Greater London
Volunteering
(Branded as London Plus)
Report of the Trustees and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023
Company no. 04070342 (England & Wales)
Charity no. 1115303
london plus

Greater London Volunteering
Contents
Report of the Trustees
Report of the Independent Auditor
15-18
statement of Financial Activities
19
Balance Sheet
20
Cash Flow Statement
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Notes to the Financial Statements
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Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 March 2023
The trustees present their report and audited financial statements for the
year ended 31 March 2023.
Reference and Administrative Information
Charity Name:
Greater London Volunteering (GLV)
Charity Registration Number:
1115303
Company Registration Number:
04070342
Registered Office:
Norman House
8 Burnell Road
Sutton
SMI 4BW
Myrus Smith Chartered Accountants
Norman House
8 Burnell Road
Sutton
Surrey
SMI 4BW
The Metro Bank
One Southampton Road
London, WC18 SHA
The Co-operative Bank PLC
PO Box 250
Delf House
Southway
Skelmersdale, WN8 6WT
Auditors:
Bankers:
Trustees
Sarah Mulley
Edward Anderton
Beau Fadahunsi
stephanie Hann
Jocelyn James
Renae Michelle Mann
Jacob Przeklasa
Dominic Pinkney
Rahul Sinah
Chair (Appointed November 2022)
Company Secretary
(Resigned 24 September 2023)
Treasurer
(Resigned 24 September 2023)
Interim Chair (To November 2022)
(Resigned l August 2023)
Special Advisor
Geraldine Blake
Senior Management
Martin Brookes
Chief Executive

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Structure, Governance and Management
Governing Document
The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on
12th September 2000 and was registered as a charity in England and Wales on 13th
July 2006.
The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established
the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under those
Articles. The company replaced the existing Memorandum and Articles of Association
with new Articles of Association on 6 February 2018. The legal name of the company
remains Greater London Volunteering. During this period, the company continued to
use the brand name London Plus.
Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees
The recruitment and appointment of trustees are set out in our Articles of Association.
Trustees are elected annually at the AGM. At the third annual general meeting after a
trustee's last appointment (whether by election or co-option) a trustee shall retire. They
shall be eligible for re-appointment provided that no trustee may continue to serve
after six years in office without a period of at least a year out of office and no trustee
may serve for more than nine years in total.
For the purposes of this Article (31.1) a "year" shall mean a complete period of service
between two annual general meetings.
The Board may. from time to time, appoint a member of staff as a member of the
Board either to fill a casual vacancy or by way of an addition to the Board, subject to
the provisions of the Articles of Association.
Trustee Induction and Training
New trustees are provided with an induction on joining the Board and are encouraged
to take up relevant training and development to fulfil their role and responsibilities to
London Plus.
Risk Management
The trustees review the risks to which the charity is exposed and have set up a number
of policies which the trustees, employed staff and volunteers must follow. The trustees
believe that there are in place adequate controls and systems to mitigate any external
and internal risks the charity may face.

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Structure, Governance and Management/cont'd...
Organisation
London Plus continued to develop its work on emergencies during this year. At the start
of the year, this was particularly pronounced following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in
February 2022. Large parts of the voluntary and community sector in London mobilised
to support an influx of refugees fleeing the conflict and London Plus played a role
coordinating this. This emergency response built on practices developed during the
pandemic and the Afghan refugee response. We maintained our standard support
for the voluntary and community sector alongside this, though emergency work took
priority. By the end of the year we had successfully applied for funding to create a
new formal structure, the London Communities Emergencies Partnership to support
this. This is a joint endeavour with the VCS Emergencies Partnership. Funding was
granted by City Bridge Trust, the GLA, and London Councils.
Management
Day-to-day management is delegated to a small staff team, led by a chief executive
officer. Throughout this reporting period, the chief executive has been Martin Brookes.
Objectives and Activities
Objectives
The objectives of the charity are:
To promote the efficiency and effectiveness of voluntary and charitable sector
organisations.
To promote such other exclusively charitable purposes according to the law of
England and Wales as the trustees is their absolute discretion from time to time
determine.

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Objectives and Activities/cont'd.
Purpose
A new "Purpose" for the charity was agreed by trustees at the end of the year,
replacing the previous Vision" and Mission". This revised purpose is as follows:
"Our purpose is to enable community groups and charities to make London thriving,
cohesive, and resilient.,
Activities
Our activities are organised around four building blocks.
Networks are the first building block. Networks make it easier for us to gather
information from, provide support to, and connect charities and community
groups across London. Some of our networks are for specific organisations,
such as for local charity infrastructure groups in each London borough.
others address a particular topic, such as social prescribing.
Communications, the second building block, are needed to support
charities and community groups. The voluntary and community sector in
London is large and disparate. Good information and communications
need to flow to the sector. We are investing increasing time, energy, and
resources into reaching the sector. This includes using social media,
newsletters, our website, as well as our networks and other channels.
Connections are the third building block, which we use to support the sector
across London. We have good links with policy makers in the GLA and
London Councils, as well as funders. We have added further to these as we
contribute to the agenda for London's recovery from the pandemic. Our
networks give credibility to our voice and influence when we talk to policy
makers and funders across London. Strong connections and credibility help
us build understanding, partnerships, and develop solutions.
Data is the final building block of our work. Our networks help provide us with
both hard as well as soft 'data' There is less analysis and scrutiny of, and
limited data about, the voluntary and community sector. We help plug this
gap by gathering data from our networks and beyond. With this, we can
better understand and serve the needs of the sector.

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Objectives and Activities/cont'd..
Public Benefit
In forming and reviewing the charity's objectives, the trustees have given due regard
to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission as required by
section 17 of The Charities Act 2011 .
Achievements and Performance
The year was again marked by a series of crises which had a significant impact on the
sector in London and in turn directed a much of our work. The establishment of the
London Communities Emergencies Partnership part way through the year, with
dedicated staff working on emergencies and preparedness, has changed London
Plus's role in direct crisis response, but this was not operational until the end of the year.
London Plus's core networks and work provided an essential foundation for both the
establishment of LCEP and for our crisis response work in the meantime.
The flexibility of the core funding support from City Bridge Trust allows London Plus both
to develop and maintain the core networks that provide the foundation for our work,
and to adapt and respond to the needs that arise throughout the grant term.
Ukraine crisis response
Russia's invasion of Ukraine dominated our work early in the year. April 2022 was just a
month into the conflict and the sector in London was stepping up in response to the
situation abroad, coordinating efforts around donations, and preparing for the arrival
of large numbers of refugees to the UK. At this time, many organisations were still
responding to the needs of Afghan arrivals, a large proportion of whom were still
accommodated in hotels across several boroughs.
London Plus worked closely with VCS Emergencies Partnership (VCS EP) in these early
months. Together. we convened regular meetings of organisations focussed on the
response to the situation in Ukraine and its impact in London. We continued the open
approach adopted when London received the arrivals evacuated from Afghanistan
that had proved effective in building connections and supporting collaboration. As
part of this, we maintained and built on the Ukraine response WhatsApp group we set
up at the start of the invasion. We held regular meetings for London organisations
involved or interested in the sector's response to the Ukraine crisis. As well as sharing
information and raising concerns we were able to escalate to London Councils and
other London-wide bodies, many useful new connections were made through these
meetings. One example is the connection between the Ukraine Social Club in west
London and volunteering charity RE:ACTwho were able to provide support particularly
with logistics. We also built upon the shared resources we had started collating and
sharing immediately after the invasion (again an approach tested during the Afghan
refugee response the previous year). This webpage continued to prove popular
throughout 2022-23.

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Achievements and Performance/cont'd...
Summer heatwave
Severe hot weather dominated our work during the summer months. We had worked
closely with VCS EP to disseminate preparedness information about heatwaves, storms
and floods, and shared extreme weather alerts and related action plans.
July and August 2022 saw the highest temperatures on record and consequent fires.
On 19 July the London Fire Brigade experienced its busiest day since World War11. The
most serious fire was in Wennington, Havering. Approximately 50 people were
displaced when 20 homes were evacuated. London Plus again worked closely with"
VCS EP and the local Volunteer Centre, who were supporting the Council-led rest
centre. We offered support as needed, collating and communicating the most
pressing needs to relevant contacts in order to support coordinated efforts.
In August, a gas explosion in Thornton Heath (Merton) forced an evacuation of
approximately 160 homes for a prolonged period. London Plus was involved again
with VCS EP coordinating efforts between national emergency responders and local
community organisations. We joined daily calls with colleagues from VCS EP, RE:ACT,
the British Red Cross and the London Boroughs Faiths Network and local volunteer
centres in Merton and Croydon, all of whom were working to help those affected.
Responding to such similar events in a short space of time enabled us to share the
lessons from Havering on how best to deal with donations, setting up a donation
centre and sensitively supporting traumatised people in practical ways.
In the summer, we started mapping voluntary and community sector connections with
local authority Borough Resilience Forums (BRFS) and emergency planning teams,
suspecting that there was work to do to create stronger relationships in parts of
London. Working closely with the Community Resilience team at the GLA, we made
introductions where there was room for improvement, and noted significant progress
in parts of London where some local infrastructure partners who had been trying to
establish a connection for some time were welcomed onto their local BRF.
Cost of living crisis
The latter half of the year was dominated by concerns over the rising cost of living,
particularly in the lead up to and during the cold winter months. Organisations noted
that, as well as facing increased demand for help, many staff and volunteers were
significantly affected themselves and needed additional support. Dedicated sector/
cross-sector forums were cropping up in almost every borough. We noticed
commonalities between these fora. There was a real sense that there were no clear
solutions and organisations were grappling with the same challenges all over London.

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Achievements and Performance/cont'd...
In response, London Plus used the same approach, templates and systems we had in
place from responding to previous emergencies and created a cost of living
document to collect useful information into one place. This resource outlined available
cost of living support by borough and also pan-London by theme, including charities
& businesses, food, families, energy, money & debt, digital exclusion, health, housing,
work & education, and warm spaces. This reduced duplication of effort and enabled
local VCS partners to offer direct support to Londoners more rapidly and effectively.
We helped create a task group within the CVS Network to further bolster collaboration
and sharing of ideas across boroughs.
We shared these resources on our website and promoted it through comms to the
wider sector. The page was viewed 1,416 times during the second half of the year.
Food aid support
One notable impact of the cost of living crisis was the 'perfect storm, faced by food
aid support in London where food bank demand was rising at the same time that
donations and volunteer numbers were falling. Partners reported an increase in food
bank use among those who have never before needed it and increasingly among
those experiencing in-work poverty. Pressures on individual households meant that
donations were falling and some people who had previously donated were even now
relying on foodbanks themselves. Volunteering was also suffering as people began to
tighten their belts; some took on additional paid work or could no longer afford to
travel to volunteer as they may have done before.
This was becoming a more acute and pressing issue, so we hosted two meetings
bringing together relevant partners, including organisations specialising in food aid
such as Felix Project and Trussell Trust, volunteer centres, the GLA and VCS EP.
A shortage of volunteers was threatening to become severe over the Christmas and
New Year period. Together with others, we helped resolve the problem. At one site in
East London, over l 00 new volunteers supported one food aid charity between 19th
and 31 st December. As in so many cases, the issue was connecting organisations to
one another so the pool of available volunteers can be better matched to demand.
This is the sort of role where London Plus's networks, both formal and informal, can play
a valuable part. As part of tackling this challenge, we also used the new London's
Lifelines website (see below).

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Achievements and Performance/cont'd..
Grants distribution
Our work in the food aid support space provided us with an opportunity to leverage
additional funds into the sector. We re-purposed funding from the Greater London
Authority to support City Harvest, the Felix Project and the Independent Food Aid
Network (IFAN) to be able to recruit and train more volunteers across London,
distributing £31,500 to pay for promotional materials including advertising on social
media. While the grant was funded by the GLA, it was our core support and funding
from City Bridge Trust which enabled this opportunity to direct money to the most
pressing need in the sector.
Following on from our work on mapping Borough Resilience Forums across the capital,
we worked with the GLA at the end of 2022 to develop the Community Resilience
Fund, to support voluntary and community organisations, collaborative work with local
BRF/emergency planning teams. London Plus helped assess applications and
distribute money to successful applicants. A total of £55,000 grant funding was
awarded to I I projects in the capital. Repeat funding of the same total amount was
committed before the end of the year - a further round of the fund will follow in
2023/24. Again, this piece of work was funded by the GLA but it was a natural
extension to our core work and would not have been possible without those activities
and networks.
London Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEPJ
Alongside being involved in responding to actual emergencies, we spent the first six
months of the year completing the design of the London Communities Emergencies
Partnership (LCEP), a new and innovative structure to coordinate the work of the
voluntary and community sector in London when an emergency strikes. A large
number of organisations were involved in this design, including VCS Emergencies
Partnership, with whom LCEP is a joint venture. We received funding for LCEP from City
Bridge Trust, the GLA, and London Councils.
Since this time, staff have been recruited and a detailed partnership has been agreed
between London Plus and British Red Cross, which runs VCS EP. The three staff for LCEP
are spread across the two organisations and were recruited by the end of the year.
Before staff were in place, LCEP hosted the first network call meeting on the 18th
January. This was well attended by emergency voluntary sector, voluntary and
community groups who are traditionally not emergency focussed and statutory
bodies.

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Achievements and Performance/cont'd..
With the team in place, LCEP is now fully operational and starting to make a difference
to the way the voluntary and community sector responds to emergencies. In turn, with
the team in place, London Plus can turn a larger part of its focus back to regular
business.
The above summary demonstrates how important it was that our work on emergency
response and community resilience was recognised and funded. A significant amount
of time in the first half of the year went into planning and preparation for LCEP without
funding being in place. Inevitably this affected the rest of the organisation. While we
maintained our support for core networks, work on data in particular slowed because
of the demands around emergencies and LCEP. We did not hire a new Data Analyst
during the year; this accounts for an under-spend in our budget in the year as a whole.
Plans are in hand to address this in 2023/24.
Infrastructure Networks
London Plus continues to support and facilitate its core VCS local infrastructure
networks. The reliability and smooth running of these networks (and the connections
maintained therein) are the essential foundation which enables much of our other
work to succeed. It is these connections that we can call upon in a crisis, and that
provide us with the vital local insights from the communities they serve.
London CVS Network
This was a productive year for the CVS Network. A number of ideas for longer-term
collective work have come to fruition, driven forward by London Plus and the network
Chair and deputy Chairs. Meeting attendance has improved; we have encouraged
deputies to attend in place of usual network members if availability is an issue and
various connections have also been made beyond those directors and Chief
Executives through themed pieces of work (including work on the cost of living and
CVS Development Workers, network). Regular network e-bulletins have continued
and consistently receive positive feedback.
Four quarterly CVS Network meetings were held during the year. As well as space for
networking and standing items around local and NHS-related updates, themes
covered included structural inequalities (Fairer City action plan and potential
collective actions), profile-raising and influencing, and political changes following
local elections. The cost of living crisis was a consistent topic of discussion through the
year and the network welcomed a presentation from the Child Poverty Action Group
at one of its meetings. There were also presentations from London Councils and
London Funders about their funding programmes.

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Achievements and Performance/cont'd..
Infrastructure Networks/cont'd
Also discussed were key pieces of collective work undertaken by London Plus with and
on behalf of the network. These included the first ever collective impact report for the
network, a salary bench-marking exercise, dedicated support with equalities forums
and the convening of themed subgroups around the cost of living crisis, policies
relating to structural inequalities, voluntary sector roles within the new NHS integrated
care systems, and a peer support network/space for staff in CVS teams. More detail
on some of these is provided below.
The first ever collective CVS Network Impact report was launched at the beginning of
this financial year. The report focused on the reach and representation of local
infrastructure organisations in London and the activity and impact of the network in
the year 2020/21. Network members wish to create a similar report every two years.
We started work with the London CVS Network on various actions arising from the Fairer
City Plan, initially identifying appropriate actions for further exploration and potential
collective and collaborative work. Work began to compile relevant organisational
policies from across the network, working towards creating policy guidance and
templates for use across the network and the wider sector. This work will continue into
2023/24.
London Volunteer Centre Network
This was the first full year of a new co-chairing arrangement, and it helped to ensure
ownership and drive collective work and ideas forward. Meeting attendance
improved, and several new members joined the network. Several key pieces of work
dominated the network's discussions over its four quarterly meetings, in particular
London's Lifelines and engagement of the network in the various activities as part of
the campaign (see more detail below); Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation
(VCQA) updates following the volunteering quality mark's move to NAVCA; potential
for collaboration around funding opportunities and training, and then later in the year,
concerns and challenges around funding. Regular network e-bulletins have continued
and received good feedback.
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Achievements and Performance/cont'd..
Infrastructure Networks/cont'd
London's Lifelines
Building on our work with the London VC Network, London Plus continued its work with
the London Volunteering Strategy Group (LVSG). This group is made up of the GLA,
London Councils, representatives from the VC Network, the London Boroughs Faith
Network and other voluntary and community sector and faith organisations involved
in volunteering in London. During the year work began on the first collaborative
project, London's Lifelines, a campaign to promote volunteering in London, which was
launched initially in September.
Over the course of the year London Plus with the GLA led a small steering group to
commission a website developer, media partner and filmographer. We designed a
website to celebrate volunteers in London, raise the profile of volunteering, signpost
routes into volunteering and tell individual volunteers, stories. Alongside the website,
we worked with Filmanthropy CIC to recruit a film crew made up of volunteers who
were trained to co-design and produce a film that would showcase the power,
breadth and scale of volunteering in London. This and other short films are being
launched in the new year.
Social Prescribing
The London Social Prescribing Network has now been established for two and a half
years. Voluntary and community organisations play a crucial role in the social
prescribing approach through their delivery of social prescribing activities. But many
other parts of the system inadvertently neglect to involve the voluntary sector 'voice'
in governance structures and thinking. London Plus's network helps to ensure the rest
of the system is more aware of this omission and strengthens the role of the voluntary
sector in discussions about social prescribing.
We have continued to champion the importance of investment in the voluntary sector
on behalf of our members whenever we attend meetings with wider parts of the
system. We have started to gather information to try and break down how much the
voluntary sector receives and from whom to get a baseline understanding of where
and to what activities the resource is going to in the system. This work will continue be
into 2023/24 as the network tries to influence and support the wider system to target
its limited resource effectively.

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Achievements and Performance/cont'd..
Social Prescribing/cont'd
This year we wanted to help the voluntary sector understand the strategic as well as
the grass roots evolution of social prescribing. The network led on creating 'SP
Connected,. a database of key stakeholders and decision makers in each of London's
32 boroughs who are involved in commissioning or delivering social prescribing. It has
all the cross-sector key contacts of local authority social prescribing leads, public
health, culture, Healthwatch and NHS to help smaller organisations understand who
to contact regarding commissioning or if they want to make them aware of the social
prescribing activities they offer.
This database has helped the network to understand and be better informed about
the complexity and uniqueness of each of the boroughs when delivering social
prescribing. It has enabled the voluntary sector to break down some of the barriers of
who to contact to support their communities more effectively. It is also an invaluable
resource, not only at borough but at ICS level as well as they continue to form.
Alongside the London Social Prescribing Network, we ran the London arm of the
Thriving Communities programme of the National Academy for Social Prescribing. As
part of this, we commissioned the Ubele Initiative to run three round tables with black
and minoritised communities about what was needed to engage, and the gaps in
social prescribing for these communities. We also worked with NASP partners to
continue to deliver on support for local and regional organisations delivering SP
activities. This included events for mental health and social prescribing to support link
workers and small organisations, as well as producing a number of blogs.
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Financial Review
London Plus remains crucially dependent on core funding from our main backer, City
Bridge Trust. This funding allows the charity to maintain our core work with networks
and the wider sector as well as, importantly, flex to the needs of charities and
community groups in London.
Without funding from City Bridge Trust, we could not have undertaken the crucial work
supporting the voluntary and community sector in London as it prepared to help
refugees arriving from Ukraine, or those organisations helping the most vulnerable
people in the heatwave and fires of the summer of 2022. Similarly, we would not have
been able to develop the support for volunteering across the whole capital through
the London Volunteering Strategy Group; or help an urgent brokering of volunteers
into food charities in the winter of 2022.
Flexibility of funding from City Bridge Trust enables London Plus to respond to these
pressing needs. The new grant to develop the London Communities Emergencies
Partnership (LCEP) gives us dedicated resources to tackle such emergencies without
detracting from the rest of the organisation. In 2022/23, the impact of emergency work
on the regular activities of the charity was significant, as noted earlier.
Alongside the new initiatives and responses to emergencies, City Bridge Trust's funding
enables us to continue to support the key infrastructure networks covering all 32
boroughs in London. This is a vital aspect of London Plus.
Our networks are independent of any policy or funding initiative. Part of their value lies
in this independence. They are owned by the sector and they can be directly shaped
and controlled by the sector and its needs. At the core of our approach is supporting
the sector across the whole breadth of issues it faces. We are able to do this - be
consistent, reliable, and valuable to the sector- because of the stability and reliability
in funding from City Bridge Trust grant. As that grant declines in future years, we will
need to consider how we secure the necessary funding to continue to service the
needs of London's voluntary and community sector. A new strategic framework was
discussed by trustees at the end of this year. With this strategy finalised during the first
half of 2023/24, we intend to approach a number of funders in London, including City
Bridge Trust, to discuss our existing and potential future funding.
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Financlal Review/cont'd...
Our unrestricted reserves rose to £62,051 (2022: £46,348). Prudent running of the
organization enabled us to add to our reserves despite inflationary pressures.
Nonetheless, our unrestricted reserves remain below the level that would be needed
to manage an unexpected interruption in funding. The nature of London Plus's work
and our funding makes it difficult to build further unrestricted reserves. If we receive
funding and deliver work that allows us to extend the money we receive in grant from
City Bridge Trust and others, this remains restricted under the terms of these grants. The
London Communities Emergencies Partnership contributes to this. It remains an
ambition to build up unrestricted reserves. As the organisation develops and grows,
this need becomes more acute.
Funding recelved in this period
City Bridge Trust funding
Funding from existing City Bridge Trust grants was used for the salaries of the Chief
Executive, Networks Manager, Data and Research Analyst, Communications Officer
and London Plus Coordinator. It also covered central office costs and overheads. The
grant in 2022/23 was £200,000, the first of three years of funding covering 2022/23-
25/26.
City Bridge Trust agreed a grant of £642,500 to support the development of the London
Communities Emergencies Partnership (LCEP). This is to be paid over the period
2022/23-2025/26. The payment in 2022/23 was £65,330. This sum is to be shared with
VCS Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP), our partner in LCEP. Approximately £17,686 of
the first year grant will be paid to VCSEP. In addition, a (smaller) portion of the funding
will be on-granted to the London Boroughs Faiths Network (LBFN).
An additional £15,703 came from City Bridge Trust as an inflation grant to cover the
increased costs of delivery at a time when prices in the economy are rising rapidly.
GLA funding
We received the last scheduled £20,000 grant from the GLA to fund our support for the
London Recovery Board's
'missions"
specifically the mission
'Building Strong
Communities" London Plus has been closely involved with this mission as well as
helping provide oversight of others among the nine in total.
We received funding of £17,000 from the GLA for London Lifelines in this financial year.
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Financial Review../cont'd
Funding received in this perlod../cont'd
The GLA made a grant of £60,500 to support work on community resilience. The large
majority of this (£53,724.67) was paid out in I I small grants to local borough-based
organisations. A further round of £55,000 grant funding was also committed as
recorded in Note 2.
We received a grant of £33,000 to support the London Social Prescribing Network. This
is the first payment in a two-year grant.
The GLA agreed a grant of £1 00,000 for LCEP over four years. This is to be paid over
the period 2022/23-2025/26. The payment in 2022/23 was £17,000.
London Councils funding
We received a grant of £25,000 to support the London Communities Emergencies
Partnership.
National Academy for Social Prescribing
We received a grant of £36,516 to support the NASP Thriving Communities programme
during the year. This continued our work in 2021 /22.
Reserves Policy
The charity maintains reserves sufficient to enable it to fulfil its charitable objectives.
The Board of Trustees regularly reviews the risk-based reserves policy.
Loss of funding is deemed the greatest risk to the organisation and loss of our primary
funder could lead to the closure of the charity. The trustees are satisfied that the
£62,051 held in reserves at the end of the year is sufficient to meet the costs of closure.
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Trustees Responsibilitles Statement
The trustees (who are also directors of Greater London Volunteering for the purposes
of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees, Annual Report and the
financial statements in accordance with applicable law and the 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 these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
Observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP 2015 (FRS 102);
Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed,
subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial
statements;
Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is
inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in
operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose
with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable
company and 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:
There is no relevant audit information ofwhich the charitable company's auditor
is unaware; and
The trustees have taken all steps that they ought to have taken to make
themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the
auditor is aware of that information.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of
the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Approved by the trustees on Tuesday 5th December 2023 and signed on their behalf
by:
Sarah Mulley
Chair of Board of Trustees
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Oplnlon
We have audited the financial statements of Greater London Volunteering (the
'charitable company,) for the year ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the
Statement of Financial Aclivities, the Balance Sheet and notes to the financial
statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial
reporting fromework that hos been applied in their preparation is applicable law and
United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102
The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United
Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the financial statements:
give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company's affairs as at
31 March 2023, and of its incoming resources and application of resources,
including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generolly
Accepted Accounting Practice; and
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies
Act 2006.
Basls for oplnlon
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 Auditor's 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 statenients
in the UK, including the FRC'S Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our otlier etliical
responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that tlie audit
evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our
opinion.
Concluslons relating to golng concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees, use of tlie
going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financlal statenieiits Is
appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified aiiy niateiial
uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, indivldually or collectlvely, Iiiay cast
significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue os a goliig i.Iiiiceiii
for a period of at least twelve months from when the finaiicial stateiiieiits ale
authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to gi)Iiig LEII)L PII)
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 Report of the Trustees, other than the financial
statements and our auditor's report 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 course of
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 Companles Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
the information given in the trustees, report which includes the directors, report
prepared for the purposes of company law, for the financial year for which the
financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements;
and
the directors, report included within the trustees, report has been prepared in
accordance with applicable legal requirements.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of our 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 directors, report included within the trustees, report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the
Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our
audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and
returns; or
certain disclosures of directors, remuneration specified by law are not made; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our
audit; or
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Matters on which we are required to report by exception/cont'd.
the trustees were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in
accordance with the small companies, regime and take advantage of the
small companies, exemptions in preparing the directors, report and from the
requirement to prepare a strategic report.
Responsibilities of trustees
As explained more fully in the trustees, responsibilities statement, 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.
Auditor's responsibillties 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 an auditor's report 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.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and
regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to
detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent
to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is
detailed below:
Enquiry of management and those charged with governance about actual
and potential litigation or claims and the identification of non-compliance with
laws and regulations.
Reviewing minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.
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(continued)
Reviewing financial statement disclosures and testing to supporting
documentation to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Auditing the risk of management override of controls, including testing journal
entries and other adjustments for appropriateness; assessing whether the
judgements made in making accounting estimates are indicative of a potential
bias; and evaluating the business rationale of any significant transactions that
are unusual or outside the normal course of business.
Performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected
relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud.
Professional scepticism in course of the audit and with audit sampling in material
audit areas.
Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all
irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial
statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that
compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions
reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of
instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring
due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery,
collusion, omission or misrepresentation.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting
Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms
part of our auditor's report.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in
accordance with Chapter 3 of Part16 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 auditor's report and for no other
pur
se. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume
resp
nsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable
co
any's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions
ave formed.
we
step,
en Jones FCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Myrus Smith
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors
Norman House, 8 Burnell Road, Sutton, Surrey
SMI 4BW
December 2023
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statement of Financial Activities
(including Income and Expenditure Account)
for the year ended 31 March 2023
Unrestricted Restricted 31 March
Funds
Funds
2023
31 March
2022
Note
Income from:
Charitable activities
15,703
538,982 554,685
356,274
Total
15,703
538,982 554,685
356,274
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
7,815
7,815
365,004 365,004
7,303
430,137
Total
372,819 372,819
437,440
Net surplus/(deficit)
Transfers between funds
15,703
166,163
181,866
(81,166)
12
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
15,703
166,163 181,866
(81,166)
12
46,348
45,945
92,293
173,459
Total funds carrled forward
12
£62,051
£212,108 £274,159
£92,293
All income and expenditure is derived from continuing activities.
The SOFA includes all gains and losses recognised during the year.
The notes on pages 24 to 32 form part of these financial statements.
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Balance Sheet
As at 31 March 2023
31 March
2023
31 March
2022
Notes
Current assets
Debtors
Cash at Bank
10
61,204
282,944
10,937
171,019
344,148
181,956
Creditors: amounts falling
due within one year
(69,989)
(89,663)
Net current assets
274,159
92,293
Net assets
13
£274,159
£92,293
Funds:
Unrestricted funds
- General funds
12
62,051
46,348
Restricted funds
12
212,108
45,945
Total funds
£274,159
£92.293
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions
relating to small companies within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
Approved by the directors and trustees on Tuesday 5th December 2023 and signed
on their behalf.
Sarah Mulley, Chair
The notes on pages 24 to 32 form part of these financial statements.
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Cash Flow Statement
As at 31 March 2023
Notes
2023
2022
Cash flows from operating activities
Net movement in funds per statement of financial
activities
Adjustments for:
Interest receivable
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
(Decrease)/increase in creditors
181,866
(81,166)
(50,267)
(19,674)
4,984
(8,675)
Net cash (used in)/provided by operafing
activities
111,925
(84,857)
Cash flows from investing activities
Interest received
Net cash provided by investing activities
111,925
(84,857)
Change in cash at bank in the year
Cash at bank brought forward
171,019
255,876
Cash at bank carried forward
£282,944 £171,019
The notes on pages 24 to 32 form part of these financial statements.
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Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
l. Accounting policies
General Information and basls of preparation
Greater London Volunteering is a private company limited by guarantee registered in
England and Wales. In the event of the company being wound up, the liability in
respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the charity. The address of the
registered office is given in the Reference and Administrative Information" on page I
of these financial statements.
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. 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) issued in October 2019, the Charities Act 2011,
the Companies Act 2006 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis under the historical
cost convention.
The significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial
statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all
years presented unless otherwise stated.
Income recognition
Items of income are recognised in the financial statements when all of the following
criteria are met:
The charity has entitlement to the funds;
any performance conditions have been met or are fully within the control of the
charity;
there is sufficient certainty that receipt of the income is considered probable;
and
the amount can be measured reliably.
Income from performance related grants and contracts is recognised as the charity
earns the right to consideration through delivery of the specified services.
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Notes to the financlal statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
Expendlture recognition
Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make
payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount
can be measured reliably. Expenditure includes all irrecoverable VAT which is included
as part of the relevant cost. Expenditure is classified under the following activity
headings:
Costs of raising funds comprise those costs associated with attracting voluntary
donations and grants
Expenditure on charitable activities comprises those costs associated with the
delivery of the various activities and services for the charity's beneficiaries.
Expenditure includes those costs of a direct nature which can be allocated to a
specific activity and also includes indirect costs, including govemance costs that do
not relate to a specific activity but are necessary to support those activities. Support
costs are apportioned to each activity on the basis of staff time.
Leases
Operating lease rentals are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities on a
straight line basis over the period of the lease.
Fund accounting
Unrestricted general funds are freely available for use in furtherance of the objects of
the charity and which have not been designated for specific purposes.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds set aside by the trustees for particular
purposes.
Restricted funds are funds which can only be used in accordance with specific
restrictions imposed by the donor or which have been raised for a particular purpose.
Pensions
The charity contributes to Stakeholder Pension Schemes on behalf of its employees.
These schemes are defined contribution pension schemes.
Contributions payable under these schemes are charged to the Statement of
Financial Activities in the year to which they relate. The charity has no liability under
these schemes other than for the payment of those contributions.
Debtors and creditors receivable/payable within the year
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.
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Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
Income from charitable activities
2023
2022
City Bridge Trust - Core
City Bridge Trust- Inflation
City Bridge Trust- LCEP
City Bridge Trust- Diversity
City Bridge Trust- Afghan travel
GLA- Social Prescribing
GLA- Grants
GLA- LCEP
GLA- London Lifelines
London Councils- LCEP
Nat. Academy for Social Prescribing
GLA- Matched funding for Core
VCSEP- Matched funding for Core
other
200,000
15,703
65,330
3,600
115,625
12,860
32,419
72,478
33,000
115,500
17,000
17,000
25,000
36,516
20,000
6,000
36
94,542
20,000
8,350
£554,685
£356,274
All of the £356,274 recognised in 2022 related to restricted funds.
Cost of raislng funds
2023
2022
Fundraising activities
£7,815
£7,303
All of the £7,303 expenditure recognised in 2022 was charged to restricted funds.
Cost of charitable actlvlties
Direct
Costs
Support
Costs
2023
2022
Civil society services
£349,478 £15,526
£365,004
£430,137
All of the £430,137 expenditure recognised in 2022 was charged to restricted
funds.
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Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
Analysis of direct costs
2023
2022
Wages and salaries
Recruitment
Consultancy fees/secondments
Travel costs
Project delivery costs
Website costs
Computer/equipment costs
Network days/conference
Legal fees
other direct costs
235,297
7,705
2,453
263
98,921
647
412
2,628
234,893
2,545
21,488
2,760
126,976
697
329
2,606
438
1,360
1,152
£349,478
£394,092
Analysis of support costs
2023
2022
Office costs
Premises costs
Marketing & promotion
Governance costs (note 7)
7,406
2,830
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5,263
10,068
18,202
2,040
5,735
£15,526
£36,045
Governance costs
2023
2022
Audit fee
Accountancy fee
1,470
3,793
1,800
3,935
£5,263
£5,735
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Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
Net surplus/(deficit)
The net surplus or deficit is stated after charging:
2023
2022
Audit fees
Operating leases
1,470
1,800
16,288
staff costs
2023
2022
Wages and salaries
Social Security costs
Pensions
213,583
18,850
10,679
212,653
17,945
11,598
£243,112
£242,196
One employee (2022 . One) received total employee benefits (excluding
employer pension costs) of between £60,001- £70,000.
The average monthly number of employees during the year, calculated on the
basis of full-time equivalents was 6 (2022 . 6).
Total employee benefits received by key management amounted to £78,154
(2022 . £73,029).
Under FRS 102, employee benefits include gross salary, benefits in kind,
employer's national insurance and employer pension costs.
staff costs include wages and salary direct costs (note 5) and fundraising
activities costs (note 3).
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Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
10. Debtors
Due within one year
2023
2022
Trade Debtors
Prepayments
Grants receivable
57,750
704
2,750
i 0,000
937
£61,204
£10,937
I l. Creditors:
2023
2022
Amounts falling due within one year:
Trade Creditors
Deferred Income
Accruals
other creditors
61,106
4,000
3,430
1,453
14,500
69,000
4,550
1,613
£69,989
£89,663
Deferred income analysis
2023
2022
Balances brought forward
Additions during the year
Amounts released to income
69,000
4,000
(69,000)
71,250
69,000
(71,250)
Balances carried forward
£4,000
£69,000
Deferred income of £4,000 (2022 . £69,000) included above relates to grant
income received during the year but relating to future accounting periods.
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. Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
12. Movement In funds
At
IApr
2022
Transfers
At
between 31 March
funds
2023
Income
Expenditure
2023
Restricted funds
Core - City Bridge Trust
Core- Matched funding
GLA Soc. Prescribing
GLA Small grants
GLA - London Lifelines
NASP
LCEP
200,000
29,636
33,000
115,500
17,000
36,516
107,330
116,528
29,636
37,404
99,670
10,068
64,252
15,261
83,472
5,646
4,000
1,242
19,830
6,932
8,563
92,069
36.299
45,945
538,982
372,819
212,108
Unrestricted funds
General Funds
46,348
15,703
62,051
Total funds
£92,293 £554,685
£372,819
£Nil £274,159
Each of the funds is described in the Trustees, Annual Report.
Comparative information for the net movement in funds is as follows:
At
Transfers
At
IApr
between 31 March
2021
funds
2022
Income
Expenditure
2022
Restricted funds
Core - City Bridge Trust
Core- Matched funding
GLA- Soc. Prescribing
GLA- Small Grants
NASP
Afghan travel
83,664
115,625
28,350
32,419
72,478
94,542
12,860
201,546
28,350
34,803
69,796
90,085
12,860
2,257
8,030
1,318
31,842
5,646
4,000
36,299
124,854
356,274
437,440
2,257
45,945
Unrestricted funds
General Funds
48,605
(2,257)
46,348
Total funds
£173.459 £356,274
£437,440
£Nil
£92,293
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Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
13. Analysis of net assets between funds
Restricted
Unrestricted
Total
2023
Current assets
Current liabilities
282,097
(69,989)
62,051
344,148
(69,989)
Total funds
£212,108
£62,051
£274,159
Comparative information for the net assets between funds is as follows:
Restricted
Unrestricted
Total
2022
Current assets
Current liabilities
135,608
(89,663)
46,348
181,956
(89,663)
Total funds
£45,945
£46,348
£92,293
14. Related parties
Due to GLV'S status as an umbrella body for London based volunteer centres, a
number of GLV trustees are involved with the governance/management of these
organisations. The work of GLV is such that a number of transactions arose with
some of these organisations as part of its routine charitable activity on several
contracts. The trustees are satisfied that all such transactions have been carried
out on an arm's length basis.
No trustees received any remuneration in respect of services as a trustee during
the year (2022 . £Nil).
No trustees (2022 . Nil) were reimbursed any expenses during the year (2022 . £Nil).
15. Contingent Assets
The total amount of grant and other funding due to the charity but not yet
recognised as income at 31 March 2023 was £500,000.
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Notes to the financial statements
for the year ended 31 March 2023
Acknowledgements
The trustees would like to acknowledge the hard work of our team. Thanks to Martin
Brookes, Chief Executive and to our wonderful staff team: Emily Coatham
(Partnerships Manager); Hannah Norgate (Networks Manager); Stephanie McKinley
(Social Prescribing Programmes Manager); Henry Farman (Communications Officer)
plus the many staff and volunteers in partner organisations who worked with us to
deliver services during the 12 month period to 31 March 2023.
And particular thanks to our funders for their support of our work:
City Bridge Trust (now City Bridge Foundation)
Greater London Authority
London Councils
National Academy for Social Prescribing
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