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|Trustees'|Annual|Report||1-14|
|Independent<br>Examiner's|||Report|15|
|Statement|of Financial Activities|||16|
|Balance Sheet|||||
|Notes to|Financial|Statements||18-29|





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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
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|Income from:||||||
|Donations<br>and grants||19,346|120,431|139,777|230,728|
|Charitable<br>activities||105,343||105,343|99,170|
|Investment<br>income||158||158||
|Total income||124,847|120,431|245,278|329,898|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||
|Raising Funds||14,319||14,319|9,714|
|Charitable<br>activities||106,469|150,981|257,450|331,791|
|Total expenditure||120,788|150,981|271,769|341,505|
|Net Income/(expenditure)||4,059|(30,550 ) (26,491)(11,607)|||
|Transfers|17|||||
|Net movements<br>in funds||4,059|( 30,550 ) ( 26,491) ( 11,607 )|||
|Reconciliation<br>offunds||||||
|Total funds brought forward||261,312|68,555|329,867|341,474|
|Total funds carried forward||265,371|38,005|303,376|329,867|





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|Balance Sheet<br>As at 31 Nlarch 202|3||||
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|Fixed assets<br>Tangible assets||13|423|633|
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|Current assets|||||
|Debtors<br>Cash at bank and in hand||14|47,013<br>267,935|'i9,804<br>341,616|
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|Liabilities|||||
|Creditors: amounts<br>within one year|falling due|15|( 11,995 )|( 32,186 )|
|Net current assets|||302,953|329,234|
|Total assets less total liabilities|||303,376|329,867|
|Funds|||||
|Restricted funds<br>Unrestricted<br>funds|||38,005<br>265,371|68,555<br>261,312|
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|Comparative|statement offinancial|activities|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|Income from:|||||||
|Donations|||52,163|178,565|230,728|210,586|
|Charitable<br>activities|||99,170||99,170|85,860|
|Investment<br>income||||||15|
|Total income|||151,333|178,565|329,898|296,461|
|Expenditure<br>on:<br>Raising Funds<br>Charitable<br>activities|||9,714<br>148,584|183,207|9,714<br>331,791|9,368<br>619,144|
|Total expenditure|||158,298|183,207|341,505|284,047|
|Net income before|transfers||(6,965 )|(4,642)|(11,607)|12,414|
|Transfers|17||(84)|84|||
|Net movements<br>in|funds||(7,049 )|(4,558 )|(11,607 )|12,414|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||
|Total funds brought|forward||268,361|73,113|341,474|329,060|
|Total funds carried forward|||261,312|68,555|329,867|341,474|





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||Donations|||||
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|.||||2023|2022|
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||Grants<br>Donations<br>Donated services and facilities|||127,413<br>1,114<br>11,250|216,332<br>3,146<br>11,250|
|||||139777|230728|
||Grants received, included|in the|above, are as follows:|||
||Arts Council England<br>NPO Funding<br>The Big Lottery Fund, Reaching<br>Communities<br>Arts Council England:<br>Film<br>Northumbria<br>Police<br>Gateshead<br>Council: Digital Fund<br>Erasmus<br>Grant<br>Esmee Fairbairn<br>Foundation<br>Alphabetti<br>Theatre<br>Northumbria<br>University<br>Community<br>Foundation<br>Newcastle<br>University<br>Stockton ARC<br>Gateshead<br>Council: Covid Support<br>Other|||62,120<br>57,500<br>7,793|62,120<br>65,000<br>8,261<br>10,000<br>8,356<br>6,144<br>30,000<br>2,000<br>2,350<br>6,500<br>3,000<br>1,000<br>11,601|
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|5.|Income from charitable|activities||2023|2022|
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||Provision<br>ofservices|||105,343|99,170|
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|6.|Investment<br>income|||||
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|7.|Analysis|of|expenditure||||||||
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||Expenditure||on raising voluntary||income||||14,319|9,174|
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|8.|Analysis|of|expenditure|charitable||activities|||||
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||||||||directly|costs|2023|2022|
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||Provision|of|services||||239,946|17,504|257,450|331,791|
||||||||239,946|17,504|257,450|331,791|
|9.|Support|&Governance||costs|||||||
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||Trustees'|board expenses etc|||||||818|352|
||Insurance||||||||5,064|4,778|
||Telephone||||||||6,328|6,600|
||Accountancy,||legal and professional|||fees|||5,084|5,040|
||Depreciation||||||||210|210|
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|10.|Net income/(expenditure)|||for|the|year|||||
||This is stated after charging:||||||||||
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||Depreciation||||||||210|210|
||Independent||examiners|fee|||||3,600|3,600|
||Rentals under operating|||leases|||||11,250|11,250|





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|Staff c|osts were as follows:|||
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|Wages|and salaries|131,229|140,830|
|Social|security costs|10,768|7,146|
|Other|pension costs|6,311|7,024|
|||148,308|155,000|



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|Management,<br>administration|8|fundraising|
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||At 1 April 2022|||103,506|7,001|24,239|134,746|
||At 31 March 2023|||103,506|7,001|24,239|134,746|
||Depreciation|||||||
||At 1 April 2022|||103,506|7,001|23,606|134,113|
||Charge for the|year||||210|210|
||At 31 March 2023|||103,506|7,001|23,816|134,323|
||Net book value|||||||
||At 31 March 2023|||||423|423|
||At 31 March 2022|||||633|633|
|14.|Debtors|||||||
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||Trade debtors|||||6,845|8,064|
||Prepayments|and accrued income||||31,290|9,403|
||Other debtors|||||8,878|2,337|
|||||||47,013|19,804|
|15.|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within|one year||||
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||Trade creditors|||||802|2,962|
||Accruals|||||11,193|28,150|
||Other creditors||||||1,074|
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|Year ended|31March|31March|2023||||||
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|||||2022<br>f|Income<br>f|Expenditure<br>f|Transfers<br>f|2023<br>f|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||166,326|124,847|( 120,788 )|94,986|265,371|
|Designated|funds||||||||
|Personalisation<br>agenda||||94,986|||( 94,986 )||
|Total unrestricted||funds||261,312|124,847|( 120,788 )||265,371|
|Restricted|funds||||||||
|Restricted|capital fund|||633||(210 )||423|
|Big Lottery|Reaching||Communities||57,500|( 57,500 )|||
|Arts Council: Catalyst||||39,944|62,120|( 68,620 )||33,444|
|Erasmus||||12,182||(12,182 )|||
|LCEP||||500||||500|
|Arts Council: Film||||302|811|||1,113|
|It's a Dead|Good Life|||2,525||||2,525|
|UNN<br>Film||||1,800||(1,800 )|||
|Digital Transformation|||Fund|8,356||(8,356 )|||
|DC Specific IB||||2,313||( 2,313 )|||
|||||68,555|120,431|( 150,981 )||38,005|
|Total||||329,867|245,278|( 271,769 )||303,376|





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|Unrestricted<br>funds||||174,948|70,969|( 79,507 )|( 84|)|166,326|
|Designated<br>funds||||||||||
|Personalisation<br>agenda||||93,413|80,364|( 78,791 )|||94,986|
|Total unrestricted|funds|||268,361|151,333|( 158,298 )|( 84 )||261,312|
|Restricted funds||||||||||
|Esmee Fairbairn||||825||(825 )||||
|TWEDP Included<br>Communities|||—Liberdade|22||(22 )||||
|CSDI||||18||(18)||||
|Restricted<br>capital fund||||759||(210 )|84||633|
|Big Lottery Reaching||Communities||1,396|65,000|( 66,396 )||||
|Ballinger Charitable|Trust|||3,554||(3,554 )||||
|Arts Council: Catalyst||||44,614||(4,670 )|||39,944|
|Peoples Postcode Lottery||||782||(782 )||||
|Erasmus<br>Fund||||12,182||||||
|LCEP||||500|||||500|
|Arts Council: Film||||8,346|10,326|( 18,370 )|||302|
|Northumbria<br>Police||||115|10,000|(10,115 )||||
|Arts Council: NPO|||||62,120|( 62,120 )||||
|It's a Dead Good Life|||||3,000|(475 )|||2,525|
|UNN Film|||||2,000|(200 )|||1,800|
|Digital Transformation||Fund|||8,356||||8,356|
|Alphabetti|||||2,000|(2,000 )||||
|Community<br>Foundation|||||6,500|(6,500 )||||
|DC Specific IB|||||9,263|(6,950 )|||2,313|
|||||73,113|178,565|( 183,207 )|84||68,555|
|Total||||341,474|329,898|( 341,505 )|||329,867|





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