## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.04.23 Period start date To 31.03.24 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 social,**
**emotional, mental and physical**
**wellbeing of children, young**
**people and adults with**
**disabilities within Durham and**
**the surrounding area and**
**provide respite for their**
**families by supporting**
**members’ inclusivity in**
**mainstream leisure services.**
**2. To provide practical support**
**and advice to families and/or**
**carers for children, young**
**people and adults with**
**disabilities.**| |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 works with over 75**
**disabled children, young people and**
**adults aged 5 – 30 years, largely**
**within the Durham City and Chester-**
**le-Street area.**
**The organisation:**
• **Promotes the social,**
**emotional, mental and physical**
**wellbeing of children, young**
**people and adults with**
**disabilities.**
• **Supports disabled children,**
**young people and adults to**
**develop confidence, social**
**skills, positive relationships**
**and a support network within**
**their community.**| • **Helps members experience fulfilling and rewarding lives through the participation in safe, but fun and enjoyable activities.** • **Assists members to develop their independence to operate effectively and confidently within their community.** • **Enables members to make positive contributions to their community by engaging in skill development related to their interests and abilities and for some, contributing to the decision-making process within the organisation and developing their leadership skills.** • **Enables members to make friends and develop positive, meaningful relationships.** • **Helps families to feel supported to fulfil their caring responsibilities. This is achieved by supporting members to take part in the activities we arrange at their request. Our activities include:** • **Gym club** • **Visual Arts** • **Music** • **Football training** • **Sportability** • **Ten pin bowling** • **Virtual gaming** • **Swimming** • **Social Saturdays** • **Online social activities e.g. family bingo** • **Residential breaks** • **Day trips** • **‘InterThinkers’ Youth Forum** • **Adult outreach ‘Day Service’ for members 16 and older** • **Assessed Needs provision** • **Volunteer development programme** |||**By involving members in mainstream**
**activities, we can help them to build**
**essential life skills such as:**
• **self-confidence**
• **social skills**
• **the ability to engage with**
**others across different**
**situations**
• **a sense of purpose to combat**
**isolation and depression by**
**reducing the negative effect of**
**stress and/or anxiety**
**This is particularly important as at**
**least half of our members have**
**difficulties with social**
**communication and interaction, and**
**restricted interests which impacts**
**their ability to socialise and form**
**lasting friendships.**
**Integrating seeks to develop**
**emotional resilience and a support**
**network through access to fun, but**
**safe, structured, regular and familiar**
**activities.**
**In addition, Integrating:**
• **enables parents/carers to feel**
**supported in fulfilling their**
**caring responsibilities.**
• **provides short breaks for**
**families.**
• **provides staff volunteering**
**and working at Integrating**
**every opportunity to gain**
**experience for their future**
**careers e.g. Social Care,**
**Health Care, Social Work,**
**Educational Psychology and**
**Special Needs Education.**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have reviewed and**
**have regard to the guidance issued**
**by the Charity Commission on public**
**benefit in the planning and provision**
**of services and in their governance**
**of the charity.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Integrating does not make grants to**
**individuals although in exceptional**
**circumstances, will support**
**involvement in activities by paying or**
**subsidising costs for families facing**
**difficulties e.g. access to residential**
**opportunities.**| |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|**Integrating values volunteers and**
**has a small, but active, group of**
**volunteers at all levels of the**
**organisation:**
• **Trustees who have control**
**over the management and**
**administration of the charity**
**e.g. fundraising, recruitment**
**and managing senior staff**
• **Volunteers who support staff**
**in the delivery of services**
• **Local volunteers who help**
**with fundraising initiatives**
**Integrating believes that volunteering**
**is beneficial to individuals’ mental**
**and physical health; it is a mutual**
**exchange of time and skills.**
**Integrating provides training,**
**support and tangible appreciation of**
**any voluntary activity.**
**All volunteers who have contact with**
**Integrating members, or who have**
**access to sensitive information and**
**decisions taken, have been recruited,**
**DBS checked and inducted to a**
**standard comparable to that of the**
**recruitment of staff.**| |Other||| ## **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 activities**
**has a positive impact on the social**
**skills of members, achieved through**
**the many and varied opportunities to**
**engage with peers without the**
**presence of parents and/or carers.**
**This allows our members to develop**
**positive relationships, increase their**
**support network and make friends**
**on their own terms. This has been**
**freely expressed by members in**
**discussion with their support**
**workers on many occasions. Our**
**members value the fact the**
**Integrating:**
• **allows them to make new**
**friends and build positive**
**relationships which are**
**important for developing their**
**own identity.**
• **enables them to build lasting**
**friendships over prolonged**
**periods. Children and young**
**people with disabilities can**
**often move in and out of**
**services, but Integrating’s**
**long-term support allows**
**lasting and meaningful**
**friendships to be maintained.**
**Many of the young people recognise**
**that being involved with Integrating**
**simply makes them feel better about**
**themselves. This can be seen on**
**many occasions where young people**
**come to activities angry or frustrated**
**from something that has happened**
**to them at home or school. Through**
**engagement with familiar and trusted**
**support workers and with the help of**
**their friends, any stress and/or**
**feelings of negativity soon dissipate.**
**Members have also told staff that**
**they fully enjoy being independent,**
**taking part in activities away from**
**parents and carers.**| **Parents consistently echo our members’ thoughts and are particularly appreciative of the opportunities their children and young people have to engage in fun, safe and rewarding activities with their own friends, but without the worry that can come from being a parent, especially when entrusting their disabled child or youngster to another person’s care. Such success has been achieved through the continuous 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 in an enjoyable way.** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Integrating offers an adult outreach**
**service for over 16s who no longer**
**attend full-time education.**
**Integrating also offers a service to**
**referrals from partner agencies**
**based on individuals’ assessed**
**needs.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Fundraising has been very positive**
**with existing funders continuing to**
**support Integrating’s objectives.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Integrating achieved income of:**
• **Unrestricted: £3,550**
• **Restricted: £** **232,490**
**Expenditure**
• **Unrestricted: £3,748**
• **Restricted: £230,919**
**Brought forward**
• **Unrestricted: £38,655**
• **Restricted: £229,678**
**Carried forward**
• **Unrestricted: £38,457**
• **Restricted: £229,678**
• **Total £268,135**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Integrating holds a 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. However, the charity intends**
**to increase the reserve to £70,000.**
**The charity has no long-term**
**liabilities and has been able to**
**operate on an income from diverse**
**sources and payments 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)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**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 60%**
**Independent trusts**
**and other funders 35%**
**Local fundraising/donations 5%**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Not applicable**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**I.**
**Insufficient fund to maintain**
**the organisation**
• **Fundraising drives at**
**least three times each**
**year**
• **Pursue all opportunities**
**for funding**
**II.**
**Lose full time posts**
• **Seek extension of**
**funding**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|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**
**group’s strengths and needs**
**in February each year and any**
**potential vacancies**
**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 the 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 safeguarding and the needs of children**
**and young people with disabilities.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s
organisational
structure and any
wider network with
which the charity
works|Para 1.51|**Integrating does not have structural links with**
**other organisations but does have**
**relationships with:**
• **Parents/carers – in partnership**
• **Local authority – contractual**
• **Local organisations – delivery**
**partnership**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| **----- Start of picture text -----**
The charity’s organisational structure
Other
**----- End of picture text -----**
## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Integrating| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Integrating Children and Young People (previous name)| |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
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Richard Taylor|Chair||Members| ||Sarah Warwick|Vice-Chair||Members| ||Michael McGlone|Treasurer||Members| ||Paul Archer|||Members| ||Elizabeth Burns|||Members| ||Lynne Clark|||Members| ||Benedict
Corrigan|||Members| ||Kimberley
Handley|||Members| ||LucyHinds|||Members| ||Michael McGlone|||Members| ||Jayne Oliver|||Members| ||Alison White|||Members| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved > **Director name** Not applicable Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| ||Not applicable|| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** > Description of the assets Not applicable held in this capacity > Name and objects of the Not applicable charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects > Details of arrangements for Not applicable safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** David Gaudie- Project Manager Ben Taylor – Assistant Project Manager Kathryn Gaudie-Jones – Business manager ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **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 ~~OO~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair ~~a~~ **Date** 13th December 2024 ~~Pp~~ ## **Integrating Children** # **Financial Statements for the Period ended 31st March 2024** **Charity No: 1090260** _**Community Accounting CIC**_ ## **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 2024** |Unrestricted
Funds
2024
£
**Incoming Resources**
Fund Raising and Donations
8,567
Grants
Income generated from Activities
71,252
Interest Received
0
Other Income
0
**Total Incoming Resources**
79,819
**Resources Expended**
Direct Costs
Staffing Costs
53,670
Administration
25,536
**Total Resources Expended**
79,206
**Net Incoming Resources**
613
Transfer between Funds
0
Total Funds Brought Forward
38,457
Total Funds Carried Forward
39,070|Restricted
Funds
2024
£
192,540
30,011
222,551
75,877
146,674
222,551
0
0
229,678
229,678|Total
Funds
2024
£
8,567
192,540
101,263
0
0
302,370
75,877
200,344
25,536
301,757
613
268,135
268,748|Total
Funds
2023
£
3,550
204,784
27,706
0
0| |---|---|---|---| ||||236,040| ||||49,254
169,298
18,927| ||||237,479| ||||(1,439)| ||||269,574| ||||268,135| ## **Integrating Children** ## **Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2024** |||||**2024**||**2023**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**£**||**£**| |**Fixed Assets**||||||| |Tangible Fixed Assets||||2,234||3,681| |**Current Assets**||||||| |Debtors||||||| |Cash at Bank and in Hand|||266,764||264,703|| ||||266,764||264,703|| |**Less**||||||| |**Current Liabilities**||||||| |**(Payable within one year)**||||||| |Accruals|||250||250|| |**Net Current Assets**||||266,514||264,453| |**Net Assets**||||268,748||268,134| |**Funded by**||||||| |Unrestricted Funds|General|Capital|2,234||3,681|| |||Revenue|36,836|39,070|34,776|38,457| |Restricted Funds||||229,678||229,678| |**Total Funds**||||268,748||268,135| |Approved||||||| |Richard Taylor, Chair||||||| |**Date**6th July 2024.||||||| ## **Integrating Children** ## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2024** ## **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 2024** ## **2) Incoming Resources** |**Grants**
**Unrestricted**
Big Lottery Mains Grant
GMBC
Ballinger Trust
Big Lottery Community Fund
Greggs Trust
Joseph Strong
Durham and Dundee Special Needs
Karbon Homes
Sports Foundation
Durham County Council
0
**Income Generated from Activities**
**Unrestricted**
Holiday Activities
Other Activities
Day Service Users
71,252
71,252|**Restricted**
16,583
31,287
25,000
20,000
1,000
27,733
846
500
69,591
192,540
**Restricted**
15,880
14,131
30,011|**Total**
**2024**
16,583
31,287
25,000
0
20,000
1,000
27,733
846
500
69,591
192,540
**Total**
**2,024**
15,880
14,131
71,252
101,263|**Total**
**2023**
33,166
46,480
8,000
6,424
20,000
1,000
40,588
49,126| |---|---|---|---| ||||204,784| ||||**Total**
**2023**
27,706| ||||27,706| ## **Integrating Children** ## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2024** ## **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
14,400
Insurance
404
Postage
Sundries
2,579
Equipment
6,706
Depreciation
1,447
25,536
0|**2024**
5,418
70,459
75,877
200,344
10
**Total**
**2024**
14,400
404
2,579
6,706
1,447
25,536|**2023**
3,795
45,459| |---|---|---| |||49,254| |||169,298
9
**Total**
**2023**
11,304
404
1,928
3,846
1,447| |||18,929| ## **Integrating Children** ## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2024** ## **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 2023
Additions
Disposals
As at 31st March 2024
**Depreciation**
As at 1st April 2023
Charge for Year
Elimated on Disposal
As at 31st March 2024
NBV as at 31st March 2024
NBV as at 31st March 2023
**Creditors**
Accounts|**Music &**
**Office**
**Equipment**
9,646
9,646
5,966
1,447
7,413
2,233
3,680|**Computer**
**Equipment**
9,099
9,099
9,098
9,098
1
1
**2024**
250
250|**Total**
18,745
0
0| |---|---|---|---| ||||18,745| ||||15,064
1,447
0| ||||16,511| ||||2,234| ||||3,681| ||||**2023**
250| ||||250| ## **Integrating Children** ## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements to 31st March 2024** ## **7) Analysis of Net Assets between Funds** |Tangible Fixed Assets
Current Assets
Current Liabilities|General
Funds
2,234
37,076
(250)
39,060|Restricted
Funds
229,688
229,688|Total
2,234
266,764
(250)| |---|---|---|---| ||||268,748| ## **8) Movement of Funds** |Durham Special Needs
Ballinger Trust
GMBC
Big Lottery
Greggs Trust
Durham County Council
Joseph Strong
Other
Activities
**Total Restricted**
Unrestricted Funds
General Funds (Capital
General Funds (Revenue)
General Funds
Total Funds|**As at**
**1st April**
**2023**
32,550
197,127
229,677
3,681
34,776
38,457
268,134|**Incoming**
**Resources**
27,773
25,000
31,287
16,583
20,000
69,551
1,000
1,346
30,011
222,551
79,809
79,809
302,360|**Outgoing**
**Resources**
(32,550)
(25,000)
(31,287)
(16,583)
(20,000)
(64,763)
(1,000)
(1,346)
(30,011)
(222,540)
(1,447)
(77,759)
(79,206)
(301,746)|**Transfers**
0
0
0|**As at**
**31st March**
**2024**
27,773
0
0
0
0
201,915
0
0
0| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||229,688
0
0
2,234
36,826
0| ||||||39,060| ||||||| ||||||268,748| Transfer of Funds to Designated represents the increase in provision for redundancy Transfer of funds from Capital to Revenue represents the depreciation charge for the year ## _**Community Accounting North East CIC**_ , Birtley Business Centre, Station Lane, Birtley, DH3 1QT Integrating Children ## **Independent Examiner’s Report** I report on the accounts of Integrating Children for the Period ended 31[st] March 2024 ## **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 26[th] June 2024 2