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Visyon is a mental health charity that supports children, young people and their families across Cheshire East.

Welcome to our 2021/22 annual review and accounts. It’s been a challenging year, but we have continued to support hundreds of children and their families through the Covid pandemic. This review highlights the challenges faced and the excellent, innovative work done by our teams to support young people and their families through unprecedented circumstances. We hope you enjoy reading about our year.

CONTENTS

OUR MISSION

To provide tailored packages of support within the local community, in a safe and non-judgemental environment and to seek to influence policy makers to ensure the voice of lived experience is heard.

OUR VISION

All children and young people are able to talk openly about their mental health and emotional needs, have access to appropriate support locally when they need it, and develop strategies to build resilience for them and their families for the future.

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CHAIR’S REPORT

ANDREW BRABBAN

This is my first year to write the opening statement for our annual report following Chrissie Cooke’s retirement last year after 10 years as Chair. I am delighted to have the privilege to follow her.

The board continues to look to the future of Visyon and work with the Senior Leadership Team to anticipate and plan. In October last year the board came together to consider changes in the commissioning landscape, the impact of the organisation growing in size and to consider the changing demand for services. As a result, a number of special interest task groups have been established to look through the next financial year at some of the challenges identified.

Once again, we have had a challenging year from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With restrictions being eased at times, reimposed, and eased again, we have worked hard to provide services to the children and young people we support through remote services and the controlled re-introduction of face-to-face delivery. Our ability to continue to deliver services is thanks to the dedication and commitment of our staff and volunteers.

The management of the charity is strong with a Senior Leadership Team that brings complementary skills and experience – led by Theresa Pass CEO, with Sam Ruck bringing her depth of skill and years of experience to lead Therapeutic Services as well as being joined this year by Nicola Daniels to head up Finance and Business Development. Thank you to them and their teams of dedicated staff and volunteers.

We have seen the impact of the pandemic on the needs of children and young people. The extraordinary times and the resulting stresses on families, society, schools and other institutions has had an obvious impact resulting in increased demand for services and increased complexity of the cases presented. In September last year, the board had to take the difficult decision to temporarily close our waiting lists, it simply was not fair to individuals to accept them onto our waiting lists with a long delay. The team have worked hard together with our supportive commissioners to be open in our communication, to be able to clear the lists, to re-open to new referrals and put in place measures to reduce the likelihood of lists being closed again.

Following the transition out of the Covid-19 driven management of Visyon, we can now look forward to the future and be excited about what we can achieve going forward. The pandemic was hard but positively we are a more resilient and flexible organisation than we were. I am very confident that with our growing capability and wonderful talent Visyon will go from strength-to-strength doing what is most important to us - supporting the emotional health of children, young people and their families.

Financially the year has been difficult, as you can see from the details in this report. There continues to be an impact on fundraising in the charity sector, but we have done well to look to new and existing sources of funding to address gaps, deliver and improve our services.

We have continued to operate the board and our governance with the structure Chrissie established, using three sub-groups; Financial Sustainability, Service Effectiveness and Internal Governance, to ensure we use the skills of all our board members to provide comprehensive oversight as well as support to our senior leadership team. We have great board members that have created a collaborative and constructive environment to support the charity – my personal thanks to all of them. In February we were fortunate to be able to welcome Sharon Conlon to join the board. Sharon is Head of Strategic Safeguarding at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and so brings experience of working in the NHS, who are one of our key stakeholders, and expertise in Safeguarding which is critical to our work with children and young people.

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CEO’S REPORT

THERESA PASS

It is sometimes easy to forget key details of what the country went through last year. The financial year 2021/22 was a strange one for everybody and cannot be seen totally separate from the year that proceeded it. The events that unfolded during the year had such a profound impact on Visyon, our team, our clients and the services and activities we delivered to the community.

As many of us had predicted, the 2021/22 financial year has been even more challenging than the previous year. 2021 began with the hesitant start that followed the chaotic Christmas period; schools across the country returned for, in most cases, a single day; before returning to a lockdown that lasted well into late spring. For Visyon’s key stakeholders, this meant that our 2021/22 financial year began with a tentative return to classrooms just in time for end of year assessments and the long summer holiday. Then, when schools returned in the autumn of 2021, Covid was still prevalent. New strains were appearing and the new school year was quickly characterised by the disruption of significant levels of pupil and teacher absence due to infection. For the first time during this pandemic, infections were concentrated in the under 20’s. This situation carried on for most of the academic year to a greater or lesser extent and came on the back of a year that had already caused such devastating disruption.

The direct impact of Covid on the daily lives of our children and young people remained high, and often higher than for the rest of the population. Disruption to schooling, out-of-school activity and relationships with friends and family were all impacted. This inevitably led to continuing very high levels of demand on our services, most notably to the point where we were reluctantly forced to temporarily close our waiting list for counselling. As we returned to what has widely become known as the ‘new normal’, Visyon started to see the real impact of the pandemic on children and young people across the region. We liaised with our colleagues and partners both

locally and nationally, and mapped the trajectory of this impact and the implications for services going forward. What became very clear was that the demand for young people’s mental health and wellbeing services had increased and the complexity of the challenges young people are presenting with has grown significantly. This was by no means a surprise to the Visyon team and we have been working tirelessly to identify key changes, look at priority areas for development and identify where we need to invest to ensure Visyon has the resources and capacity to continue to provide the high quality service provision we are renowned for.

All this has resulted in a very challenging year for Visyon and the charity sector as a whole and I want to commend the whole Visyon team for their continued resilience, passion and commitment during this time. Along with the rest of the country, the Visyon team were trying to find their way in a very different world to the one pre-pandemic. Despite all this and a continued impact on fundraising across the charitable sector, we continued to make positive steps forward. The knowledge, skills and adaptability of the team ensures that the support available to young people helps them to start their road to recovery and self-management from the first point of contact with Visyon. As you will read in the pages that follow, Visyon has continued to drive forward new services and resources to support children, young people and their families, despite an ever challenging funding landscape.

We have worked hard to develop further and embed our partnerships with other organisations to enable us to deliver a more comprehensive and sustainable service to children, young people and their families. As well as continuing our work with statutory bodies such as Local Government and the NHS, we have worked more collaboratively with other charities – in particular two other Cheshire based charities to provide a cohesive offer for young people across Cheshire. I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate my thanks to colleagues at Just Drop In and Healthbox CIC for their positivity and openness in working with us to provide a cohesive offer for young people across Cheshire.

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PROGRESS TOWARDS STRATEGY

Developing a Louder Voice

Increasing Impact Help more young people within existing reach

Tell more people about what we do and the impact we have

Visyon has spent the past 12 months further strengthening partnerships with the Clinical Commissioning Group (now known as the Integrated Care Board) local CAMHS services and developing inclusive delivery models with our voluntary and community sector partners to provide a cohesive offer for young people across Cheshire. These partnerships have secured additional funding for Visyon and partner organisations which will enable us to work with an additional 180 clients.

Working alongside expert partners in the CCG, we have developed data sets to track the current demand for services since the pandemic and to help predict future demand and service needs. This will help ensure the organisational structure and skillset is prepared to meet these needs and services are developed around future needs and best practice.

Our Visyon has once again been busy researching and gathering information to help communicate the young person’s voice and lived experience. This year a ‘Wellbeing in Schools’ survey was conducted and presented at the Children’s Trust Board which included a variety of stakeholders including members of the wider Visyon team and commissioners from Cheshire East Council. The findings of this survey will influence future services across the region.

Organisational Strength Better positioning for future growth

During 2021/22 Visyon invested in team expansion and development to improve services and increase capacity. We piloted two new roles in the Business Support Team under the government Kickstart programme, we increased our Initial Contact Team and were able to offer Apprenticeships to all staff through the Apprenticeship Levy Transfer agreement with RBS Group. Both of our Kickstarters have now transferred onto apprenticeships and are developing their roles within Visyon, enabling Visyon to grow talent internally. We also secured funding to support the development of our skills around trauma understanding which enabled us to train our therapeutic team on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

Looking ahead…

Visyon is coming to the end of the current strategy period and is developing a new strategy to define and communicate the priorities and key themes going forward. We know the landscape will continue to be difficult for young people for some time to come and as an organisation we aim to ensure that we continue to provide the consistent and quality services that our young people need. Looking to that future, we want to ensure…

Resilience – both for Visyon as an organisation in these increasingly challenging times and also for the children and young people who access our services

Innovation – developing services that continue to meet the needs of the community and leading the way in future mental health services

Sustainability – both financially for Visyon and environmentally to further support the community we serve

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COUNSELLING

WAITING LIST

At the start of this year, there was approximately a 10-month waiting list for our counselling service. This was because of the number of referrals received into our service being higher than the commissioned capacity and the increase in the complexity of clients. Resulting in our waiting lists increasing at a rapid speed. In September 2021, we made the difficult decision to close our waiting lists for our one to one services, due to the length of time clients were waiting becoming unethical.

From this point onwards, we worked with our commissioners to gain additional funding to recruit new staff under our ‘Waiting List Initiative’ project to help with the increasing referrals and demand on our services. We recruited 3 x 30 hour contracted staff for this 12-month project, all of whom have been inducted and welcomed into our service now.

We worked alongside the Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group to develop a waiting list tracker to report externally the position of our waiting lists on a regular basis. In September 2021 we had 201 clients waiting for a one to one service. This significantly reduced to 31 clients at the end of January 2022. In addition, we developed a waiting list policy which reflected our key learnings and improvements we had made to our systems and processes.

We started a phased re-opening of our waiting lists in February 2022 in order to manage the demand on our service and we are pleased to say that this has improved our effective and supportive service for clients. This was a significant achievement for our team and with the help of all our staff at Visyon, by the end of the year we had little to no waiting list at all for our therapeutic services.

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THERAPEUTIC

SERVICES

It has been a busy year for the Therapeutic Team. 2021-22 saw us emerging from the Pandemic and opening back up for face to face work whilst seeing a high level of Covid cases and other illness in both our young people and staff.

We have moved the majority of our telephone and video calls back to face to face appointments in our bases and other places in the community. We got our rooms back feeling comfortable and welcoming for young people and children who attend our service.

We are continuing to develop information sheets to help clients, their families and the team focusing on subjects like; self harm, unhelpful thinking styles, fact and opinionated thinking and many more.

We have excelled this year with the difficulties we have faced. Our team have worked above and beyond to keep maintaining the highest level of support for children, young people and their families in Cheshire East, keeping them safe and giving them the autonomy to flourish.

Our team meetings are continuing well with guests attending and providing training based on the services their organisations provide. We have covered topics like; young people and gambling, family support, drugs and alcohol, note taking and emotional abuse.

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THERAPY STATISTICS 24% 21% Feedback Themes 9% 26% “Visyon helped me” 25% “I could talk” 22% “I was listened to” Crewe: 24%, Congleton: 21% Macclesfield: 9% 20% “I like the team member” Client Location Other (62%)

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Client Gender
63% female
34% male
1% Other
1% Transgender
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WELLBEING

SERVICES

The Wellbeing Team has continued to offer a flexible model of support to clients through one to one Mentoring sessions, a varied menu of creative and therapeutic groups and outreach engagement activities. The aim is for the Wellbeing Service at Visyon to have a focus on prevention and reducing the barriers for young people in order to increase early intervention. Examples of this over the last year include a project where the team designed a Schools Resource pack that was sent to all secondary schools in Cheshire East. The pack provided a fully resourced lesson plan based on ‘Reducing Mental Health Stigma’ and a video promoting Visyon services.

The huge demand for one to one therapeutic support as we came out of the Covid-19 national lockdowns meant, for a period, the team had to focus the majority of resources on delivering one to one Mentoring to tackle the long waiting lists. This coincided with a period of reduced capacity for the Wellbeing Team due to staffing issues. Additional grant funding from Cheshire Community Foundation in March 2022 allowed the Wellbeing Team to increase capacity which meant clients could be seen more quickly for mentoring and that this can happen alongside groups and outreach engagement again.

On average clients have increased their self rated Outcome Scores from 1.8 to 6 (out of 10 where 1 is not at all and 10 is achieving this all the time). Typical outcomes that Young People have set for themselves include “I want to be able to manage how I am feeling”, “I want to be able to trust people” or “I don’t want to get in trouble all the time”. The most common referrals for mentoring were around anxiety, low mood and lack of future direction.

The Wellbeing Team have developed a library of 10 Practical Strategies webinars for young people aged 11+. These are designed to provide information and practical ideas to help young

people manage their emotions. The webinars are freely available to all young people in Cheshire East and have been made available as recordings to allow for flexible and anonymous viewing. The feedback has been really positive - “Understanding more about anxiety has helped me to rationalise or talk to someone about my anxious feelings. It is good to know that it can be normal to feel like this and it’s not just me” (Young person who attended webinar).

One aim of the Wellbeing Services is to offer young people new experiences and to challenge themselves through activities such as kayaking which was offered on the summer programme.

[the mentor] helped me to realise that I wasn’t alone in my feelings and helped me to better understand my mental health and to be able to do things to help before it boiled over.

16 Year Old

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SAFEGUARDING

Visyon are committed to keeping young people safe. We have a robust safeguarding procedure in place that has adapted and met the demands that the Pandemic has brought. This year there has been a rise in causes for concerns and complexity of cases. In 2020-21 our average monthly cause for concern numbers were 43, this increased to an average of 56 in 2021-22 across the service as a whole.

We have developed good working relationships with CAMHS to ensure young people are kept safe and are offered the service that is right for them. Visyon staff continue to work in child and young person-centred way, ensuring they are at the heart of what we do. We continue to respond to safeguarding concerns in a calm and thoughtful way, considering what is best for the client whilst ensuring their safety.

This year we also added an extra safeguarding training day, where all staff met face to face to complete an awareness workshop on ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and the impact of trauma on the development of young people and also how we can work in a trauma sensitive way.

The training gave me a good understanding of the window of tolerance and knowledge around ACE’s and how it started, which will help enable me to book relevant clients into OA's which are linked to ACE’s. Gained understanding of different types of Trauma and what is meant by Trauma.

It was a really informative content that has helped me focus on issues for my clients especially around trauma at school which is a theme that my clients often bring. It was great to know about the work Visyon does with school staff to inform them around how trauma impacts learning and behaviour.

The training was really high quality. Up to date and gave an opportunity to reflect on how ACE's and trauma impacts our clients. The exercises were very good and gave us chance to speak to team members and hear others thoughts.

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FAMILY, COMMUNITY &

SCHOOL SERVICES

The Families and Communities Team goal for this year was to start the journey of equipping the significant people (parents/carers and teaching/ pastoral staff) in children and young people lives with the appropriate knowledge, understanding and skills to facilitate a united, collaborative, proactive solution and preventative approach to Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing. We developed and launched the first of our 90minute Mental Health Parent Workshops and our Evidenced-based Mental Health Parent Workshop Programmes (Sleep and Understanding and Supporting Children with their Worries and Anxiety). The latter received a great response and attendance despite the commitment to an 8-week programme being the challenge for many of our busy families.

All our Parent Workshops have been well received and attended with some families returning to attend a second or third workshop. We have supported a broad range of families over the year and welcomed several fathers to our workshops, helping us to also capture the male perspective which is often under-represented.

Throughout the year we have continued to develop our Parent Workshop Offer and are now able to offer a total of ten 90-minute Mental Health Parent Workshops, with plans for more.

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This year we have supported the Wellbeing of the families of the Congleton Education Community Partnership and the Holmes Chapel Community Partnership. We have built our Family Wellbeing Service Offer for all families in Cheshire East, which has also helped us to work collaboratively with our counselling colleagues to offer a more holistic approach and support the families from an early stage and when they most need it.

Also, the Team successfully launched and delivered their 90-minute Mental Health Education/Pastoral Staff Workshops for the Cheshire East School Communities. The aim of these workshops is to help support these teams to adopt a proactive solution and prevention approach to Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing. We have also developed and completed our Whole School Approach, Dual Approach, and Emotion Coaching Pilot to a Cheshire East Primary School and Secondary school which has proven exceptionally popular with both the education teams and parents (surpassing all expectations). These sessions have sparked great interest within the wider education and family communities.

The Families and Communities Team have had an exceptionally busy and productive first year and have been successful in providing a Family Wellbeing Offer for local families and communities, that meets current needs, with a preventative focus, which is not available elsewhere within Cheshire East.

This has been the best hour of my life.

Young Person

Parents are reporting that things at home are calmer and children are calmer when they use the strategies.

Teacher

Thank you for all your hardwork, I can see the impact you have made to my children”.

Parent

Challenging episodes are shorter for the children and they are able to get back to their learning quicker.

Teacher

I feel that I’ve gained a lot more confidence as a parent.

Parent

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THE LIVED VOICE

“One of our most recent projects I have been involved with is the design of the mural in the Congleton base. Originally, I had the idea to do a tree of support at Visyon and doing some community outreach to create messages of support to put on a tree in the base to show people that when they come to Visyon they are not alone. We have worked with the volunteer artist to design the mural. The idea we settled on was an interactive tree with detachable leaves. Young people and members of the community could write supportive messages and things that they have learnt or that have helped them with their mental health. Others can take messages that resonate with them, the idea being that when a young person first comes to Visyon they can take some messages with them and when they come to the end of their counselling, or when they feel ready, they can add their own messages. We also had the idea of having two other interactive photo spots that people could take photos at and share on social media to further spread people’s awareness of Visyon and destigmatise the use of mental health services.

Our Visyon is a youth-led, lived voice group for young people aged 14+. The group meets weekly and provides an opportunity for young people who have been through therapeutic services (or otherwise have an interest in mental health) to continue their journey with Visyon. The group lead on campaigns and projects relevant to mental health with the aim of improving mental health services within Visyon and the wider community. Below two members of Our Visyon describe projects they have been involved with:

“Being a part of Visyon, both as a client of the charity and now as a volunteer has helped build my confidence up over a long period of time to the point where I recently returned to my old secondary school to co-deliver Peer Support training with Visyon staff. I began in group sessions as a teenager which allowed me to practice interacting and speaking spontaneously with a moderately sized group. This led to me joining Our Visyon many years later where I now have the confidence to present projects, findings and work to Visyon staff and visitors. This was all helpful when passing on my knowledge of peer support in the training.”

We are hoping with the creation of the mural it will further the message that people who come to Visyon are not alone with what they are going through. People can and want to help create a safe space for them to comfortably talk about their mental health, their experiences and allow them to be themselves.”

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OUR VOLUNTEERS

Visyon could’t help as many children and young people without volunteers.

Jackie, our Initial Contact Team volunteer had some lovely words she wanted to share with everyone.

In my previous role within the local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, I worked closely with Visyon to commission services for young people and I'm very proud of the innovation and achievements we delivered by working together on our shared goals of improving the mental health and wellbeing of our young people. So, after making the decision to retire from the NHS last year and use my time to retrain to be a counsellor, I was thrilled to be offered the opportunity to join the Visyon team as a volunteer, to gain valuable experience of working within young people's mental health and wellbeing on my journey towards my new career.

From the interview process through to preparatory training and on the job induction, I have been made to feel truly valued and welcome by everyone. I have learned and continue to learn, so much. The approach here is refreshing and inclusive, with everyone respected for their contribution but being really clear about the high standards and quality service expected of each person. I had no idea of the range of services provided by the Visyon Team and have been so impressed on how the team have adapted to the challenges presented by the Covid pandemic, the continued innovation and opportunities of support for young people, parents, carers and teachers. And its fun and so friendly, I love all the new people I've met, it's one of the best decisions I have made... ever!

Jackie Wilkes Initial Contact Team volunteer

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OUR FUNDERS

COMMUNITY & CORPORATE

Visyon was founded as a community based charity and remains embedded in the local community to this day. While the pandemic made it difficult to connect regularly with supporters, we have seen new fundraisers and volunteers come to Visyon over the past 12 months. We are incredibly grateful to local businesses, individual donors and the wider community for your generosity and support over the past year. Without this support we could not have provided the range of services we offer to local children, young people and families over this past year.

The young people we support are your children, your neighbours, your extended family and your employees and colleagues of the future. The support we provide, with your help, aims to provide young people with strategies to manage their own mental health and develop resilience, leading to happy and fulfilling independent futures.

Thank you to everyone who supported us, including the following:

Siddington Syndicate WestendAgri Congleton Town Council Franklyn Financial Management Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School Arc Community Café Gladman Rob Moreton Wilmslow Rotary Club The King’s School Congleton Bowls Club Spring Sparkles Pop at the Lock Catenian Association Circle JWC Ben Mulroney Wealth Management Ellie Woodhouse & Handelsbanken Cadent Kanga Health Ltd St Lawrences Biddulph Precast Concrete Solutions Ltd Congleton Christmas Collection

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TRUST FUNDERS

The Covid Pandemic and the associated lockdown, followed by the current impact of inflation, has seen the community and events fundraising continue to decline across the charity sector. We continue to be reliant on the generosity of the many trusts and foundations we work with to provide essential funding for Visyon. This has enabled us to continue delivering our core services again this year. On behalf of the communities we serve who rely on our services now more than ever, we offer you our sincerest, heartfelt thanks.

Thank you to the following:

BBC Children in Need

Cheshire Community Foundation (CCF)

VCSE DHSC

National Autism Society Academies Trust

Mind

Newby Trust

The Edward Gostling Foundation

The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust

Garfield Weston

D G Trust

Postcode Community

CRH Charitable Foundation

Leathersellers

Small Charities Coalition

Evan Cornish

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OUR PRESIDENT’S

STATEMENT

BRIAN DAVEY

It has been a pleasure and privilege to be the Visyon President for another year. As 2022 has progressed, it was so good to see our doors re-open so our team can work face-to-face once again with our clients. During my visits to the Visyon premises in the last twelve months I have witnessed the drive and enthusiasm that the staff and volunteers continue to display. I would expect no less than a warm and welcoming atmosphere and have never been disappointed. The challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic are still with us, even if they are no longer headline news. New challenges for our young people and society as a whole have emerged in recent months and the media paints a negative picture of the future. I am concerned that this will impact the emotional wellbeing of our young people. This will be one of the challenges in Visyon’s work going forward to support young people in building resilience and coping skills in what often appears to be a troubled world with an uncertain future.

As an organisation, Visyon faces continued historic challenges around funding and the ever changing environment within mental health services and education. In the twenty eight years that Visyon has been in existence, many such challenges have been successfully met and I believe we are very well placed to come through those that we are about to face once again. Our management structure is robust and is well led by our experienced CEO, Theresa Pass. The board of trustees, developed strongly under the previous Chair, Chrissie Cooke, has continued to develop under the new Chair, Andrew Brabban in his first year in post. The current board has several new members who have brought in new skills and knowledge and I am confident that our Trustees have the wherewithal to guide Visyon successfully through further difficult times ahead. We can look to the future with confidence.

The introduction of the Elizabeth Pugh Award last year was a great tribute to our founder and a good friend. The inaugural award went to the Initial Contact Team within Visyon and was well deserved. It is my pleasure again this year to be on the selection panel for the 2022 award with the winner being announced at this years AGM. The nominees are once again strong though we can only select one winner. I am pleased to say that Gerald Pugh, Elizabeth’s husband, will once again be on the selection panel and will present the award.

Having been involved with Visyon since its creation in 1994, I am immensely proud of the work that it carries out with young people, children and parents. Its reputation and robustness is a tribute to so many people. I want to thank all those members of staff and volunteers, both past and present, who have given their dedication, time and professionalism. To all the funders, old and new and yet to come, I say thank you. Your contribution has been vital to the continued work of this special organisation.

Visyon can never rest on its laurels. While always being aware of our origins and history; it is the future we must always look towards with confidence and face the challenges ahead. Visyon is a voice and flag bearer for the positive mental health and emotional wellbeing of our young people. Stay loud and stay proud.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR YEAR ENDED

31ST MARCH 2022

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Charity name: Visyon Limited Working title: Visyon Registered charity number: 1107951 Registered company number: 5250758 Company registered in England and Wales

Registered Company and operational address: Fellowship House, Park Road, Congleton, Cheshire. CW12 1DP

Company Secretary

Theresa Pass

Chief Executive Officer

Board of Trustees

The following people served as Trustees during this year:

Andrew Brabban Andrew Leahy Adrian Dean Rob Morton - resigned 30.06.2022 Christine Cooke - resigned 30.09.2021 Helen Butters Jonathan Clay Avarni Jagpal - appointed 20.09.2021 David Parkinson - appointed 20.09.2021

The Directors of the charitable company are Trustees for the purpose of charity law and are known collectively as the Board of Trustees

Theresa Pass

Auditors

Bankers

NatWest Bank Plc, 46 High Street, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 1BE

Hammond McNulty, Bank House, Market Square, Congleton, Cheshire. CW12 1ET

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ABOUT VISYON

Visyon promotes and improves the emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people and their families through the provision of a range of services, including individual therapy, group work, mentoring, creative activities and support for parents and families. Visyon is based in Congleton, Cheshire and delivers services to children and young people in Cheshire and Staffordshire. Visyon was established in 1994 by a group of volunteers whose experiences identified the need for a community based, flexible and easily accessible service for young people and families experiencing emotional distress and in need of support. In 2004 Visyon became a charitable company limited by guarantee.

OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY

The objects of the charity are:

VISYON DESCRIPTOR

Visyon is a safe place you can come when you need help. We are really good at helping children and young people work out what is troubling them and what they can do about it. Whether you are confused, upset, worried, feeling hurt or angry about anything, there is somebody at Visyon who will listen and help you decide what you want to do next.

GOVERNANCE OF THE CHARITY

Governance, Organisation and Administration

Visyon is a charitable company limited by guarantee. It is governed by the Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 5 October 2004 and amended on 25 March 2010. Visyon is registered with the Charity Commission and Companies House. Anyone over the age of 18 years can become a member of the charity. At 31 March 2022 there were 38 members.

The administration is carried out by the directors who together are known as the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees has delegated the day-to-day running of the organisation to the Chief Executive Officer, who reports into the Board on a quarterly cycle.

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ROLE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The Board of Trustees is the governing body of the charity. The Board’s duties are to:

SUB-GROUP STRUCTURE

Three sub-groups have been appointed with delegated responsibility for scrutiny in three areas:

Each group is chaired by a Trustee and is attended by a further Trustee, the CEO and relevant members of the management team.

RECRUITMENT, SELECTION AND TRAINING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The Trustees are elected by the members, the number being decided at the Annual General Meeting. The Trustees have the power to co-opt up to 7 further Trustees. When co-opting Trustees, the Board has regard to the requirement for any specialist skills. Trustee application and induction processes have been established, through which training requirements are identified and addressed. In addition, training opportunities are taken up when offered by third parties.

The balance of Trustees’ skills and experience has been reviewed on an ongoing basis during 20212022 and the Board is satisfied that it has an optimum broad range of skills. Trustees have experience that covers the following areas:

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STRUCTURE OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Board meetings are held quarterly.

Sub-groups meet on a bi-weekly and monthly basis and have delegated responsibilities as outlined in the sub-group Terms of Reference.

ATTENDANCE OF TRUSTEES AT MEETINGS OF THE BOARD

Trustees are required to attend formal meetings regularly and not to miss more than three meetings in succession. During 2021/22 the Trustees attendance was as follows:

2021-22 Date 24.05.21 23.08.21 22.11.21 21.02.22
Chrissie Cooke Yes Yes - - 2/2
Andrew Brabban Yes Yes Yes Yes 4/4
Liz Johnson Yes Yes - - 2/2
Andrew Leahy Yes Yes Yes Yes 4/4
Adrian Dean Yes No Yes Yes 3/4
Avarni Jagpal No No Yes Yes 2/4
Jonathan Clay Yes No Yes No 2/4
Helen Butters Yes Yes Yes Yes 4/4
David Parkinson Yes Yes Yes Yes 4/4
Robert Morton Yes Yes No Yes 3/4
Sharon Conlon - - - Yes 1/1

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PRESIDENT

The Board appointed Brian Davey as the president of Visyon Limited on 14th September 2020, following the untimely death of Visyon’s President and founder, Elizabeth Pugh, in January 2020. Brian has been involved with Visyon from the beginning and previously served as Chair of the Board.

RELATED PARTIES

The Charity received pro-bono consultancy and clinical supervision services from one Trustee.

RISK MANAGEMENT

The organisation has Strategic and Operational Risk Registers, a Business Continuity Plan and a Risk Management Policy.

This ensures:

Risks that have been mitigated this year have included:

STAFFING & VOLUNTEERS

Visyon is able to offer the level of service that it does due to the dedication and professionalism of its staff and volunteer team. At the end of March 2022, Visyon had 41 members of staff, 14 of which were employed on a full-time basis, with the other 27 working in part-time roles. Visyon has a team of volunteers who provide invaluable contributions to the work of the charity by carrying out a range of roles including trustees, therapists, administrators, fundraisers and a handyman.

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DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

Trustees are required to declare interests that are relevant and material and declarations are requested at each meeting. A record is maintained of all relevant and material interests by the Company Secretary and this record is available on request. Staff are also required to inform the organisation where an outside commitment, e.g. membership of a school governing body, may potentially give rise to a conflict of interest.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

Visyon is coming to the end of the current three year strategy, which was designed to create a stable basis for future growth. The Board, under the leadership of a new Chair, will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team, Operational Managers and Team Leaders to develop and deliver an innovative strategy for the future. Visyon is a strong learning organisation and has developed new resources, services and models of support as a result of having to rethink service delivery due to the pandemic. These developments will continue to expand and enhance our existing provision and add value to our future service delivery.

PUBLIC BENEFIT CREDENTIALS

Visyon provides its services within the charitable objects for which it was established, these being the preservation and protection of good health and in particular good mental health of children, young people and adults, plus the advancement of education of the public in matters relating to mental health. These objects are addressed through the provision of a broad range of therapeutic activities to children, young people, their parents and families.

Visyon’s activities are designed to achieve outcomes that are positive not only for the individual child or young person but also impact on families and the wider communities of Cheshire and North Staffordshire. The cost to society of supporting lifelong mental health challenges is significant and can be improved by providing effective interventions for children and young people such as those offered by Visyon.

Visyon’s services are free to the children, young people and families who access them. All services are paid for by grants, donations and fundraised income. The organisation accommodates the requirements of children and young people, by using community locations wherever there is a demand and where funding allows. Currently, the organisation is working in the geographic areas of Cheshire East Council and Staffordshire Moorlands Council, with some services also available in areas of Cheshire West and Chester Council.

The Trustees have carefully considered the requirement for public benefit reporting in accordance with guidance issued by the Charities Commission.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW AND RESULTS FOR THE YEAR

The total income for the year ending 31 March 2022 was £837,095 (2021 - £912,490), the total expenditure was £880,464 (2021 - £844,947) and the net result for the year was -£43,369 (2021 - £67,543). The net asset position at the year end was £390,196 (2021 - £433,565), of which £178,981 (2021 - £224,292) is unrestricted and £211,215 (2021 - £209,273) is restricted.

Visyon aims to use as much of its financial and other resources as possible for the purpose of meeting the charities objectives. All of the programmes and activities undertaken by the charity aim to support children and young people to improve and maintain their mental health. Our work with families and public awareness campaigns assist us to achieve greater awareness and understanding by the public of issues surrounding mental health and wellbeing and how these impact on children, young people and society.

All our services are provided free of charge to our beneficiaries, allowing for greater access to early assistance, advice and support. Across Cheshire East and Staffordshire Moorlands we aim to offer a range of interventions, choice of venue and opening hours that improves efficacy and accessibility irrespective of the individual circumstances of the beneficiary.

The voluntary sector experiences increasingly challenging times with more charities competing for less funding, reporting criteria becoming increasingly complex in some areas, and hard decisions to be made regarding which particular pot of money to vie for. Each financial year starts with an element of calculated uncertainty and often focus has to be placed on bringing in funding for the current financial year, rather than looking forward to the next two - five years, focusing attention on longer term planning and sustainability. This is the situation that Visyon has been in for a number of years, but is something that the new strategy and leadership structure plan to address over the next two years.

Fundraising

Visyon is very grateful to all the organisations and individuals who have supported the charity during the year through donations, fundraising activities or gifts in kind.

We would like to thank the following for their support during 2021/22:

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INVESTMENT POWERS

The Trust Deed authorises the Trustees to make and hold investments using the general funds of the charity but no such investments are currently held.

RESERVES POLICY

The reserves are held in a low-risk account, with immediate access, attracting the best rates from the “High Street Institutions”. Reserves are built up from balances of funds (restricted and/or unrestricted). The level at which the reserve fund is to be maintained is agreed between Visyon management and Trustees during annual budgeting based on a number of defined factors including an assessment of known risks. It may also include items of known but currently unquantifiable risk. The level of reserve fund should not normally exceed that required for three months operating.

STATEMENT OF FUNDS AT 31 MARCH 2022:

Unrestricted funds £178,981 Restricted reserves £211,215

INVESTMENT POLICY

All amounts in the current account over £500 are transferred daily to an interest-bearing savings account. All investments by the charity will be in ethically acceptable funds to be agreed by the Board.

GRANT-MAKING POLICY

Under normal circumstances the charity does not make grants. There may be small grants made from specific projects for supporting clients. The funding body concerned will specify the conditions of the grant.

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STRATEGIC REPORT STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Registered Company number

05250758 (England and Wales)

Registered Charity number

1107951

Registered office

Fellowship House Park Road Congleton Cheshire CW12 1DP

Trustees

A Brabban-Brown Director Ms H Butters Director J G A Clay Director A J Dean Director Ms A Jagpal Director (appointed 20/9/2021) A C Leahy Director RP Morton Director (resigned 30/6/2022) D Parkinson Director (appointed 20/9/2021) Ms C A Cooke Director (resigned 30/9/2021) Ms EA Powell Johnson Director (resigned 30/9/2021)

Company Secretary

Ms TE Pass

Auditors

Hammond McNulty LLP Statutory Auditor Bank House Market Square Congleton Cheshire CW12 1ET

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also the directors of Visyon Limited for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

AUDITORS

The auditors, Hammond McNulty LLP. will be proposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

Report of the trustees, incorporating a strategic report, approved by order of the board of trustees, as the company directors, on 20th September 2022 and signed on the board’s behalf by:

Trustee

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REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS TO

THE MEMBERS OF VISYON LIMITED

OPINION

We have audited the financial statements of Visyon Limited (the ‘charitable company’) for the year ended 31st March 2022 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

BASIS FOR OPINION

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors’ responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

CONCLUSIONS RELATING TO GOING CONCERN

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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OTHER INFORMATION

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

OPINIONS ON OTHER MATTERS PRESCRIBED BY THE

COMPANIES ACT 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

MATTERS ON WHICH WE ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT

BY EXCEPTION

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Trustees.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

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RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

OUR RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDIT OF THE

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We obtained an understanding of laws and regulations that affect the company, focusing on those that had a direct effect on the financial statements or that had a fundamental effect on its operations. Key laws and regulations that we identified included the UK Companies Act, employment and pension legislation, health and safety regulation, anti bribery, corruption, fraud and money laundering.

We enquired of the trustees and reviewed legal fees for evidence of non-compliance with relevant laws and regulations. We also reviewed controls the directors have in place to ensure compliance. We gained an understanding of the controls that the directors have in place to prevent and detect fraud. We enquired of the directors about any incidences of fraud that had taken place during the accounting period.

The risk of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations and fraud was discussed within the audit team and tests were planned and performed to address these risks. We identified the potential for fraud in the following areas: manual journal entries, management bias through judgments and assumptions in significant accounting estimates, in particular in relation to apportionment of deferred income and significant one off or unusual transactions and the potential for management override.

We reviewed financial statements disclosures and tested to supporting documentation to assess compliance with relevant laws and regulations discussed above.

We enquired of the trustees about actual and potential litigation and claims.

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OUR RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDIT OF THE

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - CONTINUED

We performed analytical procedures at the planning stage to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that might indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud.

In addressing the risk of fraud due to management override of internal controls we tested the appropriateness of journal entries and assessed whether the judgements made in making accounting estimates were indicative of a potential bias.

Due to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of irregularities, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations or the override of internal controls. We are not responsible for preventing fraud or non-compliance of laws and regulations and cannot be expected to detect all fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

USE OF OUR REPORT

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors’ report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report or for the opinions we have formed.

Mrs Marie Shenton FCCA (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Hammond McNulty LLP Statutory Auditor Bank House Market Square Congleton Cheshire CW12 1ET

20th September 2022

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR

ENDED 31 MARCH 2021 & OVERVIEW

INCOME & ENDOWMENTS EXPENDITURE
FROM 2021/22 FROM 2021/22
total total
£837,095 £880,464
£91,354
£68,095
£129,936
£259,012
£12,064
£35,944
 Cheshire Community
Foundation
 BBC - Children in Need
 NHS Eastern Cheshire
CCGS 0-16
£89,377
24,060
£30,800
 Emotionally Healthy
Children
 VCSE
 Family Support Service
£12,488
£79,707
£373
£2,110
£1,775
 Investment income
 Other trading activities
 Other income

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR

ENDED 31ST MARCH 2022 Unrestricted Restricted 31/3/22
Total		 31/3/21
Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds
Notes £ £ £ £
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies 3 91,354 - 91,354 87,067
Charitable activities 6
Counselling - 68,095 68,095 26,681
OTHER 1,135 128,801 129,936 111,530
NHS Eastern Cheshire CCGS 0-16 - 259,012 259,012 135,806
BBC - Children in Need - 12,064 12,064 47,782
Big Lottery Fund - Reaching Communities - - - 54,299
Cheshire Community Foundation - 35,944 35,944 15,093
VCSE - 30,800 30,800 77,000
Emotionally healthy Children - 89,377 89,377 222,280
Family Support Service - 24,060 24,060 78,482
Mind - 12,488 12,488 37,463
NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group
(CCG) - Surge - 79,707 79,707 16,731
Other trading activities 4 1,775 - 1,775 630
Investment income 5 373 - 373 92
Other income 2,109 1 2,110 1,554
Total 96,746 740,349 837,095 912,490
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising Funds 7 51,872 - 51,872 17,809
Charitable activities 8
Restricted
Charitable 90,186 738,406 828,592 827,138
Total 142,058 738,406 880,464 844,947
NET INCOME (EXPENDITURE) (45,312) 1,943 (43,369) 67,543
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward 224,292 209,273 433,565 366,022
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 178,980 211,216 390,196 433,565

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The notes form part of these financial statements

BALANCE SHEET 31ST MARCH 2022

31/3/22 31/3/21
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
Funds Funds Funds Funds
Notes £ £ £ £
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 14 3,459 14,122 17,581 17,745
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 15 12,796 19,232 32,028 179,729
Cash at bank and in hand 177,089 363,797 540,886 512,638
189,885 383,029 572,914 692,367
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 16 (14,363) (185,936) (200,299) (276,547)
NET CURRENT ASSETS 175,522 197,093 372,615 415,820
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 178,981 211,215 390,196 433,565
NET ASSETS 178,981 211,215 390,196 433,565
FUNDS
Unrestricted funds 18 178,981 224,292
Restricted funds 211,215 209,273
TOTAL FUNDS 390,196 433,565

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 20th September 2022 and were signed on its behalf by:

............................................. Trustee

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The notes form part of these financial statements

CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST

MARCH 2022

MARCH 2022
31/3/22 31/3/21
Notes £ £
Cash fows from operating activities
Cash generated from operations 34,809 185,434
Net cash provided byoperating activities 34,809 185,434
Cash fows from investing activities
Purchase of tangible fxed assets (6,934) (10,834)
Interest received 373 92
Net cash used in investing activities (6,561) (10,742)
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the
reporting period 28,248 174,692
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning
of the reporting period 512,638 337,946
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the
reporting period 540,886 512,638

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The notes form part of these financial statements

NOTES TO THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR

ENDED 31ST MARCH 2022

1. RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

31/3/22 31/3/21
£ £
Net (expenditure)/income for the reporting period (as
per the Statement of Financial Activities) 7,098 67,543
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charges 7,098 8,054
Interest received (373) (92)
Decrease/(increase) in debtors 147,701 (76,303)
(Decrease)/increase in creditors (76,248) 186,232
Net cash provided by/(used in) operations 34,809 185,434

2. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS

At 1/4/21 Cash fow At 31.3.22
£ £ £
Net cash
Cash at bank and in hand 512,638 28,248 540,886
512,638 28,248 540,886
Total 512,638 28,248 540,886

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The notes form part of these financial statements

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR

ENDED 31ST MARCH 2022

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS I 02) ‘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 (FRS I 02) (effective I January 2019)’, Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’ and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

The financial statements have been prepared on the assumption that the company is able to carry on as a going concern, which the Trustees consider appropriate.

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 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 (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

The Trustees regularly monitor the projected income against expected expenditure and are reasonably confident that funds will be in place to ensure the running of the organisation beyond September 2022.

Visyon Limited meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s. The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below.

The presentational currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£). Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

Going Concern

The Trustees consider that the level of unrestricted funds is sufficient to meet the working capital requirements of the company. The trustees have implemented a forward strategy to improve the future performance of the company to ensure the company is able to continue in existence for the foreseeable future.

The trustees are not aware of any other uncertainties regarding the company’s ability to continue as a going concern and after reviewing the company’s post year end income documentation and forecasts, the trustees are satisfied that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The company therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing it’s financial statements.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - CONTINUED

Incoming resources

Voluntary income, including donations, gifts and grants that provide core funding or are of general nature are recognised where there is entitlement, receipt is probable and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability. Such income is only deferred when:

Investment income is recognised on a receivable basis.

Income from charitable activities, which includes income received under contract or where entitlement to grant funding is subject to specific performance conditions, is recognised as earned (as the related goods or services provided). Grant income included in this category provides funding to support performance activities and is recognised where there is entitlement, receipt is probable and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.

Resources expended

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Expenditure is recognised where there is a legal or constructive obligation to make payments to third parties, it is probable that the settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliable. it is categorised under the following headings:

Support costs allocation

Support costs are those that assist the work of the charity but do not directly represent charitable activities and include office costs, governance costs and administrative payroll costs. They are incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity and include project management carried out at Headquarters. Where support costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to cost of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities on a basis consistent with use of the resources.

Fundraising costs are those incurred in seeking voluntary contributions and do not include the costs of disseminating information in support of the charitable activities.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - CONTINUED

Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are stated at historical cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. Cost includes costs directly attributable to making the asset capable of operating as intended.

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates so as to write off their cost less residual amounts over their estimated useful economic lives. Assets are also reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. An impaim1cnt loss is recognised for the amount by which the assets carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount.

Office equipment - 25% on reducing balance Fixture & fittings - 25% on reducing balance Computer equipment - 25% on cost and 33% on cost Leasehold Improvements - 10% on cost

The residual values and useful lives of assets are reviewed and adjusted if appropriate at each statement of financial position date.

Taxation

The trustees consider that the charity satisfies the tests set out in Paragraph I Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 20 I 0 for UK corporation tax purposes. Accordingly, the charity is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act I 992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively on the specific charitable objects of the charity and for no other purpose. Value Added Tax is not recoverable by the charity and therefore included in the relevant costs in the Statement of Financial Activities.

Fund accounting

General funds are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the company and which have not been designated for other purposes.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the company for particular purposes, the costs of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specific funds. The aim and use of each restricted fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Investment income, gains and losses are allocated to the appropriate fund.

Pension costs

The Charity contributes to money purchase pension schemes. The assets of the schemes are held separately from those of the company in independently administered funds. Contributions payable for the period are charged in the income and expenditure account.

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1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - CONTINUED

Debtors and creditors

Debtors and creditors with no stated interest rate and receivable or payable within one year are recorded at transaction price. Any losses arising from impairment are recognised in expenditure.

Cash at Bank and in Hand

Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

Creditors and provision

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the company has a present obligation resulting from a part event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

Financial instruments

The company only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basis financial instruments are initially recognised at transactions value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

2. JUDGEMENT AND KEY SOURCES OF ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTY

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported, these estimates and judgments are continually reviewed and are based on experience and other factors, including expectation of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances.

The judgments (apart from those involving estimations) that management has made in the process of applying the entity’s accounting policies and that have the most significant effect on the amounts recognised in the financial statements are as follows:

Estimated useful lives and residual values of fixed assets

Depreciation of tangible fixed assets has been based on estimated useful lives and residual values deemed appropriate by the trustees. Estimated useful lives and residual values are reviewed annually and revised as appropriate. Revisions take into account estimated useful lives used by other companies operating in the sector and actual assets lives and residual values, as evidenced by disposals during the current and prior accounting periods.

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3. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES

3. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES
31/3/22 31/3/21
£ £
Individual donations 4,258 6,311
Grants 17,968 29,654
Membership fees 2,207 2,981
Other donations 66,921 48,121
91,354 87,067
Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:
31/3/22 31/3/21
£ £
Transition Fund - 310
Wren Grant
4,501 4,500
Garfeld Weston Foundation - 13,332
Cheshire East Council - 10,000
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme Grant 256 1,510
Kickstart 13,211 -
Other grants - 2
17,968 29,654

Grants received, included in the above, are as follows:

4. OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES

4. OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES
31/3/22 31/3/21
£ £
Headspace Cafe 630
Trading Income 1,775
1,775 630
5. INVESTMENT INCOME
31/3/22 31/3/21
£ £
Investment Income 373 92

5. INVESTMENT INCOME

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6. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

31/3/22 31/3/21
Activity £ £
Charitable activities Counselling 68,095 26,681
Charitable activities OTHER 129,936 111,530
Charitable activities NHS Eastern Cheshire CCGS 0-16 259,012 135,806
Charitable activities BBC- Children in Need 12,064 47,782
Charitable activities Big Lottery Fund - Reaching Communities 54,299
Charitable activities Cheshire Community Foundation 35,944 15,093
Charitable activities VCSE 30,800 77,000
Charitable activities Emotionally Healthy Children 89,377 222,280
Charitable activities Family Support Service 24,060 78,482
Charitable activities Mind 12,488 37,463
NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Charitable activities (CCG) - Surge 79,707 16,731
741,483 823,147
7. RAISING FUNDS
Raising donations and legacies 31/3/22 31/3/21
£ £
Staff costs 51,872 17,809
8. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS
Direct Costs Support Costs Totals
£ (see note 9 £
£
Charitable 817,335 11,257 828,592
9. SUPPORT COSTS
Governance Costs
£
Charitable 11,257
10. NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
Net income/(expenditure) is stated after charging/(crediting): 31/3/22 31/3/21
£ £
Depreciation - owned assets 7,098 8,054
Auditors remuneration 4,200 4,800
Operating lease rentals 9,112 7,449

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11. TRUSTEES’ REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees’ remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31st March 2022 nor for the year ended 31st March 2021.

Trustees’ expenses

There were no trustees’ expenses paid for the year ended 31st March 2022 nor for the year ended 31st March 2021.

12. STAFF COSTS 31/3/22 31/3/21
Wages and Salaries 682,414 657,716
Other Pension Costs 18,817 16,838
701,231 674,554

None of the trustees were remunerated or received any other benefits during the year.

None of the trustees incurred or were reimbursed any expenses during the year.

The total amount of employee benefits by the Company’s key management personnel was £51,339 (2021: £51,873). No benefits in kind are received by any members of the management team.

The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:

31/3/22 31/3/21
Fundraising Charitable Activities 2 2
Charitable Activities 33 29
Management of the Charity 3 4
38 35

No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.

13. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted Restricted Total
funds funds funds
£ £ £
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies 85,429 1,638 87,067
Charitable activities
Counselling - 26,681 26,681
Other - 111,530 111,530
NHS Eastern Cheshire CCGS 0-16 - 135,806 135,806
BBC- Children in Need - 47,782 47,782
Big Lottery Fund - Reaching Communities - 54,299 54,299
Cheshire Community Foundation - 15,093 15,093
VCSE - 77,000 77,000

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13. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES - CONTINUED

- CONTINUED
Unrestricted Restricted Total
funds funds funds
£ £ £
Emotionally Healthy Children - 222,280 222,280
Family Support Service - 78,482 78,482
Mind - 37,463 37,463
NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group - 16,731 16,731
(CCG) - Surge
Other trading activities - 630 630
Investment income 92 - 92
Other income 1,555 (1) 1,554
Total 87,076 825,414 912,490
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds 17,809 - 17,809
Charitable activities
Restricted - - -
Charitable 140,810 686,328 827,138
Total 158,619 686,328 844,947
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) (71,543) 139,086 67,543
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward 295,835 70,187 366,022
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 224,292 209,273 433,565

14. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Long
leasehold		 Plant and
machinery		 Fixtures and
fttings		 Computer
equipment		 Totals
£ £ £ £ £
COST
At 1st April 2021 59,628 1,332 1,123 21,491 83,574
Additions - 529 - 6,405 6,934
At 31st March 2022 59,628 1,861 1,123 27,896 90,508

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14. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS - CONTINUED

Long
leasehold		 Plant and
machinery		 Fixtures and
fttings		 Computer
equipment		 Totals
£ £ £ £ £
DEPRECIATION
At 1st April 2021 53,496 814 1,055 10,464 65,829
Charge for year 613 229 16 6,240 7,098
At 31st March 2022 54,109 1,043 1,071 16,704 72,927
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31st March 2022 5,519 818 52 11,192 17,581
At 31st March 2021 6,132 518 68 11,027 17,745

15. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

31/3/22
£
Trade debtors
21,165
Prepayments and accrued income
10,863
Operating lease rentals
32,028		 31/3/21
£
165,382
14,347
179,729

16. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

31/3/22
£
Trade creditors
13,962
Other creditors
12,992
Accruals and deferred income
168,101
Accrued expenses
5,244
Operating lease rentals
200,299
17. LEASING AGREEMENTS
31/3/22
£
Within one year
10,643
Between one and fve years
6,155
16,798		 31/3/21
£
19,832
17,746
228,452
10,517
276,547
31/3/21
£
11,020
15,000
26,020

17. LEASING AGREEMENTS

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

18 MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
. Net
movement in
At 1/4/21 funds At 31/3/22
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 224,292 (45,311) 178,981
Restricted funds
Restricted 209,273 1,942 211,215
TOTAL FUNDS 433,565 (43,369) 390,196
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming Resources Movement in
resources expended funds
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 96,747 (142,058) (45,311)
Restricted funds
Restricted 740,348 (738,406) 1,942
TOTAL FUNDS 837,095 (880,464) (43,369)
Comparatives for movement in funds
Net
movement in
At 1/4/20 funds At 31/3/21
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 295,835 (71,543) 224,292
Restricted funds
Restricted 70,187 139,086 209,273
TOTAL FUNDS 366,022 67,543 433,565

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18. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - CONTINUED

Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Incoming Resources Movement in
resources expended funds
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 87,076 (158,619) (71,543)
Restricted funds
Restricted 825,414 (686,328) 139,086
TOTAL FUNDS 912,490 (844,947) 67,543

A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined position is as follows:

A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined position is as follows:
Net
movement in
At 1/4/20 funds At 31/3/21
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 295,835 (116,854) 178,981
Restricted funds
Restricted 70,187 141,028 211,215
TOTAL FUNDS 366,022 24,174 390,196

A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:


above are as follows:
Incoming Resources Movement in
resources expended funds
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 183,823 (300,677) (116,854)
Restricted funds
Restricted 1,565,762 (1,424,734) 141,028
TOTAL FUNDS 1,749,585 (1,725,411) 24,174

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19. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OBLIGATIONS

The company operates a defined contributions pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the fund and amounted to £18,817 (2021 - £16,838). Contributions totaling £15 (2021 - £3,729) were payable to the fund at the balance sheet date and are included in creditors.

The pension cost charge is allocated to activities in-line with wages and salary costs which are either directly charged or based on staff time incurred for a particular fund. The fund to which the pension costs are allocated determines whether the cost is either restricted or unrestricted. The restricted or unrestricted element of the pension liability is calculated on a per head basis.

20. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

During the year the Charity purchased fire marshal training & first aid training of £647 from Ensure Safety Training, a company in which Mr A Deans is a director.

In 2021 the Charity purchased computer hardware and IT services of £756 from Microbyte Business Solutions Limited, a company in which R Lilley is a director.

During the year, trustees made donations to the Charity totaling £0 (2021 £380). No conditions were attached to these donations.

21. GOVERNMENT GRANTS

Government grants relating to tangible fixed assets are treated as deferred income and released to the Statement of financial activities incorporating income and expenditure account over the expected useful lives of the assets concerned. Other grants are credited to the Statement of Financial Activities incorporating income and expenditure account where there is entitlement, receipt is probable and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.

During the year, the Charity received the following government grants:

Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)

A grant was awarded for the year to 31 March 2022 to promote and improve emotional health and wellbeing amongst young people in the NHS Eastern Cheshire footprint. During the year £146,707 (2021 - £135,806) has been recognised as income in the Statement of Financial Activities.

BBC - Children in Need

A grant was awarded to Visyon Limited in May 2019, for a period of 3 years up to December 2022. The grant is to be used for the provision of one to one and group work for children in Crewe. During the year £12,064 (2021- £47,782) has been recognised as income in the Statement of Financial Activities.

Department of Health and Social Care

A grant was awarded to the charity in the year to help expand Visyon’s current project which provides therapeutic one to one counselling to young people aged 11-19. The expansion will increase the age range to include children under 11 years old, providing emotional health interventions to younger children who are experiencing emotional health difficulties. During the year, £30,800 (2021 - £77,000 has been recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities.

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21. GOVERNMENT GRANTS - CONTINUED

NHS Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) / Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust (CWP) - Surge

A grant was awarded to the charity in October 2020, which was later extended to 31 July 2021. This has subsequently been extended again until 31st March 2022 by CWP. This was awarded to Visyon, to help fund the increased number of one to one counselling and therapy services required as a result of Covid-19. During the year £33,930 (2021 - £16,731) has been recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust - Emotionally Healthy Children

A 4 year grant was awarded to the charity in 2019 to offer secure, sustainable support to all children and young people who may need advice or help in order to achieve emotional wellbeing. The scope of the Service will include children and young people who are resident in Cheshire East or who attend a school in Cheshire East. During the year, £100,767 (2021 - £222,280) has been recognised as income in the Statement of Financial Activities.

Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) - Gap project

A grant was awarded for the year to 31 March 2022 to work in an informal partnership arrangement with other third sector providers delivering a range of services to children, young people and parents constructed around known gaps within services. During the year £74,385 (2021 - £0) has been recognised as income in the Statement of Financial Activities.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust - Waiting List Initiative

A grant was awarded to the charity in October 2021 to provide additional counselling capacity until March 23. This was awarded to Visyon due to the high number of clients on Visyon’s waiting lists across the service. With the objective of providing additional capacity to reduce the number and length of time clients were waiting for a Visyon service. During the year £27,531 (2021 -£0) has been recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities.

There are no unfulfilled conditions or other contingencies attached to the grants noted above.

No other forms of government assistance have been received during the year.

22. LEGAL STATUS OF THE TRUST

Visyon Limited is a charitable company, registered in England and Wales, limited by guarantee and has no share capital. Every member of the company undertakes to contribute such amount as may be required not exceeding £10 to its assets, in the event of it being wound up within one year while he or she is a member or ceasing to be a member. The charitable company’s registered number and registered office address can be found in the Report of the Trustees.

23. VOLUNTEERS

The value of services provided by volunteers is not incorporated into these financial statements. Further details of the contributions made by volunteers can be found in the trustees’ annual report.

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24. MOVEMENT IN DEFERRED INCOME

24. MOVEMENT IN DEFERRED INCOME
2022 2021
£ £
Brought forward 228,452 21,760
Resources deferred during the year Amounts released from previous years 168,101 223,952
Prepayments and accrued income (228,452) (17,260)
Deferred income as at 31 March 2022 168,101 228,452

Creditors includes £168,101 (2021 - £228,452) of income which has been deferred into the following year due to the timing of the company’s entitlement to the income. This includes the following balances in respect of restricted funds:

WREN Grant
BBC - Children In Need
Cheshire Community Foundation
Churnet View Middle School
NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG
NHS Eastern Cheshire CCG Under 11
Cheshire East Covid Recovery
The Newby Trust
The Leathersellers
Evan Cornish
JDI Design Work
Waiting List Initiative
CCG Surge
Cheshire Community Foundation Minds Matter
Cheshire Community Foundation Minds Matter UTC
Cheshire Community Foundation Assurance
MIND
Cadent Income
CWP Vets
Postcode Community
CRH
Garfeld
Just Drop In
Children In Need - Staffordshire Moorland		 2022
£
2021
£
-
4,500
9,259
8,397
11,250
2,321
-
510
88,693
74,385
-
10,900
12,591
-
833
-
11,250
-
10,000
709
450
-
19,680
-
4,095
8,618
-
11,232
-
18,640
-
3,333
-
12,488
-
4,968
-
11,997
-
19,772
-
5,000
-
26,667
-
1,000
-
3,015
168,101
228,45

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DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2022

31/3/22
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
Donations and legacies
Individual Donations
4,258
Grants
17,968
Membership fees
2,207
Other Donations
66,921
91,354
Other trading activities
Headspace Cafe
-
Trading Income
1,775
1,775
Investment income
Investment Income
373
Charitable activities
Charitable activities
741,483
Other income
Other Income
2,110
Total incoming resources
837,095
EXPENDITURE
Raising donations and legacies
Wages
51,872
Charitable activities
Wages
630,542
Social security
46,836
Pensions
18,817
Insurance
10,317
Light and heat
4,313
Telephone
10,088
Postage and stationery
1,717		 31/3/21
£
6,311
29,654
2,981
48,121
87,067
630
-
630
92
823,147
1,554
912,490
17,809
599,367
40,540
16,838
8,591
4,475
10,857
1,328

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DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR

THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2022 - CONTINUED

31/3/22
£
Charitable activities
Brought forward
793,097
Display & resource material
1,128
Repairs & renewals
759
Software & related costs
12,283
Refreshments
30
Cleaning & sundries
2,427
Bank charges
513
Depreciation of tangible fxed assets
7,098
817,335
Support costs
Governance costs
Accountancy fees
7,917
Legal fees
3,340
11,257
Total resources expended
880,464
Net (expenditure)/income
(43,369)		 31/3/22
£
793,097
1,128
759
12,283
30
2,427
513
7,098		 31/3/21
£
776,993
-
13,695
5,796
107
1,265
474
8,054
806,384
13,146
7,608
20,754
844,947
67,543

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