2023-03-31-accounts

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Company number: 03042108 (England & Wales)

Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity)

FINAL ACCOUNTS

Year ended 31 March 2023

Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) CHAIRS REPORT

Chairs Report 2022/2023

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and our staff team | am very pleased to present this year’s Annual Report and accounts for your information and scrutiny. | hope you will take the opportunity to read the Trustees Report which summarises some of the key achievements of our charity over the last year and the accounts which show the continuing solidity of our financial affairs. | am pleased to report that his has been another very positive year for our Charity with a significant growth in the number of people we have been able to support. Commissioners as varied as the County Council, the NHS, Children in Need and the Big Lottery have recognised the quality of the services we provide, and we thank them for their confidence in us.

Most importantly our core funding from North Yorkshire Council has been confirmed for a further five years with a possible extension of an additional three years. This is a heartening vote of confidence in the quality of the services we offer and the hard work of our staff and volunteers.

Our services have continued to be delivered against the background of the recovery from the COVID pandemic which had presented considerable operational challenges. Our services continue to be focused on the needs of the individual and the communities in which they live. Alongside our core offer to Adult Carers, Young Carers and Young Adult carers we have a portfolio of complementary services that support other vulnerable people in our local area, such as the Home from Hospital service and support to veterans. Increasing the range of services we provide makes our Charity more secure, as it means we can build on the skills of our staff, share the fixed costs across these projects and support more vulnerable people across what amounts to over half of —~ North Yorkshire.

We have also established a presence in the Bridlington area of the East Riding of Yorkshire delivering a home from hospital service funded by the Local Authority and Humber Coast and Vale NHS Partnership.

As you can see from the accounts our financial position is very stable with a growth in our income over the last year. The bulk of funding comes from our commissioners, but we have been successful in developing donations and support from the local business and professional community. | would like to thank them for their support.

The demand for our services continues to grow and the difficulties faced by carers and other vulnerable people are well documented by the stresses of recovery from the Covid pandemic and the pressures of the rising cost of living. There is increasing pressure on the NHS and social services nationally and locally and our role is to complement and support the work of the statutory sector.

The quality of our services is dependent on a skilled and committed team | would also like to thank our staff team, Trustees and volunteers for all their hard work over the last year. Building on the skills and knowledge of our staff team is a key part of our long-term strategy of sustainability and growth.

| hope you find the Trustees Report and Accounts informative and that you will continue to support the work of our Charity.

Michael Hunt Chair of Trustees

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT

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2022-2023 has been an incredibly fast paced, expansive and exciting year for CPY. Building on the success of 2021-2022 and the acquisition of new geographical reach, CPY has consolidated its activity across three key districts over the course of 2022-2023. Our work is now comfortably extended over: Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale / Hambleton and Richmondshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Each area with a slightly different portfolio but with a core of unpaid carer work at its heart to ensure we keep our focus and unique contributions at the fore.

In our full year operating as Carers Plus Yorkshire, our brand and name has become synonymous with high quality delivery, both reactive and responsive to the needs of an expanding client base.

Whilst the delivery team has tirelessly delivered on the ground (more about this later), the Management Team has worked on partnerships, existing and new, to ensure that our Charity is embedded in the right partnerships at the right time to maximise impact for our clients. This work has included ensuring we are appropriately represented at strategic and operational meetings, have been in a position to influence thinking (particularly around the engagement/needs of carers), and be ready to secure funding when it becomes available for application.

This year we are confident our mission statement has really hit home with our internal team, our clients and those we work with externally. Mission: ‘Carers Plus Yorkshire enables unpaid Carers and those we support in the Community to be heard, to feel empowered to improve their own wellbeing, and to make positive changes in their day to day lives.’ Throughout the year we have had evidence of clients, professionals and wider colleagues turning to us for information, guidance and support — real evidence of our growing value as a ‘go-to’ organisation.

As we come to the end of this year, we leave behind us some of our important work around the COVID 19 pandemic. We are delighted this work is drawing to a close, but still recognise that in all aspects of our current and continuing work the Cost-of-Living crisis has seamlessly taken COVID’s space in terms of its impact on community's vulnerabilities. Throughout the majority of this year, we have worked to support and guide multi-sector collaborations to keep communities a little safer, and a significant number of clients moving forward with their day to day lives.

Highlights from our specialist and free services to carers and non-carers include:

Carer Services:

Adult Carers Service:

The service continues to grow in terms of the number of Adult Carers accessing the service. We have seen particular increased interest from Parent Carers and have built an informative social network of Parents across the patches. This has proved a perfect model to combine our specialist internal support, attract relevant external specialist input, and develop a strong peer support network for people to access inside and outside of our shared time together.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

• e Through our ‘Network to Success’ provision in Hambleton and Richmondshire we have developed a more focused approach to categorising work around specific carer needs - our ‘spokes’ have included focused work on: Carers supporting veterans and veteran carers, carers of those with serious mental health, Memory Loss and Support After-Caring.

• e Our Armed Forces work is growing across each area with the help of two former serving personnel now on the team- their insight and specialist knowledge is helping carers and non-carers to navigate civilian life more comfortably. The ability of CPY to differentiate its service, language and approach has been key to the success of building a strong network and friendship groups at a local level.

• e Our work with external partners to be part of the ‘Transforming Community Mental Health’ agenda has led to the development of a spotlight on ‘Carers of someone with a Serious Mental Illness’; we have worked with Tees Esk and Wear Valley to co-facilitate groups (now well established) that allow Carers to ask the questions they really need too and to share their experiences for the benefit of others.

• e The successful introduction of a new ‘assessment, monitoring and review’ tool called the ‘Outcomes Star’ has been pivotal in changing the way we work with carers on their ‘journey of change’; it has presented them with greater ownership and personal self-direction.

Young Carers Service:

The young carers service (for those 8-18) has continued to build across Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale and Hambleton & Richmondshire areas. Notwithstanding the year being about bringing together a consistency of practice in our two key areas, we have worked to introduce a new assessment, monitoring and review tool (the Young Carers Star) to help drive forward action planning for their future.

Our work has included the development of our school support offer. We have a keen ambition to continue building on this in recognition that Young Carers are often in their ward for the largest amount of time in any one day — understanding and support in the school setting is paramount. Through the development and expansion of our Carers Champion Training we have started to take this to schools to further help a broad network of teachers and wider educational professionals understand the agenda.

Community Services:

‘At Place’ has been the theme of the year for our communities’ work — driven by a multi-sector agenda, we have taken our work ‘out’ to very local communities across Scarborough, Ryedale, Whitby - this has seen CPY venture into new premises, new partnerships and new service delivery over the course of the year. This year has felt busier than most:

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

My Neighbourhood: As we successfully worked through our final year of a 4.5 year long ‘wellbeing and prevention’ contract, we have been successful in securing multiple smaller bids to replace this contract funding and develop a patchwork of opportunities across the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale area. Whilst this transition has been challenging behind the scenes and will inevitably be more complex to manage than the previous one, the opportunities have given us a new platform on which to energise, innovate and stimulate very local level engagement.

Home from Hospital has had its most challenging year in terms of volume and ferocity of referrals; with little ‘let-up’ over the summer months, the inevitable winter pressures have seen record numbers accessing the service as we try to support the NHS management of its internal crisis. The team has been amazing in responding to the constant flow of clients, taking more clients from Accident and Emergency departments than ever before, reducing admissions and offering department staff the reassurances needed to confidently send patients home confident in the knowledge they are followed up and supported.

Volunteering: This year has helped us to reflect on our volunteering offer and ambitions; we have worked to refocus our paperwork, our training, our support offer and our range of opportunities. Our offer developed throughout the year included:

• e NHS volunteering - organised and developed on behalf of Humber NHS Teaching Foundation Trust

• e Carers Champion Training - an introductory training programme for employees to become a Carers Champion volunteer within their own workplace

• ¢ Peer Support Volunteers: working with our young adult carers, Parent Carers and/or adult carers, we sometimes need to identify (and deploy) those carers who have been through or are confident with their journey of change’ and are in a position to support others due to their level of experience, confidence and clarity of listening/thinking.

Action towards Inclusion: we have completed our final year of Action Towards Inclusion (our employability and training support). This service has had huge impact on the 120 lives it has supported — support that included clients gaining training/retraining, confidence and removal of barriers previously preventing employment; its impact has seen all clients move forward with their lives, emotionally, educationally, and financially as they move into new employment opportunities. Through the expertise of our specialist worker, we have been reapproached to work on the next phase of the provision in 23/24 - this will see a slight re-focus of the provision as the funding base changes from European Social Funding to Local Government based ‘levelling-up’ monies.

Different ways of working - spaces and places

What a difference a year makes! Hybrid working is now well established and no longer associated with just a COVID compliant way of working, but an essential to meet the needs of a busy work life. We see the flexibility for the staff is essential to ensure time is maximised and client needs are met.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

Our expansion into more structured places and spaces at a community level adds an additional dimension to the ‘home or office’ scenario and allows our staff team to have ultimate control of how and where they can most effectively work. We still are asking staff to be in the office on specific days (now dedicated to team or service catch-ups so the connectivity between colleagues is not lost). One of the good things to take forward as a legacy of COVID has been the team’s ability to operate virtually, as ‘one’ even if the physical connectivity is not always possible.

In terms of our clients, it appears this year ‘the more is the merrier’ in terms of us developing physical opportunities to connect - in many respects we feel our ‘normal’ pre-covid levels of activity face to face have returned. That said, the development of more sophisticated and diverse options to connect in-person and/or digitally has given us the perfect combination of ‘choice’ for all.

Different ways of working — partnerships and collaborations

Our collaborative partnership with a broadening network of organisations, sectors and funders has supported our successful positioning over the course of the year. As we move forward these will continue to take time and energy to ensure mutual benefit, integrity and true equality when working with others.

We have been (and will continue to be) selective in our working relationships such that we have been able to surround the organisation and our clients with partnerships that will add value to our work and more importantly maximise the shared impact we have across our full geography for each and every client, group and service.

Contractually we have purposefully extended the range of funders, donors and contracts we hold without compromising a very focused core of work. We feel moving forward it is more important than ever to ‘consolidate’ what we have in our portfolio at present, safe in the knowledge that maturing this at depth is consistent with our partners and collaborators wishes, as well as giving our clients more security and sustainable access.

Numbers and Impact

Whilst we recognise statistics only tell part of the story, we are keen to report the overall impact of our work on new clients. When collating an annual picture, the figures below capture the new referrals to each area of our service:

• e Adult Carer Service 1,039 e Young Adult Carers Service 55 e Young Carers Service 185 e Action Towards Inclusion 35 e My Neighbourhood 336 ° NHS Volunteering 45 ° Home from Hospital (North Yorkshire) 1375 ° Home from Hospital (East Riding) 542 ° Community Services 263

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Total new referrals

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

This year has been staggering in terms of numbers coming through and into service; these direct referral figures mask the overall level of engagement and interventions offered by the team to those registered and not registered with us (ie: not registered might include when clients attend open groups and do not require full registration with us and/or the number of interventions happening to support each referral).

Unwaveringly the Board of Trustees has helped to navigate the Charity through a very fast paced year. A year that has brought many new opportunities, a changing make-up of finances, and a ‘shift in’ the team dynamics as our staff and management team grows into a new internal structure to maximise the ground-level, day to day support for clients and partners.

Shared Values:

• e Respectful: Listening, exploring and providing an open, inclusive and supportive environment, where people can build on their strengths and thrive

• e Resourceful: Armed and grounded with the information we gather, our services and practice incorporate the needs and aspirations of the people we meet

• e Committed: We are solution-focused; operating in the reality of the moment, with understanding, experience and respect.

• e Sharing: Working together with people and partners, to make a real difference to individual lives, families and communities; supporting the principle of ‘us being stronger and better together’.

Core Objectives:

Carers Plus Yorkshire: the ‘go-to’ organisation offering support to Carers and the wider community across the coast and vale. We seek to operate through four underpinning objectives:

• e To offer independent, high quality, information advice and support through a range of services relevant to our local communities and in the interest of improving personal health and wellbeing

• e To proactively represent the voice and needs of the communities we serve; to listen, to respond and thereby influence the commissioning and delivery of services to accurately reflect needs

• e To raise awareness of the support available and ensure the localities we serve take full advantage of our services — especially by reaching out to those who are hidden in our communities and need encouragement to access advice and information

• ¢ To work in partnership through meaningful collaborations with a wide range of other organisations; maximising the resources and services available across our geographical area.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

Financial review

As in previous years the charity has actively applied for funding for the general running of the charity and has kept a close control over its expenditure. At 31 March 2023 the charity’s unrestricted funds showed a surplus of income over expenditure of £50,050 (2022: surplus of £107,906). The charity has used £15,536 of this surplus to cover overspends on various Young Carers projects. At 31 March 2023 unrestricted funds totalled £404,619 (2022: £380,195) which is above its stated reserves policy (below) and is held to cover any shortfalls in funding on its long running projects, as noted. Of this amount, £22,053 (2022: £15,237) is held as designated unrestricted funds for the purpose of Young Carers projects.

The charity, in line with the restrictions and timescales placed upon its restricted funds, has utilised the funds provided to it in the previous year. The results in these financial statements show the Charity’s restricted funds with a surplus of income over expenditure in the year of £57,935 (2022: £43,154). At 31 March 2023 restricted funds held by the charity total £283,396 (2022: £199,835) and these funds will be expended on their specific projects in the forthcoming financial year.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

Investment policy

The Board of Trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for investing funds and has found that the CAF Charity Service meets their requirements for security of funds and achieves a competitive rate of interest as well as allowing easy access to the capital.

Reserves policy

The Trustees consider sufficient reserves should be held to fulfil their duty of prudence and to fulfil the cost and legal obligations to wind up the charity should it be necessary. However, it is the view of the Trustees that this must be balanced by the need to invest in services to fulfil our charitable purpose. The Reserves Policy was reviewed in March 2023 as follows:

1. The Trustees consider that unrestricted cash reserves are required for the following reasons:

2. a) To enable CPY to maintain its core contracted services for a period of 3 months b) To provide for non-funded staffing costs such as redundancy, staff sickness or parental leave arrangements and from unforeseen compliance costs relating to new or changing legislation

3. c) To provide alternative funding to meet any shortfall against a planned deficit budget d) Contractual obligations for current lease arrangements

4. Amount of cash reserves to be held:

5. The amount set for the above reasons will fluctuate annually, but as a general rule* the equivalent of 3 months running costs will be held.

   • *If CPY is deemed financially and contractually secure, Trustees can agree to access reserves for development purposes.

6. Cash reserves sufficient for the immediate future are already held and the Trustees will endeavour to maintain them at an appropriate level by taking account of future provision requirements when setting the annual budget.

7. The Trustees will monitor the level of cash reserves when considering the quarterly reports from the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees

Cash reserves sufficient for the immediate future are already held and the trustees will endeavour to maintain them at an appropriate level by taking account of future provision requirements when setting the annual budget. Reserves are monitored by the Board of Trustees on a quarterly basis.

-9Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued) Reference and administrative details Full name ofthe charity: Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited Company registration number 03042108 (England & Wales) Registered charity number 1046228 Registered office of the charity 96 High Street Snainton Scarborough YO13 9A) Advisors Independent auditors J W Smith & Co Ltd Chartered Accountants 17A Yorkersgate Malton North Yorkshire YO17 7AA Bankers HSBC Plc 27 Market Place Malton North Yorkshire YO17 7LU CAFBANK Limited PO Box 289 West Malling ME19 4TA

Virgin Money 24 Huntriss Row Scarborough YO11 2EG

Directors and trustees

The directors of the charitable company (the charity) are its trustees for the purposes of charity law. The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:-

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

Key management personnel

Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth McPherson

Structure, governance and management Governing document The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 5 April 1995 and registered as a charity on 5 May 1995.

As of 30th June 2022 the Articles of Association were amended to reflect the name change and the increase in geographical cover.

The company was established under a Memorandum of Association, which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. Under those Articles, the trustees of the charity are elected at the Annual General Meeting to serve a period of three years, subject to ratification at each Annual General Meeting.

Appointment of trustees, induction and training

Identification of potential new Trustees is assisted by a skills audit of the current Board. Any gaps in skills or experience can then inform targeted recruitment. Carers Plus Yorkshire’s only members are only those as appointed as Trustees of the Charity. New Trustees can be co-opted by the Board at any time through the year, co-opted Trustees are then nominated and elected at the next AGM. The recruitment process is by written application and interview with the Chair and Chief Executive Officer. The Chair then recommends their nomination or co-option to the Board.

Newly appointed Trustees are registered with both the Charity Commission and Companies House. They undergo full induction into the organisation, including shadowing staff to get first-hand knowledge of work ‘on the ground’. Relevant and appropriate training is on-going.

Organisation

The board of trustees administers the charity. The board normally meets 6 weekly. A Chief Executive Officer is appointed by the trustees to manage the day-today operations of the charity. To facilitate effective operations the CEO has delegated authority, within terms of delegation approved by the trustees, for operational matters

Related parties and co-operation with other organisations

None of the trustees receive remuneration or other benefit from their work with the charity. Any connection between a trustee or senior manager of the charity with any contractual relationship with a related party must be disclosed to the full board of trustees. In the current year no such related party transactions were reported.

Pay policy for senior staff

The trustees and the Chief Officer comprise the key management personnel of the charity in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the charity on a daily basis. All trustees give their time freely and no trustee received remuneration in the year. Details of trustees’ expenses and related party transactions are disclosed in note 8 to the accounts.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having

a share capital and registered as a charity) TRUSTEES’ REPORT (Continued)

Risk management

The Board of Trustees have identified the major risks to which the charity is exposed. These are reviewed continually as are the systems established to mitigate those risks.

Responsibilities of the trustees

Company law requires the trustees to prepare the financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources for that year. In preparing those accounts the trustees are required to:-

• state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

• make judgements and 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 its activities.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

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Dated: 22 September 2023

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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd (the 'charity') for the year ended 31 March 2023, which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising Charities SORP - FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and applicable law (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the charity's affairs as at 31 March 2023 and of its results for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you where:

• • the trustees use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is not appropriate; or
• • the trustees have not disclosed in the financial statements any identified material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt about the charity’s ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting for a period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd

Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

• ¢ the information given in the for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

• the has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Trustees Report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

• adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

• ¢ the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• certain disclosures of trustees remuneration specified by law are not made; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of trustees

The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or crror, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK), we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:

• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the charity’s internal control. ;

• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the trustees.

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Carers:Plus Yorkshire Ltd

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‘Dated: 22 September2023

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) for the year ended 31 March 2023

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||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |2023|2023|2023|2022| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total| |funds|funds| |Notes|£|£|£|£| |Income|from:| |Donations|and|legacies|2|4,260|36,505|40,764|33,122| |Charitable|activities|3|319,796|1,018,794|1,338,590|953,434| |Other trading|activities|4|1,053|159|1,212|2,021| |Investment|income|5|1,490|-|1,490|112| |Coronavirus|funds|-|-|-|36,225| |Merger funds|-|-|-|2,018| |HRCC|asset|transfer|income|-|-|-|94,182| |Total|income|326,599|1,055,457|1,382,057|1,121,115| |Expenditure|on:| |Raising|funds|2,754|39|2,793|1,816| |Charitable|activities|273,795|997,484|1,271,279|968,239| |Total|resources|expended|6|276,549|997,523|1,274,072|970,054| |Net|income|8|50,050|57,935|107,985|151,060| |Transfer|between|funds|(25,626)|25,626|-|-| |Net|movement|in|funds|24,424|83,561|107,985|151,060| |Total funds|at|1|April|2022|380,195|199,835|580,030|428,970| |Total funds|at|31|March|2023|15|404,619|283,396|688,015|580,030|

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All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

	Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited	Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited
	(Acompany limited byguarantee and not having
	a share capital and registered as a charity)
		BALANCE SHEET
		As at 31 March 2023
			2023	2022
		£	£	£
	Notes
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets	11		32,958	30,716
CURRENTASSETS
Debtors	12	16,229		56,246
Cash at bankand in	hand	985,302		759,553
		1,001,530		815,799
CREDITORS: Amounts falling
due within oneyear	13	346,474		266,485
NETCURRENTASSETS			655,057	549,314
NETASSETS	14		688,015	580,030
UNRESTRICTED FUNDS
General funds		382,566		364,958
Designated funds		22,053		15,237
			404,619	380,195
RESTRICTED FUNDS
Restricted funds			283,396	199,835
TOTALFUNDS	15		688,015	580,030

The trustees and directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

The notes on pages 16 to 25 form an integral part of these accounts.

The income and expenditure account has not been delivered to the Registrar of Companies.

These accounts, which have been prepared in accordance with the provisions in the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies, were approved by the trustees and directors on 22 September 2023 and signed orttheir behalf by: Trustee — Jahn Michea Trustee — 30 HN SUdD ARMY

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) CASH FLOW STATEMENT for the year ended 31 March 2023

	for thethe year ended 31 March 2023
		2023	2022
		£	£
A.Cash	Cash Flowfrom operating activities
B.	Net Income	107,985	151,060
	Adjustments for:
	Depreciation (including obsolescence) of non-current asset	11,600	9,949
	Operating profit beforeworking capital changes	119,585	161,009
	Adjustments for: (A NetWorking Capital)
	(Increase) /decrease in loans and receivables	40,017	(42,446)
	Increase/ (decrease) in trade payable	(1,460}	2,257
	increase / (decrease) in other current liabilities	81,449	39,509
	A NetWorking Capital (From 01.04.22 to 31.03.23)	120,006	(680)
	Cash (used in)/generated from operating activities	239,590	160,329
C.Cash	Cash flowfrom investing activities:
	Purchase ofproperty, plant, and equipment	(13,841)	(22,232)
	Cash (used in)/from investing activities	(13,841)	(22,232)
	Free Cash Flow (FCF) - (A+B)	225,749	138,097
D.Cash	Cash flowfrom financing activities	-	-
	Net cash (used in)/from financing activities	-	-
	Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents	225,749	138,097
	(FCF + C)
Cash and cash equivalents atthe beginning ofthe year(Bank Balance+ CIL) 759,553			621,456
Cashand cash equivalents atthe end oftheyear (Bank Balance + CIL)		985,302	759,553
-Bankbalance		985,302	759,553
Notes:

1. Cash flow statement has been prepared under the indirect method.

2. Cash and cash equivalents represent Petty cash and bank balances.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparation

The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared under the historic cost convention, with items recognised at cost or transaction value, unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:

• a) The Charities Act 2011 b) The Companies Act 2006 c) The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland: (FRS102)

• d) Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (Charities SORP FRS102) (effective January 2015)

Cashflow exemption

Exemption has been taken from preparing a cashflow statement on the grounds that the charitable company qualifies as a small charity.

Public Benefit

The charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity as defined by FRS102.

Going concern basis

The trustees and directors consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Recognition of incoming resources

These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when:

• the charity becomes entitled to the resources;

• • the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and - the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability;

Grants and donations Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

Revenue grants are recognised in the SOFA so as to match them with the expenditure towards which they are intended to contribute.

Grants which contribute towards specific expenditure on fixed assets are credited to the statement of Financial Activities over the expected useful lives of the related assets.

Contractual income and performance related grants

These are only included in the SOFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.

Volunteer help

The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is described in the trustees’ annual report.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)

Investment income

investment income is included in the accounts when receivable.

Liability recognition

Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.

Governance costs

Include costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters.

Support costs

Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to fund categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources and the staff hours incurred.

Pensions

The Company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable for the year are charged to the profit and loss account.

Operating leases

Rentals payable under operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities as incurred over the term of the lease.

Unrestricted funds

Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources receivable or generated for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds. Unrestricted funds can be transferred to cover deficits on restricted funds only on the agreement of the trustees.

Designated funds

Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the charity for particular purposes.

Restricted funds

Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets these criteria is charged to the fund, together with a fair allocation of management and support costs.

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible assets are included at cost and depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life:

Office equipment 33.50% Straight line basis All capital expenditure is capitalised irrespective of value.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. INCOME FROM DONATIONS AND LEGACIES

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||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |2023|2022| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total| |£|£|£|£| |Donations|and|legacies| |Donations|4,260|36,505|40,764|33,122| |3.|INCOME|FROM|CHARITABLE|ACTIVITIES| |Carers’|grants|-|4,396|4,396|4,795| |Carers|Resource|service|contract funding| |-|NYCC Adult &|Community|Services|North| |Yorkshire|&|York|PCT|271,377|-|271,377|245,262| |NYCC Young|Carers|Service|24,791|91,387|116,178|118,072| |Scarborough|Whitby &|Ryedale|Mind|2,000|-|2,000|-| |Children|in|Need|-|500|500|-| |2|Ridings|-|1,700|1,700|5,222| |Action|Towards|Inclusion|-|48,725|48,725|50,761| |The|Carers|Resource — Veterans|Project|-|35,583|35,583|33,542| |Wellbeing &|Prevention|Service|-|90,444|90,444|82,728| |Home from|Hospital|-|202,141|202,141|102,348| |Triangle Trust|-|-|-|14,251| |Starfish|grant|-|47,139|47,139|46,929| |Home|2|Hospital|grant|-|39,420|39,420|38,549| |Community|Fund|YAC’s|-|17,161|17,161|50,453| |Community Support Organisation|grant|-|74,625|74,625|17,300| |Northallerton|Making Carers|Count|(2021-2024)|-|61,386|61,386|25,958| |Carers|with|Active|Confidence|grants|=|-|-|320| |NHS Volunteering|-|27,327|27,327|19,608| |East|Riding|(Help for Health &|Smile|Foundation)|-|15,000|15,000|20,000| |AC|Service|Restricted|Income —|Northallerton|Adult|-|-|-|5,270| |Freemasons|Funding|-|-|-|37,272| |Community|Conversations|(Eastfield)|Funding|-|-|-|19,954| |The|Everyone|Project|(Mindfulness)|-|-|-|750| |Beecan|Green|Social|Prescribing|2|-|-|10,000| |Rotary|Club|of Scarborough — Eastfield|-|500|500|-| |NHS App|Engagement|(Mar 22 — Mar 23)|-|-|-|666| |NHS App|Funding|1,333|-|1,333|-| |NHS Voluntary|Services|-|41,008|41,008|-| |HMRA (50%|as|request|for|payment)|-|23,194|23,194|-| |Brid|Carers|(WB) — Smile|Foundation|1,275|23,521|24,796|-| |Yorkshire|Housing|Grants|1,200|-|1,200| |Brothers|Trim|Funding|-|-|-|750| |FFTF|Grant|-|-|-|800| |Adult|Mental|Health|(RDC|Income)|-|-|-|1,875| |Beating the Squeeze|2,000|-|2,000|-| |Warm|Welcome|Fund|Grant|120|-|120|-| |Woodsmith|Cost|of|Living|Grant|3,000|-|3,000|-| |Integration|of VCSE|activity|(Beyond|Housing)|5,000|-|5,000|-|

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

				2023	2022
		Unrestricted	Restricted	Total	Total
		£	£	£
	Sandra McCabe—Scarborough	2,700	-	2,700	-
	CFY—System Pressures MH Support	-	6,500	6,500	-
	CFY Building BetterConnections	-	17,935	17,935	-
	TCMH Catterick Garrison	-	26,000	26,000	-
	Food Bank Support (Stronger Communities)	-	10,000	10,000	-
	Hull CCG East RidingHFM	-	21,083	21,083	-
	Active Humber	-	7,865	7,865	-
	Northallerton General	5,000	-	5,000	-
	Healthwatch MH consultations	-	3,000	3,000	-
	NYCC—NATE Holdinggrant	-	700	700	-
	NYCC PeerSupport Grant	-	20,000	20,000	~
	Big Lottery— Networkto Success	-	60,553	60,553	-
		319,796	1,018,794	1,338,590	953,435
4.	INCOME FROM OTHER ACTIVITIES
	Insurance Claim	-	-	-	506
	Miscellaneous income	1,053	159	1,212	1,515
		1,053	159	1,212	2,021
5.	INVESTMENT INCOME
	Bankinterestreceivable	1,490	-	1,490	112

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

:

6.	ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE
	Raisingfunds
	Conferences and Networking	2,754	39	2,793	1,816
		2,754	39	2,793	1,816
	Charitable activities
	Staffcosts	207,717	809,063	1,016,779	733,627
	Volunteer expenses	-	1,090	1,090	2,364
	Travel expenses	2,251	43,920	46,171	26,266
	Premises costs	14,225	18,020	32,245	28,039
	Recruitment and stafftraining costs	5,715	4,937	10,652	14,637
	Officeequipment costs	3,397	12,379	15,775	15,707
	Depreciation	5,210	6,390	11,600	9,949
	Communications	3,415	11,207	14,622	14,504
	Printing, stationery and postage	395	6,984	7,379	10,199
	Advertisingand publicity	2,100	3,254	5,355	13,694
	Books, periodicals & subscriptions	373	2,224	2,617	2,929
	Insurance	2,690	2,940	5,630	4,587
	Health Care Expenses	2,206	-	2,206	-
	Carers’ grants and events expenses	153	11,273	11,426	12,105
	Project activity expenses	12,781	45,776	58,557	29,352
	Sundryexpenses	1,926	3,585	5,511	5,866
	Accountancy	572	2,521	3,093	2,846
	Auditorfees	4,950	-	4,950	4,500
	Consultancy and sessionalworkfees	2,774	11,900	14,674	30,312
	Legal and professional fees	13	-	13	5,252
	Bank charges	210	-	210	157
	AGM expenses	75	-	75	18
	Fundraising expenses	648	-	648	-
	Coronavirus costs	-	-	-	1,328
		273,795	997,484	1,271,279	968,239
	Total	276,549	997,523	1,274,072	970,054
7.	SUPPORT COSTS
				2023	2022
		Unrestricted	Restricted	Total	Total
		£	£	£	£
	Charitable activities:
	General office and finance staff costs	4,875	21,391	26,266	26,266
	Premises costs	352	1,545	1,897	1,649
	Communications	160	700	860	853
		5,387	23,636	29,023	28,768

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

8. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) FOR THE YEAR

This is stated after charging: -

2023 2022 Depreciation 11,600 9,949 Trustees remuneration - -

There were no related party transactions in the year.

9.	STAFF COSTS AND NUMBERS
	Staff costswere as follows:-
	Wages and salaries	918,102	663,391
	Social security costs	70,182	50,595
	Pension	28,496	19,641
		1,016,780	733,627

No employee received emoluments of more than £60,000. The average number of employees during the year was 44 (2022: 34).

10. TAXATION

The company is accepted as a charity for tax purposes and is exempt from tax on its income or gains to the extent that they are applied for charitable purposes.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

11. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

11.	TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
			Plant and
			machinery
			etc.
			£
	COST
	At 1 April 2022		86,596
	Additions		13,841
	Disposals		-
	At 31 March 2023		100,437
	DEPRECIATION
	At 1 April 2022		55,879
	Charge foryear		11,600
	Eliminated on disposals		-
	At 31 March 2023		67,479
	NET BOOK VALUE
	At 31 March 2023		32,958
	At 31 March 2022		30,716
12.	DEBTORS: Amounts falling due within oneyear
		2023	2022
		£	£
	Trade debtors	6,642	49,920
	Other debtors	9,587	6,326
		16,229	56,246
13.	CREDITORS: Amounts fallingdue within one year
		2023	2022
	Performance related grants received in advance	317,032	228,712
	Tax and social security	-	20,690
	Othercreditors	29,442	17,083
		346,474	224,719

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

14. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

	General	Designated	Restricted	Total
	funds	funds	funds	funds
Tangible fixed assets	18,613	-	14,344	32,958
Investments	-	-	-	-
Current assets	587,124	22,053	392,355	1,001,531
Current liabilities	(223,171)	-	(123,303)	(346,474)
	382,566	22,053	283,396	688,015

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS

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||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Balance|Incoming|Outgoing|Balance| |1|April|2022|resources|resources|Transfers|31 March|2023| |Restricted|funds| |Carers|and|holding grants|395|4,396|3,941|-|850| |Capital|Grants|57|-|19|-|38| |Big|Lottery|Reaching|Communities|455|-|152|=|303| |NYCC Young Carers|-|65,730|71,746|6,016|-| |BBC|Children|in|Need|—|Starfish|1|-|-|-|-|-| |Action Towards|Inclusion|(1,922)|48,725|46,597|-|205| |NY Sport|- Tackling|Inequalities|Fund|2,914|-|2,914|-|-| |Wellbeing &|Prevention|Service|15,317|83,784|94,807|-|4,294| |Home from|Hospital|26,488|202,142|192,422|-|36,209| |Sirius|Minerals|Foundation|4,546|-|4,546|-|-| |Young|Carers|Projects|-|450|4,537|4,087|-| |Big|Lottery Community|Fund YACs|5,089|17,161|22,249|-|-| |Hospital|2|Home|2,836|39,484|35,887|-|6,433| |Caring with|Active|Confidence|149|-|140|90|99| |BBC|Children|in|Need|-|Starfish|2|1,186|47,639|48,382|-|443| |Scarborough|Foundation|5,500|-|5,500|-|-| |Community|Support Organisation|12,869|74,625|67,038|-|20,456| |Coronavirus funds|5,986|-|2,006|-|3,980| |Community|Connect|-|Big|Lottery|831|-|576|-|255| |Winter Volunteering (NHS|Humber)|1,486|68,335|36,851|-|32,970| |Freemasons — Stronger Together|11,105|=|11,105|2|-| |Veterans — Armed|Forces|Covenant|Fund|3,603|35,583|33,650|-|5,536| |Northallerton Young|-|61,712|67,145|5,433|-| |Northallerton|Making|Carers Count|4,317|61,386|62,738|-|2,965| |East|Riding|6,858|15,000|20,858|-|1,000| |(Help|for|Heath|&|Smile|Foundation)| |Big|Lottery — Network|to Success|(120)|60,553|58,861|-|1,572| |Hull|CCG|East|Riding|HFH|11|21,083|20,126|-|967| |CFY — System|Pressures MH|Support|-|6,500|311|-|6,189| |Brid|Carers|(WB) — Smile|Foundation|-|23,521|20,905|-|2,616| |HRCC Asset Transfer|89,878|-|1,474|-|88,404| |TCMH|Catterick|Garrison|-|11,000|11,000|-|-| |:|Festival|of Green|-|-|6,808|10,000|3,192| |Food|bank support|-|10,000|10,000|-|-| |Active|Humber|-|7,865|-|-|7,865| |Eastfield|project|(120 Westway)|-|500|1,389|-|(899)| |Two|Ridings|cost|of|living|crisis grant|-|1,700|1,700|-|-| |Healthwatch|MH|consultations|-|3,000|3,000|-|-| |Transforming|Community|Mental|Health|-|15,000|-|-|15,000| |Peer support|(NYCC)|-|20,000|22|-|19,978| |HWRA|-|23,194|19,359|-|3,835| |CFY|Building|Better|connections|-|17,935|“|-|17,935| |Cash|of|causes — Soup,|BAP &|Banter|-|4,000|4,000|-|-| |Cash|of|causes — Veterans|GRPS|-|2,755|2,755|-|-|

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

	Balance	Incoming	Outgoing		Balance
	1 April 2022	resources	resources	Transfers	31 March 2023
6 charitiesTogether	-	-	8	-	(8)
Holding Grants	-	700	-	-	700
Total restricted funds	199,835	1,055,457	997,523	25,626	283,396
Unrestricted funds
General funds	362,948	174,965	135,353	(20,193)	382,367
Northallerton general funds	2,011	133,784	130,162	(5,433)	199
Designated funds Snainton YC	15,237	16,100	10,968	-	20,369
Designated funds Northailerton YC	-	1,750	66	-	1,684
Total unrestricted funds	380,196	326,599	276,549	(25,626)	404,619
Totalfunds	580,030	1,382,057	1,274,072	-	688,015

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS

Purpose of restricted funds

Carers’ grants enable local/regional/national grant giving organisations to support carers’ identified needs and provide much needed financial assistance to them and their families. These are funds held on behalf of the carers.

Big Lottery Fund — Reaching Communities is a four year grant towards the costs of a further project to support adult carers (16 — 35 years old). This project finished in July 2019, the closing balance as shown at 31* March 2023 of £303 consists of fixed asset to be depreciated in future years.

NYCC Young Carers is the contract with NYCC for providing a support service to Young Carers from 8-18 years of age. Trustees recognise that this project needs to be subsidised by our unrestricted reserves, with a closing deficit in the fund of £6,016 being covered by transfer from unrestricted reserves.

Action Towards Inclusion was originally a three-year grant funding to assist organisations to support vulnerable people (including carers) who are facing all sorts of barriers in returning to work, training or education. The lead partner is Your Consortium, and the funding is part of the national Building Opportunities programme which is jointly funded by the Big Lottery and European Social Fund. Delivery on this project finished in September 2019; we were lucky to receive an extension of the project for a further 3 years and then a second extension of 9-months to secure the project up to June 2023. The closing balance as shown at 31st March 2023 of £205 includes fixed assets of £87 to be depreciated in future years.

NY Sport — Tackling Inequalities was a fund aimed at developing a programme of Health & Wellbeing to Young Carers aged 8 — 18 and to help fund the costs of the Adult Caring with Active Confidence Sessions.

Capital Grants were grants received to cover the cost of new computer equipment and furniture. The closing balance as shown at 31° March 2023 of £38 consists of fixed assets to be depreciated in future years.

Wellbeing and Prevention service — working title of ‘My Neighbourhood’ — funded by NYCC, My Neighbourhood connects communities and provides support to people who may be isolated, lonely or need a bit of extra help. The service is for anyone aged 18 or over, not necessarily a carer and is delivered in partnership with Ryedale Carers Support. The closing balance as shown at 31° March 2023 of £4,294, includes fixed assets of £620 to be depreciated in future years.

Home from Hospital is a service for anyone aged 18 or over, to provide short-term help to those who are returning from hospital and need some support. Help includes anything from essential food shopping to organising ongoing support with other agencies. It does not provide personal care. CPY are subcontracted by Harrogate Carers Resource to deliver Home from Hospital in the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale areas. The closing balance as shown at 31t March 2023 of £36,209 includes fixed assets of £482 to be depreciated in future years.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

15. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS Purpose of restricted funds

Sirius Minerals Foundation was funding to help pay for extra staff time to cope with the workload of Covid-19. It also funded client bursaries and engagement packs in the Ryedale area.

Young Carer Projects are funds provided by various organisations, individuals and collections specifically for work with Young Carers. The funds will provide the resources for varying purposes from fun activities to structured workshops. Trustees recognise that this project needs to be subsidised by our unrestricted reserves, with a closing deficit in the fund of £4,087 being covered by transfer from unrestricted reserves.

Big Lottery Community Fund YACs — a continuation of the Young Adult Carer project, again funded by the Big Lottery. Funding finished in July 2022. The project aimed to support young adult carers aged 16-35 to equip them with the confidence and skills to remedy life issues that may prevent them progressing and reaching their potential. To encourage them to see past their caring role to a future where they can achieve personally and professionally with the same opportunities as their non-caring peers. Supporting Young Adult Carers is now embedded into our core work, we are grateful to the Big Lottery for continued funding for this specific group of carers. The new funding starts in April 2023 for 3 years.

Hospital 2 Home is a new contract with East Riding of Yorkshire Council, providing a service similar to Home from Hospital in North Yorkshire. Short-term help for those who live in the East Riding of Yorkshire, mainly Bridlington and Driffield areas, being discharged from hospital. The contract was originally a 12-month project; we were fortunate enough to have the contract extended year on year, with the current contract going to March 2024. The closing balance as shown at 31st March 2023 of £6,433 includes fixed assets of £279 to be depreciated over future years.

Caring with Active Confidence is for carers 18+ years old, to come together to gain peer support and share experiences. Sessions are planned with carers involvement and carers help to facilitate the group as volunteers. These sessions have been mainly running virtually through Zoom when Covid-19 has prevented any face-to-face sessions. The original funding for this project came from a Carers Trust grant and we managed to secure further funding from 2 Ridings to extend sessions. The closing balance as shown at 31°t March 2023 of £99 consists of fixed assets to be depreciated in future years.

Starfish 2 funded by BBC Children in Need and carried on from the original and successful ‘Starfish’ Project. Originally a 3 year project and extended for a further year, finishing Sept 2023. The project is for Young Carers and enables us to extend support we can offer through the core NYCC contract. Starfish 2 focusses on helping young carers look forward, helping them gain skills and confidence needed to move forward with their lives. Also, to empower them to help other young carers through voice and representation — to inform adults with influence. The fund includes fixed assets to be depreciated in future years of £783.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited (A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

15. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS — continued

Purpose of restricted funds — continued

Scarborough Foundation is for supporting Young Carers with various activities, including a monthly Youth Club and individual bursaries to Young Carers to improve their ‘social mobility’. Other aspects to the funding include positive mindset coaching with an external facilitator which helped young carers with stress reduction and mental resilience.

Going Further Going Higher is a 2 year project funded by Carers Trust. Only 4 Network Partners in the country were awarded the project. The project aims to increase recruitment and retention rates of YAC’s in further or higher education, by empowering and training Young Adult Carers to act as Ambassadors in their colleges. They will help to create a more inclusive environment for new students who are also Young Adult Carers.

YAC Quilters is another fund gained through Carers Trust for supporting Young Adult Carers through activities. This was a 9-month project to employ a dedicated activity worker to support the core service currently provided to YAC’s through the Big Lottery Community Fund.

Community Support Organisation set up by NYCC as part of their response to the Covid-19 outbreak. A partnership between Carers Plus Yorkshire, Ryedale Carers Support, Ryedale Community Transport to help co-ordinate a number of localised Covid-19 networks across the Ryedale area to help Ryedale communities meet the challenges of Covid-19. The closing balance as shown at 31°t March 2023 of £20,456 consists of fixed assets of £221 to be depreciated over future years.

Coronavirus Funds is a collection of 10 separate funding streams including 2 Ridings, Triangle Trust, NYCC, National Lottery Community Fund, Carers Trust and Ryedale District Council. The funding primarily aimed to maximise the support that Carers Plus Yorkshire could provide during the Covid-19 pandemic. This enabled us to employ new staff and offering more hours to current members of staff. Working from home provided new challenges so the funding helped to buy new IT equipment for our staff, in particular laptops; these were necessary to help our clients whilst working in the office was not possible. Other expenditure included staff wellbeing calls, client materials and personal protective equipment. The closing balance as shown at 31° March 2023 of £3,980 consists of fixed assets to be depreciated over future years.

Adult Mental Health involved two funders — 2 Ridings and Ryedale District Council. The funding allowed us to appoint an external mental health specialist who would offer direct 1 to 1 support to our adult carers allowing us to better equip them before challenges took hold.

Community Connect was funding by the Big Lottery. This paid for a community link worker and a volunteer co-ordinator for a six-month period. The project is completed, the closing balance as shown at 31% March 2023 of £255 consists of fixed assets to be depreciated in future years.

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(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS - continued

Purpose of restricted funds — continued

Winter Volunteering from NHS Humber was funding for the development of a volunteer coordinator to recruit and focus volunteer support in Malton Hospital. The current funding is until December 2023.

Freemasons — Stronger Together is a one-year project finishing in May 2022 from the Masonic Foundation. The fund provided support to our core adult services with a new member of staff and added resources for groups.

Veterans — Armed Forces Covenant Fund is designed to support veteran carers and those who are caring for veterans to build the confidence, skills and knowledge they need to 'care with confidence’. The project was originally funded for 2 years until April 2023 and has been extended for a further year. The closing balance of £5,536 includes fixed assets of £447 to be depreciated in future years.

NYCC Northallerton Young Carers is the contract with NYCC for providing a support service to Young Carers from 8 — 18 years of age in the Hambleton & Richmondshire areas. Trustees recognise that this project needs to be subsidised by our unrestricted reserves, with a closing deficit in the fund of £5,433 being covered by transfer from unrestricted reserves.

Northallerton Making Carers Count is a 2 % year long project funded by Carers Trust ending in March 2024. The project was to expand our Young Carer and Young Adult Carer services into the Hambleton and Richmondshire areas. The closing balance of £2,965 includes of fixed assets of £283 to be depreciated over future years.

East Riding (Smile Foundation) is a fund to establish a carers support network for unpaid, family carers across the Bridlington area. The closing balance of £1,000 consist of fixed assets of £589 to be depreciated over future years and a useable fund of £411.

Brid Carers (Smile Foundation) — as East Riding (Smile Foundation) above. To support the carers support network for unpaid carers in the Bridlington area.

Community Conversations (Eastfield) is fund from Scarborough Council aiming to improve the balance of community voice within the decisions made in (and for) Eastfield’s journey of change. By capturing the ‘Voices of Eastfield’ through a variety of means, we will ensure residents are heard and their ideas/concerns/ambitions.

Big Lottery — Network to Success is a 2 year fund to complement our core adult services in Hambleton and Richmondshire areas with a series of specialist spokes. These will be helping those living with Dementia and memory loss, poor mental health, veteran caring (for carers of veterans and veteran carers), after caring, life as a parent carer, voice and representation (effecting change).

Hull CCG East Riding HFH is a 12 month fund to complement the existing home from hospital fund in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ended 31 March 2023

1. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS - continued

Purpose of restricted funds — continued

HRCC Asset Transfer is the final transfer of assets held by Hambleton and Richmondshire Carers Centre on the day they ceased trading. The transfer had been agreed by all parties in the merger process. The balance of £88,404 consists of fixed assets of £2,927 to be depreciated over future years and a useable fund of £85,477, which is to be used in the Hambleton & Richmondshire area in the following years.

TCMH Catterick Garrison — to support groups of carers in Hambleton & Richmondshire offering peer support.

Active Humber — supporting Carer activities in the East Riding.

Eastfield project (120 Westway) — a new project starting spring 2023. Funding from North Yorkshire Council for one year to set up a Community Hub and to deliver activities in the local area.

Transforming Community Mental Health grants — the first of various small grants for one year starting April 2023 to help with access to low level mental health support.

Peer Support (NYCC) — to establish a bank of volunteers for matching with carers for mutual support. Based in Hambleton and Richmondshire.

HWRA— to help establish a network of micro providers in and for local areas. Funded by Humber and Wolds Rural Action.

1. PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those ofthe charity in an independently administered fund. Contributions payable by the charity to the scheme for the year totalled £28,495 (2022: £19,641). At 31 March 2023 pension contributions payable by the charity to the scheme totalling £nil (2022: £nil) were outstanding and are included in other creditors.

2. ANNUAL COMMITMENTS UNDER OPERATING LEASES At 31 March 2023, the charity had an annual operating lease commitment which expires as follows:-

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The charity renewed its six year lease on premises in Snainton in April 2021 for a further six years at £13,500 pa, increasing to £15,000 from April 2024. The lease for the Northallerton office was transferred to the charity with an end date of November 2025 at £8,500 pa, with a review scheduled for November 2023.

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Carers Plus Yorkshire Limited

(A company limited by guarantee and not having

a share capital and registered as a charity) INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT

for the year ended 31 March 2023

		2023	2022
Income		£	£
	NYCC Carers’ Resource service	453,256	363,334
	Carers’ grants	65,782	4,794
	Other grants	741,337	585,306
	Donations	40,764	33,122
	Fundraising events	-	-
	Coronavirus funds	-	36,225
	Miscellaneous income	1,212	2,021
	Big Lottery Fund—YoungAdult Carers	17,161	-
	Big Lottery Fund—Network to Success	60,553	-
	BBC Children in Need	500	-
	Merger Income	-	2,018
	Interest receivable	1,490	112
		1,382,057	1,026,933
Oher	Income
	HRCC asset transfer income	-	94,182
		-	94,182
less:	Expenses
	Salaries and wages	988,284	713,986
	Pensions	28,495	19,641
	Volunteerexpenses	1,090	2,364
	Travel expenses	46,171	26,266
	Rent	20,725	21,971
	Heat, light and power	5,367	2,970
	Water rates	1,434	1,466
	Recruitment expenses	2,221	4,062
	Stafftraining costs	8,451	10,576
	AGM expenses	75	18
	Fundraising epenses	648	-
	Buildings maintenance	4,719	1,631
	Office equipment maintenance	11,557	13,466
	Equipment leasing	4,218	2,241
	Photocopier charges	1,480	2,148
	Postage	3,047	3,449
	Telephone and internet	14,622	14,504
	Books, periodicals and subscriptions	2,617	2,929
	Printing and stationery	2,852	4,602
	Advertising and publicity	5,355	13,694
	Cleaning	3,266	2,748
	Insurance	5,630	4,587
	Accountancy	3,093	2,846
	Auditor fess	4,950	4,500
	Consultancyfees	14,674	30,312
	Legal and professional fees	13	8,252
	Conferences and networking expenses	2,793	1,816
	Bankcharges	210	157

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(A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and registered as a charity) INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (Continued) for the year ended 31 March 2023

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