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2022-03-31-accounts

(formerly known as The Ely Diocesan Association For Deaf People)

Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2022

Registered office: 8 Romsey Terrace, Cambridge, CB1 3NH Company registration number: 03353070 Charity registration number: 1062578

Contents

Trustees Annual Report 3
Message from the Chair 3
Message from the Chief Executive 3
Objectives, strategy and vision 4
Performance achievements 6
Financial performance highlights 14
Structure, management and responsibilities 17
Annual Accounts 20
Independent Auditors’ Report 20
Statement of Financial Activities 24
Balance Sheet 25
Notes to Accounts 27

Trustees

Dr Janie Anderson - Chair Mr Godfrey Palmer - Vice-Chair Mr Brendan Casey (resigned on 10th June 2022) Mr Angus McGuiness (resigned on 31st March 2022) Ms Alison Gelder Mr Fil Kamps Mr Andrew Mell Ms Chalky Wan Ms Alisha-Mary Abbott Ms Tor Docherty

Chief Executive Officer

Mr Andrew Palmer

Independent Auditor

UHY Hacker Young PO Box 501 The Nexus Building Broadway Letchworth Garden City Herts SG6 9BL

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Trustee Annual Report

Message from the Chair

When I read this report of our activity over the last year I felt very proud to be the chairperson of CDA.

I want to say a big thank you to all of our staff, volunteers and funders who have made this possible. A highlight for me was to go to the first member dinner for 2 years and join in with the lovely evening and I even won a fabulous raffle prize. It is lovely that we have come through the pandemic and we are now able to meet in person. It is a huge tribute to all the care everyone has taken of each other that has kept everyone safe.

We have new challenges this year as we look to deliver support to even more people than before in different ways but I am sure we will succeed.

Message from the Chief Executive

As the community emerged from the pandemic, CDA continued to provide a range of essential services to the local deaf community.

Our teams supported over 200 deaf people with services like domestic abuse support, care act advocacy, befriending and personal care.

An organisation like CDA is prepared to support deaf people in any situation that they find themselves in. This means our staff and volunteers have to be skilled, flexible and willing to learn. I’d like to thank them all for their hard work. Their dedication and commitment is not lost on me – I feel very lucky to work among a group of individuals, now numbering over 130, that are focused on improving the lives of deaf or hard of hearing people.

In June 2021, it was a real boost to learn that we had been rated as Outstanding by The Care Quality Commission for our care service. This is a huge testament to the team for their work on behalf of deaf people who have additional needs and to the whole CDA team that provide so many other services, like advocacy or community events that make the experience a holistic one.

We have overcome challenges in the year such as recruiting enough staff with BSL skills to deliver our services but we have to be alert that as our services grow, the demand for good people that can sign grows with it. We’re lucky that deaf people are willing to move into the area to work with us and we welcome them with open arms.

In April 2022, we merged with Cambridgeshire Hearing Help. The newly merged organisation, still called CDA, will encompass a staff and volunteer team of over 130 people supporting almost ten thousand people. Welcome to our new colleagues. We’ll be working hard this year to continue our services and enable those services that Hearing Help deliver to thrive.

Finally, I would like to thank once again our dedicated staff and volunteers who make everything we do possible and thank those people and trusts that donated towards our work for their generosity and faith in our ability to get things done.

Objectives, strategy and vision

Aims and Objectives

Vision

We have a vision of a world where deaf people experience improved health, wellbeing and equality.

Mission

Our mission is to achieve our vision of the world by informing, encouraging, supporting, caring and campaigning. While we carry out our mission, we want to stay true to our values too.

Values

Our values are that we take notice of the world around us; be active and get things done; learn how we could do things better; give to the whole community, encourage voluntary service and connect with as many people or organisations as we can to improve the lives of deaf people.

We’re planning to further develop our services for the deaf community based on local needs while further developing sustainability.

Strategy

Our values combined with our vision and mission helped us define our strategy which is to: Put feedback at the heart of everything we do. If we do that, we can provide relevant services based on the needs of the community.

We want to build a stronger local deaf community while increasing the sustainability of our organisation so we’re fit for the future. And finally, we’re going to keep campaigning for better local public services.

Plans for the future

We’re planning to further develop our services for the deaf community based on local needs while further developing sustainability. In particular our plans for the coming years involve more hyper-local small community gatherings, continued development of our domestic violence service, offering some of our specialist advocacy services out-of-county on a non-contract basis, expanding our personal care services to include supported living.

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Performance Achievements

Advocacy and Casework

We continued to provide Casework services under our contract with Cambridgeshire County Council and a small grant from Peterborough City Council.

We saw a reduction in the requests for support in comparison to the previous year. However, there were still 771 requests for support with the main categories as follows:

Accessing Services 33.98%
Physical Health
Benefts
13.62%
11.93%
Housing
Financial
9.86%
7.52%
Other 6.23%
Equipment
Correspondence
5.71%
4.67%
Legal 2.46%
Emotional Support 2.33%
Employment 1.69%

Advocacy

We are funded to provide advocacy via our Partnership with Voiceability in a contract commissioned by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough County Council

We received 260 requests for advocacy support across a range of specialisms as well as generic advocacy. We have two trained advocates in post with specialisms in Care Act, Mental capacity, youth advocacy and we also have the use of a trained Independent Mental Health Advocate in-house.

Feedback from both Casework and Advocacy services has been overwhelmingly positive during the year. We also continued to monitor the quality of our work via SQA system which monitors staff case notes for key markers of quality on a regular basis.

Grant Making

Thanks to the generosity of The Tudor Trust, we were able to continue to support deaf people in need with small grants to help towards urgent needs.

As the world began to open up following periods of lockdown, we were able to resume our face-to-face Open Support Services and reduce the amount of work done by video call, although the latter still made up the majority of the work we did during the year.

Our Contact Line Service was used 103 times in the year. The contact line is an easy way for people to book remote support. We would like to increase the utilisation of this service in the coming year.

We saw a reduction in the requests for support in comparison to the previous year. However, there were still 771 requests for support

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Performance Achievements (continued)

CDA Life

Our successful personal care and support social enterprise continued its growth.

The number of hours delivered increased for the fifth successive year with revenue growing from £608,000 to £727,00 through new clients being supported.

Because of the pandemic and issues with being able to recruit enough staff, we underdelivered on the hours we could have achieved. This is being addressed as a priority in 2022.

The service also attained an overall CQC rating of outstanding with three of the five ‘Key Lines of Enquiry’ being rated as Outstanding with the other two rated as good.

We provided services to around 20 deaf people with additional needs with a predominantly deaf staff team.

Our staff are skilled in adapting their language to suit various clients’ needs as well as knowledgeable and safe in working with people with a range of cognitive and physical variations.

Community

We restarted all of our community-based events in the year and attendances have shown the signs of recovery. All of our Zoom based meetings were stopped in favour of returning to face-to-face community events.

In total there were 1973 attendances at our regular events in Peterborough, Cambridge, Huntingdon and Ely. We also launched two ‘deaf pub’ social events in Cambridge and Peterborough to provide a variation in the types of events we can offer.

During the year we hosted a range of external organisations to give talks or provide information at our events. We held talks on the topics such as asbestos, menopause, mental health, healthy relationships, how to use registered interpreters, the arts and video call providers.

We would like to thanks all the venues and partners we work with to create such a great regular schedule of events.

Membership

CDA is a membership organisation with members having a say on our trustees, voting in our AGM and taking part in regular feedback meetings. We currently have 77 members.

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Befriending

Our befriending service provides a crucial social lifeline for people that are deaf and isolated and struggle to maintain their independence. Our team of volunteers, led by a Volunteer Coordinator pay regular visits, take part in video calls and go to events with deaf people that usually refer themselves into the service.

Our 25 volunteers logged 1612 hours of time supporting clients throughout the area. We regularly get feedback from people about how they feel the befriending project benefits their lives. We monitor this across 9 outcome areas and in the year, on average, people reported a 36% increase in positive feelings as a result of the project.

SLA

Our sign language classes restarted at our base in Cambridge with new level 1 and level 2 courses. Our students had an . 85% pass rate

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Performance Achievements (continued)

CDA Media & CDA TV

Our base in Cambridge has facilities to provide high quality video BSL to English translation services. During the year, we continued to support local organisations and some others to translate their information. We worked on a project to translate Rising Phoenix Podcast in collaboration with Netflix and on the video introduction to the COP26 conference.

We continued to create live stream content for deaf people including a football phone-in, cooking show, quiz and interesting videos and information aimed at the deaf community. We achieved over 500,000 minutes watched and 316k views of the videos. We also created new series. The first was called Me and You, funded by PCVS, focused on the lives of young deaf people in Peterborough and also a livestream following the progress of Rose Ayling-Ellis on her journey to winning Strictly Come Dancing.

Social Media and PR

We featured regularly on local media with appearances on TV, related to our work with live streaming and regular opportunities to promote our work on local radio and in the press. This included our most watched video on YouTube with 25k views.

Our online audience grew to over 8.5k followers on Facebook, 0.8k on Twitter and 1k on Instagram with a total following of over 10k people.

Our posts on our main social media channel, Facebook and Instagram, reached 300k people.

Performance Achievements (continued)

Fincham House

Fincham House provided the venue for our support services in Cambridge and BSL classes as well as our studio facilities which helped us reach so many people.

Fincham House also generates revenue for the charity with 3 tenants housing their organisations at CDA. We undertook a program of work to further improve the efficiency of Fincham House with new thermostats and a more efficient air conditioning system.

Fundraising

CDA are delighted to be named as Sign Video’s charity of the year. Thank you to them for their kind donation and support.

The year overall has seen a drop in trusts project funding. As a result, the charity had to balance other resources, expenditure and core costs fundraising to be able to continue to deliver vital services with minimal disruption, specifically for Befriending and Community areas of activity. We have managed to achieve this without the need to draw from charity’s general (free) reserves. For free reserves analysis, please see Notes to accounts 14 – General Funds.

This wouldn’t be possible without the on-going support from many organisation to which we extend our thanks on behalf of the charity and the wider community:

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Organisation Funds awarded and benefiting FY2021-22
Amazon Total of £2,000 towards charity’s general running costs
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough £13,734 towards delivery of crucial Independent Domestic
Police and Crime Commissioner Violence Advocates (IDVA) services
Cambridgeshire County Council: £20,817 towards domiciliary care services and associated
Infection Control and Workforce staff shortages during periods of self-isolating and/ or
Development illness; to recruit and develop workforce for on-going
service sustainability
Groundwork UK £1,000 contributed to costs associated with drop-ins
across the county
Huntingdon Freemen’s Trust A total of £15,257 from 2 separate awards helped to
finance Befriending Coordinator’s role
The National Lottery Community £2,700 (deferred in previous year due to pandemic) paid
Fund - Awards for All for Befriending volunteers expenses as we resumed face-
to-face services
Peterborough Council for £2,250 (deferred in previous year due to pandemic) paid
Voluntary Services for Befriending volunteers expenses as we resumed face-
to-face services
Peterborough Council for £2,995 enabled creation of new media series focused
Voluntary Services - Youth Inspired on the lives of young deaf people in Peterborough
The Pye Foundation £3,290 helped with charity’s general running costs
SignVideo £2,500 grant as part of larger yearly donation
Sobell Foundation £2,085 contributed towards Community Coordinator’s role
Tudor Trust £25,000 toward charity’s general running costs as part
of 3-year support programme
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Financial performance highlights

Income and expenditure highlights

CDA’s total revenue in 2021-22 was £1,068,107, a decrease of 2% on the previous year’s result. Our total expenditure in 2021-22 was £1,101,343, an increase of 12% on the previous year’s figure. This is in line with the drop in funding the charity experienced during the year.

Without the drop in funding, the revenue would have remained constant in comparison to previous year. This signifies a shift in charity’s direction following a 5-year period of significant year on year growth. CDA is taking time to consolidate and streamline areas of activity, both in terms of geographical outreach (the intention is to remain as local as possible) as well as services on offer. Merger with Cambridgeshire Hearing Help as at 1 April 2022 further underpins the need for controlled growth and development of service offering (see chart on page 15).

The biggest financial success for the charity during the year has been the ability to provide uninterrupted charitable services (Befriending and Community) despite the drop in funding to support them. This was achieved without the need to draw from charity’s free reserves. Charity’s free (cash) reserves are different to total unrestricted reserves which include building and yearly building depreciation charge. For details on movement in free reserves, please see Notes to accounts 14 – General Funds.

The biggest financial challenge the charity faced was associated with delivery of CDA Life hours during periods of pandemic restrictions combined with specialist (BSL users) staff shortages. The resulting revenue shortfall for 2021-22 is £33,160 (5% of actual delivery). It has been CDA Life’s priority during the last quarter of the year and into financial year 22-23 to strengthen recruitment which will allow to reduce this balance as the new year progresses. Local Authority Infection Control and Workforce Development grants have assisted greatly in achieving this.

Where our income came from in 2021-22:

As was the case in previous year, a large proportion of our total income at 72% (2021 – 61%) came from CDA’s own activities for generating funds. The majority of those at 95% come from our domiciliary care service, CDA Life.

Investment income from Fincham House, the charity’s building in Cambridge, stood at 5% of total income for the year. It forms part of stable and constant revenue stream supporting day to day operations.

14% of total income came from Local Authority contracts supporting our Advocacy, Casework and IDVA services. 5% derived from restricted grants and 4% from unrestricted grants and donations.

CDA’s total revenue in 2021-22 was £1,068,107, a decrease of 2% on the previous year’s result.

REVENUE

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WHERE OUR INCOME CAME FROM

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Unrestricted Grants
and Donations
Restricted
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Local
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Contracts
Fincham
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Financial performance highlights (continued)

Reserves Policy

The trustees have established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets (‘the free reserves’) held by the charity should be 6 months of the charitable resources expended which equates to £201,725 for the year to March 2022. Charitable resources expended exclude resources associated with CDA Life services. At this level, the trustees feel that they would be able to continue the current charitable activities in the event of a significant drop in funding. In the event of such an occurrence, it would be necessary to consider how the funding would be replaced or activities changed.

As at end of financial year 2021-22, free reserves amount to £139,011 (2021 - £128,371, see Notes to accounts 14 – General Funds). This constitutes 69% of the required amount. The Trustees feel confident that with careful and on-going financial and operational management, this can improve further to satisfy fully their commitment.

Trustee 30/09/2022

Structure, Management and Responsibilities

Structure and Management

The organisation is governed by a board of trustees who set the strategy for CDA and approve annual plans and budgets. They meet quarterly to review progress and assess risks to the organisation and provide strategic governance and oversight. During the year, the board comprised of 9 people with a range of expertise, including 5 deaf people.

The Chief Executive reports to the board on a quarterly basis and in regular communication with board members via our internal messaging system.

The Chief Executive chairs a senior management team meeting on a monthly basis with the Finance Officer, Manager of Advocacy and Casework and of our Personal Care department to discuss a range of topics and ensure the organisation is operating towards its strategic objectives.

On a monthly basis the Operational Leadership team, comprising SMT and the heads of other departments, meets to review progress against our annual plan and budget.

The CEO holds an operational meeting at least monthly with each department head. Each department also holds its own team meetings. All staff performance is reviewed on a monthly basis.

Structure, Management and Responsibilities (continued)

Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

The trustees, who are also the directors of Cambridgeshire Deaf Association Ltd for the purpose of company law, are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company Law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that year.

In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.

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

Annual Accounts

Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of Cambridgeshire Deaf Association Ltd

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Cambridgeshire Deaf Association Ltd (the charitable company) for the year ended 31 March 2022 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statement, including significant accounting policies.

The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion, the financial statements:

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 charitable company 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

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statement is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the financial statements. 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.

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 course of 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.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

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

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable 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:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement [set out on page 18], 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 charitable company’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 charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of Cambridgeshire Deaf Association Ltd (continued)

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 error, 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.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Based on our understanding of the charitable company and the industry in which it operates, we identified that the principal risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations related to the acts by the charitable company, which were contrary to applicable laws and regulations including fraud, and we considered the extent to which non-compliance might have a material effect on the financial statements. We also considered those laws and regulations that have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements such as the Companies Act 2006. We evaluated management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls), and determined that the principal risks were related to inflated revenue and the charitable company’s net income for the year.

Audit procedures performed included: review of the financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation, review of correspondence with and reports to the regulators, enquiries of management and review of internal audit reports in so far as they related to the financial statements, and testing of journals and evaluating whether there was evidence of bias by the trustees that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud.

There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: http://www.frc.org.uk/ auditorsresponsibilities . This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity’s trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors’ report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Shona Munday (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of UHY Hacker Young (East) Limited Chartered Accountants Statutory Auditor

Date: ……………………….......... PO Box 501 The Nexus Building Broadway Letchworth Garden City Herts SG6 9BL

Annual Accounts

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

2022 2022 2021
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total
Funds Funds Fund Funds Funds
Notes £ £ £ £ £
INCOME
Incoming resources from
generated funds:
Voluntary income 2 4,370 0 0 4,370 3,849
Investment income 3 52,417 0 0 52,417 49,675
Incoming resources from
charitable activities:
Grants 4 32,900 206,334 0 239,234 374,414
Activities for Generating Funds 5 772,086 0 0 772,086 665,898
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TOTAL INCOME 861,773 206,334 0 1,068,107 1,093,836
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EXPENDITURE
Charitable activities 835,190 266,152 0 1,101,343 985,237
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TOTAL EXPENDITURE 6 835,190 266,152 0 1,101,343 985,237
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NET (EXPENDITURE)/ INCOME 26,583 -59,818 0 -33,236 108,598
TRANSFERS 15 -45,978 45,978 0 0 0
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NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) AND NET
MOVEMENT IN FUNDS BEFORE GAINS
AND LOSSES ON INVESTMENTS -19,395 -13,840 0 -33,236 108,598
Unrealised (losses)/gains on investments 16 0 0 2,575 2,575 0
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NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS -19,395 -13,840 2,575 -30,660 108,598
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD 1,067,057 43,256 6,815 1,117,128 1,008,530
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TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 1,047,662 29,416 9,390 1,086,468 1,117,128
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STATEMENT OF TOTAL RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSES

There were no recognised gains or losses for 2022 or 2021 other than those included in the Statement of Financial Activities.

BALANCE SHEET AT 31 MARCH

2022 2021 2021
Notes £ £ £ £
NON-CURRENT ASSETS
Tangible assets 8 388,130 407,248
Investment property 8 520,520 531,440
Investments - other 9 9,390 6,815
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TOTAL FIXED ASSETS 918,040 945,504
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 10 52,591 47,856
Cash at bank and in hand 11 291,885 218,505
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TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 344,477 266,361
CREDITORS: amounts falling due
within one year 12 176,049 94,737
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NET CURRENT ASSETS 168,427 171,624
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Non-current liabilities 0 0
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NET ASSETS 1,086,468 1,117,128
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THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY
Unrestricted Funds 14 1,047,662 1,067,057
Restricted Funds 29,416 43,256
Endowment Funds 16 9,390 6,815
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TOTAL CHARITY FUNDS 1,086,468 1,117,128
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During the Board of Trustees quarterly meeting on 28 May 2020, a resolution was passed to change charity's legal name from The Ely Diocesan Associaition for Deaf People to Cambridgeshire Deaf Association. The change was authorised by Companies House with effective date as at 19 April 2021.

For the year ended 31 March 2022 the charity has appointed UHY Hacker Young Chartered Accountants to conduct the Statutory Audit. The resolution was passed during the Board meeting held on 25 February 2021. The trustees acknowledge their responsibilites for ensuring that the charity keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of Companies Act 2006 and preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity as at the year end and of its deficit for the year in accordance with the requirements of sections 393 and 394 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006, so far as applicable to the charity.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to charities and were approved by the trustees on 30 September 2022 and signed on their behalf

Janie Anderson Chair of CDA

Company registration number: 03353070 Charity registration number: 1062578

CASH FLOW STATEMENT

2022 20 20 21
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: £ £ £ £
Net (Expenditure)/ Income and Net Movement in Funds -33,236 108,598
Cash flows from operating activities:
Depreciation charge 39,670 38,903
Increase/ decrease in trade receivables -4,735 84,636
Increase/ decrease in trade payables 46,685 19,811
Increase/ decrease in deferred revenue 34,628 -63,776
Asset disposal 0 293
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116,247 79,867
Cash flows from investing activities:
Capital investment 0 0
Purchase of tangible fixed assets -9,632 -12,134
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-9,632 -12,134
Change in Cash and Cash Equivalents 73,380 176,331
Cash and Cash Equivalents at the Beginning of the Year 218,505 42,174
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Cash and Cash Equivalents at the End of the Year 291,885 218,505
(i) ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET DEBT At 1 Apr 2021 Cash flow At 3 1 Mar 2021
£ £ £
Cash and cash equivalent:
Cash 213,147 72,906 286,053
Cash equivalent 5,358 474 5,832
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218,505 73,380 291,885
Debt due after one year 0 0 0
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TOTAL 218,505 73,380 291,885

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES

(a) BASIS OF PREPARATION OF ACCOUNTS

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of recommended practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (Effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the financial reporting standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

The Ely Diocesan Association for Deaf People incorporated in England and Wales with registered address at 8 Romsey Terrace, Cambridge, CB1 3NH, meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in relevant accounting policy note(s).

(b) INCOME

Incoming resources are recognised in the year in which the charity is entitled to the receipt, and the amount can be measured with reasonable certainty. Income is only deferred when the charity has to fulfil conditions before becoming entitled to it or where the donor has specified that the income is to be expended in a future year.

(c) EXPENDITURE

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.

(d) OPERATING LEASES

Rentals applicable to operating leases where substantially all of the benefits and risks of ownership remain with the lessor, are charged against income as incurred.

(e) TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its expected useful life as follows:

Freehold land and buildings 2% straight line basis
Building improvements 20% straight line basis
Equipment 33 1/3% straight line basis
Software 33 1/3% straight line basis

The charity has a policy to write off any sotware items which cost less than £500 and any items of equipment which cost less than £200.

(f) INVESTMENTS

Investments held for the long term to generate income or capital growth are carried at market value as fixed assets.

(g) DEBTORS

Trade debtors and other debtors are recognised at their settlement amount due after any discounts. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discount due.

(h) CREDITORS AND PROVISIONS

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due t o settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

(i) GOING CONCERN

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's abil i ty to continue as a going concern.

The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.

(j)

FUND ACCOUNTING

Restricted funds are to be used for the specified purposes laid down by the donor. Expenditure f o r those purposes is charged to the fund, together with a fair allocation of overhead and support co s ts.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds, which have been designated for special purposes by th e Trustees. Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources received or generated f o r expenditure on the general objects of the charity.

(k) PENSIONS

The charity contributes to money purchase, defined contribution schemes, on behalf of its employees. No liability exists in respect of pensions other than monthly contributions due which is included wit h in creditors.

(l)

LIABILITY OF THE MEMBERS

The charity is limited by guarantee. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability of the members is limited to £1.

(m) PRIOR YEAR ADJUSTMENTS

None

(n) CHANGES AFFECTING POST YEAR END PERIOD

During financial year 2021/22 Cambridgeshire Deaf Association has successfully pursued a merg e r with Cambridgeshire Hearing Help CIO (charity number 1154071). The merger has been registere d on 23 May 2022 with a transfer date of 1 April 2022.

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DONATIONS 2022 2022 2021 2021
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds
£ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Individual Donations and Legacies 4,370 0 0 4,370 3,849 0 0 3,849
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4,370 0 0 4,370 3,849 0 0 3,849
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INVESTMENT INCOME 2021 2020
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds
£ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Capital Investment income 51,913 0 0 51,913 49,624 0 0 49,624
Interest Received 504 0 0 504 51 0 0 51
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52,417 0 0 52,417 49,675 0 0 49,675
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GRANTS 2022 2021
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds
£ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Barnabas Trust 0 0 0 0 0 1,100 0 1,100
BGL Group 0 0 0 0 3,300 0 0 3,300
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation 0 0 0 0 0 30,456 0 30,456
Cambridgeshire County Council 0 84,660 0 84,660 0 83,000 0 83,000
Frank Litchfield 0 0 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000
Garfield Weston 0 0 0 0 6,664 0 0 6,664
Groundwork UK 0 1,000 0 1,000 0 0 0 0
HMRC 0 1,549 0 1,549 0 11,034 0 11,034
Huntingdon Freeman's Trust 0 15,257 0 15,257 0 8,750 0 8,750
Leathersellers 0 0 0 0 0 835 0 835
Local Authority Infection Control Fund 0 20,817 0 20,817 0 20,702 0 20,702
The National Lottery Awards for All 0 2,700 0 2,700 0 6,648 0 6,648
The National Lottery Community Fund 0 0 0 0 62,431 29,839 0 92,270
Near Neighbours - Freedom 0 0 0 0 0 2,637 0 2,637
Peterborough City Council 0 8,773 0 8,773 0 8,600 0 8,600
Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service 0 2,250 0 2,250 0 2,250 0 2,250
Police & Crime Commissioner 0 13,734 0 13,734 0 12,512 0 12,512
Pye Foundation 3,290 0 0 3,290 1,750 500 0 2,250
SignVideo 2,500 250 0 2,750 0 0 0 0
Sir Jules Thorn Trust 0 0 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,000
Sobell Foundation 0 2,085 0 2,085 0 5,000 0 5,000
Strangward Trust 0 0 0 0 0 2,000 0 2,000
Trinity Trust 110 0 0 110 110 0 0 110
Tudor Trust 25,000 3,204 0 28,204 25,000 796 0 25,796
Voiceability 0 46,000 0 46,000 0 46,000 0 46,000
Woodroffe Benton Foundation 0 0 0 0 500 0 0 500
Youth Inspired 0 2,995 0 2,995 0 0 0 0
Other 2,000 1,060 0 3,060 0 0 0 0
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32,900 206,334 0 239,234 101,755 272,659 0 374,414
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ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING FUNDS

ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING F UNDS 2022 2021
Unrestricted Restricted
Endowment
Total Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds Funds
£ £ £ £ £
CDA Sign Language Academy 13,121 0 0 13,121 7,888
CDA Connect 0 0 0 0 1,200
CDA Life 733,906 0 0 733,906 641,374
CDA Media 15,813 0 0 15,813 10,157
CDA Community and Fundraising Events 2,382 0 0 2,382 1,493
ACT Spot purchasing & Enhanced Support 6,864 0 0 6,864 777
Merchandise 0 0 0 0 3,009
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772,086 0 0 772,086 665,898
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TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 2022 2021
Staff Direct Office
Depreciation
Total Total
costs service overheads Resources Resources
(note 6) costs Expended Expended
£ £ £ £ £ £
Support Services for Deaf People- Restricted Funds
ACT 114,800 18,089 7,707 0 140,596 134,378
Befriending Project 27,881 6,008 966 140 34,994 35,990
CDA Community 20,758 7,796 217 0 28,771 32,670
CDA TV 1,781 8,971 190 0 10,942 21,985
Fincham House Investment Grant 0 0 0 13,840 13,840 13,840
Management Costs 37,009 0 0 0 37,009 41,354
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202,229 40,864 9,080 13,980 266,152 280,217
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Activities for Generating Funds
Sign Language Academy 9,381 3,177 627 0 13,185 14,217
Fincham House 3,421 13,594 2,481 0 19,496 18,937
Fundraising 4,068 8,188 1,858 0 14,114 16,310
Merchandise 0 0 0 0 0 4,518
Media 2,510 6,074 756 0 9,340 0
CDA Life 640,504 39,186 36,230 0 715,920 600,277
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659,884 70,219 41,952 0 772,055 654,259
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Core and management 29,425 0 0 25,690 55,115 41,365
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29,425 0 0 25,690 55,115 41,365
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Total charitable activities 891,538 111,083 51,032 39,670 1,093,322 975,841
Governance costs 0 0 2,140 0 2,140 3,516
Auditors' costs - statutory audit 0 0 5,880 0 5,880 5,880
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891,538 111,083 59,052 39,670 1,101,343 985,237
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STAFF COSTS

No remuneration was paid to any of the trustees in the year. Expenses totalling £0 (2021 - £0) were reimbursed to them. The staff costs were:

were reimbursed to them. The staff costs were:
2022 2021
£ £
Wages and Salaries 810,571 694,194
Social Security Costs 63,830 68,908
Employer's Pension Contributions 17,137 14,739
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891,538 777,841
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The average weekly number of staff employed by the charity during the year was 39 (2021 - 34) No member of staff earned more than £60,000.

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NON-CURRENT ASSETS NON-CURRENT ASSETS Freehold Investment Building Equipment Total
land and Property Improveme and Funds
buildings ments software
£ £ £ £ £
COST Balance at 1 April 2021 364,000 546,000 69,203 36,742 1,015,945
Additions 0 0 0 9,632 9,632
Revaluation 0 0 0 0 0
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Balance at 31 March 2022 364,000 546,000 69,203 46,374 1,025,577
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DEPRECIATION Balance at 1 April 2021 9,707 14,560 29,330 23,660 77,257
Charge for the year 7,280 10,920 13,841 7,629 39,670
Written back on revaluation 0 0 0 0 0
Disposals 0 0 0 0 0
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Balance at 31 March 2022 16,987 25,480 43,171 31,289 116,927
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NET BOOK VALUE Balance at 31 March 2022 347,013 520,520 26,032 15,084 908,650
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Balance at 1 April 2021 354,293 531,440 39,873 13,082 938,688
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The property owed by the Associaiton at 8 Romsey Terrace, Cambrige, CB3 1NH, has undergone a revaluation on 4 November 2019. An indepndent valuer, Barker Storey Matthews with a registered address at Pound Hill House, Cambridge, CB3 0AE determinded both Market and Fair Values of the property at £910,000. Market and investment methods were adopted to valuation with no significant assumptions.

Had it been held at historic cost, the value of the property would be £369.802: £147,921 to Freehold land and buildings and £221,881 to Investment.

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INVESTMENTS 2022 2021
CBF Investment Fund £ £
Cost 1,606 1,606
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Market value brought forward 6,815 6,815
Net (loss)/gain on revaluation at year end 2,575 0
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Market value carried forward 9,390 6,815
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DEBTORS 2022 2021
£ £
Prepayments 7,318 6,453
Trade debtors 45,273 41,403
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52,591 47,856
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CASH AT BANK AND IN HAND 2022 2021
£ £
CAF Cash account 135,120 15,214
CAF Gold account 140,014 193,000
CCLA 5,832 5,358
Paypal 10,875 4,890
Petty cash 44 43
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291,885 218,505
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CREDITORS: Due within one year 2022 2021
£ £
Deferred income revenue (see note 13) 67,911 33,283
Other creditors 13,000 13,000
Social security and other taxes 8,230 10,068
Trade creditors 41,860 9,483
Accruals 45,049 28,903
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2022 2021
£ £
Deferred income revenue Community Fund (previously Big Lottery Fund) 9,850 2,700
Freeman's Trust 4,504 6,250
Peterborough Council for Voluntary Service 0 2,250
Police & Crime Commissioner 26,913 0
Pye Foundation 1,460 1,250
Sobell Foundation 0 2,085
Sign Language Academy 10,769 3,090
Strangward Trust 4,000 0
Tudor Trust 10,415 13,619
Other 0 2,040
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67,911 33,283
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UNRESTRICTED FUNDS 2022 2021
£ £
Non-
Tangible Current General
Designated Funds
Total Unrestricted Funds
Assets Liabilities Funds
Building Operational
Repairs & Contingency
Development Fund
Brought forward 938,687 0 128,371 0 0 1,067,058 950,901
Movement in year -30,037 0 10,640 0 0 -19,396 116,157
Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Carried forward 908,650 0 139,011 0 0 1,047,662 1,067,058
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The balances brought forward and carried forward on the General and Designated Funds are represented by Net Current Assets on the Balance Sheet.

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RESTRICTED FUNDS Brought Incoming Resources Transfers Carried
Forward Resources Expended Forward
£ £ £ £ £
ACT 1,203 180,082 154,371 0 26,914
Befriending 11,200 13,511 34,994 14,787 4,504
CDA Community 2,085 1,901 28,221 24,235 0
CDA TV (Media combined) 0 13,595 10,702 6,957 9,850
CDA Life 2,560 19,916 22,476 0 0
HMRC JRS/ SSP Fund 0 1,549 1,549 0 0
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17,048 230,554 252,313 45,979 41,268
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Above c/f value at £41,268 is included in charity's total deferred income balance (see note 13 ) affecting current liabilities value at year end.

16 ENDOWMENT FUND

The fund comprises £1,606 which was bequeathed to the charity by a Mr Garner in 1978, the capital to be permanently invested to provide income to benefit deaf children under the care o f the Association. The current value of the fund is £9,390.

17 FINCHAM HOUSE - LESSOR DISCLOSURES

As at 31 March 2022, there are three operating lease agreements in place. The following are f uture minimum lease payments under the non-cancellable parts of the leases' terms as combined:

2022 2021
£ £
Within one year 43,500 43,500
Between one and five years 43,542 15,208
After five year - -

The Association has two operating leases with a term of 5 years each which will expire in May 2024 and August 2024. Break Date on the leases is the last day of the third year of the Contractua l Term. The Association has one operating lease with a term of 3 years which will expire in Septembe r 2022. Break Date on the lease is the last day of the second year of the Contractual Term.

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

There were no related party transactions during the year.

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