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|Trustees||LB Harwood|LB Harwood|(Chair)|(Chair)|||
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|||M A Lishman||||||
|||E LPlachciak||||||
|||P Geraghty||MBE||||
|||C Barrow||||(Appointed|22 September 2022)|
|||L Brown||||(Appointed|22 September 2022)|
|||D Livesey||||(Appointed|22 September 2022)|
|||J Ewans||||(Appointed|3January 2023)|
|||H Hamilton-Smith||||(Appointed|3January 2023)|
|Charity number||1100978||||||
|Company|number|04777720||||||
|Registered|otflce|21-23Blackburn|||Road|||
|||Accrington||||||
|||BB51HF||||||
|Chief executive officer||Amends<br>Greenwood||||||
|Auditor||Smith &Goulding|||Limited|||
|||4 Southport||Road||||
|||Chorley||||||
|||Lancashire||||||
|||PR7 1LD||||||
|Bankers||Unity Trust|Bank|||||
|||Nine Brindleyplace||||||
|||Birmingham||||||
|||B12HB||||||
|Solicitors||Robinson's|Solicitors|||||
|||Beckett House||||||
|||17Sovereign||Court||||
|||Wyrefietds||||||
|||Poulton||||||
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|Chief Operations<br>Officers report|||
|Trustees'<br>report||3-11|
|Statement oftrustees'|responsibilities|12|
|Independent<br>auditor's|report|13-15|
|Statement offinancial|activities|18|
|Balance sheet||17|
|Statement ofcash flows||18|
|Notes to the financial|statements|19-31|





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||||funds|funds||funds|funds||
||||2023|2023|2023|2022|2022|2022|
|||Notes|6|E|6|6|8|6|
|Income and endowments||from:|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||2|26,891||26,891|31,449||31,449|
|Charitable<br>activities||3|1,444,536|1,334,909|2,779,445|1,898,460|637,739|2,536,199|
|Other trading<br>activities||4|38,120||38,120|51,793||51,793|
|Investments||5|3,158||3,158|4||4|
|Other income||6|1,474||1,474|73,871||73,871|
|Total income|||1,514,179|1,334,909|2,849,088|2,055,577|637,739|2,693,316|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||||
|Raising funds|||49,997||49,997|63,891||63,891|
|Charitable<br>activities|||1,287,931|1,379,567|2,667,498|1,792,780|702,013|2,494,793|
|Total expenditure|||1,337,928|1,379,567|2,717,495|1,856,671|702,013|2,558,684|
|Net gains on|||||||||
|investments|||7,343||7,343|1,389||1,389|
|Net incomel(expenditure)|||183,594|(44,658)|138,936|200,295|(64,274)|136,021|
|Transfers<br>between|||||||||
|funds|||(37,119)|37,119|||||
|Net movement|in||||||||
|funds|||146,475|(7,539)|138,936|200,295|(64,274)|136,021|
|Reconciliation|offunds:||||||||
|Fund balances at 1 Apdil 2022|||875,266|109,996|985,262|674,971|174,270|849,241|
|Fund balances|at31March||||||||
|2023|||1,021,741|102,457|1,124,198|875,266|109,996|985,262|





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||||Notes|6||6||
|Fixed assets||||||||
|Tangible assets|||13||242,848||243,890|
|Investments|||14||28,455||21,112|
||||||271,303||265,002|
|Current assets||||||||
|Debtors|||15|367,434||306,869||
|Cash at bank and|in|hand||653,835||590,219||
|||||1,021,269||897,088||
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within||||||
|one year|||16|(168,374)||(176,828)||
|Net current assets|||||852,895||720,260|
|Total assets less|current liabilities||||1,124,198||985,262|
|Income funds||||||||
|Restricted funds|||21||102,457||109,996|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||
|Designated<br>funds|||19|81,903||155,549||
|General unrestricted||funds||939,838||719,717||
||||||1,021,741||875,266|
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|||||Notes|5||8|||
|Cash flows from operating|||activities|||||||
|Cash generated||from operations||24||60,458|||103,335|
|Investing|activities|||||||||
|Investment|income received||||3,158|||||
|Net cash|generated<br>from investing|||||||||
|activities||||||3,158||||
|Net cash|used|in financing|activities|||||||
|Net increase<br>in||cash and cash equivalents||||63,616|||103,339|
|Cash and|cash|equivalents|at beginning|ofyear||590,219|||486,880|
|Cash and|cash|equivalents|at end of|year||653,835|||590,219|





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|Donations||and gifts|||26,891|31,449|
|Charitable|||activities||||
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||||||activities|activities|
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|Courses|||||222|185|
|Services|provided|||under contract|1,268,713|1,291,828|
|Performance|||related grants||1,510,510|1,244,186|
||||||2,779,445|2,536,199|
|Analysis|by||fund||||
|Unrestricted|||funds||1,444,536|1,898,460|
|Restricted||funds|||1,334,909|637,739|
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|||funds|funds|
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|Fundraising|events|36,124|50,911|
|Shop income||1,996|582|
|Other income|||300|
|Other trading|activities|38,120|51,793|





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|||||funds|funds|
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|||||6|8|
||interest receivable|||3,158||
|6|Other income|||||
|||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|
|||||funds|funds|
|||||2023|2022|
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||Other income|||1,474|73,871|
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|||||Unreatncted|Unrestncted|
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|||||2023|2022|
|||||8|8|
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||Staging fundraising||events|1,193|355|
||Staff costs|||48,804|63,536|
||Fundraising|and publicity||49,997|63,891|
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||||activibes|activibes|
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||||6|6|
|Staffcosts|||1,904,809|1,882,922|
|Training costs|||10,299|23,814|
|Volunteer expenses|||2,181|1,360|
|Tutor, course fees and||bank statf|1,936|3,583|
|ITand communication||costs|108,583|71,943|
|Books and leaflets|||6,581|9,398|
|Travelling<br>costs|||23,877|12,804|
|Rent, rates, utilities|and room hire||77,302|24,504|
|Repairs and renewals|||24,897|47,162|
|Postage, stationery|and office costs||14,116|14,995|
|Sundry expenses|||17,914|4,545|
|Subcontracted<br>services|||180,408|118,065|
|Insurance|||13,426|9,791|
|Bank charges|||799|877|
|Other charitable<br>expenditure|||51,143|28,599|
||||2,438,271|2,254,362|
|Share ofsupport costs||(see note 9)|155,799|158,010|
|Share ofgovernance|oosts (see note 9)||73,428|82,421|
||||2,667,498|2,494,793|
|Analysis<br>by fund|||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||1,287,931|1,792,780|
|Restdicted funds|||1,379,567|702,013|
||||2,667,498|2,494,793|
|Forthe year ended|31March 2022||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||1,792,780||
|Restricted funds|||702,013||
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|||Support|Governance|2023|Support costs|Governance|2022|
|||costs|costs|||costs||
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|Staff costs||155,799||155,799|158,010||158,010|
|Accountancy|||6,872|6,872||8,036|8,036|
|Legal and professional|||7,396|7,396||1,632|1,632|
|Professional fees|||55,272|55,272||64,252|64,252|
|Staff recruitment|costs||2,846|2,846||7,079|7,079|
|Depreciation|||1,042|1,042||1,422|1,422|
|||155,799|73,428|229,227|158,010|82,421|240,431|
|Analysed<br>between||||||||
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|Charitable|activities|95|95|
|Employment<br>costs||2023|2022|
|||8|8|
|Wages and|salaries|1,915,011|1,915,433|
|Social security costs||157,865|161,893|
|Other pension costs||36,536|27,142|
|||2,109,412|2,104,468|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|At 1 April 2022|||116,000|125,156|57,152|34,740|333,048|
|At 31March|2023||116,000|125,156|57,152|34,740|333,048|
|Depreciation|and impairment|||||||
|At 1 April 2022|||||55,178|33,980|89,158|
|Depreciation|charged|in the year|||282|760|1,042|
|At 31 March|2023||||55,460|34,740|90,200|
|Carrying<br>amount||||||||
|At 31 March|2023||116,000|125,156|1,692||242,848|
|At 31 March|2022||116,000|125,156|1,974|760|243,890|



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||investments|
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|Cost orvaluation||
|At 1April 2022|21,112|
|Valuation changes|7,343|
|At 31 March 2023|28,455|
|Canying amount||
|At 31 March 2023|28,455|
|At 31 March 2022|21,112|



|Debtors||||||
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|||||2023|2022|
|Amounts<br>falling due||within one year:||8|2|
|Trade debtors||||177,195|163,723|
|Other debtors||||159,548|125,713|
|Prepayments|and accrued income|||30,691|17,433|
|||||367,434|306,869|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year||||
|||||2023|2022|
||||Notes|2|8|
|Other taxation|and social security|||40,943|42,176|
|Deferred income|||17|60,115|76,537|
|Trade creditors||||42,892|24,493|
|Accruals and|deferred|income||24,424|33,622|
|||||168,374|176,828|
|Deferred income||||||
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||||||1April 2021f||f|1April 2022<br>f|f|31 March 2023<br>f|
|Designated|fund|||||150,000|5,549|155,549|(73,646)|81,903|
|||||||150,000|5,549|155,549|(73,646)|81,903|
|The trustees|have designated|||f81,903|to ensure<br>that funds are available<br>for the settlement<br>of redundancy||||||
|costs and outstanding||lease obligations|||in the|event ofthe winding<br>up||ofthe charitable|company.||
|Analysis of|net assets||between funds||||||||
||||Unrestricted||Restricted||Total|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||funds||funds||funds|funds||
|||||2023<br>f||2823<br>f|2023|2022|2022<br>f|2022<br>f|
|Fund balances<br>at 31|||||||||||
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|Tangible assets||||242,848|||242,848|243,890||243,890|
|investments||||28,455|||28,455|21,112||21,112|
|Current assetsl(liabilities)||||750,438|102,457||852,895|610,264|109,996|720,260|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Balance at|Incoming|Resources|Transfers|Balance at|
||1Apra 2822|resources|expended||st March 2623|
||8|6|6||8|
|Lottery Digital Fund|39,374|36,752|(76,126)|||
|BBOAge ofOpportunity|3,422|21,838|(47,010)|21,750||
|Smallwood<br>-Setto Go and Covid 19||||||
|Response|16,792|31,042|(29,901)|892|18,825|
|Big Lottery - Positive Outcomes for||||||
|Women|22,238|30,021|(49,163)||3,096|
|Starting Well|23,170|218,797|(235,438)||6,529|
|Household<br>Support|5,000||(3,026)||1,974|
|BBO3Changing<br>Futures||118,305|(100,141)||18,164|
|ESFMPT||84,008|(98,485)|14,477||
|POW2||47,151|(49,350)||(2,199)|
|BWD Complex Case Hub||30,000|(30,000)|||
|British Gas||45,000|(42,956)||2,044|
|British Gas Energy Measures||30,270|(28,578)||1,692|
|Energy Redress 2||168,465|(168,465)|||
|Energy Trust (Money Redress)||29,948|(29,948)|||
|HSF 3Fund||8,000|(2,342)||5,658|
|LCC Drugs /Alcohol||205,275|(164,438)||40,837|
|Lot 3Raising Aspirations||176,416|(175,627)||789|
|FAM (fishwick &St Matthews)||45,621|(41,897)||3,724|
|HSF Blackpool COL Grant||8,000|(6,676)||1,324|
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||The charity had no debt during||the year.||||||
|24|Cash generated<br>from|operations|||||2023<br>f|2022f|
||Surplus for the year||||||138,936|136,021|
||Adjustments<br>for:||||||||
||Investment<br>income recognised||in statement|offinancial||activities|(3,158)|(4)|
||Fair value gains and losses on||investments||||(7,343)|(1,389)|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment<br>oftangible fixed assets||||||1,042|1,422|
||Movements<br>in working|capital:|||||||
||(Increase)/decrease<br>in|debtors|||||(60,565)|8,224|
||Increase/(decrease)<br>in|creditors|||||7,968|(873)|
||(Decrease) in deferred|income|||||(18,422)|(38,068)|
||Cash generated<br>from|operations|||||60,458|103,335|



