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ARCH UNDER THE BRIDGE LTD. ARCH ACCOUNTS REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the Year 1* April 2023 To 31°t March 2024 ARCH Under the Bridge Ltd. Report of the Management Committee for the year ended 31%t March 2024. The Management Committee presents its report and financial statement for 1° April 2023 to 31° March 2024. Reference and Administrative Information. Charity Name: ARCH UNDER THE BRIDGE LIMITED Other names of the charity: Action for Regeneration & Community Health (ARCH) Charity Registration Number: 1072568 Company Registration Number: 3541318 Registered Office and Operational address: 83 Window Lane Garston Liverpool L19 8EJ Management Committee: Joyce Nolan Chair Alan Ascott Treasurer Sylvia Mcleod Secretary Doreen Finnegan William Jones Linda Talavera Carolyn Dougherty Doreen Fay _ Independent Examiner Mr S Whiteside 40 Lincoln Street Garston Liverpool L19 8LE ## STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT ## Governing Document The Organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 6" April 1998. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objectives and the powers of the charitable company and is governed under the Articles of Association. In the event of the company being wound up members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 which is towards the costs of dissolution and the liabilities incurred by the charity while the contributor is a member. ## Recruitment and Appointment of Management Committee. The directors of the company are also the charity trustees for the purpose of the charity law and under the company’s Articles are known as members of the management committee. Under the requirements of the Memorandum and Articles of Association the members of the management committee are elected to serve for a period of three years after which they must be re-elected at the next Annual General Meeting. The management committee all reside within an area known as Garston Under the Bridge, this being their geographical boundary or catchment area. The Management Committee are from all different social backgrounds in an effort to maintain a broad skill mix, the Management Committee are requested to provide a list of their skills which are updated every year. Trustee Induction and Training. All Trustees are already familiar with the practical work the charity delivers. However, they are encouraged to partake in any training courses that will benefit the company’s operational framework. New Trustees or volunteers partake in a induction course which covers the key roles of trustees and volunteers. Courses are also provided on: The Roles and Responsibilities of a Trustee Minute Taking Deaf awareness Bookkeeping (Accounting) ## OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES ## The Objects of the Charity are: To promote for the benefit of the public of Merseyside without distinction of sex, race, political, religious, or other opinion by the provision or assistance in the provision of education and training opportunities. Facilities in the Interests of social welfare ## Advice Information and assistance in relation of citizenship To carry out any other charitable objects that can advantageously be carried out in conjunction with the objectives first described. ## Services and Activities carried out during 2023 to 2024. Through Liverpool City Council CRG funding ARCH has provided a positive impact to the most isolated, vulnerable members of our community. Their funding has enabled ARCH to provide weekly coffee mornings and potters allotment project to our older beneficiaries. The coffee morning group meet once a week for 4hrs, this is aimed at bereaved isolated members of the community. The group chat about every day life, they pay £2 a week for day trips out, or to go to restaurants together and they also plan their annual holidays together. Potters Allotment scheme is aimed at isolated and vulnerable members of our community they meet 3 times a week for 4hrs each day. The group work together fixing raised beds, making new paths and giving the container classroom a new lick of paint after a new metal roof went on it, funded by MNF Clirs fund. The potter group sow seeds in February so the children have seedlings to plant out during the school ‘holidays. Throughout the 2023-2024 financial year 1,313 residents have attended these activities e The Impact made with individuals. If these activities we not made accessible to individuals it would have a negative impact — anxiety, depression, loneliness, poor diet, shorter life expectancy - e By providing these weekly activities vulnerable and isolated members of our community have been able to access them, these activities have contributed to their overall health and wellbeing - - e combating isolation individuals are getting out interacting with people, chatting about current affairs, life problems, day to stresses - e decreases their vulnerability doing physical exercise — bending stretching, raking, planting seeds, number of steps taken have all contributed in combating trips and falls, - e maintaining a healthy diet by growing and harvesting and cooking produce grown by themselves it has enabled them to eat more healthy. ## Here is feedback from our evaluation form. | moved to the area about a year ago so don’t know anyone. | was walking my dogs with my fella and started talking to a woman with her dog, after a long chat about our health problems she told me about an allotment scheme she attended and asked me to come along . | have now been attending the allotment every week and love it, It has changed my life in so many ways, | have met new people, learnt how to grow and preserve foods that | have grown from seed. It has given me something new to talk about with my family. Cathy ## Interactive community events ## Provided a Christmas Grotto 158 families attended our Grinch Christmas grotto. Each child received a selection box, a candy cane and a personized ‘Good’ certificate in total 400 selection boxes were handed out, This was funded by MNF Clirs fund and Onward Housing, ## Garston Adventure Playground (GAP) ARCH has delivered 6 sessions of Horticultural activities, these activities engaged young children and parents in planting potatoes, cabbage, sweetcorn, onions, cucumber, tomatoes and strawberries in pots and low raised beds. The children also made strawberry Jam and were astonished about how much sugar you need to make jam. The children took home the jam they had made and some of the produce they had grown. ## Evaluation feedback. . Will you be here next week as | love growing all this stuff. Issac aged 7. | loved making Jam, mines called Traffic Jam. Molly aged 9 LCC Streetscene Community Clean Up. ARCH’s volunteers worked alongside LCC Streetscene providing horticultural activities to local residents. Cllrs, Onward housing, the probation service, SLH housing officers paper picked the area whilst LCC Streetscene and SLHs environmental team took away the larger flytipping items. The environmental cleanup campaign took place in the Garston Under the Bridge area. This was due to the amounts of complaints regarding fly tipping, dirty entries and dog fowling. SLH environmental team took away over 20 bags of rubbish and 4 skip loads of household furniture. This combined task was good for our area as seeing ward level clean-up campaigns that are organised and conducted by community members and local leaders motivates residents to believe that their problems can be solved, resulting in a shared responsibility for the area. ## Little Dibbers Allotment Playscheme The Children 0-12yrs are loving the Little Dibbers Playscheme, even the parents love it and therefore stay to chat to other parents/guardians. On average due to our own Health & Safety we have 24 children attending every day Monday to Friday, 10.30 to 2.30. The children engage in an array of allotment activities from planting seeds to harvesting and preserving it, they learn about the history of food, food miles, the health benefits, they taste, cook, make Jam and pickle onions. They love digging looking for worms, getting manure, and replacing paths with new wood chippings whilst putting the old mulch in the bin for composting. The children also engage in creative crafts, making bird boxes, bug hotels from recycled materials, they love tie-dying from berries and beetroot plus tie-dying with paints designing their own t-shirts. This year the children’s activities were about how important our Rainforests are and what their role is for our planet’s stability. The children learnt this through numerous arts and crafts activities (sowing glove puppets, animal sand art, recycled water bottles to produce large trees, paper chain snakes, glued and painted wooden animals) producing an amazing Rainforest diorama. Each child received a rainforest reading book and a make your own rainforest activity book, Lessons were always very vocal. During Halloween the children produced an ‘Ofrenda’ alter as they wanted to learn about the day of the dead. They children brought photos in of loved ones and spoke about them fondly. The children also took part in ‘Remembrance’ making medals, poppies and poppy windmills for our local heroes from WW/1 and WW2, the children were also asked to bring in army photos and medals in from their great grandparents, these were also displayed on our ‘Offrenda’. All the children attending have FREE hot/cold lunches, snacks and refreshments Funded by MPAC and LCC Sutton Croft HAF, The children always leave happy and with a full belly. Through our evaluation the children and parents stated that they love the activities that they take part in on the allotment stating it’s a bit like school but more fun. During this financial year 1278 children and parents have had healthy meals prepared for them due to food poverty. Here is some feedback from parents taken from our evaluation forms.. Archie has once again had the most amazing time at The Arch allotment camp this summer. He has thrived in the outdoor environment with new and established friends made through the camp. He has learned so many skills for life, digging the potatoes and picking onions harvested that he had helped plant in the spring. He learns so much about where food comes from and making healthy choices from these activities and also the lovely healthy snacks and meals provided. The day trips out have been a god send as there is no way we would have been able to provide these weekly trips with the hard economic times we are in, when everything is a financial struggle, a struggle that as a family we are worried will continue to worsen over these coming years, it has given Archie so much to look forward each week. We can not thank Karen and the whole of The Arch team for working so hard and tirelessly to ensure our children can have these wonderful experiences in a fabulous environment! D King While we have been struggling with rising food and energy costs our kids have not needed to miss out thanks to Karen an the volunteers at ARCH | can’t thank you enough the kids have loved ALL the activities and food provided every day has been a massive help too. C Langley "The little dibblers scheme has been absolutely brilliant again this year. My two daughters thoroughly enjoyed every minute they spent with Karen and the other volunteers, and I'm so grateful to be part of such an amazing program. My children have learnt so much again this summer, from taking care of the planet to growing & planting vegetables, art skills etc. They've also built such great friendships with the other children in the program. I'm beyond thankful for being able to join in for the days out because | could never afford to take my 2 daughters to those places on my own, and my kids loved the adventures out so much. Every aspect of the scheme is invaluable, from the healthy lunches, which my kids devoured everyday, to the skills | they learned. It is a wonderful program for the children in Garston, especially "under the bridge" because there isn't much locally for them to participate in. I'm very grateful to everyone associated with the scheme and I hope my children can continue to be part of it in the future." L Arnold This past year has proved that we do need funding to provide ‘wellbeing’ to the most vulnerable and isolated members of our community, young and old, we all need social, personal interaction and routine. Staying in is not good for our mental or physical wellbeing no matter what age you are. ## VOLUNTEERS ARCH has 9 volunteers to help towards the successful delivery of events and projects. These volunteers have proved to be most valuable to the successful delivery of the Little Dibbers playscheme which takes place during the children’s holidays. The volunteers help with the preparation of the children’s hot/cold lunches, preparing activities, helping SEND children on a one to one basis and cleaning up. Two volunteers worked alongside the manager assisting with all the food buying, bagging and hand deliveries. As for our working partnerships, sponsors and funders we appreciate all their time, help, support and guidance as without them we could not achieve or deliver the projects and events, meeting our deprived communities’ needs. A big Thank you to you all. ## FINANCIAL REVIEW Principal funding sources for the charity is currently by way of grant funding from Liverpool City Council, this source of funding is presented as a ‘Restricted’ income. During 2023 to 2024 ARCH received grant funding of £15,000 The table below demonstrates how the grant of £15,000.00 has been used. |Towards
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delivery — of|£15,000.00| |---|---| |activities.|| |Utilities|00.00| |Office Expenses|00.00| |Telephone|00.00| |TOTAL|15,000.00| ARCH also carries out community projects or events which generate income from other funding sources for example Merseyside Play Action Council (MPAC), Mayor Hardship Fund (MHF) and the Mayors Neighbourhood Fund (MNF) Councillors Local Neighbourhood fund (LNF) these are also set out as ‘restricted’ incomes on the Companies and Charities Accounts. ARCH provides help and assistance to community groups or resident groups in writing bids to secure funds for their local events. These groups may not have a bank account, therefore if their bids are successful the cheque is placed in to ARCHs bank account, which are set out on the Company and Charity Accounts as ‘Restricted’. Receipts are collated from the groups and forwarded on to their funders with an evaluation report. The Community/resident group/s and ARCH also havea file copy for future reference. This Year no small community groups have put on any social events. Therefore, no external restricted funds are on our accounts. Reserves Policy The Management Committee has examined the charities requirements for reserves in light of the main risks of the organisation. It has established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds held by the charity should be between 3 and 6 months of the expenditure. Budgeted expenditure for 2022/23 (based on premises, inflation and rising capital costs) is £27,049.00 and therefore the target is £6,762.25 to £13,524.50 in the general funds. The reserves are needed to meet the working capital requirements of the charity and the management committee are confident that at this level they would be able to continue the current activities of the charity in the event of a significant drop in funding. The present level of reserves available to the charity is £4642.10. Although the strategy is to continue to build reserves through planned operating surpluses, the management committee is well aware that it is unlikely that the target range can be reached for at least 10yrs. In the short term the management committee has also considered the extent to which existing activities and expenditure could be curtailed should such circumstances arise. ## Independent Examiner Mr S Whiteside has been re-appointed as the charitable companies’ independent examiner during the year and has expressed a willingness to continue. This report has been carried out under section 145o0f the charities Act 2011 under direction given by the Charities Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act and in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies regime. ## Signed On Behalf Of The Board ## Mrs Joyce Nolan Trustee’s Signature: .... {. NicSaman4] oo. ## INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS. Report to the Trustee’s/ Members of ARCH UNDER THE BRIDGE LTD On the Accounts for the Year ended 1* April 2023 to 31°* March 2024 Charity No: 1072568 Company No: 3541318 Set out on Pages 10 &11 | report to the Charity Trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31%t March 2024. ## Responsibilities and basis of report As the Charities Trustees consider of the Company (who are also the directors of the Company for the purpose 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 for this year under part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination. | report in respect of my examination of your Charities accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”), in carrying out my examination, | have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act. It is my responsibility to ## Independent examiner’s statement | have completed my examination, | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that: - _@ Accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; - or - e The accounts do not accord with such records; or - e The accounts do not comply with the relevant accounting requirements under section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 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 - The accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS102). | 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. Signed: GS J a WA Name: Mr Steven Whiteside Relevant professional Qualification(s) or body(if any): None Address: 40 Lincoln Street, Garston Date: Z(t, f- 2 s Liverpool L19 8EL ## ARCH UNDER THE BRIDGE LTD Company No: 3541318. Charity No: 1072568. INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 15" APRIL 2023 TO 315’ MARCH 2024 |INCOME||——s||EXPENDITURE|EXPENDITURE|= ||sd|= ||sd| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |RESTRICTED|||||| |Liverpool City Council (CRU|15000.00||Insurance|||474.19| |Fund)||Salary|||14045.32| |Merseyside Action Play||HMRC NI/ER|||856.50| |Council (MPAC) Activities|8740.00||Premises rent|||5860.00| |LCC/ MNF/LNF Christmas||Utilities Gas/Electric|||2650.34| |grotto, activities|1000.00||Kind activities|.||1300.00| |LCC Sutton Croft Dibbers||Bank Charges|||94.20| |holiday playscheme|15079.00|Water|Water plus|||408.82| |Onward Housing|848.00 |Companies House||||13.00| |KIND|1300.00 |Agency|Agency Fees|||298.80| |TOTAL|41967.00||Projects|||18062.00| |UNRESTRICTED|||TOTAL| 44063.17||| |GAP Horticultural activities|180.00|Cash|Cash at Bank|||4542.10| |||Un-presented|cheques||00.00| |TOTAL||| 42147.00||TOTAL|48705.27||| |Cash B/F|6558.27||||| |TOTAL||48705.27||||| ARCH UNDER THE BRIDGE LIMITED ## For the year end 31*t March 2024 The Company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477(2) Of the Companies Act 2006 Signature of Director (Chair) eM Qe bor nnn Print Name: 2a ce |Nola we Date: Ail 2s Signature of Director (treasurer) EM kools, Print name:.....M& LEO P Date: Ault aS Signature of Independent baniner SA ad Print Name: Al 2 SF. 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ARCH UNDER THE BRIDGE LTD
BALANCE SHEET CONTINUED
15 APRIL 2023 TO 31°" MARCH 2024
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CURRENT ASSETS
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|CURRENT ASSETSASSETS||| |---|---|---| |Cash at bank|4642.10|| |Cash in hand|0.00|| |Unpresented cheques|0.00|| |TOTAL|4642.10|| |RESERVES||| |Income & Expenditure||| |Cash in Bank|4642.10|| |||.| |Cash in Hand|0.00|| |TOTAL|4642.10|| The Directors responsibilities: - e 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 the accounting records and the preparation of accounts; - e These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provision applicable to companies subject to the small companies ‘regime’. ## Yours faithfully > Signature of Director (Chair) oe ‘) Date: AwlQiiilses, Print Name? ee 2A GCE... OL IANS cc cccccseee Signature of Director (Treasurer) oe bth hllidle un Date: Duboff Sn Print Name: ee Fae Sn Oo) Signature of Independent Examiner: gs oh A. Date: tke OS Print Name: SA OME re