| Contents | |
|---|---|
| REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES.. | .2 |
| REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS .. |
2 |
| STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT. |
3 |
| AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES. | ..8 |
| ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE IN 2021 - 2022. |
Lg |
| PLANS FOR THE FUTURE | 17 |
| EXEMPTIONS FROM DISCLOSURE | ......18 |
| FUNDS HELD AS A CUSTODIAN TRUSTEE | 18 |
| STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES . | 18 |
| INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT |
.20 |
| BALANCE SHEET. | .....21 |
| STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES. | .22 |
| STATEMENT OF CASH FLOW. | .24 |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. | 25 |
| Rother | |
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period:— | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAME | ROLE | APPOINTED BY | DATE OF FIRST | DATE OF |
| APPOINTMENT | RETIREMENT | |||
| Christopher Maynard |
Chair | Re-election at AGM | Dec 2015 | |
| Elizabeth Menger |
Trustee | Re-election at AGM | Apr 2016 | |
| David Watters | Trustee | Re-election at AGM | Apr 2016 | |
| Nicolae Trofin | Trustee | Re-election at AGM | Apr 2016 | |
| Lee Forster-Kirkham | Treasurer | Re-election at AGM | Jun 2016 | |
| iona Wooderson | Trustee | Election at AGM | Feb 2018 | Feb 2022 |
| Gemma Forshaw |
Trustee | Co-opted by the |
Sep 2022 | |
| Board |
| BALANCE SHEET | BALANCE SHEET | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (including statement |
offinancial | position) | ||||||
| As at 31 March | 2022 | |||||||
| Note | Total 2022 | Total 2021 | ||||||
| E | 6 | |||||||
| Fixed Assets | ||||||||
| Tangible | Fixed | Assets | 10 | 9,544 | 15,356 | |||
| Current Assets | ||||||||
| Debtors | 120,536 | 63,694 | ||||||
| Cash at bank | and | in hand | 294,891 | 157,456 | ||||
| 415,427 | 221,150 | |||||||
| Liabilities | ||||||||
| Creditors - amounts one year |
falling | due | within | (158,895) | (67,535) | |||
| Net Current Assets | 256,532 | 153,615 | ||||||
| Provisions for liabilities |
13 | (75,000) | (35,000) | |||||
| Net assets | 14 | 191,076 | 133,971 | |||||
| Funds of the | Charity | |||||||
| Unrestricted funds |
15 | 189,180 | 133,971 | |||||
| Restricted | Funds | 15 | 1,897 | |||||
| 191,076 | 133,971 |
| Note | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | funds | funds | ||
| 2022 | 2021 | ||||
| F | L' | ||||
| Income from: | |||||
| Donations and legacies |
2 | 1,562 | 1,562 | 996 | |
| Charitable activities |
3 | 314,123 | 252,272 | 566,395 | 466,890 |
| Other (including fundraising) |
4 | 2,439 | 2,439 | 4,601 | |
| Total Income | 318,124 | 252,272 | 570,396 | 472,487 | |
| Expenditure on: |
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| Charitable activities |
5 | 257,547 | 255,743 | 513,290 | 430,908 |
| Total Expenditure | 257,547 | 255,743 | 513,290 | 430,905 | |
| Net movement in funds for the year |
60,577 | (3,471) | 57,106 | 41,579 | |
| Transfers between funds |
15 | (5,368) | 5,368 | ||
| Other gains /(losses) | |||||
| Net movement in funds for the year |
55,209 | 1,897 | 57,106 | 41,579 | |
| Reconciliation offunds: |
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| Balances brought forward |
15 | 133,971 | 133,971 | 92,392 | |
| Balances carried forward |
15 | 189,180 | 1,897 | 191,076 | 133,971 |
| Comparative fig |
ures prior year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds |
Total funds 2021 |
Total funds 2020 |
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| E | |||||
| Income from: | |||||
| Donations and legacies |
996 | 19,137 | 19,137 | ||
| Charitable activities |
212,078 | 254,812 | 466,890 | 338,880 | |
| Other (including fundraising) |
4,601 | 4,601 | 8,867 | ||
| Total Income | 217,675 | 254,812 | 472,487 | 366,884 | |
| Expenditure on: |
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| Charitable activities |
172,063 | 258,845 | 430,908 | 342,404 | |
| Other | |||||
| Total Expenditure | 172,063 | 258,845 | 430,908 | 342,404 | |
| Net movement in |
funds for the year | 45,612 | (4,033) | 41,579 | 24,480 |
| Transfers between |
funds | (4,033) | 4,033 | ||
| Other gains I(losses) | |||||
| Net movement in |
funds for the year | 41,579 | 41,579 | 24,480 | |
| Reconciliation offunds: |
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| Balances brought | forward | 92,392 | 67,912 | 67,912 | |
| Balances carried | forward | 133,971 | 92,392 | 92,392 |
| 2022 | 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | L' | |||
| Net cash used in operating |
activities | |||
| Net movement in funds for period |
the reporting | 57,105 | 41,579 | |
| Adjustments for: |
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| Depreciation Charges |
5,812 | 8,773 | ||
| Decrease/(Increase) in debtors |
(56,842) | 21,611 | ||
| Increase/(Decrease)/increase | in creditors | 131,360 | 48,364 | |
| Net cash (used by)/provided activities |
by operating | 137,435 | 120,327 | |
| Cash flows from investing | activities | |||
| Purchase of fixed assets |
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| Proceeds of fixed asset disposals | ||||
| Total net cash (used by)/provided operating and investing activities |
by | 137,435 | 120,327 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents ofthe year |
at the | beginning | 157,456 | 37,129 |
| Total cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year |
294,891 | 157,456 |
| 1. | Accounting policies. |
25 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. | Donations and legacies |
.27 | |||||
| 3. | Income from Charitable | Activities. | ............................................... | .28 | |||
| 4. | Other Income. | .28 | |||||
| 5. | Expenditure on charitable |
activities | by | fund. | .28 | ||
| 6. | Analysis of expenditure |
on | charitable | activities - Current Year.... | ......29 | ||
| 7. | Trustees | 29 | |||||
| 8. | Staff Costs. | .29 | |||||
| 9. | Employees. | 30 | |||||
| 10. | Fixed Assets. | 30 | |||||
| 11. | Debtors .. | ......30 | |||||
| 12. | Creditors - amounts falling |
due within | one year. . | 30 | |||
| 13. | Provision for liabilities | 31 | |||||
| 14. | Analysis of net assets |
between funds. | 31 | ||||
| 15. | Movements in funds - Current Year |
......31 | |||||
| 16. | Movements in funds - Prior Year. |
32 | |||||
| 17. | Purpose and nature of |
restricted | funds | 32 | |||
| 18. | Pension costs . | ......32 | |||||
| 19. | Taxation. | 32 | |||||
| 20. | Operating Lease commitments. |
......33 | |||||
| 21. | Related party transactions. |
33 | |||||
| 22. | Post Balance Sheet Event. | ......33 |
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total 2022 |
Total 2021 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f. | F | f | |||||
| Voluntary income |
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| Donations | 1,562 | 1,562 | 996 | ||||
| 1,562 | 1,562 | 996 | |||||
| 3. Income |
from Charitable | Actlvlties | |||||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total 2022 |
Total 2021 |
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| L | |||||||
| Energy Advice Programme Financial Capability |
12,520 | 38,449 88,813 |
50,969 88,813 |
21,000 25,006 |
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| Hastings Borough Council |
38,174 | ||||||
| The Foreshore | Trust | 42,108 | 42,108 | ||||
| Help to Claim | (via National | CA) | 37,651 | 37,651 | 38,352 | ||
| SGN Tackling | Fuel Poverty | Together | 12,667 | 12,667 | |||
| Money Advice | Service | 87,359 | 87,359 | 74,765 |
| SHINE (Interreg 2Seas) | SHINE (Interreg 2Seas) | 30,678 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESCC (Warm Home |
Check | Service) | 96,769 | 96,769 | 110,675 | |||
| Big Energy Savings | Network | 27,000 | 27,000 | |||||
| BEISRemote Working (National |
CA) | 6,545 | ||||||
| National Lottery —COVID Response |
88,487 | |||||||
| Energy Development | Programme- | Sussex | 41,553 | 41,553 | 13,656 | |||
| Charities Aid Foundation |
5,000 | |||||||
| Sussex Community | Foundation | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||||
| NHS Brighton & Hove CCG |
(for | PHE) | 20,000 | 20,000 | ||||
| Sussex Police | 500 | |||||||
| NHS Charities Together | 16,298 | 16,298 | ||||||
| Hastings Voluntary |
Action | 24,687 | 24,687 | |||||
| NHS Benefits | 7,202 | |||||||
| Other Grants | 952 | 952 | 1,850 | |||||
| Rother District CAB | Interim | Management | 14570 | 14,570 | ||||
| 314,124 | 252,272 | 566,396 | 466,890 | |||||
| 4. Other Income |
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| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total 2022 |
Total 2021 |
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| F | 6 | |||||||
| Activities for generating funds |
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| Other income | 2,439 | 2,439 | 4,601 | |||||
| Miscellaneous Income |
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| 2,439 | 2,439 | 4,601 |
| 5. | Expenditure | on | charitable activities |
charitable activities |
by fund | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charitable | Activity | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||
| 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||
| F | 6 | 6 | 6 | L' | f | ||||
| Generalist | Advice and | ||||||||
| Information | 53,225 | 53,225 | 51,848 | 51,848 | |||||
| Debt and | Benefits Advice | 126,162 | 126,162 | 114,811 | 114,811 | ||||
| Energy | |||||||||
| Projects | 154,845 | 41,849 | 196,694 | 120,215 | 21,930 | 142,145 | |||
| Financial | Capability | 87,731 | 87,731 | 25,942 | 25,942 | ||||
| Digital Suit | 34,197 | 34,197 | 88,686 | 88,686 | |||||
| Home Connect | 15,280 | 15,280 | 7,476 | 7,476 | |||||
| Sundry | |||||||||
| Projects | |||||||||
| 257,547 | 255,743 | 513,290 | 172,063 | 258,845 | 430,908 |
| 6. |
Analysis ofexpendit | Analysis ofexpendit | u | re on |
charitable | activitie | s - Curren | s - Curren | t Year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basis of Allocation* |
/ | Gener | Debt and | Energy | Financial | Digital | Home | Total | Total | ||||
| Apportionment | alist | Benefits | Projects | Capability | Suit | Connect | 2022 | 2021 | |||||
| Advice | Advice | ||||||||||||
| Direct costs: | |||||||||||||
| Salaries | Direct* | 99,644 | 111,116 | 74,489 | 9,753 | 1.240 | 314,641 | 267389 | |||||
| Staff & volunteers |
Direct* | 780 | 792 | 1,572 | 265 | ||||||||
| Other costs | Direct* | 26,801 | 4,173 | 60,362 | 22,301 | 13,836 | 127,473 | 97,154 | |||||
| Support costs | Staff/volunteer | hours** | 7,245 | 21,553 | 25,216 | 13,242 | 2,143 | 204 | 69,603 | 66,100 | |||
| 53225 | 126,162 | 196,694 | 87,731 | 34,197 | 15,280 | 513,290 | 430,908 | ||||||
| Support Costs: | |||||||||||||
| Salaries | Staff/volunteer | hours** | 903 | 1,885 | 2,294 | 1,158 | 195 | 6,435 | |||||
| Staff & volunteers |
Staff/volunteer | hours | 155 | 741 | 815 | 404 | 69 | 17 | 2,200 | ||||
| Office costs | Staff/volunteer | hours** | 3,779 | 11,521 | 13,550 | 7,269 | 1,188 | 57 | 37,364 | ||||
| Premises costs |
Staff/volunteer | hours** | 2,234 | 6,023 | 7,107 | 3,566 | 540 | 106 | 19,576 | ||||
| Governance costs |
Staff/volunteer | hours | 32 | 793 | 816 | 587 | 99 | 0 | 2327 | ||||
| Other costs | Staff/volunteer | hours** | 142 | 590 | 634 | 258 | 52 | 24 | 1,701 | ||||
| 7,245 | 21,553 | 25,216 | 13,242 | 2,143 | 204 | 69,603 |
| 9. Employees |
9. Employees |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The average | monthly | number | of employees | during the year was as | ||||
| follows: | ||||||||
| 2022 | 2021 | |||||||
| Administration | ||||||||
| Operational | staff | 15 | 13 | |||||
| 15 | 13 | |||||||
| No employee received (2021:None) |
remuneration | amounting | to more than f60,000 | in the period | ||||
| 10. Fixed |
Assets |
| Land & Buildings 9 |
Computer Equipment |
Fixtures, fittings and equipment 8 |
Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | ||||||||
| At 1 April | 2021 | 34,128 | 63,189 | |||||
| 29,061 | ||||||||
| Additions | ||||||||
| Disposals | ||||||||
| 29,061 | ||||||||
| Cost 31 March | 2022 | 34,128 | ||||||
| 63,169 | ||||||||
| Depreciation | 1 | April 2021 | 13,705 | 34,128 | 47,833 | |||
| Charge for the | year | 5,812 | 5,812 | |||||
| Disposals | ||||||||
| Depreciation | 31 March | 19,517 | 34,128 | 53,645 | ||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
| NBV as at | 31 | March 2022 | 9,544 | 9,544 | ||||
| NBV as at | 31 | March 2021 | 15,356 | 15,356 | ||||
| 11. Debtors | ||||||||
| 2022 | 2021 | |||||||
| E | E | |||||||
| Debtors | 79,859 | 45,062 | ||||||
| Prepayments | ||||||||
| Accrued | Income | 40,677 | 18,632 | |||||
| 120,536 | 63,694 | |||||||
| 12. Creditors | -amounts | falling due within one year | ||||||
| 2022 | 2021 | |||||||
| E | ||||||||
| Creditors | 27,260 | 56,503 | ||||||
| Accruals | 47,632 | 6,032 | ||||||
| Deferred | Income | 84,000 | 5,000 | |||||
| 158,892 | 67,535 |
| 2022 | 2021 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | |||||
| Tangible Fixed Assets |
9,544 | 9,544 | 15,536 | ||||
| Current Assets | 413,530 | 1,897 | 415,427 | 221,150 | |||
| Current Liabilities |
& Provisions | (233,895) | (233,895) | (102,535) | |||
| 189,179 | 1,897 | 191,076 | 133,971 | ||||
| 15. Movements |
in funds | - Current Year | |||||
| 1 Apr | Income | Expenditure | Transfers | 31 Mar | |||
| 2021 | 2022 | ||||||
| L' | F | L | |||||
| Restricted Funds |
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| MASDAP | 87,359 | (90,408) | 3,049 | ||||
| Financial Capability |
88,813 | (87,732) | (1,081) | ||||
| Help to Claim (via National |
Citizens Advice) | 37,651 | (35,754) | 1,897 | |||
| Energy Advice | Programme | 38,449 | (41,849) | 3,400 | |||
| Total Restricted | Funds | 252,272 | 255,743 | 5,368 | 1,897 | ||
| Total Unrestricted | funds | 133,971 | 318,124 | 257,547 | 5,368 | 189,180 | |
| Total Funds | 133,971 | 570,396 | 513,290 | 191,078 |
| 16. Movements | 16. Movements | in funds - Prior | in funds - Prior | Year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Apr | Income | Expenditure | Transfers | 31 Mar | ||||
| 2020 | 2021 | |||||||
| F | ||||||||
| Restricted Funds |
||||||||
| MASDAP | 74,765 | (76,477) | 1,712 | |||||
| Financial Capability |
25,006 | (25,942) | 936 | |||||
| Help to Claim | ||||||||
| (via National | Citizens Advice) | 38,352 | (38,334) | (18) | ||||
| Energy Advice | Programme | 21,000 | (21,930) | 930 | ||||
| COVID Response | ||||||||
| (National Lottery) |
88,487 | (88,686) | 199 | |||||
| NHS Benefits | 7,202 | 7,476 | 274 | |||||
| Total Restricted | Funds | 254,812 | 258,845 | 4,033 | ||||
| Total Unrestricted | funds | 92,392 | 217,675 | 172063 | 4,033 | 133,971 | ||
| Total Funds | 92,392 | 472,487 | 430,908 | 133,971 |