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|Reference and administrative|details|||
|Trustees' report|||2-6|
|Auditor's<br>report|||7-9|
|Consolidated<br>Statement<br>of Financial||Activities|10|
|Consolidated<br>Balance Sheet||||
|Charitable<br>Company<br>Balance|Sheet||12|
|Consolidated<br>Statement<br>ofCash Flows|||13|
|Notes to the financial statements|||14 —32|





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|CHARITY REGISTRATION|CHARITY REGISTRATION|NUMBER|NUMBER|1071058|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|COMPANY REGISTRATION|||NUIIIIBER|03484661|||
|TRUSTEES||||S Bulk —Chair (resigned||02.06.2023)|
|||||J Wainwright —Vice-chair (appointed 09.08.2022)|||
|||||R Croft|||
|||||A Wright|||
|||||T Nicholds<br>(resigned|10.01.2023)||
|||||J Firth-Brown<br>(appointed||09.08.2022)|
|||||K Ruane (appointed|09,08.2022)||
|||||V Lofthouse<br>(appointed 09.08.2022)|||
|||||KTruscott (resigned|04.10.2022)||
|||||H Bradbury<br>(appointed 21.03.2023)|||
|CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER||||R Aylmer|||
|PRINCIPAL I REGISTERED|||OFFICE|Suite1 &4|||
|||||Gymphlex<br>Buildings|||
|||||Boston Road|||
|||||Horncastle|||
|||||LN9 6HU|||
|INDEPENDENT|AUDITORS|||Xeinadin<br>Audit Limited|||
|||||12Conqueror<br>Court|||
|||||Sittingboume|||
|||||Kent|||
|||||ME10 5BH|||
|BANKERS||||Santander<br>UK pic|||
|||||Bridle Road|||
|||||Bootle|||
|||||Merseyside|||
|||||L304GB|||
|SOLICITORS||||Browne Jacobson LLP|||
|||||Mowbray<br>House|||
|||||Castle Meadow Road|||
|||||Nottingham|||
|||||NG2 1BJ|||





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|||Notes|Unrestricted||Restricted|||Total||Total|
|||||f'000||f'000||f'000||f'000|
|INCOME|||||||||||
|Donations|||||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||1,577||143||1,720||2,008|
|Other trading<br>activities||||139||||139||192|
|Other income||||||||||15|
|Investment<br>income|||||||||||
|Total income||||1,728||143||1,871||2,219|
|EXPENDITURE|||||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||(|1,622)|(|169)|(|1,791)|(|1,8g5)|
|Other trading<br>activities|||(|121)|||(|121)|(|177)|
|Total expenditure|||(|1,743)|(|169)|(|1,912)|(|2,072)|
|Net income/expenditure|||(|15)|(|26)|(|41)||147|
|Transfers<br>between|funds||||||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||(|15)|(|26)|(|41)||147|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||||||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|20||132||36||168||21|
|Total funds carried|forward|20||117||10||127||168|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||6'000||6'000|
|FIXEDASSETS|||||||
|Intangible<br>assets||14|||||
|Tangible<br>fixed assets||15||18||27|
|TOTAL FIXEDASSETS||||18||27|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||||
|Debtors||17||69||43|
|Cash at bank and|in hand|23||250||333|
|TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS||||319||376|
|LIABILITIES|||||||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year|18|(|210)|(|235)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||||109||141|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due in over one year||||||
|TOTAL NET ASSETS||||127||168|
|FUNDS OF THE CHARITY:|||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||20||116||131|
|Designated<br>funds||20||1||1|
|Restricted<br>funds||20||10||36|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||127||168|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||6'000||6'000|
|FIXEDASSETS||||||||
|Tangible fixed assets|||15||17||26|
|TOTAL FIXEDASSETS|||||17||26|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||||
|Debtors|||17||69||40|
|Cash at bank and|in hand||||184||242|
|TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS|||||253||282|
|LIABILITIES||||||||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within|one year|18|(|108)|(|101)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||||145||181|
|Creditors: amounts|falling due in over one year|||||||
|TOTAL ASSETS|||||162||207|
|FUNDS OF THE CHARITY:||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||20a||151||170|
|Designated<br>funds|||20a||1||1|
|Restricted funds|||20a||10||36|
|TOTALFUNDS|||||162||207|






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|||||||6'000||6'000|
|Cash Flows from Operating|Activities||||||||
|Net cash provided<br>by/(used<br>in)<br>operating<br>activities||||22|(|81)||136|
|Cash Flows from Investing|Activities||||||||
|Purchase of property,|plant and equipment||||(|2)|(|4)|
|Change<br>in cash and cash equivalents<br>reporting<br>period||in|the||(|83)||132|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>the reporting<br>period|at the beginning||of|||333||201|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>reporting<br>period|at the end|of|the|23||250||333|





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|||||||f'000|f'000|
|Donations||||||||
|Ail donations||received|in|2023 and 2022 relate to unrestricted|funds.|||
|Income from||charitable||activities||||
|||||||2023|2022|
|||||||f'000|f'000|
|Childcare fees||||||825|809|
|Training fees||||||9|6|
|Grants (see <br>Fundraising<br>Other fees|below)<br>income|||||826<br>6<br>54|1,141<br>3<br>49|
|||||||1,720|2,008|



|attributable<br><br>Grants|to restricted<br>a|nd f1,|577,000 (20|22:f1,88|4,000)|was attribut|able<br>to unrestricted|funds.|
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||||||||f'000|f'000|
|Local authority<br>income|||||||41|51|
|Big Lottery and European||Social|Fund—||||20|29|
|Building|Better Opportunities||Move Grant||||||
|Big Lottery and European||Social|Fund-|||||24|
|Building|Better Opportunities||Engagement|into Learning||Grant|||
|CYPVSF|||||||20|20|
|CAFCASS|||||||13|13|
|Big Lottery and European||Soaai|Fund—|||||6|
|Building|Better Opportunities||Building Connections||Grant||||
|Mass Vaccination<br>Programme-|||Lincolnshire||||332|861|
|ICFA|||||||306|66|
|Youth Music|||||||10|9|
|The National|Lottery Community||Fund —RC|Midlands|Region||20||
|Other grants|and awards||||||58|62|
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||||||||6'000||6'000||
|Turnover||||||||125||177|
|Payment to childcare||settings|||||(|114)|(|166)|
|Wages, salaries and||recruitment|||||(|5)|(|4)|
|Administrative|expenses||||||||(|5)|
|Accountancy|fees||||||(|2)|(|2)|
|Net profit for the year|||||||||||
|The Charity|also operates a shop in Horncastle,||||selling donated goods:||||||
|||||||||2023||2022|
|||||||||6'000||6'000|
|Shop takings||||||||14||15|
|||||||||14||15|
|All trading<br>income received|||in 2023 and 2022 relates to unrestricted|||funds.|||||
|Other income|||||||||||
|||||||||2023||2022|
|||||||||6'000||E'000|
|Coronavirus|Job Retention||Scheme|||||||1|
|Coronavirus/lockdown||support||grants||||||14|
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||||Direct|Support|2023|
||||costs|costs|cos1s|
|Charitable|activities:||5'000|5'000|5'000|
|Care and|education|of young people|1,449|342|1,791|
||||1,449|342|1,791|



|Tb|Analysis|o|fexpendi|ture|on charitable<br>activities —|prior year|||
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|||||||Direct|Support|2022|
|||||||costs|costs|costs|
||Charitable||activities:|||6'000|5'000|5000|
||Care and|education||of young people||1,668|227|1,895|
|||||||1,668|227|1,895|
|6|Analysis|ofsupport||costs|||||
||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||5'000|6'000|
||Staff travel||and subsistence||||21|10|
||Staff training||||||3|6|
||Stationery|and postage|||||2|2|
||Premises|costs and||equipment|||23|30|
||ICTcosts||||||10|11|
||Insurance||||||13|14|
||Legal and|professional|||||19|11|
||Wages and||salaries||||232|125|
||Recruitment||and other staff costs||||2|4|
||Pension costs||||||5|4|
||Governance||costs||||10|10|
||Bad debts||||||2||
||||||||342|227|
|9|Analysis|ofgovernance|||costs||||
||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||6'000|6'000|
||Audit fees||||||10|10|
||Cost ofTrustees'<br>meetings||||||||
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||F.'000|E'000|
|Wages and salaries|1,237|1,434|
|Social security costs|64|68|
|Pension|14|15|
||1,315|1,517|



|The average<br>monthly<br>head count was as fol|lows:||
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|Operational|111|136|
|Administration|8|6|
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|||||2023|2022|
|||||5'000|8'000|
||Net incoming<br>resources|is stated after charging:||||
||Depreciation<br>of charitable|assets owned|by group|11|13|
||Operating<br>lease charges|||41|52|
||Auditor's<br>remuneration:|||||
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|14|Intangible<br>fixed assets -group||
|---|---|---|
|||Goodwill|
|||9.'000|
||Cost less impairment:||
||At 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023|97|
||Amortisation:||
||At 1 April 2022|97|
||Charge for the year||
||At 31 March 2023|97|
||Net book value:||
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|||Computers|Equipment|Furniture|Vehicles|||Total|
|||f'000|f'000|f'000||f'000||f'000|
||Cost:||||||||
||At 1 April 2022|94||43||17||154|
||Additions|2||||||2|
||Disposals||||(|17)|(|17)|
||At 31 March 2023|96||43||||139|
||Depreciation:||||||||
||At 1 April 2022|74||36||17||127|
||Charge for the year|8||3||||11|
||Eliminated<br>on disposal||||(|17)|(|17)|
||At 31 March 2023|82||39||||121|
||Net book value:||||||||
||At 1 April 2022|20||||||27|
||At 31 March 2023|14||||||18|
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|||Computers|Equipment|Furniture|Vehicles|||Total|
|||f'000|f'000|f'000||f'000||F'000|
||Cost:||||||||
||At<br>1 April 2022|87||43||17||147|
||Additions|2||||||2|
||Disposals||||(|17)|(|17)|
||At 31 March 2023|89||43||||132|
||Depreciation:||||||||
||At 1 April 2022|68||36||17||121|
||Charge for the year|8||3||||11|
||Eliminated<br>on disposal||||(|17)|(|17)|
||At 31 March 2023|76||39||||115|
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|Profit and Loss Account|F.'000||F'000||
|Turnover||125||177|
|Payment to childcare settings<br>Wages, salaries and recruitment<br>Administrative<br>expenses<br>Accountancy<br>fees|(<br>(<br>(|114)<br>5)<br>2)|(<br>(<br>(<br>(|166)<br>4)<br>5)<br>2)|
|Net profit for the year|||||
|Balance Sheet|||||
|Fixed assets||1||1|
|Current assets||69||94|
|Liabilities|(|105)|(|134)|
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|||2023||2022|2023||2022|
|||6'000||6'000|6'000||5'000|
|Trade creditors||134||167|32||35|
|Amounts|owed to group undertakings|||||||
|Taxation|and social secunty|8||15|8||15|
|Other creditors||8||1|6||1|
|Accruals||24||19|26||19|
|Deferred|income|36||33|36||31|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Land and Buildings|||Other||
||2023|2022|2023||2022|
||6'000|F'000|6'000||6'000|
|No later than one year|35|41||||
|Later than one year and not later than||||||
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||||F'000|6'000||6'000|6'000||F'000|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||||
|Children's<br>Links|||170|1,603|(|1,626)|||147|
|Linking<br>Up Limited||(|30)|125|(|121)||(|35)|
|Total unrestricted|funds||131|1,728|(|1,747)|||112|
|Designated<br>funds||||||||||
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|Adrian Worsley fund|||||||||
|Big Lottery and European|||||20|(|26)||
|Social Fund Building Better|||||||||
|Opportunities<br>Move Grant|||||||||
|Big Lottery and European|||||6|(|10)||
|Social Fund<br>Building Better|||||||||
|Opportunities<br>Engagement|||Into||||||
|Learning<br>Grant|||||||||
|Big Lottery and European||Social Fund||||(|2)||
|Building Better Opportunities|||Building||||||
|Connections<br>Grant|||||||||
|CYPVSF|||||20|(|20)||
|CAFCASS|||||13|(|17)||
|CLORE Lincolnshire<br>Chapter||||||(|1)||
|GLLEP and ESFCommunity|||Grant||2|(|3)||
|Virtual Outdoor Challenge||||||(|2)||
|Family Explorers||||||(|1)||
|Tackling<br>Inequalities|2||||||||
|Shine CAD Camper|||||10|(|10)||
|MCN Grant Mum's<br>Fit|||||5|(|5)||
|Youth Music|||||11|(|20)||
|The National<br>Lottery Community|||||||||
|Fund —RC Midlands|region||||20|(|18)||
|AWA Play Scape|||||3|(|3)||
|AEB First Aid|||||1|(|1)||
|AEB Level 2 Early Years|||||5|(|3)||
|MCM Women<br>Supporting||Women|||7|(|7)||
|Holiday Activities<br>&Food||(HAF)|||||||
|Programme|||||20|(|20)||
|Total restricted funds||||36|143|(|169)|10|
|Total funds||||168|1,871|(|1,912)|127|





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|||||1/4/2021<br>6'000|Income<br>6'000|Expenditure<br>6'000||Transfers<br>6'000|31/3/2022<br>6'000||
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||Children's<br>Links|||31|1,918|(|1,779)|||170|
||Linking<br>Up Limited||(|39)|177|(|177)||(|39)|
||Total unrestricted<br>funds||(|8)|2,095|(|1,956)|||131|
||Designated<br>funds||||||||||
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||Total unrestricted<br>funds||(|7)|2,095|(|1,956)|||132|
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||Big Lottery and European<br>Social Fund Building Better||||29|(|25)||||
||Opportunities<br>Move Grant||||||||||
||Big Lottery and European<br>Social Fund Building Better||||24|(|20)||||
||Opportunities<br>Engagement||Into||||||||
||Learning<br>Grant||||||||||
||Big Lottery and European<br>Social Fund Building Better|||12||(|12)||||
||Opportunities<br>Steps Forward||Grant||||||||
||Big Lottery and European<br>Social Fund<br>Building Better Opportunities<br>Building||||6|(|6)||||
||Connections<br>Grant||||||||||
||CYPVSF<br>CAFCASS<br>CLORE Lincolnshire<br>Chapter||||20<br>13<br>1|(<br>(|20)<br>12)||||
||GLLEP and ESFCommunity<br>Virtual Outdoor Challenge<br>Family Explorers<br>Tackling<br>Inequalities<br>2|Grant|||9|(<br>(<br>(|8)<br>1)<br>3)||||
||This Girl Can<br>Community<br>Fund Award|||||(|5)||||
||Shine CAD Camper<br>MCN Grant Mum's Fit<br>Youth Music|||||(<br>(|3)<br>1)||||
||Total restricted<br>funds|||28|124|(|116)|||36|
||Total funds|||21|2,219|(|2,072)|||168|





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|||||Unrestricted||Restricted||2023|Unrestricted||Restricted|||2022|
||General||fund:||8'000||6'000|6'000|8'000||8'000|||f'000|
||Intangible||fixed assets||||||||||||
||Tangible <br>Current|fixed assets<br> assets|||18<br>285||34|18<br>319||27<br>309||67||27<br>376|
||Creditors||falling due|(|184)|(|26)|( 210)|(|204)|(|31)|(|235)|
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|||||||6'000||6'000|
|Net movement<br>in funds (as per the<br>statement<br>offinancial activities)|||||(|41)||147|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||||||
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|Depreciation<br>oftangible<br>fixed assets<br>Loss on disposal of property,<br>plant and equipment<br>Increase<br>in debtors<br>(Decrease)/increase<br>in creditors|||||(<br>(|26)<br>25)|(<br>(|13<br>7)<br>17)|
|Net cashflow from operating|activities||||(|81)||136|
|Analysis ofcash and cash equivalents|||||||||
|||||||2023||2022|
|||||||8'000||f'000|
|Cash at bank and<br>in hand||||||250||333|
|Total cash and cash equivalents||||||250||333|
|Net debt reconciliation|||||||||
|Net debt reconciliation<br>for the|Group 2023||||||||
|||At start<br>ofyear|Cashf|lowe||Other non-<br>cash changes||At year<br>end|
|Cash at bank and<br>in hand||333|(|83)||||250|
|Net debt reconciliation<br>for the|Charity 2023||||||||
|||At start<br>ofyear|Cashf|lowe||Other non-<br>cash changes||At year<br>end|
|Cash at bank and<br>in hand||242|(|58)||||184|



