## 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**
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## 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.
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## 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)
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## 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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## The JOIN Project
## 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)
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## 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.
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## 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.
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