39,102)
687
(31,508)
56,825|
|||**222,054**||(13,098)|
|||Cash flows
£
222,054||**At 31**
**March**
**2024**
**£**
**520,221**|
||298,167|222,054|-|**520,221**|
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**SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102 - effective 1 January 2015) (Charities SORP FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
The charitable company meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy or note.
## **Going concern**
The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern. The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.
## **Income**
Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and that the amount can be measured reliably.
Income from government and other grants, whether ‘capital’ grants or ‘revenue’ grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred. Income received in advance for the provision of specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.
## **Interest receivable**
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the bank.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of charity. Designated funds are unrestricted funds of the charity which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose. Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity’s work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.
## **Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT**
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:
- Costs of raising funds comprise of trading costs and the costs incurred by the charitable company in inducing third parties to make voluntary contributions to it, as well as the cost of any activities with a fundraising purpose.
Expenditure on charitable activities includes the costs of delivering services, exhibitions and other educational activities undertaken to further the purposes of the charity and their associated support costs. Other expenditure represents those items not falling into any other heading.
Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.
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**SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **1 Accounting policies (continued)**
## **Allocation of support costs**
Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include office costs, finance, personnel, payroll and governance costs which support the charity's artistic programmes and activities. These costs have been allocated between cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities. The bases on which support costs have been allocated are set out in note 6.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Items of equipment are capitalised where the purchase price exceeds £500. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write down the cost of each asset to its estimated residual value over its expected useful life. The depreciation rate in use is as follows:
Office equipment
25% reducing balance
## **Debtors**
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
## **Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
## **Creditors and provisions**
Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.
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**SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **2 Detailed comparatives for the statement of financial activities**
||2023||2023||2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total|
||£||£||£|
|Income from:||||||
|Donations|6,940||23,392||30,332|
|Charitable activities:||||||
|Grants received|10,630||573,842||584,472|
|Other trading activities|||||-|
|Investments|2,132||-||2,132|
|Total income|19,702||597,234||616,936|
|Expenditure on:||||||
|Raising funds|6,144||-||6,144|
|Charitable activities:|53,274||596,620||649,894|
|Total expenditure|59,418||596,620||656,038|
|Net income / expenditure before gains / (losses) on||||||
|investments|(39,716)||614|-|39,102|
|Transfers between funds|92,365|-|92,365||**-**|
|Net movement in funds|52,649|-|91,751|-|39,102|
|Total funds brought forward|79,882||278,901||358,783|
|Total funds carried forward|132,531||187,150||319,681|
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**SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **3 Income from donations:**
|**3**
**Income from donations:**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Donations
AB Charitable Trust
Society of the Holy Child Jesus CIO
Community Chest
**4**
**Income from charitable activities**
**Grants received:**
NEL ICB
Tower Hamlets Public Health
Henry Smith Charity
NEL ICB
The Big Lottery (Civil Roots)
Family Hubs
NHSE
PACT/Citizens UK
Glasspool Charity Trust
Comic Relief
NEL ICB (MMH)
NEL ICB (Family Hubs)
Lloyds Bank Foundation
London Community Foundation
City of London
**Total income from charitable activities**
**5**
**Income from investments**
Bank interest|Unrestricted
£
1,822
-
-
-
1,822
Unrestricted
£
68,604
-
-
40,212
89,635
-
-
48,354
500
31,750
-
25,000
-
175
304,230
Unrestricted
£
6,798
6,798|Restricted
£
-
15,000
15,000
10,000
40,000
Restricted
£
-
87,500
60,000
9,000
39,000
41,400
9,910
-
4,200
76,328
61,684
23,815
-
18,225
-
431,062
Restricted
£
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
2023
Total
£
**1,822**
30,332
**15,000**
-
**15,000**
-
**10,000**
-|
||||**41,822**
30,332|
||||**2024**
2023
**Total**
**£**
Total
£
**68,604**
80,317
**87,500**
133,860
**60,000**
80,000
**49,212**
52,329
**128,635**
96,317
**41,400**
-
**9,910**
-
**48,354**
-
**4,700**
11,305
**108,078**
96,660
**61,684**
33,684
**23,815**
**25,000**
-
**18,225**
-
**175**
-|
||||**735,292**
584,472|
||||**2024**
2023
**Total**
**£**
Total
£
**6,798**
2,132|
||||**6,798**
2,132|
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**SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements**
## **For the year ended 31 March 2024**
|**SISTER CIRCLE LTD.**
**Notes to the financial statements**
**For theyear ended 31 March 2024**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**6**
**Analysis of expenditure**
**Current year**
**Basis of**
**allocation**
Staff costs
Staff time
Other Direct costs
Direct
Premises costs
Other office costs
Legal & professional costs
IT costs
Marketing costs
Depreciation
Independent examiner's fee
Insurance
Support costs allocation
**Total expenditure 2024**|**Cost of**
**raising**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
**-**
8,619
**8,619**|**Charitable**
**activities**
**£**
416,794
89,023
-
-
2,073
-
-
-
-
-
**507,890**
221,842
**729,732**|**Support**
**costs**
**£**
62,792
9,569
16,430
39,945
63,357
19,917
12,360
515
3,420
2,156
**230,461**
(230,461)
**-**|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
479,586
98,592
16,430
39,945
65,430
19,917
12,360
515
3,420
2,156
**738,351**
**-**
**738,351**|2023
Total
£
387,317
129,104
15,449
24,413
55,600
26,732
12,434
687
2,720
1,583|
||||||656,038
-|
||||||656,038|
Of the total expenditure, £397,716 was unrestricted (2023: £59,418) and £340,635 was restricted (2023: £596,620).
|**Analysis of expenditure**
**Prior year**
Basis of
allocation
Staff costs
Staff time
Other Direct costs
Direct
Premises costs
Other office costs
Legal & professional costs
IT costs
Marketing costs
Depreciation
Independent examiner's fee
Insurance
Support costs
Total expenditure 2023|Cost of
raising
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
6,144
6,144|Charitable
activities
£
345,282
112,613
-
-
90
-
-
-
-
-
457,985
191,909
649,894|Support
costs
£
42,035
16,491
15,449
24,413
55,510
26,732
12,434
687
2,720
1,583
198,053
(198,053)
-|2023
Total
£
387,317
129,104
15,449
24,413
55,600
26,732
12,434
687
2,720
1,583|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||656,038
-|
|||||656,038|
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## **SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **7 Net income / (expenditure) for the year**
This is stated after charging / (crediting):
||||
|---|---|---|
|This is stated after charging / (crediting):|**2024**|2023|
||**£**|£|
|Depreciation|**515**|687|
|Independent examiner's fee|**3,420**|2,720|
## **8 Analysis of staff costs, trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel**
|Staff costs were as follows:
Salaries and wages
Social security costs
Pension
Other staff costs|**2024**
**£**
2023
£
**431,461**
343,424
**32,630**
24,672
**8,396**
4,618
**7,099**
14,603
**479,586**
387,317|
|---|---|
There were no employees who received annual emoluments of £60,000 or more (2023: none).
The total employee benefits including pension contributions of the key management personnel were £172,166 (2023: £91,469). This increase was due to a newly formed Senior Management Team in the year.
The charity trustees were not paid or received any other benefits from employment with the charity in the year (2023: £nil) neither were they reimbursed expenses during the year (2023: £nil). No charity trustee received payment for professional or other services supplied to the charity (2023: £nil).
## **Staff numbers**
The average number of employees (head count based on number of staff employed) during the year was as
|Direct charitable activities
Support|**2024**
**No.**
2023
No.
**18**
16
**2**
2|
|---|---|
||**20**
18|
## **9 Taxation**
The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes.
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## **SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
|**10 **|**Tangible fixed assets**|Office|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||equipment|**Total**|
||||£|**£**|
||**Cost**||||
||At the start of the year||37,165|**37,165**|
||Additions in year||-|**-**|
||At the end of the year||37,165|**37,165**|
||**Depreciation**||||
||At the start of the year||35,105|**35,105**|
||Charge for the year||515|**515**|
||At the end of the year||35,620|**35,620**|
||**Net book value**||||
||**At the end of the year**||1,545|**1,545**|
||At the start of the year||2,060|2,060|
||All of the above assets are used for charitable purposes.||||
|**11 **|**Debtors**||||
||||**2024**|2023|
||||**£**|£|
||Grants and other income receivable||**64,845**|76,096|
||Prepayments||**7,396**|3,739|
||Accrued income||**-**|5,173|
||||**72,241**|85,008|
|**12**|**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**||||
||||**2024**|2023|
||||**£**|£|
||Taxation and social security||**9,078**|6,759|
||Accrued expenses||**9,852**|9,408|
||Deferred income - Grants received in advance||**208,825**|47,000|
||Other creditors||**1,010**|2,387|
||||**228,765**|65,554|
||**Deferred income**||||
||||**2024**|2023|
||||**£**|£|
||Balance at the beginning of the year||**47,000**|-|
||Amount released to income in the year||**(47,000)**|-|
||Amount deferred in the year||**208,825**|47,000|
||Balance at the end of the year||**208,825**|47,000|
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## **SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
## **13 Analysis of net assets between funds**
|**Analysis of net assets between funds**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Current year**
Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets
**Net assets at the end of the year**
Analysis of net assets between funds
Prior year
Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets
Net assets at the end of the year|General
unrestricte
d
£
1,545
6,120
**7,665**
General
unrestricte
d
£
2,060
90,471
92,531|Designated
£
-
40,000
**40,000**
Designated
£
-
40,000
40,000|Restricted
£
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
-
**1,545**
317,577
**363,697**|
||||**317,577**
**365,242**|
||||Restricted
Total
funds
£
£
-
2,060
187,150
317,621|
||||187,150
319,681|
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## **SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
|**14 Movements in**
**funds Current**
**year**
**Unrestricted funds:**
General funds
Lloyds Foundation
Blue Thread
Designated funds
**Total unrestricted funds**
**Restricted funds:**
Tower Hamlets Public Health VAWG
(FGM)
Henry Smith Charity
NHS England
AB Charitable Trust
Society of the Holy Child Jesus CIO
London Community Foundation
TNL Community Fund (Civil Roots)
Tower Hamlets Public Health Family
Hubs
Tower Hamlets Public Health Family
Hubs
Tower Hamlets Public Health Family
Hubs
NEL ICB Family Hubs
The Big Give
Community Chest
Glasspool Charity
Comic Relief
NEL ICB (MMH)
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|92,531
281,850
-
25,000
-
6,000
40,000
-
**132,531**
**312,850**
28,192
87,500
27,387
60,000
-
9,000
-
15,000
-
15,000
-
18,225
-
39,000
-
19,800
-
11,800
-
9,800
-
23,815
-
9,910
-
10,000
8,467
4,200
88,795
76,328
34,309
61,684
**187,150**
**471,062**
**319,681**
**783,912**
**At the**
**start of**
**the year**
**Income**
**£**
**£**|397,716
-
-
-
**397,716**
77,500
60,000
-
15,000
15,000
11,600
39,000
3,662
2,182
1,812
4,404
-
10,000
5,450
54,453
40,572
**340,635**
**738,351**
**Expenditure**
**£**|-
**(23,335)**
-
**25,000**
-
**6,000**
-
**40,000**
**At the**
**end of**
**Transfers**
**the year**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**
**47,665**|
||||-
**38,192**
-
**27,387**
-
**9,000**
-
**-**
-
**-**
-
**6,625**
-
**-**
-
**16,138**
-
**9,618**
-
**7,988**
-
**19,411**
-
**9,910**
-
**-**
-
**7,217**
-
**110,670**
-
**55,421**|
||||**-**
**317,577**|
|||||
||||**-**
**365,242**|
## **Purposes of restricted funds**
The income of the charity includes grants received for specific restricted projects. The trustees' report includes a brief description of the activities of each project.
The financial movements on the restricted funds are summarised above. On completion of a project, any small funding surplus or deficit is cleared by a transfer to or from unrestricted funds.
## **Purposes of designated funds**
During the previous years, the trustees agreed that it would be prudent to set up a designated fund to finance any future liabilities that would be incurred on the closure of the organisation. In this financial year, the initial £40,000 transferred is considered sufficient for this purpose.
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## **SISTER CIRCLE LTD. Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2024**
|Movements in funds (continued)
Prior year
At the
start of
Unrestricted funds:
the year
£
Income
£
General funds
39,882
19,702
Designated funds
40,000
-
Total unrestricted funds
79,882
19,702
Movements in funds (continued)
Prior year
At the
start of
the year
Income
£
£
Restricted funds:
NEL ICB Maternity Mates
107,760
234,463
Tower Hamlets Public Health/VAWG
(MOP
27,302
135,752
Henry Smith Charity
7,136
80,000
Lloyds Foundation
8,526
-
Tampox Tax
5,520
-
Health Research
8,176
-
Glasspool Charity
-
16,175
City of London - Wave 3
5,058
-
Comic Relief
75,735
96,660
MM Hub
33,688
34,184
Total restricted funds
278,901
597,234
Total funds
358,783
616,936|At the
start of
the year
£
39,882
40,000|Income
£
19,702
-||Expenditur
e
£
59,418
-||Transfers
£
92,365
-|At the
end of
the year
£
92,531
40,000
132,531|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||79,882|19,702||59,418||92,365||
|||||Expenditur
e
£
249,858
134,862
59,749
8,526
5,520
8,176
7,708
5,058
83,600
33,563||Transfers
£
(92,365)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|At the
end of
the year
£
-
28,192
27,387
-
-
-
8,467
-
88,795
34,309
)
187,150|
||278,901|597,234||596,620||(92,365||
||||||||319,681|
||358,783|616,936||656,038||-||
## **15 Legal status of the charity**
The charity is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. Each member is liable to contribute a sum not exceeding £1 in the event of the charity being wound up.
## **16 Related party transactions**
There are no related party transactions to disclose for 2024 (2023: none). There are no donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.
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