**Registered Charity Number: 1079523**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024 FOR**
## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
**NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
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|---|---|---|
|Reference and Administrative Details||1|
|Report of the Trustees||2 - 5|
|Independent Examiners Report||6|
|Statement of Financial Activities||7|
|Balance Sheet||8|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||9 - 11|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities||12 – 13|
**NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
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**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
## **TRUSTEES**
M Goard S Waters D Baldock J Butcher T Newington
## **PRINCIPAL ADDRESS**
Northgate Ward Community Centre
Military Road Canterbury Kent CT1 1YX **REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER** 1079523 **COMMUNITY CENTRE & PROJECT MANAGER** A Bradley **PROPERTY TRUSTEES** M Goard A Fenyo
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**NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
The Trustees are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
Northgate Ward Development Group (NWDG) was founded in October 1991. It became a registered charity on 24 February 2000 under a newly constituted trust deed dated 26 January 2000, as amended on 9 September 2008.
A further updated amendment to the Constitution was approved in 2018 by the Charity Commissioners and can be accessed via Northgate Ward Development Group charity number 1079523 on the Charity commission web site.
Trustee Developments since last accounts: -
The Trustee Board meet four times a year to discuss and oversee the activities of the Charity and to hear the Finance Report and Centre Manager’s Report.
The Trustees are as follows: - Martin Goard continues as Chairman, Cllr. Jean Butcher as Vice Chairman, Sally Waters as Treasurer, Diane Baldock and Tony Newington.
The day-to-day operations of the charity are carried out from Northgate Community Centre by 3 full time staff and 5 part time paid staff plus other volunteer support.
The Trustees are currently working on overseeing Centre Management, services and activities as well as future projects which will be announced as and when they can be finalised.
## **Review of the objectives, activities, and achievements**
## **Objectives and Aims**
The objectives of the charity are to provide support and advice services as well as leisure activities to improve quality of life and general wellbeing of residents of the Northgate Ward, Canterbury. In setting our objectives and planning our activities the Trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.
**Products, services, and leisure activities** are run by NWDG from Northgate Ward Community Centre. The Centre is open Monday to Friday 9.00am to 3.00pm. In the evenings and week- ends - the Centre opens for group bookings and resident’s private events and parties.
Services that are offered include a monthly foot clinic, office services, photocopying, and internet access via free Wi-Fi, room and hall hire and badminton courts for bookings. Other Services include, a weekly health trainer funded by NHS and a fortnightly session by the Northgate Medical Practise Social Prescribers in the cafe and Kent County Council provides day opportunities for adults with learning difficulties.
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
The Help Desk which was well used - has temporarily closed due to lack of funding, but until new funding can be found the Centre staff are signposting people to other local alternatives. See Centre Website - www.northgatecommunitycentre.co.uk
Canterbury and District Early Years Project offering help and support for parents with young children run from Poet’s Corner building owned by NWDG and is rented to this local charity at a discounted rate.
The Café continues to be the focal point of the Community Centre. The café manager, one part time member of staff and one volunteer ensure there is always a warm welcome and the food is good too! On Tuesdays from November the café offers a warm space and free bowl of soup and the Residents Re-united Lunch Club meet for lunch and on Wednesday the Café provides a roast dinner; Mondays and Thursdays the café is just open for snacks and hot drinks: Friday is fish and chip day and refreshments for Ogopogo parents and children. The Café retains its five-star food hygiene rating.
Leisure activities include walking football, badminton, Little Kickers, a walking group, two art groups, two bingo sessions, mind games and Knits and Sews group who meet weekly and make things to sell to help raise funds for the Centre. They also offer a clothes and other material repair service for donations to the Centre.
Ogopogo Pedal Play for under 5-year-olds accompanied by a parent or guardian on a Friday morning has been running for over a year now and is hugely popular. With a dinosaur theme, the children have a variety of pedal toys, ball pits, bouncy castle, and many other games to enjoy. The toys were initially bought with fund raising money, but this has now been re-paid and the income from Ogopogo now goes towards providing services and activities, and future projects.
Fund raising events are put on through the year and have included quizzes; an AfternoonTea Dance with the Juke Box Sweethearts entertaining with a medley of songs, as well as other mini fund-raising events such as an Easter raffle. The main event this year was an Abba Tribute Night on 30[th] August which was very much enjoyed and the Café put on a Chilli con Carne meal for everyone who had bought a ticket. The Christmas Fair is on Saturday 7th December and is our main fundraising event of the year.
The full list of the Centre’s activities and services can be found on our web site – www.northgatewardcommunitycentre.com and in the ‘What’s On’ brochure available from the reception.
## **The Community Centre Building**
Owned by Canterbury City Council and rented to NWDG– the building’s exterior is maintained by them, with the interior being the responsibility of NWDG. Last year CCC carried out extensive renovation to the roof plus addressing the damp in the toilet blocks on the ground floor and giving the building new guttering and facia. This year with a large grant from Valencia Communities Fund- the hall had new air
source heating installed, a lowered ceiling with new LED Lighting and Acoustic tiles. This will reduce heating bills, lower carbon emissions and no more leaks!
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
The interior of the building and contents have constant maintenance jobs carried out throughout the year due to the amount of people using the facilities. The Trustees are always looking for funding to improve all the Centre’s facilities
**Membership -** Following some difficulties caused by the change of Ward boundaries – the Trustees decided to end the two-tier membership rates, and one rate is now in place. Membership must be renewed annually and indeed is a mandatory requirement to enable to play Bingo. Members receive two newsletters a year and the September issue has just gone out. Other benefits to being a member apart from helping the fundraising includes discounted hire rates of hall and rooms and ticket to events are offered for sale to members first. Membership is £6 per year.
## **Impact Analysis report**
An annual impact analysis of the centre’s usage is carried out every year and the final report will be available at the AGM.
## **Significant Achievements this accounts year include: -**
The new centre roof and funding found to put in new hall heating and lowered ceiling
The Centre is run by a very small staff backed up by volunteers who give an extraordinary amount of time- without which the Centre would be unable to continue operating. The management continue to operate prudent housekeeping, and this will ensure the Community Centre can keep operating during this difficult cost of living rise and into the future.
We are extremely proud that the Charity provides so many activities and services in the Community Centre, as well as offering a central venue for private bookings. In addition, the Charity collaborates with other local organisations and charities, as well as signposting residents to other help they can access in the Ward and Canterbury City.
The weekly Community Food Larder has been very successful and Morrisons have been providing most of the food over the past year. The Community Food Larder is open Tuesday mornings and offers one carrier bag of free food. The Food Bank also provides food stuffs from the Centre on a Monday and as already mentioned the Centre provides a Warm space and free bowl of soup also on a Tuesday. The Centre Manager is now working with Action on Poverty, Canterbury, to look to improve life more for residents during this difficult time.
The latest project which the management will be opening in the very near future is The Northgate Community Workshop with an initial grant provided by Kent County Councillor Alister Brady.
The Trustees wish to thank all the staff and volunteers for their continued hard work.
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
## **Risk Assessment**
The Trustee Board regularly risk assess all working practices, events and bookings etc., as well as ensuring that all certification on safety aspects of the Community Centre are up to date and reviewed on an annual basis; including emergency lighting, legionnaire water testing, PACs testing of all mobile electric appliances, heating, gas, fire alarms and extinguishers. Staff training in food hygiene, fire safety and first aid is also kept up to date according to recommendations. NWDG hold public liability insurance.
## **Statement of Disclosure of Information to Accountants**
We, the Trustees of the company who held office at the date of approval of these financial statements, as set out above, each confirm so far as we are aware, that:
- there is no relevant information of which the company’s independent examiners are unaware; and
- we have taken all the steps that we ought to have taken as Trustees in order to make ourselves aware of any relevant information and to establish that the charity’s accountants are aware of that information.
On behalf of the Trustees
M Goard Chair of the Board of Trustees 1.10.2024
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
This report is on the financial statements of the Trust for the period ended 31st March 2024.
## **Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner**
The Charity's Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
## It is my responsibility to:
Examine the accounts (under section 145 of the 2011 Act)
To follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charities Commission (under section 145(5) of the 2011 Act), and To state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiner's Report**
My Examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept
by the charity and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken
do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently
no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair' view and the report is limited to those matters set out below.
## **Independent Examiner's Statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: (i)which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
* To keep accounting records in accordance with Section 130 of the 2011 Act:
and
- To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Act
have not been met or
- (ii) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Mrs Patricia Heathfield Bookkeeping and Accountancy 2 Stonerocks Cottages, Hoath Road, Sturry, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 0JS
Date: 14[th] October 2024
**NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT** Page **GROUP** 7
**STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
|**Note**
**s**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**
**FROM**
Donations & Legacies
**Charitable**
**Activities**
Operation of Northgate Ward
Community
Centre
Grants Received
Fundraising
Investment Income
2
Total
**EXPENDITURE**
Raising Funds
**Charitable**
**Activities**
Operation of Northgate Ward
Community
Centre|**2024**
**2023**
**Unrestric**
**ted**
**Restric**
**ted**
**Total**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Fund**
**s**
**Fund**
**s**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
1685
0
1685
7690
139589
5000
1445
89
1108
05
0
68161
6816
1
4977
3
2843
0
2843
2854
262
0
262
79|
|---|---|
||144379
73161
2175
40
1712
01
835
0
835
222
162636
73161
2357
97
2036
01|
|Total
**NET INCOME/EXPENDITURE**
Transfers between funds
Net Movement in Funds
Total Funds Brought Forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
**NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT**
**GROUP**
**BALANCE SHEET**
**AS AT 31ST MARCH**
**2024**
**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible Assets
5
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Stocks
6
Debtors
7
Cash at Bank||163471
73161
2366
32
2038
23
-19092
0
-
1909
2
-
3262
2
0
0
0
0
-19092
0
-
1909
2
-
3262
2
410481
0
4104
81
4431
03
391389
0
3913
89
4104
81
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8
**2024**
**2023**
**Unrestri**
**cted**
**Restric**
**ted**
**Total**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Fund**
**s**
**Fund**
**s**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
308997
0
3089
97
3214
20
1200
0
1200
1355
8748
0
8748
7920
81663
0
8649
4
8649
4|
|---|---|---|
||||
||||
||||
|||91611
0
9161
1
9576
9|
|**CREDITORS**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Amounts falling due within one||||1065||
|year|8|10651|0|1|6708|
|**NET CURRENT**||||8096|8906|
|**ASSETS/LIABILITIES**||80960|0|0|1|
|**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**||||3899|4104|
|**LIABILITIES**||389957|0|57|81|
|||||3899|4104|
|**NET ASSETS**||389957|0|57|81|
|**FUNDS**||||||
|||||3899|4104|
|Unrestricted Funds||||57|81|
|Restricted Funds||||0|0|
|||||3899|4104|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**||||57|81|
The Financial Statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on____ **17.10.24____** _____________
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
## **1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Accounting convention**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, the Charities
Act 2011 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and
Reporting by Charities
## **Financial Reporting Standard Number 1**
Exemption has been taken from preparing a cash flow statement on the grounds that the charity qualifies as a small charity.
## **Incoming Resources**
All incoming resources are included on the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity
is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
## **Resources expended**
Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings
that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset overs
its estimated useful life.
Leasehold Property 2% Straight Line Improvements to Property 2% and 5% Straight Line Equipment 15% on reducing balance
## **Stocks**
Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow-moving items
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the Trustees
Restricted funds can only be used for particular purposes within the objects of the Charity.
Restrictions arise when specified by donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
All income and expenditure is shown in the Statement of Financial Activities
## 2 **INVESTMENT INCOME**
2024 2023 £ £ Deposit account interest 262 79
## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
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## **TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION**
## **3 AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended
31st March 2024 nor for the year ended 31st March 2023.
Trustees'
Expenses
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended
31st March 2024 nor for the year ended 31st March 2023.
## **4 STAFF COSTS**
|**2024**
**£**
Wages & Salaries
136229
Social Security
Costs
14992
Other Pension
Costs
1230
152451
The average monthly number of employees during the
year was:
**2024**
Centre Staf
8|**2023**
**£**
12246
7
9165
1185|
|---|---|
||13281
7|
||**2023**
8|
No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000
## **TANGIBLE FIXED 5 ASSETS**
|**TANGIBLE FIXED**
**ASSETS**|||
|---|---|---|
|**COST**
At 1 April 2023
Additions
At 31 March
2024
**DEPRECIATION**
At 1 April 2023
Charge for Year
At 31 March
2024
**NET BOOK**
**VALUE**
At 31 March|Leasehold
Impleme
nts
Plant &
Property
to
Property
Machine
ry
213126
254593
70693
0
0
0
213126
254593
70693
93773
68329
54890
4262
5790
2371
98035
74119
57261
115091
180474
13432|Total
53841
2
0|
|||53841
2|
|||21699
2
12423|
|||22941
5|
|||30899|
|2024
At 31 March
2023|119353
186254
15803|7|
|---|---|---|
|||32142
0|
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
## **6 STOCKS**
|2024
£
Stocks
1200
**7**
**DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN**
**ONE YEAR**
2024
£
Trade Debtors
3813
Other Debtors
4935
8748
**8**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE**
**WITHIN ONE YEAR**
2024
£
Taxation and Social Security
492
Other Creditors
10159
10651|2023
£
1355|
|---|---|
||2023
£
3212
4708|
||7920|
||2023
£
1552
5156|
||6708|
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**
**Donations & Legacies**
Donations
**Investment Income**
Deposit Account Interest
**Charitable Activities**
Grants
Room Hire
Café
Poets Corner Rent
Bingo
Membership
Employment Allowance
Ofce Services
Fundraising Income
Other Activities
Misc. Income
**Total Incoming Resources**|2024
£
1685
262
68161
85729
25268
16055
1443
773
5000
95
2843
5497
4729
21559
3
21754
0|2023
£
7690
79
49773
62974
20735
7008
6848
798
5000
23
2854
4999
2420|
|---|---|---|
|||16343
2|
||||
|||17120
1|
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## **NORTHGATE WARD DEVELOPMENT GROUP**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2024**
|**EXPENDITURE**
**Raising donations and legacies**
Fundraising expenses
**Charitable Activities**
Wages
Staf Training
Social Security
Pensions
Rates and Water
Insurance
Light and Heat
Telephone
Postage & Stationery
Rent
Repairs and Maintenance
Cleaning
Café Expenses
Licences
Legal Costs
Bookkeeping and Accountancy
Sundry Expenses
Activities Expenses
Depreciation
IT Software and Consumables
Bank Charges|2024
£
835
13622
9
737
14992
1230
2109
2328
19158
1929
1483
750
17127
3867
11201
554
1200
300
4391
2524
12423
328
937
23579|2023
£
222
12246
7
0
9165
1185
2295
2207
16509
1663
1241
380
7997
3124
11539
479
3909
430
2781
1804
12841
998
884|
|---|---|---|
|||20360|
|**Total Resources Expended**
**Net Expenditure/Income**|7
23663
2
-
19092|1|
|---|---|---|
|||20382
3|
|||-
32622|