| Report ofthe Trustees Including |
Chair's | Review and | 1-3 |
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| Message from the CEO | |||
| Objectives and Activities | 4-7 | ||
| Achievements and Performance |
8-11 | ||
| Financial Review |
12 | ||
| Plans for Future Periods and Post Balance Sheet Events | |||
| Structure, Governance and Management |
13 - 15 | ||
| Reference and Administrative Information |
15-18 | ||
| Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Special Needs and Parents Limited |
19 | ||
| Statement of Financial Activities |
20 | ||
| Balance Sheet | 21 | ||
| Notes to the Accounts | 22-31 |
| Michael | Michael | O' Connell | O' Connell | Retired solicitor and Notary Public. | ||
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| (Treasurer) | ||||||
| Paula | Hills | Founder ofa music therapy charity for pre-school |
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| children with additional needs in 1993and is a founder |
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| ofSNAP. Paula previously co-ordinated the Essex |
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| Forum for Support Groups/Organisations. Paula's |
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| second child Oliver has profound and complex needs. |
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| Suzanne | Davies | An accountant, previously Suzanne was a partner at |
a | |||
| firm of Certified Accountants and worked with a wide |
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| range of charitable trusts and institutions. |
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| Julia Gray | Worked for the last 4 years as an Office Manager |
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| supporting families for an Essex based Therapy Centre |
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| which specialises in sensory OT. Previously Julia was |
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| full-time mum with two sons; one ofwhom has additional |
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| needs. Before having her family, Julia worked in the City |
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| for over 20 years for several financial companies. | ||||||
| Paul Deller | Ray | A Registered Social Worker with 30 years' experience |
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| across Children and Adults Social Care, both in the |
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| statutory and voluntary sectors. |
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| Stuart | Hulbert | (Vice- | A Chartered Insurance Broker and Joint Managing |
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| Chair) | Director of a Chartered Insurance broking firm based |
in | ||||
| Brentwood that specialises in advising and arranging |
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| insurance for the care and social welfare sector. |
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| Richard | Bareham | A Chartered Management Accountant with 25 years |
of | |||
| financial management experience within the commercial |
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| and charity sectors. | ||||||
| Kate Scola | Works as an Economist at the Competition and Markets |
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| Authority and has two sons. |
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| Steve | Sawyer | Worked within the health, social care and charity |
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| (appointed | 12December | sectors for over 20 years at local, national and |
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| 2023) | international levels. Steve brings wide experience of |
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| organisational development, systems and governance, |
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| coupled with a decade-long personal experience ofthe |
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| support and services SNAP provides. |
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| Vince | Wooding | Vince retired in 2022. As an experienced business |
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| (appointed | 12December | leader he built and led businesses in the Financial |
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| 2023) | Services and Outsourcing Industries. During his career |
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| Vince has been a board member ofvarious leading |
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| companies in UK, Australia and Japan. |
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | funds | funds | ||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | ||
| Notes | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | |
| Income from: | |||||||
| Donations and legacies |
200,489 | 200,489 | 241,123 | 241,123 | |||
| Charitable activities |
49,421 | 378,528 | 427,949 | 33,939 | 431,795 | 465,734 | |
| Other trading activities |
124,361 | 124,361 | 85,639 | 85,639 | |||
| Investments | 9,310 | 9,310 | 2,503 | 2,503 | |||
| Total income | 383,581 | 378,528 | 762,109 | 363,204 | 431,795 | 794,999 | |
| Expenditure on: |
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| Raising funds | 7 | 169,618 | 169,618 | 150,155 | 150,155 | ||
| Charitable activities |
8 | 212,025 | 419,442 | 631,467 | 201,000 | 445,560 | 646,560 |
| Total expenditure | 381,643 | 419,442 | 801,085 | 351,155 | 445,560 | 796,715 | |
| Net income/(expenditure) | 1,938 | (40,914) | (38,976) | 12,049 | (13,765) | (1,716) | |
| Transfers between |
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| funds | (11,654) | 11,654 | |||||
| Net movement in |
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| funds | 1,938 | (40,914) | (38,976) | 395 | (2,111) | (1,716) | |
| Reconciliation offunds: |
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| Fund balances at 1 January | |||||||
| 2023 | 581,096 | 273,174 | 854,270 | 580,701 | 275,285 | 855,986 | |
| Fund balances at 31 | |||||||
| December 2023 | 583,034 | 232,260 | 815,294 | 581,096 | 273,174 | 854,270 |
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||
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| Notes | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| Fixed assets | |||||||||||
| Tangible assets | 13 | 184,820 | 214,142 | ||||||||
| Current assets | |||||||||||
| Cash at bank and | in | hand | 678,077 | 679,559 | |||||||
| Creditors: | amounts | falling due within | 14 | ||||||||
| one year | 47,603 | 39,431 | |||||||||
| Net current | assets | 630,474 | 640,128 | ||||||||
| Total assets less | current | liabilities | 815,294 | 854,270 | |||||||
| The funds | ofthe | Charity | |||||||||
| Restricted | income | funds | 16 | 232,260 | 273,174 | ||||||
| Unrestricted | funds | 583,034 | 581,096 | ||||||||
| 815,294 | 854,270 |
| Unrestricted | Unrestricted | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | |||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
| Donations | and | gifts | 200,489 | 241,123 |
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | funds | funds | |||||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | |||
| F | 8 | E | 6 | E | 6 | |||
| Charitable | activities | |||||||
| Children's | Activities | 29,403 | 29,403 | 19,564 | 19,564 | |||
| Family and | Parent | |||||||
| Counselling | 17,867 | 17,867 | 12,240 | 12,240 | ||||
| Parent Services | 2,151 | 2,151 | 2,135 | 2,135 | ||||
| Grants and | donations | 378,528 | 378,528 | 431,795 | 431,795 | |||
| 49,421 | 378,528 | 427,949 | 33,939 | 431,795 | 465,734 |
| Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
|---|---|
| funds | funds |
| 2023 | 2022 |
| 6 | F |
| 124,361 | 85,639 |
| Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
|---|---|
| funds | funds |
| 2023 | 2022 |
| 6 | 6 |
| 9,310 | 2,503 |
| Unrestricted | Unrestricted | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | ||||||
| 2023f | 2022 5 |
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| Fundraisin | and | ublicit | |||||
| Other fundraising | costs | 5,869 | 3,877 | ||||
| Support costs | 163,749 | 146,278 | |||||
| Fundraising | and publicity | 169,618 | 150,155 | ||||
| 169,618 | 150,155 | ||||||
| Expenditure | on charitable | activities | |||||
| Charitable | Charitable | ||||||
| activities | activities | ||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| 6 | 8 | ||||||
| Direct costs | |||||||
| Staff costs | 371,956 | 323,768 | |||||
| Children's | activities | 26,101 | 24,116 | ||||
| Parent services | 6,338 | 7,963 | |||||
| Counselling | 34,804 | 30,681 | |||||
| Technology | costs | 8,380 | 26,809 | ||||
| Premises costs | 28,323 | 30,716 | |||||
| 475,902 | 444,053 | ||||||
| Share ofsupport | and governance | costs (see note 9) | |||||
| Support | 155,565 | 202,507 | |||||
| 631,467 | 646,560 | ||||||
| Analysis by |
fund | ||||||
| Unrestricted | funds | 212,025 | 201,000 | ||||
| Restricted | funds | 419,442 | 445,560 | ||||
| 631,467 | 646,560 |
| Support costs | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| 6 | E | |
| Staff costs | 245,289 | 232,795 |
| Depreciation | 34,783 | 39,046 |
| Technology costs | 20,237 | 39,786 |
| Accountancy | 2,400 | 2,400 |
| Premise costs | 1,786 | 9,349 |
| Other support costs | 14,819 | 25,409 |
| 319,314 | 348,785 | |
| Analysed between |
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| Fundraising | 163,749 | 146,278 |
| Charitable activities |
155,565 | 202,507 |
| 319,314 | 348,785 |
| The average | monthly number of employees during th |
e year was: 22 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||
| Number | Number | ||
| 22 | 20 | ||
| Employment | costs | 2023 | 2022 |
| 6 | 6 | ||
| Wages and salaries | 551,058 | 447,115 | |
| Social security costs | 49,755 | 33,363 | |
| Other pension costs | 16,432 | 16,296 | |
| 617,245 | 556,563 |
| Leasehold | Fixtures and | Computers | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| land and | fittings | |||||||
| buildings | ||||||||
| 8 | ||||||||
| Cost | ||||||||
| At 1 January | 2023 | 381,961 | 217,454 | 162,880 | 762,295 | |||
| Additions | 5,460 | 5,460 | ||||||
| Disposals | (119,736) | (120,560) | (240,296) | |||||
| At 31 December 2023 | 381,961 | 97,718 | 47,780 | 527,459 | ||||
| Depreciation | and impairment | |||||||
| At 1 January | 2023 | 246,682 | 160,148 | 141,323 | 548,153 | |||
| Depreciation | charged | in the year | 15,915 | 8,306 | 10,561 | 34,782 | ||
| Eliminated in |
respect | ofdisposals | (119,736) | (120,560) | (240,296) | |||
| At 31 December 2023 | 262,597 | 48,718 | 31,324 | 342,639 | ||||
| Carrying amount |
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| At 31 December 2023 | 119,364 | 49,000 | 16,456 | 184,820 | ||||
| At 31 December 2022 | 135,279 | 57,306 | 21,557 | 214,142 | ||||
| 14 | Creditors: amounts | falling due within | one year | |||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
| Notes | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Other taxation | and social security | 13,795 | 11,019 | |||||
| Deferred income | 15 | 12,105 | ||||||
| Other creditors | 5,348 | |||||||
| Accruals | 21,703 | 23,064 | ||||||
| 47,603 | 39,431 | |||||||
| 15 | Deferred income | |||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
| 8 | 5 | |||||||
| Other deferred income |
12,105 |
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | ||||
| Deferred | income is | included within: |
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| Current | liabilities | 12,105 | ||
| Movements in the year: |
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| Deferred | income at | 1 January 2023 | ||
| Resources deferred | in the year | 12,105 | ||
| Deferred | income at | 31 December 2023 | 12,105 |
| At | 1 | January | Incoming | Resources | Transfers | At 31 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | resources | expended | December | |||||
| 2023 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | |||||||
| 273,174 | 378,528 | (419,442) | 232,260 | |||||
| Previous | year: | At | 1 | January 2022 |
Incoming resources |
Resources expended |
Transfers | At 31 December |
| 2022 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | 6 | f. | |||||
| 275,285 | 431,795 | (445,560) | 11,654 | 273,174 |
| At | 1 | January | Incoming | Resources | Transfers | At 31 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | resources | expended | December | |||||
| 2023 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | |||||||
| General | funds | 581,096 | 383,581 | (381,643) | 583,034 |
| Unrestricted | funds | (Continued) | ||||
| Previous year: | At 1January | Incoming | Resources | Transfers | At 31 | |
| 2022 | resources | expended | December | |||
| 2022 | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | 6 | F | |||
| General funds | 580,701 | 363,204 | (351,155) | (11,654) | 581,096 |
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| funds | funds | |||
| 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | ||
| 6 | 6 | 8 | ||
| Fund balances at 31 December 2023 are represented | by: | |||
| Tangible assets | 14,865 | 169,955 | 184,820 | |
| Current assets/(liabilities) | 568,169 | 62,305 | 630,474 | |
| 583,034 | 232,260 | 815,294 | ||
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | ||
| funds | funds | |||
| 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | ||
| 9 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Fund balances at 31 December 2022 are represented | by: | |||
| Tangible assets | 15,238 | 198,904 | 214,142 | |
| Current assets/(liabilities) | 565,858 | 74,270 | 640,128 | |
| 581,096 | 273,174 | 854,270 |