**Trustee Report** About our year and our money
**1[st] April**
**31[st] March**
This is an Easy Read of our **Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 31st March 2022**
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Charity Number 1091095
## **Inside this Re ort p**
|**Inside this Report**|**Inside this Report**|
|---|---|
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|**What is in each section**|**Page number**|
|**Who is who at Herts People First**|**3**|
|**Trustees Report**
**Trustees Duties**
**How Herts People First is run**
**Public Benefit**
**Our Aims**
**Covid-19 and Herts People First**
**What people said about what we did**
**Working to achieve our aims**
**Some highlights of our year**
**About our Money**
**Our future Plans**|**4 - 5**
**6**
**7**
**8**
**9**
**10**
**11-15**
**16**
**17 - 21**
**22**|
|**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**23**|
|**Statement of Financial Activities**|**24 - 25**|
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|**26 - 32**|
|**Thank You’s**|**33**|
**1[st] April 31[st] March** This report is what we have done at **Herts People First** between **1st April 2021** to **31st March 2022.**
Our report is in easy read as much as possible. This is to make it easier for our members to understand.
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## **Who is who at Herts People First**
## **Trustee Board members**
Carol Lee MBE John Simmons Marie Clare **Chair Treasurer Secretary**
## **Our staff**
**Independent Consultant** Jane Dellow
Alex Morris
## **Main Office**
## **Charity number** - 1091095
**Leyden House Leyden Road Stevenage SG1 2BP**
## **Community Accountant**
## **Independent examiner**
**Josephine Rackstraw Jane Seymour 75 Roman Way[2b Regent Street] Godmanchester Stotfold SG5 4ED Huntingdon. PE29 2RW**
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## **Trustee Annual Report**
Our Trustees have checked this Annual Report.
They agree it covers everything the law says they need to report on.
Some bits of this report are written in hard words.
These have to be there to meet the rules and laws about Trustee Reports. These are in the grey box like this one below.
The Trustees present their report with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 31[st] March 2022.
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Charity Number 1091095
Herts People First (HPF) has a set of rules called a **Constitution.** The Constitution was agreed at a special meeting on the 24th November 2001. The Constitution says what work we can do and how we are run. Herts People First is registered with the Charity Commission. This organisation checks charities are being run well and safely. **Risks** Our Board of Trustees is legally in **Risk** charge of our Charity. They check Herts People First is run safely and manage risks to the Charity. Trustees are elected every 2 years at the Annual General Meeting. Trustees give their time for free to Herts People First as volunteers. The Charity is an unincorporated association and governed by a constitution dated 24th November 2001.
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## **How Herts People First is run**
Herts People First is a user - led **Being user-led** organisation. A user - led organisation is one that is run and controlled by people who use support services.
For Herts People First this means all Trustees are people with learning disabilities.
The Trustees are elected by members of Herts People First who have full membership rights and are people with learning disabilities who live in Hertfordshire. Trustees must be over 18 years of age and live in Hertfordshire. Herts People First activities take place in Hertfordshire and the Eastern Region.
The Management Committee (Trustees) and Honorary Officers are elected or appointed from the full members living in the Hertfordshire area to the Management Committee by the full members. The members of the Management Committee resign on a bi-annual basis (every 2 years) at the Annual General Meeting held in September or as soon as practicable, but may be re-elected or re-appointed. No Management Committee member may be under the age of 18. Further Trustees may be appointed at the discretion of the trustees in accordance with the Charity constitution.
All trustees give their time as volunteers and receive no remuneration or other benefits.
Full membership is open to adults with a learning disability living in Hertfordshire.
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## **Public Benefit**
Charities have to stick to rules about something called **Public Benefit.**
This means charities have to say how their work is :
- **Public** - the charity must do work that make things better for the public
- **Benefit** - charities must make sure their work makes things better for people
Charities can say which groups of people they support.
Our Trustees understand the Charity Commission guidance about **Public Benefit** and make sure the work of Herts People First fit within these rules.
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## **Our aims**
## **Every charity has aims.**
These are what the charity is trying to do. HPF has 2 main aims which are in our Constitution.
**1.** To make sure people with learning disabilities in Hertfordshire know about and get their rights
**2.** To provide training and education for people with learning disabilities in Hertfordshire so people learn new skills and gain in confidence to help them take part in their community.
To train people who do not have a learning disability so they understand the rights and needs of people with learning disabilities.
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## **Covid-19 and Herts People First**
The Covid -19 pandemic continued to effect what Herts People First did and how we did it. Trustees met by Zoom to plan and make decisions. Trustees reviewed the effects of Covid -19 every month and agreed to keep all group meetings on-line.
Members could meet with staff on a 1 to 1 with safe Covid measures in place to:
• Set up tablets / i-pads / smartphones and internet connections so people could take part in video call meetings • Prepare for any new Covid rules • Arrange and go to Health appointments including the Covid and flu vaccination
• To provide 1 to 1 advocacy and support for referrals • To give support in a crisis and practical help
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**what we did**
I learnt to do zoom meetings for the very first time. Its been good talking to everyone about what I’ve been doing during the week and how we’ve been getting on, its really taught me a lot
I like it when its someone’s birthday coming up. We sing Happy Birthday to them. There is no other way for me to wish people a happy birthday
I go to the weekly zoom social meeting, it’s often the only people I meet during the week. The only time I don’t go is when I’m on holiday or when I got Covid. The meetings are well run. And its nice to meet up with people I don’t get to see face to face.
The Covid information was very good it helped by making me feel safer. I learnt a lot of things I didn’t know before.
When Omicron came we were helped to get better masks as we learnt Omicron was easier to catch and our usual masks weren’t as good.
I lost my job during the first lockdown. I enjoy gardening and People First helped me to join a local community garden where I grow vegetables, do some cooking and learn about Healthy Eating.
We had fun on-line with a Christmas eve and New Years Eve party. We dressed up and wore hats, did a Christmas quiz and watched some fun dances
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Charity Number 1091095
## **Working to achieve our aims**
**1.** To make sure people with learning disabilities in Hertfordshire know about and get their rights
**The pandemic showed more than ever the inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities.**
The weekly zoom social meetings, started in the first year of Covid-19, not only gave people the chance to catch up with friends, they were also a place to show new Easy Read information and films.
Feedback from members has been that having information in ways people could understand was, over the last 2 years, one of the most important things Herts People First did.
Having good easy information has been 1 area of work Herts People First have focused on this year. We have raised the importance of having:
- Good quality Easy Read information
- A range of ways to give information - thorough films for example
- To record meetings so people can look at the recordings in their own time and at their own pace
Herts People First have led the way with all of the above, and produced Easy Read documents for Herts County Council (HCC) for free.
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**1 to 1 support, advocacy and signposting**
To make sure people got their rights Herts People First continued with 1 to 1 support and Advocacy.
**This is what people said about the support they received and what it meant to them:**
I was helped to get somewhere safe to live for a few weeks after I was attacked. Then I moved to new home - a place that I wasn’t going to be battered. I feel happier in myself. I’ve got people around me who are friendly and I feel part of the community. I’m cooking for myself and eating much healthier meals. I think I’d still be living in fear at my old flat if Herts People First hadn’t stepped in.
I was helped to get the right support in the right way. I could have done with this support years ago but hadn’t known I could have it or how to ask for it. I now get a direct payment and have support to shop, cook, clean, to manage my bills - I’m a lot less worried.
I was supported to get my Covid vaccination and Annual Health Check. I also had help to set up an i-pad so I could take part in zoom meetings, I like these as I get information about what’s going on.
I needed someone to speak to my support staff as they weren’t doing what I wanted. In the end I had to change the support agency. It was a stressful time but it got sorted in the end.
Before Covid I had lots of places to go to where I’d see friends, I used to volunteer at a Charity but this all stopped. I miss some people I don’t see now. I’ve joined a local gardening group and like it a lot.
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Charity Number 1091095
## **Working to achieve our aims**
**1.** To provide training and education for people with learning disabilities in Hertfordshire so people learn new skills and gain in confidence to help them take part in their community.
Herts People First continued to give training and support to people to use digital technology.
We were given a grant by The Good Things Foundation for 10 tablets, mobile data, training and support to 10 people with learning disabilities in Hertfordshire.
Herts People First worked with the Hemel Campaigners with this project.
As well as training to use the tablets and smartphones we gave training on:
- how their on-line personal information would be used
- scams and other internet fraud
- safeguarding
Some people also had an access assessment and received extra equipment as part of the project to help them use their technology:
Headphones, large print keyboard, hard case tablet protector case to stop breakages.
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## **Working to achieve our aims**
**In Zoom meetings, we spoke up and shared information about lots of issues affecting people with learning disabilities:**
- We met with self advocacy groups locally, in the Eastern Region and Nationally (the Oi conference)
- We went to all of the Learning Disability Co-production Board (LDCB) meetings and continued to host them by Zoom.
- We worked with the University of Hertfordshire Oral history project. Several people were interviewed about their experience of the Covid19 lockdowns. Their stories to be put on the University website.
## **We took part in surveys:**
- Intalink, which is a partnership of Herts County Council and Bus Companies, asked us about buses and bus services.
- Intalink also wanted to know what we thought about the new Orange Travel Wallet they wanted to buy.
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We gave feedback on what we liked and what we thought could be better.
We replied on the HCC Learning Disability Big Plan Check – in survey. We said what was important to us:
1. On being healthy
2. About where we live
3. And being involved in our local communities
## **On-line Meetings**
To take part in on-line meetings we’ve told people we want to do this by Zoom instead of Teams.
And we’ve asked for meetings to be recorded so we can watch them in our own time and at our own pace.
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**Our highlights** The Christmas Zoom and New Years Eve parties! Learning how to use a tablet and getting onto Zoom The Digital Inclusion Project Hearing information at the Local Forum, the speakers were good
Sending the NHS Easy Read newsletter out to people every 3 months
Watching the Christmas Lectures on Zoom. We Watched the programme together then talked about it after.
**Our Governance plans for 2021-2022** It was another challenging year but we achieved all of the aims we set ourselves, including: • Holding a Zoom AGM in March 2022.
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- Holding 4 Zoom Local Forums
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## **About our money**
## **How we fund our work**
We mainly raise money through grants and bids.
## **Managing risk**
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This is when you look at what could go wrong, make a plan just in case and say how to put things right. For Herts People First risks are things that make it hard to run the Charity well, or could mean it has to close.
At Herts People First the Trustees have the responsibility for looking at risks.
They work together on a **risk list** where they work out what steps to take to make things safer for Herts People First.
Staff training, good policies and safe ways of working are some of the ways we manage risks at Herts People First.
Herts People First Trustees have read and acknowledge the Charity Commission fundraising guidelines for Trustees. Herts People First do not at present raise funds from the general public.
Herts People First recognise the risks of operating as a Charity within a social care and health environment. With significant uncertainty regarding the charity’s sources of income it is committed to establish policies and procedures that manage the risks associated with its business.
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## **About our money**
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**Reserves Policy** Charities have **reserves** which is a word for emergency savings.
**Reserves** money is used if a charity has to close. It is used to pay off any money it owes.
At Herts People First our Trustee Board decides how much money to have as emergency savings. This is called the **Reserves Policy.** Trustees look at this every year.
Our Trustees decided Herts People First should have enough money to pay its costs for 3 months. Trustees looked carefully at all of Herts People First money and are happy there is a safe amount of **reserves.**
## **Reserves policy**
The Management Committee of Herts People First has given consideration to the need for a reserves policy in relation to the organisation’s accounts. The funding for the charity is viewed uncertain in the current economic climate and the Management Committee are mindful of this in their entire . decision making
The Management Committee regard the minimum level of reserves to be the equivalent of three months salaries for staff employed by the organisation plus redundancy. For the year ended 31[st ] March 2022, this would represent approximately £15,000. The unrestricted free reserves held at this date total £92,525. The Management Committee monitor this situation regularly and review the policy on at least an annual basis.
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Some money Herts People First is given is to run special projects. We can only spend that money on running those projects. This is called **restricted money** .
**Closed**
We have to be able to show what we on. are spending any **restricted money** We keep good records to show how we are spending **restricted money** on the right things.
If Herts People First closed we could be asked to pay back some of the **restricted money** for any work we have **Restricted reserves** not done. The amount we could have to pay back is called **restricted reserves.** Herts People First has £15,693 of **restricted reserves** at the end of **£15,693** March 2022.
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Herts People First also has things we own. This could be equipment, computers and furniture we have bought.
We only count things we own for more than 1 year. These things we own are called **fixed assets** . **1 year**
We add up how much money these things are worth. We have to remember that if we sold them we would get less money than we paid for them.
If we add up all our money and take **fixed assets** and our **restricted** away our **reserves** we can see how much is left. This money is called **free reserves.**
Herts People First has £92,525 of **free reserves** at the end of March 2022.
## **£92,525**
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**Our money 2021 — 2022**
- = **Income Expense Balance** (Money Coming In) (Money Going Out) (What is left) -
**£40,410**
**£39,522 = £888**
> **Money In Bank + Balance = Money In Bank March 2021 March 2022** (What is left) **£107,330 £108,218 £888**
**March**
**March**
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## **[[st]] April 31[st] March Our future plans 2022 2023 To continue to:**
**1[[st]] April**
- provide 1 to 1 advocacy, signposting and support in a crisis
- provide support to use technology, to understand Covid and other health information and to hold the weekly Friday zoom meeting.
- to make decisions about our partnerships and to look at how people get their voice heard
- HPF will also look to: • recruit Trustees and advisors.
- See if we are able to put on more
- social events for members.
## **We will also plan:**
- to write a Big Plan for Herts People First
- • to see how we can run our own hybrid meetings (on-line and face to face)
**Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf by:**
**Carol Lee MBE John Simmons Chair Treasurer 7/11/2022**
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Charity Number 1091095
## **Herts People First**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022**
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31[st ] March 2022, which are set out on pages 24 - 32.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Charities Act”) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
have not been met; or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Josephine Rackstraw 75 Roman Way Godmanchester Huntingdonshire PE29 2RW
Date: **30 / 09/ 2022**
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## **Herts People First Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31[st] March 2022**
||**Notes**||**2022**|**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted Restricted**|**Total**|**Total**|
|||**Funds**
**Funds**|**Funds**
|**Funds**|
|||**£**
**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Incoming resources**|||||
|Grants and donations|2|40,235 1,000|40,235|41,766|
|Charitable activities|3|(825) -|(825)|10,900|
|**Total income**||**39,410 1,000**|**40,410**|**52,666**|
|**Resources expended:**|||||
|Charitable activities|4|38,522 1,000|39,522|42,801|
|**Total expenditure**||**38,522 1,000**|**39,522**|**42,801**|
|**Net movement in funds**||**888 -**|**888**|**9,865**|
|**Reconciliation of funds:**|||||
|Total Funds brought|||||
|forward||91,637 15,693|107,330|97,465|
|**Total funds carried forward**|10|**92,525 15,693**|**108,218**|**107,330**|
The notes on pages 26 to 32 form part of these financial statements.
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the
year. All income and expenditure derives from continuing activities.
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## **Herts People First**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **As at 31st March 2022**
|**Notes**
**Fixed Assets**
Tangible assets
5
**Current Assets**
Debtors & prepayments
6
Bank and cash balances
**Total Current Assets**
Creditors: Amounts falling due within
one year
7
**Net Current Assets**
**Net Assets**
**Funds of the charity**
Unrestricted income funds
10
Restricted income funds
10
**Total charity funds**|**2022**
**£**
820
3,736
114,792
118,528
(11,130)
107,398
**108,218**
92,525
15,693
**108,218**|**2021**
**£**
1,023
24,308
96,324|
|---|---|---|
|||120,632
(14,325)
106,307|
|||**107,330**|
|||91,637
15,693|
|||**107,330**|
The financial statements were approved by the trustees on 7/11/2022 and signed on their behalf by:
…………………………………… …………………………………. Carol Lee MBE John Simmons Chair Treasurer The notes on pages 26 -3 2 form part of these accounts
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## **Herts People First**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **1.0 Basis of preparation**
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014 and with the Charities Act 2011.
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.
The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis and represent a true and fair view of the position of the charity as at the end of the accounting period.
Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy notes.
## **1.1 Accounting convention**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention
## **1.2 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation and are depreciated over the estimated useful economic lives. The depreciation rate currently in use for all fixed assets held for use by the charity is 20% on the reducing balance.
## **1.3 Pension costs**
The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. Contributions payable are charged as an expense in the year they are payable. Contributions are allocated between restricted and unrestricted funds based on hours worked.
## **1.4 Resources Expended**
Resources expended are included in the Statement of Financial Activities on an accruals basis, inclusive of any VAT which cannot be recovered. Resources expended have been analysed and have been allocated 100% to the relevant fund.
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## **Herts People First**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **1.5 Incoming Resources**
The charity derives its income from donations, legacies and other voluntary income and grants that provide core funding.
Items of income are recognised and included in the accounts when all of the following criteria are met:
- The charity has entitlement to the funds;
- Any performance conditions attached to the item (s) of income have been met or are fully within the control of the charity or its subsidiary;
- There is sufficient certainty that the receipt of the income is considered probably; and
- The amount can be measured reliably.
Donation income is included within the Statements of Financial Activities as it is received. Legacies are recognised when the above criteria are met. Grants are recognised in the period to which they relate.
## **1.6 Governance costs**
Governance costs are those costs associated with maintaining the governance of the charity as opposed to the management of the charity’s activities
## **1.7 Fund Accounting**
Funds held by the charity are either:
## _Unrestricted general funds_
These are funds which can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
## _Designated funds_
These are funds set aside by the trustees out of unrestricted general funds for specific future purposes or projects. No funds have currently been designated.
## _Restricted funds_
These are funds that can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
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## **Herts People First**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
|
**2**
**Grants and donations**
**Unres**
**£**
Herts CC – Joint Finance
-
Joint Commissioning
Team (Involving people)
-
North Herts and
Stevenage Local Forum
-
Herts CC – LDCB
-
Herts CC – Self Advocacy
-
Herts CC – Covid – 19
-
Herts CC – IHSCCT
37,798
HMRC Employment
Allowance
2,437
Good Things Foundation
-
**40,235**
In 2021, there were no restricted funds
**3 Charity activities income**
**Unres**
**£**
Herts CC – Co-Production
-
Herts CC – Self Advocacy
(1,500)
Herts CC – support for 3 Reps
-
Other Fees
675
**(825)**
In 2021, there were no restricted funds.
**4**
**Charitable activities**
**Expenditure**
**Unres**
**£**
Salaries
25,677
Depreciation
203
Governance
780
Other costs
11,862
**38,522**|**Res.**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,000
**1,000**
**Res.**
**£**
-
-
-
-
**-**
**Res.**
**£**
724
-
-
276
**1,000**|**2022**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-
37,798
2,437
1,000
**41,235**
**2021**
**£**
-
(1,500)
-
675
**(825)**
**2022**
**£**
26,401
203
780
12,138
**39,522**|**2021**
**£**
2,425
1,750
1,466
25,125
3,866
5,000
-
2,134
-
**41,766**
**2020**
**£**
6,025
1,500
3,375
-
**10,900**
**2021**
**£**
31,811
254
610
10,126
**42,801**|
|---|---|---|---|
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## **Herts People First**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
For comparative purposes below is the split of charitable expenditure for 2021
|**4**
**Charitable activities**
**Expenditure**
Salaries
Depreciation
Governance
Other costs
**Other Costs**
Support
Travelling Expenses
General Running Costs
Producing Information
Preparation
Bookkeeping Fees
Telephone
Training and professional
fees
Website Costs
**Governance Costs**
Examination Fees/
Accounts preparation
AGM & Meeting costs|**Unres**
**£**
31,811
254
610
10,126
**42,801**
**Unres**
**£**
5,803
341
2,654
-
32
1,200
333
1,421
78
**11,862**
**Unres**
**£**
600
180
**780**|**Res.**
**£**
-
-
-
-
**-**
**Res.**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-
50
226
-
**276**
**Res.**
**£**
-
-
**-**|**2021**
**£**
31,811
254
610
10,126
**42,801**
**2022**
**£**
5,803
341
2,654
-
32
1,200
383
1,647
78
**12,138**
**2021**
**£**
600
180
**780**|**2020**
26,371
318
624
22,854|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**50,167**|
|||||**2021**
**£**
5,500
398
2,236
164
32
1,200
518
-
78|
|||||**10,126**|
|||||**2020**
**£**
600
10|
|||||**610**|
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|**5 Fixed assets**
**Core**
**Self Adv.**
**Involv.**
**People**
Cost
£
£
£
At 1 April 2021
18,474
777
995
Additions
-
-
-
At 31 March 2022
18,474
777
995
Depreciation
At 1 April 2021
17,712
602
909
Charge for the year
152
34
17
At 31 March 2022
17,864
636
926
Net book values
At 31 March 2021
762
175
86
At 31 March 2022
610
141
69
**6 Debtors & Prepayments**
**2022**
**£**
Debtors
-
Prepayments and accrued income
3,736
3,736
**7 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**
**2022**
**£**
Trade and other Creditors
8,124
Accruals
1,048
Tax Liabilities
1,958
11,130|**Core**
**Self Adv.**
**Involv.**
**People**
£
£
£
18,474
777
995
-
-
-|**Core**
**Self Adv.**
**Involv.**
**People**
£
£
£
18,474
777
995
-
-
-|**Core**
**Self Adv.**
**Involv.**
**People**
£
£
£
18,474
777
995
-
-
-|**Sub Total**
**C/FWD**
£
20,246
-|**Sub Total**
**C/FWD**
£
20,246
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||18,474
777||995||20,246|
||
17,712
602
152
34||
909
17||19,223
203|
||17,864
636||926||19,426|
||
762
175||
86||1,023|
||610
141||69||820|
||||**2022**
**£**
-
3,736
3,736
**2022**
**£**
8,124
1,048
1,958
11,130||**2021**
**£**
23,316
992
24,308
**2021**
**_£_**
8,803
3,775
1,747
14,325|
|||||||
## **8 Trustees' Remuneration and Expenses**
No remuneration has been directly or indirectly paid or payable for the year out of the funds of the charity to any trustee or to any person or person connected with any of them for their work as a trustee, but they were reimbursed their travel and other expenses incurred.
Nil costs for 2022 (2021: £0) were paid in order to facilitate trustees with support requirements to attend meetings to manage the charity.
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## **Herts People First Notes to the Accounts**
## **9 Employees' Remuneration Number of employees**
The average monthly number of employees during the period was:
|Direct Charitable Expenditure
**Employment costs**
Gross salary
Employers N.I.
Employers Pension costs|**2022**
**Number**
1
**2022**
**£**
22,020
2,359
1,298
25,677|**2021**
**Number**
1|
|---|---|---|
|||**2021**
**£**
28,465
2,134
1,212|
|||31,811|
The total amount paid to key management personnel is £22,020.
There were no employees whose annual emoluments were £50,000 or more.
There is only one member of staff, who is responsible for running the charity.
|**10**
**Fund Analysis**
Incoming Resources
Resources Expended
**Net incoming resources**
**before transfers**
Transfer between funds
**Net movement in funds**
Total Funds B/fwd
**Total Funds C/Fwd**
Fixed Assets
Bank
Other Current Assets
Current Liabilities|**General**
**HPF**
**Dev. &**
**Training**
**Star**
**Partner-**
**ship**
**Digital**
**Project**
**£**
**£**
**£**
39,410
-
-
1,000
38,522
-
-
1,000|
|---|---|
||888
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
||888
-
-
-
91,637
3,523
12,170
-|
||**92,525**
**3,523**
**12,170**
**-**|
||820
-
-
-
99,099
3,523
12,170
-
3,736
-
-
-
(11,130)
-
-
-|
||**92,525**
**3,523**
**12,170**
**-**|
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## **Herts People First**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
Herts People First development and training money is for the development of self advocacy leaders and their supporters and a strengthened Hertfordshire based self advocacy user led organisation. This was in response to the recommendation from the review of self advocacy by the NDTi in 2012.
Star Partnership is a new restricted fund from monies transferred from the old Fulfilling Lives funds held for others pot. Currently proposals are being considered by the Charity Trustees for how this money will be spent.
The Good Things Foundation grant is for the supply of 10 tablets, mobile wi-fi and data, training and support for 10 people with learning disabilities in Hertfordshire who didn’t have access to accessible technology or the internet.
## **Independent Examiner's Remuneration**
Fees of £600 have been accrued for the 2022 examination and preparation of accounts.
|Examination Fee
Preparation of Accounts|**2022**
**£**
300
300
**600**|**2021**
**£**
300
300|
|---|---|---|
|||**600**|
## **12 Commitments under operating leases**
At 31 March 2022 the charity had no annual commitments under noncancellable operating leases.
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## **And a to Big Thank You**
**Herts People First volunteers**
**Our funders:**
Herts County Council
Good Things Foundation
**Leyden House Day Service - Stevenage**
Hertfordshire Community
Foundation – for their free training
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