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|Trustees'<br>annual<br>report (incorporating|||the|director's|report)||
|Independent<br>examiner's<br>report to the|||trustees||||
|Statement<br>offinancial|activities|(including||income and|||
|expenditure<br>account)|||||||
|Statement<br>offinancial|position||||||
|Notes to the financial|statements||||||





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|Year en|d|ed 31 March 20|ed 31 March 20|23|||||||
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|Reference||and administrative||details|||||||
|Registered||charity name||Halton Play Council||||Limited|||
|Charity registration|||number|1066784|||||||
|Company||registration|number|03331471|||||||
|Principal|office and registered|||Play Resource||Centre|||||
|office||||10Mersey Road|||||||
|||||Runcorn|||||||
|||||Cheshire|||||||
|||||WA7 1DF|||||||
|||||UK|||||||
|The trustees|||||||||||
|||||Sally Hendry|||||||
|||||Cllr Mark Dennett|||||||
|||||Allan Massey|||||(Resigned|10January 2023)|
|||||Reginald Spooner|||||||
|||||Colin Leslie|||||||
|||||Cllr Rosie Leek|||||||
||||||||||(Served from 1 May 2022 to 26||
|||||Cllr Carole Plumpton||||Walsh|January 2023)||
|||||Cllr Margaret|Ratcliffe||||(Resigned|1 May 2022)|
|||||Cllr John Stockton|||||(Resigned|1 May 2022)|
|||||Cllr Christopher||Rowe|||(Appointed|1 May 2022)|
|||||Helen Leslie|||||(Appointed|31 March 2023)|
|Company|secretary|||Colin Leslie|||||||
|Independent||examiner||Rachel Palombella|||FCA||||
|||||AGP Chartered||Accountants|||||
|||||Sycamore House|||||||
|||||Sutton Quays|Business Park||||||
|||||Sutton Weaver|||||||
|||||Run corn|||||||
|||||Cheshire|||||||
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|The table below shows both th<br>period adjustment.|e movement<br>in the total|Restricted<br>and|Unrestricted<br>|Funds and the|
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||Unrestricted<br>E|Revaluation<br>f|Restricted<br>E|Total Funds<br>E|
|Opening<br>balance<br>Prior year adjustment<br>In year movement|222,350<br>(45,744)<br>(16,399)|26,491<br>(26,491)|208,797<br>(206,837)<br>20,064|457,638<br>(279,072)<br>3,665|
|Closing balance|160,207||22,024|182,231|



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|(including<br>income an<br>Year ended 31 March|d expendi<br> 2023|ture|account)||||
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||||funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
|||Note||f||E|
|Income and endowments|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies<br>Other trading<br>activities<br>Investment<br>income||6<br>7<br>8|27,807<br>120,237<br>629|112,645<br>94|140,452<br>120,331<br>629|114,449<br>84,060<br>17|
|Total income|||148,673|112,739|261,412|198,526|
|Expenditure|||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds:<br>Costs ofother trading<br>activities<br>Expenditure<br>on charitable<br>activities<br>Exceptional<br>items||9<br>10,11<br>13|(165,072)|(92,675)|(257,747)|(23,444)<br>(177,253)<br>(252,581)|
|Total expenditure|||(165,072)|(92,675)|(257,747)|(453,278)|
|Net income/(expenditure)<br>movement<br>in funds|and net||(16,399)|20,064|3,665|(254,752)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward as previously<br>reported<br>Prior year adjustment|||248,841<br>(72,235)|208,797<br>(206,837)|457,638<br>(279,072)|433,318|
|Total funds brought<br>forward as restated|||176,606|1,960|178,566|433,318|
|Total funds carried forward|||160,207|22,024|182,231|178,566|





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|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible<br>fixed assets||||18|3,346|4,031|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks<br>Debtors<br>Cash at bank and|in hand|||19<br>20|15,615<br>8,049<br>163,782|11,223<br>7,254<br>174,665|
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|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year||21|(8,561)|(18,607)|
|Net current assets|||||178,885|174,535|
|Total assets less|current||liabilities||182,231|178,566|
|Net assets|||||182,231|178,566|
|Funds ofthe charity|||||||
|Restricted funds<br>Unrestricted<br>funds:|||||22,024|1,960|
|Other unrestricted||income funds|||160,207|176,606|
|Total unrestricted|funds||||160,207|176,606|
|Total charity funds||||23|182,231|178,566|



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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
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||Appeals and|donations|274|1,166|1,440|
||Grants|||||
||Grants receivable||27,533|111,479|139,012|
||||27,807|112,645|140,452|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
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||Appeals and|donations|6,546||6,546|
||Grants|||||
||Grants receivable||17,335|90,568|107,903|
||||23,881|90,568|114,449|
|7.|Other trading|activities||||
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||||Funds|Funds|2023|
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||Other trading|activities|120,237|94|120,331|





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|Ye|ar ended 3i|ar ended 3i|March 2|023|||||
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|7.|Other trading||activities|(continued)|||||
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||Other trading||activities|||84,007|53|84,060|
|8.|Investment|income|||||||
||||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
||||||Funds|2023|Funds|2022|
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||Bank interest||receivable||629|629|17|17|
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||||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
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|Expenditure|on charitabl|e<br>activities<br>by fund type||||
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|Resource centre|||162,598|551|163,149|
|Toy library||||||
|Commissioned<br>Depreciation,|services<br>amortisation|and other similar costs||91,634<br>490|91,634<br>490|
|Support costs|||2,474||2,474|
||||165,072|92,675|257,747|
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|Resource centre|||32,959|57,836|90,795|
|Toy library||||347|347|
|Commissioned<br>Depreciation,|services<br>amortisation|and other similar costs|(1,555)|84,555<br>653|83,000<br>653|
|Support costs|||2,458||2,458|
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|Expenditure||on charitabl|e<br>activities|by activity type||||
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|||||directly|costs|2023|2022|
|Resource centre||||163,149||163,149|90,860|
|Toy library|||||||347|
|Commissioned<br>Depreciation,||services<br>amortisation|and other|91,634||91,634|83,000|
|similar costs||||490||490|653|
|Governance|costs||||2,474|2,474|2,393|
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|||||support costs<br>f|Total 2023<br>f|Total 2022<br>f|
||Governance|costs||2,474|2,474|2,393|
||Other support costs|||||65|
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|13.|Exceptional|items|||||
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||Net income/(e|xpenditure)||is stated after charging/(crediting):|||
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||Depreciation|of tangible|fixed assets||1,115|1,343|
|15.|Independent|examination||fees|||
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||Fees payable <br>Independent|to the independent<br>examiner for:<br>examination<br>ofthe financial statements|||2,500|2,400|





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|The total staff costs and|employee|benefits for the reporting|period|are analysed<br>as|follows:|
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|Wages and salaries<br>Social security costs||||173,476<br>1,000|130,449<br>950|
|Employer contributions|to pension|plans||865|674|
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|expenses<br>from the charity during t<br> Tangible fixed assets|he year.||||
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||Toy library|equipment|vehicles|Total|
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|Cost|||||
|At 1 Apr 2022 (as restated)|18,117|58,396|13,415|89,928|
|Additions||430||430|
|At 31 Mar 2023|18,117|58,826|13,415|90,358|
|Depreciation|||||
|At 1 Apr 2022|16,157|56,367|13,373|85,897|
|Charge for the year|490|615|10|1,115|
|At 31 Mar 2023|16,647|56,982|13,383|87,012|
|Carrying<br>amount|||||
|At 31 Mar 2023|1,470|1,844||3,346|
|At 31 Mar 2022|1,960|2,029||4,031|





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|19.|Stocks|||||
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||Stocks|||15,615|11,223|
|20.|Debtors|||||
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||Trade debtors|||670|1,555|
||Prepayments|and accrued income||7,379|5,699|
|||||8,049|7,254|
|21.|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year|||
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||Trade creditors|||4,894|1,102|
||Accruals and deferred<br>income<br>Social security and other taxes<br>Credit card account|||3,197<br>3,178<br>215|13,042<br>3,713<br>619|
||VAT liability<br>Other creditors|||(2,923)|(20)<br>151|
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||At 1 Apr 22|Income||Expenditure<br>E|Transfers|Prior year<br>adjustments<br>E|At<br>31 Mar 23<br>f|
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|General funds<br>Revaluation|222,350|148,673||(165,072)||(45,744)|160,207|
|reserve|26,491|||||(26,491)||
||248,841|148,673||(165,072)||(72,235)|160,207|
||At 1 Apf 21|Income||Expenditure|Transfers|Prior year<br>adjustments|At<br>31 Mar 22|
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|General funds<br>Revaluation|171,751|107,905||(76,379)|(26,671)||176,606|
|reserve||||||||
||171,751|107,905||(76,379)|(26,671)||176,606|
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||At 1 Apr 22|Income||Expenditure|Transfers|Prior year<br>adjustments|At<br>31 Mar 23|
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|General funds<br>Toy Library<br>Commissioned|206,837<br>1,960|||(490)||(206,837)|1,470|
|Services<br>Resource Centre||105,642<br>7,097||(92,137)<br>(48)|||13,505<br>7,049|
||208,797|112,739||(92,675)||(206,837)|22,024|
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||At 1 Apf 21|Income|Expenditure<br>F||Transfers<br>f|adjustments|31 Mar 22<br>E|
|Restricted Funds|261,567|90,621||(376,899)|26,671||1,960|





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|Tangible<br>Current|fixed assets<br> assets||1,876<br>166,892|1,470<br>20,554|3,346<br>187,446|
|Creditors|less than|1 year|(8,561)||(8,561)|
|Net assets|||160,207|22,024|182,231|
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|Tangible<br>Current|fixed assets<br> assets||2,071<br>193,142|1,960|4,031<br>193,142|
|Creditors|less than|1 year|(18,607)||(18,607)|
|Net assets|||176,606|1,960|178,566|



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