## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/04/2020 Period start date To 31/03/2021 Period end date**
**Charity name: Integrating Children (known as Integrating)**
## **Charity registration number: 1090260**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The Charity's objects are:**
**1.**
**To promote the relief of the needs**
**of children and young people, particularly**
**those with disabilities, and their families**
**within County Durham and its environs,**
**by**
**encouraging**
**and**
**supporting**
**integrated play and access to mainstream**
**leisure services, with the object of**
**improving their conditions of life**
**2.**
**The provision of practical support**
**and advice to families and/or carers of**
**such children and young people.**
|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Integrating**
**Children**
**(operating**
**as**
**Integrating) works with over 100 disabled**
**children and young people, each year,**
**aged 6 to 25 years, largely in the Durham**
**City and Chester le Street areas.**
**The organisation - **
•
**Promotes the emotional and physical**
**wellbeing of children and young**
**people with disabilities. **
•
**Supports disabled children develop**
**the social skills and confidence to be**
**able to take part in leisure and**
**recreational**
**activities**
**in**
**their**
**community **
•
**Helps disabled children to experience**
**full and interesting lives through**
**taking part in enjoyable constructive**
**activities **
|
- **Assists disabled young adults to operate effectively and confidently in the community**
- **Helps disabled children to have fun and make friends.**
- **Provides advice and respite for families experiencing stress**
**This is achieved through arranging activities and supporting children and young people to take part in them. Our activities include:**
- **Swimming**
- **Music**
- **Digital Arts**
- **Football training**
- **Residential breaks**
- **Social clubs**
- **Trips out**
- **Gym club**
- **By involving disabled children in mainstream activities, we can help them to build key life skills such as confidence, friendships and being able to interact with others. This is particularly important as about half the children worked with have autistic spectrum conditions, which, by their nature, can create isolation unless children develop security through regular and familiar activity.**
**Integrating Children’s work also;**
- **Enables parents of children with disabilities to have regular respite to spend time with other family members and**
- **Provides the young people who volunteer and work with Integrating Children the chance to gain experience, which enhances their opportunities for work within caring professions. This has included Adult Social Care, Nursing, Social Work and Special Needs Education.**
Statement confirming Para 1.18 **The Trustees of Integrating Children have** whether the trustees have **reviewed and have regard to the guidance** had regard to the guidance **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit in the planning and** issued by the Charity **provision of services and in their** Commission on public **governance of the charity.** benefit
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|
Policy on grant making
|
Para 1.38|**Integrating Children does not make**
**grants**
**to**
**individuals**
**although**
**in**
**exceptional circumstances will support**
**involvement in activities through paying**
**or subsidising costs for families facing**
**difficulties. **
|
|
Policy on social investment
including program related
investment
|
Para 1.38|
**The organisation has no investments nor**
**policy in relation to this. Due to the size**
**of the organisation, it is highly unlikely**
**that this will apply. **
|
|
Contribution made by
volunteers
|
Para 1.38|**Integration Children values volunteers**
**and has a small but active group of**
**volunteers**
**at**
**all**
**levels**
**of**
**the**
**organisation, **
•
**Trustees**
**who**
**also**
**act**
**as**
**the**
**management**
**and**
**administrative**
**functions**
**of**
**the**
**charity**
**e.g.**
**fundraising, recruitment, managing**
**senior staff. **
•
**Volunteers who support staff in the**
**delivery of services **
•
**Local**
**volunteers**
**who**
**help**
**in**
**fundraising initiatives **
**Integrating**
**Children**
**believes**
**that**
**volunteering is a mutual exchange of**
**time and skills and will provide training,**
**support and tangible appreciation of**
**voluntary activity. **
**All volunteers who have contact with**
**children and young people or who have**
**access to sensitive information and**
**decisions are recruited, DBS checked**
**and inducted to a standard comparable**
**to that of the recruitment of staff.**
|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|
Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|
Para 1.20|**Attendance at Integrating has social**
**impacts, which are achieved through the**
**opportunity to engage with peer without**
**the presence of parents. This allows**
**children to increase their social skills and**
**make friendships on their own terms.**
**This has been expressed by children**
**when they speak with their Support**
**Workers throughout activities**
**who are seen to and value –**
*****
**Making**
**new**
**friends**
**and**
**developing social networks which are**
**important for developing their identity.**
*****
**Creating friendships which can**
**last**
**for**
**prolonged**
**periods.**
**Often**
**children with disabilities move in and out**
**of**
**services;**
**Integrating's**
**long-term**
**support allows lasting and high quality**
**friendships to be maintained.**
**Many of the young people recognise that**
**being involved in Integrating makes them**
**feel better about themselves. This can be**
**seen on occasions where young people**
**come to activities angry or frustrated**
**from something that has happened to**
**them at home or school. Through**
**engagement with support workers and**
**their friends this emotional stress soon**
**dissipates. Children have also told staff**
**that they enjoy being involved in**
**activities as independent people, away**
**from their parents and carers.**
**Parents**
**consistently**
**echo**
**their**
**children's thoughts and are particularly**
**appreciative of the opportunity for their**
**children to have fun and make friends.**
**These achievements have been achieved**
**through the hard work of Integrating’s**
**trustees, staff, volunteers, partners and**
**all the families who have played their part**
**in making the charity run safely and**
**enjoyably.**
|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set
|
Para 1.41
|
**From June 2021 (after the period of this**
**report) Integrasting began its transition**
**back to live activities which are hoped to**
**be fully operational by February 2022.**
**In addition, Integrating has developed**
**Inter-plus a daycare service for Young**
**adults who no longer attend education.**
|
|---|---|---|
|
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set
|
Para 1.41|
**Fundraising has been very positive**
**during this period with existing funders**
**appreciating**
**Integrating’s**
**efforts**
**to**
**continue support through web-based**
**provision and being flexible in their**
**funding.**
**Central Government furlough payments**
**have**
**also**
**helped**
**to**
**support**
**the**
**organisation.**
|
|
Investment performance
against objectives
|
Para 1.41|
**Not applicable**|
## **Financial Review**
||Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Integrating achieved income of:**
•
**Unrestricted £4043**
•
**Restricted £217097**
**Expenditure**
•
**Unrestricted £2842**
•
**Restricted £70792**
**Brought forward**
•
**Unrestricted £33153**
•
**Restricted £22410**
**Carried forward**
•
**Unrestricted £34354**
•
**Restricted £168715**
•
**Total £203069**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|
**Integrating holds a small reserve of**
**about £30,000 together with a dynamic**
**financial management policy, which**
**ensures there are sufficient funds to**
**ensure the organisation can operate for a**
**year on current grant / contract income.**
**Whilst the charity would like to develop a**
**reserve fund which would allow six**
**month’s operations the trustees do not**
**see there being a likelihood of being able**
**to accrue this level of reserves in the**
**foreseeable future. The charity has no**
**long-term liabilities and has been able to**
**operate on income from diverse sources**
**and payment dates for many years.**
|
|---|---|---|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£30,000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|
**Not applicable.**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not**
**applicable**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)
|
Para 1.47|
**Local authority contracts 59%**
**Independent trusts 20%**
**Local fundraising / donations 2%**
**Carryover from previous year 20%**
**This profile will dramatically change with the**
**ending of a local authority contract and the**
**return to local fundraising after lockdown.**
|
|---|---|---|
|
Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|
Para 1.46|
**Not applicable**|
|
A description of the principal
risks facingthe charity|
Para 1.46|
**a. Insufficient funds to maintain**
**organisation**|
- **Fundraising drives three times each year**
- • **Respond to all opportunities for funding**
## **b. Lose Full time posts**
- **Seek extension of funding**
## Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|Description of charity’s trusts:||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|
Para 1.25
|
**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
|Para 1.25|**Incorporated registered**
**charity**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|
**The constitution requires the**
**membership to elect the full board of**
**trustees at the AGM each year.**
**In reviewing the charity’s selection**
**methods it has been agreed that,**
**i.**
**The board will review the**
**groups strengths and needs**
**in February each year and**
**any potential vacancies.**
ii.
**ii. Publicly**
**advertise**
**and**
**recruit**
**for**
**appropriately**
**qualified**
**candidates.**
**iii.**
**Confirm any new trustees at**
**AGM by membership. **|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees
||
Para 1.51
||
**Integrating**
**provides a full induction to**
**all new trustees on appointment**
**based largely around Charity**
**Commission advice and the**
**constitution of the organisation.**
**Periodic refresher training is provided**
**for trustees in both their role and**
**operational matters such as**
**s**
**afeguarding and the needs of**
**children and young people with**
**disabilities.**
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Relationship with any
related parties
Other
|
Para 1.51
||
**Integrating does not have structural**
**links with other organisations but does**
**have relationships with:**
•
**Parents /**
**Carers**
**–**
**partnership**
•
**Local authority**
**–**
**contractual**
•
**Local organisations**
**–**
**delivery**
**partnership**
|||
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The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works Para 1.51
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Trustees
Chair
Administrator
Project Manager (30hrs)
(12hrs)
Music Operations Project Operations
Leader Coordinator Worker Coordinator
(sessional) (sessional) (30hrs) (sessional)
2 Team 2 Team
Leaders
Leaders
(sessional)
(sessional)
25 Sessional Support Workers / Volunteers
**----- End of picture text -----**
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|
**Integrating Children**
|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|
**Integrating Children and Young People**
|
|Registered charity number|
**1090260**
|
|Charity’s principal address|
**Bullion Hall**
**South Approach**
**Chester le Street**
**County Durham**
**DH2 2DW**
|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any) **|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Richard Taylor **|**Chair **||**Members**|
||**Sarah Warwick**|**Vice Chair **||**Members**|
||**Lynne Thompson **|**Treasurer **||**Members**|
||**Lucy Hinds **|**Secretary **||**Members**|
||**Julie Pattinson **|||**Members**|
||**Paul Archer**|||**Members**|
||**Elizabeth Burns**|||**Members**|
||**Lucy Hinds **|||**Members**|
||**Alison Laverick **|||**Members**|
||**Jayne Oliver**|||**Members**|
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved – **Not applicable**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity – **Not applicable**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity
|**Not**
**applicable**|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects
|**Not**
**applicable**|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets
|
**Not applicable**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **David Gaudie – Project Manager**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Richard William Taylor **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 11[th] January 2021
## **Integrating Children**
# **Financial Statements for the Period ended 31st March 2021**
## **Charity No: 1090260**
_**Community Accounting CIC Pinetree Centre DurhamRoad Birtley Co.Durham DH3 2TD**_
## **Integrating Children**
## **CONTENTS**
**Statement of Financial Activities**
**Balance Sheet**
**Notes to the Financial Statements**
## **Integrating Children**
## **Statement of Financial Activities (including Income & Expenditure Account) For the Year ended 31st March 2021**
|Unrestricted
Funds
2021
£
**Incoming Resources**
Fund Raising and Donations
4,043
Grants
Income generated from Activities
0
Interest Received
0
Other Income
0
**Total Incoming Resources**
4,043
**Resources Expended**
Direct Costs
Staffing Costs
0
Administration
2,842
**Total Resources Expended**
2,842
**Net Incoming Resources**
1,201
Transfer between Funds
0
Total Funds Brought Forward
33,153
Total Funds Carried Forward
34,354|Restricted
Funds
2021
£
215,707
1,390
217,097
6,217
59,094
5,481
70,792
146,305
0
22,410
168,715|Total
Funds
2021
£
4,043
215,707
1,390
0
0
221,140
6,217
59,094
8,323
73,634
147,506
55,563
203,069|Total
Funds
2020
£
9,744
151,492
10,821
0
0|
|---|---|---|---|
||||172,057|
||||29,300
122,338
13,926|
||||165,564|
||||6,493|
||||49,070|
||||55,563|
## **Integrating Children**
## **Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2021**
|**Fixed Assets**
Tangible Fixed Assets
**Current Assets**
Debtors
Cash at Bank and in Hand
**Less**
**Current Liabilities**
**(Payable within one year)**
Accruals
**Net Current Assets**
**Net Assets**
**Funded by**
Unrestricted Funds
General
Capital
Revenue
Restricted Funds
**Total Funds**
Approved
**Trustee**|**2021**
**£**
7,339
196,010
196,010
280
195,730
203,069
7,339
27,015
34,354
168,715
203,069|**2020**
**£**
10,151
45,662
45,662
250
45,412
55,563
10,451
22,702
33,153
22,410
55,563|**2020**
**£**
10,151
45,662
45,662
250
45,412
55,563
10,451
22,702
33,153
22,410
55,563|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||||55,563|
|||||
**Date 10th December 2021**
## **Integrating Children**
## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2021**
## **1) Accounting Policies**
The principal accounting policies are summarised below, The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the year and in the preceding year.
## **a) Basis of accounting**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities issued in March 2005.
## **b) Revenue Grants**
Gross amount received as recognised within incoming resources and corresponding expense is shown with outgoing resources
## **c)**
## **Taxation**
The charity is registered and exempt from taxation on its charitable activities
## **d) Fixed Assets**
Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of each asset over its expected useful life.
Music and Office Equipment 15% Straight Line Computer Equipment 15% Straight Line
## **Integrating Children**
## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2021**
## **2) Incoming Resources**
|**Unrestricted**
**Grants**
The National Lottery
National Grant
County Durham Community
Ballinger Trust
Greggs Trust
Jos Strong Fraser Trust
Durham County Council
0
**Income Generated from Activities**
**Unrestricted**
Holiday Activities
Other Activities
0|**Restricted**
28,684
0
0
7,912
15,000
1,000
163,111
215,707
**Restricted**
1,390
1,390|**Total**
**2021**
28,684
0
0
7,912
15,000
1,000
163,111
215,707
**Total**
**2021**
1,390
1,390|**Total**
**2020**
24,427
2,750
4,960
7,912
15,000
96,443|
|---|---|---|---|
||||151,492|
||||**Total**
**2020**
6,765
4,056|
||||10,821|
## **Integrating Children**
## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2021**
## **3)**
|**Resources Expended**
**Direct Costs**
Holiday Activities
Other Activities
**Staff Costs**
No employee earned more than £60,000 durin the year
Average no. of employees (including those in direct costs)
**Administration**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
Rent
930
Insurance
421
Postage
Sundries
30
4,130
Equipment
Depreciation
2,812
2,842
5,481|**2021**
6,217
6,217
59,094
5
**Total**
**2021**
930
421
0
4,160
0
2,812
8,323|**2020**
18,755
10,745|
|---|---|---|
|||29,500|
|||122,338
11
**Total**
**2020**
6,933
398
162
3,621
2,812|
|||13,926|
## **Integrating Children**
## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2021**
## **4) Trustees Remuneration and Related Party Transcations**
No member of the management committee received any remuneration during the year.
## **5)**
## **6)**
## **Tangible Fixed Assets**
|**Cost**
As at 1st April 2020
Additions
Disposals
As at 31st March 2021
**Depreciation**
As at 1st April 2020
Charge for Year
Elimated on Disposal
As at 31st March 2021
NBV as at 31st March 2021
NBV as at 31st March 2020
**Creditors**
Accounts|**Music &**
**Office**
**Equipment**
9,646
9,646
1,625
1,447
3,072
6,574
8,021|**Computer**
**Equipment**
9,099
9,099
6,969
1,365
8,334
765
2,130
**2021**
280
280|**Total**
18,745
0
0|
|---|---|---|---|
||||18,745|
||||8,594
2,812
0|
||||11,406|
||||7,339|
||||10,151|
||||**2020**
250|
||||250|
## **Integrating Children**
## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2021**
## **7) Analysis of Net Assets between Funds**
|Tangible Fixed Assets
Current Assets
Current Liabilities|General
Funds
7,339
27,295
(280)
34,354|Restricted
Funds
168,715
168,715|Total
7,339
196,010
(280)|
|---|---|---|---|
||||203,069|
## **8) Movement of Funds**
|**Movement of Funds**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|The National Lottery
Ballinger Trust
Greggs Trust
Durham County Council
Jos Strong Fraser Trust
Activities
**Total Restricted**
Unrestricted Funds
General Funds (Capital
General Funds (Revenue)
General Funds
Total Funds|**As at**
**1st April**
**2020**
9,750
1,977
8,750
1,933
22,410
10,451
22,702
33,153
55,563|**Incoming**
**Resources**
28,684
7,912
15,000
163,111
1,000
1,390
217,097
4,043
4,043
221,140|**Outgoing**
**Resources**
(9,750)
(3,989)
(11,250)
(45,803)
(70,792)
(2,812)
(30)
(2,842)
(73,634)|**Transfers**
0
(300)
300
0
0|**As at**
**31st March**
**2021**
28,684
5,900
12,500
117,308
1,000
3,323|
||||||168,715
0
0
7,339
27,015
0|
||||||34,354|
|||||||
||||||203,069|
Transfer of funds from Capital to Revenue represents the depreciation charge for the year
## _**Community Accounting North East CIC**_
Pinetree Centre, Durham Road, Birtley, Co.Durham,DH3 2TD Tel. No. 0191 4928232
Integrating Children Bullion Hall South Approach Chester - le - Street DH2 2DW
## **Independent Examiner’s Report**
I report on the accounts of Integrating Children for the Year ended 31[st] March 2021
## **Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner**
The trustees of the charity are responsible for the preparation of accounts; they consider that the audit requirement under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 does not apply. I have been appointed under the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the regulations made under section 145 of that Act. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts and statement, without performing an audit, and to report to the trustees.
## **Basis of Examiner’s Statement**
This report is in respect of an examination carried out in accordance with the directions given by the Charity Commissioners under the Act). An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity trustees and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes a review of the accounts and making such enquiries as are necessary for the purpose of this report. The procedures undertaken do not constitute an audit.
## **Examiner’s Statement**
Based on my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe, that in any material respect, accounting records have not been kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act 2011. or that the accounts presented do not accord with those records or comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
No matter has come to my attention in connection with my examination to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts.
Terry Atkinson Independent Examiner 21[st] October 2021
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