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|Plans|for future
eriods||||||||||
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|The following
operational
objectives have been agreed for the period 2021-2022:|||||||||||
|NHSE|S ecialised AAC Services||||||||||
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Ace Centre will ensure accuracy
in the capture||and reporting
of data relating to NHS activity||||||and use||
||this to inform on accurate forecasting
and evidencing||need and cost|for|the delivery of|||these and|other AAC||
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Ace Centre will ensure the waiting
list is compliant
with the requirements|||||within the service|||specification||
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NHS reporting
requirements
will be met for the||reporting
ofthe|Specialised|||AAC|Service Minimum|||
||Dataset, Aggregate
Contract Monitoring
and Patient||Level Datasets.||||||||
|Information
Resources and Marketin|||||||||||
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Ace Centre will upgrade|the Ace Centre website to accommodate|||the demands|||required
by|our||
||services.||||||||||
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Ace Centre will invest
in|the establishment
ofeffective marketing|||systems||to promote
all non-NHS||||
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Ace Centre will have an|agreed and understood|system for the|application|||of our identity across the||||
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All staff wdl recognise
individual
and collective||marketing
responsibilities|||and how to seek additional|||||
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when required.||||||||||
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To continue to promote|and negotiate
partnership
agreements||with schools and||||MATs across||England.|
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To continue
to promote|partnerships
by developing
appropriate||publicity||materials
including|||case||
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To support the marketing|opportunities
offered|by a 2022 Communication||||Works event for||the|north of|
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in partnership
with CENMAC.||||||||||
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Idenffy consultants
and|training
for delivery of|partnerships.||||||||
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Commissioners||||||||||
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To refine and agree LAACES Offer across both regions for 2021||||-2024.||||||
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To identify and engage
with potential
LAACES||area professionals||and commissioners
for 2021 - 2024.||||||
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To encourage
commissioners
of existing LAACES pilots to commit to partnership|||||||agreements||with Ace|
||Centre from 2021.||||||||||
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To support the delivery|oflocal AAC services through
the offer||of|training,||clinical supervision,||||
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joint assessments|and equipment
management.|||||||||
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|REPORT|REPORT|OF|THE TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 continued. ..|THE TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 continued. ..|THE TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 continued. ..|THE TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 continued. ..|THE TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 continued. ..|THE TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS
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eripda
continued|||||||
|Trainin||includin
online trainin|||||||
||~||To expand the 'Ace Centre Learning'
offer.||||||
||~||Tocreate instructional
and promotional
videos for|'Ace Centre|Learning'|||.|
||~||Establish processes and supporting
documentation|for developing||new||content within the|
||'Ace Centre Learning'
framework.||||||||
||~||Establish
admin
support for 'Ace Centre Learning'.||||||
||~||Involve the wider service delivery team
in the dehvery
of 'Ace||Centre Learning'.||||
|Office Administration|||||||||
|ITand|Internal||Comms||||||
||~||Consult on and implement
the best medium
for internal
communication.||||||
||~||Replacement
ofexisting
HR system.||||||
||~||Support the development
ofonline activities and web presence
including|||||training, sales and|
||social||media.||||||
||~||Undertake
feasibihty
study to appraise
options for|BESTreplacement.|||||
||~||Complete
infrastructure/system
for managing
and|applying
policies||and||procedures.|
|HR|||||||||
||~||Create staff induction
templates
specifically
related to roles.||||||
||~||Create process flow chart and procedural
instructions
for HR tasks.||||||
||~||Create a system
for automatically
alerting
renewal|dates for DBS,||Right||to Work and driving|
||document
checks.||||||||
|Einance|||||||||
||~||To establish
a working
group to develop financial|policy and procedures||||for all non-NHS|
||income generating
activity.||||||||
||~||To clarify VAT requirements
for all chargeable
Ace Centre services||||||
||~||To implement
systems
for monitoring
income and|expenditure|for all budget holders.||||
||~||To complete guidance
on financial systems for all|employees.|||||
||||To review and align all nominal codes to ensure these are fit-for-purpose||||||
||~||To investigate
the imphcations
of using Sage Pay|to enhance|financial||administration||
||efficiency.||||||||
|Policies|and Procedures||||||||
||~||Complete the publication
ofof all policies using 'GitBook' on Ace Central|||||Intranet|
||~||To have a comprehensive
suite ofpolixhes and related documents|||(eg||forms, schedules,|
||procedures etc.)that meet legal, contractual
and ethical|||requirements|to|deliver Ace Centre|||
||services.||||||||
||||Setup MS Workflows
using Power Automate to automate
the timely|||review of all policy and|||
||procedural
documentation.||||||||
||~||Establish a staff training
and development
schedule to ensure||all staff receive appropriate||||
||information
and training
on policies and procedures
relevant to their||||roles.||||
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income and expenditure
|account|): YEAR ENDE|D 31 MARCH|2021||||
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||||2021|||2020||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||Note|Funds|Funds|Funda|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|||K|5|K|6|6|K|
|INCOME||||||||
|Donations
and legacies|2|9,013||9,013|10,758||10,758|
|Chanfabla
activities:||||||||
|Service delivery|3|3,605,609||3,605,609|61,372|3,613,056|3,674,428|
|Other trading
activities:||||||||
|Fundraising
events||||||||
|Investment
income|5|46,902||46,902|30,335||30,335|
|Other|||||77||77|
|Total incoming resources||3,661,524||3,661,524|102,542|3,613,056|3,715,598|
|EXPENDITURE||||||||
|Raising funds|7|1,253||1,253|1,216||1,216|
|Chantable
activities:||||||||
|Service delivery|7|2,961,493||2,961,493|147,611|3,366,211|3,513,822|
|Governance|7|42,319||42,319|812|40,592|41,404|
|Total expenditure|7|3,005,065||3,005,065|149,639|3,406,803|3,556,442|
|Net incoming resources before
investment
gains/(losses)||656,459||656,459|(47,097I|206,253|159,156|
|Net gains)(losses)
on investments|13|425,238||425,238|(218,942)||(218,942)|
|Net income||1,081,697||1,081,697|(266,039)|206,253|(59,786)|
|Transfers
between funds|22||||206,253|(206,253)||
|Net movement
in funds||1,081,697||1,081,697|(59,786)||(59,786)|
|Reconciliation offunds||||||||
|Total funds brought
forward||3,027,989||3,027,989|3,087,775||3,087,775|
|Total funds carried forward|22|4,109,686||4,109,686|3,027,989||3,027,989|
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|||Note|2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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|FIXEDASSETS|||||
|Tangible assets||12|171,753|181,717|
|Investments||13|2,178,661|1,710,416|
|Total fixed assets|||2,350,414|1,892,133|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||
|Debtors||14|102,415|102,491|
|Cash at bank and|in hand|15|2,397,204|1,361,171|
|Total current assets|||2,499,619|1,463,662|
|LIABILITIES:|||||
|Creditors
falling due within one year||16|740,347|327,806|
|Net current assets|||1,759,272|1,135,856|
|Net assets||23|4,109,686|3,027,989|
|THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY|||||
|Restricted income|funds|22|||
|Unrestricted
funds:||22|4,109,686|3,027,989|
|Total charity funds||22|4,109,686|3,027,989|
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|THE ACE CENTRE-NORTH|THE ACE CENTRE-NORTH||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS:||YEAR|ENDED 31 MARCH 2021||||
|||||Note|2021|2020|
||||||E|E|
|Cash used
in operating
activities||||24|1,138,091|294,529|
|Cash flows from investing
activities|||||||
|Interest income|||||11,603|2,194|
|Dividend
income|||||35,299|28,141|
|Purchase oftangible fixed assets||||12|(105,953)|(85,204)|
|Purchase offixed asset investments||||13|(43,007)|(30,276)|
|Proceeds from fixed asset disposals||||||34|
|Cash provided
by (used in) investing||activities|||102,058|85,111)|
|Increase/(decrease)
in cash and cash||equivalents|||||
|in the year|||||1,036,033|209,418|
|Cash and cash equivalents
at the beginning|||ofthe year||1,361,171|1,151,753|
|Total cash and cash equivalents|at|the end ofthe year||15|2,397,204|1,361,171|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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E|2021
E|2021
6|2020f|
|2|Income from||donations|and le acies|||||
||Donations||||9,013||9,013|7,063|
||Legacies||||9,013||9,013|3,695
10,758|
|3|Income from||charitable|activities|||||
||Service delivery:||||||||
||Centre courses||||26,442||26,442|26,888|
||Engineering|services|||3,514||3,514|4,975|
||Recharged|activities|||159||159|759|
||Network days|||||||700|
||Assessments||||4,000||4,000|9,182|
||Consultancy||and audit work||3,674||3,674||
||Publications||||7,186||7,186|7,226|
||NHSincome||||3,529,625||3,529,625|3,613,056|
||Partnerships||(formerly service level agreements)||31,009||31,009|11,642|
||||||3,605,609||3,605,609|3,674,428|
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|35,299|35,299|28,141|
|46,902|46,902|30,335|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Charitable
activities||||
||||||a'v||||
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4te|Ee
O0|Total|Total|
||||||||2021f|2020f|
||Costs directly allocated to activities||||||||
||Payroll and associated||costs|1,070|1,306,270||1,307,340|1,171,300|
||Materials||||2,738||2,738|6,171|
||Advertising||||22,975||22,975|37,161|
||Motor expenses||||2,032||2,032|3,835|
||Travel and accomodation||||25,237||25,237|88,149|
||Equipment
for service||delivery||677,035||677,035|1,155,961|
||Consultancy||||8,917||8,917|36,719|
||Fundraising
costs|||183|||183|192|
||Bad debts||||(356)||(356)|2,091|
||Depredation||||61,372||61,372|68,020|
||Computer costs||||37389||37389|38563|
|||||1,253|2,143,609||2,144,862|2,608,162|
||Support costs||||||||
||Payroll and associated||costs||302,958|30,369|333,327|316,880|
||Staff training||||10,417||10,417|21,020|
||Personnel,
recruitment||and CRB||2,746||2,746|2,637|
||Rent and rates||||137,406||137,406|130,391|
||Insurance||||11,559||11,559|17,915|
||Light, heat and water||||9,378||9,378|13,915|
||Repairs and maintenance||||19,289||19,289|10,481|
||Printing,
stationery|and postage|||16,570||16,570|18,791|
||Subscriptions
and|journals|||8,167||8,167|7,351|
||Telephone||||5,340||5,340|4,547|
||Equipment
hire||||1,832||1,832|1,468|
||Audit|||||11,950|11,950|10,400|
||Accountancy||||2,000||2,000|1,900|
||Legal and professional||||22,056||22,056|29,146|
||Bank charges||||1,232||1,232|1,655|
||Sundries
and cleaning||||10,373||10,373|3,664|
||Irrecoverable
VAT||||199,073||199,073|295,666|
||Depredation||||48,445||48,445|55,405|
||Loss on fixed asset disposals|||||||763|
||Research and development||||4,889||4,889||
||Computer
costs||||4,154||4 154|4 285|
||||||817,884|42,319|860,203|948,280|
||Total resources|expended||1,253|2,961,493|42,319|3,005,065|3,556,442|
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|OT|ES TO T|HE FINANCIAL ST|ATE|MENTS:|Y|EAR EN|DE|D 31 MARCH 2021||
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|||||||||2020|2020|
|8|Staff costs||||||||6|
||Total staff emoluments
for||the year were as||follows:|||||
||Salaries|||||||1,250,286|1,128,912|
||National|Insurance||||||128,486|111,905|
||Pension|(see note 21)||||||261,895|247,363|
|||||||||1,640,667|1,488,180|
|9|Staff numbers|||||||||
||The average
number
offull-time|||equivalent|employees||and secondees|||
||during
the year were as follows.|||||||||
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||Charitable
activities:|||||||||
|||Service dehvery||||||33.0|318|
|||Governance||||||0.4|0.4|
||Raising|funds||||||||
|||||||||33.4|32.2|
||The number
ofemployees||whose|emoluments||amounted||to more than 660,000 in the year were:||
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||Between|660,000 and 670,000||||||||
|10|Net movement
in funds||||||
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||Net movement
in funds|is|arnved at after charging|/(crediting)|||
||Depreciation
oftangible|fixed assets|||109,817|123,425|
||(Profit)/loss
on disposal|of|fixed assets|||763|
||(Profit)/loss
on revaluation||offixed asset investments||(425,238)|218,942|
||Operating
lease rentals||||124,343|117,037|
||Auditors'
remuneration:||||||
||Audit||||11,950|10,400|
||Other services||||2,000|1,900|
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|||alterations||Fittings|Equipment|Equipment|Vehicles|Total|
||Cost||||||||
||At 1 Apdil 2020||85,138|119,471|110,145|482,638|12,528|809,920|
||Additions||5,153|4,397|12,512|83,891||105,953|
||Disposals|||||12,953||(12953)|
||At 31 March 2021||90,291|123,868|122,657|553,576|12,528|902,920|
||At 1 April 2020||58,460|73,207|83,424|404,549|8,563|628,203|
||Charge for the period||17,715|12,024|17,715|61,372|991|109,817|
||Disposals|||||(6,853)||6,853|
||At 31 March 2021||76,175|85,231|101,139|459,068|9,554|731,167|
||Net BookValue||||||||
||Ai 31 March 2021||14,116|38,637|21,518|94,508|2,974|171,753|
||At 31 March 2020||26,678|46,264|26,721|78,089|3,965|181,717|
|13|Fixed asset investments||||||||
||Movement
in fixed asset||investments:||||2021|2020|
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||Market value at 1 Apnl|2020|||||1,710,416|1,899,082|
||Additions
to investments||at cost||||43,007|30,276|
||Net gain/(loss)
on revaluation||||||||
||Market value at 31 March||2021||||2,178,661|1,710,416|
||Fixed asset investments||by type||||2021|2020|
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||UK equity funds||||||1,170,750|893,554|
||Overseas
equity funds||||||1,005,939|816,499|
||Total listed investments||||||2,176,689|1,710,053|
||Cash on interest
bearing||deposit||||1,972|363|
||||||||2,178,661|1,710,416|
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|14|Debtors and
re a|ments||||||
||Trade debtors|||||40,493|29,688|
||Childcare vouchers
overpaid||||||670|
||Prepayments
and accrued income|||||61,922|72,133|
|||||||102,415|102,491|
|15|Cash at bank and in|hand||||||
||Cash at bank|||||2,396,793|1,360,760|
||Cash in hand|||||411|411|
|||||||2,397,204|1,361,171|
|16|Creditors: amounts|fallin||due within one|ear|||
||Trade creditors|||||293,744|236,849|
||Value Added Tax|||||5,172|599|
||PAYE and
Nl|||||32,409|26,861|
||Pension contributions|||||35,046|29,497|
||Accru ala|||||52,039|27,949|
||Deferred
income|||||321,937|6,051|
|||||||740,347|327,806|
||Movements
on deferred||income account:|||||
||Brought forward|||||6,051|1,090|
||Released|||||(6,051)|(1,090)|
||Income deferred|||in current year||321,937|6,051|
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|Expiring|within|1 year|6,105|6,102|
|Expiring|within|2 - 5years|94,532|157,553|
|Expiring|after|5years|||
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|Resricted Funds:|||||||
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|Unrestricted|funds:||||||
|General fund||3,027,989|3,661,524|(3,005,065)|425,238|4,109,686|
|Total||3,027,989|3,661,524|(3,005,065)|425,238|4,109,686|
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|Anal sis of net assets between fund|s||||
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||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
||E|E|E|E|
|Tangible fixed assets|171,753|||171,753|
|Fixed asset investments|2,178,661|||2,178,661|
|Debtors|102,415|||102,415|
|Cash at bank and
in hand|2,397,204|||2,397,204|
|Creditors due within one year|(740,347|||(740,347)|
|Net assets 31 March 2021|4,109,686|||4,109,686|
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activi|
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|Net movement
in funds|||||||1,081,697|(59,786)|
|Add back depreciation|charge||||||109,817|123,425|
|Add back loss on fixed|asset disposal|||||||763|
|Add back assessment|equipment||transferred|||to clients|6,100||
|Add back (profit)/loss
on revaluation||||of investments|||(425,238)|218,942|
|Deduct interest income|shown|in|investing||activities||(11,603)|(2,194)|
|Deduct dividend
income shown||in investing||||activities|(35,299)|(28,141)|
|Decrease/(increase)
in|debtors||||||76|13,878|
|Increase/(decrease)
in|creditors||||||412,541|27,642|
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