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|Report of|the Trustees IDirectors|3-9||
|Report of|the Auditors|10 - 12||
|Statement|of Financial Activities|13||
|Balance Sheet||14||
|Statement|of Cash Flows|15||
|Notes to the Financial Statements||16 - 26||





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|Reference and Administrative|Reference and Administrative|Reference and Administrative|Information|Information|||||
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|C~ib|||||1089313||||
||||||4268143||||
|Chairman:|||||PJWoolas||||
|CEO:|||||A Reeves||||
||||||A C Sever||||
||||||Hollinwood|Business Centre|||
||||||Albert Street||||
||||||Oldham||||
||||||OL8 3QL||||
|Auditors:|||||Wrigley<br>Partington||||
||||||Sterling House||||
||||||501 Middleton||Road||
||||||Chadderton||||
||||||Oldham||||
||||||OL9 9LY||||
|Bankers:|||||Royal Bank|of|Scotland||
||||||Drummond|House|||
||||||1 Redheughs|Avenue|||
||||||Edinburgh||||
||||||EH12 9JN||||
|Solicitors:|||||Wrigley Claydon||||
||||||29 - 33 Union Street||||
||||||Oldham||||
||||||OL1 1HH||||
||||||Rathbone<br>Brothers Pic||||
||||||8 Finsbury<br>Circus||||
||||||London||||
||||||EC2M 7AZ||||
|Trustees at date of this re||orb|||PJWoolas|(Chairman)|||
||||||L G Coop||||
||||||JJones||||
||||||R Oldham||||
||||||D Reay||||
||||||J Devlin||||
||||||S N Meredith||||
|Other trustees|who served|durin|the|ear|TWalter (resigned 21.09.22)||||
||||||M Ruane (resigned 22.06,22)||||
||||||C Sall (resigned||13.06.23)||
||||||A RWalker (resigned 13.07.23)||||
||||||M Littler (resigned 13.07.23)||||
||||||RW Gregory|(appointed||28.03.23|
||||||and||resigned|03.08.23)|





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|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestncted|Restricted|Total|
||||Note|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
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|INCOME||||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||2|4,086||4,086|11,892||11,892|
|Charitable<br>acfiviliesi||||||||||
|Service delivery|||3|4,274,338||4,274,338|3,593,258||3,593,258|
|Other trading<br>activities:||||||||||
|Fundraising|events|||||||||
|Investmenl<br>income|||5|94,348||94,348|66,164||66,164|
|Other|||5|5,041||5,041||||
|Total incoming<br>resources||||4,377,813||4,377,813|3,671,314||3,6'71,314|
|EXPENDITURE||||||||||
|Raising funds|||7|2,454||2,454|1,412||1,412|
|Chantable<br>activities:||||||||||
|Service delivery<br>Governance|||7<br>7|4,242,458<br>47,329||4,242,458<br>47,329|3,728,059<br>43,231||3,728,059<br>43,231|
|Total expenditure|||7|4,292,241||4,292,241|3,772,702||3,772,702|
|Net incoming resources||before||||||||
|investment<br>gains/(losses)||||85,572||85,572|(101,388)||(101,388)|
|Net gains/(losses)<br>on investments|||13|(272,371)||(272,371)|88,531||88,531|
|Net income/(expenditure)||||(186,799)||(186,799)|(12,857)||(12,857)|
|Transfers<br>between funds|||22|||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||(186,799)||(186,799)|(12,857)||(12,857)|
|Reconciliation offunds||||||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward||||4,096,829||4,096,829|4,109,686||4,109,686|
|Total funds carried forward|||22|3,910,030||3,910,030|4,096,829||4,096,829|





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|||Note|2023<br>6|2022f|
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|FIXEDASSETS|||||
|Tangible assets||12|126,168|138,690|
|Investments||13|3,342,167|3,526,879|
|Total fixed assets|||3,468,335|3,665,569|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||
|Debtors||14|544,049|95,271|
|Cash at bank and|in hand||266,864|727,938|
|Total current assets|||810,913|823,209|
|LIABILITIES:|||||
|Creditors<br>falling due within one year|||369,218|391,949|
|Net current assets|||441,695|431,260|
|Net assets||23|3,910,030|4,096,829|
|THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY|||||
|Restricted income|funds|22|||
|Unrestricted<br>funds:||22|3,910,030|4,096,829|
|Total charity funds||22|3,910,030|4,096,829|





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|Cash used in operating|activities|||||(402,946|(417,654|
|Cash flows from investing<br>activities||||||||
|Interest income||||||39||
|Dividend<br>income||||||94,309|66,164|
|Purchase<br>oftangible<br>fixed|assets||||12|(64,817)|(58,089)|
|Purchase<br>offixed asset investments|||||13|(87,659)|(1,259,687)|
|Proceeds from fixed asset|disposals|||||||
|Cash provided<br>by (used|in) investing||activities|||58,128|1,251,612|
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in cash and cash|||equivalents|||||
|in the year||||||(461,074)|(1,669,266)|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the beginning|||ofthe year||727,938|2,397,204|
|Total cash and cash equivalents||at the end ofthe year|||15|266,864|727,938|





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|2|Income from||donations|and le acies|||||
||Donations||||4,086||4,086|11,892|
||I egames||||||||
||||||4,086||4,086|11,892|
|3|Income from||charitable|activities|||||
||Service delivery:||||||||
||Centre courses||||31,214||31,214|33,123|
||Engineering|services|||1,000||1,000|2,772|
||Protects and||research||3,805||3,805||
||Assessments||||20,020||20,020|12,308|
||Consultancy|snd audit work|||3,846||3,846|210|
||Publications||||5,548||5,548|8,657|
||Products||||11,092||11,092|2,090|
||Voiceitt App|||||||24,458|
||NHSincome||||4,132,432||4,132,432|3,476,676|
||Partnerships||(formerly service level agreements)||65,381||65,381|32,964|
||||||4,274,338||4,274,338|3,593,258|
||Income from||other tradin|activities|||||
||Fundraising|events|||||||
|5|Investment|income|||||||
||Interest on listed investments||||39||39||
||Dividends<br>on||listed investments||94,309||94,309|66,164|
||||||94348||94348|66 164|
|6|Other income||||||||
||Student placements||||4,709||4,709||
||Other||||332||332||
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|7|Total resources ex ended|Total resources ex ended|Total resources ex ended|Total resources ex ended||||||
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||Costs directly allocated|||fo activities||||||
||Payroll and associated||costs||2,274|1,703,588||1,705,862|1,531,600|
||Materials|||||7,567||7,567|4,113|
||Ad vert i sf ng|||||4,265||4,265|52,559|
||Motor expenses|||||4,451||4,451|2,571|
||Travel and accomodation|||||94,693||94,693|79,602|
||Equipment<br>for service||delivery|||1,205,805||1,205,805|931,546|
||Consultancy|||||29,001||29,001|31,651|
||Fundraising<br>costs||||180|||180|213|
||Bad debts|||||||||
||Depreciation|||||58,367||58,367|56,314|
||Computer<br>costs|||||64,042||64,042|64,950|
||||||2,454|3,171,779||3,174233|2 755 119|
||Supportcosts|||||||||
||Payroll and associated||costs|||380,375|35,479|415,854|426,944|
||Staff training|||||29,1D9||29,1D9|12,599|
||Personnel,<br>recruitment||and CRB|||9,750||9,750|13,017|
||Rent and rates|||||147,631||147,631|141,518|
||Insurance|||||19,082||19,082|17,838|
||Light, heat and water|||||19,930||19,930|14,172|
||Repairs and maintenance|||||16,673||16,673|12,642|
||Printing,<br>stationery|and postage||||20,955||20,955|20,480|
||Subscriptions<br>and journals|||||24,710||24,710|21,539|
||Telephone|||||5,414||5,414|6,335|
||Equipment<br>hire|||||1,283||1,283|1,144|
||Audit||||||11,850|11,850|9,000|
||Accountancy|||||2,100||2,100|2,000|
||Legal and professional|||||10,452||10,452|13,473|
||Bank charges|||||3,758||3,758|3,777|
||Sundries<br>and cleaning|||||4,055||4,055|7,853|
||Irrecoverable<br>VAT|||||333,356||333,356|248,217|
||Depreciation|||||18,972||18,972|34,838|
||Loss on fixed asset disposals|||||||||
||External<br>projects|||||14,136||14,136||
||Research and development|||||1,822||1,822|2,980|
||Computer costs|||||7,116||7 116|7217|
|||||||1 070,679|47329|1,118,008|I 017,583|
||Total resources expended||||2,454|4,242,458|47,329|4,292,241|3,772,702|





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||Total staff emoluments|for the year were|||as|follows|||
||Salaries<br>National<br>Insurance<br>Pension (see note 21)||||||1,611,874<br>176,043<br>333,799|1,479,902<br>150,944<br>327,698|
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||The average<br>number of|full-time||equivalent|employees||and secondees||
||duding<br>the year were as|follows.|||||||
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||Charitable<br>activities:||||||||
||Service delivery||||||37.9|38.6|
||Governance||||||05|0.5|
||Raising funds||||||||
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||The number ofemployees||whose emoluments|||amounted|to more than F60,000 in the year were||
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|Depreciation<br>oftangible<br>fixed assets<br>(Profit)/loss<br>on revaluation<br>offixed asset investments<br>Operating<br>lease rentals<br>Auditors'<br>remuneration:|||77,339<br>(272,371)<br>133,983|91,152<br>(88,531)<br>123,176|
|Audit<br>Other services|||11,850<br>2,100|9,000<br>2,000|



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|alterations||Fittings|Equipment|Equipment|Vehicles|Total|
|Cost|||||||
|At 1 April 2022|90,291|125,596|131,815|600,779|12,528|961,009|
|Additions||525|1,594|62,698||64,817|
|Disposals|||||||
|At 31 March 2023|90,291|126,121|133,409|663,477|12,528|1,025,826|
|At 1 April 2022|83,789|95,217|117,634|515,382|10,297|822,319|
|Charge for the period|3,071|7,650|7,694|58,367|557|77,339|
|Disposals|||||||
|At 31 March 2023|86,860|102,867|125,328|573,749|10,854|899,658|
|Net BookValue|||||||
|At 31 March 2023|3,431|23,254|8,081|89,728|1,674|126,168|
|Al 31 March 2022|6,502|30,379|14,181|85,397|2,231|138,690|
|Fixed asset investments|||||||
|Movement<br>in fixed asset|investments:||||2023|2022|
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|Market value at 1 April 2022|||||3,526,879|2,178,661|
|Additions<br>to investments|at cost||||87,659|1,259,687|
|Net gain/(Iosp)<br>on revaluation||||||88,531|
|Market value at 31 March|2023||||3,342,167|3,526,879|
|Fixed asset investments|by type:||||2023|2022|
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|LIK equity funds|||||1,736,002|1,842,734|
|Overseas<br>equity funds|||||1,603,882|1,681,065|
|Total listed investments|||||3,339,884|3,523,799|
|Cash on interest bearing|deposit||||2,283|3,080|
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|14|Debtors|and|re a|ments||||||
||Trade debtors|||||||355,868|23,738|
||Prepayments||and accrued|||income||188,181|71,533|
|||||||||544,049|95,271|
|15|Cash at|bank|and in|hand||||||
||Cash at|bank||||||266,864|727,938|
||Cash in|hand||||||||
|||||||||266,864|727,938|
|16|Creditors: amounts|||fallin||due within one|ear|||
||Trade creditors|||||||244,800|150,174|
||Value Added Tax|||||||6,940|4,095|
||PAYE and<br>Nl|||||||||
||Pension|contributions||||||||
||Accruals|||||||62,705|56,373|
||Deferred|income||||||54,773|181,307|
|||||||||369,218|391,949|
||Movements<br>on||deferred||income account:|||||
|||Brought forward||||||181,307|321,937|
|||Released||||||(181,307)|(321,937)|
|||Income deferred||||in current year||54,773|181,307|
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|Expiring|within||1 year||38,476|
|Expiring|within||2 - 5years|606,512||
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|||1 April|Incoming|Resources|Investment|31 March|
|||2022|resources|expended|gains|2023|
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|Resricied Funds:|||||||
|Funds forrestricted purposes|||||||
|Unrestricted|funds:||||||
|General fund||4,096,829|4,377,813|(4,292,241)|(272,371)|3,910,030|
|Total||4,096,829|4,377,813|(4,292,241)|(272,371)|3,910,030|



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|||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
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|Tangible|fixed assets|126,168|||126,168|
|Fixed asset investments||3,342,167|||3,342,167|
|Debtors||544,049|||544,049|
|Cash at|bank and<br>in hand|266,864|||266,'864|
|Creditors|due within one year|(369,218)|||(369,218)|
|Net assets 31 March 2023||3,910,030|||3,910,030|





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|Net movement<br>m funds||||||||(186,799)|(12,857)|
|Add back depreciation||charge||||||77,339|91,152|
|Add back assessment||equipment||transferred|||to clients|||
|Add back (profit)/loss|on revaluation||||of investments|||272,371|(88,531)|
|Deduct interest income||shown|in|investing||activities||(39)||
|Deduct dividend<br>income shown|||in investing||||activities|(94,309)|(66,164)|
|Decrease/(increase)|in|debtors||||||(448,778)|7,144|
|Increase/(decrease)|in|creditors||||||~722, 731|~348,398|
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