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|Trustees'<br>report||||2-11|
|Reference and administrative||details||12|
|Independent<br>Auditors'|report|||13-16|
|Statement offinancial|activities|||1?|
|Balance sheet||||18-19|
|Cash flow statement||||20|
|Notes to the financial|statements|||21-33|
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|Felt heard and understood|94%|
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|The advice given was easy to understand|95%|
|Understand<br>legal rights better|88%|
|The Law Centre's service was easy to access|95%|
|Would recommend<br>to someone else|95%|
|Levels ofstress improved|59%|
|Confidence<br>improved|4|





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|Company|number:|number:|1982371||
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|Charity number:|||1059022||
|Registered||office:|2 Hide Market||
||||West Street||
||||Bristol||
||||BS2 OBH||
|Trustees:|||Dr Oliver Lewis (Chair)||
||||Ruth Richardson|(Vice-Chair)|
||||Jonathan<br>Locke|Lovibond (Treasurer)|
||||Padma<br>Ramanan||
||||Dipika Keen||
||||Vita Fabo-Ellis (resigned 26/10/21)||
||||Tara Wolfe (resigned 18/10/21)||
||||Mike Silvey||
||||Roger Berry||
||||Katie Pritchard||
|Secretary:|||John Bowen||
|Chief Officer:|||Karen Bowers||
|Bankers:|||CAF Bank||
||||25 Kings<br>Hill Avenue||
||||West Mailing||
||||Kent||
||||ME19 4JQ||
||||Triodos Bank||
||||Deanery<br>Road||
||||Bristol||
||||BS15AS||
|Independent||Auditors:|8urnside||
||||61Queen Square||
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|INCOME AND EXPENDITURE|INCOME AND EXPENDITURE||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|Total Funds|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
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|INCOME FROM:|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||5,268||5,268|11,453|
|Income from charitable|activities:||||||
|Grants|||222,850|334,628|557,478|839,539|
|Legal aid 5 legal fees|||317,442||317,442|175,918|
|Investment<br>income|||73||73|50|
|Other income|||17,175||17,175|24,893|
|TOTAL INCOME|||562,808|334,628|897,436|1,051,853|
|EXPENDITURE ON:|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||503,058|334,628|837,686|1,028,548|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE|||503,058|334,628|837,686|1,028,548|
|Net income/(expenditure)|||59,750||59,750|23,305|
|Transfers between<br>funds|||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||59,750||59,750|23,305|
|Reconciliation offunds|||||||
|Total funds brought forward|||869,937||869,937|846,632|
|Total funds carried forward|||929,687||929,687|869,937|





|BALANCE SHEET<br>AT31MARCH 2022|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2022||
|||Notes|E||
|FIXED ASSETS|||||
|Intangible<br>assets|||||
|Tangible assets|||621,167|628,905|
||||621,167|628,905|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||
|0/ork<br>in progress||10|204,408|207,429|
|Debtors||11|70,351|55,852|
|Cash at bank and in hand|||208,516|216,406|
||||483,275|479,687|
|CREDITORS: Amounts|falling due within one year|12|{174,755)|{238,655)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||308,520|241,032|
|NET ASSETS|||929,687|869,937|
|THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY:|||||
|Restricted||15|||
|Unrestricted|||||
|General||14|872,687|844,937|
|Designated||14|57,000|25,000|
|TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS|||929,687|869,937|





|CASH FLOW STATEMENT||||
|---|---|---|---|
|FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31MARCH 2022||||
|||Total funds|Total funds|
|||2022|2021|
|||E|E|
|Cash used in operating<br>activities||{7,890)|121,940|
|Cash flows from investing<br>activities:||||
|Purchase of intangible<br>fixed assets||||
|Purchase oftangible<br>fixed assets||||
|Cash provided<br>by investing<br>activities||||
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in cash S.cash equivalents||{7,890)|121,940|
|Cash 8 cash equivalents<br>at beginning ofyear||216,406|94,466|
|Cash &cash equivalents<br>at end ofyear||208,516|216,406|
|Reconciliation<br>ofnet income<br>ex enditure|to net cash flow from o eratin|activities||
|Net income/(expenditure)<br>for the reporting|period|59,750|23,305|
|(asper the statement offinancial activities)||||
|Adjustments for:||||
|Depreciation<br>charges||7,738|11,074|
|(Increase)/decrease<br>in work in progress||3,021|(2,904)|
|(Increase)/decrease<br>in debtors||{14,499)|33,616|
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in creditors||(63,900)|56,850|
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|FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31MARCH 2022|FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31MARCH 2022|(continued)|||
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|2.<br>PRIOR PERIOD COMPARATIVES|||||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|
|||Funds|Funds|2021|
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|INCOME FROM:|||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||11,453||11,453|
|Income from charitable|activities:||||
|Grants||414,659|424,880|839,539|
|Legal aid 5 legal fees||175,918||175,918|
|Investment<br>income||50||90|
|Otherincome||24,893||24,893|
|TOTAL INCOME||626,973|424,880|1,051,853|
|EXPENDITURE ON:|||||
|Charitable<br>activities||603,668|424,880|1,028,548|
|TOTAL EXPENDITURE||603,668|424,880|23,305|
|Net income/(expenditure)||23,305||23,305|
|Transfers between<br>funds|||||
|Net income/(expenditure)|and net||||
|movement<br>in funds||23,305||23,305|



|3.|DONATIONS|AND|LEGACIES|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
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||Donations|||5,268||5,268|11,453|
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|4.|GRANTS RECEIVED|||||||
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|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
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||Bristol City Council|||136,719||136,719|136,719|
||Bristol City Council - Bristol Hate|||||||
||Crime S.Discrimination|Service|||53,943|53,943|65,288|
||Bristol City Council Resettlement|||Scheme|||2,15Q|
||Bristol City Council —smaller grants||||2,026|2,026||
||South Gloucestershire|LA||21,711||21,711|11,193|
||European<br>Direct Information||Centre||||2,217|
||Children<br>in Need||||39,847|39,847|36,588|
||The National<br>Lottery Community|||Fund|40,449|40,449|99,708|
||Legal Education<br>Foundation-|||||||
||Justice First Fellowship||||31,832|31,832|46,134|
||The ABCharitable<br>Trust|||15,000||15,000||
||Three Guineas Trust -|Welfare|||93,646|93,646|67,528|
||Three Guineas Trust—|||||||
||Development<br>Worker||||5,QOO|5,000||
||Nisbet Trust|||10,0QO||10,000|30,000|
||Pro Bono grant funding||||28,5QO|28,500||
||MoJ - Community<br>Justice Wave 2|||39,420||39,420||
||Nationwide||||3,260|3,260|13,040|
||Van Neste Foundation||||||10,000|
||The Tudor Trust||||20,000|20,QOO|11,667|
||Access to Justice||||356|356|5,043|
||Three Guineas Trust-|||||||
||Remote Volunteering|Project|||1,876|1,876|31,419|
||Therium||||13,893|13,893|6,947|
||Quartet —Coronavirus||||||4,684|
||HMRC —Job Retention|Scheme|||||12,369|
||Law Centres Network —EUSS||||||19,357|
||Law Centres Network-|Justice Fund|||||153,50Q|
||Law Centres Network —Justice Fund|||||||
||(Pooled Fund)||||||10,500|
||Good Things Foundation||||||1,925|
||Julia & Hans Rausing Trust|||||||
||Emergency<br>Fund||||||19,108|
||National<br>Lottery Covid|Response||Fund|||42,455|
|||||222,850|334,628|557,478|839,539|





|5.|RESOURCES||EXPENDED|EXPENDED||Direct|Other|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Staff|Direct|Support|Total<br>Total|
|||||||Costs|Costs|Costs|2022<br>2021|
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||Housing|||||119,619|45,482|1,381<br>166,482<br>187,599||
||Immigration|||||149,083|75,964|1,864<br>226,911<br>282,078||
||Mental<br>Health|||||113,Q48|18,827|1,295<br>133,170<br>161,230||
||Employment||& Public Law|||116,069|23,462|1,416<br>140,947<br>163,385||
||Welfare Benefits|||||131,203|37,179|1,794<br>170,176<br>224,256||
|||||||629,022|2QQ,914|7,750<br>837,686 1,028,548||
|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||||Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
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||Housing|||||116,760|49,722|166,482|187,599|
||Immigration|||||151,423|75,488|226,911|282,078|
||Mental<br>Health|||||117,529|15,641|133,170|161,230|
||Employment||&Public Law|||56,458|84,489|140,947|163,385|
||Welfare Benefits|||||60,888|109,288|170,176|224,256|
|||||||503,Q58|334,628|837,686|1,028,548|
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||Other direct||costs:|||||f|f|
||Payments to||Other|Agencies||||23,261|61,212|
||Indirect staff||costs||||||7,753|
||Disbursements||&Client Costs|||||56,831|44,012|
||Direct Costs|ofGrant Funded||||Projects||12,406|6,182|
||Staff Recruitment,|||Training|&|Refreshments||333|5,022|
||Office &.Premises Costs|||||||47,754|60,509|
||Professional|Fees &Insurance||||||28,791|28,185|
||Ask Us costs|||||||8,90Q|7,045|
||Subscriptions||&Memberships|||||14,402|5,332|
||Depreciation|||||||7,738|11,074|
||Bank Charges|||||||148|120|
||Bad debts|||||||350|417|
|||||||||200,914|236,863|





|FOR|THE YEAR ENDED 31MARCH 2022 (continued)|THE YEAR ENDED 31MARCH 2022 (continued)|||
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|5.|RESOURCES EXPENDED (continued)||2022|2021|
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||Auditors'<br>remuneration||7,750|6,400|
|6.|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|FOR THE YEAR|2022|2021|
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||This is stated after charging:||||
||Depreciation<br>ofowned assets||7,738|11,074|
||Auditors'<br>remuneration||7,750|6,400|
|7.|STAFF COSTS AND TRUSTEES'|REMUNERATION|||
||Staff costs were as follows:||2022|2021|
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||Wages and salaries||545,881|679,610|
||Social security costs||45,769|61,393|
||Pension contributions||37,260|44,282|
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|8.|INTANGIBLE ASSETS|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Website|Tota I|
|||E|E|
||COST|||
||Brought forward<br>and at 31March 2022|6,672|6,672|
||AMORTISATION|||
||Brought forward<br>and at 31March 2022|6,672|6,672|
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||At 31March 2Q22|||
||At 31March 2021|||
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|||Land S.||
|||Building|Total|
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||COST|||
||Brought forward<br>and at 31March 2Q22|644,381|644,381|
||DEPRECIATION|||
||At 1April 2021|15,476|15,476|
||Charge for the year|7,738|7,738|
||At 31March 2022|23,214|23,214|
||NET BOOK VALUE|||
||At 31March 2022|621,167|621,167|
||At 31March 2021|628,905|628,905|





|10.|WORK IN PROGRESS|||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||Legal Aid Agency work in progress|||||204,408|207,429|
||DEBTORS|||||2022|2021|
|||||||f|f|
||Trade Debtors|||||46,177|33,189|
||Other Debtors|||||17,755|8,217|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued||income|||6,419|14,446|
|||||||70,351|55,852|
||CREDITORS|||||2022|2021|
||Amounts<br>falling due|within|one year:|||f|f|
||Trade Creditors|||||16,519|29,386|
||Other Creditors|||||20,768|31,339|
||Accruals|||||41,572|40,926|
||Taxation and Social Security|||||21,633|18,971|
||Deferred Income|||||74,263|118,034|
|||||||174,755|238,655|
||Deferred<br>grants refer to grants for the period||||April 2022 to March 2023||received bef|
||end ofthe financial year. These include:|||||||
||The National<br>Lottery|Community||Fund|||31,779|
||Children<br>in Need|||||9,962|1,992|
||Legal Education<br>Foundation||-Justice First Fellowship|||1,312|16,000|
||Nationwide||||||3,260|
||Pro Bono grants||||||15,500|
||Three Guineas Trust||||||16,882|
||TGT Remote Volunteering||Pilot Project|||4,409|10,037|
||Therium||||||13,893|
||Tudor Trust||||||8,333|
||Access to Justice||||||357|
||Quartet-<br>Resilience|Fund||||10,000||
||A BCharitable<br>Trust|||||5,000||
||Swan Mountain<br>Trust|||||6,000||
||Pathway|||||5,000||
||Bristol City Council Thrive|||||3,666||
||Community<br>Justice Wave 2|||||20,580||
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|||||April|||Between|March|
|||||2021|Income|~Ex enditure|Funds|2022|
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||Building improvements||reserve||||10,000|10,000|
||IT upgrade|reserve|||||7,000|7,000|
|||||25,000|||32,000|57,000|
||General funds||844,937||562,808|(503,058)|(32,000)|872,687|
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|FOR|THE YEAR ENDED 31MAR|CH|2022 (contin|ued)||||
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||||2021|Income|~Ex enditure|Funds|2022|
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||BCC —Bristol Hate Crime|gt||||||
||Discrimination<br>Service|||53,943|(53,943)|||
||European<br>Direct Information||Centre|||||
||Children<br>in Need|||39,847|(39,847)|||
||The National<br>Lottery Comm.||Fund|40,448|(40,448)|||
||Legal Education<br>Foundation-|||||||
||Justice First Fellowship|||31,832|(31,832)|||
||Three Guineas Trust|||93,646|(93,646)|||
||Three Guineas Trust- Development|||5,000|(5,000)|||
||Nationwide|||3,260|(3,260)|||
||The Tudor Trust|||20,000|(20,000)|||
||Access to Justice|||357|(357)|||
||Three Guineas Trust - Remote|||||||
||Volunteering<br>Project|||1,876|(1,876)|||
||Therium|||13,893|(13,893)|||
||Pro-Bono Fund|||28,500|(28,500)|||
||BCC —Other|||2,026|(2,026)|||
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||||Funds|Funds|Funds|
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|Fund Balances at||31March 2022||||
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|Tangible|Fixed Assets|||621,167|621,167|
|Cash at|Bank and|in Hand|57,000|151,516|208,516|
|Other Net Current||Assets/(Liabilities)||100,004|100,004|
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