REGISTERED COLVIPANY NUNIBER: 04777289 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHAIIITY NUMBER: 1102083 ort of the tees aud Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 for Dressabili Chris Vaughan Accountants 195 Ennin Street Swindon Wiltshi SN3 4NA Dressabili Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 Pagc Report of the TTh￿es Independent Examin&s Report Ststement of Financial Activities Balance Sheet Notes to the Financial Ststements 7 to 14 Detailed Statement of Financial Activities 15 to 16 Dressabili ort of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 The Trustees who are also directors of the Charity for the PUTposes of the Companies Act 2006. present their report with the financial ststements of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2024. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Cl￿rities. Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing theiI accounts in accordance with the Financial Rq)orting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective l January 2015). OBJECTtVES AND ACTivrrIES Objectives and alms The principal activity of the clwitable company continues to be the delivery of a specialist clothing adaptation service for people with physical or learning disabilities and l or mobility impairments, on the basis of promoting independence, wellbeing and inclusivity. Public benefit The Tn￿tee8 have paid due regard to the Clwity Commission's guidance on public benefit in deciding what activities the Charity should undertake. The Trustees consider that they have acted in the public benefit and have discbarged their respollsibilities accoidingly. Volunteers Our volunteer sewing sessions are held four days a week For the financial year there have been a total of 742 hours volunteered by our dressmakers.with projects including de-branding, making items for our Christmas and Summer Sales, and producing draillage bags for local hospitals .Over 100 drainage bags have been donated to the Great Western Hospital (GWH) Breast Clinic,Salisbury General Hospital and the Churchill Hospital in Oxford Approximately 125 11 ltell￿ have been de-branded by our volunteers and donated to various charitsble organisations. The volunteers have also made tabards for Wemyss Lodge - a local care and nursing home- which has raised £94.50 to date. A further 595 hours have been volunteered by admin volunteers and staff. The includes the rLllming of our Ebay sales one day a week for a little over a year, and attendance at local events. To thank our volunteers for their fantastic contnl)utIo￿ we held a Volunteers Week lunch in early June, and a Cljristmas buffet in December. This year, three volunteers celebrated 10 years of service with Dressability. 11 Charitable activities This year marked a special anniversary: 25 years of Dressability. As part of our celebrations, we were honoured to 11 welcome HRH The Princess Royal at our Swindon premises, alongside several other VIP guests. The visit was filmed by a BBC film crew and featured on tbe BBC Points West news programme. We also thanked our clients. volunteers and other friends of Dressability for their vital and va]ued conthljutions. In addition to serving our local community, we have worked with an incre&8ing number of clients from across the UK througb our postal service and some of our work has even been sent to Portugal and South Afric& In December 2023, we cel¢brat¢d our IOOth client of th¢ year, 99 Ye￿ old Swilldon residen( Antony. As most of our clients are Worne￿ we are increasingly reaching out to male audiences to raise awareness of our services, as we welcome anyone with a i• disability or who is aged over 65 years witb a clothing neeiL Reduce, reuse, recycle. We continue to provide debranding services, where we accq)t sU￿lUS branded garnients from 11 businesses, remove/cover their brandin& and deliver to local clwities - often supporting homelessness - so those in need are able to bave access to garments free of charge. 11 In November 2023 we held a Music Night at Swindon's Westlecot Bowls Club which raised £976, and we attended multiple events to engage with the local community, including Openworks, summer fete. Old Town's Cbristchvrch Christmas Faii. the U3A Open Day at St Joseph's College; and Carers, Rights Day at Swindon Town FC'S County GrounLI Dressabilitys efforts earned inclusion as a highlight in the Prince of Wales Fund's annual reporL and excitingly, we were honoured to be invited to the Coronation Concert. Two of our employees and two volunteers were grateful to atten(L and 11 had an excellent time. Other kind gestures included funding by a grant-making charity for a new industrial cover stitch 11 macbine; ongoing support from Sir Robert Bucklan(L MP for South Swind0￿ and an invitstion from the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust to afternoon tea at Lasborough House. Since attending, we were sad to hear of the passing 'of Julia Rausing, and we send our condolences to her family and friends. i• Dressabili ort of the Trustees e Year En.ded 31 March 2024 for 11 Fundraising activities Client fees and donations this year amount to almost 4.2% of our income, Dressabilitys own fundraising efforts 30/0, National Lottery 180/0, alld other income 3% ' As before we continue to rely primardy on the support of grant-making organisations whose donations amount to around 720/0 of our income. DressabiLity receives no statutory funding. As one of only two clwities in the UK offering a clothing adaptation ser