2024-03-31-accounts - The Join Project

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The JOIN Project

Charity number 1117217

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the year ended 31 March 2024

The JOIN Project

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024

Contents	Page
Trustees' report	2 to 3
Examiner's report	4
Receipts and payments account	5
Statement of assets and liabilities	6
Notes to the accounts	7 to 8

Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

The JOIN Project

Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024

Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors

The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Dates Jenny Scott Chair Beverley Pepper Vice Chair April Birch Treasurer Peter Burke Secretary April Melvin Nigel Ward Patricia Janecki Charity number 1117217 Registered in England and Wales Registered and principal address Bankers St Annes Centre Lloyds Bank plc Spring Gardens Lane 45 Hustlergate Keighley Bradford BD20 6LH BD1 1NT

Independent examiner

Simon Bostrom FCIE West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

Structure, governance and management

The charity is governed by a constitution adopted on 7 July 2006 as amended 17 November 2006.

Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees

The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.

The JOIN Project

Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024

Objectives and activities

The charity's objects

To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for education, recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their learning difficulties, disability or social circumstance with the object of improving their conditions of life.

The charity's main activities

The JOIN Project is a local charity that runs educational and recreational activities for adults with learning disabilities who live in the Keighley area.

JOIN activities include cookery, social activity days, life skills, keep-fit, arts and crafts and self-help. All of the activities help people with learning disabilities to feel valued and to lead active and healthy lives. JOIN activities help members to:

Improve their health and well being
Boost their confidence and self esteem
Develop life skills
Make new friends and benefit from peer support
Reduce stress and social isolation
Achieve greater independence
Integrate into the local community.

Public benefit statement

In setting our objectives and planning our activities our trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.

Achievements and performance

We have had another busy year and have taken new JOIN members on all projects. Over the year we ran 6 projects, for 36 different people, over 5 days each week. We provided 245 days of activities and had over 3,596 attendances to those activities, from our JOIN members.

Our greatest achievement this year has been moving premises to the St. Anne’s Centre, Keighley, without having to close at all. We have renovated the premises so they are fit-for-purpose and this will enable JOIN to achieve steady growth and be secure, into future years.

Financial review

The net receipts for the year were £4,069, all relating to unrestricted funds.

Reserves policy

The JOIN Project aims to keep at least two months, but no more than six months, running costs in reserve in order to enable the smooth running of the charity and to allow for an orderly winding up should the charity need to close.

The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £76,518.

Approved by the board of trustees on 24/09/2024

Jenny Scott (Trustee)

The JOIN Project

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of The JOIN Project

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 5 to 8.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').

I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Simon Bostrom FCIE

26/09/2024

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

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The JOIN Project

Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024

Notes 2024 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants and donations (2) - Direct payments 237,579 Other income 275 Total receipts 237,854 Payments Salaries, NIC and pensions 172,482 Payroll charges 885 Travel 66 Training 810 Volunteers expenses - Rent and room hire 10,949 Telephone 735 Postage 76 Stationery and photocopying 202 Insurance 1,206 New premises costs 25,662 Repairs, maintenance, health and safety - Special projects 1,896 Project equipment 5,716 Project materials 3,811 Cookery provisions 4,193 Other provisions 3,323 Coronavirus (COVID-19) expenses 289 Accountancy and bookkeeping 483 Independent examination 567 Miscellaneaous items 67 Web hosting 367 Legal and professional - Total payments 233,785 Net receipts / (payments) 4,069 Fund balances brought forward 72,449 Fund balances carried forward (3) 76,518	2024 Restricted funds £ 7,851 - - 7,851 7,851 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7,851 - - -	2024 Total funds £ 7,851 237,579 275 245,705 180,333 885 66 810 - 10,949 735 76 202 1,206 25,662 - 1,896 5,716 3,811 4,193 3,323 289 483 567 67 367 - 241,636 4,069 72,449 76,518	2023 Total funds £ 6,492 216,205 338 223,035 166,229 1,055 55 841 93 19,123 557 140 135 1,004 6,500 255 1,517 4,270 3,401 4,608 1,463 984 320 540 - 109 360 213,559 9,476 62,973 72,449

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Statement of assets and liabilities

as at 31 March 2024 2024 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 76,501 Cash in hand 17 Total cash funds 76,518 Debtors and prepayments Funds held at payroll company	2024 Restricted £ - - -	2024 Total £ 76,501 17 76,518 2024 £ 77 77	2023 Total £ 72,281 168 72,449

Assets retained for the charity's own use

The charity owns a number of items of furniture, PCs, laptops and equipment which have an insurance value of £20,000.

Liabilities Accruals	2024 £ 750 750

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 24/09/2024

Jenny Scott (Trustee)

The JOIN Project

Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 March 2024

1 Accounting policies

Basis of accounting

The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.

There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.

No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.

Taxation

As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.

Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.

The JOIN Project

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2024

2 Grants and donations 2024 Unrestricted funds £ City of Bradford Met. Dist. Council (CBMDC) - Dept Health and Social Care - - 3 Restricted funds Balance b/f Incoming £ £ Healthy Ageing Project - 7,551 Dept Health and Social Care - 300 - 7,851 Fund name Purpose of restriction Healthy Ageing Project Funding from CBMDC towards Worker.	2024 2024 2023 Restricted Total Total funds funds funds £ £ £ 7,551 7,551 5,092 300 300 1,400 7,851 7,851 6,492 Outgoing Transfers Balance c/f £ £ £ 7,551 - - 300 - - 7,851 - - the salary of the Healthy Ageing Project

Dept Health and Social Care To ensure their staff are up-to-date with training, industry standards and learning key skills, needed to work in the social care sector.

Designated funds Premises fund Fund name Premises fund	Balance b/f Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance c/f £ £ £ £ £ 15,000 - 10,000 - 5,000 15,000 7,851 17,851 - 5,000 Reason for designation Towards the cost of moving premises and any related improvements.

4 Related party transactions

Trustee expenses

No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.

Trustee remuneration and benefits

No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.