## **LIFE EDUCATION CENTRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LTD** ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD 1 APRIL 2020 TO 31 MARCH 2021 Registered Office: Life Education Centre Nottinghamshire Ltd 25 The Green, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottingham, NG12 2LA www.lecn.co.uk Registered in England & Wales Number 3207842 A Company Limited by Guarantee Registered Educational Charity Number 1067601 VAT Number 807 8873 86 ## **TREASURER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR TO 31 MARCH 2021** ## **TO THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE LIFE EDUCATION CENTRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LIMITED** I have prepared the accounts from the accounting records of Life Education Centre Nottinghamshire Limited and from personal knowledge in my capacity as Treasurer. It is my opinion that these accounts are in accordance with the records maintained and I submit the books for examination by an independent Reporting Accountant. W A Banner Treasurer Date: 20 April 2021 ## **Reporting Accountant:** I have examined the accounting records of Life Education Centre Nottinghamshire Ltd and in my opinion the company is entitled to deliver abbreviated accounts according to section 444(1) or 444(3) of the Companies Act 2006. The accounts have been properly prepared following the regulations made by the Secretary of State. Reporting Accountant Date NAME: ADDRESS: April 2021 Page 1 ## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD** ## **1. Accounting Policies** The accounts have been prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards. The financial statements are prepared under the historic cost convention. ## (a) Depreciation Depreciation of fixed assets has been provided using the sum of the digits method over 10 years for mobile classrooms bought new and over 5 years for used classrooms and in equal amounts of £2000 per annum for used towing vehicles. The life space timescale is 5 years at £1250 per annum. The disposal of the classrooms has enabled the charity to charge the full amount of £3750 outstanding. ## (b) Stationery and Training Materials These costs are written off in the year of expenditure. ## **2. Grant and Donation Income** Income from Grants and Donations of £500 and over: |Income from Grants and Donations of £500 and over:|| |---|---| ||2021| ||£| |Wesleyan|7,150| |NFC|3,000| |Co-op|2,516| |Severn Trent|2,000| |Long Eaton Rotary|500| ## **3. Directors Emoluments** No director received any emoluments during the year (2020: £ Nil) **4. Tangible Fixed Assets:** Mobile Units (including Internal Equipment) and Towing Vehicles ||**2021**
|**2020**| |---|---|---| ||**£**|**£**| |Net book value brought forward|3,750|7,000| |Depreciation charged|3,750|3,250| |**Net book value carried forward**|**NIL**|**3,750**| ## **5. Endowments** There were no endowments received during the year (2020: £ Nil) April 2021 Page 2 ## **Income and Expenditure** ||**Notes**||**2021**|**2021**||**2020**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**INCOME**||||||| |||||||| |Grants & Donations|2||15,967|||17,896| |School Contributions|||31,367|||50,521| |Parenting|||71,495|||93,287| |Capital sales|||15,200|||| |Bank interest||||385||658| |VAT||||5,338||10,442| |Sundry income/rebates||||1,003||| |||||||| |**Total Income**|||**140,755**|||**172,804**| |||||||| |**EXPENDITURE**||||||| |Salaries, incl. pension & supply incl.NI|||91,832|||90,814| |Travel|||568|||4,075| |Insurance|||3,015|||7,369| |Office, incl. equipment|||9,268|||6,221| |Membership Licence and Legals|||6,401|||5,789| |Direct Parenting costs|||11,435|||33,188| |Vehicle costs including maintenance|||-26|||6,473| |Classroom, life-space, repairs and towing|||0|||5,006| |Depreciation|1(a)||3,750|||3,250| |VAT|||6,235|||4,063| |Training|||700|||| |||||||| |**Total expenditure**|||**133,178**|||**168,008**| |||||||| |Net surplus (-deficit)|||7,577|||4,796| |||||||| |Accumulated funds brought forward|||109,298|||104,502| |||||||| |**Accumulated funds carried forward**|||**116,875**|||**109,298**| |||||||| |||||||| W A Banner Treasurer Date: 20 April 2021 April 2021 Page 3 ## **Balance Sheet** ||||**2021**||**2020**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Notes**||**£**||**£**||| |**FIXED ASSETS**|||||||| ||||||||| |Tangible assets|4||0||3,750||| ||||||||| |**CURRENT ASSETS**|||||||| ||||||||| |Cash at Bank|||116,875||105,548||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| |**TOTAL ASSETS**|||**116,875**||**109,298**||| ||||||||| |**CURRENT LIABILITIES**|||||||| ||||||||| |Creditors|||0||0||| ||||||||| ||||||||| |**TOTAL NET ASSETS**|||**116,875**||**109,298**||| ||||||||| ||||||||| |**REPRESENTED BY**|||||||| ||||||||| |**Accumulated Fund – unrestricted**|||**116,875**||**109,298**||| For the year ending 31 March 2021, the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. ## Directors’ responsibilities: - The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476. - 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 have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime. ...................... S C Kitch Chairman ......................... W A Banner Treasurer April 2021 Page 4 ## **Life Education Centre Nottinghamshire Limited Registered Office: 25 The Green, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottingham, NG12 2LA** ## **Statement of Activities for the year ending 31 March 2021.** A Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England & Wales No.3207842 Registered Educational Charity Number 1067601 VAT No. 807 8873 86 www.lecn.co.uk The Charity is an Independent Operating Trust being part of Coram Life Education (Charity Number 800727: Registered Company Number: 02328941) whose National Office is Coram Community Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 2AZ www.coram.org.uk/lifeeducation The Charity is administered by an unpaid Management Committee, which includes five Regional Director Trustees. At the AGM in November 2020, we were delighted to welcome an extra trustee with recent school employment experience: Carol Litowczuk. The other trustees continue to be: Chairman: S C Kitch Treasurer: W A Banner Secretary: A D Gamble S Archer The object of the Charity is to provide Health Promotion and Drug Resistance Education to young people as a supplement to the school curriculum, also working with our Partners, Family Learning and Inspire, we have developed a range of digital Parenting Skills programmes, enabling us to deliver to Parents and Carers remotely during the current Covid-19 restrictions. Three part-time specially trained educators are employed, plus two part-time administrators. (One educator took maternity leave, and through cooperation from Leicestershire LEC, the maternity cover was provided by their educator.) Parenting work has continued to be offered despite the impact of Covid-19, albeit much reduced, due to favourable funding assistance. Trustees employ extra support for I.T Development work and part-time sessional staff to help deliver this service when necessary. Trustees decided that owing to school closures, and restrictions of social distancing, the use of mobile classrooms and Life space equipment would not comply with Health and Safety regulation for the foreseeable future, that the Charity would focus on virtual remote delivery of programmes developed digitally. The use of Life box in the classroom is an option for the educators. To reduce related on-going costs, mobile classrooms and the towing vehicles were disposed of or sold, the proceeds of which strengthened our balance sheet, increasing our income and reducing expenditure resulted in a satisfactory outturn. Fundraising during the year has been difficult with limited success. However, monies raised have enabled the Trust to retain staff without having to furlough, to purchase and provide our staff with new laptop computers, create a new range of products, enabling high quality development and delivery of virtual digital programmes. Our strategy is to continue to deliver funded Family Learning courses for parents, grandparents and carers, as well as seeking increased school bookings on an improved costed basis, seeking to achieve a breakeven year without the need to rely on grants or donations. The improved demand for the online teaching aid and increased use of SCARF, is encouraging, helping the charity towards sustainability. The work of the Charity is assisted by a number of unpaid voluntary helpers, to whom the Trustees are greatly indebted. In the period ending 31 March 2021, LECN delivered programmes to 14 (80) participating primary schools in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire & Lincolnshire reaching 3516 (12,212) young people between ages 3 and 11. There were no mobile classroom visits because of the Covid-19, schoolwork being done on-line SCARF Live on-line, Life base, Time for Change, Relationships and BCyberwise programmes to total 31(121) school days. The cost of delivery per school day is approx. £450 (£450). Delivery of courses for parents enabled the charity to utilise its staff resources in full, at a time of reduced income for its normal mainstream role of working with the mobile classroom in schools. This has been done by gaining funds from the Education and Skills Funding Agency through Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council. The funding awarded is the result of a rigorous commissioning procedure through Inspire Learning for Nottinghamshire County and Family Learning for Nottingham City Council. We are pleased to have delivered 39 courses, working with 212 adults and 15 children. The Charity Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the Accounts, which in their opinion give a fair view of income and expenditure for the period and of the assets and liabilities at 31 March 2021 Signed on behalf of the Trustees: W A Banner Date: 20 April 2021 Page 5 April 2021