## |||Pages| |---|---|---| |Charity references
and Administrative|Details|| |Statement of public benefit||| |Introduction
from Chairman||| |Introduction
from CEO||| |Trustees'
Report (including
Directors'|report)|| |Independent
Examiner's
report||10| |Statement offinancial
activities||| |Balance sheet||12| |Notes to the financial statements||13-18| ## ## ## ## ||STATEMENT QF PUBLIC BENEFIT| |---|---| |"The Objects ofthe Charity are the relief of hardship
and distress, amongst
persons
living and working|| |in the agricultural,
horticultural
and related communities,
by the provision ofpastoral and practical support
underpinned
by a Christian
ethos. "|| |All|services are made available
to those
in need from
all faiths and none
in a non-judgemental,
non-| |proselytising
but supportive
way.|| |Public Benefits|| |1.|National
Helpline:
The national
confidential
helpline
is open from 7 am to 11 pm every day of the| ||year, staffed
by a team of volunteers.
Talking
with someone
who understands
farming
but is not| ||directly
involved
in the situation
can be a real support
in itself,
but when
appropriate,
callers are| ||offered a visit from an FCN volunteer
by referral through
the co-ordinator
local to the caller| |2.|Volunteers:
Around
400 volunteers
who
are
'in
sympathy'
with
the
Christian
ethos,
suitably| ||experienced
and
in-touch
with
rural
and
farming
issues,
are
recruited,
DBS checked
and| ||appropriately
trained
to 'walk with' farmers
and their families
through
times of stress and personal| ||difficulty. Referrals to individual
volunteers
are made through
the local FCN County Co-ordinator
who| ||is also responsible
for the co-ordination
and training ofvolunteers
within their Group and liaison with| ||their Regional
Director and Head Office for all administrative
and policy issues.| |3.|Christian
ethos: The Charity
has a clear Christian
ethos which
is inherent
within
its foundation,| ||board
of trustees
and
charitable
objects,
which
is reflected
in
its published
Vision
and
Ethos| ||Statements,
whilst sustaining
the principle that all services are made available
to those
in need from| ||all faiths and none
in a non-judgemental,
non-proselytising
but supportive
way.| |4.|Partnerships:| ||~
To ensure
national
coverage,
and to respect the territories
of other independent
farming
and| ||rural support
services,
FCN has 'memoranda
of understanding'
with those organisations
that| ||facilitate
cross
referrals
of clients,
access to the
FCN
Helpline,
sharing
of expertise
and| ||experience
and consortia
bidding
from national
funding
sources| ||~
'Farming
Help' has been established
and underpinned
with a 'memorandum
of understanding'| ||between
the FCN, Royal Agricultural
Benevolent
institution
(RABI), Royal Scottish Agricultural| ||Benevolent
Institution
(RASBI) and the Addington
Fund, to ensure
that the specialist
remits of| ||each charity
are
fully
recognised,
cross referrals
can flow easily, joint funding
proposals
to| ||national
bodies can be co-ordinated
and clients are exposed to a seamless service of support.| |5.|Uptake:| ||The demand
for FCN's services fluctuates
with the level ofcausal factors within the industry,
so that| ||through
a national
crisis such as the foot and
mouth
epidemic
in 2001, the scale can be almost| ||overwhelming.
However the nature offarming
is such that even when the industry
is operating
under| ||'normal'
conditions,
individual
businesses
and families
will experience
periods of significant
stress| ||because
of circumstances
specific to the family
or business
so that a steady
demand
on FCN| ||volunteers
to manage
between
1,500 and 2,500cases per year is typical.| ||Further statistical
details of uptake,
nature of the difficulty
and routes of referral are described
later| ||in this document.| ||Details of FCN's services, operations
and policies are available
on the website at:| ||www. fcn.org.uk| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |r the yea|r ended|31 March 2|023|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||General|Designated|Restdcted|Total|Total| |||||Unrestricted
funds
f|Unrestricted
funds
f|funds
f|2023|2022f| |INCOME||||||||| |Donations
and legacies||||535,005||302,935|837,940|895,086| |Income from|charitable|activities||||||| |Resourcing|programmes|||117,596|||117,596|63,351| |Income from|other trading activities|||||||| |Investment|income|||7,071|||7,071|7,842| |Totalincome||||659,672||302,935|962,607|966,279| |EXPENDITURE||||||||| |Cost of raising|funds|||47,169||11,942|59,111|52,470| |Charitable
activities||||399,853||217,021|616,874|498,704| |Governance||||204,479||33,020|237,499|216,502| |Total ex enditure||||651,501||261,983|913,484|767,676| |Net incomel|ex enditure|||8,171||40,952|49123|198,603| |Net transfers|between
funds|||(78,983)|78,983|||| |Gains/ losses|on investments|||21,688|||21,688|4,448| |NET MOVEMENT
IN FUNDS||||92,500|78,983|40,952|27435|203,051| |Fund balances
brought
forward|||1~|1,067,988|238,140|57,047|1,363,175|1,160,124| |FUND BALANCES CARRIED||FORWARD|15|975,488|317,123|97,999|K 1,390,610|E 1,363,175| ## |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |BALANCE SHE|ET||COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER:|04429778| |as at 31 March 2023||||| |||Notes|2023f|2022f| |FIXEDASSETS||||| |Tangible assets||10|15,664|28,774| |Investments||11|524,932|546,620| ||||540,596|575,394| |CURRENT ASSETS||||| |Debtors||12|3,590|18,455| |Bank and cash balances|||884,687|809,921| ||||888,277|828,376| |CREDITDRs: amounts|falling due within one year||{38,263)|{40,595)| |NET CURRENT ASSETS|||850,014|787,781| |TOTAL ASSETSLESSCURRENT LIABILITIES|||1,390,610|1,363,175| |CREDITDRs: amounts|falling due after more than one year|14||| ||||f1,390,610|f1,363,175| |INCOME FUNDS||||| |Unrestricted
funds||||| |General||16|975,488|1,067,988| |Designated||16|317,123|238,140| |Restricted funds||16|97,999|57,047| ||||f1,390,610|f 1,363,175| ## ## ## ## ## ## |and other factors that are co|ns|idered
to be r|idered
to be r|elevant.
Actu|elevant.
Actu|al|results
may d|iffer from these estimates.|iffer from these estimates.|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |The estimates
and underlying||assumptions||are reviewed||on|an ongoing|basis. Revisions to accounting||estimates| |are recognised
in the period|in|which the estimate|||is revised||ifthe revision|affects only that period, or in||the period| |ofthe revision and future periods|||ifthe revision affects both||||current and future periods.|||| |The Directors
do not consider||there are any critical judgements
or sources of estimation
uncertainty||||||||requiring| |disclosure
beyond the accounting|||policies listed above.|||||||| |3
INCOME —DONATIONS||AND LEGACIES|||||General|||| ||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022| |Volunta
income|||||||8|8|f|| |From churches|||||||46,345|2,973|49,318|45,150| |From events &activites|||||||5,079||5,079|| |From individuals
and other organisations|||||||175,430|15,248|190,678|173,087| |Legacies|||||||94,880|5,579|100,459|375,096| |Gift aid tax refunded|||||||7,512||7,512|5,632| |Grants received (see note 4)|||||||205,759|279,135|484,894|296,121| ||||||||535,005|302,935|837,940|895,086| |For 2022,f713,371 was general|unrestricted
income and f181,715was restricted|||||||income.||| ## |4
GRANTS RECEIVED|4
GRANTS RECEIVED|4
GRANTS RECEIVED|4
GRANTS RECEIVED||General|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||Unrestrictedf|Restrictedf|2023|2022f| |DEFRA and Regional
Development||||Agencies|8,984|94,083|103,067|133,000| |Richard Oatley Foundation||||||75,000|75,000|| |NFU Mutual Charitable
Trust||||||70,000|70,000|| |Westminser
Foundation||||||30,000|30,000|| |P D Hook Ltd|||||20,000||20,000|7,500| |Cereal Fruits|||||15,382||15,382|| |E L Flemming
Charitable|Trust||||10,050||10,050|| |Mercer Family|||||10,000||10,000|40,000| |Kristina
Martin Charitable|Trust||||10,000||10,000|| |Betty Lawes Foundation|||||10,000||10,000|2,000| |EWG Charitable
Trust||||||||10,000| |Deepest Books|||||10,000||10,000|| |Agrovista|||||10,000||10,000|| |Hutchinson
Charitable
Trust|||||8,000||8,000|8,000| |Hook 2 Sisters
Prince's Countryside
Fund||||||3,550|3,550|7,500
6,535| |HR Department||||||||6,206| |AB Connect||||||||5,133| |Quality
Equipment|||||5,125||5,125|| |Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent|||Fund|||5,000|5,000|| |Lord Leverhulmes
Charitable||Trust|||5,000||5,000|| |Agri|||||5,025||5,025|4,000| |Ricardo
Other
rantssf5, 000|||||5,625
72,568|1,502|5,625
74,070|3,375
62,872| |Total
rants
er Note 3|||||205,759|279,135|484,894|296,121| ## |(A CHARI|(A CHARI|(A CHARI|TABLE||COMPANY
L|COMPANY
L|I|MITED|BY GU|ARANTE|E)| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |6
EXPENDITURE|||||GENERAL UNRESTRICTED||||RESTR1CTED||| ||||Local activity|&|||||Local activity &||| ||||supporting
volunteers||Publicity
s|Training
E||Direct
costsf|supporting
volunteersf|2023f|2022f| |Costs ofgenerating||funds|||||||||| |Staff costs (note 7)||||||||37,638|10,809|48,447|46,878| |Travel||||||||3,634||3,634|1,594| |Communications||||||||2,206||2,206|632| |Fundraising
materials||||||||727||727|596| |Legal & professional||||||||2,919|1,133|4,052|2,770| |Other||||||||45||45|| |||||||||47,169|11,942|59,111|52,470| ||||||47,169||||||| |Charitable
activities|||||||||||| |Staffcosts (note 7)|||177,576||49,165|21,152|||189,852|437,745|359,135| |Travel|||29,951||7,262|1,686|||11,057|49,956|17,493| |Communications|||9,258||478|438|||1,938|12,112|14,947| |Legal &professional|||1,080|||767||||1,847|1,226| |Room hire and refreshments|||4,136|||219|||1,658|6,013|7,899| |Publicity 8 training|materials||||77,442|1,169|||12,516|91,127|95,396| |Insurance|||6,452|||||||6,452|2,608| |Other|||515|||11,107||||11,622|| ||||228,968||134,347|36,538|||217,021|616,874|498,704| ||||||399,853||||||| |Governance|||||||||||| |Staff costs (note 7)||||||||41,852|22,826|121,620|118,665| |Travel costs||||||||29,900|523|30,423|20,051| |Communications||||||||23,701|1,282|24,983|22,704| |Legal & professional||||||||17,382|8,389|25,771|22,280| |Insurance||||||||8,397||8,397|5,246| |Audit &accountancy||||||||4,600||4,600|2,040| |Premises
and depreciation||||||||19,187||19,187|25,516| |Other||||||||2,518||2,518|| |||||||||204,479|33,020|237,499|216,502| ||||||204,479||||||| |Total expenditure|||228,968||134,347|36,538||251,648|261,983|913,484|767,676| ||||||651,501||||||| |n 2022, f400,646 related to genera|||I unrestricted|funds and f367 030||related|to|restricted
fund|s||| |7
STAFF COSTS||||||||||2023
6|2022f| |Wages and salaries||||||||||539,406|436,963| |Social security casts||||||||||43,911|35,124| |Other pension costs||||||||||24,495|21,739| |||||||||||607,812|493,826| ## ## ||||2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---| |This is stated|after|charging:||F| |Independent|Examiner's
remuneration||2,500|2,040| |Depreciation|||13,110|16,190| |Directors'
indemnity||insurance|3,697|2,192| ## ## |10
TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS|10
TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||Office| ||||||||equipmentf| |Cost or valuation:|||||||| |At 1 April 2022|||||||123.105| |Additions|||||||| |At 31 March 2023|||||||123,105| |Depreciation:|||||||| |At 1 April 2022|||||||94,331| |Char e for the
ear|||||||13,110| |At 31 March 2023|||||||107,441| |Net book value|||||||| |At 31 March 2023|||||||15,664| |At1A ril2022|||||||28,774| |11
INVESTMENTS||||||2023|2022f| |Market value at 1 April 2022||||||546,620|| |Acquisitions
at cost|||||||542,172| |Sales proceeds from disposals|||||||| |Gain/(loss)
in the year||||||(21,688)|4,448| |Market value at 31 March|2023|||||524,932|546,620| |Investments
at market value comprised:|||||||| |Rathbone
Unit Trust Management
Core Investment|||Fund|for Charities|Income Fund|455,000|227,098| |M8G Equities investment|Fund for Charities|(Charifund)||Acc||41,872|| |Cash||||||28,060|319,522| |||||||524,932|546,620| |Historical cost as at 31 March 2023||||||509,109|542,172| |12
DEBTORS||||||2023|2022| |||||||E|F| |Amounts
falling due within one year|||||||| |Trade debtors||||||15|11,000| |Prepayments
and accrued|income|||||575|1,167| |Gift Aid tax refund||||||3,000|6,288| |||||||3,590|18,455| |13
CREDITORS: AMOUNTS|13
CREDITORS: AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE|FALLING DUE|WITHIN ONE YEAR|WITHIN ONE YEAR||||2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Trade creditors|||||||||6,111|14,039| |Other taxes and social security|||||||||10,270|16,102| |Other creditors|||||||||7,391|3,537| |Deferred
inCOme
&see also Nota 14)|||||||||7,917|| |Accrued expenses|||||||||3,976|6,917| ||||||||||38,263|40,595| |14
CREDITORS: AMOUNTS||FALLING DUE||AFTER MORE THAN||ONE YEAR|||2023|2022| |Deferred income||||||||||| |DEFERRED INCOME||||||||||| |At 1 April 2022||||||||||| |Income deferred
in year
Income deferred
in year|—for release
-for release|within
after|one year
more than|one year|||||7,917|| |Amount
released
in year||||||||||| |At 31 March 2023|||||||||7,917|| |15
FUNDS ANALYSIS||||General|Designated|||||| |||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|||||| |||||fund||fund|Restricted|fund|2023|2022| |||||E||E||||| |Tangible
fixed assets||||540,596|||||540,596|575,394| |Current assets||||473,155||317,123|97,999||888,277|828,376| |Liabilities||||(38,263)|||||(38,263)|(40,595)| |Net assets||||975,488||317,123|97,999||1,390,610|1,363,175| |16
MOVEMENT|IN FUNDS|||At 1 April|||Incoming||Outgoing|At 31| |||||2022||Transfers|resources||resources|March 2023| |||||8||||E|E|E| |Restricted funds||||||||||| |Voluntary
income||||57,047|||302,935||(261,983)|97,999| |Unrestricted
funds||||||||||| |Designated||||238,140||78,983||||317123| |General||||1,067,988||(78,983)|658,255||(671,772)|976,488| |||||1,363,175|||961,190||(933,755)|1,390,610|