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|Chair's<br>Report|||
|Trustees'<br>Annual<br>Report|||
|Statement<br>ofTrustees'|Responsibilities||
|Independent<br>Examiner's|Report|10|
|Statement<br>of Financial|Activities||
|Balance Sheet||12|
|Statement<br>ofCash Flows||13|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||14|





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|||||Note|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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||||||Funds|Funds|||
||||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
|Income and endowments|||||||||
|from:|||||||||
|Donations|and legacies|||3a|125||125|1,036|
|Charitable|activities|||3b|250,617|30,000|280,617|753,720|
|Investments||||3c|1,570||1,570|56|
|Total income|||||252,312|30,000|282,312|754,812|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||||
|Charitable|activities||||363,694|58,390|422,084|565,728|
|Total expenditure|||||363,694|58,390|422,084|565,728|
|Net (expenditure)/income,|||net||||||
|movement|in funds|before|||(111,382)|(28,390)|(139,772)|189,084|
|taxation|||||||||
|Total funds|brought|forward||11,12|241,360|240,861|482,221|293,137|
|Total funds carried||forward||10-12|129,978|212,471|342,449|482,221|





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||||Note|30'"March 2023|30'"March 2023|30'"March|2022|
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|Cash flows from operating<br>activities||||E|E|E||
|Cash (used)/generated<br>operations|from||||(147,468)||(24,858)|
|Investing<br>activities||||||||
|Interest received||||1,570||56||
|Net cash generated<br>investing<br>activities|from in||||1,570||56|
|Net cash generated|from financing|||||||
|activities||||||||
|Net increase decrease<br>in cash and<br>cash equivalents|||||(145,898)||(24,802)|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>beginning<br>ofyear||at|||480,695||505,497|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>ofyear||at end|||334,797||480,695|
|Represented<br>by:||||||||
|||||30th March 2023||30~h March 2022||
|Cash at bank and<br>in|hand||||334,797||480,695|





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||||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted||Restricted|Restricted||||
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|||||||Funds||Funds|||Total|Total|
|||||||2023|||2023||2023|2022|
|b.|Charitable<br>activities|||||P|||||E|F|
||Contract 8 other income|||||216,004|||||216,004|300,898|
||DEFRA Emergency Assistance|||||||||||9,110|
||Sales income|||||34,613|||||34,613||
||Skelmersdale<br>Arts Network|||||||||||10,562|
||VCS Emergencies<br>Partnership|||||||||||1,500|
||West Lancashire<br>Borough|Council||||||30,000|||30,000|30,000|
||West Lancashire<br>Borough<br>(Community<br>Champions)|Council||||||||||401,650|
|||||||250,617||30,000|||280,617|753,720|
||Income<br>from<br>charitable|activities|||in 2022 comprised||f300,898 for|||unrestricted||funds<br>and|
||f452,822 related to restricted|||funds.|||||||||
|c.|Investments||||||||||||
||Bank Interest|||||1,570|||||1,570|56|
||Income from investments|for|2022||related|wholly to unrestricted|||funds.||||
|4.|Expenditure<br>on Charitable||Activities||||||||||
|||||||Direct||Support||8|Total|Total|
|||||||Charitable||Governance|||2023|2022|
|||||||Expenditure|||Costs||||
||||||||F|||F|||
||To provide advancement|ofeducation,|||||||||||
||the protection<br>of health<br>and the <br>poverty,<br>distress<br>and sickness|||relief of<br> to the||299,712|||122,372||422,084|565,728|
||community<br>ofWest Lancashire||||||||||||





|a.Analysed<br>as follows:|a.Analysed<br>as follows:||||||
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|Direct charitable|expenditure:||||E|E|
|Staff salary costs|||||208,127|218, 'I 58|
|Pension|||||2,917|2, 'I70|
|Consultancy<br>and|professional|||costs|51,631|51,875|
|Room hire|||||50|796|
|Grant support|||||34,245|164,450|
|Donations||||||50|
|Beneficiary expenses|||||2,742|3,063|
||||||299,712|440,562|
||||||2023|2022|
|Support<br>8, Governance|||costs:||E|F|
|Staff salary costs|||||96,413|90,567|
|Other payroll costs||||||53|
|Building<br>running|costs||||10,370|16,613|
|Office costs|||||3,823|4,373|
|Travel expenses|||||1,264|1,423|
|Insurance|||||4,005|2,110|
|Subscriptions<br>and publications|||||1,055|992|
|Consultancy<br>and|professional|||costs||3,580|
|Sundry expenses|||||1,058|895|
|Staff training|||||401|1,614|
|Computer<br>costs|||||184||
|Marketing||||||13|
|Bank and credit card charges|||||233|351|
|Recruitment||||||788|
|Legal fees|||||13|48|
|Bookkeeping|||||1,355||
|Payroll fees|||||898|176|
|Accountancy|||||1,300|1,570|
||||||122,372|125,166|
|Total expenditure<br>activities||on|charitable||422,084|565,728|





|b.|Staff Costs:|2023|2022|
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||Staff Salaries|284,838|289,344|
||Social Security Costs|19,702|19,381|
||Pension Costs|2,917|2,170|
|||307,457|310,895|



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|during<br>the year was made up as follows:|—||
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||2023|2022|
|Management<br>and administration|2.1|2.1|
|Project Managers|2.3|2.3|
|Project Workers/Assistants|5.7|5.9|
||10.1|10.30|



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|Debtors|||
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||2023|2022|
|Debtors|7,738|4,200|
|Prepayments|2,424|2,273|
|Other Debtors|121|240|
||10,283|6,713|





|7. Creditors: amounts|7. Creditors: amounts|7. Creditors: amounts|7. Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year|falling due within one year|||
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|||||||E||
|Trade creditors|||||713||3,073|
|Accruals|||||1,300||1,570|
|Other Creditors|||||6'l|8|544|
||||||2,631||5,187|
|8.Deferred||income||||||
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||||||||F|
|Balance||at 31"March|||2022||212,212|
|Amount|deferred||in the year|||||
|Amount||released|in the year|||(-)|(212,212)|
|Balance||at 30'" March|||2023|||
|9.Financial||Instruments||||||
||||||2023||2022|
|||||||E|F|
|Carrying||amount|offinancial|||||
|assets:||||||||
|Measured||at cost|||345,080||487,408|
|Carrying||amount|of|financial||||
|liabilities:||||||||
|Measured||at cost|||2,631||5„187|





|10.Analysis<br>of Net Assets between|Funds|||
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|||Net Current|Total|
|2023||Assets||
|Unrestricted<br>Funds||||
|General<br>Fund||129,978|129,978|
|Restricted<br>Funds||||
|Eric Wright Charitable<br>Trust Fund||13,445|13,445|
|Sir Douglas Glover Grants||274|274|
|West Lancashire<br>Borough<br>(Community<br>Champions)|Council|198,752|198,752|
|||212,471|212,471|
|Total||342,449|342,449|
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|2022||Assets||
|Unrestricted<br>Funds||||
|General<br>Fund||241,360|241,360|
|Restricted<br>Funds||||
|Eric Wright Charitable<br>Trust Fund||17,365|17,365|
|Sir Douglas<br>Glover Grants||274|274|
|Skelmersdale<br>Arts Network||7,812|7,812|
|Tanhouse<br>Health Assets Project||844|844|
|West Lancashire<br>Borough|Council Ageing|582|582|
|Well Partnership||||
|West Lancashire<br>Borough<br>(Community<br>Champions)|Council|206,000|206,000|
|West Lancashire<br>Dementia||7,984|7,984|
|||240,861|240,861|
|Total||482,221|482„221|





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|||||Movements|in the|ear||
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|||Reserves|at|Income|Expenditure||Reserves|
||2023|Beginning|of||||at end of|
|||Year|||||Year|
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|General|Fund|241,360||252,312|(363,694)||129,978|
|||||Movements|in the|ear||
|||Reserves|at|Income|Expenditure||Reserves|
||2022|Beginning|of||||at end of|
|||Year|||||Year|
||||F|||||
|General|Fund|201,167||301,990|(261,797)||241,360|



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|.Restricted<br>Funds|||||
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|||Movements|in the<br>ear||
||Reserves at|Income|Expenditure|Reserves|
|2023|Beginning<br>of|||at end of|
||Year|||Year|
|Eric Wright Charitable<br>Trust<br>Fund|17,365||(3,920)|13,445|
|Sir Douglas<br>Glover Grants|274||(-)|274|
|Skelmersdale<br>Arts Network|7,812||(7,812)||
|Tanhouse<br>Health Assets Project|844||(844)||
|West Lancashire<br>Borough<br>Council||30,000|(30,000)||
|West Lancashire<br>Borough<br>Council Ageing Well Partnership|582||(582)||
|West Lancashire<br>Borough|||||
|Council (Community|206,000||(7,248)|198,752|
|Champions)|||||
|West Lancashire<br>Dementia|7,984||(7,984)||
|Totals|240,861|30,000|(58,390)|212,471|





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|15.Cash generated<br>from|15.Cash generated<br>from|operations.|||
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|(Deficit)/surplus<br>for|the|year|(139,772)|189,084|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||
|Investment<br>income|||('I,570)|(56)|
|Movements<br>in working||capital:|||
|Decrease<br>in debtors|||(3,570)|4,902|
|Increase/(Decrease)|in|creditors|(2,556)|(218,788)|
|Cash generated<br>(used <br>operations||in)/from|(147„468)|(24,858)|



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