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2022-03-31-accounts

Company number: 3890735 Charity Number: 1079291

Stockport Without Abuse Ltd Report and financial statements For the year ended 31 March 2022

Stockport Without Abuse Ltd

Reference and administrative information

for the year ended 31 March 2022

Company number 3890735 Charity number 1079291 Registered office and operational address Beehive Mill, Jersey Street, Manchester M4 6JG

Trustees Trustees, who are also directors under company law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report were as follows:

Janet Flynn Chair Susan Gledhill Deputy Chair Julie Isted Secretary Katherine Barker Treasurer Julia Bowden Lucy Eatough Lynda Dodd Sharon Mallon Resigned 22 June 2022 Alison Wales Resigned 25 August 2022 Ian Donegani Appointed 1 July 2021 Key management Stephanie Mallas Resigned 16 May 2022 Personnel Samantha Higginbottom Appointed 16 May 2022 Bankers Co-operative Bank 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP Independent Jennifer Daniel FCCA DChA, Slade & Cooper Limited examiner Beehive Mill, Jersey Street, Manchester M4 6JG

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Stockport Without Abuse Ltd

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The board of trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022. Included within the trustees’ report is the directors’ report as required by company law.

Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the memorandum and articles of association and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities: SORP applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102.

Objectives and activities

Stockport Without Abuse (SWA) believes that everyone has a right to live in safety and to have a future without fear of Domestic Abuse.

SWA’s overall aim is to provide support for our service users, through specialist interventions to facilitate their journey to safe independent living and to provide education, awareness and prevention services across the borough of Stockport.

The company’s objects and principal activities are:

Activities undertaken for public benefit in relation to objects

The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits the charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the trustees ensure the charity's aims, objectives and activities remained focused on its stated purposes.

The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity's aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.

SWA is the lead agency for domestic abuse safeguarding and support across Stockport delivering a range of responsive services to meet the complex and emerging needs of domestic abuse victims and their children.

The main objectives and activities continued to focus on the provision of needs-led specialist support services to victims and children across the spectrum of need, as we emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. Victims who experience domestic violence and abuse are from diverse backgrounds and with differing experiences of abuse and subsequently present with wide-ranging support needs. Core services at SWA provided holistic safety planning and support with an emphasis on complex

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safeguarding. Throughout 2021/22 SWA delivered a range of education, awareness and prevention services across various settings to support others to respond to domestic abuse.

2021/22 proved to be an exceptional year for challenges in terms of the emergence from a pandemic, the increase of complex and high risk presentations, and the increase in demand for services challenged by the national recruitment crisis and funding uncertainty.

2021/22 focused on the need to respond to the changing landscape of domestic abuse as we emerged from the pandemic, which delayed our initial objectives for the year. Throughout this period, SWA has also been grateful to receive new opportunities for innovation and best practice to expand service delivery in key areas and to re-design services whilst emerging from a pandemic, and whilst reintegrating face to face delivery.

Service Overview

Self-Contained Temporary Accommodation

Refuge:

Our refuge accommodation offers support and safety to single women and families, and can accommodate 9 families and 4 single women with some shared facilities to support victims and children fleeing from domestic abuse.

Dispersed property:

SWA has two dispersed properties (two-bedroom houses) in the community to provide additional safe and temporary accommodation for all victims fleeing from domestic abuse regardless of gender.

SWA benefitted from extended funding throughout 2021/22 to provide specialist mental health and specialist drug and alcohol support to residents in our accommodation services.

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council commission a complex safeguarding caseworker to provide enhanced risk management and safety planning to individuals fleeing abuse and residing within our accommodation.

Independent Domestic Violence Advisory (IDVA) Service

SWA continued to deliver the IDVA service, a complex safeguarding service commissioned by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. The IDVA team work as part of a multi-agency partnership to take the

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lead on safeguarding the most vulnerable and at-risk clients in Stockport, who have been deemed at risk of serious harm or homicide. The IDVAs are key partners in the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC), and work collaboratively with victims and partners to coordinate an Individualised Safety and Support Plan which includes the implementation of legal protective measures, safeguarding, housing, wellbeing and recovery.

Specialist IDVAs

SWA has been commissioned throughout 2021/22 to deliver a number of specialist IDVA posts including a Young Person’s IDVA (YPVA), a Hospital and Maternity IDVA and a GP IDVA. These posts provide a training and consultancy service to specialist areas, and provide support and advocacy to clients identified in those areas.

Complex DA Worker

Due to the complexity of domestic abuse across the period, SWA were successful in securing funding to provide a complex domestic abuse service to clients presenting with multiple disadvantages. The support delivered by the practitioner includes reducing barriers to access to services, unique, creative and proactive engagement methods and working towards a holistic support and safety plan to reduce repeated presentations and reducing the risk of escalation. This will include engaging with a range of multi-agency partners to build collaborative harm reduction support plan.

Positive Relationships Team

SWA’s early help intervention was delivered through a co-located partnership with The Prevention Alliance, commissioned through Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. The Positive Relationship caseworkers support standard and medium risk victims to reach their potential and recover from the impacts of domestic abuse.

Stand TALL (Tackling Abuse in Later Life)

Funding was secured from Lloyds Bank Foundation for three years in 2019 to develop a specialist service to address domestic abuse in later life, and to deliver specialist support, education and awareness raising across the borough, whist training professionals in the unique dynamics of later life abuse.

Health-Based Services

SWA has been honoured to have been funded to work on a number of health-based services throughout 2021/22. Our specialist health based IDVAs, including the Maternity and Hospital IDVA and the GP IDVA work to provide a dual offer of education and consultancy in health settings, and an IDVA support service to victims identified. SWA were also commissioned in 2021/22 to deliver a pilot programme alongside 4 other organisations in sexual health clinics. The IRIS ADViSE programme aims to deliver a dual offer of education in sexual health clinics and an advocacy service to victims identified.

Male Domestic Abuse Worker

SWA received funding from Greater Manchester Combined Authority throughout 2021/22 to deliver a dedicated Male Domestic Abuse Service. Previous funding had only allowed for part-time work in this area, however funding was increased to full time this year. The Male DA Worker works collaboratively with teams in Stockport to provide a bespoke service to male victims. Throughout 2021, the Male DA worker also worked alongside Survivors Manchester to enable a smooth referral pathway for survivors of sexual abuse who had experiences of domestic abuse to be referred through to a domestic abuse specialist.

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Children and Young People (CYP) Services

SWA continued to deliver a CYP Prevention service commissioned by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. This service focuses on working in school settings to provide workshops and group sessions. Me 2 Workshops are delivered to whole class groups in Key Stage 2 focusing on healthy relationships, feelings, managing emotions, exploring worries and feeling safe. Me 2 Group sessions are delivered to children who have identified experiences of domestic abuse. 8 sessions are delivered over 8 weeks to Key Stage 1 and key Stage 2 children, focusing on feelings, building resilience and protective factors, and creating safe spaces.

The Prevention worker also works with Stockport Council’s Sex and Relationships Education Team to codeliver the REACH programme across Stockport’s secondary schools. REACH is an 8 week programme to support young people to have greater awareness of sex a relationships, helping raise confidence and knowledge of support available. Safe spaces are created for young people to explore body image and self-esteem, healthy relationships, consent and the law, online safety and sexting, online pornography, contraception, STIs and where to seek help and support.

One to one support was delivered to children in refuge by the CYP Refuge caseworker. This service supports children in the refuge and dispersed properties through therapeutic activities and one to one support. The aim of this service is to help children to understand and manage their emotions, work through difficult feelings like guilt or shame and increase their sense of internal and external safety. This service also supports children to settle into a new environment and connect with their new school. Funding for this service previously was through Children in Need from April 2018 for three years and ceased at the end of April 2021, later being commissioned through the new Domestic Abuse Act funding.

Therapeutic Play Workers provided group therapeutic play sessions over evenings and weekends to support families to bond after their experiences, and support parents and children to work together. Sessions took place using a range of activities including managed crafts, activities, trips and excursions.

Art Therapy

SWA also benefitted from funding throughout the period to provide an art therapy programme for adults and children residing in refuge. This included visits to a local pottery studio, to allow victims and children to work together to create items they could keep.

Awareness Raising, Prevention and Social Policy

SWA is committed to raising awareness of domestic abuse for the public and professionals. The SWA Team actively participate in local and national campaigns to improve services for victims.

As an active member of Stockport Domestic Abuse Partnership Board and Stockport Domestic Abuse Operational Group, SWA contributes to the overall strategy and direction of integrated domestic abuse services in Stockport and across the wider Greater Manchester agenda.

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Achievements, performance and beneficiaries

SWA’s main activities and who it tries to help are described below. All its charitable activities focus on delivering our objectives and are undertaken to further SWA’s charitable purposes for the public benefit.

SWA continued to deliver services to victims and children across the spectrum of need and risk, and delivered specialist responsive services in a holistic and client-led way. SWA received support and funding from several bodies to enable services to adapt to the changing demands during the emergence from Covid-19, and to provide vital support to keep victims, children and staff are safe and supported. We have been extremely grateful to receive support from Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Lloyds Bank Foundation, Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group, The Leathersellers’ Foundation and The Garfield Weston Foundation.

Performance summary and overview data from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022

SWA received 1038 referrals in total across all services in the period which remains substantially higher than pre-pandemic statistics. Refuge referrals are only received when a vacancy is available, and 2021/22 saw increased difficulty in the availability in refuge space, due to the lack of availability of longer term accommodation.

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Total Referrals by month, year on year
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2021/22 2020/21 2019/20
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Throughout 2021/22, 686 clients engaged in enhanced support with our services, which is more than have ever been supported before. The complexity of trauma experienced by victims and complex presentations has increased the demand for services throughout the period.

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Victim Experiences
Threats to kill
Surveillance/ harassment online or…
Self-harmed as a way of coping
Physical injury requiring A&E…
Injury requiring GP visit
Harm to/ loss of unborn child
Feeling depressed / having suicidal thoughts
Attempted strangulation/suffocation
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
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Refuge and Dispersed Properties:

Referrals to refuge are received when a vacancy is available. 32 victims were referred and supported into SWA refuge accommodation during the period. However a further 36 direct requests for refuge space were received, which we could not accommodate due to availability. All victims moving into accommodation received ongoing risk management and individualised safety and support planning. Throughout this period it was noted that the ongoing impact of Covid-19 restrictions impacted on the availability of housing options to be able to move victims into their own safe accommodation, meaning refuge spaces were occupied for longer periods than expected.

Throughout 2021/22, SWA benefited from additional funding for specialist mental health and substance misuse caseworkers which was vital due to the complexity of presenting needs throughout the period.

The children’s worker worked with both children in the refuge and children in dispersed properties to support with creative activities to support their recovery from domestic abuse, improve their resilience and support their understanding of safety, emotions and socialisation.

Feedback from beneficiaries:

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IDVA support

832 high risk referrals were received throughout the period, higher than any previous period. The IDVAs worked with clients to implement enhanced safety and support planning, risk management and access to criminal and civil justice remedies to prevent further abuse. The IDVAs supported clients through various safeguarding processes to improve outcomes for themselves and their children.

The IDVA service saw high demand for the service throughout the period, weighed with lack of capacity and increasing presentation of complex needs, which proved challenging in supporting both the clients and the staff team.

Specialist IDVAs

The specialist IDVAs provided numerous sessions to wide ranging professionals throughout the period, including Stockport College students, Stockport Foundation Trust departments, GP surgeries, and social care teams. The specialist IDVAs have also supported victims identified across these sites, to ensure earlier intervention or management through high risk processes where required.

Feedback from beneficiaries:

CYP Services:

During the year SWA provided one to one support to children who had witnessed domestic abuse and violence on a one to one basis, these sessions took place in the community i.e. schools and also in the refuge. The programme offers structured interventions in how to manage difficult emotions and safety. The project also delivered age appropriate group and play sessions in the Refuge to facilitate transition, understanding and managing emotions and making friends through fun activities.

Over 50% of children in refuge were between 0-5 years in age, so early year’s targeted support was delivered with parents and children including focus on development and speech and language.

Due to the impact of Covid-19, additional funds were available for activities in Refuge including therapeutic play workers and art therapy.

CYP Prevention work began to reintegrate into schools after lockdown restrictions eased. Schools were offered a high quality, comprehensive group and workshop package running from September – July. If it was felt during the first group session that a child would benefit more from 1-1 support than group support, then this was offered where the worker had capacity.

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Me 2 Workshops:

930 children across the school year attended Me 2 workshop sessions with the prevention worker. Me2 Workshops are delivered to whole classrooms and are 2 x 1-hour sessions or 1 x 2-hour session for children in KS2 (years 3, 4, 5 and 6). The workshops do not specifically mention domestic abuse and explore: different families, good and bad feelings, how to deal with anger safely, how to recognize feeling unsafe and who can help when children are feeling worried or have a problem.

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Me 2 Workshop Outcomes
Percentage of children who said they
had a better understanding of where to
go for help
Percentage of children who said they
had more knowledge about feeling safe
and unsafe
Percentage of children who said they
had more knowledge about anger and
how to express it safely
Percentage of children who said they
had more knowledge of feelings
66% 68% 70% 72% 74% 76% 78% 80%
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Me 2 Workshop Outcomes
Percentage of professional’s who would
recommend the service
Percentage of professional’s who think
the sessions supported the learning
needs of the children
Percentage of professional’s who said
the service has benefitted the children
they work with
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120%
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Me 2 Groups:

68 children benefited from targeted, 8 week group sessions. Me2 Groups are 8 sessions spread over 8 weeks for children in KS1 (Reception, Year 1 and 2) and KS2 (Year 3, 4, 5 and 6) who have experienced any form of domestic abuse. Me2 provides children a safe space to explore their feelings and build resilience through creative activities, games and stories. The sessions explore: what domestic abuse is, how it can make children feel, who to talk to if they are worried, how to stay safe and will promote healthy relationships.

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REACH Programme:

52 children attended the 6 week REACH programme. REACH is a 6-week programme that helps young people understand sex and relationships, help them have confidence to speak up and where to seek support. Reach creates a safe space for young people to learn more about subjects such as: body positivity and self-esteem, healthy relationships versus unhealthy relationships, consent and the law, online safety and sexting, online pornography, contraception and STI’s and where to access support.

Feedback from beneficiaries:

Workshops:

‘My favourite thing was learning about my uh oh signs because I’ll know what to do if I feel that way’

‘My favourite bit was learning about feelings because you get feelings every day so you need to know how to express them’

‘My favourite bit was learning that families are unlike one another in different ways because its okay to be unlike’

‘I liked it when we did the helpful hand thing because it reminded me of people I could talk to and I liked the idea of it’

Groups:

‘Thank you for helping me to express my feelings’

‘My favourite bit was talking about stuff I wouldn’t do with others’

‘My favourite bit was the relaxing and how to deal with anger’

‘My favourite bit was working together’

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REACH:

STAND Tall:

The STAND Tall Older Person’s Domestic Abuse worker supported 70 clients of varying risk levels throughout the period, a 112% increase on the previous period.

A specific highlight was the acknowledgement the service received from Greater Manchester Police, who wrote to the Older person’s domestic abuse practitioner to recognise the importance of the service in securing the criminal prosecution of a high risk perpetrator of domestic abuse. The STAND TALL service was commended in this letter for the value of providing the support alongside assisting with an evidential process that can be more difficult to access for those in later life

The service has also been approached by a senior research and lecturer at Durham University in relation to this particular case, to ask for comment on the prominence of domestic abuse amongst older people, to further inform policy and practice nationwide. The service has continued to deliver training packages to both specialist and non-dva specialist professionals. The training sessions have continued to receive positive engagement and feedback. As a result, the Stand TALL service collaborated with SMBC to deliver a joint learning circle, exploring the unique experiences of older victims of domestic abuse. The session led to consultancy and discussion, resulting in the identification of victims of domestic abuse across the borough in need of support.

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Financial review

At the end of the review period, income was greater than expected for the period due to securing new projects to deliver niche services.

Annual income from charitable activities was £700,611 (2021: £908,931) which was lower than the previous period due to the discontinuation of critical Covid funding.

Income comprised net rental income from the Refuge of £193,446 (2021: £297,207), grant income to deliver complex safeguarding, early help intervention, GP IDVA and the new IRIS ADViSE service which began in Q4. A new Hospital IDVA project was agreed and implemented, and new funding sourced for the Male DA worker.

Costs were lower at £734,671 compared to £789,629 in 2021. Continued efficient management of refuge clients moving on, and the speedy acceptance of new referrals has enabled voids to remain low at 9%. Although this was slightly higher than the previous period, this was expected due to a planned room void for refurbishment.

The final year end position was a carried forward fund of £445,299 made up of £316,684 unrestricted funds and £128,615 restricted funds.

Reserves policy

The Board of Trustees has examined the charity requirement for reserves in the light of the main risks to the organisation and has established a policy that unrestricted funds not committed or invested in fixed assets, should cover a minimum of six months expenditure, due to an increased turnaround time on grant fund decision making, plus a redundancy provision, setting reserves requirement at around £154,000. As at 31 March 2022 unrestricted reserves was in excess of our reserves policy requirements.

Plans for the future

The focus for Stockport Without Abuse services is on enhancing the quality of our support services to bring about sustainable social change for victims of domestic abuse and wider community awareness of domestic abuse, particularly in light of the changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill in 2021.

We will continue to look for new funding streams to diversify funding sources in order to establish new and innovative services which are responsive to the emerging and changing needs of domestic abuse victims for example male victims, victims with complex needs and children, who are now recognised as victims in their own right through the Domestic Abuse Bill.

We will review the objectives of our Strategic Plan to reflect the focus of our work more clearly in order to better evidence the impact of our work. We will look to engage users of our services more in shaping our service offer and we will support our valued staff team in their work, recognising their incredible response throughout the COVID pandemic, and even more so with the challenges in the sector postcovid. On 01 April 2021, the full impact of the pandemic across the community, the domestic abuse sector, victims of domestic abuse, Stockport Without Abuse’s services and our staff team had begun to

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emerge, with the complexity of its impacts evident on the community and the resulting complexity of need within our services.

SWA will continue to diversify its reach across the borough and seek opportunities to develop its community team, to offer wider ranging training themes and support professionals across Stockport to identify and support victims to a high standard.

Structure, governance and management

The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 8 December 1999 and registered as a charity on 7 February 2000. The previously unincorporated charity was registered on 11 August 1975.

The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its articles of association.

Members of the charity guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charity in the event of winding up.

The trustees are members of the charity, but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in the charity.

All Trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits from the charity. No trustee expenses have been claimed during this reporting period.

The focus on performance quality has been enhanced with new processes and procedures being implemented across the organisation to ensure the best possible quality support to victims. Demand for services during the pandemic has been unprecedented and this has created an extraordinary pressure on staff service wide.

Stockport Without Abuse strives to deliver a robust domestic violence service to the community. The business and leadership model aims to allow a flexible, responsive, and innovative model of operation whereby funding streams are diversified and there is more than one grant source and service focus.

Related parties and relationships with other organizations

Stockport Without Abuse continues to be part of a commissioned formal partnership where partners work together towards collective goals and shared outcomes with a focus on prevention and delivering strength based interventions to standard and medium risk victims of domestic abuse.

We continue to strengthen relationships with other charities that hold shared values and pursue similar charitable objectives including Greater Manchester charities such as Manchester Survivors.

Remuneration policy for key management personnel

Key leadership and management personnel are remunerated in line with local benchmarks for similar roles with aligned responsibilities.

All job descriptions reflect the associated responsibilities that the post holder is likely to have and are graded with professional HR input.

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Trustee induction and training

The Board of Trustees seeks to ensure sufficient and appropriate representation of their members to fit with the aims and objectives of the organisation. The diversity of the trustee body is recognised as vital to its effective governance and the recruitment of potential Board of Trustee members is undertaken by targeting individuals with appropriate skills, experience and knowledge within the voluntary, statutory and private sectors.

A new Chair to the Board of Trustees was appointed in January 2021 and is bringing fresh expertise and experience to the Board from outside of the sector. Newly appointed Trustees undertake an initial induction programme. which fits in with their own time constraints, to complement their individual existing knowledge of the organisation. Trustees receive written guidance about their roles and responsibilities and are encouraged to attend periodic training to familiarise themselves with the charity and the arena in which it operates. These cover: -

Trustees are asked to commit to a minimum term in post of three years and to give three months’ notice when wishing to stand down.

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Organisational structure

Stockport Without Abuse has a Board of Trustees which can be up to fifteen (15) members who have overall legal and financial responsibility for the organisation. The strategic and operational management of the organisation is entrusted to the Chief Executive, supported by operational managers. A contracted qualified accountant oversees the financial management in conjunction with the Chief Executive and a Business Administrator/Book Keeper.

Board meetings are held regularly, chaired by the Chair of the Board and minutes recorded by the Board Secretary. The Chief Executive is in attendance at meetings; however, they do not have any voting rights.

To ensure the best use of board member’s time, enable more focussed discussion on future strategy and speed up decision making an Executive Group was formed consisting of the Chair, Deputy Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. This Group works with the Chief Executive to review strategy and policies as required and make recommendations to the full board.

Risk management

The Board of Trustees regularly reviews the risks faced by the organisation including the following four key areas:

Appropriate policies to manage risk are in place.

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Statement of responsibilities of the trustees

The trustees (who are also directors of Stockport Without Abuse Ltd for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies’ subject to the small companies’ regime of the Companies Act 2006.

The trustees’ annual report has been approved by the trustees on 28/11/2022 and signed on their behalf by

Jan Flynn

Chair, Stockport Without Abuse

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Independent examiner’s report

to the trustees of

Stockport Without Abuse

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the company for the year ended 31[st] March 2022 which are set out on pages 19 to 42.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the company (and also its directors 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 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company 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 company’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

Since the company’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, which is one of the listed bodies.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act 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

  4. the accounts 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 accounts to be reached.

Jennifer Daniel FCCA DChA

Slade & Cooper Limited Beehive Mill, Jersey Street Manchester, M4 6JG Date 15 December 2022

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Statement of Financial Activities

(including Income and Expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2022

Note
Unrestricted
funds
£
Income from:
Donations and legacies
3
21,685
Charitable activities:
Domestic Abuse
4
214,946
Investments
5
24
Total income
236,655
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities:
6
Domestic Abuse
273,242
Total expenditure
273,242
Net income/(expenditure) before
net gains/(losses) on investments
(36,587)
Net income/(expenditure) for the
year
8
(36,587)
Transfer between funds
(268)
Net movement in funds for the year
(36,855)
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
353,539
Total funds carried forward
316,684		 Restricted
funds
£
-
463,956
-
463,956
461,429
461,429
2,527
2,527
268
2,795
125,820
128,615		 Total funds
2022
£
21,685
678,902
24
700,611
734,671
734,671
(34,060)
(34,060)
-
(34,060)
479,359
445,299		 Total funds
2021
£
38,383
870,283
265
908,931
789,629
789,629
119,302
119,302
-
119,302
360,057
479,359

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

A full comparative Statement of Financial Activities is available on the last page of the financial statements.

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Balance sheet as at 31 March 2022

Note
2022
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
12
Total fixed assets
Current assets
Debtors
13
229,965
Cash at bank and in hand
14
549,336
Total current assets
779,301
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling
due in less than one year
15
(338,225)
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Net assets
The funds of the charity:
Restricted income funds
17
Unrestricted income funds
18
Total charity funds		 Note
2022
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
12
Total fixed assets
Current assets
Debtors
13
229,965
Cash at bank and in hand
14
549,336
Total current assets
779,301
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling
due in less than one year
15
(338,225)
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Net assets
The funds of the charity:
Restricted income funds
17
Unrestricted income funds
18
Total charity funds		 Note
2022
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
12
Total fixed assets
Current assets
Debtors
13
229,965
Cash at bank and in hand
14
549,336
Total current assets
779,301
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling
due in less than one year
15
(338,225)
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Net assets
The funds of the charity:
Restricted income funds
17
Unrestricted income funds
18
Total charity funds		 £
4,223
4,223
441,076
445,299
445,299
128,615
316,684
445,299		 2021
£
21,029
514,139		 2021
£
21,029
514,139		 £
4,654
4,654
474,705
779,301
(338,225)		 535,168
(60,463)
479,359
479,359
125,820
353,539
479,359

Total charity funds

For the year in question, the company was entitled to exemption from an audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

These accounts are prepared in accordance with the special provisions of part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies and in accordance with FRS102 SORP, and constitute the annual accounts required by the Companies Act 2006 and are for circulation to members of the company.

The notes on pages 21 to 42 form part of these accounts.

Approved by the trustees on 28/11/2022 and signed on their behalf by:

Jan Flynn (Chair)

Katharine Barker (Treasurer)

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Stockport Without Abuse Ltd

Statement of Cash Flows for the year ending 31 March 2022

Note
Cash provided by/(used in) operating activities
20
Cash flows from investing activities:
Dividends, interest, and rents from investments
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
Cash provided by/(used in) investing activities
Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash
equivalents in the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year
2022
£
36,668
24
(1,495)
(1,471)
35,197
514,139
549,336		 2021
£
130,043
265
(6,206)
(5,941)
124,102
390,037
514,139

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Stockport Without Abuse Ltd

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022

1 Accounting policies

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgments and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

a 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), second edition - October 2019 (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

Stockport Without Abuse Ltd meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note.

b Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern.

The trustees have made no key judgments which have a significant effect on the accounts.

The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.

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c Income

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Income from government and other grants, whether ‘capital’ grants or ‘revenue’ grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.

For legacies, entitlement is taken as the earlier of the date on which either: the charity is aware that probate has been granted, the estate has been finalised and notification has been made by the executor(s) to the charity that a distribution will be made, or when a distribution is received from the estate. Receipt of a legacy, in whole or in part, is only considered probable when the amount can be measured reliably and the charity has been notified of the executor’s intention to make a distribution. Where legacies have been notified to the charity, or the charity is aware of the granting of probate, and the criteria for income recognition have not been met, then the legacy is a treated as a contingent asset and disclosed if material.

Income received in advance of a provision of a specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.

d Donated services and facilities

Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charity has control over the item, any conditions associated with the donated item have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), general volunteer time is not recognised; refer to the trustees’ annual report for more information about their contribution.

On receipt, donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

e Interest receivable

Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the charity; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the Bank.

f Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of charity.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds of the charity which the trustees have decided at their discretion to set aside to use for a specific purpose.

Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the charity’s work or for specific projects being undertaken by the charity.

g Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

h Allocation of support costs

Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include back office costs, finance, personnel, payroll and governance costs which support the charity's programmes and activities. These costs have been allocated between cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities. The bases on which support costs have been allocated are set out in note 7.

i Operating leases

Operating leases are leases in which the title to the assets, and the risks and rewards of ownership, remain with the lessor. Rental charges are charged on a straight line basis over the term of the lease.

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

j Tangible fixed assets

Individual fixed assets costing £200 or more are capitalised at cost and are depreciated over their estimated useful economic lives on a straight line basis as follows:

Fixtures & fittings 4 years Office equipment 4 years

k 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.

l Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

m Creditors and provisions

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.

n Pensions

Employees of the charity are entitled to join a defined contribution ‘money purchase’ scheme. The charity’s contribution is restricted to the contributions disclosed in note 9. There were no outstanding contributions at the year end.

The money purchase plan is managed by Co-operative Insurance Society Limited and the plan invests the contributions made by the employee and employer in an investment fund to build up over the term of the plan a pension fund which is then converted into a pension upon the employee’s normal retirement year age when eligible for a state pension. The total expense ratio of the plan is 1% and this is deducted from the investment fund annually. The trust has no liability beyond making its contributions and paying across the deductions for the employee’s contributions.

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

2 Legal status of the charity

The charity is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales and has no share capital. In the event of the charity being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity. The registered office address is disclosed on page 1.

3 Income from donations and legacies

Current reporting period
Donations
Total
Previous reporting period
Donations
Legacies
Total		 Unrestricted
£
21,685
21,685
Unrestricted
£
30,428
5,650
36,078		 Restricted
£
-
-
Restricted
£
2,305
-
2,305		 Total 2022
£
21,685
21,685
Total 2021
£
32,733
5,650
38,383

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

4 Income from charitable activities

Current reporting period
Domestic Abuse - Refuge
Rents receivable
Voids
Subtotal
Domestic Abuse - Community Services
Stockport MBC
Complex Safeguarding
Early Help Intervention
Lloyds Foundation
Male Worker
GP IDVA
IRIS Advise
Garfield Weston
Leathersellers
CCG (Hospital IDVA)
Subtotal
Childrens work
CYP
Subtotal
Total		 Unrestricted
£
212,676
(19,230)
193,446
-
-
-
-
-
-
6,500
15,000
-
21,500
-
-
214,946		 Restricted
£
-
-
-
225,294
58,292
34,327
30,000
24,000
9,043
-
-
50,000
430,956
33,000
33,000
463,956		 Total 2022
£
212,676
(19,230)
193,446
225,294
58,292
34,327
30,000
24,000
9,043
6,500
15,000
50,000
452,456
33,000
33,000
678,902

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

4 Income from charitable activities (Continued)

Previous reporting period
Domestic Abuse - Refuge
Rents receivable
Voids
MHCLG-COVID Fund
Subtotal
Domestic Abuse - Community Services
Stockport MBC
Complex Safeguarding
Early Help Intervention
MHCLG Trauma-Informed Project (Multi Borough)
MoJ Local PCC
Lloyds Foundation
Homeless Link
Lankley Chase COVID 19
Male Worker
GP IDVA
GMCA MoJ
Ending Womens Homelessness
Stockport Local Fund
Equilibrium
Subtotal
Childrens work
Children in need
Subtotal
Total		 Unrestricted
£
213,482
(10,614)
-
202,868
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5,000
5,000
-
-
207,868		 Restricted
£
-
-
94,339
94,339
243,775
60,861
43,076
5,738
33,777
62,500
5,000
10,000
15,000
16,000
39,550
970
-
536,247
31,829
31,829
662,415		 Total 2021
£
213,482
(10,614)
94,339
297,207
243,775
60,861
43,076
5,738
33,777
62,500
5,000
10,000
15,000
16,000
39,550
970
5,000
541,247
31,829
31,829
870,283

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

5 Investment income

Current reporting period
Income from bank deposits
Previous reporting period
Income from bank deposits		 Unrestricted
£
24
24
Unrestricted
£
265
265		 Restricted
£
-
-
Restricted
£
-
-		 2022
£
24
24
2021
£
265
265

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

6 Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities

Current reporting period
Staff costs
Accommodation
Running costs
Depreciation
Bad debts
Governance costs (see
note 7)
Previous reporting period
Staff costs
Accommodation
Running costs
Depreciation
Bad debts
Governance costs (see
note 7)
Restricted expenditure
Unrestricted expenditure		 Refuge
£
130,117
83,389
16,000
1,925
3,786
6,248
241,465
Refuge
£
80,453
72,885
6,691
1,552
6,688
1,254
169,523		 Community
Services
£
422,471
27,555
14,312
-
-
3,737
468,075
Community
Services
£
463,556
85,793
32,876
-
-
9,422
591,647		 Childrens
Work
£
22,145
14
2,972
-
-
-
25,131
Childrens
Work
£
25,478
1,001
1,418
-
-
562
28,459
2022
£
461,429
273,242
734,671		 Total 2022
£
574,733
110,958
33,284
1,925
3,786
9,985
734,671
Total 2021
£
569,487
159,679
40,985
1,552
6,688
11,238
789,629
2021
£
645,490
144,139
789,629

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

7 Analysis of governance and support costs

Current reporting period
Basis of
apportionment
Independent examination
Governance
Accountancy fees
Management accountancy
Governance
Services
Governance
Payroll
Governance
Previous reporting period
Basis of
apportionment
Independent examination
Governance
Accountancy fees
Governance
Management accountancy
Services
Governance
Payroll
Governance		 Governance
£
900
1,320
6,048
1,717
9,985
Governance
£
900
1,800
6,451
2,087
11,238		 Total 2022
£
900
1,320
6,048
1,717
9,985
Total 2021
£
900
1,800
6,451
2,087
11,238

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

8 Net income/(expenditure) for the year

This is stated after charging/(crediting):

This is stated after charging/(crediting): 2022 2021
£ £
Depreciation 1,926 1,552
Operating lease rentals:
Property 65,933 71,371
Independent examiner (net of VAT)
Independent examination 750 750
Accountancy fees 1,100 1,500
Management accountancy Services 5,040 5,040
Payroll 1,431 1,654

9 Staff costs

Staff costs during the year were as follows:

ff costs during the year were as follows:
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs
Other Staff costs
Agency, recruitment, travel & training		 2022
£
487,145
34,976
15,818
2,453
34,341
574,733		 2021
£
499,715
35,949
14,563
3,266
15,994
569,487

No employees has employee benefits in excess of £60,000 (2021: Nil).

The average number of staff employed during the period was 24 (2021: 24).

The key management personnel of the charity comprise the trustees and the Chief Executive Officer. The total employee benefits of the key management personnel of the charity were £41,090. (2021: £37,101).

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10 Trustee remuneration and expenses, and related party transactions

Neither the management committee nor any persons connected with them received any remuneration or reimbursed expenses during the year (2021: Nil).

One (2021:No) member of the management committee received travel and subsistence expenses during the year of £66 (2021:£Nil).

Aggregate donations from related parties were £303 from a fundraising event by a Trustee during the period. (2021: £nil).

There are no donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.

No trustee or other person related to the charity had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity, including guarantees, during the year (2021: nil).

11 Corporation tax

The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within Chapter 3 of Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the charity.

12 Fixed assets: tangible assets

Cost
At 1 April 2021
Additions
At 31 March 2022
Depreciation
At 1 April 2021
Charge for the year
At 31 March 2022
Net book value
At 31 March 2022
At 31 March 2021		 Fixtures &
fittings
£
15,842
-
15,842
13,002
947
13,949
1,893
2,840		 Office
equipment
£
2,992
1,495
4,487
1,178
979
2,157
2,330
1,814		 Total
£
18,834
1,495
20,329
14,180
1,926
16,106
4,223
4,654

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

13
Debtors
Rents Receivable
Grants Receivable
Prepayments and accrued income
14
Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank and on hand
15
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Other creditors and accruals
Deferred income
Taxation and social security costs
16
Deferred income
Deferred grant brought forward
Grant received
Released to income from charitable activities
Deferred grant carried forward		 2022
£
10,001
205,674
14,290
229,965
2022
£
549,336
549,336
2022
£
13,506
13,113
302,681
8,925
338,225
2022
£
19,182
302,681
(19,182)
302,681		 2021
£
11,118
-
9,911
21,029
2021
£
514,139
514,139
2021
£
11,078
21,388
19,182
8,815
60,463
2021
£
31,050
19,182
(31,050)
19,182

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

17 Analysis of movements in restricted funds

Do
Domestic Abuse - Community Services
Complex
Safeguarding
Early Help
-
200,294
Intervention
-
58,292
APR Complex
Safeguarding
44,635
-
Mental Health and
Substance Misuse
support
44,328
25,000
Lloyds Foundation
18,554
34,327
Ending Womens
homelessness
(66)
-
GMCA MoJ
393
-
GP IDVA
-
24,000
Homeless link
3,873
-
Lankley Chase COVID
19
4,440
-
Stockport Local Fund
970
-
Male
Worker
798
30,000
Hospital and
Maternity IDVA
-
50,000
IRIS-AdVise
-
9,043
117,925
430,956
Children's work
Children in Need
3,590
-
CYP
-
33,000
3,590
33,000
Total
125,820
463,956
Current reporting
Balance at
period
1 April
2021
Income
£
£
mestic Abuse - Refuge
Mason Donations
2,000
-
Small Restricted
Donations
2,305
-
4,305
-		 (200,294)
(58,292)
(12,462)
(51,641)
(30,870)
-
-
(4,145)
(3,873)
(587)
(1,172)
(26,742)
(39,510)
(6,710)
(436,298)
(3,590)
(21,541)
(25,131)
(461,429)
Expenditure
£
-
-
-		 -
-
-
-
66
-
-
-
-
202
-
-
-
268
-
-
-
268
Transfers
£
-
-
-		 Balance at
31 March
2022
£
2,000
2,305
4,305
-
-
32,173
17,687
22,011
-
393
19,855
-
3,853
-
4,056
10,490
2,333
112,851
-
11,459
11,459
128,615

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

17 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (Continued)

Previous reporting
period
Domestic Abuse - Refuge
Mason Donations
Small Restricted
2,000
-
Donations
-
2,305
MHCLG-COVID
Fund
-
94,339
2,000
96,644
Domestic Abuse - Community Services
Complex
Safeguarding
Early Help
Intervention
APR Complex
-
243,775
-
60,861
Fund
-
970
Male Worker
-
10,000
104,371
536,247
Children's work
Children
in Need
-
31,829
CADA
219
-
-
31,829
Total
106,371
664,720
Balance at
1 April
2020
Income
£
£
Safeguarding
Mental Health and
46,435
-
Substance Misuse
16,576
43,076
MoJ Local PCC
-
5,738
Lloyds Foundation
15,139
33,777
Ending Womens
homelessness
26,221
39,550
GMCA MoJ
-
16,000
GP IDVA
-
15,000
Homeless link
-
62,500
Lankley Chase
COVID 19
-
5,000
Stockport Local		 -
-
(94,339)
(94,339)
(243,775)
(60,861)
-
(9,202)
(522,693)
(28,239)
(219)
(28,458)
(645,490)
Expenditure
£
(1,800)
(15,324)
(5,738)
(30,362)
(65,837)
(15,607)
(15,000)
(58,627)
(560)		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 2,000
2,305
-
Balance at
31 March
2021
£
4,305
-
-
44,635
44,328
-
18,554
(66)
393
-
3,873
4,440
970
798
117,925
3,590
-
3,590
125,820

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Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

17 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (Continued)

Name of restricted fund Description, nature and purposes of the fund

Complex Safeguarding Stockport Without Abuse is commissioned to deliver Stockport’s general Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVA) service through the Complex Safeguarding contract. The IDVA service takes a lead on safeguarding the most high risk vulnerable and at-risk victims, working collaboratively with the victims in safety planning, initiating legal processes in safeguarding, including court process etc. The IDVA teamwork in partnership with other statutory and non-statutory partners across Stockport and Greater Manchester and in particular with Stockport’s Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) and Complex Safeguarding Strategy Group. The IDVA posts were funded by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) through Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and Stockport Safety Partnership funds. The IDVA contract is for 3.5 full time IDVAs, which includes a small management element. The Complex Safeguarding Contract also includes a school based children and young people’s prevention worker and refuge caseworker supporting families in the refuge accommodation. A step-down worker is also contracted through this fund, who is located in a partner agency (Stockport Women’s Centre) Early Help Stockport Without Abuse also receives funding from SMBC to deliver Intervention support to standard and medium risk clients through the Positive Relationship Team, part of the Prevention Alliance. Two full-time equivalent caseworkers were working from locality offices across Stockport, but due to COVID this work became home based support. APR Complex Following a structure review of the Alliance for Positive Relationships Safeguarding (APR) contract, it was recommended to SMBC by an independent consultant to reconfigure the contract into two contract variations separating Early Help Intervention and Complex Safeguarding through a secondment agreement with the alliance partners. Mental Health and 12 month extension funding was secured to appoint dedicated mental Substance Misuse health and substance misuse workers to work with victims, through the support partnership bid of four other Greater Manchester Domestic Abuse organisations from the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). Due to the COVID pandemic recruitment was delayed and the project did not fully commence until the 2020/21 financial year with roll over funding then going into 2021/22.

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17 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (Continued)

Lloyds Foundation 3 year funding was secured to develop and deliver a dedicated service to address domestic abuse in later life. Stand TALL (Tackling Abuse in Later Life). The project delivers specialist 1:1 support through a structured programme and also awareness raising to professionals and community organisations. The specialist focus is unique across the Borough and across Greater Manchester. Ending Womens Funding was secured to continue the Trauma Informed work originally homelessness funded by MHCLG. The new 12 month fund enabled the service to continue to deliver specialist trauma focused interventions to victims with long term history of adversity, childhood trauma, complex needs and an accumulation of trauma plus training to professionals on trauma Informed practice, and the impact of trauma. GMCA MoJ This fund was part of the COVID response fund from the Ministry of Justice to support additional short term IDVA capacity to respond to the increase number of high risk referrals being made to the IDVA service for support. The fund ran until 31st March 2021. GP IDVA Funding was secured from SMBC to extend the GP IDVA post to bring this in line with the funding of the other specialist IDVA posts – Hospital and Maternity and Safe Choice YPVA Homeless link This funding was secured to respond to the COVID pandemic additional demand and was used to support a dedicated telephone helpline worker to respond to crisis calls, a move on housing worker to help identify appropriate move on accommodation options for refuge residents and also support refuge and emergency accommodation residents to move on. In addition this fund provided short term additional funding to the end of the financial year to support the Trauma Informed service. Lankley Chase COVID 19 Whilst this was restricted funds, there was flexibility to use this fund for COVID related expenses to support victims and their families for example with travel expense to get to the refuge or to move on to new property etc. Stockport Local Fund To provide welcome essential food packs to clients coming into refuge. Specific food packs for single women and for families which include milk, butter, bread, fresh fruit, tea and coffee etc. to enable anyone coming into emergency accommodation to have some essentials when they arrive to help settle them into the new environment. Male Worker This SMBC fund enabled a dedicated male domestic abuse victim worker to come into post for 6 months as a pilot project.

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17 Analysis of movements in restricted funds (Continued)

Hospital and Maternity
The Maternity and Hospital IDVA fund provided by NHS England, works to
IDVA provide a dual offer of education and consultancy in maternity and acute
hospital settings, and to provide an IDVA support service to victims
identified. The IDVA also works as part of a multi-agency partnership to
take the lead on safeguarding the most vulnerable and at-risk clients in
Stockport, who have been deemed at risk of serious harm or homicide.
The IDVAs are key partners in the Multi Agency Risk Assessment
Conference (MARAC), and work collaboratively with victims and partners
to coordinate an Individualised Safety and Support Plan which includes
the implementation of legal protective measures, safeguarding, housing,
wellbeing and recovery.
IRIS-ADViSE The ADViSE (Assessing for Domestic Violence and Abuse in Sexual Health
Environments) programme is a new pilot programme commissioned by
Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, supports sexual
health clinicians to identify and respond to patients affected by domestic
violence and abuse (DVA) and provides them with a simple referral
pathway to specialist services. Core areas of the programme include
ongoing training, education and consultancy for the sexual health team
and administrative staff, care pathways for sexual health care
practitioners and an enhanced referral pathway to specialist domestic
violence services for women with experience of DVA.
Children In Need This service enabled Stockport Without Abuse to support children in the
refuge and in the community through therapeutic activities and one to
one support. The aim of the service is to help children to understand and
manage their emotions, work through difficult feelings like guilt and
shame and increase their sense of internal and external safety. This
service also supports children to settle into a new environment and
connect with school.
Due to COVID, support was delivered remotely to children in the
community although work with children in the refuge continued
throughout the pandemic where this was possible. Funding was rolled
over to 2021/22 due to an underspend on activities and travel.
Due to COVID, support was delivered remotely to children in the
community although work with children in the refuge continued
throughout the pandemic where this was possible. Funding was rolled
over to 2021/22 due to an underspend on activities and travel.
CYP This service, funded by SMBC, supports children in the refuge and
dispersed properties through therapeutic activities and one to one
support. The aim of this service is to help children to understand and
manage their emotions, work through difficult feelings like guilt or shame
and increase their sense of internal and external safety. This service also
supports children to settle into a new environment and connect with their
new school.

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Stockport Without Abuse Ltd

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

18 Analysis of movement in unrestricted funds

Current reporting
period
General fund
Strategic Priorities
COVID 19
Previous reporting
period
General fund
Strategic Priorities
COVID 19		 Balance
at 1 April
2021
£
290,999
50,000
12,540
353,539
Balance
at 1 April
2020
£
243,467
10,000
-
253,467		 Income
£
236,655
-
-
236,655
Income
£
231,671
-
12,540
244,211		 Expenditure
£
(257,369)
(3,333)
(12,540)
(273,242)
Expenditure
£
(144,139)
-
-
(144,139)		 Transfers
£
(268)
-
-
(268)
Transfers
£
(40,000)
40,000
-
-		 As at 31
March 2022
£
270,017
46,667
-
316,684
As at 31
March
2021
£
290,999
50,000
12,540
353,539

Name of

unrestricted fund Description, nature and purposes of the fund

General fund The free reserves after allowing for all designated funds Strategic Priorities The purpose of this was to identify and support one off priority expenditure to support the development of services or projects agreed by the Board of Trustees. These included investment in an older persons project, for which funding was secured, investment in a men’s worker pilot, for which funding was also secured. A commitment to

refurbishment of the refuge accommodation and dispersed properties was also agreed. Due to securing external funding for the two priority project areas, the COVID pandemic, no expenditure has been put against this fund and was held over to the next financial year for the same purposes and to respond to any unexpected COVID requirements.

COVID 19

Unrestricted donations received in response to the COVID pandemic from a range of sources, enabling emergency purchases to be made including sanitisation products for the refuge residents, refuge staff and staff working from the office premises for example masks, wipes, face shields. Additional costs associated with printing resources and information for families and children during the restrictions for example cooking and baking equipment, games etc. The unrestricted funds are being used as needed as the impact of the pandemic and the restrictions continues.

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Stockport Without Abuse Ltd

Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022 (continued)

19 Analysis of net assets between funds

Current reporting period
Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets/(liabilities)
Total
Previous reporting period
Tangible fixed assets
Net current assets/(liabilities)
Total		 General
fund
£
4,223
265,794
270,017
General
fund
£
4,654
286,345
290,999		 Designated
funds
£
-
46,667
46,667
Designated
funds
£
-
62,540
62,540		 Restricted
funds
£
-
128,615
128,615
Restricted
funds
£
-
125,820
125,820		 Total
£
4,223
441,076
445,299
Total
£
4,654
474,705
479,359

20 Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities

Net income/(expenditure) for the year
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charge
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating		 2022
£
(34,060)
1,926
(24)
(208,936)
277,762
36,668		 2021
£
119,302
1,552
(265)
7,844
1,610
130,043

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Stockport Without Abuse Ltd

Statement of Financial Activities

(including Income and Expenditure account)

for the year ended 31 March 2021

Note
Unrestricted
funds
£
Income from:
Donations and legacies
3
36,078
Charitable activities:
4
Domestic Abuse
207,868
Investments
5
265
Total income
244,211
Expenditure on:
Charitable activities:
6
Domestic Abuse
144,139
Total expenditure
144,139
Net income/(expenditure) before
net gains/(losses) on investments
100,072
Net income/(expenditure) for the
year
8
100,072
Transfer between funds
-
Net movement in funds for the year
100,072
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
253,467
Total funds carried forward
353,539		 Restricted
funds
£
2,305
662,415
-
664,720
645,490
645,490
19,230
19,230
-
19,230
106,590
125,820		 Total funds
2021
£
38,383
870,283
265
908,931
789,629
789,629
119,302
119,302
-
119,302
360,057
479,359		 Total funds
2020
£
48,680
643,409
322
692,411
564,627
564,627
127,784
127,784
-
127,784
232,273
360,057

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

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