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|Patron;|||||||Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe|Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe||
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|Honorary||President:|||||Nadra Ahmed OBEDL|||
|Chief Operating|||Officer:||||Maxine Lucas|||
|Trustees:|||||||Clive Reddihough|(Chairman)||
||||||||Caroline Elizabeth|Highwood|(Treasurer)|
||||||||Patrick Todd|||
||||||||Mary Shaw|||
||||||||Derek Smyth —Deceased 03/10/2023|||
||||||||Alan West —Deoeased 25/05/2023|||
||||||||James Ransom|||
|Company|Registered||||Number:||03132542|||
|Charity Registered||||Number:|||1052036|||
|Company|Secretary||||||Maxine Laces|||
|Head Office and|||Registered|||Office:|18Brewer Street|||
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||||||||Kent|||
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|Independent||Auditors:|||||Charcroft Baker LLP|||
||||||||5 West Court|||
||||||||Enterprise<br>Road|||
||||||||Maidstone|||
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|Bankers:|||||||CAF Bank Ltd|||
||||||||25 Kings Hill Avenue|||
||||||||Kings Hil<br>I|||
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|Solicitors:|||||||Warne is|||
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|Incoming<br>resources from generated||funds:||||
|Voluntary<br>income:||||||
|Membership<br>subscriptions|2|120||120|150|
|Donations &fund raising|2,3|67,205||67,205|63,645|
|Legacies||||||
|Investments:||||||
|Bank interest received||821||821|478|
|Bank investment<br>bond movement|4|(1,477)||(1,477)|(1,113)|
|Incoming<br>resources from charitable||||||
|activities:||||||
|Grants||26,000|147,671|173,671|162,747|
|Contract income|2|264,500||264,500|280,000|
|Sales & installation<br>ofaids|3|28,720||28,720|37,460|
|Deaf awareness<br>& Sign||||||
|Language<br>courses|3|46,448||46,448|30,698|
|TOTAL INCOMING<br>RESOURCES||432,337|147,671|580,008|574,065|
|RESOURCES EXPENDED||||||
|Costs ofgenerating<br>funds:||||||
|Costs ofgenerating<br>voluntary||||||
|income||9,652||9,652|7,208|
|Charitable<br>activities||456,459|149,686|606,145|588,793|
|Governance<br>costs||5,783||5,783|5,504|
|TOTAL RESOURCES||||||
|EXPENDED|5|471,894|149,686|621,580|601,505|
|NET MOVEIVIENT IN FUNDS||(39,557)|(2,015)|(41@72)|(27,440)|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||230.578|8,449|239.027|266,467|
|Total funds carried forward||191.021|6.434|197455|239,027|





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|Tangible Assets|||24,159||26,434|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Stock||13,667||15,019||
|Debtors|10|28,358||24,183||
|Prepayments<br>&accrued income|10|19,924||40.149||
|Cash at Bank Et in Hand||171 156||186533||
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|CREDITORS||||||
|Creditors<br>Accruals and deferred income|11<br>(197516)<br>11~4400.229933|||(26,785)<br>~2506||
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||173,296||212,593|
|NET ASSETS|||197.455||239 1127|
|INCOME FUNDS||||||
|Restricted funds|16||6,434||87449|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|16||21||230373|
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|A Com<br>an<br>Limited<br>b<br>Guarantee|||||||
|STATEMENT OF CASHFLOWS|||||||
|FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31MARCH||2|23||||
|Statement ofCash flows:|||||||
||||||2023|7022|
|Cash floEvs from operating<br>activities:|||||~33023|(48,406|
|Net cash provided<br>by (used in) operating||activities:|||||
|Dividends,<br>interest and rents from investments|||||(65l5)|(635)|
|Proceeds from the sale ofproperty,<br>plant||and equipment||||150|
|Purchase ofproperty,<br>plant and equipment|||||(1,699)|(1,779)|
|Proceeds from sale ofinvestments|||||||
|Purchase ofinvestments<br>Net cash provided<br>by (used in) investing||activities|||~355|~2.2533|
|Cash flows from financing<br>activities:|||||||
|Repayments<br>ofborrowing|||||||
|Cash inflows from new borrowing|||||||
|Receipt ofendowment|||||||
|Net cash provided<br>(used in) financing|activities||||||
|Change<br>in cash and cash equivalents|in the||reporting|period|(15,378)|(50,670)|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at the beginning|||ofthe reporting||186,533|237,203|
|pertod|||||||
|Change<br>in cash and cash equivalents|due|to|exchange|rate|||
|movements|||||||
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at the end|ofthe||reporting|period|171,155|186,533|
|Reconciliation ofnet income<br>/ ex emliture|||to net|cash flow|from o eratinN|aetiyitieS|
||||||2023|2022|
|Net income /(expenditure)<br>for the reporting|||period (as per||(41 572)|(27,440)|
|SOFA)|||||||
|Adjustment<br>for:|||||||
|Depreciation<br>charges|||||3.974|7,188|
|Dividends,<br>interest and rents from investments|||||656|635|
|Loss /(Profit)<br>on the sale offixed assets||||||(7)|
|(Increase) / decrease<br>in stocks|||||1,352|2,050|
|(Increase) / decrease<br>in debtors|||||16,050|(38,028)|
|Increase<br>/ (decrease)<br>in creditors|||||6.517|7,196|
|Net cash provided<br>by (used in) operating||activities|||(13,023)|(48,406)|
|Anal<br>sis ofchan<br>es in Net Debt|||||||
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|Donations|||42,895||42,895|49,415|
|Subscriptions|||120||120|150|
|Legacies|||||||
|Government|grants - Covid support|||||20,324|
|Contract income|||264,500||264,500|280,000|
|Grants|||26 0|147671|173671|142423|
|Total donations,||legacies and contracts|333515|147671|4SI 186|492 312|
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|Fundraising|||24,310||24,310|l4,230|
|Sales & installation||ofaids|28,720||28,720|37,460|
|Deaf awareness|&|Sign|||||
|Language<br>courses|||46448||46 448|30698|
|Total Fund raising||Income|9947S||99478|82 388|
|Total 2022|||82388||82 388||
|4.<br>INVESTMENT INCOME|||||||
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|Bank Interest received|||821||821|478|
|Bank investment|bond movement||1 477||1 477|I il3|
|Total Investment||Income|656||656|635|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||ttnrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|Lip reading|support||15,463|18,835|34,298|31,821|
|Sign language||support|52,950|-|52,950|42,867|
|VVS clinics|||21,836|72,567|94,403|88,208|
|Sale ofequipment|||375,862|58,284|434,146|433,105|
|Governance|||5.783|-|5 783|5 504|
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|Lip|Reading|Language|VVS|Sale of||2I023|2022|
||Support|Support|Clincs|Equipment|Governance|Total|Total|
|||||f.||||
|Direct Costs||||||||
|Supplies<br>tk Installation||||||||
|Ofaids||||24,381||24,381|28,155|
|Training costs|10.716|28,782||||39,498|36,747|
|Staff costs|2,175|16,849||109,552||128,576|117,437|
|Office costs|||9339|9652||18991|12394|
|Total Direct Costs|12891|45631|9339|143585||211446|194733|
|Total Direct Costs 2022||||||||
|Support Costs||||||||
|Staff cost|18.430||73,870|206,490|1,000|299,790|294,260|
|Office costs|1.108|7 77n|4,167|26.127||34,127|45,260|
|Premises costs|1,443|3,547|3,426|34,016||44,432|43,543|
|Deprecation ot lixed assets||||3,974||3,974|7.188|
|Bank charges||135|206|1,295||1,691|1,868|
|Travel cost|371|912|1,395|8.744||11 421|10.149|
|Audit cost|||||4.783|4,783|4,504|
|Fixed Asset Disposals||||9916||9916||
|Total Support Costs|21 -107|7319|85064|290561|5783|410134|406772|
|Total Support Costs||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|
|Staffcosts were as follows:||||
|||2023<br>f|2022f|
|Salaries and wages||392,882|374,384|
|Social security costs||25,686|25,686|
|Pension costs||8,276|8,521|
|Healthcare<br>and reduced|insurance|1,522|3,106|
|Total||428,366|411,697|



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|---|---|---|---|
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|Chief Executive|||1|
|Project support|||13|
|Administration|and management|||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Equipment|Equipment|& Fittings|Vehicles|Total|
||||8||8|8|
||COST||||||
||At<br>1 April 2022|33,910|12,920|20,419|37,006|104,255|
||Additions|10,725|889|-|—|11,614|
||Disposals|(20,035)||||(20,035)|
||At 31 March 2023|24,600|13,809|20,419|37,006|95,834|
||DEPRECIATION||||||
||At<br>1 April 2022|18,179|9,872|19,715|30,055|77,821|
||Charge for the year|1,308|788|141|1,737|3,974|
||Disposals|(10,120)||||(10,120)|
||At 31 March 2023|9,367|10,660|19,856|31,792|71,675|
||NET BOOK VALUE||||||
||At 31 March 2023|15,233|3,149|563|5,214|24,159|
||At 31 March 2022|15,731|3,048|704|6,951|26,434|
|10.|DEBTORS||||||
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||Other debtors|||2,333||2,760|
||Prepay ments and accrued|income||19,924||40.149|
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|Trade creditors||10,404|18,060|
|Other taxes and social|security|8,839|8,357|
|Accruals and deferred|income|40,293|26,506|
|Other creditors||273|368|
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|||Land and|||Land and||
|||Buildings||Other|Buildings|Other|
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|Operating<br>leases which expire:|||||||
|Within|one year|31,500|||31,500||
|Between two and five years||88,625|||108,125||
|In over|five years|33,000|||34,900||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Movement|in Funds||
|||Balance|incoming||Balance|
|||1.04.2022f|Resources Fxpenditure<br>f.||31.03.2023|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||230,578|432,337|(471,894)|191,021|
|||230 578|432337|471 894|191021|
|Restricted<br>funds||||||
|Volunteer<br>Visiting<br>Scheme|(East Kent)|1,480|35,676|(35,676)|1,480|
|Volunteer<br>Visiting Scheme|(North Kent—|||||
|formerly<br>West Kent)|||8,575|(8,575)||
|Volunteer<br>Visiting Scheme|(West Kent—|||||
|Formerly<br>Mid Kent)||5,840|26,577|(28,316)|4,101|
|Lip Reading —Fundraising|Inconte||18,835|(18,835)||
|Provincial<br>Lodge —Van donation||1,129||(276)||
|KAB —COMF|||8333|(8,333)||
|Kent Community<br>Foundation—||||||
|Marketing<br>Project|||6,000|(6,000)||
|Technology<br>Support Grants|||26,140|(26,140)||
|Social Groups Grants|||12,885|(12,885)||
|Equipment<br>Grants|||3,251|(3,251)||
|Involve<br>Kent —Warm Space Grant|||699|(699)||
|Tonbridge<br>Lions Club —banners|||700|(700)||
|||8449|147 671|149686|434|
|Total offunds||239.027|580,008|(621,580)|197.455|
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|||1.04.2021f|Resources Expendituref||31.03.2022f|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||
|Unrestricted<br>ftmds||242.546|437,342|(449,310)|230,578|
|||242 546|437 342|449 310|230 578|
|Restricted<br>funds||||||
|Volunteer<br>Visiting Scheme (East Kent)||1,480|35,676|(35,676)|1,480|
|Volunteer<br>Visiting Scheme (North Kent—||||||
|formerly<br>West Kent)||10,624|13,020|(23,644)||
|Volunteer<br>Visiting Scheme (West Kent—||||||
|Formerly<br>Mid Kent)||6,412|28,316|(28,888)|5.840|
|Lip Reading —Fundraising|Income|3,908|16,816|(20,724)||
|Provincial<br>Lodge —Van donation||1,497||(368)|1,129|
|Awards<br>for All —Hearing|Aid project||5,535|(5 535)||
|KAB<br>—COMF|||16,667|(16,667)||
|KCC —Social Groups|||8,500|(8500)||
|Other<br>—Social Groups|||3,693|(3,693)||
|Phillip Connie Foundation|—Social Groups||8,500|(8,500)||
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|Total offunds||266,467|574,065|(601,505)|239,027|





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|Tangible|fixed assets||24,159||24,159|
|Current|assets||226,671|6,434|233,105|
|Creditors|due within|one year|(59,809)||(59,809)|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Tangible|fixed assets||26,434||26,434|
|Current|assets||257,435|8,449|265,884|
|Creditors|due within|one year|(53,291)||(53,291)|
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