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|The Report|ofthe Trustees|2- 7|
|Statement|ofTrustee Responsibilities||
|Independent|Auditor's<br>Report||
|Statement|of Financial<br>Activities|12|
|Balance Sheet||13|
|Statement|ofcash flows|14|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||15-26|





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TOOLS WITH A MISSION
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE TRUSTEES OF TOOLS WITH A MISSION
We also oblain8d an und8rstanding ol the applicable laws and r8gulalions to whid) the charity must adhere, through
discu5510ns with management and Ih05e charged with governan¢e. as well 8s cornmercial knovoedge of the sector and
statutory legislation, In order to delenrin8 the key laws and regulations applicable lo the charitable company.
Our audit work in¢lud8d..
Auditing the risk of management override of controls, including through testing jOLJmal entries and other adjustments for
appropnaleness. and ev81u8ting the rationale behind $ignifi¢ant transactions ou151de the normal course of business.
- As585Stnent of key accounting estimates Within the financial statements in order to assess their reasonableness to determine
wheth8r the￿ is any bias In the estim818S.
Review of meeting minut8S.
EnquiriTrg of management and Trusl8es as to whether they are awar8 of any 8lleg8d, suspected or actual fraud duriry the
year.
We a150 performed pro¢edur8S to S8tisfy ourselves ￿gardIng the charitsble colnpany's compliance with applicable laws and
regulations, Including..
Enquiry ol Trusteès. management and the entity's solicitors 8round actual and potential litigation and daims
Reviewing Corresponden￿ with relevant legal authorities
All audit team members were made aware of the appI￿able laws and regulations. as well as potential fraud risks during the
planning stage of the audit and thi5 w3s discussed at the 8udit team planning meeting. 11 was therefore determined that team
rnembers all had the relevant 8W8reness and competenTr to identify any instances of ntsn-compliance or fr8ud.
There are. however, inherent limitations to our above audit procedures. Auditing standards only require us to enquire of the
Trustees and manag&menl regardin9 non-complian￿ with laws and regulations. as well as review regu1atc>ry and legal
corre5ponden¢e lif there is 8nyl. It is therefore p055ible thai instances of nori-compliance could be missed, particularly where
the law in itself is far removed from any financial transzctions.
A further description of our r8sponsibilities for the auijit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting
Council's website al". http'.Ilwmv.frc.org.uklOur-WorklAuditlAudil-and-assurancelStandards-and-guidancelStandards-and-
guidan¢e-for-auditorslAudilors-responsitriilities-fDr-audiVDesCriptson-of-audilors-responsibilities-lor-au￿it.aspx. This descriptson
forms part ol our auditor's report.
Use of our report
This report is made sol8ly to lh8 charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of part 16 of th8
Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the chaFltable ¢ompany's members and
tru5t&es those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To th$ fullest extenl
permilled by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company, the charitable
company's m8mb&rs as a body and the ¢harilable company's trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the
opinions we have formed.
Helen Rumsey FCA (Senlor Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Ensors Accountants LLP
Connexions
1 $9 Princes Street
Ipswich
IP1 1QJ
18 April 2023
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||||||funds|funds|2022|2021|
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|Income and endowments||from:|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||||411,398|57,800|469,198|438,810|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||122,499|111,520|234,019|197,771|
|Investments||||||||21|
|Other income||||||||16,616|
|Total income and|endowments||||533,897|169,320|703,217|653,218|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||||
|Raising funds|||||39,165||39,165|30,171|
|Charitable<br>actiwties|||||419,108|137,308|556,416|442,657|
|Total resources expended|||||458,273|137,308|595,581|472,828|
|Net gains/(losses)|on investments||||(8,749)||(8,749)|10,115|
|Net incoming/(outgoing)||resources|||||||
|before transfers|||||66,875|32,012|98,887|190,505|
|Transfers<br>between|funds||||||||
|Net incoming/(outgoing)||resources|||66,875|32,012|98,887|190,505|
|Fund balances at 1|November||2021||679,085|132,656|811,741|621,236|
|Fund balances at|31 October||2022||745,960|164,668|910,628|811,741|





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|Fixed assets||||||||||
|Tangible assets|||||13||368,773||302,318|
|Investments|||||14||99,742||98,491|
||||||||468,515||400,809|
|Current assets||||||||||
|Debtors|||||15|55,826||14,404||
|Cash at bank|and|in|hand|||446,782||472,943||
|||||||502,608||487,347||
|Creditors: amounts|||falling|due within|16|||||
|one year||||||(60,495)||(76,415)||
|Net current assets|||||||442,113||410,932|
|Total assets|less|current||liabilities|||910,628||811,741|
|Income funds||||||||||
|Restricted funds|||||18||164,668||132,656|
|Unrestricted|funds||||18||745,960||679,085|
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|Cash flows from operating|activities|||||||
|Cash generated<br>from operations||24||89,935|||183,344|
|Cash flows from Investing|activities|||||||
|Purchase of tangible<br>fixed assets|||(115,266)||(48,516)|||
|Proceeds on disposal of tangible<br>fixed assets|||9,170||5,000|||
|(Purchase)/Disposal<br>ofinvestments|||(10,000)||(70,000)|.||
|Interest received|||||21|||
|||||(116,096)|||(113,495)|
|Net Increase/(decrease)<br>in|cash and cash|equivalents||(26,161)|||69,849|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the beginning|ofthe year||472,943|||403,094|
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|||funds|funds|2022|2021|
||Donations<br>and gifts|400,253|57,800|458,053|406,723|
||Legacies receivable|11,145||11,145|32,087|
|||411,398|57,800|469,198|438,810|
||For the year ended 31 October 2021|348,494|90,316||438,810|
|4|Charitable<br>activities|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||funds|funds|2022|2021|
||Sales within charitable<br>activities|122,499|111,520|234,019|197,771|
||For the year ended 31 October 2021|95,068|102,703||197,771|
|5|Investments|||||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||funds|funds|2022|2021|
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||Interest receivable||||21|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||funds|funds|2022|2021|
||Babcock grant||||500|
||Furlough<br>grant||||16,116|
||||||16,616|
||For the year ended 31October 2021|16,616|||16,616|



|Raising funds|||||
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||funds|funds|2022|2021|
|Publicity and fund raising|30,271||30,271|24,573|
|Regular mailings|8,894||8,894|5,598|
||39,165||39,165|30,171|
|For the year ended 31October 2021|30,171|||30,171|





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|8|Charitable<br>activities|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|||||funds|funds|2022|2021|
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||Staff costs (see note 11)|||193,712|12,644|206,356|171,096|
||Rent and rates|||15,344||15,344|19,271|
||Insurance|||11,906||11,906|11,853|
||Light and heat|||14,948||14,948|10,013|
||Postage and telephone|||6,143||6,143|7,003|
||Printing<br>and stationery|||3,151||3,151|2,873|
||Sundries|||7,906||7,906|4,326|
||Tools, haberdashery<br>purchases||& refurbishment|11,204||11,204|15,169|
||Carriage and packaging|||8,849||8,849|5,535|
||Vehicle fuel and servicing|||38,615||38,615|23,757|
||Premises<br>repairs and renewals|||6,734||6,734|5,456|
||Cleaning<br>and trade refuse|||5,299||5,298|3,590|
||Scholar packs||||||1,034|
||Overseas<br>freight||||98,474|98,474|107,327|
||Travelling|||6,805||6,805|598|
||Legal and professional|charges||11,120||11,120|12,098|
||Audit and accountancy|fees||8,850||8,850|5,421|
||Health and safety|||6,110||6,110|6,976|
||Depreciation|||22,621|26,190|48,811|21,052|
||Profit or loss on disposal|||(9,170)||(9,170)|(5,000)|
||Bank charges|||3,735||3,735|3,355|
||In country development|costs||45,226||45,226|9,854|
|||||419,108|137,308|556,416|442,657|
||For the year ended 31|October|2021|317,229|125,428||442,657|
|9|Net gains on investments|||Unrestricted<br>funds|Restricted<br>funds|Total<br>2022|Total<br>2021|
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||Gain/(loss)<br>on listed investments|||(8,749)||(8,749)|10,115|
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||This is stated after charging:|||||||||
||Depreciation|||||22,623|26,188|48,811|21,052|
||Fees payable to the Charity's<br>auditors<br>for the<br>audit ofthe Charity's<br>financial<br>statements|||||8,850||8,850|5,400|
||Profit on disposal offixed assets|||||(9,170)||(9,170)||
|11|Staff costs|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||||funds|funds|2022|2021|
||Wages and salaries|||||172,820|11,247|184,067|152,797|
||Social security costs|||||11,178||11,178|9,843|
||Pension costs|||||7,815|1,397|9,212|7,382|
||Staff recruitment<br>costs|||||50||50|61|
||Staff training|||||1,849||1,849|1,013|
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|||||Land and|Motor|Fixtures,||Total|
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||Cost|||K||6||f|
||At 1 November<br>2021|||331,111|103,300|51,625||486,036|
||Additions||||60,565|54,701||115,266|
||Disposals||||(38,964)|||(38,964)|
||At 31 October 2022|||331,111|124,901|106,326||562,338|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment||||||||
||At 1 November<br>2021|||95,072|54,252|34,394||183,718|
||Depreciation<br>charged|in|the year|6,622|24,055|18,134||48,811|
||Eliminated<br>on disposals||||(38,964)|||(38,964)|
||At 31 October 2022|||101,694|39,343|52,528||193,564|
||Carrying<br>amount||||||||
||At 31 October 2022|||229,417|85,558|53,798||368,773|
||At 31 October 2021|||236,039|49,048|17,231||302,318|
|14|Investments||||||2022|2021|
||Market Value||||||||
||COLA Ethical Investment||Fund||||50,071|48,789|
||CCLA Global Equity Income Fund||||||49,671|49,702|
||||||||99,742|98,491|
||Historical Cost||||||||
||CCLA Pooled Investment||Funds||||90,000|80,000|
||Value as at 1 November||2021|||||98,491|
||Additions|||||||10,000|
||Change<br>in market value|||||||(8,749)|
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|Gift aid|||7,717|7,648|
|Prepayments|and accrued income||48,109|6,756|
||||55,826|14,404|
|reditors: amounts||falling due within one year|||
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|Taxation and|social security||467|3,805|
|Other creditors|||15,090|13,193|
|Accruals|||11,095|5,933|
|Deferred freight income|||33,843|53,484|
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||||November|resources|resources||October|
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||General fund||679,085|525,148|458,273||745,960|
||Restricted funds|||||||
||Overseas<br>freight|||111,520|(98,474)||13,046|
||Forklift appeal|||48,124|(3,850)||44,274|
||Refurbishment|appeal||4,000|(800)||3,200|
||Van appeal||111,290||(20,205)||91,085|
||Boiler<br>Sheldon appeal||2,669<br>18,697|5,676|(1,335)<br>~12.644||1,334<br>11,729|
||||132,656|169,320|(137,308)||164,668|
||Total funds||811,741|694,468|(595,581)||910,628|
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||||November|resources|resources||October|
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||General<br>fund||556,171|470,314|(347,400)||679,085|
||Restricted funds|||||||
||Overseas<br>freight|||102,704|(102,704)|||
||Van appeal||35,292|83,536|(7,538)||111,290|
||Boiler||3,999||(1,330)||2,669|
||Scholarship<br>packs<br>Sheldon appeal||1,034<br>24,740|6,779|(1,034)<br>~12,622||18,697|
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|Fund balances||at 31 October 2022 are represented|by:||||
|Tangible|fixed|assets||278,685|90,089|368,774|
|Fixed asset investments||||99,742||99,742|
|Current|assets/(liabilities)|||367,533|74,579|442,112|
|||||745,960|164,668|910,628|
|Fund balances||at 31 October 2021 are represented|by:||||
|Tangible|fixed|assets||250,606|51,712|302,318|
|Fixed asset investments||||98,491||98,491|
|Current|assets/(liabilities)|||329,988|80,944|410,932|
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|Surplus/(Deficit)||for the year||||98,887|190,505|
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|Investment|income recognised<br>in statement|||of financial|activities||(21)|
|Fair value|gains|and (losses) on investments||||8,749|(10,115)|
|Depreciation<br>and||impairment<br>of tangible|fixed assets|||48,811|21,052|
|Gain on disposal||oftangible<br>fixed assets||||(9,170)|(5,000)|
|Movements|in workin<br>ca ital:|||||||
|(Increase)|/ decrease<br>in debtors|||||(41,423)|12,963|
|Increase<br>/|(decrease)<br>in creditors|||||(15,919)|(26,040)|
|Cash generated||from operations||||89,935|183,344|





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|Fixed assets|||||||||||
|Tangible assets||||||13||368,773||302,318|
|Investments||||||14||99,742||98,491|
|||||||||468,515||400,809|
|Current assets|||||||||||
|Debtors||||||15|55,826||14,404||
|Cash at bank||and|in|hand|||446,782||472,943||
||||||||502,608||487,347||
|Creditors:|amounts|||falling|due within|16|||||
|one year|||||||(60,495)||(76,415)||
|Net current|assets|||||||442,113||410,932|
|Total assets||less|current||liabilities|||910,628||811,741|
|Income funds|||||||||||
|Restricted|funds|||||18||164,668||132,656|
|Unrestricted||funds||||18||745,960||679,085|
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|Fixed assets|||||||||||
|Tangible assets||||||13||368,773||302,318|
|Investments||||||14||99,742||98,491|
|||||||||468,515||400,809|
|Current assets|||||||||||
|Debtors||||||15|55,826||14,404||
|Cash at bank||and|in|hand|||446,782||472,943||
||||||||502,608||487,347||
|Creditors:|amounts|||falling|due within|16|||||
|one year|||||||(60,495)||(76,415)||
|Net current|assets|||||||442,113||410,932|
|Total assets||less|current||liabilities|||910,628||811,741|
|Income funds|||||||||||
|Restricted|funds|||||18||164,668||132,656|
|Unrestricted||funds||||18||745,960||679,085|
|||||||||910,628||811,741|



