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REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 04488546 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1094316

Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023 for Balham Community Centre

WENSEN ARCHER CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS REGISTERED AUDITORS

Balham Community Centre

Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

Page
Report of the Directors / Trustees 1
Report of the Independent Auditors 4
Statement of Financial Activities 6
Statement of Financial Position 7
Statement of Cash Flow 8
Notes to the Statement of Cash Flow 9
Notes to the Financial Statements 10
Detailed Statement of Financial Activities 15

Balham Community Centre

Report of the Trustees/Directors for

the Year Ended 31 March 2023

The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2023. The trustees/directors have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)(October 2020).

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Registered Company number 04488546 (England and Wales)

Registered Charity number 1094316 Registered office 91 Bedford Hill London SW12 9HE Trustees J Vyvyan P Barter A Duizend C Ross S Kline A Cummings S Marshall (Appointed 15 November 2022)

Company Secretary J Taylor (Appointed 12 July 2022) Bankers CAF Bank 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4JQ Lloyds Bank plc 125 Balham High Road London SW12 9AT

Auditors Wensen Archer Corporate Services Limited Statutory Auditors 167 – 169 Great Portland Street London W1W 5PF

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Balham Community Centre

Report of the Trustees/Directors for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

The Charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.

Objective

The objective of the charity is to provide flexible and supportive services to all sectors of the local community in response to the local community’s changing needs.

Organisation

The Charity is managed by a Board of Trustees/Directors meeting on a bi-monthly basis taking all major decisions regarding the management and direction of the Charity. The daily management of the charity is delegated to the Centre Manager who manages a team of 36 staff and 33 volunteers.

Directors/Trustees

One third of the Trustees is liable to retire by rotation at every annual meeting and may be reappointed. Any person wishing to become trustee must be recommended by an existing Trustee or be proposed by a member with minimum 14 days’ notice, and then elected by vote. The number of trustees must be 5 at the minimum and at a maximum of 15. The list of directors/trustees having held office since the 1st April 2022 or appointed in the year is shown on page one. Where no date of appointment is listed, the said director/trustee was in office as at the 1st of April 2022. Any trustee who has been appointed for the first time and has never been a trustee in a charitable organisation is required to complete a Trustee’s induction course.

PERFORMANCE AND FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

Review of Activities and Future Activities

In furtherance of the objectives, the charity aims to provide culturally sensitive services for children aged 3-11 years with their breakfast, after school and holiday provision. The charity now has thirteen clubs providing services for twelve local primary schools. The long-established adult counselling service continue to provide low-cost counselling to a diverse local community. The Centre continues English for speakers of other Languages [E.S.O.L] courses, which have running successfully for several years, courses are funded from the reserves of the organisation. The Charity also works in partnership with The Challenge a major N.C.S. [National Citizen Service] programme to provide volunteering opportunities for young people. The Charity further facilitates the provision of community self-help groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous which has increased from two weekly meetings to four, the local Baptist church, Muslim prayer group and local charities Deaf Hope and Deaf Health. The charity is to continue on its current activities in its current form.

Financial Review

The Financial Statements are shown from page 6-14. The charity has provided the services in accordance with its objectives and has recorded a surplus in the current year having recovered from the COVID lockdown. The charity has no investment policy and only holds its cash in a bank account.

Risk management

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. In the light of this the Trustees have given consideration to the risks faced by the charity after experiencing the Covid-19 lockdown. In view of this risk, the trustees are aiming to continue to build up free reserves to a level that would provide security to cover periods when there are shortfalls of income receivable. Detailed comments are provided in the Reserves Policy.

Reserves Policy

Cash reserves are the only assets held by the charity during the period. The total cash amount held at the end of the period is £381,727 made up of Unrestricted Funds only where £372,201 is available on demand. None of these amounts have been designated or committed at the year-end for any purposes.

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Balham Community Centre

Report of the Trustees/Directors for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES/DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also the directors of Balham Community Centre for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland".

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

AUDITORS

The Statutory Auditor, Mr Siang Lin Choo have been re-appointed at the previous Annual General Meeting.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Approved by order of the board of trustees on 15 November 2023 and signed on its behalf by:

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Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of Balham Community Centre

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Balham Community Centre (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Statement of Financial Position, the Statement of Cash Flows and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'.

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you where:

Other information

The trustees/directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

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Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of Balham Community Centre

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Trustees/Directors. We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees/directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees/Directors Responsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees/directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees/directors are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees/directors either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Siang Lin Choo FCCA (Senior Statutory Auditor) Date: 20 November 2023 for and on behalf of Wensen Archer Corporate Services Limited Statutory Auditors 167 – 169 Great Portland Street London W1W 5PF

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Balham Community Centre

Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

Un-Restricted
Restricted
Notes
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Subscriptions, Donations and Legacies
2
813,091
Other fundraising activities
3
-
Investment income
4
406
Total
813,497
-
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
5
-
-
Charitable activities
6
733,478
-
Total
733,478
-
NET (DEFICIT)/INCOME
80,019
-
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
292,362
-
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
372,381
-
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31.03.2023
31.03.2022
Total
Total
£
£
813,091
695,092
-
-
406
16
813,497
695,108
-
-
733,478
743,569
733,478
743,569
80,019
(48,461)
292,362
340,823
2
372,381
292,362
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31.03.2023
31.03.2022
Total
Total
£
£
813,091
695,092
-
-
406
16
813,497
695,108
-
-
733,478
743,569
733,478
743,569
80,019
(48,461)
292,362
340,823
2
372,381
292,362
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695,108
-
743,569
743,569
(48,461)
340,823
292,362
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The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balham Community Centre

Statement of Financial Position

As at 31 March 2023

31.03.2023 31.03.2022
Un-Restricted Total Total
Notes £ £ £
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 10 180 180 782
Cash at bank and in hand 381,727 381,727 302,159
381,907 381,907 302,941
CREDITORS
Amounts due within one year 11 (9,525) (9,525) (10,579)
NET CURRENT ASSETS 372,381 372,381 292,362
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TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 372,381 372,381 292,362
NET ASSETS 372,381 372,381 292,362
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FUNDS
Unrestricted Funds: General Funds 12 372,381 372,381 292,362
TOTAL FUNDS 372,381 372,381 292,362
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These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 15 November 2023 and were signed on its behalf by:

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The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balham Community Centre

Statement of Cash Flow

for the year ended 31 March 2023

31.03.2023 31.03.2023 31.03.2022
Notes £ £
Cash flows from operating activites
Cash generated from activities 1 80,019 (56,431)
Net cash from operating activities 80,019 (56,431)
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Cash flows from investing activities
Investment income 406 16
Net cash from investing activities 406 16
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Cash flows from financing activities
Financing activities - -
Net cash from financing activities - -
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Increase/(Decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 79,568 (56,415)
Cash and cash equivalents in the beginning of the year 2 302,159 358,574
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year 2 381,727 302,159
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1. RECONCILIATION OF SURPLUS TO CASH GENERATED FROM ACTIVITIES
31.03.2023 31.03.2022
Surplus/(Deficits) from activities 80,019 (48,461)
Investment income (406) (16)
85,138 (48,477)
(Increase) / Decrease in debtors 602 3,456
Increase / ( Decrease) in creditors (1,053) (11,410)
Cash generated/(expended) from activities 79,161 (46,531)
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2. CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

The amounts disclosed on the Statement of Cash Flow in respect of cash and cash equivalent are in respect of these Balance Sheet amounts

Year ended 31 March 2023 31.03.2023 31.03.2022
Cash and cash equivalents 381,727 302,159
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Year ended 31 March 2022 31.03.2022 31.03.2021
Cash and cash equivalents 302,159 358,734
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The notes form part of these financial statements

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Balham Community Centre

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Income

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. There is no apportionment of costs for the various activities as the main site is used for all activities and members of staff inter-change between the services offered by the charity.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.

Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits

The charitable company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the charitable company's pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.

Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation is provided at an annual rate of 20% of cost in order to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its estimated useful life.

Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis and that there are no material uncertainties on the matter of the charity’s ability to continue operations.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds 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 or the nature of the grants received.

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2. SUBSCRIPTIONS, DONATIONS AND LEGACIES SUBSCRIPTIONS, DONATIONS AND LEGACIES
31.03.2023 31.03.2022
Donations 148 95
Grants 2,650 25,580
Subscriptions 810,293 669,417
813,091 695,092
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Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
Counselling Support Grant (Un-Restricted) 2,650 3,032
HMRC Furlough Grant (Restricted) - 22,548
3. OTHER FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES
31.03.2023 31.03.2022
Fundraising events - -
4. INVESTMENT INCOME
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
Deposit account interest 406 16
5. RAISING FUNDS
Raising donations and legacies
31.03.2023 31.03.2022
Fund raising expenses - -
6. EXPENDITURE
Support Costs Office Costs Activity Costs
Governance

TOTALS
Other resources expended 31.03.2023 553,055 73,787 92,129 14,506
733,478
Other resources expended 31.03.2022 561,425 78,167 97,446 6,531
743,569
7. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting):
31.03.2023
31.03.2022
Auditor’s remuneration 3,600 6,000
Hire of plant and machinery 6,823 6,002
Other operating leases 51,900 49,344
8. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or benefits for the year ended 31 March 2023 or for the year ended 31 March 2022.

Trustees' expenses

There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2023 or for the year ended 31 March 2022.

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9. STAFF COSTS

31.03.2023 31.03.2022
£ £
Wages and salaries 496,108 499,359
Social security costs 25,363 29,355
Other pension costs 7,283 8,890
528,754 537,604
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The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:
31.03.2023 31.03.2022
All staff 36 36
No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.

No employees are provided with long term benefits.

Employees are not entitled to any termination benefits other than statutory redundancy pay if applicable.

  1. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.03.2023 31.03.2022
£ £
Trade debtors - -
Other debtors - -
Prepayments 180 782
180 782
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11. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

31.03.2023 31.03.2022
£ £
Trade creditors - -
Social security and other taxes 5,525 6,979
Accrued expenses 4,000 3,600
9,525 10,579
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12. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

OVEMENT IN FUNDS
At
01.04.2022
Net movement
in funds
At
31.03.2023
Unrestricted Funds
General Fund 292,362 80,019 372,381
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TOTAL FUNDS AT31.03.2023 292,362 80,019 372,381
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Net movement in funds included in the above are as follows:
Incoming Resources Movement
Resources Expended in funds
Restricted Funds
Grants received - - -
Unrestricted Funds
General Funds 813,497 727,953 85,544
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TOTAL FUNDS 813,497 727,953 85,544
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COMPARATIVES FOR MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
At Net movement At
01.04.2021 in funds 31.03.2022
Unrestricted Funds
General Funds 340,823 (48,461) 292,362
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TOTAL FUNDS AT 31.03.2022 340,823 (48,461) 292,362
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13. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

There were no related party transactions for the year ended 31 March 2023.

14. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

There is no ultimate controlling part

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