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|Trustees'<br>Annual<br>Report (incorporating||||the|Director's Report)|1 to11|
|Independent|Auditor's|Report to|the Trustees|||12to 15|
|Statement|of Financial|Activities|(including||Income and||
|Expenditure|Account)|||||16|
|Statement|of Financial|Position||||17|
|Statement|of Cash Flows|||||18|
|Notes to the Financial||Statements||||19to 33|





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|Reference|and administrative|and administrative|and administrative|details|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Registered|charity|name||Living Options||Devon|||||
|Charity registration||number||1102489|||||||
|Company|registration||number|04925281|||||||
|Principal office and||registered||Units 3-4|Cranmere||Court||||
|office||||Lustleigh|Close||||||
|||||Mafford Business Park|||||||
|||||Exeter|||||||
|||||EX28PW|||||||
|The trustees||||A Barge (Chairman)|||||||
|||||S Fallon|||||||
|||||T G Naldrett|||||||
|||||B Imeson|||||||
|||||R Manley|||||||
|||||C R Holmes|||||(Appointed|29 June 2022)|
|||||C Radclyffe|||||(Appointed|15March 2023}|
|||||S Hyde|||||(Appointed|28 June 2023)|
|||||C Thorpe|||||(Retired 29|June 2022)|
|Company|secretary|||D King|||||||
|Auditor||||Westcotts|(SW) LLP||||||
|||||Chartered|Accountants|||& Statutory|Auditor||
|||||26-28 Southerhay|||East||||
|||||Exeter|||||||
|||||Devon|||||||
|||||EX1 1NS|||||||
|Bankers||||Lloyds|||||||
|||||234 High|Street||||||
|||||Exeter|||||||
|||||EX43NL|||||||
|Solicitors||||Kitson LLP|||||||
|||||The Forum|||||||
|||||Barnfield|Road||||||
|||||Exeter|||||||
|||||Devon|||||||





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|||||funds|funds|Totalfunds|Total funds|
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|Income||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||5|10,977|1,133|12,110|5,134|
|Charitable<br>activities|||6|1,801,117|118,098|1,919,213|1,981,738|
|Investment<br>income|||7|377||377|27|
|Other income||||288||266||
|Total Income||||1,812,737|119,229|1,931,966|1,986,897|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities|8,9|1,870,863|128,327|1,999,190|2,032,842|
|Total expenditure||||1,870,883|128,327|1,999,190|2,032,842|
|Net (expenditure)/income||and net||||||
|movement<br>In funds||||(58,126)|(9,098)|(67,224)|(45,745)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds||||||||
|Total funds<br>brought|forward||21|288,806|14,729|303,635|349,280|
|Total funds carried|forward|||230,880|5,831|236,311|303,535|





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|Fixed assets||||||||
|Tangible<br>fixed assets||||15||49,067|62,246|
|Current assets||||||||
|Debtors||||16|402,362||199,466|
|Cash at bank and|in|hand|||397,717||294,835|
||||||800,079||494,301|
|Creditors: amounts||falling|due within one year|17|(612,836)||(253,012)|
|Net current assete||||||187,244|241,289|
|Total assets less|current||gabllltles|||236,311|303,535|
|Net assets||||||236,311|303,535|
|Funds ofthe charity||||||||
|Restricted funds||||||5,631|14,729|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||230,680|288,806|
|Total charity funds||||22||236,311|303,535|





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|||||6|f|
|Cash flows from operating||activities||||
|Net (expenditure)/income||||(67,224)|(45,745)|
|Adjustments<br>for:||||||
|Depreciation<br>of tangible<br>hxed||assets||35,507|43,720|
|Government<br>grant income|||||(292)|
|Profit/loss<br>on disposal<br>of fixed assets||||(266)||
|Other interest receivable<br>and||similar income||(377)|(27)|
|Interest payable<br>and similar|charges||||4,216|
|Accrued expenses/(income)||||(85,294)|50,472|
|Changes/n:||||||
|Trade and other debtors||||(156,955)|(89,758)|
|Trade and other creditors||||399,176|39,698|
|Cash generated<br>from operations||||124,567|2,284|
|Interest<br>paid|||||(4,216)|
|Interest received||||377|27|
|Net cash (used in)/from<br>operating<br>activities||||124,944|(1,905)|
|Cash flows from Investing||activities||||
|Purchase<br>oftangible assets||||(22,062)|(11,305)|
|Net cash used<br>in investing|activities|||102,882|(11,305)|
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|Cash flows from financing||activities||||
|Government<br>grant income|||||292|
|Net cash from financing<br>activities|||||292|
|Net Increase/(decrease)<br>in||cash and cash|equivalents|102,882|(12,918)|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at beginning|ofyear|294,835|307,753|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at end ofyear||397,717|294,835|





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|Donations|||||||
|Donations|||1,133|10,977||12,110|
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|Government|grant|income|||||
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|Government|grant|income||292||292|
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||Grants|||250,173|118,096|368,269|
||Fess and contracts|||1,550,944||1,550,944|
|||||1,801,117|118,096|1,919,213|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||||Funds|Funds|2022|
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||Grants|||391,000|199,269|590,269|
||Fees and contracts|||1,391,467||1,391,467|
|||||1,782,467|199,269|1,981,736|
|7.|Investment|Income|||||
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||||Funds|2023|Funds|2022|
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|Service provision|||||15,087|16,087|
|Support costs||||1,870,863|113,240|1,984,103|
|||||1,870,863|128,327|1,999,190|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||||Funds|Funds|2022|
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|Service provision||||78,501|499|79,000|
|Support costs||||1,755,855|197,787|1,953,642|
|||||1,834,356|198,286|2,032,642|
|Expenditure|on charitable|activities|by activity type||||
||||Grant funding||Support|Total funds|
||||of activities|Direct costs|costs|2023|
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|Service provision||||15,087|1,958,432|1,973,519|
|Governance|costs||||25,671|25,671|
|||||15,087|1,984,103|1,999,190|
||||Grant funding||Support|Total funds|
||||of activities|Direct costs|costs|2022|
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|Service provision|||79,000||1,948,542|2,027,542|
|Governance|costs||||5,100|5,100|
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||Staff costs|||||1,142,952|1,025,629|
||Premises|||||80,015|82,339|
||Telephone|||||20,741|15,934|
||Depreciation|||||36,607|43,720|
||Bank charges|||||314|250|
||Enablement|costs||||30,089|24,156|
||Travel|||||29,937|21,657|
||Office costs|||||92,477|66,914|
||Recruitment|||||4,654|7,127|
||Training|||||14,679|23,812|
||Service provision fees|||||494,139|608,007|
||Publicity|||||737|1,367|
||Sundries|||||7,598|5,515|
||Volunteers'|expenses||||837||
||User costs|||||3,766|3,966|
||Governance|costs||||||
||Legal and professional||fees|||20,091|18,149|
||Audit fees|||||5,580|5,100|
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|11.|Analysis ofgrants|||||||
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||Grants to institutions||||||76,501|
||Grants to individuals||||||499|
||Total grants||||||79,000|
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||Net (expenditure)fiincome|||is stated|after charging/(crediting):|||
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||Depreciation|oftangible||fixed assets||36,607|43,720|
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||The total staff costs and|||employee|benefits for the reporting|period are analysed<br>as|follows:|
|||||||2023|2022|
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||Wages and|salaries||||1,021,778|923,257|
||Social security costs|||||80,866|67,358|
||Employer<br>contributions||to pension||plans|40,308|35,014|
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|nil), ofwhich<br>Enil (2021: <br>Tangible fixed assets|Enil) related to t|he attendance a|t various meetin|gs.||
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||buildings|fittings|Equipment|Website|Total|
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|At 1 April 2022|92,267|110,565|439,822|47,224|689,878|
|Additions||8,166|13,896||22,062|
|Disposals||(46,001)|(8,847)|(12,707)|(67,555)|
|At 31 March 2023|92,267|72,730|444,871|34,517|644,385|
|Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2022|83,937|103,555|408,986|31,154|627,632|
|Charge for the year|4,165|8,634|20,470|2,238|35,607|
|On disposal||(46,235)|(8,879)|(12,707)|(67,821)|
|At 31 March 2023|88,102|65,954|420,577|20,685|595,318|
|Carrying<br>amount||||||
|At 31 March 2023|4,165|6,776|24,294|13,832|49,067|
|At 31 March 2022|8,330|7,010|30,836|16,070|62,246|





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||Trade debtors|||||285,314|167,523|
||Prepayments||and|accrued income||117,048|31,943|
|||||||402,362|199,466|
|17.|Creditors: amounts||||falling due within one year|||
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||Trade creditors|||||44,109|56,699|
||Accruals|and|deferred||income|soa,st6|160,393|
||Social security||and other taxes|||18,681|17,433|
||VAT|||||30,013||
||Other creditors|||||10,416|18,487|
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|18.|Defened|Income||||||
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||Amount|released||to income||(105,769)|(82,667)|
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||1 April 2021<br>f|Income<br>f|Expenditure<br>E|Transfers|2022<br>9|
|General funds|300,019|1,787,628|(1,834,356)|35,515|288,806|
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||1 April 2022|Income<br>f|Expendituref|Transfers<br>6|2023|
|Big Lottery Fund - Time||||||
|to Talk Reaching||||||
|Communities|558|15,085|(15,643)|||
|NHS Charities Together|14,171|41,944|(50,484)||5,631|
|Deaf Work Club||833|(833)|||
|'-Devon<br>Community||||||
|Foundation<br>Household||||||
|Support Grant||6,796|(6,796)|||
|Skills for Care||||||
|Workforce Development||||||
|Fund for Individual||||||
|Employers||7,370|(7,370)|||
|Big Lotteiy Fund-||||||
|Wellbeing<br>Service||12,366|(12,366)|||
|Devon Community||||||
|foundation<br>DCC Food,||||||
|Fuel and More||12,835|(12,835)|||
|Peter Harrison||10,000|(10,000)|||
|James Tudor||5,000|(5,000)|||
|Devon Community||||||
|Foundation<br>Community||||||
|Grant Framing<br>Nature||2,000|(2,000)|||
|Devon Community||||||
|Foundation<br>Devonian||||||
|Grant Scheme||5,000|(5,000)|||
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||1 April 2021<br>f|Income<br>8|Expendituref|Transfers<br>f|2022<br>E|
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|Fund-Heritage<br>Ability|35,515|||(35,515)||
|Big Lottery Fund —Time||||||
|to Talk Reaching||||||
|Communities|13,748|102,883|(115,871)||558|
|NHS Charities Together||31,708|(17,537)||14,171|
|Deaf Work Club||12,000|(12,000)|||
|Devon Community||||||
|Foundation||5,948|(5,948)|||
|NET DPD's Emergency||||||
|Covid Fund||15,614|(15,614)|||
|The National<br>Lottery||||||
|Community<br>Fund||10,000|(10,000)|||
|Devon Community||||||
|Foundation<br>Household||||||
|Support Grant||499|(499)|||
|Skills for Care||||||
|Workforce Development||||||
|Fund for Individual||||||
|Employers||15,817|(15,817)|||
|Ltvewell||5,000|(5,008)|||
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|Tangible|fixed assets||49,067||49,067|
|Current|assets||778,514|21,565|800,079|
|Creditois|less than|1 year|(596,901)|(t5,984)|(612,835)|
|Net assets|||230,680|5,631|236,311|
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|Tangible|fixed assets||62,156|90|62,246|
|Current assets|||448,569|45,732|494,301|
|Creditors|less than|1 year|(221,919)|(31,093)|(253,012)|
|Net assets|||288,806|14,729|303,535|





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|Cash at bank and|in hand||294,835|102,882|397,717|
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|Cash at bank and|in hand||307,753|(12,918)|294,835|
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|Income||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||5,134||6,134|
|Charitable<br>activities<br>Investment<br>income||4|1,782,467<br>27|199,269|1,981,735<br>27|
|Total income|||1,787,628|199,269|1,986,897|
|Expenditure||||||
|Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities|1,834,356|198,286|2,032,642|
|Total expenditure|||1,834,356|198,286|2,032,642|
|Net income/(expenditure)|||(46,728)|983|(47,745)|
|Transfers<br>between|funds||35,515|(35,515)||
|Net movement<br>in|funds||(11,213)|(34,532)|(45,745)|
|Reconciliation<br>of|funds|||||
|Total funds<br>brought|forward||300,019|49,261|349,280|
|Total funds carried forward|||288,806|14,729|303,535|





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|The total|future|minimum|lease payments|under non-cancellable|operating|leases are|as follows:|
|||||||2023|2022|
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|Not later than||1 year||||40,680|59,453|
|Later than|1 year and not||later than 5 years|||3,807|40,514|
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