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## **Charity Commission Annual Return 2025**
READING COMMUNITY WELFARE RIGHTS UNIT Charity registration number: 1074557
Most of the information you give in this form will become publicly available on the Register of Charities. Any field that the Charity Commission will not display will be clearly marked.
This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2025.
## **PART A - Charity information**
## **Financial period**
**Financial period start date** 01/04/2024
**Financial period end date** 31/03/2025
## **Income and spending**
## Income £
£ 171,582
## Spending £
£ 181,747
## **Number of contracts from government**
How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return? 2
## **Value of contracts from government**
What was the total value of the contracts received from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?
£ 85,500
## **Number of grants from government**
How many grants did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?
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0
## **Income breakdown**
## **Donations and legacies (excluding Endowments Received)**
£ 1,423
## **Charitable activities**
£ 164,381
## **Other trading activities**
£ 0
## **Investments**
£ 0
## **Other**
£ 5,778
## **Corporate donations**
What was the value of your charity’s single highest value donation received from a corporate donor during the financial period of this return? £ 1,000
## **Donations from individuals**
What was the value of your charity’s single highest value donation received from an individual during the financial period of this return?
£ 127
## **Donations from related parties**
What was the value of your charity’s single highest value donation received from a related party during the financial period of this return?
£ 10
## **Grantmaking**
Is grant making the main way your charity carries out its purposes?
No
## **Recipients of grants**
**Please round all figures to the nearest pound (do not enter decimal points or commas). Individuals**
£ 0
## **Other charities**
£ 0
**Other organisations that are not charities** £ 0
**Trustee payments**
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## Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees paid during the financial period for this return?
e. None of the trustees have been paid
Did any of the trustees resign and take up employment with your charity in the financial period of this return?
No
## **Income from outside the UK**
Did your charity receive income from outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?
No
## **Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom**
Did your charity deliver charitable activities outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?
No
## **Spending outside of the United Kingdom**
Did your charity spend funds outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?
No ⊠
**Total Spending outside of the United Kingdom** £
## **Trading subsidiaries**
## Does the charity have any trading subsidiaries?
No
## **Employment contract types**
## **People were permanently employed by your charity**
5
**- People were on fixed terms contracts with your charity**
0
**Self-employed people were working for your charity**
0
## **Total overseas employees**
How many of the people above work on behalf of your charity outside of the United Kingdom?
0
## **Total employee payroll**
What was the total amount spent on employee payroll during the financial period relating to this
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£ 157,143
## return?
## **Employees' salaries**
## Did any of your charity's employees receive total employment benefits of £60,000 or more in the financial period of this annual return?
No
## **Governance policies**
**Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures** Yes **Safeguarding policy and procedures** Yes **Financial reserves policy and procedures** Yes
**Complaints policy and procedures** Yes
**Serious incident reporting policy and procedures** Yes **Internal risk management policy and procedures** Not applicable **Trustee expenses policy and procedures** Not applicable **Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures** Yes **Investing charity funds policy and procedures** Not applicable **Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures** Not applicable **Bullying and harassment policy and procedures** Yes **Social media policy and procedures** Not applicable **Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures** Not applicable
## **Safeguarding**
Has your charity provided services to children and/or adults at risk in the financial period of the return?
Yes **a. Standard DBS checks have been obtained for all eligible roles** Yes
**b. Enhanced DBS checks have been obtained for all eligible roles**
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Yes
**c. Enhanced with Barred List(s) DBS checks have been obtained for all eligible roles** Not Applicable
## **Serious Incidents**
Has your charity reported all Serious Incidents (including any historical incidents) that the charity became aware of during the financial period of this return? There were no incidents to report
## **External risk and impact**
## Donations
No impact
## Other income - grants
Negative
## Other income - contracts
Negative
## Other income - investment
Not applicable
## Expenditure on charitable activities
No impact
## Expenditure on overheads
No impact
## Number of volunteers
Negative
## Number of employees
No impact
## Number of trustees
Positive
## Fundraising activities
No impact
## Capacity to deliver services
No impact
Total service demand Positive
## **Volunteers**
Excluding trustees, provide an estimate of the number of volunteers who carried out charitable activities on behalf of your charity in the United Kingdom during the financial period of this return?
1
## **Privacy statement**
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We may share and disclose information about you with relevant public authorities, regulatory bodies and agencies, outside the Charity Commission but only if:
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Information we collect about you
We will use this information:
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We will ensure that any such disclosure and use is proportionate; considers your right to respect for your private life; and is done fairly and lawfully in accordance with the data protection principles of the Data Protection Act.
The Data Protection Act 1998 regulates the use of 'personal data', which is essentially any information, however stored, about identifiable living individuals.
As a 'data controller' under the Act, the Charity Commission must comply with it. Any changes we may make to our privacy statement in the future will be set out in the replacement version of this form.
Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
## **Declaration**
This annual return has not been submitted and no Declaration has been made
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## **Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit**
**Charity No. 1074557**
**Company No. 03626105**
**Trustees' Report and Unaudited Accounts**
**31 March 2025**
**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Contents**
||Pages||
|---|---|---|
|Trustees' Annual Report|2 to 4||
|Independent Examiner's Report||5|
|Statement of Financial Activities||6|
|Balance Sheet||7|
|Notes to the Accounts|8 to|14|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|15 to|16|
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Trustees Annual Report**
The trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Company No. 03626105**
## **Charity No. 1074557**
## **Principal Office**
135 Cardiff Rd Reading Berkhire RG1 8JF
## **Registered Office**
135 Cardiff Rd Reading RG1 8JF
## **Directors and Trustees**
The Directors of the charitable company are its Trustees for the purposes of charity law. The following Directors and Trustees served during the year:
M. Ayub S. Boyt J.L. Hughes P.G. Kayes B. McClean R. McEwan
M. O'Connell L.K. Owen P. Thomas
## **Key Management Personnel**
Chair Peter Kayes Chief Executive Officer Matt Harrison
## **Accountants**
Lambert Martin Ltd 33 Old Bath road
Sonning Reading Berkshire RG4 6SY
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Trustees Annual Report**
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
The objectives of the service are to benefit the population of Greater Reading by the relief of poverty, sickness and distress. These objectives are achieved by giving advice and assistance to people in respect of their rights to benefits as required.
The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit both when reviewing the service's aims and objectives and when planning its future activities.
RCWRU provides advice and support to people on their benefits claims, including to people in work, not in work and to those seeking to get into work. Examples of when the support is needed are when people are wrongly denied benefits by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), when people have their benefits cut after a review where the assessment is faulty, or where the process of completing the complex paperwork is beyond the individual applicant’s capabilities. Support can consist of simply providing advice including what their entitlement should be but more often involves helping clients make formal appeals and taking unresolved cases to tribunals where we will work with the clients to make their case.
A larger charity must provide an explanation of its aims, including details of the issues it seeks to tackle and the changes or differences it seeks to make through its activities...
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
The 2024-25 financial year has seen Reading Welfare Rights continue to provide its service to clients across Reading and beyond in the greater Reading area. Methods of working have been developed to be a more flexible service to clients which includes continuing to meet clients by appointment at our office, as well as providing support over the telephone or email but also meeting clients at other venues which are easier for them to get to, including visiting them at home where necessary. We collaborate with various charities in Reading through the Tackling Poverty Partnership to provide diverse support. We refer clients to these charities and receive referrals from them. In addition we have been successful in gaining a number of charitable grants to expand our work and a number of other smaller grants from local charities.
Through our work local residents have successfully been awarded over £2 million in benefits from the DWP during the year, money which is paid directly by DWP to the people we have supported. This is a significant contribution to our clients’ ability to live independently, avoiding poverty and getting into debt.
Once again I must thank our staff and volunteers, including trustees, for their commitment to our work, which is often life saving for our clients.
## **PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS**
Looking to the future RWR is aware of an excess in demand for our services some of which is likely to have been created by the pandemic. We endeavour to meet these needs, sometimes with the support of our partners, volunteers and other individuals. We aim to continue to support our community in years to come.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
RWR is controlled by its governing document, The memorandum and Articles of Association, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006. In accordance with the Memorandum of Association each present member has undertaken to contribute the sum of £1 in the event of winding up. As the service is a registered charity, any surplus upon a winding up would be distributed to another charity with similar objects, as the members are prohibited from benefiting from the company.
The Board seeks to recruit new trustees from the wider community in Reading to provide a range of skills and views.
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## **Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Trustees Annual Report**
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime as set out in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102).
Signed on behalf of the board
Peter Kayes Trustee
11 July 2025
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Independent Examiners Report**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity's trustees of the company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act.
Having satisfied myself that the financial statements of the Charity 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 charity's financial statements 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 examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I can confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 386 of the 2006 Act ; or
- the financial statements do not accord with those records; or
- the financial statements do not comply with the accounting requirements under section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the financial statements give a 'true and fair' view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
- the financial statements 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 financial statements to be reached.
## Sabina Reed
## 2025-10-19
Rachel Eden Holy Brook Accountants Curious Lounge, 1st Floor, Pinnacle Building Tudor Road Reading RG1 1NH Date:
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments**
**from:**
Donations and legacies
4
Charitable activities
5
Other
6
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Other
7
**Total**
Net gains on investments
**Net (expenditure)/income**
Transfers between funds
**Net (expenditure)/income**
**before other gains/(losses)**
**Other gains and losses**
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
1,423
(5,567)
1,418|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
-
169,948
4,360|**Total funds**
**2025**
**£**
1,423
164,381
5,778|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
4,325
173,499
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||(2,726)
0|174,308
181,747|171,582
181,747|177,824
177,758|
||0
-|181,747
-|181,747
-|177,758
-|
||(2,726)
-|(7,440)
-|(10,165)
-|66
-|
||(2,726)|(7,440)|(10,165)|66|
||(2,726)
21,965|(7,440)
10,825|(10,165)
32,790|66
32,724|
||19,240|3,386|22,625|32,790|
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Balance Sheet**
## **at 31 March 2025**
|**at 31 March 2025**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Company No.**
**03626105**|**Notes**|**2025**|**2024**|
|||**£**|**£**|
|**Current assets**||||
|Debtors|9|6,583|-|
|Cash at bank and in hand||48,200|54,568|
|||54,783|54,568|
|**Creditors:**Amount falling due within one year|10|(32,158)|(21,778)|
|**Net current assets**||22,625|32,790|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**||22,625|32,790|
|**Net assets excluding pension asset or liability**||22,625|32,790|
|**Total net assets**||22,625|32,790|
|**The funds of the charity**||||
|**Restricted funds**|11|||
|Restricted income funds||3,386|10,825|
|||3,386|10,825|
|**Unrestricted funds**|11|||
|General funds||19,240|21,965|
|||19,240|21,965|
|**Reserves**|11|||
|**Total funds**||22,625|32,790|
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
For the year ended 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
Approved by the board on 11 July 2025
And signed on its behalf by:
Peter Kayes Trustee
11 July 2025
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Notes to the Accounts**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
- 1 **Accounting policies**
## **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) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
## **Change in basis of accounting or to previous accounts**
There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and method of accounting) since last year and no changes have been made to accounts for previous years.
## **Fund accounting**
- Unrestricted funds These are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objects of the charity.
- Designated funds These are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes. Revaluation funds These are unrestricted funds which include a revaluation reserve representing the restatement of investment assets at their market values.
- Restricted funds These are available for use subject to restrictions imposed by the donor or through terms of an appeal.
## **Income**
- Recognition of Income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the charity income becomes entitled to, and virtually certain to receive, the income and the amount of the income can be measured with sufficient reliability.
- Income with related Where income has related expenditure the income and related expenditure is expenditure reported gross in the SoFA. Donations and Voluntary income received by way of grants, donations and gifts is included in the legacies the SoFA when receivable and only when the Charity has unconditional entitlement to the income.
- Tax reclaims on Income from tax reclaims is included in the SoFA at the same time as the donations and gifts gift/donation to which it relates. Donated services These are only included in income (with an equivalent amount in expenditure) and facilities where the benefit to the Charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material.
Volunteer help The value of any volunteer help received is not included in the accounts. Investment income This is included in the accounts when receivable. Gains/(losses) on This includes any gain or loss resulting from revaluing investments to market value revaluation of fixed at the end of the year. assets Gains/(losses) on This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments. investment assets
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## **Expenditure**
- Recognition of Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure includes any VAT which expenditure cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
- Expenditure on These comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income, fundraising raising funds trading costs and investment management costs. Expenditure on These comprise the costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of its activities and charitable activities services in the furtherance of its objects, including the making of grants and governance costs.
- Grants payable All grant expenditure is accounted for on an actual paid basis plus an accrual for grants that have been approved by the trustees at the end of the year but not yet paid.
- Governance costs These include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the Charity, including any audit/independent examination fees, costs linked to the strategic management of the Charity, together with a share of other administration costs.
- Other expenditure These are support costs not allocated to a particular activity.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Trade and other 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.
## **Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash at bank and on hand, demand deposits with banks and other short-term highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less and bank overdrafts. In the statement of financial position, bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings or current liabilities. In the Statement of Cash Flows, cash and cash equivalents are shown net of bank overdrafts that are repayable on demand and form an integral part of the company's cash management.
## **Trade and other creditors**
Short term creditors are measured at the transaction price. Other 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.
## **Pension costs**
The charity operates a defined contribution plan for its employees. A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which the company pays fixed contributions into a separate entity. Once the contributions have been paid the company has no further payments obligations. The contributions are recognised as expenses when they fall due. Amounts not paid are shown in accruals in the balance sheet. The assets of the plan are held separately from the company in independently administered funds.
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## **Receipt of donated goods, facilities and services**
All donated goods, facilities and services received are recognised within incoming resources and expenditure at an estimate of the value to the charity.
## 2 **Company status**
The company is a private company limited by guarantee and consequently does not have share capital.
## 3 **Statement of Financial Activities - prior year**
|**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Other
**Total**
**Net income**
Transfers between funds
**Net income before other**
**gains/(losses)**
**Other gains and losses:**
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**
4
**Income from donations and legacies**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
4,325
5,620
9,945
100
100
9,845
2,589
12,434
12,434
9,531
21,965
**Unrestricted**
**£**
1,423
1,423|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
-
167,879
167,879
177,658
177,658
(9,779)
(2,589)
(12,368)
(12,368)
23,193
10,825
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
1,423
1,423|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
4,325
173,499|
|---|---|---|---|
||||177,824
177,758|
||||177,758|
||||66
-|
||||66|
||||66
32,724|
||||32,790|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
4,325|
||||4,325|
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## 5 **Income from charitable activities**
|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Contract Income
0
85,500
85,500
86,686
Grant Income
(5,567)
84,448
78,881
86,813
(5,567)
169,948
164,381
173,499
6
**Other income**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
1,418
4,360
5,778
-
1,418
4,360
5,778
-
7
**Other expenditure**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**Total**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Employee costs
1
158,329
158,330
151,957
Motor and travel costs
0
13
13
50
Premises costs
0
5,006
5,006
3,329
General administrative costs
1
12,710
12,711
16,001
Legal and professional costs
(1)
5,688
5,687
6,421
0
181,747
181,747
177,758
8
**Staff costs**
**2025**
**2024**
Salaries and wages
139,939
134,951
Social security costs
6,580
7,812
Pension costs
10,624
7,254
157,143
150,017
No employee received emoluments in excess of £60,000.
The average monthly number of full time equivalent employees during the year was as follows:
**2025**
**2024**
**Number**
**Number**
Manager/Caseworker
1
1
Caseworker/ specialist
advisor
4
4
Volunteers
1
1
Office Administration
Assistant
-
-
Accountant
-
-
6
6|**Unrestricted**
**£**
0
(5,567)
(5,567)
**Unrestricted**
**£**
1,418
1,418|**Restricted**
**£**
85,500
84,448
169,948
**Restricted**
**£**
4,360
4,360|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
85,500
78,881
164,381
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
5,778
5,778|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
86,686
86,813|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||173,499|
|||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
-|
|||||-|
||||||
|||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
151,957
50
3,329
16,001
6,421|
|||||177,758|
|||||**2024**
134,951
7,812
7,254|
|||||150,017|
|||||6|
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Notes to the Accounts**
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**Notes to the Accounts**|||
|---|---|---|
|9
**Debtors**
Prepayments and accrued income
10 **Creditors:**
amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Other taxes and social security
Other creditors
Accruals
Deferred income|**2025**
**£**
6,583
6,583
**2025**
**£**
-
-
(1,224)
-
33,382
32,158|**2024**
**£**
-|
|||-|
|||**2024**
**£**
727
(10)
(436)
(1)
21,498|
|||21,778|
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Notes to the Accounts**
## 11 **Movement in funds**
|**Restricted funds:**
**Restricted income funds:**
Reading Borough Council
National Lottery: Reaching
Communities
Henry Smith charity
Reading Borough Council 2
National Lottery: Boost
_Total_
**Unrestricted funds:**
**General funds**
**Total funds**|**At 1 April**
**2024**
10,825
-
-
-
-
10,825
21,965
32,790|**Incoming**
**resources**
**(including**
**other**
**gains/losses**
**)**
**£**
79,000
45,757
23,117
10,860
15,574
174,308
(2,726)
171,582|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(90,452)
(42,112)
(33,818)
-
(15,366)
(181,747)
0
(181,747)|**At 31**
**March**
**2025**
**£**
(627)
3,645
(10,701)
10,860
208|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||3,386|
|||||19,240|
|||||22,625|
Purposes and restrictions in relation to the funds:
|Restricted funds:||
|---|---|
|Reading Borough Council|Closing the Gap|
|National Lottery: Reaching|Staff Funding|
|Communities||
|Henry Smith charity|Staff Funding|
|Reading Borough Council 2|Staff Funding|
|National Lottery: Boost|Staff Funding|
12 **Analysis of net assets between funds**
|Net current assets|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
22,625
22,625|**Total**
**£**
22,625|
|---|---|---|
|||22,625|
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Notes to the Accounts**
## 13 **Reconciliation of net debt**
|**Reconciliation of net debt**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Cash and cash equivalents
Net debt|**At 1 April**
**2024**
**£**|**Cash flows**
**£**|**At 31**
**March**
**2025**
**£**|
||54,568|(6,368)|48,200|
||54,568
54,568|(6,368)
(6,368)|48,200|
||||48,200|
## 14 **Commitments**
## _**Operating lease commitments**_
Annual commitments under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:
|**2025**
**Land and**
**buildings**
**£**
Operating leases with expiry date:
**_Pension commitments_**
The pension cost charge to the company
amounted to:
15 **Related party disclosures**
**_Controlling party_**|**2025**
**2024**
**Other**
**Land and**
**buildings**
**£**
**£**
**2025**
**£**
10,624|**2024**
**Other**
**£**
**2024**
**£**
7,254|
|---|---|---|
||||
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital; thus no single party controls the company.
Page 14
**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Contract Income
Grant Income
Other
**Total income and endowments**
**Expenditure on:**
Employee costs
Salaries/wages
Employer's NIC
Pension costs
Staff training
Staff welfare
Motor and travel costs
Travel and subsistence
Premises costs
Rent
General administrative costs,
including depreciation and
amortisation
Bank charges
General insurances
Software, IT support and related
costs
Stationery and printing
Subscriptions
Sundry expenses
Telephone, fax and broadband
Legal and professional costs|**Unrestricte**
**d funds**
**2025**
**£**
1,423
1,423
0
(5,567)
(5,567)
1,418
1,418
(2,726)
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
-
0
0
0
0
-
0
1|**Restricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
-
-
85,500
84,448
169,948
4,360
4,360
174,308
139,939
6,580
10,624
167
1,020
158,329
13
13
5,006
5,006
308
2,830
6,027
454
2,103
-
989
12,710|**Total funds**
**2025**
**£**
1,423
1,423
85,500
78,881
164,381
5,778
5,778
171,582
139,939
6,580
10,624
167
1,020
158,330
13
13
5,006
5,006
308
2,830
6,027
454
2,103
-
989
12,711|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
4,325|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||4,325|
|||||86,686
86,813|
|||||173,499|
|||||-|
|||||-|
|||||177,824
134,951
7,812
7,254
400
1,540|
|||||151,957|
|||||50|
|||||50|
|||||3,329|
|||||3,329|
|||||295
717
8,687
139
1,967
1,037
3,159|
|||||16,001|
||||||
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**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**
|**Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit**
**Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Audit/Independent examination
fees
Accountancy and bookkeeping
**Total of expenditure of other costs**
**Total expenditure**
Net gains on investments
**Net (expenditure)/income**
**Net (expenditure)/income before**
**other gains/(losses)**
Other Gains
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|-
(1)
(1)
0
0
-
(2,726)
(2,726)
-
(2,726)
21,965
19,240|-
5,688
5,688
181,747
181,747
-
(7,440)
(7,440)
-
(7,440)
10,825
3,386|-
5,687
5,687
181,747
181,747
-
(10,165)
(10,165)
-
(10,165)
32,790
22,625|360
6,061|
|||||6,421|
||||||
|||||177,758|
|||||177,758
-|
|||||66|
|||||66
-|
|||||66|
|||||32,724|
|||||32,790|
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PAGE 1 OF 1
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report
on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the
trusteesldirectorsl
members of
Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit
On accounts for the year
ended
31st March 2025
Charity no.:
Company no.:
1074557
03626105
Set out on pages
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the
Company for the year ended 3110312025.
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees of the Company (who are also the directors of the
company 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 ('Ihe 2006 Act").
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not requiréd
to be audited for this year under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for
independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your
charity'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
examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I 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
• the accounts do not accord with such records", or
• the accounts do not comply with 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 accordan with the Charities
SORP (FRS102).
IER
October 2018
I have no COnrnS 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:
Date:
10 October 2025
Name:
Sabina Reed
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
Association of Accounting Technicians
Address:
clo Holy Brook Associates Ltd, Curious Lounge
1st Floor Pinnacle Building, Tudor Raod
Reading. RG1 1 NH
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and
guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018