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|Contents:||Page|
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|Reference and Administrative|Details for the Year Ended|2|
|31 March 2023|||
|Chair's Report and CEO Report||3-4|
|Report ofthe Trustees||5-13|
|Report ofthe Independent<br>Auditors||14-16|
|Statement of Financial Activities||17-18|
|Balance Sheet||19|
|Cash flow Statement||20|
|Notes to the Financial Statement||21-29|






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|lan Bretman|Chair|Trustee|November|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||and Chair Februaty||2023|
|Dr Irene Campbell|Past Chair|Chair until February||2023|
|Nick Clay|Vice Chair and Treasurer||||
|Sarah Trowbridge|Vice Chair||||
|Tony Book|Trustee||||
|Andrew<br>Brock|Trustee and Treasurer|Resigned|November|2022|
|Les Bucket|Trustee|Joined February 2023|||
|Cath Beckett|Trustee|Resigned|July 2022||
|Amir Paz-Fuchs|Trustee|Joined November<br>2022|||
|Hannah<br>Freeman|Trustee|Joned November<br>2022|||
|Mike Jones|Trustee||||
|Mike Link|Trustee|Resigned|November|2022|
|Alex Ross|Trustee||||
|Nick Ratsey|Trustee|Resigned|April 2023||



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|Senior Statutory Auditor|Senior Statutory Auditor|Darren<br>Harding|ACA FCCA DChA|
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|||Richard Place Dobson Services Limited||
|||1-7Station Road||
|||Crawley||
|||RH10 1HT||
|Registered|Office|Citizens Advice|in West Sussex|
|||Lower Tanbridge|Way|
|||Horsham||
|||RH12 1PJ||



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|||Uurestricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total 2023|Total 2022|
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|||I&'uuds|Funds|Fmids|||
|||General|Designated||||
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||Note||||||
|Inconic:|||||||
|Donations acd||12,602||22,023|34,625|134,737|
|legacies|||||||
|Income froin|||||||
|charitable<br>activttiest|||||||
|Advisory<br>Services|4|1,314,452||983,463|2,297,915|2,021,936|
|Investmentincome|3|9,872|||9,872|4,687|
|Other income||2,350|||2,350|2,050|
|Total lncorue||1,339,276||1,005,486|2,344,762|2,163,410|
|Expenditure:|||||||
|Costs ofraisbig funds:|||||||
|Professional<br>Support|||||||
|Costs|||||||
|Expendtaoe<br>on|||||||
|charitable<br>acti iv'ties.|||||||
|Advisory<br>Services|5|1,303,393||970,857|2,274,250|1,945,017|
|Total Expenditure||1,303,393||970,857|2,274,250|1,945,017|
|Movcmcnt<br>in funds<br>for the ymr||35,883||34,629|70,512|218,393|
|Transfers<br>between||19,494|(28,348)|8,854|||
|funds|||||||
|Net movement<br>In||55,377|(28,348)|43,483|70,512|218,393|
|funds for the year|||||||
|Rceoncglanon<br>of|||||||
|funds|||||||
|Total Funds brought||722,367|237,293|154,706|1,114,366|895,973|
|forward|||||||
|Total Funds carried||777,744|208,945|198,189|1,184&878|1,114&366|
|forward|||||||





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||||CITI|ZENS ADVICE IN W|ZENS ADVICE IN W|EST SUSSEX(NORTH&|EST SUSSEX(NORTH&|SOUTH,|EAST)||
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|||||Statement||ofFinancial Activities|||||
|||||(Incorporating|an Incotue and Expenditure|||Account)|||
|||||For the|Year Ended - 31March 2022||||||
|||||Unrestricted|Vm'cstricted||Restricted||Total 2022|Total 2021|
|||||Funds||F'uuds|Fuuds||||
|||||General|Designated||||||
||||Note||||||||
|Income:|||||||||||
|Donations<br>and||||4,942|||129,795||134,737|6,437|
|legacies|||||||||||
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|chnritable|||||||||||
|«clivit(est|||||||||||
|Advisory<br>Services||||1,139,302|||882,634||2,021,936|1,812,534|
|investment<br>income||||4,687|||||4,687|5,192|
|Other income||||2,050|||||2,050|6,745|
|Totallncorue||||1,150,981|||1,012,429||2&163,410|1,830,908|
|Expenditure:|||||||||||
|Costs ofraising|||||||||||
|fimdst|||||||||||
|Professional|||||||||||
|Support Costs|||||||||||
|Expenditure|on||||||||||
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|acllvlliest|||||||||||
|Advisory<br>Services||||1,062,901|||882,|116|1,945,017|1,614,369|
|Total||||1,062,901|||882,116||1,945,017|1,614,369|
|Expenditure|||||||||||
|Movement<br>in|||||||||||
|funds for the|year|||88,080|||130,313||218,393|216,539|
|Transfers between||||(21,3Ci3)||21,363|||||
|funds|||||||||||
|Net movement<br>lu<br>funds for the year||||66,717||21,363|130,313||218,393|216,539|
|Reconclltadon||of|||||||||
|funds|||||||||||
|Total Funds||||655,650||215,930|24,393||895,973|679,434|
|brought<br>forward|||||||||||
|Total Funds||||722,367||237,293|154,706||1&114,366|895,973|
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||||CITIZENS ADV|ICE IN WEST SU|SSEX(N|ORTH, SO|UTH, EAST)|||
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|||||Balance|Sheet|||||
|||||At 31March 2023||||||
||||Unrestricted||Restricted|Funds|Total 2023|Total 2022||
|||||Feuds||||||
||||Note|||||||
|Fixed Assets||||||||||
|Tangible assets||||2,169|||2,169||6,027|
|Current assets||||||||||
|investments|||10|669,582|||669,582||418,050|
|Debtors||||333,762||75,747|409,509||273,901|
|Cash at bank|and in|||311,196||178,697|489,893||757,796|
|hand||||||||||
|Total Current||nssets||1,314,540||254,444|1,568,984|1,449,747||
|Current Babllltles||||||||||
|Creditors<br>falling||dnc|12|(351,101)||(35,174)|(386,275)||341,406|
|within one year||||||||||
|Net current|Assets|||963439||219,270|1,182,709|1,791,153||
|Total Assets less<br>current liabilities||||963,439||219,270|1,182,709|1,797,180||
|NET ASSETS||||963,439||219,270|1,182,709|1,797,180||
|Thc funds ofthe|||14|||||||
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|General<br>funds||||777,744|||777,744||722,367|
|Designated<br>funds||||208,945|||208,945||237,293|
|Unrestricted|funds|||986,689|||986,689||959,660|
|Restrictcc<br>FUNDS||j)(DQ~||5'Ig0|hzJ Q|||74.707<br>1,114,367||
|The chaiit|||||||'table companies<br>for|||
|the year endi|||||||requtrhsg|aa|audit of|
|thcsc tinanci||||||||||
|The trustees||||||||||
|(a)<br>ensur<br>(b)<br>preps<br>financial<br>yes|||||||inies Act 2006 <br>Pe end ofeach<br>95 and which||and|
|otherwise<br>co|||||||the charitable|||
|company.||||||||||
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|Cash floivs from operating<br>activities|Cash floivs from operating<br>activities|||||(26,241)|117,086|
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|Cash floivs from hivestlng<br>activities||||||||
|Intcrcst Income||||||9,872|4,687|
|Purchase oftangible fixed assets||||||||
|Purchase ofcurrent asset investments||||||(251,532)|(1,345)|
|Cash provided<br>by/(used<br>ln) Investing||activities||||||
|||||||(241,660)|3,342|
|Increase/(decrease)<br>In cash and <br>yenr|cash|cquivalcnts||In the||(267,901)|120,428|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at the|begiiuiuig||ofthc year|||||
|||||||757,796|637,368|
|Cash and cash equivalmits<br>at thc cml||of|the year|||489,893|757,796|
|Notes to the Cash Floss Statement||||||||
|Reconcfllatlon<br>ofnet movenient|in funds||to nct cash floivs from operating||activities|||
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|Net movement<br>in funds||||||70,512|218,394|
|Add back depreciation<br>charge||||||3,858|7,507|
|Deduct interest income shown<br>in|investing||activities|||(9,872)|(4,687)|
|Decrease/(increase)<br>in debtors||||||(135,608)|(90,220)|
|Increase/(decrease)<br>in creditors||||||44,869|(13,908)|
|Net cash flo»s from operating<br>activdtics||||||(26,241)|117,086|
|||||At I April||Cnshfloiv|At31March|
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|Nct Debt:||||||||
|Cash at bank and in hand||||757,796||(267,903)|489,893|





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|2|DONATIONS|AND LEGACIES|||||
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||||Uurestrlcted|Restricted|Total 2023|Total 2022|
||||Funds|Fundsf|f||
|Restricted donation||||20,000|20,000|123,991|
|Individual|donations &81,000||12,602|2,023|14,625|10,746|
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|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|2023|Total|2022|
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|Interest|from|bank|and|savings|accounts|9,872|||9,872||4,687|





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|||Uurestrlcted|Restricted|Total 2023|Total 2022|
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|||Funds|Funds|||
|Alliance for Better Care||(2,500)||(2,500)|2,500|
|Capacity Funding|||||10,000|
|Clarion Housing<br>Group|||||20,000|
|Covid 19funding|||||8,333|
|Crawley Homclcssness<br>Prevention|||43,325|43,325|6,348|
|General Advisory<br>Services||1,108,813||1,108,813|800,652|
|Horsham<br>DC Befdending||28,767||28,767||
|Homharn<br>Homelessness<br>Prevention||31,219||31,219|30,209|
|Horsham<br>Matters Money Advice||20,115||20,115|10,057|
|Kick Start.||24,269||24,269|36,888|
|Macmillan|||116,052|116,052|141,013|
|Mid Sussex Homelessness<br>Prevention||30,103||30,103|21,000|
|Money Advice Debt Advice<br>Program|||174,349|174,349|223,283|
|MSDC-Community<br>Engagement||18,108||18,108|29,948|
|National<br>Lottery Conuuunity|Fund||101,115|101,115|98,241|
|NHS E Sussex CCG||12,605||12,605|37,000|
|Other Clinical Commissioning|||||54,517|
|Group funding||||||
|Other energy advice projects||11,725||11,725|(1,560)|
|Other funders||2,578||2,578|4,041|
|Sussex Corumunity<br>Poundation||18,150||18,150|1,650|
|Sussex University||3,000||3,000|9,000|
|Trussell Trust|||402,474|402,474|214,795|
|Universal<br>Credit<br>—Help to Claim|||146,148|146,148|158,974|
|Universal<br>Credit Best Practice|||||39,980|
|Lead||||||
|1Vorthing Homelessness<br>Prevention||7,500||7,500|30,000|
|3Vorthing-Comntunity|||||23,956|
|Engagement||||||
|||1,314,452|983,463|2,297,915|2,021,936|
|2022 Comparative||1,139,302|882,634|2,021,936||





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|E|XPEND|ITURE ON CHARITABLE|ACTIVITIES - ADVISOR|Y SERVICES|||
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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total 2023|Total 2022|
||||I'unde|Funds|||
|StaffPayroll|||657,489|828,488|1,485,977|1,432,579|
|Staff and Volunteer||Other|43,428|13,154|56,582|50,711|
|Partnership|Payments||178,950||178,950||
|Premises|||58,733|34,490|93,223|58,279|
|Office|||109,964|50,781|160,745|134,775|
|Services|||15,028|4,000|19,028|17,475|
|Supplies||||||5,076|
|Other|||50,555|37,454|88,009|92,639|
|Support and|Govcn&ance||189,246|2,490|191,736|153,483|
||||1,303,393|970,857|2,274,250|1,945,017|
|2022 comparative|||1,062,901|882,116|1,945&017||
|Analysis ofSupport and Governance|||||||
||||Uurcstrlctcd|Restricted|Total 2023|Tota12022|
||||Fuuds|Funds|||
|Staff Payroll|||185,023||185,023|145,986|
|Governance|||4,223|2,490|6,713|7,497|
||||189,246|2,490|191,736|153,483|
|2022 comparative|||123,110|30,373|153,483||



||Total 2023|Total 2022f|
|---|---|---|
|Depreciation<br>(within Offtce)|3,519|7,507|
|Auditor Remuneration|5,900|6,094|
|Operating<br>lease payments|31,121|20,694|





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|AND THE COSTS OF KEY MANAGENIENT<br>PE|RSONNEL||
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||Total 2023|Total 2022|
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|Salaries and wages|1,494,381|1,432,504|
|Social Security costs|122,603|117,509|
|Pension costs|28,558|26,389|
|Total StaffPayroll Costs|1,645,542|t&576,402|



||Total2023|Total 2022|
|---|---|---|
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|Catheruie<br>Beckett|19|30|
|Ian Bretman|28||
|Andrew Brock||161|
|Leslie Buckett|24||
|Irene Cmnpbcll|82|182|
|Total Trustee Expenses|153|373|



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|The|average monthl|y<br>paid employee<br>numbers<br>during<br>the year were as fol|lows||
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|Employee numbers||- on paymll|75|74|
|8|RELATED|PARTY DISCLOSURES|||



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|9<br>TANG|I|B|LE FIXEDASSETS||||
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|||||Conipiltcr|Fixtures<br>mul||
|||||Equipment|Fittings|Total|
|Cost at I April||2022||81,612|54,622|136&234|
|Additions|||||||
|Disposals||||29,403||29,403|
|Cost at 31starch 2023||||52,209|54,622|106,831|
|Depreciation|at||I April 2022|75,585|54,622|130,207|
|Depreciation||charged in the year||3,858||3&858|
|Disposals||||29,403||29&403|
|Dcprcclatlon|at 31March 2023|||50,040|54,622|104,662|
|Net book value|||I April 2022|6,027|0|6,027|
|Nct book value|||31starch 2023|2,169|0|2,169|



|11<br>DEBTORS|||
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||Total 2023|Total 2022|
|Trade Debtors|85,802|136,805|
|Prepsyments<br>and other debtors|55,914|50,118|
|Accrued Income|267,793|86,978|
||409,509|273,901|
|12<br>CREDITORS|||
||Total 2023f|Total 2022|
|Trade Creditors|57,793|97,201|
|Deferred Income|123,895|74,501|
|Taxes and social security|35,193|30,458|
|Provisions|105,458|80,000|
|Accru ala|63,936|59,246|
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|||For the Year|Ended -31March 2|023|||
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|Note 14continued|||||||
|Cotuparatlves|for||||||
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|||I April 2021|resources|Expended|Transfers|31March|
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|Unrestricted|||||||
|funds:|||||||
|General Fund||655,650|I 150981|(I 062 901)|(21 363)|722,367|
|Designated<br>funds:|||||||
|Specific initiatives||215,930|||21,363|237,293|
|fund|||||||
|||871,580|1,150,981|(I,062,901)|0|959,660|
|Restricted funds:|||||||
|Macmillan|||141,013|(141,013)|||
|Universal<br>Credit Best|||39,980|(39,980)|||
|Practice Lead|||||||
|Universal<br>Credit-|||158,974|(158,974)|||
|Help to Claim|||||||
|National<br>Lottery<br>Community<br>Fund||13,939|98,241|(89,077)||23,103|
|IVSCC Crawley<br>Money Advice||1,535|6,348|(6,348)||1,535|
|Trussell Trust|||214,795|(214,795)|||
|Money Advice Debt<br>Advice Program||5,919|223,283|(226,679)||2,523|
|Client Tmst accounts||3,000|129,795|(5,250)||127,545|
|||24,393|1,012,429|(882,116)|0|154,706|
|||895,973|2,163,410|(1,945,017)|0|1,114,366|



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|15<br>COAIMITMENT<br>UNDER OPERATING LEASES|||
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||Total 2023|Total 2022|
|Less than 3year|30,571|18,599|
|2to 5years|550|2095|
||31,121|20,694|





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