Registered Charity Number: 1102670
MORFA FAMILY CENTRE
ANNUAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MAY 2025
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MORFA FAMILY CENTRE
CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025
Contents
Page Administrative Details 2 Report of the Trustees 3-7 Report of the Independent Examiner 8 Statement of Financial Activities 9 Statement of Assets and Liabilities 10 Notes to the Financial Statements 11-13
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 May 2025. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with the charity's trust deed and, the Charities Act 2011, and 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 (FRS102) (effective 1 January 2019).
REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS
Registered Charity Number 1102670 Registered Address Morfa Children’s Centre School Road Morfa anelli SA15 2AP Trustees Ms Christine Marie Evans Mr Sean Rees Ms Shaunna Williams Ms Trudy Walters Ms Christine Lee Centre Manager Mrs Lucy Craggs Bankers Uoyds Bank Uanelli Independent Examiners Harris Bassett Ltd Chartered Accountants 19 Murray Street Uanelli Carmarthenshire SA15 1AQ
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MORFA FAMILY CENTRE
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Morfa Family Centre is a charity governed by a constitution as adopted 21* October 2003. It is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission.
The aims and objects of the charity are to develop at a local level the skills and nurturing capacity of families, parents and carers so the wellbeing and life chances of their children are enhanced.
Plant Dewi are the employer for the staff at Morfa Family Centre and the appointed Plant Dewi Project Worker advises and manages the Centre manager.
Public Benefit
The public benefit through having a service that provides families with children aged 0-4 years (0-11 during school holidays) with free access to a wide variety of play activities, free accredited training/courses on parenting skills, free trips and outings, and an open door policy promoting equal opportunities for all families. The centre also works dosely with other like-minded organisations and therefore is able to sign-post families in need to other professionals. By providing this service we preserve and protect health and relieve stress within family relationships.
Appointment of Trustees
Trustees are appointed, as set out in the constitution. Professionals and service users within the community who have a personal interest in the charity, are invited to join the management committee as appropriate. Committee members can also be co-opted when appropriate.
Trustee Induction and Training
As part of induction all trustees are DBS checked and shown the relevant documentation regarding the running of the family centre.
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Organisation Structure
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| Chair DCSR
Project Manager
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Strategic Manager |
[- [Shared] [Centre] Coe [Project] Manager —Play Worker
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025 Cont'd
Trustees are consulted on all aspects of accounting, policies and procedures and are involved in the decision making regarding the day-to-day running of the centre. The Centre Manager is responsible for keeping order of files, office work and over seeing all other day-to-day activities at the centre.
Related Parties
Piant Dewi are the employer for the staff at Morfa Family Centre and an appointed Plant Dewi Project Worker advises and manages the Centre manager.
Risk Management
Risk management has been reviewed in terms of child protection policies, risk assessments of events and trips, the undertaking of the Disclosure and Barring Service and health and safety issues. The trustees feel that they have taken all reasonable steps to protect beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and the organisation itself.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
The object of the charity is about prevention and early intervention.
The constitution states the two objects as
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|. The preservation and protection of health and the relief of distress within family relationships by the provision of a resource and advice centre and by the education of the public in good parenting skills.
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ll. The provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time activities for families with young children in the interests of social welfare with a view to improving conditions of life.
The charity works in partnership with parents and carers. It empowers them in order to better cope with family life and therefore gives their children a better start in life.
The aims of Morfa Family Centre is to ensure children:-
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© Havea flying start in life
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© Have a range of educational and learning opportunities
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© Enjoy the best possible health, free from abuse Have access to play, leisure and cultural activities
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e Are listened to, respected and have their identity recognised
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e Havea safe home and community e Are not disadvantaged by poverty
The objectives for the next year are:-
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e Provide a safe, warm and welcoming environment
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© Provide access to various play equipment and activities
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«© Empower parents by offering training and support e Provide opportunities to go on trips and outings
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© Continue outreach work to identify isolated families
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© Provide courses, workshops, play activities for parents and their children to do together.
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¢ Provide a weekly lunch club at the centre to provide and teach families how to cook and promote healthy eating/recipes on a budget.
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« Provide a programme of exercise and fun activities for the family
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e Promote childrens independence through play * Provide Meal Packs to encourage families to cook healthy meals at home, grow confidence cooking from scratch and trying new recipes.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025 Cont'd
ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
Morfa Family Centre is based in a state of the art room with excellent facilities. Partnership working is strong and agencies such as Health Visitors come to the centre on a regular basis. The staff have provided a variety of activities and sessions for the children and their families and work in partnership with Plant Dewi, ICC, Flying Start and other providers to provide parents and children with information sessions together with practical activities and workshops.
Activities
General activities at the centre have included cooking, gardening, themed arts and craft sessions, messy play, play-day activities, fun days, nature walks and read with me sessions. Healthy eating and active lifestyles are Promoted at the centre and there is a weekly lunch club. Parents benefited enjoyed the healthy eating and low budget meals that are demonstrated in the health promotion sessions.
The weekly structure includes:
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© Baby group on Thursday morning, that gives parents and babies the space to enjoy free play, messy play and crafts e.g. baby keepsakes.
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© Well- being sessions on a Thursday afternoon for parents and children which incorporates crafts, cooking activities, as well as various play opportunities. Sessions are focused on supporting the cost of living crisis.
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Stay and Play is held on a Friday with free play, crafts, messy play, stories, songs, dancing, cooking and various learning and play opportunities for parents and their children.
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¢ Lunch Club is held on Friday during Stay and Play and provides parents and children with a two-course healthy meal, with at least three fruit or vegetable servings. The children where possible will help prepare the food.
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Morfa Meals, each week a recipe is chosen, all the ingredients are provided, to up to 20 families. The meal is then cooked with their children at home. The packs are collected Thursday or Friday during the centre opening times.
Links with Flying Start, Health Visitors, Maes Y Morfa School, Jellitotz Nursery, Perinatal Mental Health Service as well as other professional agencies such as Legacy Project, DWP, Wales PPA and Communities First are very strong and we continue to work dosely with these agencies and families within Morfa and the surrounding areas.
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Highlights
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The centre has attracted a number of funding pots to sustain the setting over the last year
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- The centre has 2 regular members of staff which has enabled us to offer continuity for families attending the centre instead of relying on sessional staff to deliver sessions
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Local families are feeling less isolated due to attending Morfa Family Centre, with a lot of families moving in and out of the area, parents feel like they belong to something when they come to the Family Centre. They, therefore, feel more secure in the community as they know more people.
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¢ Lunch club allows children and parents to try new foods. It also develops children’s social skills by teaching them and getting them used to sitting at the table, using cutlery etc. These skills have been developed and used in the home. Furthermore, it has also inspired families to recreate the dishes made at the family centre and try them at home.
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¢ Activities this year have included themed events such as Christmas, Chinese New Year, Valentines day, St David’s Day, Mothers Day, Easter, Fathers Day and Summer trips. We made a conscious effort this year to also celebrate more Welsh holidays such as Santes Dwynwen, to strengthen, teach and promote Welsh culture and history.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025 Cont’d
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© Positives partnerships have been formed with ICC staff, Marfa school staff, Communities for Wark and Flying Start and the foodbank.
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Lunch Club is very well attended with regular group of attendees and some who come for the social aspect for themselves and their children. We have noticed a dramatic increase in attendees especially since the cost-of-living crisis, with numbers reaching twenty families for lunch. It also allows children and parents to try new foods and develops children’s social skills by teaching them and getting them used to sitting at the table, using cutlery etc. These skills have been developed and used in the hame. Furthermore, it has also inspired families to recreate the dishes made at the family centre and try them at home
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We have also seen an increase in our Baby Group attendance as more parents are feeling more confident to attend groups with infants as the pandemic has moved further behind us.
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- This year has seen our Morfa Meals project enter our second year. We have been providing families with the ingredients to make a recipe at home. We have been providing between 15-20 meals a week, each pack contains a meal to feed a family of 4. This cooking experience includes input from all family, to help widen healthy meal choices in the home, grow parents’ confidence cooking from scratch, encouraging young children to read, measure, mix, cut and food hygiene. It also provides an opportunity to try new foods and flavours to broaden the families food choices.
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The centre has managed to secure funding for trips and socialising events. This has meant a lot to families as it has enabled not only the children to gain social skills but parents themselves have benefitted from the interactions together. It has been hard for some families to take the step to getting Out and about again and the trips have helped them to feel less anxious and start to enjoy their surroundings together.
Reserves Policy
The trustees reviewed the charity's needs for reserves in line with the guidance issued by the Charity Commission. The greatest area of risk to the effectiveness of the charity is loss of grant funding. In the event of such a loss the trustees wish to be able to maintain services for at least 3 months to enable other sources of funding to be secured or to make changes to existing services. The trustees therefore feel that reserves should normally approximate to 3 - 6 months of the largest grant. This currently equates to approximately £5,000 - £10,000. As of 31 May 2025, reserves held equated to £8,966, which is below the top end of this range. The trustees are considering ways to increase unrestricted funds and continue to monitor reserves on an annual basis.
STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES IN RELATION TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The trustees are responsible for preparing a trustees’ annual report and financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the charity trustees to prepare financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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e Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; « Observe the methods and principles in the applicable Charities SORP;
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
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e Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025 Cont'd
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the applicable Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations, and the Provisions of the Trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
This Report was approved by the Trustees on... Zen bla eee and signed on its behalf by SA
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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025
Independent examiner's report to the Trustees of Morfa Family Centre
I report on the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 31 May 2025, which are set out on pages 8 to 13.
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Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit ts not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to an audit and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:
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to examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities 2011 Act;
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to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
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to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner's report
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination indudes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts Presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The Procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent examiner's statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
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to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
E Truman FCA
Harris Bassett Ltd
Chartered Accountants
- 19 Murray Street
Uanelli
Carmarthenshire
SA15 1AQ
Date:
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|STATEMENT|OF|FINANCIAL|ACTIVITIES|
|FOR|THE|YEAR ENDED|31|MAY|2025|
|Note|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|2025£|2025£|2025£|2024£|
|Receipts|
|Gifts|and|donations|835|~|835|1,073|
|Grants|2|500|39,998|40,498|24,777|
|Total|receipts|1335|39,998|41,333|25,850|
|Payments|
|CharitableGovernanceactivities costs|4|.|5,077|5,077|3,295|
|Activity|Resources|&|Trips|-|380|380|48|
|Insurance|-|673|673|629|
|Membership|-|30|30|.|
|Equipment|-|-|-|-|
|Room|Hire|-|12|12|115|
|Stationery|&|Computer|Costs|-|186|186|125|
|Food|Club|109|2,105|2,214|1,500|
|Salaries,|tax|and|NIC|3|-|26,566|26,566|12,148|
|DBS|-|28|28|123|
|Telephone|-|32|32|-|
|Training|-|33|313|-|
|Sundries|:|||57|
|TotalTotal charitablepayments|payments|109|35,402|35,511|18,040|
|Net Funds|1,226|4,596|5,822|2,810|
|B/Fwd|funds|previous|year end|7,740|14,549|22,289|14,479|
|Transfer|between|funds|:|:|:|:|
|C/Fwd|fund|current|year end|8,966|19,145|28,111|22,289|
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| MORFA FAMILY CENTRE | |||
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| BALANCE SHEET | |||
| AS AT 31 MAY 2025 | |||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| £ | £ | ||
| ASSETS | |||
| Current assets | |||
| Cash at bank and in hand | |||
| Bank Account | 27,711 | 22,125 | |
| Petty cash &Sum Up Account NETCURRENTASSETS TOTALASSETS LESSCURRENT |
LIABILITIES | —400 28,111 28,111 |
164 22,289 22,289 |
| NETASSETS | 28,111 | 22,289 | |
| Fund Breakdown | |||
| Unrestricted funds - Reserve | 8,966 | 7,740 | |
| Restricted funds TotalFunds |
19,145 28,111 |
14,549 22,289 |
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Signed on behalf of the Trustees
Name ...... SLA N.... EE Son
Signature............... Sha2< ee neeit
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025
Notes to the accounts for period ended 31 May 2025
1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the Preparation of the financial statements are as follows:
Basis of Preparation
The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis on a consistent basis.
INCOMING RESOURCES Recognition of incoming resources These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the charity receives the resources.
Incoming resources with related expenditure Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA.
Grants and donations
Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the charity has received the resources.
Contractual income and performance related grants
This is only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.
Gifts in kind
Gifts in kind are accounted for as a reasonable estimate of their value to the charity or the amount actually realised. Gifts in kind for sale or distribution are included in the accounts as gifts only when sold or distributed by the charity. Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SoFA as incoming resources when receivable.
Donated services and facilities
These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources expended) where the benefit to the charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material. The value placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the service or facility received.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025 Cont’d
Volunteer help
The value of any voluntary help received is not induded in the accounts but is described in the trustees’ annual report.
Investment income
This is included in the accounts when received.
Investment gains and losses
This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments and any gain or loss resulting from revaluing investments to market value at the end of the year.
EXPENDITURE AND LIABLITIES Liability recognition
Liabilities are recognised as soon as paid by the charity.
Governance costs
This includes costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or charity matters.
Support costs
Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
RESTRICTED INCOME
Restricted funds are received for a specific purpose within the objects of the charity and must be accounted for separately. All income has therefore been shown as restricted where the donor has stated that the income can only be used for a specified purpose or where it has been raised through an appeal for a specified purpose. Fund movements were as follows:
| Restricted Fundsbreakdown | Restricted Fundsbreakdown | 2024 Balance B/F £ |
Income Additions £ |
Expenditure Funds £ |
2025 BalanceC/F £ |
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| Moondance National Lottery Community Postcode Garfield Weston CommunityFoundationWales Tesco Foyles Leathersellers Leathersellers Restricted |
Wales - |
- - 2,429 3,032 2,088 - 5,000 2,000 — 14,549 |
16,373 7,861 : 5,000 4,639 1,125 - - 5,000 39,998 |
16,329 490 2,429 3,196 4,756 1,202 5,000 2,000 —— 35,402 |
44 7,371 - 4,836 1,971 (77) - - 5,000 19,145 |
| Unrestricted | 1.740 | 4335 | 199 | 8,966 |
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025
3. SALARY AND WAGES
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Total staff costs comprised:
Wages and salaries (induding employers NI & pension) £26,566 Total staff costs
The average monthly number of employees in the year was 2
No employees received emoluments of more than £60,000
4. GOVERNANCE COSTS
Includes costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and costs of any legal advice to trustees on governance of charity matters.
There was no trustee remuneration.
Governance costs were as follows:
£ AR Support Consultancy 3,248 Health and Safety Support Services 1,325 Independence examination 504 £5,077