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Impact Report and Accounts
For the year ended 31st March 2021
Transport for All Registered charity number: 1063733 Company No. 3337948
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Contents
Impact Report
Our work
Our work 5 A letter to our members from the Co6 Chairs Highlights from our year 8 Review of 2020/21 12 Impact of COVID-19 12 Supporting the transport sector 18 Planning for changing transport needs 22 Keeping a watchful eye on transport 25 Advising individuals on their rights 32 Encouraging members to keep in contact 37 Thank you 41 Accounts and Governance Who we are 44 Structure, governance and management 47 Statement of the Board of Trustees’ 48 Responsibilities
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Our work
Transport for All (TfA) is the only disabled-led group striving to increase access to transport and streetspace across the UK. We are a panimpairment organisation, guided by the passionate belief that all disabled and older people have the right to travel with freedom and independence.
We champion change for disabled and older people across the country, seeking to:
Inform, educate and challenge transport networks and decision makers to meet the needs of disabled and older people and remove inherent disabling barriers.
Campaign for the transport sector and local streets to become more and more accessible and fully usable for all.
Educate, support and empower our members, and all disabled and older people, to understand and challenge their legal rights when access is denied.
Build a connected community of disabled and older people, and their allies, facilitating a strong, collaborative movement making change for all.
Our work achieves these aims through four key strands:
Information and Advice Line - providing advice, support and education for over 250 disabled and older people a month.
Transport for All
Registered and principal office: 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA
Telephone: 0207 737 2339 Email: contactus@transportforall.org.uk Website: www.transportforall.org.uk
Registered charity number: 1063733 Company No. 3337948 VAT No. 796213310
Training and Consultancy - designed to develop long-term behavioural and system change through disabled-led paid consultancy.
Research and Campaigns - that promote and uphold Transport for All as the leading voice on transport, challenging both societal and structural barriers through evidence based policy campaigns and strategic stakeholder relationships.
Community and Membership - supports our grassroots movement of 500+ members and 22,000 active social media followers.
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During the past year we were also glad to be able to support individual members of the charity in their own campaigns, many of which led to important and impactful changes to services and policies. You can read some of these stories in this report, but we know there are many more individuals who are speaking up and driving change across the UK. In the coming year we are committed to exploring how Transport for All can support more people in this way, in more regions and across all transport modes.
gaps in transport and travel options that disabled and older people face.
A letter to our members from Transport for All’s Co-Chairs
As an organisation, Transport for All will need to continue to grow and adapt to deliver our aims. We will step up our growth into all regions of the UK, to ensure that we are working with and championing the needs of disabled and older people wherever they live. And we will make our services more accessible to all – we have already removed our membership fee and we want more people, whatever their impairment or experiences of transport, to join us as a member to further strengthen our movement.
Dear friends,
The direct and indirect impact of the pandemic during 2020 and 2021 has been, and continues to be, devastating for many disabled and older people – our lives have changed in numerous and significant ways.
Moving forward
In 2021-22 we will reflect on the challenges and difficulties that the last year brought, but we will also look forward. We want to ensure that the ‘new normal’ is designed and built in a fully accessible and inclusive way, and that any future changes don’t increase the current
Looking back
via email or text to let us know you were still championing our work. We also want to recognise our staff team who pulled together, working flexibly and reactively during changing and unpredictable circumstances. Thank you all.
At the start of the pandemic, disabled and older people’s ability to travel freely and independently was immediately impacted – whether through Government restrictions, the shielding programme, choices that we made as individuals to keep ourselves safe, or via the real and swift reductions to accessible transport options.
We look forward to sharing more plans, and reflecting on our previous year, with many of you at our BGM in 2022. Look out for more details on this in a newsletter soon.
For now, thank you again to all our members, partners and supporters for all you do to make Transport for All such a vibrant and positive community. We are stronger together.
Adapting to challenges
We are proud that we’ve offered new and innovative ways of keeping connected this year. Our TravelTalks events will be a legacy of how we adapted during the pandemic and these will continue into future years. We also launched our new website, the first redesign we’ve had since 2008, with greatly improved accessibility features and dynamic content for mobile.
Our opportunities to meet with and support one another were fewer during this year. Many of our services quickly pivoted to online but we know that meeting face to face provides vital connection, and this has been greatly missed. We are committed to working harder to ensure our conversations with members and our community are truly accessible and two-way, with everyone having a chance to hear from the charity and to be heard.
Yours faithfully,
Alan Benson and Bhavini Makwana Co-Chairs
We kept up our campaigning on the issues that matter to our members: our Pave The Way report into changes to streetspace continues to impact on the decisions that Local Authorities are taking across the UK. This shows the strength and reach that our voices have when we raise them together around a new and important issue, in an evidence-driven way.
As Co-Chairs we are grateful to everyone who has supported the charity this year – whether financially or through sharing our messages on social media. Thank you to everyone who took the time to get in touch with us
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Highlights from our year
A timeline of 2020 - 2021
Social distancing and Turn Up And Go
Freedom Pass changes
May: Following a settlement between Transport for London and the Department for Transport we are concerned that, along with the Older People’s Freedom Pass, the terms of the Disabled People’s Freedom Pass would be changed. We raise our concerns, and those of our members, with Transport for London and are delighted when it is confirmed that the Disabled People’s Freedom Pass will remain on the same terms. We continue our support for Age UK London as they fight for the reversal of the Older People’s Freedom Pass changes.
May: We receive reports from our members being refused assistance onto trains due to the social distancing restrictions. We team up with London Vision to ask Transport for London for clarification on the Turn up and Go options for Disabled passengers. We’re successful in securing a commitment from Transport for London to communicate information on their policies clearly on their website and in internal communications to frontline staff.
COVID response
March 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic hits and many of our members (and millions of disabled people across the UK) are asked to ‘shield’ while many more have their usual travel patterns disrupted. We call on the transport sector to protect disabled peoples‘ rights during the crisis. We publish our manifesto for the COVID-19 response, which includes suggestions such as repurposing the Dial A Ride scheme for grocery and pharmacy deliveries, extending the TaxiCard scheme to cover hospital visits, calling on Private Hire Vehicle providers to offer discounted travel for disabled people and carers, and making 60+ Oystercard valid for 24 hours to support key workers returning to work.
Face coverings
June: Our Co-Chair Alan Benson speaks out to explain why we need to see strong and clear communications around exemptions for the Face Covering regulations to foster ‘understanding and acceptance’. His video gets 20,000 views on Twitter.
Partnership with London TravelWatch
April: We begin working in partnership with London TravelWatch as their accessibility partner, bringing our expertise and insight into accessibility into the wide-reaching and high-profile work they do.
Bishopsgate changes
July: We raise concerns over the Bishopsgate bus corridor changes in City of London, and seek urgent clarification from Transport for London as to the exemptions. “It’s vital that disabled people are not left out of plans for London’s recovery.”
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Private Hire Vehicles backseat only
July: Following reports that some Uber drivers are not allowing passengers to sit in the front seat of the car due to social distancing, we collect testimonies from our members detailing the negative impact of this policy. “I’m a full-time wheelchair user with Muscular Dystrophy. I can’t transfer into the back seat of a standard car. The front seat usually has a wider opening door and is easier to transfer. Not being able to use the front seat would mean I can’t get taxis.”
Pave The Way
January 2021: We publish our Pave The Way report, the only independent and indepth piece of research into the impact of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods on disabled people, after six months of research involving interviews with 84 participants.
TravelTalks
July: We hold our first ever online TravelTalks event, gathering together 40 disabled people to discuss concerns with changes to streetspace. We publish a report with the highlights.
Website accessibility
February: While overhauling the ‘travel information pages’ section of our website, we conduct an audit into the state of accessibility of information, and call on our members to submit good and bad examples of transport websites.
Pavement parking
Venues reopen
August: We join forces with 11 accessibility organisations to form the ‘Audience Access Alliance’, working to support Government guidance and the entertainment/arts sectors to ensure disabled audiences are central to recovery plans.
October: To coincide with the Government opening a public consultation on the pavement parking law, our Co-Chair Alan Benson films a piece for Channel 5 News showing the impact it has on wheelchair users. We call on our members to respond to the consultation, and our coverage generates a large amount of engagement on social media, with the video receiving 60,000 views. “It’s very hard to describe just how annoying and demoralising it can be.”
Tactile paving
EQIAs
February: We publish our ‘EQIA
in Action’, our manifesto for a new model of engagement with disabled people.
February: We support RNIB’s call for full tactile paving to be installed at platform edges across the rail network.
Step Free delays
March: The Mayor had previously promised 12 stations would be made ‘step-free’ by Spring 2020. A year past the deadline, and only 3 are complete. BBC Politics films a piece following our trustee Jeff Harvey on a Tube journey.
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Review of 2020/21
Impact of COVID-19
We quickly understood that the COVID-19 pandemic would have a significant impact on our members and on disabled and older people nationwide. We published our Coronavirus Statement soon after the first lockdown of 2020 began:
These are unprecedented times that have changed the nature and landscape of transport and travel for disabled and older people. At Transport for All we are echoing the message that all but essential travel should be avoided. Where travel is essential, we are working with operators to ensure that services and assistance are provided appropriately.
It is essential that vital services such as Turn Up And Go and Passenger Assist are protected and that disabled and older passengers are not forgotten about, left behind or further marginalised by social distancing efforts. We urge operators to remember that key workers can be disabled, and that disabled people still need access to essential travel.
We encourage operators to redeploy resources and staff to support our members and those who are likely to be more isolated, and for longer, than the wider public.
There will be much work to do in the coming months and years, fighting to ensure the rights of disabled and older people are not disregarded when society starts to rebuild. We will soon be needed more than ever and your support is vital.
Transport For All’s COVID-19 statement, March 2020
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How we responded
But we didn’t simply observe the pandemic from a distance. We felt the impact of COVID-19 on us as Transport for All, both as disabled people in our staff team and Board, and as an organisation. Like many DPOs across the sector, 2020-21 was a journey with its ups and downs - and one where we had to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.
In spring 2020 we took the difficult decision to put some of our staff team onto furlough, doing our utmost to retain our staff members. We faced financial challenges that we are still recovering from, although in 2021 we are working hard to rebuild our finances. We scaled back our services, pausing our helpline and stopping our onsite advice surgeries. But we kept listening to our community and members and finding new ways for people to share their views – and when we heard that members were facing new challenges because of the impact of COVID-19 on their experiences of transport and streets, we were ready to respond. This led to our ground-breaking Pave The Way report of January 2021, which was soon followed by the reopening of our helpline and a step up in our consultancy service.
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At the start of the 20/21 financial year we committed to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Support the Plan for the Keep a watchful Advise individuals transport sector with changing transport eye on transport on transport on their rights and expert guidance on needs of disabled initiatives and accessible travel disabled people’s people post-COVID-19 emergency measures options needs and their potential
Keep a watchful eye on transport on transport initiatives and emergency measures and their potential impact
Encourage our members to keep in contact to support wellbeing and digital connectivity
This report tells the story of how Transport for All’s staff, Board and members came together to deliver on this commitment.
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Commitment 1: Supporting the transport sector with expert guidance on disabled people’s needs
Access Partner consultancy
In 2020/21 we officially launched our Access Partner consultancy model, with an ambition to change the culture of transport and street design for the long term. The programme provides paid work for disabled people, developing individuals as agents of social change in the transport sector. It also challenges the sector status quo, and seeks to bring about long-term cultural change by modelling a progressive and proactive approach to consultation and engagement.
We work with clients including Local Authorities, train and bus operating companies, and micromobility (e-bike and e-scooter) companies. All income generated from this work is invested in our charitable activities.
Our Access Partner services include:
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Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) guidance and training
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Research, including focus groups and user testing
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Working in partnership with the Department for Transport
Disabled and older passengers faced increasing barriers to travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of our response, we worked with the Department for Transport, Deaf, disabled and older people’s organisations and charities, and transport operators, to develop new guidance for frontline transport staff.
The two guidance documents set out quick and simple ways for frontline rail and bus staff to better meet the needs of Deaf, disabled and older passengers as they returned to transport networks. The documents were created between January and March 2021.
TravelTalks: streetspace
Our TravelTalks online event asked disabled people to share their experiences of COVID-19 related streetscape changes, and the impact these changes had on their ability to navigate and move around their cities and local areas. The session saw the sharing of opinions and concerns from a diverse range of disabled people across the UK.
Common to all types of impairment were difficulties in traversing the pavement; street clutter, uneven surfaces, no dropped kerbs, lack of tactile paving, and confusing layouts
all pose physical and mental barriers. Participants reported experiences of injury, distress, and being unable to access their local area.
81% of disabled people polled felt concerned that the streetscapes of the ‘new normal’ will be inaccessible to them.
Following the event, we wrote a summary report of the key concerns, together with our suggested solutions and put them to the transport sector, as well as publishing them online.
81% Disabled people polled felt concerned that the ‘new normal’ would be inaccessible
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Commitment 2: Planning for the changing transport needs of disabled people
New website
With the aim to modernise our online presence and to build a new home for our upcoming Pave The Way report, Transport for All launched a brand new website in January 2021. The new website ensures that all necessary information about our work is available online at any time.
We worked closely with the website developers, making sure that our old content was archived and transferred to our new website. With accessibility being key, our team tried and tested various layouts and colour schemes to create a website that meets all WCAG standards. The website is still undergoing usertesting, but it is a vast improvement to our previous one.
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A data-driven organisation
We improved our GDPR policy for e-mail enquiries, implemented new webforms for improved data capturing on our website, and diversified our data capturing categories.
A key focus for the staff team during 2020/21 has been conducting a complete overhaul of IT systems for communication and data capturing, which are central to our day-to-day operations. We needed to build systems and infrastructure that aligned with our vision to be a data-driven organisation. One key enabler to this was moving to a new CRM system.
We are now able to get to know our members and supporters much better and produce ever more accurate and insightful statistics from our helpline.
Transport for All is now in a position to produce rich data insights based on the trends from the enquiries we receive, visualise the data for monitoring purposes and use this data to inform our campaigns work.
We implemented a brand new, central CRM system “Nutshell”, to meet the organisation’s data related needs.
Commitment 3: Keeping a watchful eye on transport initiatives and emergency measures and their potential impact
Communicating in the cloud
In 2020/21 we moved our phone line to a fully cloud-based software, which was a huge project and upgrade from our old office-based systems.
are now able to record phone calls with callers’ consent and we have set up an automated receptionist system, which further improves our GPDR compliance and informs our Information and Advice clients about our current policies.
Our new phone system works from anywhere, so staff are able to work flexibly from home and office. We
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Our report into the impact of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods on disabled people, and the future of Active Travel. January 2021
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Pave The Way
How it started
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the country was given a stay-athome order, the entirety of the United Kingdom’s transport system, our streets, and the behaviours that influence how we move through our lives were thrown into disarray.
As individual journeys adapted in response, the idea of Active Travel (walking and cycling), and initiatives which promote it, gained more traction. Across the UK we saw pop-up cycle lanes installed, pavements widened, and pedestrian only school streets implemented. One of the most prominent – and controversial – measures implemented were Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). By October 2020, there were around 30 km[2] of new LTNs across 21 boroughs in London.
rights of disabled people in the pandemic and beyond.
The interviews were compelling, enlightening, and at times emotion filled. Participants shared their concerns not only with the LTNs, but with the context that the LTNs sit within: difficult personal circumstances in the time of a global pandemic, wide societal and structural barriers to Active Travel, negative attitudes and stigmatisation of disability, and an increasingly hostile and inaccessible transport system.
Many of these schemes were being rolled out at pace, and we were concerned that the consultation and engagement processes that we would usually expect to see were not being done. After being contacted via our Access, Rights, Advice scheme by multiple members across London, we decided to undertake research.
Impact
We had several goals when we embarked on this campaign. We wanted to disrupt the narrative – in public minds and in the media – of disabled people being spoken for rather than to. We wanted to build public awareness around the barriers disabled people face to Active Travel. We also wanted to show the diversity of opinion within the disabled community, putting an end to the practice of disabled people being homogenised and used for political gain. We wanted to influence the sector in meaningful, lasting, and strategic ways; shaping policy, creating attitudinal change, and engineering organisational culture shifts.
What we did
Our report, released in January, was the product of six months of in-depth research into the impacts of LTNs on disabled people.
The report presents our findings from the qualitative interviews we conducted with 84 disabled participants from across the impairment groups, and sets out the landscape of street design, transport, and the
Most importantly we wanted tangible changes because of our work: to see a shift in how disabled people are engaged with.
We wanted to see Local Authorities and transport providers move away from passive, reductive ‘disability forums’, and commit to a co-production model that sees disabled experts hired as co-designers of schemes from the offset.
The public launch of our report on the 22nd of January was very successful, with huge public engagement across social media channels. To date, over 7,200 people have viewed the report on our website. We received over 4,500 engagements with our tweet on Twitter, and garnered high praise from a huge number of accounts including politicians, campaigners, experts and individuals.
We welcomed the feedback on the quality of our research. Fare City, the think-tank promoting accessible and sustainable transport, tweeted “our take is that the research itself is outstanding; from transparency of methodology to its panorganisational perspective & use of first-hand accounts.” Another individual wrote that our report “cuts through all the posturing and gets to the heart of the issues for disabled people and LTNs”.
Politicians took notice and pledged to act. One local Councillor said “I urge everyone on both sides to read it and take in its lessons”, while another councillor in Enfield promised “I have asked Enfield Council to review the recommendations and report.” London Assembly members took action too, with Andrew Boff stating “I’ll be asking Mayor of London what actions he will be taking in light of this report.”
Our report garnered national press coverage. There were write ups of the findings in the Sunday Telegraph, the Times, and the Guardian, with additional reporting in the Disability News Service and Transport Xtra. We spoke on BBC Radio and gave interviews on popular active travel themed podcasts with large listenership – including Streets Ahead. Even BBC broadcaster Jeremy Vine retweeted the report. For the first time, disabled people’s voices in all their diversity and nuance were being heard by those who had been speaking about, and for, them on this important issue.
Policy makers right at the top of decision making present the most opportunity for influence and change, so we were delighted to see our research discussed at both local and national government levels. In Parliament, the report was mentioned in the House of Lords select committee on sport and recreation. We also had meetings with MPs and Peers including Siobhain McDonagh MP, Lord Chris Holmes, and the Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Marsha de Cordova.
The London Assembly is perhaps where we had the most influence. We had productive meetings with Assembly Members across the political spectrum, including Andrew Boff from the Conservatives and Caroline Russell from the Greens. The report was discussed explicitly in multiple London Assembly meetings: during a London Assembly Transport Committee meeting on 11th February Caroline Russell put a direct question to Transport for London asking for their response to the report findings, and later in the month both Caroline Russell and Caroline Pigeon put questions to Mayor Sadiq Khan asking for his response to Pave The Way during the Mayoral Question Time on 25th February.
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EQIAs in Action
Our Pave The Way report identified fundamental problems with the ways decisions are made and communicated to the local residents they affect. Three in four of our participants expressed frustration at the way Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and other streetspace schemes had been communicated to them. An issue that came up time and again in our interviews was the lack of consultation: disabled residents felt that they had no say in the changes being made.
We followed our Pave The Way report with our Manifesto for a new model of engagement – which set out our vision of co-production which would see disabled experts hired to co-design and deliver schemes rather than passively ‘engaged’ after plans were already in place.
We wanted to see a complete overhaul of the engagement and consultation model, and a ‘rebranding’ of EQIAs. Our suggestion for an ‘EqIA in Action’ involves a process of:
Seeking out the viewpoints of disabled residents using a range of accessible channels
Asking, listening, and understanding concerns and ideas about the issues (this may involve guided walks and focus groups)
Learning: a commitment to witnessing the lived experience – walk on the streets or take a train with your residents
- Co-producing solutions with disabled people and organisations with expertise
Paying disabled experts for this expertise
We pushed this model heavily, meeting with senior staff at Transport for London, lobbying the Deputy Mayor for Transport and the Walking and Cycling Commissioner, and keeping the pressure on in the Streetspace Advisory Group.
As a direct result of our consistent lobbying, combined with pressure from the High Court ruling on the Streetspace for London programme, Transport for London issued an updated version of their guidance for Boroughs on Streetspace.
This is set out in their March 2021
document ‘Interim guidance for delivery using temporary and experimental schemes‘, which makes direct reference to our findings in Pave The Way.
A good consultancy process should tell you things you don’t already know, from the people you need to hear it from. It is not acceptable to bring people on board at a late stage to confirm a decision that has already been made, instead EQIAs must start out as a blank canvas – learning from the conversations with people with lived experience and adapting accordingly.
An EQIA is a chance to do better, to be innovative, to pave the way in designing and delivering world-class transport and journey initiatives that include and improve for all.
Transport For All’s Manifesto for EQIAs, February 2021
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Supporting our members with their own campaigns
In February 2021 we celebrated the success of Transport for All member Doug Paulley and fellow disability campaigners who managed to secure a commitment from Govia Thameslink Railway (who manage Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southeastern, Southern Rail and Thameslink) to keep its wheelchair spaces free of obstructions.
Previous guidance from Govia said that if a bike is placed in a designated wheelchair space, “please move it if a passenger using a wheelchair needs it”.
The new move went against company policy, with their publication ‘Making Rail Accessible’ saying that staff will “make every effort to keep these dedicated spaces clear and available for wheelchair/powerchair users”.
In a statement, the Office of Rail and Road said: “We have reminded [Govia Thameslink Railway] of their duty to ensure the wheelchair space is kept free of obstructions on its services. GTR has reaffirmed its commitment to doing so.”
Govia also told the regulator that that it will no longer state that cycles can be stored in wheelchair spaces on its website.
This was the first time any train operating company allowed dedicated wheelchair spaces to be used for bikes, and it has to be the last.
Doug Paulley, TfA Member
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Commitment 4: Advising individuals on their rights, and accessible travel options
Information and Advice scheme temporary closure
COVID-19 impacted on disabled people in myriad ways. Many were advised to shield, and the whole population entered into periods of lockdown with Government guidance advising everyone to stay at home. In spring 2020, almost overnight, the numbers of people using public transport vastly reduced.
In order to align with Government restrictions, we took the difficult decision to pause the Information and Advice scheme in April 2020. This was needed to align with the advice to avoid traveling unless absolutely essential. As the scheme deals with transport-related enquiries, we did not feel it was appropriate to advise on transport during an extremely difficult time.
Despite being closed for helpline enquiries, the Information and Advice team resumed working on casework issues in summer 2020.
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Accessible travel information online
Shortly after our website launch in January 2021, we published the Travel Information section on our website. Closely tied to our Information and Advice scheme, the Travel Information section is a one-stop shop for essential information about accessible transport, concessionary travel, active travel and Streetspace.
The team put an emphasis on the structure of the pages for ease of user experience. Our Travel Information pages will expand in the future, but in February 2021, we published all the information relating to London’s transport system, as well as detailed information about national concessionary schemes, information about Active Travel and some key information about national transport systems. With a plethora of new content, our Travel Information pages provide key signposting information for our members and visitors.
Casework highlight
We supported a chronically ill client with challenging a Blue Badge appeal. Asma*, who we have supported before, approached us in August 2020 after receiving a letter that asked her to re-submit medical evidence for her Blue Badge renewal.
We had worked with Asma in August 2019 to help her get a Blue Badge, but unfortunately this Blue Badge was issued for one year only. Alongside other organisations, we helped Asma with two separate appeals: one for challenging an unfair PIP benefit decision and the second for granting a renewed Blue Badge for a period of three years.
It was extremely difficult to communicate with authorities due to pandemicrelated delays, but the Transport for All team secured Asma’s renewed Blue Badge, which greatly improved her independence and freedom to travel safely during the pandemic.
*Name changed for privacy reasons
This year our website received
300,000 page views
87% views coming from new visitors to the site
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Commitment 5: Encouraging our members to keep in contact to support wellbeing and digital connectivity
Online events
With the UK in lockdown, we were unable to hold our usual in-person forums and events. We therefore found new digital ways to connect with our members and ensure our campaign and policy work was rooted in the experiences of the community.
We launched ‘TravelTalks’, an online webinar to bring our members together to discuss a particular theme related to accessible journeys, with an emphasis on the accessibility of the event itself. To facilitate these forums, we hired BSL interpreters and booked live captions.
Our inaugural TravelTalks webinar on 8th July 2020 welcomed over 40 disabled people from across the UK, led by a diverse panel, to share perspectives on the impact of COVID-19 related streetscape.
I stick to places I know really well. Now everything has changed - my mental maps of the world aren’t of use anymore.
TravelTalks participant
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Our online community in numbers
YouTube
Twitter impressions over the year:
1,658,600
Topics with high engagement:
Our Pave The Way report
EQIAs and consultations Pavement parking
Changes to streetspace
Face coverings and peer policing
Our content racked up
3,600 views 90 hours
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Members newsletter
Over the year we sent
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We added 56 new followers to our page, taking the total number up to
6,039
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Thank you
Despite the turbulence caused by the pandemic we have continued to deliver our vital work. In the 2020-21 financial year we have:
Launched a pioneering new business model , delivering a professionalisation and diversification of how the transport sector engages with disabled people
Radically revised our organisational infrastructure , ensuring the charity is fit for the future and well placed to increase our reach and impact as disabled people return to transport networks
Undertaken the only independent, in-depth research into how disabled people have been impacted on rapid changes to streetspace – such as Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Amplified the voices of our members , challenging systemic injustices and supporting member-led campaigns.
We couldn’t do this work without the support of our members, donors and partners.
We are grateful for the generous support of everyone who has enabled us to continue our vital work throughout a challenging year. Thank you to:
Our regular givers, who kindly donate every month to Transport for All
Everyone who has donated both large and small amounts this year
Our grant funders during 2020/21, including: Trust for London, The Fore, National Lottery Community Fund, London Community Response Fund.
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Who we are
Details for the reporting period (April 2020 - November 2021)
The name of the Charity is Transport for All. It is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (number 3337948) and a registered charity number 1063733. Its governing document is its Memorandum and Articles of Association.
Details for the financial year (April 2020 - March 2021)
Board Of Trustees
Staff Team
Alan Benson, Chair
Kirsty Hoyle, CEO
Chris Mason, Treasurer
Katie Pennick, Campaigns Lead
Karl Farrell
Emma Koprena, Access, Rights, Advice Scheme Manager
Luisa Ferreira
Yragael Drouet, Information and Advice Support Supervisor
Jeff Harvey
Bhavini Makwana
Julia Evans, Office Administrator
Left September 2020
Mohammed Moshan Ali
Patrick Roberts
Board Of Trustees
Alan Benson, Co-chair
Bhavini Makwana, Co-chair
Chris Mason, Treasurer
Karl Farrell
Luisa Ferreira
Jeff Harvey
Glyn Kyle
Appointed May 2021
Kirsty Hoyle
Appointed October 2021
Gwynneth Pedler Resigned January 2021
Mohammed Moshan Ali
Resigned April 2021
Staff Team
Caroline Stickland, COO
Katie Pennick, Campaigns Lead
Emma Koprena, Access, Rights, Advice Scheme Manager
Yragael Drouet, Information and Advice Support Supervisor
Kirsty Hoyle, CEO
Left August 2021
Julia Evans, Office Administrator Left September 2020
Gwynneth Pedler Resigned January 2021
Patrick Roberts Resigned May 2021
Executive Officers
Executive Officers
CEO: Kirsty Hoyle Resigned August 2021
CEO: Kirsty Hoyle
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Structure, governance and management
The Charity engages the professional services of:
Professional Advisors
Dennis and Turnbull
Swatton Barn Badbury Swindon SN4 0EU
Solicitors
Russell Cooke
2 Putney Hill London SW15 6AB
Independent Examiner Haines Watts, Chartered Accountants Old Station House Station Approach Newport Street Swindon SN1 3DU
Bankers
Unity Trust Bank
9 Brindleyplace 4 Oozells Square Birmingham B1 2HB
Transport for All is the current legal name of the organisation known as Transport for All. It is a membership organisation of individual and organisational members. The individual members are majority disabled and older people. Affiliates are mostly disability and / or older people’s sector organisations, which share the objectives of Transport for All.
The Trustees who served during the year are shown on page 44. Trustees are appointed at the biennial general meeting but can be co-opted onto the Board during the year. There is an induction process for all new members of staff, which also includes new Trustee induction. This includes information on the responsibilities of a Trustee and a full induction programme about the charity.
COO who works closely with the Co-Chairs as the need arises.
The officers of the charity are the Trustees, including the Co-Chairs and the Treasurer. The Co-Chairs have power to take necessary decisions between Board meetings, and to authorise expenditure up to a maximum of £2,000.
The Board of Trustees met five times during the year, discussing all aspects of the charity’s work and finances.
We undertake financial risk assessments on an annual basis, as part of the process of setting budgets and monitoring expenditure.
Objectives and Activities
Members of the Board must declare any potential conflicts of interest at each meeting; no Board member has undertaken work for the organisation in a professional capacity beyond their normal role.
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
The charity’s objects as defined in its
Memorandum and Articles of Association are
“for the public benefit to assist and meet the needs of disabled and older people through the promotion of a comprehensive accessible transport system”.
The Trustees are responsible for the governance of the organisation; they approve policy, work plans, and strategy on a regular basis, as well as monitoring the finances through regular updates. Since the resignation of the CEO, the day-to-day running of the charity is delegated to the
The charity has referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing its aims and objectives and in planning its future activities.
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Statement of Board of Trustees’ Responsibilities
The Trustees (who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual 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 period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:
Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP 2015 (FRS 102);
Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
Prepare the financial statements on the going-concern basis unless it is inappropriate 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.
In so far as the Trustees are aware:
There is no relevant audit information of which the charitable company’s auditor is unaware; and
The Trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the auditor is aware of that information.
TrANSPORT FOR ALL Resems Poli¢y At the year end the tharity hdd totsl of £43,414. (2020- £71,134). Ofthese, £nl wue rCted fvThts (2020 £nil}. The tharity airns in the long tem to tr13ve unrtrtl re not invosted in tangle assets to cover minimum of three to gx months. operatir¥J werrtjiture. At current levds t)f thts would amount to g)me o,oco to £IOO,000. At this le4d the Eoard 1$ It muld wstrin the work ofthe tharity in the event of a ggnfficant drop in fvndiro, whilst seekn'ng @Btrmwt fundirKJ or re5tyCturing its acmies. Tr tharity CMbnUIY seeks fte rce5 of fvndiryj to Jre bJng statslity. At 31 March 2021 free arnountsj to £37,041. Thi5 dearty )Er than ambrtTons, however ¢JJr reseffts icy there to supm the tharfty in Tr)S of chaInge arto redutrd incce. GNen the arcumarKu of I 20121 year, and the ggnifiL7nt Imrmtt of ihe rAieM, we fed that our 1veS pJicy has 5eNed to protett the thari$ sustsinatrility. The Truths. fcth5 VR5 Siabilj our finan th a VI to growing our Income and JIldi up our reswves. TrusteEs have revtewed the r&ks ofthe dwrty and have wc(edures in to mwate them. Futur• Pla In 2021.22 w51 on the challenges and dlffioJlbe5 that the last yeor brDught, Iwt wll a& fomrd. We Yrdnt to en9Jre that the.1 normal. is ¢Jesigned and built in a fully aCces5b and IuVe way, and that any fiJbJrt tharw Oont Increase tt oJrrent gaF6 Sn transr•Yt arvj travd cpoons that dIed and older Fe¥le face, As an fxganigtjon, Transpyt for 11 negj to con¥nue to grow aThJ adapt to eelfver Jr alms. We 14 step up tyjr grmh Into als regions of the UK, to ensu that are TrJ wth and charThpionln9 the needs of died and dder wple whewer they Ie. And we will make our semces more accesst4e to all- we have already moVed our memterlp T and we want more whatever lrnpairnient expernw ol transpffj to us as a memt to fvrther StrtThjth cMJr rn¢)Vtsnt. I1ndent EmI The Indewident examlners, Haines Watts thartered Accountants Statutory hJJJltC45, wlll be prwed for apwntrnent at the fth(OmIng Wnlal GenerBI Meebn9. ThSs rert has kyepared in with the swJal p(5 for snall cunF0nles utTrJer Part IS L* the COrnpan Act 26. The reFttt was by bhe tard ofTr(LStees on . LI aj ¥gngJ cffi tslr behalf ty.. an Bw)n CIHlr Chris Man Tnjstee
INDEPENDENT EXAMENER'S REPORTTO THE TRUSTEES OF TRANSPORT FOR ALL Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Transport For All ('the Company,) I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2021. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the quIrernents of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act,). Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 {'the 2011 Act,). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5} (bl of the 2011 Act. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 the accounts do not accord with those records; or the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any quIrernent that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination,. or the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Ststement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities (applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland {FRS 102)). I have no COnrn5 and have come across no other matters in connection wlth the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 404 S Plumb ACA Halnes Watts, Chartered Accountants and Ststutory Auditors Old Station House Station Approach Newport Street Swindon Wiltshire SNI 3DU Date..
TRANSPORT FOR ALL
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021
| Unrestricted funds Notes £ INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies 2 47,544 Other trading activities - Investment income 3 - Other income 60,435 Total 107,979 EXPENDITURE ON Charitable activities 4 Advice, Advocacy and Projects 35,819 Outreach, Voice and Campaigns 24,183 Strategy, Management and Support 30,623 Total 90,625 NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) 17,354 Transfers between funds 12 (45,074) Net movement in funds (27,720) RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward 71,134 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 43,414 |
Restricted funds £ 66,000 - - - 66,000 46,373 48,890 15,811 111,074 (45,074) 45,074 - - - |
2021 Total funds £ 113,544 - - 60,435 173,979 82,192 73,073 46,434 201,699 (27,720) - (27,720) 71,134 43,414 |
2020 Total funds £ 27,877 - 723 118,824 147,424 166,980 38,885 66,939 272,804 (125,380) - (125,380) 196,514 71,134 |
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The notes form part of these financial statements
TRANSPORT FOR ALL
BALANCE SHEET 31 MARCH 2021
| Unrestricted Restricted funds funds Notes £ £ FIXED ASSETS Tangible assets 9 6,373 - CURRENT ASSETS Debtors 10 7,891 - Cash at bank 46,593 - 54,484 - CREDITORS Amounts falling due within one year 11 (17,443) - NET CURRENT ASSETS 37,041 - TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 43,414 - NET ASSETS 43,414 - FUNDS 12 Unrestricted funds TOTAL FUNDS |
2021 Total funds £ 6,373 7,891 46,593 54,484 (17,443) 37,041 43,414 43,414 43,414 43,414 |
2020 Total funds £ 7,967 25,073 53,979 79,052 (15,885) 63,167 71,134 71,134 71,134 71,134 |
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The charitable company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2021.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for
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(a) ensuring that the charitable company keeps accounting records that comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
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(b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of each financial year and of its surplus or deficit for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the charitable company.
The notes form part of these financial statements
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BALANCE SHEEf. ¢¢tiNued 31 MARCH 2021 These finanoal statfftnts tffn In accordm with the ts) thaTitsL companies subFct to the small c£¥mpanies regime. and wwe sgned on ts Lhair ty. Trustee a)ds Mag)n
TRANSPORT FOR ALL
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
BASIS OF PREPARING THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) '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 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
INCOME
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
EXPENDITURE
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Plant and machinery etc. - 33% straight line basis and 25% straight line basis
TAXATION
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
FUND ACCOUNTING
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
HIRE PURCHASE AND LEASING COMMITMENTS
Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.
PENSION COSTS AND OTHER POST-RETIREMENT BENEFITS
The charitable company pays 6% as an employer contribution into Personal Pension Plans chosen by individual employees. Contributions payable to the pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.
GOING CONCERN
The continuing COVID-19 viral pandemic is one of the most significant economic events for the UK with unprecedented levels of uncertainty of outcomes. It is therefore difficult to evaluate all of the potential implications on the charity’s operations, funding, suppliers and wider economy. The Trustees’ view on the impact of COVID-19 is that, given the measures that could be undertaken to mitigate the current adverse conditions and the current resources available, they can continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.
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ACCOUNTING POLICIES – continued
DEBTORS AND PREPAYMENTS
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after and trade discounts. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any discounts.
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 to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably.
2. VOLUNTARY INCOME
| Donations and gifts including membership Grants Grants received, included in the above, are as follows: Trust for London City Bridge Trust - IAA Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme Covid-19 Response Fund |
2021 £ 14,435 99,109 113,544 2021 £ 73,468 - 15,641 10,000 99,109 |
2020 £ 4,543 23,334 27,877 2020 £ 11,334 12,000 - - 23,334 |
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| 3. INVESTMENT INCOME Deposit account interest 4. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS |
2021 £ - |
2020 £ 723 |
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| Staff Costs Depreciation £ £ Advice, Advocacy and Projects 50,840 1,854 Outreach, Voice and Campaigns 59,653 869 Strategy, Management and Support 23,828 2,174 134,321 4,897 |
Other £ 29,498 12,551 20,432 62,481 |
Total £ 82,192 73,073 46,434 201,699 |
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5. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting):
| Independent examiners fee Depreciation - owned assets Other operating leases |
2021 £ 1,860 4,897 7,737 |
2020 £ 1,800 5,381 12,028 |
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6. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 March 2021 nor for the year ended 31 March 2020.
TRUSTEES' EXPENSES
Trustees' expenses
| 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|
| £ | £ |
| 172 | 65 |
7. STAFF COSTS
| Wages and salaries Social security costs Other pension costs |
2021 £ 119,646 7,598 7,077 134,321 |
2020 £ 123,894 6,853 4,304 135,051 |
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The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:
| 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|
| 5 | 5 |
No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.
Administrative salaries have been directly allocated to projects on which time was spent.
Two of the Committee of Trustees received reimbursed expenses during the year. These were for travelling and amounted to £172 (2020: £65).
Key management personnel include all persons that have authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the charity. The total cost of compensation paid to key management personnel for services provided to the charity was £64,952 (2020: £59,462).
| 8. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES Unrestricted funds £ INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donations and legacies 4,543 Investment income 723 Other income 118,824 Total 124,090 |
Restricted funds £ 23,334 - - 23,334 |
Total funds £ 27,877 723 118,824 147,424 |
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8. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES - continued
| EXPENDITURE ON Charitable activities Advice, Advocacy and Projects 145,761 21,219 Outreach, Voice and Campaigns 23,615 10,270 Strategy, Management and Support 42,243 24,696 Total 216,619 56,185 NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) (92,529) (32,851) Transfers between funds (19,083) 19,083 Net movement in funds (111,612) (13,768) RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward 182,746 13,768 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 71,134 0 9. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS Plant and Computer machinery equipment £ £ COST At 1 April 2020 13,238 47,568 Additions 3,303 - At 31 March 2021 16,541 47,568 DEPRECIATION At 1 April 2020 12,717 40,122 Charge for year 972 3,925 At 31 March 2021 13,689 44,047 NET BOOK VALUE At 31 March 2021 2,852 3,521 At 31 March 2020 521 7,446 |
166,980 38,885 66,939 272,804 (125,380) - (125,380) 196,514 71,134 Totals £ 60,806 3,303 64,109 52,839 4,897 57,736 6,373 7,967 |
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| 10. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||
| £ | £ | |||||
| Trade debtors | 3,595 | 7,975 | ||||
| Other debtors | 2,550 | 13,220 | ||||
| Prepayments | 1,746 | 3,878 | ||||
| 7,891 | 25,073 | |||||
| 11. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE | WITHIN ONE YEAR | ||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||
| £ | £ | |||||
| Trade creditors | 6,320 | 1,080 | ||||
| Social security and other taxes | 3,286 | 3,151 | ||||
| Other creditors | 4,117 | 4,084 | ||||
| Accrued expenses | 3,720 | 7,570 | ||||
| 17,443 | 15,885 | |||||
| 12. | OPERATING LEASING COMMITMENTS | |||||
| Minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases fall due as follows: | ||||||
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||
| £ | £ | |||||
| Within one year | 6,985 | 12,475 | ||||
| 13. | MOVEMENT IN FUNDS | |||||
| Net | Transfers | |||||
| movement | between | At | ||||
| At 1.4.20 | in funds |
funds | 31.3.21 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |||
| Unrestricted funds | ||||||
| General fund | 71,134 | 17,354 | (45,074) | 43,414 | ||
| Restricted funds | ||||||
| Trust For London | - | (45,074) | 45,074 | - | ||
| - | (45,074) | 45,074 | - | |||
| TOTAL FUNDS | 71,134 | (27,720) | - | 43,414 |
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13. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
| Unrestricted funds General fund Restricted funds Trust Of London TOTAL FUNDS Comparatives for movement in funds |
Incoming resources £ 107,979 66,000 66,000 173,979 |
Resources Movement expended in funds £ £ (90,625) 17,354 (111,074) (45,074) (111,074) (45,074) (201,699) (27,720) |
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| Unrestricted funds General fund Restricted funds Trust Of London City Bridge Trust Big Lottery Grant TOTAL FUNDS |
At 1.4.19 £ 182,746 6,478 - 7,290 13,768 196,514 |
Net movement in funds £ (92,529) (26,833) (6,018) - (32,851) (125,380) |
Transfers between funds £ (19,083) 20,355 6,018 (7,290) 19,083 - |
At 31.3.20 £ 71,134 - - - - 71,134 |
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13. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued
Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
| Unrestricted funds General fund Restricted funds Trust Of London City Bridge Trust TOTAL FUNDS |
Incoming resources £ 124,090 11,334 12,000 23,334 147,424 |
Resources Movement expended in funds £ £ (216,619) (92,529) (38,637) (26,833) (18,018) (6,018) (56,185) (32,851) (272,804) (125,380) |
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Trust for London – funding to support our Campaigns and lobbying work. City Bridge Trust – funding towards information, Advice and Advocacy work Big Lottery Grant – funding towards Customer Relations Membership System
TRANSFER BETWEEN FUNDS
All restricted funding received during the year was expended leaving no restricted funds at 31 March 2021. A transfer was made from Unrestricted Funds to cover the shortfall.
14. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES
There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2021.
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