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1118456

A R T S P A C E

Providing school-based creative therapy input, counselling & psychological support services

ANNUAL REPORT and FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

for the YEAR ENDED 31[st] MARCH 2022

Art Space Contents Page 1 Charity Information 2-10 Trustees' Report 11 Independent Examiners' Report 12 Statement of Financial Activities 13 Balance Sheet 14-17 Notes to the Accounts

ArtSpace

Charity Information: Reference and Administrative Details

Registered Charity No: 1118456 Governing Document: Constitution dated 15 November 2005 as amended on 30 November 2006 Correspondence Details: Lyn French, Senior Practitioner ARTSPACE Artspace Office Shacklewell Primary School Shacklewell Row London E8 2EA E: info@aspaceinhackney.org Trustees: Nicola Baboneau, Chair Prue Barnes, Secretary Darra McFadyen, Treasurer Stefania Putz-Williams Anna Fodorova Independent Examiner: Peter Saltiel Church & Charity Accounts Service Planchadeau 23460 Saint-Pierre-Bellevue France Formerly , 69 Portland Place Greenhithe, Kent DA9 9FE Bankers: Lloyds TSB Bank plc Islington Branch PO Box 1000 London BX1 1LT

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A R T S P A C E

Providing school-based creative therapy input, counselling & psychological support services

ANNUAL REPORT 1ST April 2021 to 31ST March 2022

The ARTSPACE Trustees are pleased to submit their annual report together with the accounts for the financial year 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022.

OBJECTIVES

The principal objective of ARTSPACE is to improve the emotional and psychological well being of children, young people and families. To achieve this, our primary aim is to provide nonstigmatising, easily accessible psychological therapies and creative support services to children, young people, parents/carers and families on the school site. To support this objective, we also aim to improve emotional literacy across the whole school community.

KEY PRINCIPLES UNDERPINNING OUR OBJECTIVES

ARTSPACE believes that empowering children, young people and families in all areas of their lives best equips them to develop their full potential. ARTSPACE works to achieve this by:

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practice with children, young people and families is ethical and appropriately supervised

ACTIVITIES

The continuing success of the ARTSPACE service reflects the commitment of all those who contribute to it including the qualified therapists, the volunteers gaining work experience and the school staff who collaborate with the ARTSPACE team to ensure that high quality therapeutic support is delivered to the children and families who most need it. The Trustees would like to express their thanks to, and appreciation of, all the qualified and volunteer therapists working on the team this year and to the children, families and schools ARTSPACE engaged with.

1) Delivering In-School Psychological Therapy services

ARTSPACE therapists provide children, young people and their families with ethical and effective psychological therapies and related services designed to promote emotional wellbeing and improve mental health. Again, this year, we met our target and worked with over 750 students. In addition, over 175 were seen for one off check-in conversations or for transition support work.

ARTSPACE programmes running under the name A SPACE for SUPPORT are outlined below.

Our therapy input in schools includes:

We also offer a programme for school staff including:

All ARTSPACE therapists are trained at post-graduate level as psychotherapists (MA, MSc or PhD) and are state registered with HCPC, UKCP or BACP. Volunteer / trainee therapists are working towards their post-graduate qualification and are placed under the supervision of a senior therapist.

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We use a Good Practice Framework for Beginning Therapy to gather important background information as well as scaling questionnaires based on existing pre-and post-therapy assessment tools (e.g. the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and CORE forms). Main areas of difficulty are identified and a therapeutic focus is formulated.

A Good Practice Framework for Monitoring Therapeutic Progress enables psychological and emotional development in different areas to be assessed. The decision to end therapy sessions is jointly taken with pupils and school staff. Our frameworks were developed in response to our four year study researching good practice protocols undertaken in partnership with the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.

A key element of the success of ARTSPACE is the local network that the team has been able to build and maintain across schools and local statutory and voluntary providers. Good communication and open dialogue between ARTSPACE therapists and teachers, CAMHS practitioners, educational psychologists and the school-based support staff means that ARTSPACE remains accessible, relevant and valued by children, young people, families and professionals. Our commitment to research and our link with universities ensures that we are up to date with any new developments in the field.

2) Training emerging therapists and providing CPD

ARTSPACE provides work experience for trainee therapists from post-graduate MA, MSc and PhD courses and for qualified therapists on voluntary contracts who are building their clinical hours for state registration. Training opportunities are provided via in-house seminars, professional development days, individual supervision and work discussion groups.

Our two books, co-edited by ARTSPACE therapists entitled Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume 1: Working with the Child Within (Routledge 2012) and Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume 2: The Contemporary Adolescent (Routledge 2014) guide our ARTSPACE CPD training as well as being set texts on many of the state-registered University courses offering psychotherapy degrees. Both books include chapters written by ARTSPACE therapists alongside experts from the field who have extensive experience in child and adolescent psychotherapy. A Space authors include those who were involved in a four-year research project which we undertook in partnership with the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex (funded by the Glass-House Trust (a Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust). The study focused on the challenges and opportunities presented by providing therapy in schools. Our most recent book, Bringing our histories into school-based therapy: How therapists’ backstories enrich work with children and young people , will be published by Routledge in Spring 2023 .

3) Emotional Learning

It is now widely recognised that well-being in every domain of life depends on developing an understanding of our emotional world, gaining insight into our relationship patterns and strengthening our resilience. ARTSPACE has been working in collaboration with the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) since the early 2000s, co-publishing resources designed to foster this kind of emotional and psychological development.

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Bringing together extensive experience in both the arts and therapies, Iniva and A Space are uniquely positioned to support psychological and personal development. Our boxed sets of cards (featured above) occupy a leading position in the growing fields of emotional learning and psychological therapies, both increasingly advocated by educators and mainstream audiences. Each of the cards includes an image on the front by a culturally diverse artist along with psychologically resonant commentary and discussion prompts on the reverse.

These cards are used in therapy sessions to stimulate conversation and in the classroom or workshop setting. Over the course of this year, A Space worked in partnership with Upper School leaders at Stoke Newington School to develop a new A Space/ Iniva resource using the emotional learning cards as a starting point. Entitled Exploring Identity: Reassess/Reimagine/Re-shape , this resource focuses on introducing Years 9, 10 and 11 students to contemporary art by culturally diverse artists who work with ideas which question and deconstruct aspects of identity. The images featured are all included in our sets of emotional learning cards co-published with Iniva.

EXPLORING IDENTITY : Re-assess/ Re-imagine/ Re-shape

Looking at race, identity, & difference using contemporary art

Image 1 by Juan Pablo Echeverri Image 2 by Yinka Shonibare CBE, British-Nigerian artist

ACHIEVEMENTS and PERFORMANCE

The ARTSPACE team is committed to providing services that are easily accessible, relevant and effective and continue to be valued by all those who use them. To achieve this, ARTSPACE sets aims for its service which are evaluated at the end of each year. Over the course of the last year, the following aims were met in the ways outlined below.

Providing children, young people and their families with ethical and effective psychological therapies and art therapy sessions running under the name A Space for Support

Many children and young people in the London Borough of Hackney have complex needs that arise from adverse life circumstances including:

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Again this year, we met our annual target of providing therapy sessions for 750 children and exceeded it through offering check-in sessions for those who did not require longer term input as well as exam anxiety sessions and transition support input.

Ensuring that all services are easily accessible by offering them on the school site

Over this year, A Space for Support was delivered in the following secondary schools: Bishop Challoner, Cardinal Pole, City Academy, Haggerston, Mossbourne Community Academy, Mossbourne Victoria Park, Petchey Academy, Shoreditch Park Academy, Stormont House, Stoke Newington Secondary School, London Academy of Excellence Newham and London Academy of Excellence Tottenham..

Services were also provided in primary schools, as follows: Gainsborough, Grazebrook, Mossbourne Parkside, Mossbourne Riverside, St Dominic’s, St John of Jerusalem, St Matthias, and St Mary’s. All schools allocated a dedicated room to A Space for Support therapists and supported the service through providing referrals and attending joint feedback meetings.

Providing schools with a low-cost team of recently qualified therapists and volunteer practitioners

ARTSPACE is able to offer schools a highly subsidised service as we do not carry overhead costs. Our core partner, Hackney Education (the London Borough of Hackney's Department of Education), ensures that schools provide ARTSPACE with office facilities, meeting rooms, storage, postal and telephone services free of charge. This arrangement is an established one and on-going.

Over the course of this year, partnerships with universities providing state registered, postgraduate trainings in arts therapies, counselling and psychotherapy were successfully maintained and managed. ARTSPACE was able to recruit recently graduated therapists from MA or MSc degree courses for places on the A Space for Support therapy team. Fees paid by schools cover the costs of the sessional team. Some schools pay a reduced fee for a volunteer therapist who are also recruited from universities offering a recognised psychotherapy MA or MSc degree course. Volunteers work under close supervision from an experienced lead therapist and are provided with opportunities for CPD as well as weekly supervision.

Ensuring that the ARTSPACE team works within a quality assurance framework

All qualified therapists and volunteers on the ARTSPACE team are required to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethical Guidelines set out by the national regulatory bodies (BACP, UKCP and HCPC). This is monitored though weekly supervision provided by ARTSPACE. Weekly work discussion groups were also delivered on themes relating to recent research on effective practices, developments within the field of work with children and adolescents and how best to meet the needs of pupils in Hackney schools.

Training days were held regularly throughout the year covering clinical aspects of therapeutic work and on-going monitoring and evaluations processes which support the development of evidence-based practice and keep our therapists up to date on research in the field.

Senior ARTSPACE therapists delivered seminars and CPD Days for post-graduate trainees from all creative therapy disciplines at University of Hertfordshire, University of Surrey (Roehampton Institute) and University of London (Birkbeck College).

Ensuring that service provision for children and families is joined up and limited therapeutic resources are used most effectively

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To achieve this goal, over the past year, the A Space for Support team worked closely with key staff across schools and Hackney’s Children’s Services including teachers, SENCo’s, mental health practitioners, educational psychologists, social workers and CAMHS professionals (Child and Adolescent Mental Health).

Regular liaison continues to ensure that service provision is joined up and limited therapeutic resources are used most effectively. The A Space for Support team is valued in Hackney both for the standard of services provided and for forming a bridge to statutory services for families who might otherwise not engage.

Achievements this year included continuing with our engagement with The CAMHS Alliance / Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools project (WAMHS) which is running across targeted schools in Hackney to raise staff's awareness of mental health, train teachers in ways to support young people's well being and how best to use limited mental health resources.

Monitoring and evaluating the service

ARTSPACE uses a range of monitoring and evaluation tools including a Pre-and Post-Therapy Profiling Form, holding pre and post-therapy meetings with teachers and parents/carers and writing detailed client logs which capture goals and outcomes.

We continue to stay abreast of research in the field and, when relevant, to refine our monitoring and evaluation processes to ensure that our service remains evidence based.

Raising awareness of the efficacy of psychotherapy, arts therapies and counselling

A core ARTSPACE objective remains advancing the education of school staff, multi-agency professionals and the public in the part psychological therapies can play in improving mental health and wellbeing. In particular, ARTSPACE aims to reach out to those whose development and participation in society is impaired by emotional, mental and/or social disadvantage. Destigmatising therapy and normalising seeking help is key.

To meet this aim, the ARTSPACE team continues to offer a service to school staff including oneoff or on-going consultations, work discussion groups and Inset training sessions to raise their awareness of the value of therapeutic input and to help them to think about their pupils’ difficulties from a more psychologically informed perspective. Our team also provides inschool counselling for teachers and support staff who self-refer.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Context

ARTSPACE was established as an independent charity in 2005. It was set up to build on the research and development project entitled ‘A Space for creative learning and support’ which was launched in 1997 by the Glass-House Trust, (a Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust) in partnership with Hackney Education and The Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London.

‘A Space for creative learning and support’ (A Space) researched and developed models for the delivery of a range of extended school services including therapy input and psychoeducational artist-led projects. These programmes were delivered as pilots in and out of school hours. Hackney was chosen as the host borough due to the high level of social and economic disadvantage in the community. The work of A Space informed the government’s development of extended school services locally and nationally (1997-2005).

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ARTSPACE builds on the pilot services originally developed by A Space. These services, and adapted models, continue to be run in schools under the name ‘A Space for Support’. This provision includes art therapy, drama therapy, counselling, psychotherapy and targeted family /parent work as well as special projects designed to promote emotional learning. The charity’s name reflects the creativity which ARTSPACE believes is central to personal growth as well as highlighting the ways in which engagement in the arts can help us make sense of life.

ARTSPACE benefits from the provision of free offices and meeting rooms in Hackney schools. This is provided as sponsorship in kind reflecting the partnership between A Space and Hackney Education. For more information, visit www.aspaceinhackney.org.

Overall Management

A Space, our founding organisation, continues to operate as a partnership project overseen by a Steering Group representing the three core partners: the Glass-House Trust (a Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust), Hackney Education and The Social Science Research Unit. Its aims are to promote the development and dissemination of good practice models and to provide consultancy, supervision and training to local organisations and to universities providing arts therapy, counselling and psychotherapy services or courses. A Space guides the development of ARTSPACE, consulting to its team and contributing to supervision and training. The senior consultant A Space psychotherapist overseeing the ARTSPACE provision is responsible to the Assistant Director of Children's Services at the Hackney Education and to the ARTSPACE Steering Group.

The ARTSPACE Charity Trustees are responsible for the overall management and control of the Charity. All trustees give of their time freely and no remuneration or expenses were paid over the course of this year.

ARTSPACE aims to sustain longer term relationships with its Trustees who can provide depth of knowledge and understanding. The Trustees currently serving ARTSPACE represent the fields of primary, secondary and post-secondary education; child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy; and educational leadership. Their combined expertise covers higher level understanding of:

General Risk Management

The Charity Trustees are responsible for the overseeing of the risks faced by ARTSPACE. A formal review of the charity’s risk management processes is undertaken at an annual meeting reviewing the Charity's aims, achievements, finances and risks. The main risks that have been identified and the plans to manage those risks are as follows:

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Reputation/ Brand Management: The success of ARTSPACE is built on its reputation for excellence in delivering psychological therapies to meet the Tier 1 and Tier 2 emotional wellbeing and mental health needs of pupils and of supporting school staff with their pastoral care duties. We manage this risk through safeguarding policies, policies pertaining to selecting psychotherapists and volunteer trainees for work on our team.

Finances: Our ability to continue is reliant on schools paying an annual fee for the services provided by ARTSPACE, any annual funds we may be granted and the ability to pay invoices as they fall due. This risk is managed by having a reputation for excellence in delivering psychotherapy services ensuring that ARTSPACE remains the preferred service provider, an active cash-flow management overseen by an accountant appointed by ARTSPACE and the annual auditing of our accountants by an external accountant.

Development Plans

Plans for 2022-23 focus on continuing to provide the following services and carry out the related development work:

Publishing Plans:

Over the financial year 2022-23 ARTSPACE will be undertaking a series of publishing projects as outlined below:

Finance Report

All funds raised by ARTSPACE are detailed in the accounts at the end of this report. The accounts provide a summary of financial activity over the last year.

Income for 2021-22 was £503,405 (2020-21 £456,855). Expenditure for 2020-21 was £431,540 (2020-21 £422,663). The balance sheet total for 2021-22 was £348,828 (2020-21 £276,963).

Funds are used to achieve the objectives summarised above, developing ARTSPACE for the benefit of the community it serves. Funds raised do not profit ARTSPACE Trustees who form the organisation’s management committee. No portion is paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise by way of profit to the charity’s Trustees.

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Reserves Policy and Risk Management

The ARTSPACE Trustees are mindful of the need to retain sufficient reserves to enable the charity to continue to operate in the event of a major source of funding being lost or if unplanned expenditure should arise. ARTSPACE has a Financial Policy which stipulates that sufficient funds are held in reserve to cover a minimum of 10 months' service delivery (= one academic year) should schools cease to be in a position to pay for existing therapeutic provision and/or the Glass-house Trust (a Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust) ceases to offer an annual grant. This reflects the fact that ARTSPACE offers therapeutic input to vulnerable children and adolescents with complex needs. Research emphasises that it is detrimental if such services are be brought to an end at short notice. Hence there is a need for sufficient reserves to be retained to ensure that if part or all of the ARTSPACE provision is terminated either due to loss of funds or changes in government priorities for schools, a managed exit can be achieved.

In the Trustees’ opinion, funds committed by schools and guaranteed funds for 2020-21 will ensure that the ARTSPACE operational budget requirements will be met and a prudent reserve can continue to be maintained.

This Year End Report is to be signed on behalf of all trustees at the ARTSPACE Trustees' meeting dated 27[th] July 2022.

Signed: Nicola Baboneau, ARTSPACE Chair

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees / Members of Art Space ~ Registered Charity No. 1118456 for the year ended 31[st] March 2022

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31[st] March 2022.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's 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 Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and 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 which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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.

Peter Saltiel

Church & Charity Accounts Service Ltd Planchadeau 23460 Saint-Pierre-Bellevue France Formerly 69 Portland Place, Greenhithe, Kent, DA9 9FE

Dated 8[th] September 2022

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Art Space

Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31st March 2022

Income and endowments:
Grants
Charitable activities
Total income and endowments
Expenditure on:
Activities for Charitable Objectives
Total expenditure
Net Movement in Funds
Total Funds Brought Forward
Total Funds Carried Forward		 Unrestricted
Unrestricted
& Total Funds
& Total Funds
Notes
2022
2021
£
£
3.1
35,000
70,000
3.2
468,405
386,855
503,405
456,855
4.1
431,540
422,663
431,540
422,663
71,865
34,192
276,963
242,771
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348,828
276,963
3.1
3.2
4.1
7

All activities are regarded as continuing. The above statement includes all recognised gains and losses during the year.

The Notes to the Accounts form part of these Financial Statements

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Art Space

Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2022

CURRENT ASSETS
Note
Debtors
5
Bank Current Account
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Creditors
6
NET ASSETS
REPRESENTED BY:
Unrestricted Fund
7		 24,480
343,605		 2022
2021
£
£
8,750
268,763
368,085
277,513
550
19,257
550
348,828
276,963
348,828
276,963
348,828
276,963
19,257

Signed on behalf of all the trustees on 27[th] July 2022

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Art Space

Notes to the Accounts

1 Basis of preparation

1.1 Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts, accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014 and with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

1.2 Going concern

At the time of approving the accounts the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has sufficient reserves and that the charity is a going concern.

1.3 Change in basis of accounting

The accounts present a true and fair view and no changes in the basis of accounting have been made during the year.

1.4 Changes to previous accounts

The accounts present a true and fair view and no changes in the basis of accounting have been made during the year.

2 Accounting Policies

Unrestricted funds are donations and other income received or generated for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds. These are included in full when received.

Grants receivable and local authority fees are included in the accounts in full when received. Deferred income represents amounts received for future periods and is released to incoming resources in the period for which it has been received. Restricted funds are to be used for the specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets these criteria is identified to the fund.

Management and administration costs of the charity relate to the costs of running the charity and includes any costs which cannot be specifically identified to another expenditure.

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Art Space

Notes to the Accounts (cont’d)

3 Analysis of income and endowments

3.1
Voluntary Income
Grants:
Glass House Trust (A Space transfer)
3.2
Charitable activities
Schools Commissions:
Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate Federation
Cardinal Pole Secondary School
Gainsborough Primary School
Grazebrook Primary School - New Wave Federation
Haggerston Secondary School
London Academy of Excellence - Stratford Campus
London Academy of Excellence - Tottenham Campus
Mossbourne Community Academy
Mossbourne Parkside Academy
Mossbourne Riverside Academy
Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy
Shoreditch Park Academy, City of London Academies
St Dominic's Primary School
St John of Jerusalem Primary School
St Matthias Primary School
Stoke Newington School
Stormont House School
The City Academy, Hackney
The Petchey Academy
Schools Commissions: Prior Year		 Unrestricted
Unrestricted
& Total Funds
& Total Funds
2022
2021
£
£
35,000
70,000
35,000
70,000
35,000
35,000
20,475
17,700
5,850
7,600
5,850
3,900
41,450
28,960
31,230
28,800
37,300
26,800
30,250
25,805
26,560
20,250
13,900
9,525
30,350
29,650
27,890
13,100
17,510
16,250
8,850
5,750
5,850
6,000
32,590
24,600
22,400
17,250
42,050
29,650
30,450
28,750
-
7,700
465,805
383,040

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Notes to the Accounts (cont’d)

3 Analysis of income and endowments (cont’d)

3.2
Charitable activities (cont'd)
External Supervision/ Consultations
Consultants
Camden School for Girls
Family Action
New Wave Federation
St Mary's Primary School
St Matthias Primary School
Step Forward Young People's Charity
The King's Fund
Training Support
Safaplace
Total charitable activities
Total income		 Unrestricted
Unrestricted
& Total Funds
& Total Funds
2022
2021
£
£
-
1,425
240
-
575
1,380
-
470
685
-
280
-
180
-
240
540
2,200
3,815
400
-
400
-
468,405
386,855
503,405
456,855

4 Analysis of resources expended

4.1
Costs of activities for charitable objectives
Sessional therapists
Supervision, Case/ Project Management, School/
Pupil Consultations (Senior Practitioners)
Activity materials
Design and printing
Support costs
DBS checks
4.2
Support costs
Bookkeeping
Insurance
Independent examination
Total charitable activities		 Unrestricted
Unrestricted
& Total Funds
& Total Funds
2022
2021
£
£
354,891
342,478
70,900
69,666
1,768
1,249
83
5,335
3,794
3,819
104
116
431,540
422,663
1,950
2,100
1,244
1,169
600
550
3,794
3,819
431,540
422,663

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Notes to the Accounts (cont’d)

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Debtors
6
Creditors
7
Fund Analysis
School commissions
Miscellaneous
Accruals
General Fund		 Unrestricted
Unrestricted
& Total Funds
& Total Funds
2022
2021
£
£
23,930
8,750
550
-
24,480
8,750
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
& Total Funds
& Total Funds
2022
2021
£
£
19,257
550
19,257
550
1st April
Income
Expenditure
31st March
£
£
£
£
276,963
503,405
(431,540)
348,828
276,963
503,405
(431,540)
348,828

8 Staff Costs

As there are no employees, no employee received more than £60,000.

9 Trustees' Remuneration and Expenses

No remuneration or reimbursement of expenses was paid or payable for the year out of the funds to any trustee or any person or persons known to be connected with them.

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