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|Report ofthe Trustees||1|to|13|
|Independent<br>Examiner's|Report||14||
|Statement ofFinancial Activities||15|to|16|
|Balance Sheet||17|to|18|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||19|to|26|





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Darlington
TRUSTEES, REPORT
MARCH 2023
el: 01325 254463
Re815tered Ch3rity Number 1073822

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|The trustees|are directors ofthe Company|are directors ofthe Company|are directors ofthe Company|are directors ofthe Company|are directors ofthe Company|are directors ofthe Company|for the purposes|ofthe Companies|ofthe Companies|ofthe Companies|ofthe Companies|ofthe Companies|Act|2006.|2006.||||||
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|Reference and||Administration||Information|||||||||||||||||
|Charity Name:|||||||First Stop Darlington||||||||||||||
|Charity Registration|||number:||||1073822||||||||||||||
|Company<br>registration|||number:||||03647391(England|||and||Wales)|||||||||
|Registered office and|||operational||address:||32 Houndgate,||Darlington,||||||||||||
||||||||DL1SRH||||||||||||||
|Governing<br>document:|||||||The charity|is|controlled|||by its governing||||document,|||adeed|of|
||||||||trust,<br>and|constitutes||||a|limited||company,|||limited||by|
||||||||guarantee,|as|defined||by|the|Companies|||Act|2006.||||
||||||||Memorandum||and|Articles ofAssociation||||||dated|||||
||||||||21September||1998and|||amended||by|special||||||
||||||||resolution(s)|dated||20|October 2011and|||||amended|||further|by|
||||||||special resolution(s)|||dated 9|||February||2021||||||
|Board ofTrustees|||||||||||||||||||||
|William John|Kilgour||||Chair||||||||||||||||
|Maire Kennan|||||||||||||||||||||
|Alan Coultas|||||||||||||||||||||
|James Fenny|||||Retired|1T"March 2023|||||||||||||||
|Bernadette<br>Mary Chapman|||||||||||||||||||||
|Debra Irving|||||||||||||||||||||
|James Stephen||McGill||Appointed|||17'"January 2023||||||||||||||
|Company<br>Secretary|||||||||||||||||||||
|Vacancy|||||||||||||||||||||
|Independent|Examiner||||||||||||||||||||
|Lee Harris Bsc(Hons),|||FCCA||||||||||||||||||
|Mitchell Gordon||LLP|||||||||||||||||||
|43 Coniscliffe|Rd||||||||||||||||||||
|Darlington|||||||||||||||||||||
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|2 Duke Street|||||||||||||||||||||
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|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||fund|fund|funds|funds|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||||3,309||3,309|7,072|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||
|Ballinger Trust|||||20,000|20,000||
|Amazon||||2,720||2,720|2,279|
|Barrett Charity Foundation|||||||1,000|
|BigLottery Wellbeing|Fund||||80,197|80,197||
|County Durham<br>Community||Fund|||5,000|5,000||
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||||16,667|16,667||
|Lloyds Bank Foundation|||||||32,220|
|Joy Welch fund|||||||5,000|
|TEWV Resilience fund|||||6,686|6,686|5,773|
|Watson Hope fund|||||20,001|20,001|6,666|
|CDCF COL fund|||||2,477|2,477||
|Garfield Weston Pilotlight|||||618|618||
|Harrison<br>Foundation|||||21,049|21,049||
|Health Improvement<br>fund|||||8,560|8,560||
|Hadrian Trust||||1,000||1,000||
|Other trading<br>activities|||3|7,420||7,420|18,893|
|Investment<br>income|||4|640||640|124|
|Total||||~15089|181,255|~196344|79,027|
|EXPENDITURE ON||||||||
|Raising funds||||1,064||1,064|135|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||
|BigLottery|||||||27,448|
|Ballinger Trust|||||20,000|20,000|20,000|
|Amazon||||2,720||2,720|2,279|
|BigLottery Wellbeing|Fund||||80,197|80,197||
|County Durham<br>Community||Fund|||5,000|5,000||
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||||16,667|16,667|11,374|
|Lloyds Bank Foundation|||||||37,959|
|General activities||||34,038||34,038|32,953|
|Joy Welch fund|||||||5,000|
|TEWV Resilience fund|||||6,686|6,686|5,773|
|Watson Hope fund|||||20,001|20,001|6,666|
|CDCF COL fund|||||2,477|2,477||
|Garfield Weston Pilotlight|||||618|618||
|Harrison Foundation|||||21,049|21,049||
|Health Improvement<br>fund|||||8,560|8,560||
|Total||||37,822|181,255|219,077|149,587|





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||fund|fund|funds|funds|
||Notes|||||
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)||(22,733)||(22,733)|(70,560)|
|RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS||||||
|Total funds brought forward||255,010||255,010|325,570|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||~232277||232,277|255,010|





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|||||31/3/23|31/3/22|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||fund|fund|funds|funds|
||Notes|||||
|FIXEDASSETS||||||
|Tangible assets<br>Investments|10<br>11|168,712<br>1||168,712<br>1|166,916<br>1|
|||168,713||168,713|166,917|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors<br>Cash at bank and in hand|12|11,114<br>134,941|72,866|11,114<br>207,807|2,266<br>196,595|
|||146,055|72,866|218,921|198,861|
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year|13|(13,706)|(72,866)|(86,572)|(37,258)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||132,349|-|132,349|161,603|
|TOTAL ASSETSLESSCURRENT||||||
|LIABILITIES||301,062||301,062|328,520|
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due after more than one year|14|(68,785)||(68,785)|(73,510)|
|NET ASSETS||~232277||232,277|255,010|
|FUNDS|17|||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||232,277|255,010|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||232,277|255,010|





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|OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES|||
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|Fundraising<br>events|4,480|7,920|
|Management<br>charges income<br>Covid job retention<br>scheme||9,750<br>1,223|
|Room hire|2,940||
||7,420|18,893|
|INVESTMENT INCOME|||
||31/3/23|31/3/22|
|Deposit account interest|640|124|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|||
|Net income/(expenditure)<br>is stated after charging/(crediting):|||
||31/3/23|31/3/22|
|Depreciation - owned assets|~1260|759|





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|The average monthly<br>number ofem|ployees<br>during<br>the year was as|follows:|||
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||||31/3/23|31/3/22|
|Charitable<br>services|||7|6|
|No employees<br>received emoluments|in excess off60,000.||||
|COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OFFINANCIAL||ACTIVITIES|||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||fund|fund|funds|
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|FROM||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||7,072||7,072|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||
|Amazon||2,279||2,279|
|Barrett Charity Foundation||1,000||1,000|
|Lloyds Bank Foundation|||32,220|32,220|
|Joy Welch fund||5,000||5,000|
|TEWV Resilience fund|||5,773|5,773|
|Watson Hope fund|||6,666|6,666|
|Other trading activities||18,893||18,893|
|Investment<br>income||124||124|
|Total||34,368|~44 659|79,027|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||
|Raising funds||135||135|
|Charitable<br>activiHes|||||
|BigLottery|||27,448|27,448|
|Ballinger Trust|||20,000|20,000|
|Amazon||2,279||2,279|
|Garfield Weston Foundation|||11,374|11,374|
|Lloyds Bank Foundation|||37,959|37,959|
|General activities||32,953||32,953|
|Joy Welch fund||5,000||5,000|
|TEWV Resilience fund|||5,773|5,773|
|Watson Hope fund|||6,666|6,666|
|Total||40,367|109,220|149,587|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)||(5,999)|(64,561)|(70,560)|





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||for th<br>ar<br>2|023|023||
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|8.|COMPARATIVES FORTHE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL|ACTIVITIES - continued|||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||fund|fund|funds|
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||RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS||||
||Total funds brought<br>forward|261,009|64,561|325,570|
||TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|255,010||255,010|
|9.|INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REMUNERATION||||



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|TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Fixtures|||
||Freehold|and|Computer||
||property|fittings<br>I|equipment<br>I|Totals|
|COST|||||
|At 1 April 2022|165,000|10,263|13,535|188,798|
|Additions<br>Disposals||150<br>~187)|3,056|3,206<br>~187)|
|At 31 March 2023|165000|10,226|16,591|191,817|
|DEPRECIATION|||||
|At 1 April 2022||9,274|12,608|21,882|
|Charge.for year<br>Eliminated<br>on disposal||242<br>~38)|1,019|1,261<br>~38)|
|At 31March 2023||9,478|13,627|23,105|
|NET BOOK VALUE|||||
|At 31March 2023|165,000|748|2,964|~168712|
|At 31March 2022|~165000|989|927|166,916|





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|||||Unlisted|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||investments|
||MARKET VALUE||||
||At 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023||||
||NET BOOKVALUE||||
||At 31March 2023||||
||At 31 March 2022||||
||There were no investment|assem outside the UK.|||
|12.|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||
||||31/3/23|31/3/22|
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||Trade debtors||14||
||Other debtors||1,150|800|
||Prepayments||9,950|~1466|
||||11,114|2,266|
|13.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR||||
||||31/3/23|31/3/22|
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||Bank loans and overdratts|(see note 15)|4,711|4,427|
||Trade creditors||3,771|890|
||Social security and other|taxes|2,569|2,352|
||Pension creditor||661|535|
||Other creditors||28||
||Deferred income||72,866|27,342|
||Accrued expenses||1,966|1,712|
||||86,572|37,258|
|14.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR||||
||||31/3/23|31/3/22|
||Bank loans (see note 15)||68,785|73,510|





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|15.|Notes to the Financial Stateme<br>f r the Ye r<br>ded31<br>LOANS|Notes to the Financial Stateme<br>f r the Ye r<br>ded31<br>LOANS|Notes to the Financial Stateme<br>f r the Ye r<br>ded31<br>LOANS|Notes to the Financial Stateme<br>f r the Ye r<br>ded31<br>LOANS|nts - continued<br>202|||
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||An analysis ofthe maturity ofloans is given below:|||||||
|||||||31/3/23|31/3/22|
||Amounts<br>falling due within one year on||demand:|||||
||Bank loans|||||~4711|~4427|
||Amounts<br>falling due between two and five years:|||||||
||Bank loans - 1-5years|||||22,266|20,864|
||Amounts<br>faging due in more than five years:|||||||
||Repayable by instalments:|||||||
||Bank loans inore than 5 years|||||46,519|52,646|
|16.|SECURED DEBTS|||||||
||The following<br>secured debts are included||within creditors:|||||
|||||||31/3/23|31/3/22|
||Bank loans|||||73,496|77,937|
||The above debt is secured against|the building||owned by the|company.|||
|17.|MOVEMENT IN FUNDS|||||||
|||||||Net||
|||||||movement|At|
||||||At I/4/22|in funds|31/3/23|
||Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||
||General<br>fund||||255,010|(22,733)|232,277|
||TOTAL FUNDS||||255,010|~22 733|232,277|
||Net movement<br>in funds, included|in the above||are as follows:||||
||||||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
||||||resources<br>f|expended|in funds|
||Unrestricted<br>funds|||||||
||General fund||||15,090|(37,823)|(22,733)|
||Restricted funds|||||||
||Restricted||||181,254|(181,254)||
||TOTALFUNDS||||196344|~219,077)|~22,733)|





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|||||Net||
|||||movement|At|
||||At 1/4/21|in funds|31/3/22|
||||f|||
|Unrestricted|funds|||||
|General fund|||261,009|(5,999)|255,010|
|Restricted funds||||||
|Restricted|||64,561|(64,561)||
|TOTALFUNDS|||325,570|~70,560)|255,010|
|Comparative|net movement|in funds, included|in the above are as follows:|||
||||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
||||resources|expended|in funds|
|Unrestricted|funds|||||
|General<br>fund|||34,368|(40,367)|(5,999)|
|Restricted funds||||||
|Restricted|||44,659|(109,220)|(64,561)|
|TOTAL FUNDS|||79027|~149587)|~70,560|



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||||movement|At|
|||At 1/4/21|in funds|31/3/23|
|Unrestricted|funds||||
|General fund||261,009|(28,732)|232,277|
|Restricted funds|||||
|Restricted||64,561|(64,561)||
|TOTAL FUNDS||~325 570|~93,293)|232,277|





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|A current yea<br>as follows:|r 12months<br>and prior year 12|months<br>combined net movement<br>in|funds, included<br>i|n the above ar|
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|||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
|||resources|expended|in funds<br>f|
|Unrestricted|funds||||
|General fund||49,458|(78,190)|(28,732)|
|Restricted funds|||||
|Restricted||225,913|(290,474)|(64,561)|
|TOTALFU|DS|275,371|~368,664)|~93,293)|



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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies<br>Donations|||||3,309|7,072|
|Other trading activities<br>Fundraising<br>events<br>Management<br>charges income<br>Covid job retention scheme<br>Room hire|||||4,480<br>2,940|7,920<br>9,750<br>1,223|
||||||7,420|18,893|
|Investment<br>income|||||||
|Deposit account interest|||||640|124|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||||184,975|52,938|
|Total incoming resources|||||196,344|79,027|
|EXPENDITURE|||||||
|Raising donations<br>and legacies<br>Fundraising<br>expenses|||||1,064|135|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Wages<br>Social security<br>Pensions|||||134,904<br>6,133<br>2,800|104,610<br>4,899<br>2,305|
|Insurance|||||1,525|1,786|
|Light and heat<br>Advertising<br>Other fees|||||2,004<br>565<br>4,508|2,292<br>486<br>(511)|
|ITcosts|||||6,847|7,611|
|Governance<br>costs|||||210|278|
|Premises costs|||||3,588|4,443|
|Client Welfare|||||35,320|3,861|
|Administration<br>costs|||||8,573|5,591|
|Other staff costs|||||1,245|722|
|Training oosts<br>Fixtures snd fittings<br>Computer<br>equipment<br>Mortgage|||||3,600<br>242<br>1,019<br>4,930|191<br>568<br>5,243|
||||||218,013|144,375|
|Support costs|||||||
|Other|||||||
|Intercompany<br>debt w/off||||||5,077|





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|Detailed|tatement ofFinancia|Activities|||
|for the|Year Ended 31|d 2023|||
||||31/3/23f|31/3/22|
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||||~22,733)|~70,560)|