## ## |Referenc|e and administrative
detail|e and administrative
detail|e and administrative
detail|s||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Forthe|ear ended 31 March 2023|||||||||| |Company||number|03277032|||||||| |Charity number|||1076346|||||||| |Registered||office and|483 Green|Lanes||||||| |operational||address|London|||||||| ||||N134BS|||||||| |Trustees|||Trustees,|who are also||directors|under company||law, who served|during| ||||the year and up||to the date ofthis||report were as follows:|||| ||||A Adewunmi|||||||| ||||A Brown|||||||| ||||C Brown|||resigned||6 July 2023||| ||||AJ H Burton|||||||| ||||F Mainoo|||appointed||1 December|2022|| ||||G Maitland|Hudson||appointed||6 July 2023||| ||||J A F Keutgen|||resigned||18September 2022||| ||||D O'Shaughnessy|||appointed||1 December|2022|| ||||R E Rank|||||||| ||||C Ross|||||||| ||||SSkelton|||||||| ||||J Thornton|||appointed||1 December|2022|| |Chief Executive Officer|||L Crow|||||||| |Bankers|||Lloyds Bank|||||||| ||||27-31 White Hart Street|||||||| ||||High Wycombe|||||||| ||||HP11 2HL|||||||| |Auditors|||Godfrey Wilson||Limited|||||| ||||Chartered|accountants||and statutory||auditors||| ||||5th Floor Mariner House|||||||| ||||62 Prince|Street||||||| ||||Bristol|||||||| ||||BS14QD|||||||| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |||||||2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total| ||||Note|F|||F| |Income from:|||||||| |Donations|||3|1,074,077|209,869|1,283,946|879,648| |Charitable
activities|||4||||29,172| |Other trading|activities||5||1,202,431|1,202,431|954,720| |Investments|||||470|470|70| |Total income||||1,074,077|1,412,770|2,486,847|1,863,610| |Expenditure
on:|||||||| |Raising funds:|raising|charitable|donations||84,017|84,017|90,281| |Raising funds:|trading|activity|||994,863|994,863|933,456| |Charitable
activities||||964,226|206,906|1,171,132|1,092,421| |Total expenditure|||7|964,226|1,285,786|2,250,012|2,116,158| |Net income I(expenditure)||and net|||||| |movement
in funds|||9|109,851|126,984|236,835|(252,548)| |Reconciliation
of|funds:||||||| |Total funds brought|forward|||33,861|400,171|434,032|686,580| |Total funds carried forward||||143,712|527,155|670,867|434,032| ## ## ## |||||||||The group|The group|The charity|The charity| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||2023|2022|2023|2022| |||||||Note|||||| |Fixed assets|||||||||||| |Tangible assets|||||||12|21,237|22,304|21,237|22,304| |Intangible assets|||||||13|83,382|105,880||| |Investments|||||||14||||| |||||||||104,619|128,184|21,238|22,305| |Current assets|||||||||||| |Debtors|||||||17|428,979|220,291|346,436|110,835| |Cash at bank|and||in|hand||||801,747|602,469|322,152|438,877| |||||||||1,230,726|822,760|668,588|549,712| |Liabilities|||||||||||| |Creditors: amounts||||falling due within|1|year|18|(664,478)|(516,912)|(21,714)|(140,740)| |Net current assets||||||||566,248|305,848|646,874|408,972| |Net assets|||||||20|670,867|434,032|668,112|431,277| |Funds|||||||21||||| |Restricted funds||||||||143,712|33,861|143,712|33,861| |Unrestricted|funds||||||||||| |Designated||funds||||||240,482|240,021|240,482|240,021| |General|funds|||||||286,673|160,150|283,918|157,395| |Total charity|funds|||||||670,867|434,032|668,112|431,277| ## ## ## ## |Forthe
ear ended 31 March 2023|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||2023|2022| |||||f.|| |Cash used in operating
activities:|||||| |Net movement
in funds||||236,835|(252,548)| |Adjustments
for:|||||| |Depreciation
charges||||6,234|4,901| |Amortisation
charges||||47,796|34,022| |Dividends,
interest and rents from investments||||(470)|(70)| |Loss /(profit)
on the sale offixed assets||||662|1,968| |Decrease
/ (increase)
in debtors||||(208,688)|21,379| |Increase
/ (decrease)
in creditors||||147,566|159,197| |Net cash provided
by / (used in) operating||activities||229,935|~33,2 51| |Cash flows from investing
activities:|||||| |Dividends,
interest and rents from investments||||470|70| |Proceeds from the sale of property,
plant and||equipment||840|84| |Purchase oftangible
fixed assets||||(6,669)|(20,995)| |Recognition
of intangible
fixed assets||||(25,298)|(45,404)| |Net cash provided
by / (used in) investing||activities||(30,657)|(66,245)| |Increase /(decrease)
in cash and cash equivalents|||in the year|199,278|(97,396)| |Cash and cash equivalents
at the beginning|ofthe year|||602,469|699,865| |Cash and cash equivalents
at the end of|the year|||801,747|602,469| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |ities
on th|e basis ofdirect costs|, as follows:||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||2023|2022| |Raising funds: raising charitable||donations|6.7'/o|7.6'/o| |Charitable|activities||93.3'/o|92.4'/o| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |2.|Prior period com|parative|s:
stateme|nt
offinancial|activities||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||2022| ||||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total| |||||||F|E| ||Income from:||||||| ||Donations||||805,284|74,364|879,648| ||Charitable
activities|||||29,172|29,172| ||Other trading|activities||||954,720|954,720| ||Investments|||||70|70| ||Total income||||805,284|1,058,326|1,863,610| ||Expenditure
on:||||||| ||Raising funds:|raising|charitable|donations||90,281|90,281| ||Raising funds:|trading|activity|||933,456|933,456| ||Charitable
activities||||827,167|265,254|1,092,421| ||Total expenditure||||827,167|1,288,991|2,116,158| ||Net expenditure|and net|movement|in funds|(21,883)|(230,665)|(252,548)| |3.|Income from donations||||||| |Income from donatio|ns||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||2023| ||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total| |Quadrature|||470,000|30,000|500,000| |Swedish Postcode Foundation|||85,041||85,041| |The National
Lottery Community||Fund|210,875||210,875| |The Joseph Rowntree|Charitable|Trust|58,080||58,080| |Adessium
Foundation|||85,150||85,150| |National
Endowment|for Democracy||129,931||129,931| |J and
H Cross|||25,000||25,000| |Newby Trust|||10,000||10,000| |Porticus||||135,000|135,000| |Other donations||||44,869|44,869| |Total income from donations|||1,074,077|209,869|1,283,946| ## ## ## ||Prior period compara|tive|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||2022| ||||||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total| ||Quadrature||||||367,000|33,000|400,000| ||Swedish Postcode Foundation||||||116,679||116,679| ||The National
Lottery Community|||Fund|||88,552||88,552| ||Columbia
University||||||78,064||78,064| ||Cambridgeshire
and Peterborough||||Combined|Authority|50,000||50,000| ||Adessium
Foundation||||||42,046||42,046| ||National
Endowment|for|Democracy||||37,943||37,943| ||J and
H Cross||||||25,000||25,000| ||Other donations|||||||41,364|41,364| ||Total income from donations||||||805,284|74,364|879,648| |4.|Income from charitable||activities||||||| |||||||||2023|2022| |||||||||Total|Total| |||||||||E|F| ||Charitable
consultancy||||||||29,172| ||All income from charitable||activities||in the prior|period was unrestricted.|||| |5.|Income from other trading activities||||||||| |||||||||2023|2022| |||||||||Total|Total| ||Sale of software and|IT consultancy||||||1,202,431|954,720| ## ||||8
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Multitudes|||||3,291|| |GES Savjetovanje|d.o.o|||||1,000| |Im23 Ltd|||||5,000|| |Lynsted
Community||Kitchen Garden|||5,000|| |Open Knowledge
Foundation|||Deutschland||47,570|| |Open North
Inc|||||3,233|| |People Powered
Global Hub|||||3,224|| |Policy Lab Africa|||||3,187|| |Technoloxia Ytech|Strategic Studies Center||||3,198|| |The 10:10Foundation||(working||name Possible)|5,000|| |The Demography
Project|||||3,232|| |Vouliwatch||||||4,783| |Other grants payable||&E1,000||||6,212| ||||||175,201|67,995| |9.|Net movement
in funds|Net movement
in funds|Net movement
in funds||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||This is stated after charging:|||||2023|2022| |||||||f.|| ||Amortisation|||||47,796|34,022| ||Depreciation|||||6,234|4,901| ||Trustees'|remuneration||||Nil|Nil| ||Trustees'|reimbursed|expenses|||289|367| ||Foreign|exchange gains||/ (losses)||1,854|| ||Auditors'|remuneration:|||||| |||~ Statutory|audit (excluding||VAT)|10,400|8,100| |||~ Other services (excluding|||VAT)|300|600| ## ## ## ## |Staff costs and numbers|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Staff costs were as follows:||||||2023|2022| |||||||F|F| |Salaries and wages||||||1,558,101|1,583,345| |Social security costs||||||186,097|177,560| |Pension costs||||||35,199|32,330| |Contractors
Less: capitalised
product development||within SocietyWorks|||Ltd|41,504
~25,299|37,242
~45,494| |||||||1,795,602|1,785,073| |The number
ofemployees|whose annual||emoluments|were|F60,000or more were:||| |||||||2023|2022| |||||||No.|No.| |F60,001 to F65,000|||||||| |F65,001 to F70,000|||||||| |F70,001 to F75,000|||||||| |F75,001 to F80,000|||||||| |F85,001 to F90,000|||||||| |F90,001 to F95,000|||||||| |F135,001 to F140,000|||||||| ## ## ## ## ## |12.|Tangible fixed assets (Group and Charity)|| |---|---|---| |||Computer| |||equipment| ||Cost|| ||At 1 April 2022|31,152| ||Additions
in year|6,669| ||Disposals
in year|(2,495)| ||At 31 March 2023|35,326| ||Depreciation|| ||At 1 April 2022|8,848| ||Charge for the year|6,234| ||On disposal|(993)| ||At 31 March 2023|14,089| ||Net book value|| ||At 31 March 2023|21,237| ||At 31 March 2022|22,304| |13.|Intangible
fixed assets (Group)|| |||Software| |||development| ||Cost|| ||At 1 April 2022|139,902| ||Additions
in year|25,298| ||At 31 March 2023|165,200| ||Amortisation|| ||At 1 April 2022|34,022| ||Charge for the year|47,796| ||At 31 March 2023|81,818| ||Net book value|| ||At 31 March 2023|83,382| ||At 31 March 2022|105,880| ## ## ## ## |The|group||The|charity|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |2023||2022|2023||2022| |F|||||| ## ## |trades
in softw|are|a|nd IT con|sultancy.|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||2023|2022| |||||||F|| |Turnover||||||1,202,431|954,720| |Cost ofsales||||||(599,380)|(589,507)| |Gross profit||||||603,051|365,213| |Administrative|expenses|||||(395,483)|(343,949)| |Profit on ordinary||activities||||207,568|21,264| |Corporation
tax|||||||| |Profit for financial||year after||taxation||207,568|21,264| |Changes in equity|||||||| |Total retained|profit||brought|forward||2,755|2,755| |Total comprehensive|||income|for the year||207,568|21,264| |Gift aid distribution|||to parent|charity||(207,568)|(21,264)| |Total retained|profit carried forward|||||2,755|2,755| |The aggregate|of|the assets,||liabilities|and funds was:||| |||||||2023|2022| ||||||||F| |Assets||||||929,696|459,021| |Liabilities||||||~926,949|~456,265| |Funds||||||2,756|2,756| ## ## ## ## |Parent charity|Parent charity|| |---|---|---| |The parent charity's gross income and results for the year are disclosed as follows:||| ||2023|2022| |Gross income|1,491,984|930,154| |Results for the year|236,838|(252,548)| ## |Debtors||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||The group||The charity|| ||||2023|2022|2023|2022| |||||F||| |Trade debtors|||353,090|185,140||16,000| |Accrued|Income||30,660|12,089|30,660|| |Prepayments|||26,378|14,211|12,748|5,891| |Amounts|owing|by group undertakings|||284,177|80,093| |Other debtors|||18,851|8,851|18,851|8,851| ||||428,979|220,291|346,436|110,835| ## |Creditor|s: amo|unts
due within
1 year||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||The|group|The charity|| ||||2023|2022|2023|2022| ||||f.||F|| |Trade creditors|||4,705|8,845|2,724|8,845| |Accruals|||17,360|70,166|13,860|66,416| |Other taxation and social security|||108,809|106,562||55,566| |Other creditors|||5,130|9,913|5,130|9,913| |Deferred|income|(see note 19)|528,474|321,426||| ||||664,478|516,912|21,714|140,740| |Deferred|income|||||| ||||The|group|The charity|| ||||2023|2022|2023|2022| ||||f.||E|| |At 1 April|2022||321,426|265,615||| |Deferred|during|the year|528,474|321,426||| |Released|during|the year|(321,426)|(265,615)||| |At 31 March 2023|||528,474|321,426||| ## ## ## ## |Analysis|ofgroup net assets betwee|n funds|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Restricted|Designated|General|Total| |||funds|funds|funds|funds| |Tangible|fixed assets|||21,237|21,237| |Intangible
fixed assets||||83,382|83,382| |Current
Current|assets
liabilities|144,387
~675|240,482|845,857
~663,863|1,230,726
~664,478| |Net assets at 31 March 2023||143,712|240,482|286,673|670,867| |Prior period comparative:||Restricted|Designated|General|Total| |||funds|funds|funds|funds| |||E||E|F| |Tangible|fixed assets|||22,304|22,304| |Intangible
fixed assets||||105,880|105,880| |Current|assets|41,361|240,021|541,378|822,760| |Current|liabilities|(7,500)||(509,412)|(516,912)| |Net assets at 31 March 2022||33,861|240,021|160,150|434,032| ## ## ## ## |Movements|in f|u|nds||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||Transfers|At 31| ||||||At 1 April|||between|March| ||||||2022|Income|Expenditure|funds|2023| ||||||F|F||f.|| |Restricted|funds||||||||| |ATI in Europe||||||170,191|(132,335)||37,856| |Alaveteli|||||25,000|25,000|(25,000)||25,000| |Columbia
University|||||229||(229)||| |The Joseph|Rowntree|||Charitable|||||| |Trust||||||58,080|(40,833)||17,247| |National
Endowment||||for Democracy|(1,560)|129,931|(119,415)||8,956| |Newby Trust||||||10,000|(10,000)||| |Quadrature|I National|||Lottery|||||| |Community|Foundation||||10,192|680,875|(636,414)||54,653| |Total restricted||funds|||33,861|1,074,077|(964,226)||143,712| |Unrestricted|funds||||||||| |Designated|fund:||Reserve fund||240,021|||461|240,482| |General funds|||||160,150|1,412,770|(1,285,786)|(461)|286,673| |Total unrestricted|||funds||400,171|1,412,770|(1,285,786)||527,155| |Total funds|||||434,032|2,486,847|(2,250,012)||670,867| ## ## ## ## ## ## |wind
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F|Income
f|Expenditure|funds|2022| |Restricted funds||||||| |Adessium
Foundation|/ Swedish|||||| |Postcode Foundation||44,460|158,725|(203,185)||| |Alaveteli|||25,000|||25,000| |BEIS|||50,000|(50,000)||| |Columbia
University|||78,064|(77,835)||229| |The Legal Education|Foundation|11,284||(11,284)||| |National
Endowment|for Democracy||37,943|(39,503)||(1,560)| |Quadrature
I National|Lottery|||||| |Community
Foundation|||455,552|(445,360)||10,192| |Total restricted
funds||55,744|805,284|(827,167)||33,861| |Unrestricted
funds||||||| |Designated
fund:
Reserve fund||180,004|||60,017|240,021| |General funds||450,832|1,058,326|(1,288,991)|(60,017)|160,150| |Total unrestricted
funds||630,836|1,058,326|(1,288,991)||400,171| |Total funds||686,580|1,863,610|(2,116,158)||434,032| ##