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|||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
|Income From:|||Notes|6|6|6|6|
|Donations<br>and|legacies|||35,296||35,296|66,623|
|Charitable<br>activities||||275,639|332,416|608,055|555,088|
|Other Trading|Activities|||0|||600|
|Investments||||3,352||3,352|778|
|Other Income|||||||1,619|
|Total Income||||314,287|332,416|646,703|624,708|
|~Edl<br>0:||||||||
|C ha rita b le Activities|||6|323,377|282,514|605,891|602,625|
|Total Expenditure||||323,377|282,514|605,891|602,625|
|Net income (expenditure)||and Net||||||
|movement<br>in|funds|||(9,091)|49,903|40,812|22,083|
|Transfers between<br>funds|||15|28,657|(28,657)|||
|Net movement|in funds|||19,566|21,246|40,812|22,083|
|Fund balances|brought forward|||197,118|23,042|220,160|198,077|
|Fund balances|carried forward|||216,684|44,288|260,972|220,160|





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|Tangible Assets|10||1,091||2,353|
|Investments|11||60||60|
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|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Debtors|12|101,248||100,376||
|Cash at Bank and in hand||182,267||229,668||
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|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year|13|(23,694)||(112,297)||
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||259,821||217,747|
|TOTAL ASSETS LESSCURRENT LIABILITIES|||260,972||220,160|
|FUNDS||||||
|Restricted<br>Funds|16||44,288||23,042|
|Unrestricted<br>Funds|16||216,684||197,118|
|TOTAL FUNDS|||260,972||220,160|



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|Cash Flow from Operating|Activities|||f|6|
|Cash generated<br>from operations|||19|(49,261)|3,063|
|Cashflow from Investing|Activities|||||
|Purchase oftangible fixed|assets|||(1,492)|(2,180)|
|Investment<br>income received||||3,352|778|
|Net Cash (used in)/generated<br>from investing||activities||1,860|(1,402)|
|Net cash used<br>in financing|activities|||||
|Net increase (decrease)<br>in cash in the year||||(47,401)|1,661|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the start ofthe|year||229,668|228,007|
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|Gift aid from trading subsidiary|||35,131||35,131|39,218|
|Gift in kind - rent||||||5,900|
|KM8C Coronavirus|Community|Fund Grant||||8,100|
|Other Donations|and grants||165||165|60|
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|||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
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|Managed<br>Accounts Service||||203,602||203,602|163,194|
|Direct Payments<br>Support<br>(Income from SLA/Contracts)||||64,025||64,025|70,565|
|FACE||||4,737||4,737||
|SirJules Thorn Charitable||Trust||2,000||2,000||
|Placement<br>and Session Delivery|||Fees|1,275||1,275|560|
|The National<br>Lottery|(A Good Life)||||162,798|162,798||
|EU/The Woman's<br>Organisation|||(TWO)||67,632|67,632||
|The National<br>Lottery|(Counselling)||||15,338|15,338||
|Workers Education Association|||||19,004|19,004||
|Skills for Care|||||18,951|18,951||
|Knowsley<br>Metropolitan||Borough Council|||10,000|10,000||
|The National<br>Lottery|(Someone||To Talk To)||6,878|6,878||
|Pilkington<br>Charitable|Trust||||6,000|6,000||
|Eleanor Rathbone|||||5,000|5,000||
|Nineveh<br>Trust|||||4,897|4,897||
|Liverpool<br>City Region|||||4,587|4,587||
|PH Holt|||||3,060|3,060||
|LCVS CIF Grant|||||2,500|2,500||
|Royal Society of Chemistry|||||1,972|1,972||
|Forest Recruitment|||||1,000|1,000||
|LCVS|||||1,000|1,000||
|Pathways<br>Association|||||800|800||
|Leeds Building Society|||||700|700||
|One Knowsley|||||300|300||
|Kickstart grant|||||||7,565|
|Misc, restricted<br>income projects|||||||12,256|
|Managing<br>My Money|grant||||||14,473|
|A Good Life grant|||||||128,212|
|TWO New Horizons grant|||||||63,264|
|BigScience Club grant|||||||11,384|
|BigGarden proJect grant|||||||354|
|Big Group grant|||||||23,125|
|Counselling<br>service|||||||4,020|
|Someone To Talk To|grant||||||2,984|
|Big Pathway grant|||||||22,125|
|Stories grant|||||||31,007|
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|Managed<br>Accounts Service|163,194||163,194|138,690|
|PHB Service Fees||||125|
|Placement fees|560||560||
|Direct Payments<br>Support|70,565||70,565|56,700|
|Money In Mind grant||||2,500|
|Managing<br>My Money grant||14,473|14,473|5,815|
|Henry Smith grant||||58,100|
|A Good Life grant||128,212|128,212|149,849|
|New Horizons grant||63,264|63,264|28,757|
|BIG Science Club grant||11,384|11,384|1,498|
|Maths and English Project grant||||9,996|
|National<br>Lottery grant||||1/08|
|BIG Garden Project grant||354|354||
|BIG Group grant||23,125|23,125||
|Counselling<br>service||4,020|4,020||
|Someone To Talk To grant||2,984|2,984||
|BIG Pathway<br>grant||22,125|22,125||
|Stories grant||31,007|31,007||
|I0ckstart grant|7,565||7,565||
|Misc Restricted income projects||12,256|12,256||
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|Expenditure<br>on cha|ritable<br>activities||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Management<br>Allocation|Direct staff<br>costs|Other direct<br>costs|Support &<br>governance|Total Funds|Total Funds|
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||2023|2023|2023|2023|2023|2022|
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|Appolnteeship<br>Service|6,543|26,691|1,408||34,642|21,250|
|Managed<br>Accounts|13,659|57,254|31,819||102,732|90,367|
|Direct Payments<br>Support|17,791|85370|2,433||105,594|124,975|
|ESF(Big Pathway)|6,761|26324|0||33,085|47,527|
|Money in Mind|0|0|0||0|0|
|Managing<br>my Money|1,736|5,939|327||8,003|14,355|
|BigGarden Prolect|10,647|24,735|1,699||37,081|354|
|The BigGroup|0|810|0||810|60,748|
|Learning and Development|0|2,000|0||2,000||
|Easy read Service|0|0|0||0|0|
|Maths and English proJect|0|0|51||51|0|
|A Good Ufe|8,383|33,126|111,925||153,434|128,212|
|Counseglng|0|0|4,680||4,680|4,020|
|Stories|3,505|12,008|19||15,532|32,334|
|New Horizons|18,666|59,710|3,634||82,010|86,931|
|BigScience Club|1,943|0|19||1,962|2,286|
|Someone to talk to|2,253|5,021|4,694||11,967|2,984|
|Other restricted proJects|0|0|1,758||1,758|6,530|
|Sklgs for care|0|0|9,189||9,189|13,345|
|Core running<br>costs||||41,787|41,787|10,657|
|Recharged to subsidiary||||(40,426)|(40,426)|(44,250)|
|Apportioned<br>to projects/services|||||0|0|
||91,888|338,988|173,654|1,361|605,891|602,625|
|Tota I 2022||476,547|159,671|(33,593)|602,625|460,122|
|Analysis<br>by fund:|||||||
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|Appolnteeshlp<br>Service|||||17,883||3,367||||21,250||||
|Managed<br>Accounts|||||72,481||17,886||||90,367|||97,505|
|ESF(BigPathway)|||||45/30||2,197||||47,527|||41,109|
|Direct Payments|Support||||111,907||13,068||||124,975|||81,978|
|Money in Mind||||||||||||||2,500|
|Managing<br>my Money|||||12,227||2,128||||14,355|||27458|
|The BigGroup|||||56,234||4/14||||60,748|||32,641|
|Easy read Service||||||||||||||9,996|
|Maths and English project|||||||||||||149,849||
|A Good Life|||||37,659||90,553||||128,212|||1,308|
|Counselling|||||||4,020||||4,020|||6,297|
|Stories|||||30,221||2,113||||32,334|||2,040|
|New Horizons|||||79,628||7,303||||86,931|||1,498|
|BigScience Club||||||2,012||274|||2,286|||4,890|
|Someone to talk|to|||||2,444||540|||2,984||||
|Big Garden Project||||||8||346|||354||||
|Other restricted<br>projects||||||2,056|4,474||||6/30||||
|Skills for care||||||6,457|6,888||||13,345||||
|Core running costs|||||||||10,657||10,657|||12,664|
|Recharged to subsidiary|||||||||||(44,250)|~(11,709|||
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|7<br>Analysis ofsupport|||and governance||costs||||||||||
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|Wages and salaries|||||||||75,253||(13,602)||||
|Other staff costs, expenses||||and consumables||||||2,856|||||
|Premises costs|||||||||15,772|||3,046|||
|ITcosts|||||||||16,688|||8,376|||
|Consumables||||||||||3,897||8,312|||
|Consultancy,|legal and accountancy fees||||||||17,265|||4,525|||
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||||||||||2023||2022||||
|Net resources|are stated after|||charging/(crediting):|||||f||f||||
|Depreciation|of owned|fixed|assets|||||||2,754|1,563||||
|Rentals under|operating|leases||||||||1,726||245|||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Employment|costs|||||f||E|||
|Gross salaries||||||380,193||398,509|||
|Employer's|national|insurance||||32,092||27,912|||
|Pension contributions||||||8,560||8,445|||
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|At 1April 2022||44,321|
|Additions||1,492|
|At 1April 2023||45,813|
|Depreciation|and impairment||
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|Depreciation|charged for the year|2,754|
|At 31March|2023|44,722|
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||Cost of sales|||||(167,505)|(125,152)|
||Gross profit|||||104,944|98,829|
||Administrative|expenses and||other operating|income|(70,410)|(60,236)|
||Operating<br>profit|||||34,534|38,593|
||Distribution<br>to|parent charity||||(35,131)|(39,218)|
||Retained<br>earnings||brought forward|||11,873|12,498|
||Retained<br>earnings||carried forward|||11,276|11,873|
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||Prepaid Expenses|||||533|21,638|
||Accrued Income|||||55,135|21,618|
||Amounts<br>due from||subsidiary|undertakings||39,762|53,021|
||Other Debtors|||||4,058||
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|General fund|||||||||197,118|||314,287|323,377|28,657||216,685|||
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|Royal Society of Chemistry|||||||||6,591|||1,972|1,962|(6,601)|||||
|Forest Recruitment|||||||||1,000|||1,000|2,000||0||||
|Big Pathway<br>grant||||||||||||800|800||0||||
|Margaret<br>Dobson||||||||||118|||||(118)||||
|LCVS CIFGrant||||||||||||2,500|2,500||||||
|Knowsley<br>Metropolitan|||Borough Council||||||7,000|||||(7,000)|||||
|Screwflx|||||||||5,000|||||(5,000)|||||
|Mencap|||||||||1,826||||832||||994||
|The National<br>Lottery||(A|Good Life)|||||||||162,798|149,924|||12,874|||
|One Knowsley||||||||||||300|300||||||
|Leeds Building Society||||||||||||700|700||||||
|Nlneveh<br>Trust||||||||||||4,897|4,897||||||
|Eleanor Rathbone||||||||||||5,000|5,000||||||
|Workers Education|Association|||||||||||19,004|19,005|||||(1)|
|Liverpool<br>City Region||||||||||||4,587|4,587|||||0|
|LCR - Plot to Plate|||||||||1,507||||1,507|||||0|
|Knowsley<br>Metropolitan|||Borough Council|||||||||10,000||||10,000|||
|EU/The Woman's|Organ(sation||||(TWO)|||||||67,632|67,632|||||0|
|Pllkington<br>Charitable||Trust||||||||||6,000|6,000|||||0|
|The National<br>Lottery||(Counselling)||||||||||15,338|4,680|||10,658|||
|LCVS||||||||||||1,000|1,000||||||
|The National<br>Lottery||(Someone|||To|Talk To)||||||6,878||(6,878)|||||
|PH Holt||||||||||||3,060||(3,060)|||||
|Skills for Care||||||||||||18,951|9,189||||9762||
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|Previous<br>year|||2021|Resources|Expended|Funds|2022|
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|Generalfund|||196,694|290,059|(202,999)|(86,636)|197,118|
|Restricted funds||||||||
|A Good Life||||128,212|(128,212)|||
|BIG Group||||23,125|(60,748)|37,623||
|BIG Garden Project||||354|(354)|||
|BIG Pathway||||22,125|(47,527)|25,402||
|BIGScience||||11,384|(2,286)||9,098|
|Counselling<br>Service||||4,020|(4,020)|||
|Managing<br>My|Money|||14,473|(14,355)||118|
|Other restricted Projects||||20,356|(6,530)||13,826|
|New Horizons|||1,383|63,264|(86,931)|22,284||
|Sidlls For Care||||13,345|(13,345)|||
|STTT||||2,984|(2,984)|||
|Stories||||31,007|(32,334)|1,327||
||||1,383|334,649|(399,626|86,636|23,042|
|Analysis of|net assets between funds|||||||
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|Fund balance|at March 2023are represented|by:||||||
|Tangible fixed|assets||||96|994|1,091|
|Fixed asset investments|||||60|||
|Current assets/(liabilities)|||||240,015|43,500|283,515|
|Current<br>liabilities|||||(23,487)|(207)|(23,694)|
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|Fund balance|at March 2022 are represented|by:||||||
|Tangible<br>fixed|assets||||2,353||2,353|
|Fixed asset Investments|||||60||60|
|Current assets/(liabilities)|||||208,050|121,994|330,044|
|Current<br>liabilities|||||(13,346)|(98,952)|(112,297)|
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|Net income/(expenditure)<br>for||the year|40,812|22,083|
|Interest receivable|||(3,352)|(778)|
|Depreciation<br>and|impairment|oftangible fixed assets|2,754|1,563|
|(Increase)/decrease|in debtors||(873)|5,320|
|Increase/(decrease)|in creditors||(88,602)|(25,125)|
||||(49,261)|3,063|