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|Charity
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|Directors'
and Trustees' Report||
|Report ofthc Auditors||
|Statement ofFinancial|Activities|
|Balance Sheet||
|Cash Flow Statement||
|Notes to the Financial Statements||
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|||||funds|funds|funds|2023|2022|
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|Income from:|||||||||
|Donations|&.legacies|||||8,155|8,155|843|
|Charitable|activities||2|21461||1,425,462|1,446,723|1,372,035|
|Other trading activities|||2|||16,053|16,053|5,426|
|Investments||||||5484|5484|3,072|
|||||21,261|0|1,455,054|1,476415|1,381,376|
|Expenditure
on:|||||||||
|Charitable|activities||3,II|34416||1,659,765|1,693,981|1,558,537|
|||||34416|0|1,659,765|1,693,981|1,558,537|
|Net income|/ (expenditure)|||(12,955)|0|(204,711)|(217,666)|(177,161)|
|Transfer between funds|||12||(68,000)|68,000|||
|Net movement
in funds||||(12,955)|(68,000)|(136,711)|(217,666)|(177,161)|
|Reconciliation offunds:|||||||||
|Total funds|brought|forward||35,388|773,000|1,477,187|2885,575|2,462,736|
|Total funds|carried|forward||22,433|7DD,DDD|234D,476|D,II67 939|2,285,575|
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|OPTIONS FOR LIFE|OPTIONS FOR LIFE|OPTIONS FOR LIFE||||||
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|BALANCE SHEET|||||Company|No. 3341420||
|As at 31 March|2023|||||||
||||Notes|2023||2022||
|Fixed assets||||||||
|Tangible assets|||||1,192,674||1,229,544|
|Current
assets||||||||
|Debtors||||203&266||145,777||
|Investments||||135,002||135,002||
|Cash at bank and|in hand|||572,066||882,051||
|||||910,334||1,162,830||
|Liabilities||||||||
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due in||||||
|less than one year|||10|(35,099)||(106,799)||
|Net current assets|||||875,235||1,056,031|
|Total assets|||||2,067,909||2,285,575|
|The Funds ofthe|charity|||||||
|Restricted
funds|||||22,433||35,388|
|Unrestricted
funds||||||||
|Designated
funds|||12||705,000||773,000|
|Unrestricted
funds|||12||1,340&476||1,477,187|
||||||2,067,909||2,285,575|
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|Cas0tlous from operating|act)Yi ties:|||||
|Net cash used
in operating|activities|||(303,440)|(185,785)|
|Cash lions from imesting|activities:|||||
|Dividends,
interest and rent from investments||||5,385|3,072|
|Proceeds from the sale ofinvestments||||0|160,000|
|Purchase ofinvestments||||0|(135,002)|
|Purchase ofproperty,
plant|and equipment|||(11,930)|(14,680)|
|Net cash provided
by investing
activities||||)l,ll!)|I)!Ill|
|Reconcilialios ofaet cash|llovr le mmement||in I'unde|||
|Change
in cash and cash equivalents||in the year||(309,985)|(172,395)|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at I April|||882,051|1,054,446|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at 31March|||IIIII!!|Il)1)1|
|Reconciliation sfnest movemeof
in funds to||||||
|net cash outgow from operatiag
activities||||||
|Net movement
in funds for|the year ended 31 March 2023|||(217,665)|(177,161)|
|Adjustments
for:||||||
|Depreciation||||48,800|50,577|
|Dividends,
interest and rent|Imm investments|||(5385)|(3,072)|
|Decrease/(Increase)
in debtors||||(57,489)|(113,090)|
|Increase
in other creditom||||(71,701)|56,961|
|Netcash usedia operating|activities|||CIII,IIII)|(185,785)|
|Analysis ofcash and cash equivalenis||||||
|Notice deposits
(up tn 3 months)||||326,584|425,505|
|Cash in hand||||245,482|456,546|
|Cash and cash equivalents||||572,066|882,051|
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|2 Income|||||||||
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|Restricted
income||||||||6|
|Charitable
activities|||||||||
|Eveson Trust|||||||5,940||
|Boshier Hinton
Foundation|||||||1,856||
|Arnold Clark Community|Fund||||||2,000||
|Morrisons
Foundation|||||||2,661||
|Tesco Community
Grants|||||||1,495||
|Bruce Wake Trust|||||||2,000||
|Baily Thomas Charitable|Fund||||||3&109||
|Finnis Scott Foundation|||||||1,000||
|Grimmitt
Trust|||||||1,200||
|Mencap|||||||0|13,426|
|Kickstart|||||||0|14,649|
|Screwfix Foundation|||||||0|4,680|
|The Roger I'c Douglas Charitable||||Trust|||0|3,000|
|Sandwell
MBC —Community|||Infrastructure|||Levy|0|508|
|Will Charitable
Trust|||||||0|7,000|
|Total restricted
income from||charitable|||activities||7,1,261|43,263|
|Unrestricted
income|||||||||
|Charitable
activities|||||||||
|Adult social care —Sandwell||MBC|||||989,206|960,716|
|Direct payments|||||||294,093|219,147|
|NHS Black Country ICB|||||||132&987|109,639|
|One to One Support —Sandwell||||MBC|||9,176|8,990|
|Government
Grant - reclaimed|||Statutory||Sick Pay|||2,113|
|SMBC - Infection Control|Grant|||||||14,833|
|SMBC - Omicron
Hospitality||Grant||||||13,334|
|Total unrestricted
income|fram||charitable||activities||1,425,462|1,328,772|
|Total income from charitable||activities|||||1,446,723|1,372,035|
|Other trading
activities income|||||||||
|Activities,
fund raising and|sales|||ofwork|||10,108|4,619|
|Insurance
settlement|||||||5,725||
|Room hire charges||||||||807|
|Surplus
on disposal ofassets|||||||220||
||||||||16,053|5,426|
|3|Expenditure||||||2023|2022|
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||Charitable
Service|Operational|||Costs||||
||Direct staffing costs||||||1,032,867|880,827|
||Severance costs||||||0|19,044|
||Indirect staff related|costs|||||8,790|31,536|
||Premises,
repairs
and|running||costs|||38,246|38,636|
||Cleaning,
personal
protective|||equipment||and waste disposal|9,921|10,357|
||Vehicle and transport|costs|||||52,588|40,815|
||Activities
and materials||||||46,815|38,859|
||ITand office costs||||||11,962|15,370|
||Depreciation
costs||||||37,397|38,391|
||Total charitable
operational||costs||||1,238,586|1,113,835|
||Management
and Support Costs||||||380,231|377,600|
||Governance
costs||||||40,948|27,751|
||Total charitable
expenditure||||||1,659,765|1,519,186|
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|Management|support costs||||||
|Salaries|||||262,272|264,410|
|Staffrecruitment,||training,||travel, other|10,100|7,430|
|06ice costs|||||66,722|60,213|
|External professional|||support||15,471|16,259|
|Equipment
depreciation|||||4,641|5,590|
|Vehicle costs|||||2,450|3,473|
|Premises
related costs|||||18,575|20,225|
||||||380,231|377,600|
|Governance
costs|||||||
||||||2023|2022|
|Audit|||||33,778|9,264|
|Other insurance|costs||||4,152|6,716|
|Bank charges|||||1,693|1,974|
|Professional
dc|consultancy|||fees|807|9,450|
|Miscellaneous|||||518|347|
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|Wages|&salaries|1,174,413|1,046,897|
|Social|security costs|73,897|62,840|
|Pension|costs|36,208|31,521|
|||Ir284r518|1 141258|
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|The average monthly|number ofstaff employed|by the charity|||
|during the year wss|as follows:||||
|Administrative|||10|10|
|Project based|||56|49|
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||||Office|||
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||Freehold
properties|Leasehold
Improvements|equipment I
fixtures &|Vehicles|Total|
||||fittings|||
|Cost||||||
|As at I April 2022|1,585,963|34,172|187,164|30,150|1,837,449|
|Additions|||11,930||11,930|
|Disposals||||(7,450)|(7,450)|
|As at31 March 2023|1,585,963|34,172|199,094|22,700|1,841,929|
|Depreciation||||||
|As at I April 2022|413,737|9,206|154,812|30,150|607,905|
|Charge for the year|27,521|3,417|17,862||48,800|
|Disposals||||(7,450)|(7,450)|
|As at 31 March 2023|441,258|12,623|I72,674|22,700|649,255|
|Net Book Value||||||
|As at 31 March 2023|1,144,705|21,549|26,420||1,192,674|
|As at 31 March 2022|I,172,226|24,966|32,352||1,229,544|
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|7|Debtors||||||
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||||||2023|2022|
||Trade debtors||||132,765|55,153|
||Prepayments|&sundry||debtors|70,501|90,624|
||||||203,266|145,777|
|8|Investments||||||
||||||2023|2022|
||Market value brought||forward||135,002|160,000|
||Additions
to investments|||at cost|0|135,002|
||Disposals at carrying||value||0|(160,000)|
||Market value as at 31||March||135&002|135,002|
||Comprised:||||||
||Investments
at|fair value||comprised|||
||Cash on deposit||||135,002|135,002|
|9|Bank and cash||||||
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||Bank accounts||||567,224|877,145|
||Petty cash||||4.842|4906|
||||||572,066|882,051|
|10|Creditors: Amounts||falling due in less than one year||||
||||||2023|2022|
||Trade creditors||||8,257|6,508|
||Accrued expenses||||13,153|72,210|
||Tax and social|security|||13,689|17,846|
||Pensions||||0|6,890|
||Other creditors||||0|3,345|
||||||35,099|106,799|
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|II|Restrictive
Funds|||||||||||||||||||||
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|||||||I April 2022||||||Income||||||Expenditure|||31March 2023|
||External Grants|||||||||||||||||||||
||Eveson Trust|||||||||||||5,940||||||(5,940)|0|
||Boshier Hinton
Foundation|||||||||||||1,856||||||(1,658)|198|
||Arnold
Clark Community|||Fund||||||||||2,000||||||(2,000)|0|
||Morrisons
Foundation|||||||||||||2,661||||||(1,796)|865|
||Tesco Community
Grants|||||||||||||1,495||||||(1,495)|0|
||Bruce Wake Trust|||||||||||||2,000||||||(1,725)|275|
||Baily Thomas Charitable|||Fund||||||||||3,109||||||(1,770)|1,339|
||Finnis Scott Foundation|||||||||||||1,000||||||(729)|271|
||Grimmitt
Trust|||||||||||||1,200||||||0|1,200|
||Roger &.Douglas Turner||Charitable
Trust|||||3,000||||||0||||||(2,832)|168|
||Will Charitable
Trust|||||||7,000||||||0||||||(7,000)|0|
||Sandwell
Council|||||||508||||||0||||||(508)|0|
||Clothworkers
Foundation|||||||9,735||||||0||||||(2,062)|7,673|
||Richardson
Brothers|||||||3,000||||||0||||||(3,000)|0|
||Turner Trust|||||||346||||||0||||||(346)|0|
||Edward
Gostling Foundation|||||||2,632||||||0||||||(355)|2.277|
||Baily Thomas Charitable||Fund|||||9,167||||||0||||||(1,000)|8, 167|
||Total restricted
funds||||||35,388||||||21,261||||||(34,216)||22,433|
||Further
information
on|all||funds|held during 2022/23:|||||||||||||||||
||Eveson Trust||||Funding|towards|improved|||design||||and
configuration||||||of the||
||||||chari
website and|||marketin|||and||remotion|||materials.||||||
||Bushier Hinton
Foundation||||Used for|artici
ant||football||e|ui ment and||||stri|||s||||
||Arnold Clark Community|Fund|||Creation ofa beauty|||salon|at Oak Green Lodge||||||||for||participant|||
||||||activities|and trainin||.||||||||||||||
||Morrisons
Foundation||||Additional|contribution
towards||||||new||beau|salon|||||||
||Tesco Community
Grants||||To enable|participants
to||||all|attend|||Christmas||||meals.
Also||||
||||||fundin
for decorations
and|||||activities||||and
ifts||||||||
||Bruce Wake Trust||||To fund participant|||trips to|theatre in|||||particular|||those requiring|||||
||||||wheelchair|access||||||||||||||||
||Bail
Thomas Charitable|Fund|||Resources|for new|sense||room|||at|Ocker Hill|||hub||||||
||Finnis Scott Foundation||||Get "Green Fin ered"
ro'ect for|||||||a|local allotment||||||lot|||
||Grimmitt
Trust||||Materials|for sense||arden||at|Acorn|||Lodae||||||||
||The Roger and Douglas|Turner|||To develop further||the Lets||Go||Digital project,|||||||||||
||Charitable
Trust|||||||||||||||||||||
||Sandwell
Council —Community||||To assist in purchasing
ofcomputer||||||||tablets for|||participants.||||||
||Infrastructure
Le
Fund|||||||||||||||||||||
||Will Charitable
Trust||||To
urchases
additional
musical||||||e ui|||ment for sessions.||||||||
||Clothworkers
Foundation
Richardson
Brothers||and||Prior year purchase ofinusic and
Lodae —now de reciation costs|||||||sensory
equipment|||||||at Acorn|||
||Turner Trust||||Prior year|purchase||musical||instruments
—now||||||||depreciation||||
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||Edward Gosling Foundation|||Prior year||wet room||improvements|||||at|the Ashes||||centre||—now||
|||||de reciation cus(s||||||||||||||||||
||Baily Thomas Charitable
Fund|||Prior year||supported||living||flat|renovation
at|||||Ashes|||centre-|||
|||||now de reciation costs||||||||||||||||||
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|12|Unrestricted|Unrestricted|funds|funds||||||||||
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||Unrestricted||capital||funds|brought|||forward||1,477,187|1,719,260||
||Movement||for the year||||||||(204,711)|(181,073)||
||Transfer to/&om|||Designated|||Funds||||68,000|(61,000)||
||Unrestricted||funds||carried|forward|||||1,340,476|1,477,|187|
|12|Designated||funds|||||||||||
||||||||||||2023|2022||
||Designated||funds|brought||forward|||||773,000|712,000||
||Movement|in the||year|||||||(68,000)|61,000||
||Total designated|||funds carried||||forward|||705,000|773,000||
||Total unrestricted||||funds||||||2,045&476|2,250,187||
|13|Analysis of|net assets between||||||funds||||||
|||||||||||Tangible fixed|Other net assets/|||
|||||||||||assets|liabilities||Total|
||Restricted||||||||||22,433||22,433|
||Unrestricted||Funds|||||||||||
||Designated|funds|||||||||705,000||705,000|
||Unrestricted|funds||||||||1,192,674|147,802||1340,476|
|||||||||||1,192,674|875,235||2,067,909|
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|At 31 March 2023 the Company|had commitments|under non-cancellable
leases|in respect ofminibuses|
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|and photocopiers:||||
|||2023|2022|
|Within one year||16,523|32,178|
|Within two to five years||15,232|16,801|
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|||||funds|funds|funds|2022|
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|Income from:||||||||
|Donations
//s legacies||||||843|843|
|Charitable
activities|||2|43,263||1,328,772|1,372&035|
|Other trading
activities|||2|||5,426|5,426|
|Investments||||||3,072|3,072|
|||||43,263|0|1,338,113|IP81,376|
|Expenditure
on:||||||||
|Charitable
activities|||3|39,351||1,519,186|1,558,537|
|Net (expenditure)|/|income||3,912||(181,073)|(177,161)|
|Transfer between
funds|||||61,000|(61,000)||
|Net movement
in funds||||3,912|61,000|(242,073)|(177,161)|
|Reconciliation of|funds:|||||||
|Total funds brought||forward||31,476|712,000|1,719,260|2,462,736|
|Total funds carried|forward|||35,388|773,000|1,477,187|2,285,575|