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|Trustees|||I RJ Harrison|(Chair)|(Chair)|
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||||M F Dudson|(Vice Chair)||
||||R Kramer|||
||||S Goodchild|||
||||J Meyjes|||
||||K Smith|||
||||R Dhanju|||
|Treasurer|trustee||R Radountcheva|||
|Charity number|||1061373|||
|Company|number||3332555|||
|Principal address|||The Court House|||
||||Town Square|||
||||Bracknell|||
||||Berkshire|||
||||RG12 1AE|||
|Registered||office|The Court House|||
||||Town Square|||
||||Bracknell|||
||||Berkshire4|||
||||RG12 1AE|||
|Independent||examiner|Andrew Beet|FCA||
||||Rice Associates||Limited|
||||Market Chambers|||
||||3-4 Market Place|||
||||Wokingham|||
||||Berkshire|||
||||RG40 1AL|||
|Bankers|||CAF Bank Limited|||
||||25 Kings
Hill|Avenue||
||||Kings
Hill|||
||||West Mailing|||
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|Trustees'
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|Independent:
examiners'||report||
|Statement offinancial|activities||10|
|Balance sheet||||
|Notes to the accounts|||12-20|
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|Core Service Delivery Area|Core Service Delivery Area|Core Service Delivery Area|Core Service Delivery Area|Core Service Delivery Area|Core Service Delivery Area||Key Achievements
in 2022/23|
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|Training:|Source,||broker,||and||Our training
offer has seen significant
growth year on year with 1236|
|providing|training||for VolLinteers|||and|learners
undertaking
a course in 2022/23, a growth of271 on the|
|Voluntary,|Community|||ahd Social|||previous year's numbers.
In total, 130courses' were facilitated, 47|
|Enterprise|organisations.||||||more than
in 2012/22.
Ofthese, 35were bespoke in-house|
||||||||deliveries.
Our courses averaged 9-10learners,
with options|
||||||||including
mental
health first aid, adult and child safeguarding,|
||||||||volunteer
management
and many more.|
|Funding|advice:||Identify||and promote||The Funding
Advisory
Service has sent weekly
funding
opportunity|
|grant funding||opportunities|||and|support|alerts
to its 273 subscribers,
a small
growth
from 245
in the last|
|organisations||with|both writing|||and|financial year. Ithas also undertaken
22 bespoke funding searches for|
|reviewing|applications|||as|required.||voluntary
sector organisations
and has acted as a critical friend, when|
||||||||asked to review others grant applications.|
||||||||The Funding
Advisory
Service has also provided a free to access|
||||||||grant writing
offer to the local Voluntary
and Community
Sectors of|
||||||||Bracknell Forest and Wokingham
Borough. This has helped to|
||||||||combat the significant
financial
impact ofCOVID and subsequent|
||||||||cost-of-living
crisis, and has supported
organisations
working
with|
||||||||Ukrainian
guests.|
||||||||The Grant Writing Service drafted grants to the value ofjust under|
||||||||F900,000 in this reporting
period, with c.f150,000 additional
income|
||||||||realised for the local sector. There remains a significant
volume of|
||||||||applications
awaiting
outcomes due to a backlog with many national|
||||||||funders.|
||||||||The service has also written
and delivered a series offour training|
||||||||sessions developed
to enhance sector skill and confidence
in grant|
||||||||writing
and project evaluation.
All courses were fully booked and|
||||||||received positive reviews.|
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|Information:
Provide|Information:
Provide|Information:
Provide|new and|existing|existing|There
were 167 recorded
support
interactions
in 2022/23,
a small|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Voluntary,||Community|and Social|||growth
from 155 in the year previous.
Support
needs
have
included|
|Enterprise||organisations
with||||ongoing
governance
queries,
start-up
advice, and other infrastructure|
|constitutional,
management,||||||needs such as policy review.
The team worked
tirelessly
to ensure|
|administrative
and developmental||||||prompt responses
to all enquires,
and to give accurate information
and|
|information||whilst working as an||||direction,
strengthening
the resilience
and
compliance
of our local|
|activist and advocate|||ofthe sector.|||Voluntary,
Community
and Social Enterprise sector.|
|Trustee Recruitment|||and Liaison:|||The inTRUSTed service has bolstered
charity compliance
through
the|
|Recruiting,||preparing|and matching|||recruitment
and
ongoing
support
of charity
trustees
across
the|
|skilled
individuals
to trustee vacancies||||||Bracknell
Forest
and
Wokingham
Borough
geographies,
and
the|
|whilst offering ongoing|||support|and||surrounding
areas. inTRUSTed
have seen some repeat
customers,|
|training
to||ensure
clarity of role||and||usually at a time where their Boards are looking to recruit new talent.|
|responsibility.|||||||
|||||||inTRUSTed
has recruited 23 new trustees
in 2022/23 a small
growth|
|||||||in the year previous
(21 placements
in 2021/22).
Many candidates|
|||||||have joined the 56 learners
who have
undertaken
the very
popular|
|||||||trustee
role and responsibilities
training sessions.|
|||||||inTRUSTed
has developed
and
published
Guides
to "Setting
up a|
|||||||group
for good", "Registering
as a charity",
and
"Incorporating
your|
|||||||charity" which are now readily available
via the charity's
website.|
|Volunteer||recruitment:
Including||||Bracknell Forest only —The online volunteer
centre 'Bracknell Forest|
|Business|in the Community,
building|||||Get
Involved'
showcased
between
112-167
live
volunteering|
|opportunity||through
the 'get involved'||||opportunities
during
the
year.
132
volunteers
submitted
direct|
|volunteer||portal, and supporting|||those|expressions
ofinterest, The online portal had over 5,300visitors, More|
|who require
additional|||assistance||to|than 1,200 visits to the website
led to prospective
volunteers
clicking|
|volunteer.||||||to receive contact information
for a given organisation
qr to submit an|
|||||||expression
ofinterest.|
|||||||19corporate volunteering
days were brokered
during the year, with 233|
|||||||business
employees
undertaking
a
volunteering
activity,
offering|
|||||||invaluable
assistance
to many
local charities,
community
groups
and|
|||||||other not-for-profit assets.|
|||||||Having
seen a surge
in volunteering
during
the pandemic,
enquiries|
|||||||have slowed
in 2022/23 to pre-pandemic
levels.|
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||||||Funds||Funds||||
||||||2023|2022|2023|2022|2023|2022|
|Income and
endowments||from||Notes|||||||
|Core|||||||||||
|funding|||||217,634|221,163|||217,634|221,163|
|Income from|investments|||3|1,130|17|||1,130|17|
||||||218,764|221,180|||218,764|221,180|
|Income from|Charitable||||||||||
|activities||||4|61,983|63,048|315,315|515,415|377,298|576,463|
|Total income||and|||||||||
|endowments|||||280,747|284,228|315,315|515,415|596,062|799,643|
||||||gg|90%|101'/|285%|100%|165%|
|Expenditure|on||||||||||
|Charitable
activities||||5|255,753|254,182|306,334|483,780|562,087|737,962|
|Total resources|||||||||||
|expended|||||255,753|254,182|306,334|483,780|562,087|737,962|
|Net (deficit)/income|||||24,994|30,046|8,981|31,635|33,975|61,681|
|Transfers
between|||funds||5,845|(6,395)|(5,845)|6,395|||
|Net movement||in funds|||30,839|23,651|3,136|38,030|33,975|61,681|
|Fund balances||at 1|April||||||||
|2022|||||235,913|212,262|97,153|59,123|333,066|271,385|
|Fund balances||at 31|||||||||
|INarch 2023|||||266,752|235,913|100,289|97,153|367,041|333,066|
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|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets||||2,067||4,378|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors||10|30,955||42,679||
|Cash at bank and in|hand||391,355||357,227||
|Current assets|||422,310||399,906||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due|11|(57,336)||(71,218)||
|within one year|||||||
|Net current assets|||364,974||328888||
|||||367,041||333,066|
|Total assets less current liabilities|||||||
|Income funds|||||||
|Restricted funds||13||100,289||97,153|
|Unrestricted
funds||||266,752||235,913|
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|2|Core funding||||||2023|2022|
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||Grants receivable|from Bracknell Forest Council for core||||activities|||
||||||||126,900|134,900|
||Grants receivable|from Wokingham|Council|& NHS Wokingham|||CCG for core||
||activities||||||90,734|86,263|
||||||||217,634|221,163|
|Since October 2016, involve has occupied premises|||||owned|by Bracknell Forest Council, the value ofthe||rent foreg|
|by the Council F20,000 (2020 820,000) is included|||||in the grani dealt with above.||||
|3|Investment
income||||||2023|2022|
||||||||E||
||Interest receivable||||||1,130|17|
|Income from charitable
activit|ies.||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total||Total|
|||funds||funds|||||
|||2023|2022|2023|2022|2023||2022|
||I||||||||
|Grants receivable for charitable
activities|''|||292,328|494,653|292,328||494,653|
|Other income||61,983|63,048|22,987|20,762|84,970|.|81,810|
|||61,983|63,048|315,315|515,415|377,298||576,463|
|Included
within income relatin|g
to grants receivable for charitable
activi|ties are the following
grants:||
|---|---|---|---|
|Restricted funds||2023|2022|
|GetGreen Active||15,733|2,175|
|Core Training||12,500|12,500|
|Community
Navigator||42,700|39,700|
|WBC Friendship
Alliance||33,450|38,477|
|Volunteer
Project/CSR|||2,175|
|Health
&Wellbeing
Advisors|(North, East &Phoenix),|||
|Woosehill
&Crowthorne||100,384|101,311|
|Grant Writer|||17,500|
|Cancer Support
Network||34,227|46,148|
|Waterford
House||30,000|13,000|
|BFC Recovery GranUGrass|Roots|23,333|221,667|
|||292,328|494,653|
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||Staff|Costs|Depreciation|Depreciation|Other|Costs|Total Costs|Total Costs|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||2023|2022|2023|2022|2023|2022|2023|2022|
||||||f.||||
|Activities|||||||||
|undertaken|237,616|225,618|398||68,320|56,538|306,334|282,056|
|directly|||||||||
|Grants||||||201,724||201,724|
|Support costs|221,589|221,678|3,269|4,802|30,895|27,602|255,753|254,182|
|Total|||||||||
|charitable|459,205|447,296|3,667|4,802|99,215|285,864|562,087|737,962|
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|Support co|sts||||
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||||2023|2022|
|Staff Costs|||208,406|211,702|
|Premises Costs|||34,583|31,203|
|Equipment,|Supplies|8|||
|Support|||14,372|12,574|
|Fees, Recoveries 8|||||
|Sundries|||(18,061)|(16,075)|
|Depreciation|||3,269|4,802|
|Governance|Costs||13,184|9,976|
||||255,752|254,182|
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|||Number|Number|
|Management||3|3|
|Administration||3|3|
|Charity support||12|14|
|||18|20|
|Employment|costs|2023|2022|
|Wages and salaries||391,074|380,027|
|Social security||27,642|26.655|
|Pension costs||4,718|3,971|
|||423,434|410,653|
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|9||Tangible fixed assets|Tangible fixed assets|Tangible fixed assets|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||At 31 March|2023||||
|||Cost|||Equipmentf|Total
F|
|||At 1 April 2022|||30,790|30,790|
|||Additions|||1,356|1,356|
|||Disposals|||||
|||At 31 March|2023||32,146|32,146|
|||Depreciation|||||
|||At 1 April 2022|||26,412|26,412|
|||Charge for the year|||3,667|3,667|
|||Disposals|||||
|||At 31 March|2023||30,079|30,079|
|||Net book value|||||
|||At 31 March|2023||2 067|~2067|
||'|At31 March|2022||4~378|4378|
|10||Debtors|||2023|2022|
|||Trade debtors|||23,000|31,938|
|||Prepayments|and accrued income||7,955|10,741|
||||||30,955|42,679|
|11||Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year|2023|2022|
|||Trade creditors|||2,031|3,972|
|||Accruals and|deferred|income|55,305|67,246|
||||||57,336|71,218|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Balance at|Incoming
resources|Resources
expended|Transfers|Balance
at|
||||01-Apr-22||||31-Mar-23|
||||F|||||
|Wokingham
Men's|Shed||1,694||1,694|||
|GetGreen Volunteer|Co-ordinator|||15,733|14,893||840|
|Specialist Volunteer|Co-ordinator||3,221||1,930|(1,291)||
|Core Training
22/23|||6,486|30,670|22,489||14,667|
|Community
Navigator|||10,736|42,700|35,240||18,196|
|Friendship
Alliance|||24,598|33,450|25,696|(2,787)|29,565|
|Volunteer, Passport/Projects/CSR
Health &Wellbeing
Advisor (North)|||9,821
5,204|183
30,190|10,022
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30,582|20,537|20,519
4,812|
|Health
&Wellbeing|Advisor|(East)|20|34,113|34,122||11|
|Health 8 Wellbeing|Advisor|||||||
|(Phoenix)|||20|34,613|34,512||121|
|Grant Writer|||14,890|335|13,961||1,264|
|Cancer Support Network|||19|35,819|33,638||2,200|
|Health
&Wellbeing|Advisor|||||||
|(Woosehill
&Crowthorne)||||1,968|2,020|174|122|
|Future Leaders|||8,232|||(8,232)||
|Waterford
House|||3,380|32,207|32,376||3211|
|BFCRecovery Grant/Grass||Roots|8,833|23,333|13,159|(14,246)|4,761|
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|Each ofthese funds|Each ofthese funds|Each ofthese funds|is|the|result ofa grant or|contract held|contract held|by the company
for a specific purpose. The uses|to|which|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|these funds||may be|applied||is set out within each||condition|ofgrant or contract.
Details ofthe grant making|bodies and||
|purposes|ofRestricted|||Funds are set out in the following table.|||||||
|Name|||||Grant making
body|||Purpose|||
|Bracknell||Training|||Bracknell Forest|Open||Coordinating
and facilitating
learning
for individuals,|||
||||||Learning
Centre|||charities
8 community
groups
in Bracknell Forest.|||
|Community||Navigation|||Wokingham
Borough||Council|Signposting
residents
to wellbeing
activities and|||
|||||||||provision
within their community.|||
|Friendship||Alliance|||Wokingham
Borough||Council|Address social isolation and loneliness
experienced||by|
|||||||||the residents
ofWokingham
Borough through|||
|||||||||collaborative
action.|||
|Social Prescribing|||Link||Wokingham
North|Primary||Health and wellbeing
support to patients
that are|||
|Worker|||||Care Network.|||registered
in one ofthe GP surgeries
that form the|||
|||||||||Wokingham
North
Primary Care Network.|||
|Social Prescribing|||Link||Wokingham
East|Primary||Health and wellbeing
support to patients
that are|||
|Worker|||||Care Network,
latterly|||registered
in one ofthe GP surgeries
that form the|||
||||||Modality.|||Wokingham
East Primary
Care Network,
latterly|||
|||||||||Modality,
and Crowthorne
and Woosehill
Primary|Care||
|||||||||Networks.|||
|Social Prescdibing|||Link||Phoenix
Primary
Care|||Health and wellbeing
support to patients
that are|||
|Worker|||||Network.|||registered
at one ofthe GR surgeries
that form the|||
|||||||||Phoenix Primary Care Network.|||
|Grant Writer|||||Bracknell Forest Council 8|||Helping
to support the local Voluntary,
Community||and|
||||||Wokingham
Borough|||Social Enterprise
Sector with its sustainability|||
||||||Council.|||following the impact of COVID and the national cost of|||
|||||||||living pressures.|||
|Cancer Support|||||Wokingham
Borough|||Supporting
the facilitation
ofthe Cancer Support|||
|Network|||||Council, Berkshire|East||Network
in the Wokingham
Borough and East|||
||||||Clinical Commissioning|||Berkshire through
funded
wellbeing
and social|||
||||||Group, Berkshire|Community||connection
activity.|||
||||||Foundation,
National||Lottery||||
||||||Community
Fund,|and|Get||||
||||||Berkshire Active.||||||
|Waterford||House|||Wokingham
Borough||Council|Daily coordination
and site support for all 10charitable|||
|||||||||organisations
based within the premises
who in turn|||
|||||||||work to best support the residents ofWokingham|||
|||||||||Borough.|||
|Bracknell|Forest||||Bracknell Forest Council|||Supporting
community
groups and charities to thrive|||
|Council Recovery||||||||following
the impact of COVID and national cost|of||
|Grant/Grass||Roots||||||living crisis by assisting
them to find funding,|||
|||||||||volunteers,
cost sensitive
premises,
training
and|other||
|||||||||assets that support their core functions.|||
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|Fund balances at|31 March 2023 are represented|by:|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Tangible fixed assets|||2,067||2,067|
|Current assets|||322,021|100,289|422,310|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year||(57,336)||(57,336)|
||||266,752|100,289|367,041|
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|---|---|---|---|
|||F||
|Within one year|10,244|||
|Between two and five years||28,985||
||34,544|||
|After five years|||4,685|
|||39229|49473|
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