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|Objectives and Activities|||4-7|
|Achievements<br>and Performance|||8-11|
|Financial<br>Review|||12|
|Plans for Future Periods and Post Balance Sheet Events||||
|Structure,<br>Governance<br>and Management|||13 - 15|
|Reference and Administrative<br>Information|||15-18|
|Independent<br>Examiner's<br>Report to the Trustees of<br>Special Needs and Parents<br>Limited|||19|
|Statement<br>of Financial<br>Activities|||20|
|Balance Sheet|||21|
|Notes to the Accounts|||22-31|





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|Michael|Michael|O' Connell|O' Connell||Retired solicitor and Notary Public.||
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|(Treasurer)|||||||
|Paula|Hills||||Founder ofa music therapy<br>charity for pre-school||
||||||children<br>with additional<br>needs<br>in 1993and is a founder||
||||||ofSNAP.<br>Paula previously<br>co-ordinated<br>the Essex||
||||||Forum for Support Groups/Organisations.<br>Paula's||
||||||second child Oliver has profound<br>and complex needs.||
|Suzanne||Davies|||An accountant,<br>previously<br>Suzanne<br>was a partner<br>at|a|
||||||firm of Certified<br>Accountants<br>and worked<br>with a wide||
||||||range of charitable<br>trusts and institutions.||
|Julia Gray|||||Worked<br>for the<br>last 4 years<br>as an<br>Office<br>Manager||
||||||supporting<br>families<br>for an Essex based Therapy<br>Centre||
||||||which specialises<br>in sensory OT. Previously<br>Julia was|a|
||||||full-time<br>mum with two sons; one ofwhom has additional||
||||||needs. Before having<br>her family, Julia worked<br>in the City||
||||||for over 20 years for several financial companies.||
|Paul Deller|||Ray||A Registered<br>Social Worker<br>with 30 years' experience||
||||||across<br>Children<br>and<br>Adults<br>Social Care,<br>both<br>in the||
||||||statutory<br>and voluntary<br>sectors.||
|Stuart||Hulbert||(Vice-|A Chartered<br>Insurance<br>Broker<br>and<br>Joint<br>Managing||
|Chair)|||||Director of a Chartered<br>Insurance<br>broking<br>firm based|in|
||||||Brentwood<br>that specialises<br>in advising<br>and<br>arranging||
||||||insurance<br>for the care and social welfare sector.||
|Richard||Bareham|||A Chartered<br>Management<br>Accountant<br>with 25 years|of|
||||||financial management<br>experience<br>within the commercial||
||||||and charity sectors.||
|Kate Scola|||||Works as an Economist at the Competition<br>and Markets||
||||||Authority<br>and has two sons.||
|Steve|Sawyer||||Worked<br>within the health,<br>social care and charity||
|(appointed|||12December||sectors for over 20 years at local, national<br>and||
|2023)|||||international<br>levels. Steve brings wide experience<br>of||
||||||organisational<br>development,<br>systems<br>and governance,||
||||||coupled<br>with a decade-long<br>personal<br>experience<br>ofthe||
||||||support<br>and services SNAP provides.||
|Vince|Wooding||||Vince retired<br>in 2022. As an experienced<br>business||
|(appointed|||12December||leader he built and led businesses<br>in the Financial||
|2023)|||||Services and Outsourcing<br>Industries.<br>During<br>his career||
||||||Vince has been a board member ofvarious<br>leading||
||||||companies<br>in UK, Australia<br>and Japan.||





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||funds|funds||funds|funds||
|||2023|2023|2023|2022|2022|2022|
||Notes|8|8|6|6|8|8|
|Income from:||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||200,489||200,489|241,123||241,123|
|Charitable<br>activities||49,421|378,528|427,949|33,939|431,795|465,734|
|Other trading<br>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<br>on:||||||||
|Raising funds|7|169,618||169,618|150,155||150,155|
|Charitable<br>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<br>between||||||||
|funds|||||(11,654)|11,654||
|Net movement<br>in||||||||
|funds||1,938|(40,914)|(38,976)|395|(2,111)|(1,716)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:||||||||
|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|





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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|
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||||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|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||||2023f|2022<br>5|
|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<br>by||fund||||||
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|---|---|---|
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|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<br>between|||
|Fundraising|163,749|146,278|
|Charitable<br>activities|155,565|202,507|
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|---|---|---|---|
|||2023|2022|
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|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|
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||||||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<br>in|respect|ofdisposals|||(119,736)|(120,560)|(240,296)|
||At 31 December 2023||||262,597|48,718|31,324|342,639|
||Carrying<br>amount||||||||
||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|
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|Current|liabilities||12,105||
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|Deferred|income at|1 January 2023|||
|Resources deferred||in the year|12,105||
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|||||273,174|378,528|(419,442)||232,260|
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|Previous year:||At 1January|Incoming|Resources|Transfers|At 31|
|||2022|resources|expended||December|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|||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|
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|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|
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