Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau operating as
The Bureau
Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023
Company number 3455027 Charity number 1067170
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Company number 3455027 Charity number 1067170
Registered office and operational address Bank House, 22 Henry Street, Glossop, SK13 8BW
Board of Trustees Members of the Board of Trustees, who are also directors under company law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report were as follows:
Sue Nash
Elaine Richardson
Andy Zuntz Wayne Prior Peter Carefoot Simon Rogers Lynda Shentall (Appointed 24 May 2023) Adrian Stokes (Appointed 1 April 2023) Daniel McCoughlin (Appointed 1 April 2023) Jean Shanks (Appointed 27 March 2023) (Resigned 12 October 2023)
Staff
Natalie Rhodes Chief Officer Karen Gard Finance and Compliance Officer/BBO Administrator Ruth Towner-Yates Community Health and Wellbeing Manager Graham Morgan Service Development and Programme Manager Lauren Moore Operations Manager (Maternity) Mark Allen Operations Manager (Maternity cover) Rebecca Hyde Finance Officer Ed Kelly Life Skills Lead (left September 2022) Frances Jodrell Life Skill Lead (from September 2022) Matthew Gregory Community Development Lead Helen Thornhill Move More Project Lead Emma Delany Digital Health Lead Janice Imrie PCN Link Worker Jackson Barnes PCN Link Worker
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| Lisa Newens | Community Navigator |
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| Rebecca Knowles | Community Navigator |
| Bev Maycock | Community Navigation Triage |
| Paul Kiddy | Sight Loss and Call Companions Coordinator |
| Jon Grace | Green Social Prescribing Programme Manager |
| Russell Gard | Employability Advisor |
| Janine Bramald | Car Scheme Coordinator |
| Nathan Connor | Befriending Coordinator |
| Paula Rydings | Life Skills Support Worker |
| Fiona Nelson | Volunteer Coordinator |
| Josh Asquith | Business Administrator |
| Lauren Hastie | Peer Support Administrator |
| Stacey Bedwell | BBO Work Coach |
| Pauline Herbert | Cleaner |
Bankers National Westminster Bank plc Norfolk Square, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8BR Independent Christy Lau FCCA DChA, Slade & Cooper Limited examiner Beehive Mill, Jersey Street, Ancoats Manchester, M4 6JG
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Chair’s Review
Welcome to the Annual Review for year ending 31[st] March 2023.
In last year’s annual report we reflected on our response to and recovery from the Covid epidemic. This year our focus has been on re-establishing our core strategy, dealing with the cost of living crisis, and ensuring our finances are in a robust position to enable us to continue tackling our key priorities.
Our revised strategic aims give a real focus and sense of direction to The Bureau that will set us on a positive course for years to come. It was developed with a range of partners and truly reflects our purpose and focus.
Financially we have stabilised our position and had a very successful year in terms of funding, including one of our most successful funding bids which will support our Life Skills programme for a further three years. Our finance team have managed our resources so well through the year that we are now in a position to provide additional resources to the community to help tackle the cost of living crisis that is causing so much anxiety for many people.
As always, our superb staff and volunteers have ensured that over the last 12 months The Bureau has delivered great services to the Glossopdale community, and will continue to do so. The staff team have proved themselves to be outstanding in responding to the many challenges faced by the community at a time of great financial pressure for many people. And our volunteers have been tireless in putting themselves forward to help support some of the most vulnerable people in the area.
I would also like to thank the Trustees who have overseen the Bureaus activities with commitment and professionalism. Finally a thank you to our many partners who have helped us achieve another successful year. We look forward to working with you all for many years to come.
Simon Rogers (Chair of the Board of Trustees)
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Objectives and Activities
The Board of Trustees reviews the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report sets out our activities and looks at the outcomes we have achieved over the previous year. The review examines the success of each key activity and the benefits experienced by residents and groups across Glossopdale. The review also helps us to ensure that our aims, objectives and activities remain focussed on our stated purposes, and directed towards public benefit.
The Board has referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the Board has considered how planned activities will contribute to the set aims and objectives.
The Bureau is a community wellbeing charity with continued dedication to improving the quality of life for the people of Glossopdale and the surrounding areas. We support people and communities across Glossopdale to take action that improves the quality of life of local people, by creating solutions and opportunities that enable them to create positive social change and community benefit. This all rooted in our fundamental beliefs that:
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People and community should be at the heart of what we do
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Our community hold the answers as well as the questions
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Only by listening can we move forward
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We should be flexible to meet need
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There is strength in partnership
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We need to be brave and passionate in what we do
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Everything we do should make a difference
Our revised strategic plan for 2022- 2025 sets out 5 key aims, to:
1. Encourage local people to volunteer and support others
2. Offer advice and practical help
3. Connect people with other relevant services
4. Support the growth of community activity and action
5. Respond to community needs as they arise
The revised strategy works to articulate more clearly what we do and how we do it so that all of our stakeholders can connect with and understand our current services and our ambitions for continuing to uniquely serve the community of Glossop. All of our projects and activities remain interdependent and form a model that can flex, grow and respond to the needs, interests and opportunities within our community. The model responds to need as we review what works and integrate feedback, or as the funding landscape changes. Our work falls into the following areas:
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Community and Voluntary Work
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Health and Wellbeing Work
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Bureau Partnerships
During this financial year, following the transition of Glossop NHS services into the Derbyshire footprint, we have worked hard to build relationships with new commissioners and strategic partners, to ensure that vital information on the ground and patient experience and need has been considered at all times. We have lobbied to keep vital services in our community, such as funding for our car scheme and our social prescribing model which is different to those in Derbyshire, infrastructure funding for the local sector and for gaps in service provision on the ground that have been forgotten during the transition. We have also worked with our new partners to communicate the changes with the public, seek their thoughts and concerns and feed them back into the system to assist in making the changes as smooth as possible. Finally we have started to shape future provision through collaboration with the
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High Peak Health Place Alliance, work more closely under the ambitions of the new Integrated Care Board and continue to respond to and feed in information to our partners about local gaps and needs. Where services are not good enough, we act as a mouthpiece for local people, to be a catalyst for change and improvement. The Bureau works to connect health, social care and other public services to community initiatives, to support people towards wellness. Our priority is people, treating them as individuals, never assuming what is right for them and accepting them for who they are. We walk alongside people to offer a person-centred approach to improving wellbeing.
The varying support we offer is an interdependent web that wraps around an individual to support them with their needs and provide opportunity for them to give to others, often simultaneously, through voluntary activity. Unlike our statutory partners, our wide variety of community based social capital rich activities help to connect people and keep them connected for improved wellbeing and health.
Volunteering is at the heart of who we are and what we do resulting in a strong focus in this strategic period to enhance our volunteering offer through improved training for volunteers, wider opportunities and brokerage and a strong focus on making sure that their experience is as rewarding as it is for the people and communities they support. Volunteering is the thread that runs through every project, helping us to reach more people and bring in a wealth of skills and experience. We value each and every person that comes to us for support or to give their time. There is something for everyone, and we make roles to suit them rather than fitting them into roles we need. Because of this we have an incredibly diverse range of activities happening at The Bureau, where people can be valued for who they are and be allowed to shine.
What we do
The following is a summary of the main activities provided over the last year:
1. Social Connections:
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Call Companions – Telephone befriending service where socially isolated people receive a weekly phone call providing a chat and a listening ear
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Car Scheme – Volunteer drivers provide transport to medical appointments and social activities for individuals who cannot use public or private transport for various reasons. We are now able to use this project to provide free transport to a variety of medical appointments including continued support of the vaccine programme and COVID-19 recovery in Glossopdale.
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Social Companions/Connectors – In October 2021 we secured a three year financial investment via the National Lottery to continue to grow and develop our Befriending service. Under this arrangement we continue to look to explore the future sustainability of the offer and also to cater for a wider range of clients and create more specified volunteering roles. This includes:
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Befrienders/Social Connectors: Volunteers work with lonely and socially isolated people who live in the Glossopdale area, either as shorter-term social connectors working with someone towards an agreed goal or activity, or longer-term befrienders who will then act as “a good neighbour” by giving them some regular company/companionship over the phone or in person.
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Friends for physical activity : A number of our befriending volunteers pair up with our clients to walk, cycle, attend the gym and accompany one another to physical activities of their choice.
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Mentors: Volunteers work predominantly with people on the Life Skills programme, supporting them in overcoming the barriers they are currently facing to achieve their goals, build their confidence, and connect socially.
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Befriending peer support groups/networks: As part of our new funding contract, we have been exploring sustainability of the befriending offer by building groups and networks for our befriending clients. For example, by setting up group activities for people to befriend one another at local supported living accommodation facilities in the area.
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2. Social Sessions:
Our social sessions make up what we label as our ‘peer support’ offer which we have worked hard to develop into a tiered approach this financial year. Tier one activities are simply group connections, they add depth to the work we have done with people by offering them social activities that they can join to enrich their life and activities through friendships and new connections. Tier two activities are a new strand and combine connections, friendship and intervention. Our current activities support men with mild to moderate mental health struggles and we are working with partners to establish some funding to develop this further after a successful self-funded pilot. Below are our range of peer support social sessions on offer at the moment.
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Time Out sessions –Time out has evolved into a social gathering for some of our most vulnerable clients and volunteers. We continue to help them with shopping if they wish and play games and provide tea, coffee and entertainment.
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The Brew Crew – Based in the Norfolk Arms in central Glossop, this has been our most well attended group. There are a range of clients and volunteers attend and the atmosphere is friendly and welcoming. Small peer support groups have formed from this and our Visually Impaired group also meets there regularly after the session.
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Hadfield Methodist Church – We have continued our work in Hadfield, pairing our community navigators with a peer support session to connect with people locally.
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Casting On – a crochet group that meets at the methodist church after the drop in every Tuesday afternoon.
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Forest Folk – Our successful mental health peer support activity trial in partnership with a locally run forest school. Here we combine forest activities and learning which are fun and engaging with everyday life skills including emotional management, thinking skills, assertiveness, communication skills and more.
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Cooking Group – A healthy cooking class for clients who want to learn how to cook or how to make nourishing meals on a budget. We have also used this group as a foundation for delivering similar life skills to the ‘forest folk’ activity.
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Tuesday Dementia group Gamesley – Attended by 14 people all who have varying types and progressions of dementia, this group is open to new members and reaches a community that has a disproportionate level of dementia development.
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Thursday Dementia Friends – A group for people with dementia and their carers, supported by a committed, warm and wonderful volunteer who leads and manages the group. This group works closely with our community navigation team so that families can be supported through the challenges of dementia and be connected to the right services at the right time.
3. Volunteering:
Volunteering is at the heart of everything we do and has been a key part of the support we have offered our community during the pandemic. We offer a variety of volunteering roles from befriending, to driving, to reception and administration roles, including one-offs, 1-to-1 and group roles. Through ‘shout outs’ of one-off opportunities, we flexibly match people’s interests, time, skills, experience and enthusiasm to the needs of our clients. We currently have 315 active volunteers supporting our work – you can see in the section below some of the impact they have made on their local community, which has been inspiring and overwhelming.
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4. Supporting Community Wellbeing:
Following 5 years of delivering a strong offer as part of our local integrated care organisation to support our community and the individuals in it to increase their capacity to manage their own health and wellbeing, we have worked hard this year to convince our new commissioners in Derbyshire to maintain the same model. The evidence base we have been able to draw upon showing our ability to support and reduce demand on overstretched statutory services has ensured that we can continue to deliver this work into the future. Our offer will remain as follows as we move into the Derbyshire Health footprint and includes:-
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Community Navigation – This is a Social Prescribing model offering supported connection into local communitybased activities for a wide range of individuals with varying needs, as well as support and services that will improve health and wellbeing.
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Asset Based Community Development – in partnership with our local CVS, we have been working with our community to increase variety and resilience, so that it is equipped to support self-care. This enables us to map gaps and respond to them. Our efforts this year have assisted in helping the sector get back on its feet following the lockdown periods and put things in place to return to face to face delivery as restrictions have been lifted. During this period we successfully distributed £39,000 in grants to support local grass roots organisations deliver a range of new activities.
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Condition Specific Support – Shaped by demand and passion within the community, we have developed various types of group support including dementia support, sight loss support and wheelchair hire. We are also codesigning and developing a mental health intervention for men with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. This intervention is combined with an activity, the pilot of which was combined with a forest school.
5. Pre-employment support:
These services are for people who face additional issues or barriers in their lives, including housing, mental ill health, drug and alcohol problems, and low confidence and self-esteem, helping to enable them to reach their goals. This support is offered through three key projects:
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Life Skills – Group work and 1-2-1 volunteer mentor support for those furthest away from working or engaging in meaningful activity. This year we have successfully secured 3 years funding with The Henry Smith Foundation to continue this work stream. This partnership will see us increase our output and continue to support those with the most challenging barriers to overcome.
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B.B.O. Work Coach – B.B.O funding ends in March 2023. We have worked tirelessly this year to seek out ongoing funding for this stream of work and use our learning along the way to tailor the offer based on newly presenting needs and cohorts of people who were not suitable under the arrangements of the groundworks contract. We look forward to working with the UK shared prosperity fund and High Peak Borough Council in delivering a broader set of objectives from this work and reaching a larger number of people.
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CV Workshop – Valuable 1-1 support provided by our Employability Advisor. Clients are supported to create new CVs, explore the skills and experience they have and consider what sort of jobs they might apply for. This hugely successful project works seamlessly with BBO and Life Skills to create a full package of support for our clients.
6. Bureau Partnerships:
Our purpose is to create solutions and opportunities that enable people and communities to create positive social change and community benefit . We recognise that we can’t do this alone and to achieve this we need to work in partnership with other people and organisations that share our purpose. This year we have developed formal coworking partnerships with:
- Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership During this year our transition to Derbyshire has meant we have had to join new partnerships to align in this geographical area. However, we have remained involved
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with the GM partnership, we continue to host the Green Social Prescribing Lead on behalf of them and work with them on developments in social prescribing nationally in partnership with the local PCN.
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NHS England to enable the development and growth of social prescribing link workers.
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Move More Glossop , which is a partnership with High Peak but may become a continued partnership with GM moving, Greater Sport and Sport England, designed to encourage people to move more for health and wellbeing.
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- Primary Care Digital Health This project has developed significantly and is now running across Tameside. It has combined work directly with surgeries to train staff with training for marginalised community groups and individual patients. Enhancing and enabling better access to GP care across the footprint. The progress made has led us into talks for a further years funding for 23-24.
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Midlands Thriving Communities Through The National Association of Social Prescribing (NASP)– To assist with linking, networking and lobbying for better support to the third sector for the delivery of social prescribing and grass roots services and provisions across the Midlands including Derbyshire.
What we’ve achieved
Through working collaboratively with statutory organisations, other voluntary sector organisations, grass roots groups, local businesses, volunteers, individuals and our community as a whole, we have this year supported up to 2000 individuals with the help of over 300 active volunteers.
Some stand out achievements from the last 12 months include:
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The Volunteer Car Scheme supported 310 clients to undertake a total of 1729 passenger journeys, travelling 24161 miles, with the help of 26 volunteer drivers – another increase on last year.
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The Call Companions Service has continued to increase the number of people it is supporting and is now making 160 calls per week, with the average call taking around 15 minutes – a total of 2028 hours spent connecting people in the Glossopdale area! The services is supported by 17 volunteers and the Call Companion Coordinator.
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Befriending has seen another increase in clients and volunteers, with 88 clients supported by 36 volunteers with regular face to face friendship and support amounting to approx. 3900 hours over the year, reaching the most lonely and isolated people within our community. Reported outcomes include an increase in physical activity, increased independence and motivation and increase in social interactions.
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Peer Support Groups – the range of activities provided has diversified significantly in this period, with new groups including a Cooking Group, ‘Together Growing’ gardening group and ‘Forest Folk’ forest schools group to name a few. Some reported outcomes at these groups, as well as our other activities (including coffee mornings, knitting groups and Dementia groups), has been a decrease in social isolation, increase in confidence, increase in knowledge and even some going on to gain employment as a result of the skills learned at these groups.
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Time Out sessions, restarted initially at Glossop Labour club and now have returned to the Bureau’s community space and are attracting 10 to 15 clients each week supported by several volunteers. We have Coffee Mornings in both Glossop and Hadfield attracting 20 client per week supported by a member of staff and volunteers.
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The Community Navigation Service has supported a total of 388 clients, each of whom worked in partnership with their Community Navigator to develop a personalised care and support plan. The top 3 reasons for referrals were mental health, disconnection from the community and problems coping. 466 Social Prescriptions were generated from these clients and 80 signposts made.
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Life Skills has supported 62 clients during this period, and there were 10 volunteer mentors supporting people to the following outcomes; 30% progressed into paid employment, 90% completed the programme, 18 people went into volunteering, and 5 went into education or training.
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BBO Towards Work Towards Work programme supported 28 people with their employability skills. From the 28: 4 went into education, 4 have gone into paid employment, and 4 went into independent job searches. All the participants received tailored 1-1 support and coaching with clear SMART milestones being set to help each person navigate around their own personal barriers.
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CV Workshop – This project sadly ended in March 23, but had some fantastic outcomes. We saw 286 clients and created 305 CVs. It has created good links with The Job Centre and Reed and are receiving referrals to the workshop from them. 10% of clients have returned for further help with enhanced CVs, cover letters or help with a job application.
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Move More Glossop have delivered Holiday activities across, Whitfield, Gamesley and Hadfield, as well as other areas of the High Peak, providing activities and meals during summer, Christmas and Easter. We are successfully running 4 youth groups across the 3 key focus areas, which are well attended and really successful. We are now hosting the new Children & Young Peoples Move More Officer who has been working with the School Sports Partnership to gather information about activity levels in children and run physical activity events across the borough.
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Digital Healthcare Support Service – Our only project working across Tameside and Glossop, supporting people to access their GP surgery more easily and develop skills to more effectively manage their own health. This year we built on our learning from 2021 by developing 5 regular weekly digital health workshops at a mixture of community venues and GP surgeries. We received 940 referrals in this period, and supported 459 people which is a 228% increase on last year! We delivered 145 workshops and have 25 Digital Health Champion volunteers supporting us.
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Volunteering – We have continued to support our existing volunteers, recruit new volunteers for our own services and also work with external partners with their opportunities. These include the Talking Newsdisc, Peak District National Park, High Peak CVS, Girlguiding, Home Start, PCrefurb, City Year UK, The Brain Tumour Society, Trafford Rape Crisis, Derbyshire Police and Water Aid. We’ve also supported events and activities across the borough.
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Community Development activities have supported local groups with our self-care grants, as well as working closely with High Peak CVS to establish groups and strengthen legal structures. Organisations supported include DoSporkUK, Bookfrest, Glossop Elfins, Glossop Furniture Project, Empower and Seed funding. We also established Glossopdale SOUP in March 23 which brings grassroots community projects together to access funding through a community led grant pot. Through this we supported Matrix Martial Arts and Dark Peak Music, with support from Bellies Not Bins, Tesco, the Co-op, and the councillor’s initiative fund.
Post COVID-19, and into a Cost of Living Crisis
Impact on Volunteers, Staff, and Beneficiaries
This year has seen a full return to ‘normality’ from the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, and the ability to consider what our ‘business as usual’ looks like. Despite the total easing of restrictions, it’s important to remember that the pandemic has created a long-lasting wellbeing impact on some of our most vulnerable clients and volunteers and this has been one the challenges of returning to normality. During this past year, we have received unwavering and tireless support from our wonderful volunteers including many new ones and they have helped us through the changing restrictions to deliver all the wonderful impacts outlined above.
However some new challenges have arisen in the form of a cost of living crisis. As the price of basic essentials continued to increase, we found that many of our clients were struggling to keep the heating on and feed their
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families, creating further stress and heartache to those who may have already been facing issues in their lives. We set up a ‘warm bank’ in our offices once a week, welcoming people in to have a brew with us and pick up any warm items of clothing they might need. We also made sure we knew all the offers of support available locally and nationally, and supported people to access these services.
Our staff team have been outstanding, showing flexibility and versatility in how they deliver their work in a way that best suits their clients. We have again retained our full staff team this year, with just a few staffing changes due to maternity leave or personal progression. We have been focusing on learning all about our new strategy, embedding this into our day-to-day work and ensuring that everyone is working together in the most efficient way possible.
Further Developments
As our staff team mature, learn together, and thrive, we are now in a position to consider where to take our projects next, and how we can build on the good work we have achieved over the last 40 or so years. We are always learning, and this year we have been able to dig further into what our community needs and how we can support them at a grass roots level. Our Community Development Lead has done some fantastic work with the Glossopdale SOUP project, which will eventually be floated off as it’s own committee and will further enable crowdfunding within the community which is empowered to choose what they spend their money on. The peer support offer has widened further, with skills activities such as cooking and forest schools groups enabling people to connect to others and support themselves
Financial Impact
The last financial year in the aftermath of COVID saw funding stream return to business as usual but there has been a unprecedented demand for funds and many we have applied to have been extremely competitive and unsuccessful for us. We have however secured some further long term funding for our Life Skills stream of work, secured investment in our social prescribing offer through Derbyshire Integrated Care Board and retained some cross working with Manchester Integrated Care Board. This will change again in the coming financial year so strategic work to re-align ourselves in our new geography is important. Despite these ongoing pressures, having started the year with a projected deficit we have worked hard through the year to manage our finances well. The coming year presents new opportunities and we will continue to show flexibility and embrace new work for the good of our community in line with the needs that are presented to us. The Board of Trustees consider that our charity remains a going concern.
We continue to take the following actions to mitigate financial risk and effectively plan:
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Robust monthly profit and loss reports.
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Bi-monthly finance sub-groups.
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Regular Board meetings.
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Reviewing all our overheads and staffing structures to reduce all non-project costs to make us as resilient as possible for the future.
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Engaging with new opportunities as we respond to local need.
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The Bureau does not hold any external third-party investments.
Employees of The Bureau are entitled to join a defined contribution money purchase pension scheme. Two exemployees are members of a defined pension scheme. The Bureau is liable to ongoing additional contributions to this scheme due to scheme underfunding. An underfunding recovery plan has been instigated by the trustees of this scheme with this position reviewed every 3 years. The last review was completed on the 30/9/20. The liability for each organisation is recalculated at review date. The current forecasted end date of the recovery plan is January 2025.
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An ongoing financial risk remains here, dependent on the performance of the fund and the overall membership of the fund. Whilst there remains a deficit in the fund, our financial obligations will continue. For more information see note 27 in the accounts.
Financial review
Year Summary
The total income for the year was £742,673 with a total expenditure of £709,807 resulting in an reported operating surplus of £32,866. However, the restricted funds brought forward from 2022-23 were £62,005 and the restricted funds being carried forward to 2023-24 are £107,577. When these figures are taken into account the amended result is a deficit of £12,686.
Our main funders over the year were Tameside and Glossop Integrated Foundation Trust, Derbyshire County Council, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, High Peak Borough Council, Tameside and Glossop CCG, The National Lottery and the European Social Fund.
Reserves Policy
Overall reserves at 31/3/2023 were £522,102, comprising £107,557 restricted funds and £414,545 unrestricted funds. See note 22 in the accounts for more information.
The Bureau will seek, where possible, to maintain a general funds reserve equivalent to its running costs for a period of no less than three months and no more than six months.
Plans for the Future
The coming years are likely to bring more challenges and opportunities for the Bureau, local people across Glossopdale and the VCSE sector. However, we are well placed to respond to these. Whilst we cannot predict what these challenges and opportunities will be, there are a range of factors that will influence us over the coming years including:
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Glossop’s transition to Derbyshire from Greater Manchester for health – we are still in the process of strengthening new partnerships and relationships across Derbyshire, including in Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board. These new relationships will define our funding opportunities going forward, as we seek to secure our current projects into the future. We aim to keep promoting the worth of community approaches within health and social care, and the wider public sector. While this change removes some cross system complexities in provision, there are still risks – there is still concern that Glossopdale will continue to experience inequality, and lose opportunities for unique problem solving and innovative service design as it is absorbed into the High Peak Health Place alliance and loses some of its individual identity. Despite this, we will continue to be a champion for Glossopdale and ensure this community gets its fair share of services and support.
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NHS strategic direction - The NHS’s 2019 Long Term Plan articulates the need for more preventative and community-based interventions. The contribution to health and wellbeing outcomes that an organisation such as The Bureau can make is still not universally recognised, funded or supported. However, the inception of the Integrated Care Board and new structures within the NHS now articulate a clear ambition to increase work with the third sector and embed more community based initiatives to support wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. This provides a renewed opportunity to build relationships and capacity in organisations like ours to deliver such services.
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Demographics – Glossopdale has several disadvantaged areas and the highest level of relative disadvantage in Derbyshire. There are two neighbourhoods in Gamesley in the top 10% most disadvantaged in Derbyshire (one is actually in the top 2%). Three further areas are in the top 20%. In contrast, three Glossopdale areas are in the top 10% least deprived, and part of Simmondley is the least deprived in Derbyshire. This is mirrored in life expectancy where it is 9.3 years lower for men and 7.7 years lower for women in some areas compared to more affluent ones. Whilst growing in many respects, Glossopdale has an ageing population and projections show a much larger ageing population with a deficit in numbers entering working age. We are currently planning how to further improve our place-based activities, with the potential for a more permanent base within the Gamesley area to foster trust and embed ourselves within this community – which will, we hope, broaden the availability of support to this community and provide more opportunity for co-development.
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Local VCSE sector – There is a strong and vibrant VCSE sector in Glossopdale, but it could be stronger and better resourced to meet the needs of the community. There continues to be a lack of strategic planning or direction specific to the community of Glossopdale to cater for all its strengths and challenges. The inception of the Integrated Care Board in Health has renewed efforts for the neighbourhood team to refresh it’s membership and create a strong local voice for Glossop across systems. Although there continues to be a lack of local leadership and coordinated cross-sector response the shared prosperity fund has been used to continue vital community projects and build local infrastructure. For example, it is currently funding our local pre-employment service and will fund a research proposal through our ‘move more’ work to scope out the need for local walkways to be improved. We have made effort this year to implement partnerships with local businesses through an initiative called ‘Glossop care’ where we are encouraging local businesses to invest in the VCSE. We hope that this will enhance the local prosperity and that money made in Glossop will do good for the whole community. We continue to form part of a High Peak Alliance partnership with HPCVS, New Mills Volunteer Centre and Connex Buxton and moving forward we aim to work collaboratively on contracts via Derbyshire County Council (DCC) if we can collectively secure new contracts. Infrastructure funding has continued from DCC but is under review.
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Availability of core funding – Core funding continues to be difficult to come by. This year we have been creating new partnerships across systems in Derbyshire and this has presented new opportunities for consultancy work. We are also working to boost our fundraising activities, are make sure we are take up any opportunity for income generation such as room rental and launching ‘Glossop Cares’.
Structure, Governance and Management
The Bureau is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 24 October 1987 and registered as a charity on 6 January 1998.
The company was established under a memorandum of association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company, and is governed under its articles of association.
Members of the charity guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charity in the event of winding up. The total number of such guarantees at 31 March 2018 was 6. The Board of Trustees are members of the charity but this entitles them only to voting rights. The Board has no beneficial interest in the charity.
All Board members give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity.
Under the requirements of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the members of the Board of Trustees retire in rotation over a three-year period after which they must be re-elected at the next Annual General Meeting. Trustees may make a recommendation at an Annual General Meeting or through an ordinary resolution to either fill a vacancy or appoint an additional Trustee in accordance with the Articles of Association. New Trustees receive an induction from the Chief Officer and the Chair.
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Risk Management
The Board of Trustees meets six times a year at which it reviews progress against budget and agreed plans, and considers and defines forward strategy. In particular, the Trustees consider appropriate action to mitigate risk as well as ensuring that planned activities contribute to The Bureau’s charitable objectives that have been set.
Statement of Responsibilities of the Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees (who are also directors of The Bureau for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Board’s 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 Board 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 Management Committee are required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
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Observe the methods and principles in the Charities statements of recommended practice (SORP)
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
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State whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements
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Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation
The Board is responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable it 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.
The Board is responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Independent Examiner
Christy Lau of Slade & Cooper Ltd was re-appointed as the charitable company's Independent Examiner during the year and has expressed her willingness to continue in that capacity.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime of the Companies Act 2006.
The Board’s annual report has been approved by the Board on 20[th] September 2023 and signed on its behalf by
Simon Rogers
Chair
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Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the company for the year ended 31[st] March 2023 which are set out on pages 15 to 38.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity 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 requirements 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 company’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)(b) of the 2011 Act.
Independent
Since the company’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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1) Accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
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2) The accounts do not accord with those records; or
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3) The accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
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4) The accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement 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 concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Christy Lau FCCA CTA DChA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Slade & Cooper Limited Beehive Mill, Jersey Street Ancoats Manchester, M4 6JG
Date 24/10/2023
Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Statement of Financial Activities
(including Income and Expenditure account)
for the year ended 31 March 2023
| Unrestricted funds Note £ Income from: Donations and legacies 3 6,429 Charitable activities: 4 Core activities 5,000 Projects and other 6,938 5 31,540 Investments 6 6,321 Total income 56,228 Expenditure on: Charitable activities: 7 Operating costs 68,914 Direct project costs - Total expenditure 68,914 9 (12,686) Net movement in funds for the year (12,686) Reconciliation of funds Total funds brought forward 427,231 Total funds carried forward 414,545 Other trading activities Net income/(expenditure) for the year |
Restricted funds £ 1,501 62,977 621,967 - - 686,445 174,099 466,794 640,893 45,552 45,552 62,005 107,557 |
Total funds 2023 £ 7,930 67,977 628,905 31,540 6,321 742,673 243,013 466,794 709,807 32,866 32,866 489,236 522,102 |
Total funds 2022 £ 8,112 101,787 455,384 34,699 733 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 600,715 | |||
| 203,061 457,618 |
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| 660,679 | |||
| (59,964) | |||
| (59,964) 549,200 |
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| 489,236 |
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.
A full comparative SOFA is available on the last page of the financial statements.
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau) Company number 3455027
Balance sheet as at 31 March 2023
| Note £ £ Fixed assets Tangible assets 14 5,856 Total fixed assets 5,856 Current assets Debtors 15 76,455 Cash at bank and in hand 16 523,023 Total current assets 599,478 Liabilities Creditors: amounts falling due in less than one year 17 (83,232) Net current assets 516,246 Total assets less current liabilities 522,102 Net assets 522,102 The funds of the charity: Restricted income funds 19 107,557 Unrestricted income funds 20 414,545 Total charity funds 522,102 2023 |
£ £ 8,238 8,238 22,021 609,986 632,007 (151,009) 480,998 489,236 489,236 62,005 427,231 489,236 2022 |
£ £ 8,238 8,238 22,021 609,986 632,007 (151,009) 480,998 489,236 489,236 62,005 427,231 489,236 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| 8,238 480,998 |
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| 489,236 | ||
| 489,236 | ||
| 62,005 427,231 |
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| 489,236 |
For the year in question, the company was entitled to exemption from an audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Directors' responsibilities:
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The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006,
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The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts
These accounts are prepared in accordance with the special provisions of part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies and constitute the annual accounts required by the Companies Act 2006 and are for circulation to members of the company.
The notes on pages 18 to 38 form part of these accounts.
Approved by the trustees on 20/9/2023 and signed on their behalf by:
Wayne Prior (Treasurer)
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Statement of Cash Flows for the year ending 31 March 2023
| Note 2023 £ Cash provided by/(used in) operating activities 23 (90,679) Cash flows from investing activities: Dividends, interest, and rents from investments 6,321 Purchase of tangible fixed assets (2,605) Cash provided by/(used in) investing activities 3,716 (86,963) Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year 609,986 Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year 523,023 Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents in the year |
2022 £ 118,184 |
|---|---|
| 733 (5,624) |
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| (4,891) | |
| 113,293 496,693 |
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| 609,986 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023
1 Accounting policies
The principal accounting policies adopted, judgments and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:
a Basis of preparation
The financial statements 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), second edition - October 2019 (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau) meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note.
b Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis
The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern. The trustees have made no key judgments which have a significant effect on the accounts.
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 amount of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.
c Income
Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
Income from government and other grants, whether ‘capital’ grants or ‘revenue’ grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.
For legacies, entitlement is taken as the earlier of the date on which either: the charity is aware that probate has been granted, the estate has been finalised and notification has been made by the executor(s) to the charity that a distribution will be made, or when a distribution is received from the estate. Receipt of a legacy, in whole or in part, is only considered probable when the amount can be measured reliably and the charity has been notified of the executor’s intention to make a distribution. Where legacies have been notified to the charity, or the charity is aware of the granting of probate, and the criteria for income recognition have not been met, then the legacy is a treated as a contingent asset and disclosed if material.
Income received in advance of a provision of a specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
d Donated services and facilities
Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item, any conditions associated with the donated item have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), general volunteer time is not recognised; refer to the trustees’ annual report for more information about their contribution.
On receipt, donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.
e Interest receivable
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the Bank.
f Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of charity.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds of the charity which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose.
Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity’s work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.
g Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.
- Expenditure on charitable activities includes the costs undertaken to further the purposes of the charity and their associated support costs.
Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.
h Operating leases
Operating leases are leases in which the title to the assets, and the risks and rewards of ownership, remain with the lessor. Rental charges are charged on a straight line basis over the term of the lease.
i Tangible fixed assets
Individual fixed assets costing £500 or more are capitalised at cost and are depreciated over their estimated useful economic lives on a straight line basis as follows:
Mini-bus 5 years Office equipment 3 years
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
j Debtors
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
k Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
l 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 to 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.
m Financial instruments
The charity only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
n Pensions
Employees of the charity are entitled to join a defined contribution ‘money purchase’ scheme. The charity’s contribution is restricted to the contributions disclosed in note 10. There were no outstanding contributions at the year end (2022: £nil).
Two ex-employees are members of a defined benefit pension scheme with The Pensions Trust. Additional contributions to this scheme due to underfunding are included in pensions expenditure. Further details are given in note 24.
2 Legal status of the charity
The charity is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales and has no share capital. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity. The registered office address is disclosed on page 1.
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
3 Income from donations and legacies
| Donations Total Donations Total Previous reporting period Current reporting period |
Unrestricted £ 6,429 6,429 Unrestricted £ 3,449 3,449 |
Restricted £ 1,501 1,501 Restricted £ 4,663 4,663 |
Total 2023 £ 7,930 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7,930 | |||
| Total 2022 £ 8,112 |
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| 8,112 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
4 Income from charitable activities
| Core activities Derbyshire County Council High Peak Borough Council GMHSCP Projects and other Tameside & Glossop CCG Car Scheme Digital Support Derbyshire County Council Volunteering Active Travel Glossop SOUP Contain Funding European Social Fund BBO Futures Police and Crime Commissioner ICFT Grants Move More Glossop CYP Move More High Peak Well Being Partnership Streetgames Summer Holiday Activity Fund Christmas Holiday Activity Fund Active Partner Trust Glossop Youth Action Group National Squash Centre Erewash Voluntary Action Salford CVS Glossop Round Table Royal Society for Public Health Tintwistle Parish Council Sessional Income Total Simmondley Medical Practice The National Lottery - Befriending High Peak CVS Glossopdale Community Messengers project Easter Holiday Activity Fund Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Current reporting period Action Together Grant Awards Life Skills Self Help Services - Big Life Group High Peak School and Sports Partnership Connex Community Support High Peak Borough Council Councillor Initiatives |
Unrestricted £ - 5,000 - 5,000 - - - - - - - 6,938 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6,938 11,938 |
Restricted £ 21,936 - 41,041 62,977 4,234 50,000 19,175 12,000 10,000 4,788 500 - 35,965 14,989 2,438 125,120 2,445 7,396 2,350 34,236 35,000 41,865 23,313 34,473 46,845 500 20,000 19,810 10,728 5,208 15,000 14,894 9,669 5,000 4,920 4,090 300 200 100 4,416 621,967 684,944 |
Total 2023 £ 21,936 5,000 41,041 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 67,977 4,234 50,000 19,175 12,000 10,000 4,788 500 6,938 35,965 14,989 2,438 125,120 2,445 7,396 2,350 34,236 35,000 41,865 23,313 34,473 46,845 500 20,000 19,810 10,728 5,208 15,000 14,894 9,669 5,000 4,920 4,090 300 200 100 4,416 |
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| 628,905 | |||
| 696,882 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
4 Income from charitable activities (cont.)
| Core activities Derbyshire County Council High Peak Borough Council GMHSCP Projects and other Tameside & Glossop CCG Car Scheme Peer Support Derbyshire County Council Volunteering Christmas Holiday Activity Fund Easter Holiday Activity Fund English Sports Council Youth Matters European Social Fund BBO Futures Police and Crime Commissioner ICFT Grants NHS Manchester CCG Connex Community Support Peter Sowerby High Peak CVS Social Connectedness COVID-19 - Volunteer Expenses Move More Total Glossopdale Community Messengers project Active Travel Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust High Peak Borough Council Previous reporting period GM Moving Action together Simmondley Medical Practice The National Lottery - Befriending Elemental Bureau Befriending NAVCA British Cycling Federation Alpkit Foundation |
Unrestricted £ - 5,000 - 5,000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3,000 - - - - - - - 1,500 - - 4,500 9,500 |
Restricted £ 21,936 - 74,851 96,787 16,000 20,000 19,175 6,859 17,754 6,396 8,192 4,489 2,500 29,937 19,418 24,990 124,735 24,329 2,000 500 23,169 32,129 - 34,473 22,356 2,489 6,887 1,334 246 200 - 77 250 450,884 547,671 |
Total 2022 £ 21,936 5,000 74,851 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101,787 - 16,000 20,000 - 19,175 6,859 17,754 6,396 8,192 4,489 2,500 29,937 19,418 24,990 124,735 24,329 2,000 500 23,169 32,129 3,000 34,473 22,356 2,489 6,887 1,334 246 200 1,500 77 250 |
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| 455,384 | |||
| 557,171 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
5 Income from other trading activities
| Income from other trading activities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Room hire & other income | 2023 £ 31,540 31,540 |
2022 £ 34,699 |
| 34,699 |
All income from other trading activities is unrestricted.
6 Investment income
| Investment income | ||
|---|---|---|
| Income from bank deposits | 2023 £ 6,321 6,321 |
2022 £ 733 |
| 733 |
All investment income is unrestricted.
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
7 Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities
| Staff costs Project costs Running costs Depreciation Staff costs Project costs Running costs Depreciation Restricted expenditure Unrestricted expenditure Previous reporting period Current reporting period Governance costs (see note 8) Governance costs (see note 8) |
Operating costs £ 165,833 - 67,789 4,987 4,404 243,013 Operating costs £ 128,146 - 64,173 6,658 4,084 203,061 |
Direct project costs £ 387,333 79,461 - - - 466,794 Direct project costs £ 371,912 85,706 - - - 457,618 2023 £ 640,893 68,914 709,807 |
Total 2023 £ 553,166 79,461 67,789 4,987 4,404 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 709,807 | |||
| Total 2022 £ 500,058 85,706 64,173 6,658 4,084 |
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| 660,679 | |||
| 2022 £ 611,680 48,999 |
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| 660,679 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
8 Analysis of governance and support costs
| Basis of apportionment Independent examination Governance Legal and professional Governance Basis of apportionment Independent examination Governance Legal and professional Governance Net income/(expenditure) for the year This is stated after charging/(crediting): Depreciation Loss or profit on disposal of fixed assets Operating lease rentals: Property Other Current reporting period Previous reporting period Independent examiner's fee |
Governance £ 1,500 2,904 4,404 Governance £ 1,500 2,584 4,084 2023 £ 4,987 24,000 - 1,250 |
Total 2023 £ 1,500 2,904 |
|---|---|---|
| 4,404 | ||
| Total 2022 £ 1,500 2,584 |
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| 4,084 | ||
| 2022 £ 6,658 - 24,000 1,005 1,250 |
- 9 Net income/(expenditure) for the year
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
10 Staff costs
Staff costs during the year were as follows:
| ff costs during the year were as follows: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wages and salaries Social security costs Pension costs Recruitment, training and other staff costs |
2023 £ 499,140 35,569 18,135 322 553,166 |
2022 £ 444,453 28,901 16,106 10,598 |
| 500,058 |
No employees has employee benefits in excess of £60,000 (2022: Nil).
The average number of staff employed during the period was 27 (2022: 24).
The average full time equivalent number of staff employed during the period was 19 (2022: 17).
The key management personnel of the charity comprise the trustees and the Chief Officer. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £47,539 (2022: £63,419).
11 Trustee remuneration and expenses, and related party transactions
Neither the management committee nor any persons connected with them received any remuneration or reimbursed expenses during the year (2022: Nil).
No members of the management committee received travel and subsistence expenses during the year (2022:£nil).
Aggregate donations from related parties were £nil (2022: £nil).
There are no donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.
No trustee or other person related to the charity had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity, including guarantees, during the year (2022: nil).
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
12 Government grants
The government grants recognised in the accounts were as follows:
| Derbyshire County Council High Peak Borough Council Tameside & Glossop CCG Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Manchester CCG Police and Crime Commissioner |
2023 £ 75,337 76,586 54,234 125,120 2,438 41,041 374,756 |
2022 £ 80,312 37,129 36,000 149,064 24,990 76,851 |
|---|---|---|
| 404,346 |
The unfulfilled conditions and contingencies attaching to the grants were to complete restricted projects (see note 19).
13 Corporation tax
The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within Chapter 3 of Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the charity.
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
14 Fixed assets: tangible assets
| Cost Additions Disposals Depreciation Charge for the year Disposals Net book value 15 Debtors Grants receivable Other debtors Prepayments and accrued income At 31 March 2023 At 31 March 2023 At 31 March 2023 At 1 April 2022 At 31 March 2022 At 1 April 2022 |
£ 33,504 2,605 - 36,109 25,266 4,987 - 30,253 5,856 8,238 2023 £ 61,387 2,151 12,917 76,455 Office equipment |
£ 33,504 2,605 - Total |
|---|---|---|
| 36,109 | ||
| 25,266 4,987 - |
||
| 30,253 | ||
| 5,856 | ||
| 8,238 | ||
| 2022 £ - 4,546 17,475 |
||
| 22,021 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
16 Cash at bank and in hand
| 16 Cash at bank and in hand |
|
|---|---|
| 2023 £ Short term deposits 407,450 Cash at bank and on hand 115,573 523,023 17 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 2023 £ Short term compensated absences (holiday pay) 6,598 Other creditors and accruals 16,989 Deferred income 59,645 83,232 18 Deferred income 2023 £ Deferred grant brought forward 117,028 Grant received 59,645 Released to income from charitable activities (117,028) Deferred grant carried forward 59,645 |
2022 £ 451,129 158,857 |
| 609,986 | |
| 2022 £ 10,832 23,149 117,028 |
|
| 151,009 | |
| 2022 £ 26,887 117,028 (26,887) |
|
| 117,028 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
19 Analysis of movements in restricted funds
| Core activities GMHSCP DCC Time Out Projects ESF BBO Life Skills ICFT Car Scheme DCC Active Travel Total Befriending support CCG Digital Support GM Moving Social Fund Spot Purchase Royal Society for Public Health Councillor Iniative CYP Move More Derbyshire County Council Volunteering Current reporting period DCC Glossopdale Community Messengers project Simmondley Medical Practice Alpkit Thursday Friends Peer Support Place Based Activities |
Balance at 1 April 2022 £ - 993 993 - - - 5,967 - - - 17,754 3,500 6,942 - 11,260 12,950 203 1,843 593 - - - 61,012 62,005 |
Income £ 41,041 22,211 63,252 35,965 58,330 166,985 46,845 16,234 19,175 7,396 10,000 50,000 92,059 34,473 20,809 1,808 - 1,118 230 200 1,500 60,066 623,193 686,445 |
Expenditure £ (41,041) (22,929) (63,970) (35,965) (58,330) (137,929) (44,812) (16,234) (19,175) (7,396) (27,754) (53,500) (63,529) (34,473) (32,069) (12,444) (203) (2,083) (341) (200) (700) (29,786) (576,923) (640,893) |
Transfers £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Balance at 31 March 2023 £ - 275 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 275 | |||||
| - - 29,056 8,000 - - - - - 35,472 - - 2,314 - 878 482 - 800 30,280 |
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| 107,282 | |||||
| 107,557 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
19 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (cont.)
| Core activities Projects ESF BBO Life Skills ICFT Car Scheme DCC Active Travel Alpkit Total Previous reporting period GMHSCP GM Moving Derbyshire County Council Volunteering National Lottery - Awards For All DCC Youth Action CCG Digital Support Place Based Activities Thursday Friends Befriending Action Together Peer Support Elemental Social Fund Spot Purchase High Peak CVS Social Connectedness HP Alliance DCC Glossopdale Community Messengers project Simmondley Medical Practice DCC Time Out |
Balance at 1 April 2021 - - 321 - - 24,329 6,887 9,778 - - - - 9,938 9,700 49,903 10,495 - - - - - - - - 121,351 121,351 |
Income 74,851 74,851 - 29,937 44,408 126,735 29,243 - 16,500 19,175 6,859 22,929 17,754 - 53,983 34,473 1,580 43,169 24,847 2,489 250 2,371 781 477,483 552,334 |
Expenditure (74,851) (74,851) (321) (29,937) (44,408) (151,064) (30,163) (9,778) (16,500) (19,175) (6,859) (21,936) (9,938) (9,700) (46,403) (57,536) (34,473) (1,580) (31,909) (11,897) (2,489) (47) (528) (188) (536,829) (611,680) |
Transfers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Balance at 31 March 2022 - |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | |||||
| - - - - 5,967 - - - - 993 17,754 - 3,500 6,942 - - 11,260 12,950 - 203 1,843 593 |
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| 62,005 | |||||
| 62,005 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
19 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (cont.)
| Name of fund | Description, nature and purposes of the fund |
|---|---|
| GMHCP | Funding from the Person Centred and Community Approaches Team at |
| the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership to provide | |
| support to Social Prescribing schemes across Greater Manchester. | |
| ICFT | Funding from Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care Foundation Trust to |
| support the community and individuals in it to increase their capacity to | |
| manage their own health and wellbeing whilst reducing the demand on | |
| overstretched statutory services | |
| T&G CCG Digital | Funding to work with primary care to develop a volunteer support model |
| Support | to promote and enable the use of digital self-care initiatives for patients |
| DCC - Volunteering | Infrastructure Grant award for the development of opportunities for |
| volunteering in the community. | |
| DCC - Active Travel | Funding for volunteer car scheme to support vulnerable people to attend |
| medical appointments | |
| Glossopdale | Fund to provide community stakeholders in Glossopdale with the |
| Community | information on all aspects of COVID-19 and feedback community insight |
| Messengers Project | and intelligence to the Public Health team |
| Call Companions | Fund to support volunteers to provide a weekly befriending phone call to |
| the most lonely and socially isolated people within our community | |
| ESF - BBO | Funding from the European Social Fund, administered via Groundwork |
| Nottingham, to provide a Work Coach pre employment support service | |
| covering Glossop and New Mills. | |
| Life Skills | A programme which provides group work, 1-2-1, and mentorship support |
| to move people towards meaningful activity | |
| Befriending Support | Funding to coordinate a band of volunteers who visit and befriend socially |
| isolated and lonely members of the community | |
| GM Moving | Funding for a development worker to promote, develop and support |
| initiatives that help people to be become more physically active. Also |
|
| funding to deliver projects within the community to encourage people to | |
| be more active | |
| Simmondley Medical | Funding from Glossopdale PCN for a social prescribing link worker to |
| Practice - Primary | support patients in Glossopdale to access community initiatives |
| Care Network | |
| HPBC Councillor | Grants are available from the Councillors' Initiative Fund for residents, |
| Initiative Fund | local groups and businesses to encourage beneficial community activity. |
| CYP Move More | Funding specifically for children and young people to develop and support |
| initiatives that help them become more physically active | |
| Car Scheme | This scheme coordinates volunteer drivers to transport elderly and |
| vulnerable clients who have no other means of transport to medical | |
| appointments | |
| DCC Time Out | A social support group that provides the opportunity for help with weekly |
| shooping and other essentials | |
| Place Based | Activity groups including coffee mornings, gardenening club and cookery |
| Activities/Peer | classes for clients that needs to build confidence, self-esteem and are |
| Support | socially isolated. |
| Thursday Friends | Weekly volunteer-led social connection for those living with dementia and |
| their carers |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
20 Analysis of movement in unrestricted funds
| Bureau befriending Previous reporting period General fund Current reporting period Redundancy General fund Redundancy |
Balance at 1 April 2022 £ 391,501 35,730 427,231 Balance at 1 April 2021 £ 359,520 26,375 41,954 427,849 |
Income £ 52,539 3,689 56,228 Income £ 39,026 9,355 - 48,381 |
Expenditure £ (68,914) - (68,914) Expenditure £ (7,045) - (41,954) (48,999) |
Transfers £ - - - Transfers £ - - - - |
As at 31 March 2023 £ 375,126 39,419 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 414,545 | |||||
| As at 31 March 2022 £ 391,501 35,730 - |
|||||
| 427,231 |
Name of fund
Description, nature and purposes of the fund
General fund The free reserves after allowing for all designated funds Redundancy In the event that the charity is wound up and staff made redundant, funds have been designated to cover the cost of redundancy based on the maximum that could be incurred in the 2020/21 financial year based on age, length of service and weekly pay of all eligible staff Bureau befriending Befriending project
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
21 Analysis of net assets between funds
| Tangible fixed assets Net current assets/(liabilities) Total Tangible fixed assets Net current assets/(liabilities) Total Previous reporting period Current reporting period |
General fund £ 5,856 369,270 375,126 General fund £ 8,238 383,263 391,501 |
Designated funds £ - 39,419 39,419 Designated funds £ - 35,730 35,730 |
Restricted funds £ - 107,557 107,557 Restricted funds £ - 62,005 62,005 |
Total £ 5,856 516,246 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 522,102 | ||||
| Total £ 8,238 480,998 |
||||
| 489,236 |
22 Operating lease commitments
The charity's total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases is as follows for each of the following periods:
| Less than one year One to five years |
2023 2022 £ £ 24,000 24,000 48,000 72,000 72,000 96,000 Property |
2023 2022 £ £ 24,000 24,000 48,000 72,000 72,000 96,000 Property |
|---|---|---|
| 96,000 |
23 Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities
| Net income/(expenditure) for the year Adjustments for: Depreciation charge Dividends, interest and rents from investments Decrease/(increase) in debtors Increase/(decrease) in creditors Net cash provided by/(used in) operating |
2023 £ 32,866 4,987 (6,321) (54,434) (67,777) (90,679) |
2022 £ (59,964) 6,658 (733) 84,992 87,231 |
|---|---|---|
| 118,184 |
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
24 Pension scheme and Contingent liability
SCHEME: TPT Retirement Solutions – The Growth Plan
The company participates in the scheme, a multi-employer scheme which provides benefits to some 638 non-associates participating employees. The scheme is a defined benefit scheme in the UK. It is not possible for the company to obtain sufficient infomation to enable it to account for the scheme as a defined benfit scheme. Therefore it accounts for the scheme as a defined contribution scheme.
The scheme is subject to the funding legislation outlined in the Pensions Act 2004 which came into force on 30 December 2005. This, together with documents issued by the Pension Regulator and Technical Actuarial Standards issued by the Financial Reporting Council, set out the framework for funding defined benefit occupational pension scheme in the UK.
The scheme is classified as a "last-man standing arrangement". Therefore the company is potentially liable for other participating employers' obligations if those employers are unable to meet their share of the scheme deficit following withdrawal from the scheme. Participating employers are legally required to meet their share of the scheme deficit on an annuity purchase basis on withdrawal from the scheme.
A full actuarial valuation for the scheme was carried out at 30 September 2020. This valuation showed assets of £800.3m, liabilities of £831.9m and a deficit of £31.6m. To eliminate this funding shortfall, the Trustee has asked the participating eomployers to pay additional contributions to the scheme as follows:
Deficit contributions
From 1 April 2022 to 31 January £3,312,000 per annum (payable monthly) 2025
Unless a concession has been agreed with the Trustee the term to 31 January 2025 applies. Note that the scheme's previous valuation was carried out with an effective date of 30 September 2017. This valuation showed assets of £794.9m, liabilities of £926.4m and a deficit of £131.5m. To eliminate this funding shortfall the Trustee asked the participating employers to pay additional contributions as follows:
From 1 April 2019 to 30 £11,243.00 per annum (payable monthly and September 2025 increasing by 3% each on 1st April)
The recovery plan contributions are allocated to each participating employer in line with their estimated share of the Series 1 and Series 2 liabilities.
Where the scheme is in deficit and where the company has agreed to a deficit funding arrangement the company recognises a liability for this obligation. The amount recogmised is the net present value of the deficit reduction contributions payable under the agreement that relates to the deficit. The present value is calculated using the discount rate detailed in these disclosures. The unwinding of the discount rate is recognised as a finance cost.
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023 (continued)
24 Pension scheme and Contingent liability (cont.)
| Present value of provision | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 31-Mar-23 | 31-Mar-22 | 31-Mar-21 | |
| (£s) | (£s) | (£s) | |
| Present value of provision | 595 | 934 | 5,364 |
| Reconciliation of opening and closing provisions | |||
| Period ending | Period ending | ||
| 31-Mar-23 | 31-Mar-22 | ||
| (£s) | (£s) | ||
| Provision at start of period | 934 | 5,364 | |
| Unwinding the discount factor (interest expense) | 17 | 31 | |
| Deficit contribution paid | (340) | (1,357) | |
| Remeasurements - impact of any change in assumptions | (16) | (21) | |
| Remeasurements - amendments to the contribution schedule | - | (3,083) | |
| Provision at end of period | 595 | 934 | |
| Income and expenditure impact | |||
| Period ending | Period ending | ||
| 31-Mar-23 | 31-Mar-22 | ||
| (£s) | (£s) | ||
| Interest expense | 17 | 31 | |
| Remeasurements - impact of any change in assumptions | (16) | (21) | |
| Remeasurements - amendments to the contribution schedule | - | (3,083) | |
| Contributions paid in respect of future service * | - | - | |
| Costs recognised in income and expenditure account | 774 | 1,353 |
*includes defined contribution schemes and future service contributions (i.e. excluding any deficit reduction payments) to defined benefit schemes which are treated as defined contribution schemes. To be completed by the company.
| Assumptions | 31-Mar-22 | 31-Mar-21 | 31-Mar-20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (£s) | (£s) | (£s) | |
| Rate of discount | 5.52 | 2.35 | 0.66 |
The discount rates shown above are the equivalent single discount rates which, when used to discount the future recovery plan contributions due, would give the same results as using a full AA corporate bond yield curve to discount the same recovery plan contributions.
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Glossop and District Volunteer Bureau (The Bureau)
Statement of Financial Activities
(including Income and Expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2022
| Unrestricted funds Note £ Income from: Donations and legacies 3 3,449 Charitable activities: 4 Core activities 5,000 Projects and other 4,500 5 34,699 Investments 6 733 Total income 48,381 Expenditure on: Charitable activities: 7 Operating costs 48,999 Direct project costs - Total expenditure 48,999 9 (618) Net movement in funds for the year (618) Reconciliation of funds Total funds brought forward 427,849 Total funds carried forward 427,231 Net income/(expenditure) for the year Other trading activities |
Restricted funds £ 4,663 96,787 450,884 - - 552,334 154,062 457,618 611,680 (59,346) (59,346) 121,351 62,005 |
Total funds 2022 £ 8,112 101,787 455,384 34,699 733 600,715 203,061 457,618 660,679 (59,964) (59,964) 549,200 489,236 |
Total funds 2021 £ 50,973 82,936 615,610 43,828 251 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 793,598 | |||
| 222,117 323,918 |
|||
| 546,035 | |||
| 247,563 | |||
| 247,563 301,637 |
|||
| 549,200 |
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.
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